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Thanks to everyone for their their input.

I directed the embassy in Ankara and received this response from them:
"Iranian military service completion is not a pre-requisite in U.S. immigrant or non-immigrant visa applications. Applicant will submit documentation about his military status on the day of interview. His visa application will be processed regardless of the fact that he is except or completed the service."
I wanted to post this to help others in the event they are in a similar predicament. Interesting that that it does not affect non-immigrant visa applications as well.

The embassy should be getting in touch with you. Send an email to the embassy. I hear it takes a while for them to get back to you but, this is what some others have done and they've received a response (eventually).

This is wartime. The U.S. is at war with terrorism, which is in a way worse, because terrorism is not as clear-cut and defined as a nation state, like Japan, is.
I respectfully disagree with your comment regarding racism. Perhaps it was not the best choice semantically, but the existence of discrimination against the Japanese is indisputable. Anti-Japanese sentiment was present well before the WW2 and the intensity only worsened with the attack on Pearl Harbor.
I don't doubt that the internment camps happened overnight. My comment was more of a reference to the fact that such extreme actions normally progress from smaller actions and that we should be vigilant and not ignore too many of the smaller, seeming insignificant things like this because they can lead somewhere. For the time being, I agree that it not something likely to happen in the immediate future, but you have to admit that we are much closer to such a thing happening now than we were eight years go.
Regardless it's disturbing that Japanese internment camps were even brought up, by an incoming president's surrogate no less, and as a valid, legal precedent.

This is wartime. The U.S. is at war with terrorism, which is in a way worse, because terrorism is not as clear-cut and defined as a nation state, like Japan, is.
I respectfully disagree with your comment regarding racism. Perhaps it was not the best choice semantically, but the existence of discrimination against the Japanese is indisputable. Anti-Japanese sentiment was present well before the WW2 and the intensity only worsened with the attack on Pearl Harbor.
I don't doubt that the internment camps happened overnight. My comment was more of a reference to the fact that such extreme actions normally progress from smaller actions and that we should be vigilant and not ignore too many of the smaller, seeming insignificant things like this because they can lead somewhere. For the time being, I agree that it not something likely to happen in the immediate future, but you have to admit that we are much closer to such a thing happening now than we were eight years go.
Regardless it's disturbing that Japanese internment camps were even brought up, by an incoming president's surrogate no less, and as a valid, legal precedent.

Checks and balances... Like with the Patriot Act right? The Patriot Act which was illegally passed without the consent of Congress? It also doesn't help that Trump's supporters have also won the majority in the House and the Senate. Let's get real, the fear is legitimate for those who don't fit under Trump's America.

Fact check. It definitely wasn't unprecedented. Obama's current total is 235, or about 31 per year, which means his presidency had the lowest number of executive orders, per year, since Grover Cleveland.
(and old chart from 2014)

Just keep in mind here, guys. If you're not part of the victimized group, you don't get to decide whether or not those groups are allowed to be afraid.

You can count on him getting rid of the executive action sign in my Obama on DACA. Giving those work permits and ban on deportation. That will change a few days after he enters office. It is on his platform Read #5
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/immigration

Trump can certainly ban people from specific countries by executive order.

I've been doing some research into the question myself. Maybe someone with more legal information can correct me, but so far it looks like Trump can definitely block visas for entire classes of people due to the McCarren-Walter Act:
Most of the recent presidents have used this law to ban visas for classes of people, Bill Clinton banned members of the Haitian military, Obama used it to ban people on the UN travel ban and those falling under financial criminal acts. The real problem was that Trump first said he would ban all Muslims, (which raised questions about a religious test), then he said any territory with terrorist events, (which would potentially ban people from Europe and Australia as well). Just the last few days, the statement about banning Muslims has been taken down from the website.
So, right now, I really don't know what the future will hold. I don't want to bet on anyone breaking their campaign promises, so I'll keep my options open.