US Immigration from Mexico

With the approval if my wifea Conditional greencard from AOS, what evidence should we keep to be filed with the i751 when that time comes?

I'm certain we will provide the same evidence we brought to the AOS interview.. But what should we be sure to keep records of to send in aside from what we've already submitted at the AOS interview?

As well, any idea how common I751 interviews are?

With Covid, we have been waiting now for 375 days since completing the NVC documents and are waiting for interview date according to the website. I wondering what date your NVC documents were complete if youve recently received a scheduled interview date in Ciudad Juarez. This is for a spouse visa CR1.

HI,

Now our K1 case is at NVC and we are thinking about using the expedite process. We are going to use the argument of essential workforce. Under CDC guideline, I, the petitioner, am considered an essential worker at 1c category. Has anyone use the essential worker argument to get the expedite approval? What evidence and documentations did you use?

Thank you.

Kevin

Last year my husband was scheduled for his interview in CDJ for April 2020. Shortly before he was to depart for Mexico, that interview was canceled due to Covid. We waited almost another year and were finally rescheduled for February 19, 2021. As fate would have it, that was the week of the big ice storm that hit the entire country. His flight was cancelled and rescheduled 3x. By the time there were flights available again, there was no way for him to get there in time.

Of course he called and was not the only person in this situation that week, but was advised to request a reschedule using the online form which we did. However, the response to the online form is that they're only rescheduling emergencies at this time and to just wait and watch the website. Does anyone know how long we will have to wait? Are we at the back of the line again? I feel like our lives have been on hold for the past 4+ years since we first sent in his I-130 and every time the end is in sight, it's yanked away.

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.