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20 minutes ago, Alpra said:

Thank you for the update. Hopefully next month we may hear something . 

There is a good possibility as India loosening more restrictions after Oct-15, including upto 200 people for indoor gathering which basically allows Mumbai consulate to have twice the people they currently allow. One more thing I noticed with other embassies is that if the Travel alert is Level 3 or below, they have resumed K1s. India is currently at Level 4. Let's hope it will be reduced to Level 3 after Oct-15.

Mumbai has been doing IR/CR interviews since September 1st. They have scheduled interviews for mid-Feb DQ as of now. However, no words on when they will start interviewing K1s. Hopefully, by November 1st they will resume K1 processing. 

This lawsuit is our only hope as embassy in Stockholm said K1 won't be interviewed until full routine visa services resume.

11 hours ago, Simone Jakobsen said:

Thank you for reaching out! 
I did just receive below email from the embassy and that made me a little sad, 

This is crazy. I wonder what "higher priority" means for K1 if they will be interviewed only after "full" routine services resume. I don't think embassies will do routine services until Coronavirus pandemic is over or new administration is in the White House in January 2021.

3 hours ago, Butterfly2 said:

Hi, Case number created by NVC on 6/12/2020. Are you confirming that F2A for kids is still under BAN Category then why NVC declared as DQ?...please explain ..thank you

Only embassies are not doing interviews because of Presidential Proclamation. USCIS and NVC won't stop processing and its a good thing for applicant. Atleast, after the ban is removed, only step remaining is interview. 

4 hours ago, S & V said:

After a few back and forth emails of them request information, Case Number, petitioner name, etc. we got the standard automated message again.  

 

"blah, blah, when we begin normal visa processing, blah blah". I'd like to reply that "hey, Korea has a good handle on Covid and you are doing normal student visa processing, how about sneak in a few K visas?"  But I'd rather not piss anyone off over there. 

Yes. I don't know what they have against K1. We are the ones worst affected by this because we cannot visit our fiancee because most of the countries allow spouses only, our whole plan of getting married and starting a family is disrupted as its legally required that we get married within 90 days of entry. How many months has it been since S. Korea started spouse visas?

USCIS should take 4-7 months to approve but the real backlog is at NVC now due to COVID. Most of the embassies are not doing any K1 interviews now. So, they have 7 months and growing of backlogs to clear. Nobody have any idea when it would resume. Whole process will probably take 2 years to complete if you just started. Or you might get lucky and backlogs will clear by the time your case reaches NVC. Very frustrating 😕. 

Go through this posting. It has all the answers to your questions, especially last few pages.

2 hours ago, richaell said:

Our K-1 Visa Interview is currently scheduled for November 3rd, but I've noticed that interviews scheduled for October have been cancelled and forced to reschedule. They currently have no news regarding future plans of reopening the American Consulate in Brazil.

 

My biggest concern of going ahead and rescheduling, is: what if they reopen in time for our interview?

- In case they do: what if we can't schedule the medical exam in time for the interview?

- in case they don't: we waited to reschedule and now the next available date is (most likely) after February.

 

Our interview will be in the consulate in Rio (RDJ), and our medical exams would be in Belo Horizonte with Dr. Juliana Barbosa Cançado. Her office said they require at least 10 days prior to the interview to be able to send the exam packet in time.

I noticed some people scheduled their medical exam to be done in Rio de Janeiro and only a day or two ahead of the interview. Can anyone that went through this process please confirm this? If we choose the medical exam to be done in Rio the same week of the interview, will they have enough time to send out the exam packet?

 

Sorry for SO many questions, it's just been a long process for the both of us. We appreciate any feedback.

 

Regards,

Rich & May

Did Brazil conduct any interview after reopening and when did they start to reopen? Just schedule the interview for the first available date and do medicals done before interview. I believe embassy wants until they receive the result to issue visa, if approved. 

5 minutes ago, Lucky Cat said:

 

I have seen multiple members receive responses over the last month or so.

Yeah, same old robotic non-response response for every damn query: "We are closed for routine processing due to COVID and do not know when we will open. Please monitor our website. "

2 minutes ago, Dougefresh56 said:

A Temporary Restraining Order is being filed tomorrow 

Would that help to reopen K1s earlier?

9 hours ago, Gatekeeper said:

Unfortunately no K-1 for the 28 countries still subject to the travel ban😔

Even in those countries without travel ban and where they resumed spouse visas, they have not done that many K1 processing. I doubt most of the approved ones are emergency ones.

13 hours ago, sl1pstream said:

Stop spreading falsehoods if you're unaware of any of the details of the case. It's going to take, at most, 60 days and will most likely take far less.

What falsehood? I said few months. You said 60 days. There is no set date. Is there?

6 minutes ago, Camellia said:

One year passed now coz of covid delay.

You must get a new PCC from passport office and contact NVC to see if you can upload new one. Else, you will get 221g.

When did you get it? Embassy accepts it for 1 year from the date of issuance.

1 hour ago, YueQian said:

I wonder how soon we will hear more on this... fingers crossed

It will take few months for a decision. 

1 hour ago, Tere Branly said:

After 5 months of waiting, the interview has been rescheduled, today we have to wait for the appointment by mail 👏👏

I thought its related to embassy interview. Your timeline says you already interviewed and entered USA in 2019.

On 9/20/2020 at 4:01 PM, Captain Ewok said:

Compared to July where we saw 34 approvals, we are pushing triple digits!  We have seen 25% of the approvals being K1-Visas which is a huge jump from 0% in July!

 

Never lose hope!

 

Aug (87 approvals, 39 countries): https://www.visajourney.com/content/visa-approvals-last-month/

Sept so far (55 approvals, 28 countries): https://www.visajourney.com/content/visa-approvals-this-month/

Many of the K1s must be emergency cases though 😕 

4 hours ago, Skull78000 said:

This is seriously SOOO ANNOYING and stressful😫😫 starting to lose my mind .

I know. Its really frustrating. Embassy is not closed. Hopefully,  you will get interview date soon. Good luck.

1 hour ago, Skull78000 said:

Got this message from NVC yesterday

What?? Did the embassy cancel new interview too? Why don't you contact embassy directly regarding your case?

On 9/16/2020 at 4:04 PM, Lexushim said:

Guys... I also heard that the visa issuance might get delayed due to the fact that 2020 fiscal year ends on Sept 30. Like they may be issuing the remaining visas for Pakistanis until the limit is over for the year...Idk how true is that but I read that in 2019, apparently only 3,726 visas were issued from Pakistan compared to 5,012 in 2018... (Not sure what category in Pakistan it was for Immediate relative but I read this number from this link....)

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/AnnualReports/FY2019AnnualReport/FY19AnnualReport-TableXII.pdf

any opinions? 🤔

There is no limit on spousal visas.

7 hours ago, Skull78000 said:

I dont know when the wait will end !! No official announcement made yet about Embassy  i hope they dont stop after reschudling canceled interviews!

They won't stop processing unless lockdown is tightened.

41 minutes ago, HRQX said:

A tweet thread by Greg Siskind lists the 8 main complaints: https://twitter.com/gsiskind/status/1306790853269172224

The following complaint seems futile since they didn't list the CDC and it's Director as a Defendant: "we want any other relief needed - such as extending the validity dates of medical exams." 42 CFR § 34.3(i) is very clear: "All medical examinations shall be carried out in accordance with such technical instructions for physicians conducting the medical examination of aliens as may be issued by the Director [of the CDC]. Copies of such technical instructions are available upon request to the Director [of the CDC], Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Mailstop E03, HHS/CDC, Atlanta GA 30333." The CDC Director is the one that can blanket extend immigration medical results.

Yes but this is a minor issue. I think majority of applicants would gladly redo medical if they can interview. 

I think it won't help majority of K1s since this is not class-action lawsuit. 

Great news!!