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I'm not certain, but I believe only certain "officials" and their families from Venezuela are currently banned, and not regular citizens.
You can search on here and find the message board for Venezuela and gather more information there.
You may also want to consider getting married and filing a spousal visa vs. the fiance visa as there are a few more benefits to that, especially if you are worried about encountering any issues due to where your fiance is from.
Good luck!
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Let your girlfriend know about this site and have her make a free account here. She can ask questions and study the different options since she will be the one responsible for preparing the paperwork for your visa.
You can both read about the fiance visa or spousal visa on this site and then discuss together and decide which option would be best for the both of you.
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15 minutes ago, JessM28 said:
Hi all. Happy that people are finally getting good news. My husband and I also got some good news- I am pregnant. 🤰🏻Now the pressure is on for him to come before May. I really hope he will arrive before the baby. We knew it was chancy but I am turning 35 in January and can’t keep waiting to start our family. October 3 (a day after I turn 8 weeks) will be 6 months in AP. 😢
On a different note- is anyone coming to the Congressional meeting next Tuesday about the ban. My sister and I are going. This is our chance to speak up and show that this ban is hurting real people. If you live near DC I hope you will join me.
Praying we can all be with our loved ones soon!
Congrats, that is such exciting news! You and P will be excellent parents and will finally be together before you know it 💕💕💕
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On 8/2/2019 at 10:38 AM, Zaib212 said:
AOA. i hope everyone are doing well and healthy. Does anyone got any visa recently or received any response from Embassy. My Parents case has been under AP since June 2017 and still no update. i am so tired of this waiting, and i give up.
1 hour ago, MZe said:Have you approached your representative? Do your parents have a lot of travel history?
Since you're parent's case has been stuck in AP for 2+ years, I would definitely be contacting your state rep. - they may not be able to speed anything up, but they can sometimes get a slightly more detailed response than the average citizen would get.
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On 8/4/2019 at 10:33 AM, MZe said:
Hello all, my parents have been asked to resubmit photos and medical to US embassy Islamabad. How do we get these photos over to the embassy? There was no instructions in email.
I would start with searching for a phone number or email contact for that specific embassy and attempting to get ahold of someone there who can give you more direction as to how they want to receive the medical/photos.
You can also search for the Pakistan form here on Visa Journey and ask there as well.
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24 minutes ago, Zaczon said:
Thanks for the heads up.
But have you made your senator enquire about your case?
Yes, we have had them do that a couple of times. They get the same answers as we do, so it hasn't really done much to help.
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10 hours ago, Zaczon said:
Good morning to everyone on here.
I am starting to think and believe that the DS form is given to transfer banned countries and muslims in general.
My reason is because I find myself not from a banned country but because of me being a muslim I had a form to fill.
But successfully I went through it and I got my visa.
Who else isnt from a banned country but a muslim and had to fill out a Ds Form?
I'll pipe in here too and add that my fiancé received the DS5535 as well. He is a Christian, Norwegian citizen (although he lived as a child in a banned country for a time.)
We've been stuck in AP because of this since September 2018 with virtually no updates unless we inquire on our own.
I am glad to see people are successful in finally receiving their visa after being subjected to the DS5535 though
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51 minutes ago, steveblue said:
Can you tell me if they request social media handles do they also want the passwords to accompany them? Thanks.
No, they don't ask for any passwords.
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15 minutes ago, NJ1990 said:
Hi! For this question:
Do you hold a passport for the other country/region of origin (nationality) above?
It is expired and I no longer have it. Do I need to share the number or say yes if I no longer have the passport and it is expired? Thanks!
If you still know the number of the expired passport, go ahead and fill it in - otherwise, you are not required to show them any old passports. Most people destroy old ones anyways. What's important is your current passport.
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4 minutes ago, Eltortus said:
Hey guys I'm pretty new to all of this, and my (Canadian) wife and I (US citizen) we have both been searching the web and getting mixed signals with the things that do not apply to us, should I fill every blank with "N/A" or simply leaving it blank? I know it seams silly but from what I've heard small things like this make a difference. Thank you!
I would advise putting N/A in every blank that does not apply to you - leaving it empty may look like you mistakenly forgot to enter information.
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1 hour ago, Cashorino said:
I understand but I wasn't born in any of the travel ban countries. I was born and raised in Austria, only my parents were born in one of the forbidden countries..I have zero ties to their home country.
This is really frustrating to say the least. Lucky me I guess, huh? Now I need to wait for god knows how long and I probably have to look elsewhere for an internship, I can't wait for 6 months or even longer. I have been waiting for 2 months already with zero updates, this will throw me behind my schedule for getting my degree for sure.
Yes, I have heard that even if you have never been to any currently banned country, but you have immediate relatives who come from there, even if they do not currently live there, it will trigger a ds5535 for you. Basically, if you have any connection at all to a banned country, weather or not you've ever been there, you are in line for extreme vetting. If you ask me, it's complete overkill, and causes a lot of undue hardship to those of us waiting to be reunited with loved ones. There seems to be more of a push lately in getting government to be more transparent with the process and finding ways to speed it up. Good luck, and I hope you won't be waiting for too much longer!
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12 minutes ago, joedib6 said:
Been on AP 221g in lebanon since Feb 2019 with 0 updates since interview date!
I've inquired multiple times. Answer: "We don't know when your case will complete. We understand your frustration."
fkin BS. Why not take a single look at my case since you understand my frustration?
Should I inquire daily and bug them or it's a bad idea? B1/B2 Visa
My understanding is that the Department of Homeland Security and many other agencies, etc. are the ones performing the extra vetting/background checks. The embassy needs to wait until those other agencies have completed their investigations in order to pick back up with processing our visas.
My fiancé and I have been sending an email once every 30 days or so to our embassy asking for a status update, even though the only thing they can ever answer back with is to tell you it's still in AP - we've been in AP for 9 months now, and many more on here for have been for upwards of 1 to even 2+ years.
It stinks, but the only thing anyone can really do is just have patience.
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14 minutes ago, Cashorino said:
Oh I wasn't aware of that. I thought that the cases last update on the ceac website is always up2date and everyone gets updated when the case is being worked on. It got at least updated once after I submitted additional documentation.
Also yeah, I was looking and almost everyone got their APs done with within a few weeks..
@Cashorino - there is also a "part 2" for the ds5535 thread found here:
My fiancé (Norwegian citizen his entire adult life, but born in Iran, not muslim) waited 2.5 years for a visitor's visa and was also given the ds5535 for our fiancé visa. It has been 9 months with no word from the embassy.
Not to be discouraging, but it seems to be taking quite a while for the extra vetting to complete. You'll just need to have patience and hope it ends sooner rather than later.
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11 hours ago, Captain Ewok said:
You mean beyond the general "admin processing" drop down there now, right?
Right, maybe under “Interview Result” there could be another option to add if/when a ds-5535 was received.
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4 hours ago, JessM28 said:
It would be nice if VJ added a ds-5535 to the timeline so we could look for trends- any ideas who we would need to contact to see about requesting that?
Great idea - I just submitted a request for this under the Forums section - "Site Related Discussion".
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Since there are quite a few of us who have received the ds-5535 and are awaiting further administrative processing because of that, would it be possible to add an option to our timelines for that?
That way, we could track trends on processing times better if we could add a date received/date completed-type line.
Thanks for the consideration!
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1 hour ago, JessM28 said:
Please check out this CNN story and video. It features several of us from this group and from the Facebook groups. Please consider making an in-it video if you have not already.
So grateful for these opportunities for those affected to get their stories out there, and yes, if you haven’t already done so, please make a quick video of your own story for the in-it campaign. The only way to make change is to keep talking.
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On 5/14/2019 at 10:26 PM, iranianiniraq said:I am close to NOA 2 I was looking into whats needed for the next steps, and one of the things is the police certificate. My wife grew up in Iran and moved to Iraq in few years ago. So will she need a certificate from Iran and iraq?I looked at the nvc docs site, and they have the procedure for Iraq here:For Iran they say this:
Available but unreliable. Police certificates are issued by the General Department of Penal Records and Pardon Amnesty (Idar-e Kul Sajl-e Kifari va Afva Bakhshudagi ). However, police records are not required for immigrant visa applicants because posts cannot verify them. Clean record certificates can be obtained in Iran or from Iranian Embassies and Consulates and the physical appearance of the certificate changes significantly depending on which authority issued it.
So does that mean she only needs it from Iraq? Also, if we have questions about the procedure to get these from either country, do we call the embassy?The people I spoke who live in Iraq have had to travel to baghdad to get this certificate. But they were iraqi nationals. I believe the same process might be needed for my wife even though she is an Iranian national. Please if anyone knows, advise.My fiancé is a Norwegian citizen formerly from Iran. He only needed to provide his Norwegian police certificate. I double checked with our embassy and they told us that Iranian police certificates are not required. From the link you posted, it looks like your wife should be able to obtain certificate from Iraq, though.
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9 hours ago, Cm3957 said:
You used your canadian passport for the I-129f paperwork and was still put on the travel ban and in ap for over a year? If so that is terrible. My fiance has a Iranian passport and we have been in ap for 6 months now for a k1 visa.
Same situation as @MO&RA - my fiancé is a Norwegian citizen, but born in Iran - AP for 8 months now. Here's to hoping we all get through this soon.
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9 minutes ago, Rob007 said:
Hi everyone!
i'm curious about asking the passport from the embassy.
as i posted earlier, my wife's case is still in AP, tried to email the embassy and i was told it remains at AP and will be notified when the process completes. my wife needs her passport to fill a form for her exam. what happens to the case if we ask the passport back? will there be any effect on the case?
sorry if it has been asked earlier
Thanks in advance.
No effect on the case at all - you can email the embassy and request they send it back to you.
When they are ready to issue the visa, they will contact you and have you re-send it to them.
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1 hour ago, Derik-Lina said:
Stop the guessing game and take it as it is;
He must fulfill his campaign promises from building the wall to a complete shutdown on all Muslims entering the country.
He tweeted he must abandon the "watered down" ban and find a way to abandon Ban 3.0 returning to the original which would have
included all Muslim countries. The Genius in his or in his came up with a "Backdoor" Ban; Extreme Vetting Ds-5535. Yes, you will see
some get Visas after Ap, but very scarce and very far in between. Why? his proof it is not discriminatory when in fact, it is just that....
One thing we can all hope is that our spouses are amongst the few lucky ones nshlah
Ps. I hope I do not get attacked by his Digital Army of whom many live here on VJ...
Agreed. The DS-5535 is a very good way to keep additional people out who supposedly do not technically fall under the ban, without making the ban look like it's over-kill.
My fiancé received the DS-5535, we suspect because his birth place is Iran even though he’s a European citizen. He’s also Christian.
I feel our our best hope for anyone stuck in AP because of the DS-5535 or because they are waiting for a waiver, is a change of administration and a more sensible, fair approach to this issue.
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17 minutes ago, Hamza86 said:
Any case date update without inquiry?
Just one - the others have been because either we or my senators sent inquiries.
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14 minutes ago, Hamza86 said:
Is there anyone in this thread who was put into AP without asking any additional docs during the interview and was given ds5535?
My fiancé was given the ds5535 - he had all documents required at the time of the interview. We have been stuck in AP for 8 months now. He is a Norwegian citizen but was born in Iran.
Dual nationalities Trump ban(merged)
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Dual citizens are not banned, even if your birth place is currently on the banned list. If your family member has a Canadian passport, they will use that to apply.
The dual citizen should probably expect a long time in administrative processing, though.