Supervisor at Consulate talks about K3 visa

[astronaut 3]

Hi there. I had an opportunity to speak with someone in a supervisory role at the Consulate in Vancouver BC Canada last week about the K3 visa situation in general. Our family was there for our kid's passports, but they took a few minutes to talk about this as well.

According to the supervisor, there is frustration on the consulate's behalf about the K3 situation. Although they know the aps are to be administratively closed according to the posting on the state dept's website, the consulate has never received any memo about the changes. The supervisor's head was shaking while describing how communication doesn't happen as it should. The K3 interviews they are currently doing are still stemming from applications prior to Feb 1st, so there has been no evidence of what has actually happening with the K3 apps filed after Feb 1st that she has seen. (If the 129F's are being closed, they'd never make it to the consulate for staff to see there anyway.)

I asked if there was a possibility that Vancouver would start to do interviews for the IR1/CR1's again, and the response was that there was nothing they had heard to indicate that would happen. Both the supervisor and the person handling our paperwork at the service window had a genuine interest in being helpful to us.