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Visa has been issued Alhamdulilah. Kuala Lumpur embassy.
 
Timeline of events for us were as follows:
Interview was at Oct 3rd, 2019. Embassy kept passport and said visa would be issued 4-5 days later. Also ds-5535 was not requested. Took nearly 3 weeks, issued on 10/22. Ceac status the whole time said ready (for interview), up until Monday 10/21 it changed to AP, and then next day it was issued. (My sister on the other hand, visa was issued 2 days after interview).
 
Also, for those who will be traveling to Malaysia, feel free to message me on this website if you have any questions about the country ie where to stay, steps you have to take to get married here, advise on how to handle immigrations customs when trying to enter the country (they can get very nasty, esp when you're constantly leaving/entering or hold a Yemeni passport), where to go to renew visa, etc. I've been here on and off for a year and my husband 2 years so we know how to navigate this place pretty well. I can give you phone numbers of agents who can find you an apt for a month or however long. Also anyone who got married here and registered their marriage under the Yemeni embassy, be warned USCIS may reject your petition as they don't recognize the marriage certificate as valid. Yemeni embassy no longer certifies marriages between Yemenis and Americans, but if you were unlucky enough to do so as we did back in 2017 you will likely run into issues, so ask away if you have questions. 
 
Wish you all the best of luck and praying you get your visas soon, esp those of you who have had to endure the torture of months under AP. 
 
 

Visa has been issued Alhamdulilah. Kuala Lumpur embassy.
 
Timeline of events for us were as follows:
Interview was at Oct 3rd, 2019. Embassy kept passport and said visa would be issued 4-5 days later. Also ds-5535 was not requested. Took nearly 3 weeks, issued on 10/22. Ceac status the whole time said ready (for interview), up until Monday 10/21 it changed to AP, and then next day it was issued. (My sister on the other hand, visa was issued 2 days after interview).
 
Also, for those who will be traveling to Malaysia, feel free to message me on this website if you have any questions about the country ie where to stay, steps you have to take to get married here, advise on how to handle immigrations customs when trying to enter the country (they can get very nasty, esp when you're constantly leaving/entering or hold a Yemeni passport), where to go to renew visa, etc. I've been here on and off for a year and my husband 2 years so we know how to navigate this place pretty well. I can give you phone numbers of agents who can find you an apt for a month or however long. Also anyone who got married here and registered their marriage under the Yemeni embassy, be warned USCIS may reject your petition as they don't recognize the marriage certificate as valid. Yemeni embassy no longer certifies marriages between Yemenis and Americans, but if you were unlucky enough to do so as we did back in 2017 you will likely run into issues, so ask away if you have questions. 
 
Wish you all the best of luck and praying you get your visas soon, esp those of you who have had to endure the torture of months under AP. 
 
 

I’m really happy for you guys. I wish you guys the best. I just hope mine goes smooth and quick as well. 

Thanks for the update. Hopefully this week you will hear something back. 

They took passport right after interview and said it would be issued within 4-5 days. It has been 6 business days, still waiting. Inshallah this week!
Bro in law interviewed same week. They also took his passport and told him the same thing. His was issued 2 days later. 
 

well it favors those that are well off. So much for "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.." and its ridiculous to require immigrants to obtain insurance within such a short amount of time (30 days). It takes at least half that time to just obtain the green card and social security card. 

Alhamdulilah.
CR1 from Riyadh embassy 
Interview December 2018

Wow.. I pray we will all get our visa issued before the effective date which is November 3rd.
 
(b)  Section 1 of this proclamation shall not apply to:
(i)     any alien holding a valid immigrant visa issued before the effective date of this proclamation;

I do think it's a muslim ban, largely because of the president and his staff's rhetoric regarding Muslims. Those at the hearing also brought up good counterpoints to the witnesses from DOS and DHS. For example the chairwoman, stated that if the U.S gov truly doesn't trust the information coming from the Iranian gov regarding their citizens then why are Iranian student visas not a part of the ban. Plus, Obama and the administrations that came before him, had already introduced a more rigorous vetting system and it has been largely successful in keeping terrorists out of the country. Trump took it to a whole new level and attempted to "fix" a system that was doing just fine, due to his dislike of immigrants from certain countries. According to this article, from 2002 to 2016 the rate at which a deadly attack was carried out by an immigrant has been "one for every 379 million visa or status approvals". Trump should really be trying to curb the increasing domestic terrorist attacks. 
 
heres the article: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/us/politics/us-vetting-system-already-robust-before-travel-ban-report-finds.html
 

Best of luck for everyone! Inshallah good news

Keep us updated and good luck.

I heard of one recent case here at the kuala lumpur embassy, interviewed in sept and at the end of his interview was told to leave his passport with them. About a week later, visa was issued. My husband's interview is also coming up this week. Inshallah all the best for all of us.

I heard of one recent case here at the kuala lumpur embassy, interviewed in sept and at the end of his interview was told to leave his passport with them. About a week later, visa was issued. My husband's interview is also coming up this week. Inshallah all the best for all of us.

I do think it's a muslim ban, largely because of the president and his staff's rhetoric regarding Muslims. Those at the hearing also brought up good counterpoints to the witnesses from DOS and DHS. For example the chairwoman, stated that if the U.S gov truly doesn't trust the information coming from the Iranian gov regarding their citizens then why are Iranian student visas not a part of the ban. Plus, Obama and the administrations that came before him, had already introduced a more rigorous vetting system and it has been largely successful in keeping terrorists out of the country. Trump took it to a whole new level and attempted to "fix" a system that was doing just fine, due to his dislike of immigrants from certain countries. According to this article, from 2002 to 2016 the rate at which a deadly attack was carried out by an immigrant has been "one for every 379 million visa or status approvals". Trump should really be trying to curb the increasing domestic terrorist attacks. 
 
heres the article: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/us/politics/us-vetting-system-already-robust-before-travel-ban-report-finds.html
 

For those of us who can't make it to the hearing on the muslim ban, here's the livestream link: https://judiciary.house.gov/legislation/hearings/oversight-trump-administration-s-muslim-ban
 
It'll be live at 10 am eastern time today (9/24)

For those of us who can't make it to the hearing on the muslim ban, here's the livestream link: https://judiciary.house.gov/legislation/hearings/oversight-trump-administration-s-muslim-ban
 
It'll be live at 10 am eastern time today (9/24)

Not true. I'm sure in the majority of cases, yes they will deny. But, I think its dependent on the embassy, the officer who is responding to the request and how persuasive the email is. My sister had requested an expedite due to pregnancy, and 3 weeks after the request they accepted and she got the email to send her husband's passport. She sent the passport and included a letter from her doctor saying she needs to fly back to America soon as any more delay and it will become dangerous for her to fly. Due to that letter, she received her husband's passport back in just 3 days and they were able to travel to America together. Anyways, my point is it's worth a shot. It's just a simple email, and if you have a lawyer thats even better have them do it. The worse that will happen is they will deny the request. 

Not true. I'm sure in the majority of cases, yes they will deny. But, I think its dependent on the embassy, the officer who is responding to the request and how persuasive the email is. My sister had requested an expedite due to pregnancy, and 3 weeks after the request they accepted and she got the email to send her husband's passport. She sent the passport and included a letter from her doctor saying she needs to fly back to America soon as any more delay and it will become dangerous for her to fly. Due to that letter, she received her husband's passport back in just 3 days and they were able to travel to America together. Anyways, my point is it's worth a shot. It's just a simple email, and if you have a lawyer thats even better have them do it. The worse that will happen is they will deny the request. 

Well, I can understand your curiosity; I myself find it difficult to write them
 
I thought that it does not hurt to bombard them with stories about families they are separating! Probably my message finds its way to a staffer who might sympathize with our situation! Second, they need to hear our suffering, even if they do not like to! So I have sent them a dozen of letters asking the WH to intervene and push my wife's waiver application forward! 
 
I definitely knew it is a very long shot; but it does not hurt to try everything we can to ask for our rights! 
After all, I received a call from USCIS headquarters a few months ago (the stupid staffer forwarded my request to USCIS instead of Dept. of State) and now I just received a letter from DOS that mentions specific details about my case. In other words, at least someone opened my case and probably had a look at it or probably verified that it is not just sitting in someone's desk covered with dust! 
 
At the end, we do not have a clue how these waivers are being processed and any small action might go a long way! 

Oh gotcha...Inshallah they send it back soon

looks like it is moving along.

Anyone in the DC area please consider joining the Congressional Hearing to Repeal the Ban.
 
https://www.facebook.com/events/533831804092504/?ti=icl
 
Date: September 24, 2019 
 
Schedule: 
8 a.m.-9 a.m.  Community Storytelling- reporters will be present 
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Congressional Hearing 
6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.- Healing Event led by Justice For Muslims Collective 
 
Where: Rayburn House Office Building- Washington DC 20515 
 
Who: Everyone and another is welcome- the hearing will be held with the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship
 
If I can take off from work I am going to try to go. Reply to this post or send me a PM if you to join me or need more info. 
 

So today my husband and I went to Aramex to check and see if our neighbors passport had been sent back with the visa and it was. Our neighbor had received no email from the embassy or text notification from Aramex saying the visa had been issued/passport had been sent. So I would suggest to you to go to Aramex and check if your passport is there. Maybe the embassy staff got busy and forgot to send you an email. When we found this out, my husband told his friend who then called Aramex and same thing passport was ready. He had also not gotten any email or text from either the embassy or Aramex. So at the very least call and ask about your passport.

Hello joey, kindly don't panic bro , it is not about who is gonna win, it is easier for the government to issue visas than go through that road, usually those cases end up by a deal between the government and plaintiffs lawyer, and In Mosleh (the case for Yemeni), the Judge denied  Mr Morrison’s motion for expedited discovery, and his plaintiffs still got their waivers within 45 days. The fact that the Judge in Darchini scheduled a hearing on the motion for expedited discovery instead of denying it outright is great, and a sign this case is going better than Mosleh.
Lets see what is gonna happen, we need your prayers   
Thank you 

I definitely think thats what it means. Never heard of a case where they ask for a passport and then not give the visa