US Immigration from Mexico

First of all, mods please move this if it's not in the right place. This is sort of piggy-backing on an earlier thread that I made, but that one wandered and got scattered a bit and hopefully this one gets straight to the point.

I'm trying to fully understand exactly what the rules are and who has the ability to change them and by what mechanisms. I'm coming from the perspective of a CR1/IR1 petitioner but the "rules" I'm speaking of may apply to anyone getting a visa through a consular process - that is an interview/biometrics/visa execution at a U.S. consulate in their home country.

What I think I understand so far:

• The INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) is the legal U.S. code that lays out all the immigration stuff - how many visas issued, how they're issued, eligibility, etc. Found here. INA 221 and 222 talk about application for and issuance of visas, and about consular interviews.
• The INA references "regulations," which turn out to be the Code of Federal Regulations, CFR, found here. Section 42.62 mandates the personal appearance of the visa applicant in front of a consular officer.
• Furthermore, the Foreign Affairs Manual, FAM, section 504 gives the guidelines for the consular officer to conduct the interview.

Up to this point, please correct me if I've gotten anything wrong.

What I'm interested in is changing some of that language. I don't believe it should be necessary, in the modern climate with modern technology and a pandemic, to require all applicants to appear personally. Some provision should be made for remote interviews (such as Zoom), at least for some applicants (those without any flags for example). The backlog at the consulates is half a million people, or years' worth at some consulates. And it's getting longer. The reason I'm trying to understand is because when I go to congress people and say "fix this," I'm infinitely more likely to get a result if I tell them exactly what the problem is, what they need to do, and how they need to do it, than if I leave that all up to them to figure out.

So my questions, finally:

1. Are all these things (INA, CFR, and FAM) laws that Congress must change? Or are some of them internal agency policies, or something else?
2. If they aren't up to Congress, who would be able to change them? Secretary of state? President? Other?
3. What's the procedure by which these laws/policies/other would need to be changed?
4. Am I missing anything else? I know there are biometrics involved that can't be done over Zoom, but it seems like the interview is the main bottleneck so that's what I'm focusing on for now.

Hello everyone. I hope I am posting this on the correct place.

My husband being my beneficiary and still waiting interview-(I ve tried to get his case expedited, waiting on reply, fingers crossed)

Anyway, I d like to know if theirs an option or possibility of his parents who are in Guanajuato, MX can get an emergency visa of some sort to come see his son.
My husband has stage 4 kidney Disease, diagnosed last year January 2020, we were now informed his kidneys aren t doing too great and needs kidney transplant.

can anyone please give me any information on how or if we can get his parents here under that circumstance.

My name is Janett and my husbands name is Marco- Prayers always accepted. Praying for healing.

thanks for your time. God Bless.

Greetings,

I am Keith, currently living in the Dallas, Texas area. I have been a member here for about two weeks. I have been reading everyones posts and trying to find out how to read their timelines. I was married on 3-23-2021 and filed the I-130 on 3-30-2021. I received a receipt and I was also wondering if that is the NOI1? I'm very new to the process and I'm not completey sure. The wife is currently living in Durango, Mexico. My case has been sent to the NSC for processing so I hope they get things done quick there. Carolina (Wife) had a visa a few years back and visited California for a week but lost it after she returned. Does anyone think this will b e an issue for the I-130? I am worried that the I-130 will be refused because the visa information could not be recovered. In addition, is 120k a year income good enough to get the support form approved? Does anyone have any current timelines on I-130 approval? Thank you all for posting in this forum and giving us new guys/girls some knowledge.

Duffield

Dear members of this community, once you get access to the NVC online portal (after Form I-130 has been approved) and you've paid the fees for the Affidavit of Support and the Application, can you submit both of them the very same day? Or do you need to submit the AOS first and wait until it gets approved?

Last but not least, as the petitioner, can you fill out the application for your beneficiary?

Thanks in advance for any help you could provide.

It has been 20.5 months since I filed the I-130 for my husband. I have been filing an inquiry basically every month since my congress person's office was told my case was pending extended security checks in May of 2020. Typically I received an email saying my case was in line for review and would be reviewed in the order it was received (which is 100% incorrect as it has been almost 2 years since I filed and plenty of cases have been adjudicated since ). In any case, today, I received the attached response.

Does anyone know what security checks they are supposedly completing? Is this on me? Is it on my husband? And how in the heck do I get more information/answers about why my case has been in limbo for almost two years? I'm sick of waiting and I'm sick of being told to KEEP waiting when the consular process is slated to take another 2 years.

This plus COVID is causing severe strain on my mental health and his. Does anyone have any recommendations?