IR-5 Visa

[cboy 1]

Hello all,

 

My parents were issued IR-5 visa in February, 2020. Little after they got their visa, the flights were banned from India to USA and Trump administration has suspended this category until March 31st, 2021. Their visas are already expired last year. Do they have to reapply their visa and start the procedure again? I as a petitioner have to apply for them starting from the scratch?

 

Any additional info is welcomed. 

 

Your advise will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you.

[Crazy Cat 41,981]

If their issued visas have expired, they should contact the issuing consulate and request the visas to be re-issued.  It will likely require another medical exam (and possibly more).  The consulate has the option to re-issue or not.

Edited January 22, 2021 by Lucky Cat

[cboy 1]

I would ask them to wait until at least March, 31st, 2021. Not sure if current administration will reveres this ban or not. 

 

What is your opinion?

[Crazy Cat 41,981]

4 minutes ago, cboy said:

I would ask them to wait until at least March, 31st, 2021. Not sure if current administration will reveres this ban or not. 

 

What is your opinion?

I have read that Biden has not lifted that ban....yet.  

[cboy 1]

This is from CNN.com as of this morning. He is going to pass something on immigration on 01/29. Finger crossed.

 

Biden's focus today will be economic relief

From CNN's Betsy Klein

The Biden administration has an ambitious slate of actions for the first 10 days in office, many of which will roll back key policies established by former President Trump.

Each day through the end of the month, with the exception of this weekend, will center around a specific theme, with a set of corresponding actions and directives, according to a draft of a calendar document sent to administration allies and viewed by CNN.  

Yesterday's theme was coronavirus, and the theme today is "Economic Relief." Two executive order are expected. One directs agency action on Medicaid, Pell grants, SNAP benefits, and unemployment insurance.

The second executive order will restore collective bargaining rights to federal employees and initiates action to roll back Trump’s Schedule F executive order, which gave the United States Office of Management and Budget and federal agencies leeway to reclassify key roles.

Here's a look at the rest of the themes Biden will tackle this month: 

• Jan. 25: Buy America
• Jan. 26: Equity
• Jan. 27: Climate
• Jan. 28: Health Care
• Jan. 29: Immigration
• February: Restoring America’s Place in the World

 

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

19 minutes ago, cboy said:

I would ask them to wait until at least March, 31st, 2021. Not sure if current administration will reveres this ban or not. 

 

What is your opinion?

If they already had visas before the ban they are not subject to it.

 

The visas will be reissued, however, India is not yet reissuing  expired visas as far as i understand. The appropriate thing to do is contact the embassy to find out the embassy specific procedure about how to apply for reissuance (some require specific reasons as to why the visas expired unused). Note that when this is done, they will need to pay visa fees and do medicals again.

[cboy 1]

Thank you for the clarifying. You are correct as Mumbai Embassy has not started reissuing visa. 

 

I did contact Mumbai Embassy last year as they said the same thing (pay visa fees, medical and PCC).

 

 

[arvn2017 0]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/biden-immigration-coronavirus-pandemic/index.html

 

Does this indicate that the IR5 visas will be processed now? I am reaching out to my attorney as well, but can anyone else confirm?

[cboy 1]

I am about to call embassy in India. I will let you know what they say.

[cboy 1]

I did call US embassy as they have not started working on IR-5. 

[Milasa 19]

It’s probably too soon since ban was only lifted last Wednesday plus most embassies didn’t return to normal operations yet. 

[cboy 1]

Has anyone heard about IR-5? Have they started issuing the visa?

[Gar9 5]

On 3/16/2021 at 7:47 PM, cboy said:

Has anyone heard about IR-5? Have they started issuing the visa?

Not yet . May be next week .

 

[cboy 1]

On 3/19/2021 at 9:30 AM, Gar9 said:

Not yet . May be next week .

 

Thank you. 

[Traveler101 16]

My mother had her reissue visa interview today. Ukrainian embassy. I contacted the embassy a few days after the ban was lifted by Biden.