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On 12/13/2020 at 2:38 AM, Lucky Cat said:

No......In my opinion, DCF wasn't usually needed, anyway.  

It was a lot faster than the normal path, so for qualified people(back when it was available) it was obviously the better option. I wish I got married and did DCF when it was available!  Oh well

1 hour ago, M & T said:

This news almost made me cry! I am so happy to see May approvals come through. I wonder how long it will take to get an interview though.

You are among the lucky ones! Canada was one of the first to resume K1 interviews and has issued 86 in November which is no.1 in the world! While China is still under the travel ban BS and sees NO progress

I saw a May approval here on VJ. They are going through April cases fast! March and Feburary noticeably took longer, by a lot. I think it's related to a small number of petitions due to the global lockdown which had started by April.

congrats! Are you a part of the lawsuit? If not then there’s really hope for us!

1 hour ago, OlgaA said:

I think they can ask any questions 

That has nothing to do with whether these questions are crazy or not. People CAN

 do crazy things but most don’t. These questions are certainly uncommon.

On 12/9/2020 at 3:04 PM, OlgaA said:

Hello! Where are you from? We are still waiting for the interview . Last March our petition was approved and we scheduled for August, but it was cancelled. I know it's silly to compare just it makes feel better if anyone has their K's interviews started!🌺 Good luck at the interview. Here are the questions from this site K 1 interview in Ukraine , so questions can be different.

 

Wow these are some crazy questions... Can't imagine that's common and they ask everyone these. I've been in several local groups for a while and their questions are all tame, like when did you meet, what's the petitioner's job.

9 hours ago, Mihaela Plesa said:

Not sure where your visa is being processed.  The attorneys on the Milligan v Pompeo case were saying that there is some talk that Trump will not renew the travel ban to the Schengen area as it expires 12/31

This one doesn't have an expiration date, it’s effective until the president cancels it. 12/31 is another Presidential proclamation.

You can read the whole thing on whitehouse.gov 

20 hours ago, Ollieh97 said:

I think so. Some embassies have been working on non plaintiffs cases but I think most are only working on plaintiffs at the moment. Other embassies seem to just be ignoring all emails regarding the Milligan v Pompeo result

Guangzhou has chosen to ignore it... I asked whether K1 interviews will start, will it be plaintiffs only or not even the plaintiffs. I'm OK with plaintiffs only - my concern is even that doesn't seem to be guaranteed.

Instead of the usual copy and paste response, they now tell me to go to https://china.usembassy-china.org.cn/visas/immigrant-visas/contact-us/immigrant-visa-unit-question/, which I did, it turns out to be a case-specific inquiry and gave me nothing, since my case is still at USCIS. But I was asking for genenral information and not specifically about my case, seems like they're dodging the question.

Purpose of the visa aside, time is one important factor here.

K1 is not a tourist visa that you can get within days and then come visit, it takes about a year to be approved now, and after that, only 90 days for you to "try dating". I assume your fiance doesn't have a tourist visa and has difficulty getting one, otherwise you can just try dating using that. Will this long distance relationship that you're unsure of last a year? Will you then be sure within 90 days? It just doesn't make sense to me. 

Has anyone scheduled an interview or received confirmation from embassies and consulates that they will resume K1 interview? Still no straight answers from Guangzhou.

I don’t think it even guarantees anything for the plaintiffs.

 “contact their nearest Embassy or Consulate for guidance on scheduling a visa interview.”

Doesn’t sound reassuring, nothing about how consulates should handle it, they could just continue to give the same “guidance” - unable to resume services and we don’t know when blah blah 

10 minutes ago, sl1pstream said:

Yes it does.

It literally says that named plaintiffs in proclamation countries should immediately contact them for an interview. Those who aren't named plaintiffs in those countries still won't get processed until the end of the proclamations. For people outside of those countries nothing changed for now.

It doesnt say how the consulate should handle it though. Anyone at P3 stage can always contact them for an interview, thats not a privilege of any kind... the consulates can just say "cant do K1 interviews while routine services are suspended, we don't know when we'll resume" like they've always said. 

I havent heard of a plaintiff contacting their consulate and successfully getting an interview or even a definitive answer. What did your consulate say?

Yeah it doesn't say much, they just pass the ball to the consulates, while consulates say they have to wait for DoS' order.

11 minutes ago, HRQX said:

This was discussed in a recent thread:

As mentioned above, the sentence is clearly missing a comma. IR and fiancé would have same priority at posts, but by law fiancé is not IR.

Then it's just a vague statement about priority which has been made back in like August... doesnt even say SAME priority as IRs.

41 minutes ago, imsan said:

It seems like the judge left the embassies unchecked to delay K1 visas citing local conditions. 

This is exactly my concern. Similarly, after the DV lawsuit,  some embassies have found other reasons not to issue those.

Maybe this will work in our favor? In a recent post, State Deparment included fiances in immediate relatives. Guangzhou is processing CR/IRs, and without the travel ban as excuse, they should treat K1s equally... right?

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/phased-resumption-routine-visa-services.html

"Posts that process immigrant visa applications will prioritize Immediate Relative family members of U.S. citizens including intercountry adoptions (consistent with Presidential Proclamation 10014) fiancé(e)s of U.S. citizens, and certain Special Immigrant Visa applications.  "

7 minutes ago, Tacos said:

Did you read the proclamation for yourself? There was nothing in the proclamation that mentions non-immigrant visas, such as the fiancé visas. The proclamation was to protect American jobs while the economy recovers, and to prevent those that want to do harm to the US and the economic recovery, from entering. There was nothing said, or implied was directed towards non immigrant visas. 

You should read the proclamations yourself, yes, there are multiple. Can't discuss this when you don't even know what the travel ban is... What you're talking about is not the travel ban, which bans entry of all people who have been to certain countries, regardless of visa types, and it's certainly being used as the reason not to start K1 interviews.  

36 minutes ago, Tacos said:

 You know that Trump had nothing to do with the Embassies not doing K1 interviews and that it’s all local governments? But let’s try to keep our personal political opinions out of this. 

US Embassies and consulates decide whether they re-open or not, local governments don't have the right to decide for them.

Besides that, embassies don't have to fully re-open to do K1 interviews. It's a matter of priority, many are doing CR1 interviews while being closed to other catogories. State Department has announced embassies are authorized to give K1s  high prioritiy.

For some countries it comes down to the travel ban, a Trump Presidential Proclamation. Guangzhou consulate replied in an email that the travel ban is the reason they haven't started K1 interviews, and they won't start until that's lifted.

28 minutes ago, NovaDC said:

If they did that before applying for the K1 they'll definitely get denied.

A ceremony without certificate doesn't make you a married couple, a marriage certificate does. Try applying for a CR1 without a marriage certificatea and say we had a ceremony, will that work?

Maybe there's religious/regional exceptions where a ceremony without marriage certificate can qualify as a marriage, that's clearly not what OP is talking about...

Edit: and OP doesnt intend to do that before applying. 

9 minutes ago, payxibka said:

how will you get a  marriage certificate in the USA for a ceremony performed elsewhere?

 OP can do whatever required ceremony in the US to get the certificate. The abroad ceremony is essentially just a party, not legally binding. Plenty of couples have one ceremony in the US and one in the country the other person is from, or in the country they decide to take a vacation to, without getting legally married in each of those countries.

After entering US on a K1 he can't travel outside until he gets the green card or advanced parole. 

Going to another country BEFORE entering US is ok, you can meet up there, have the ceremony and go to the US and get the marriage certificate.

On 9/26/2020 at 2:44 AM, RamonGomez said:

What's the situation if my wife and I want to go to live in China? I have a tourist visa, she has a Chinese passport + US green card. How does getting a residence permit work?

You can enter with the visa IF it was issued after March 28, then you can apply for a resident permit IN China. From what I hear, it's not hard for the spouse of a Chinese citizen.

Visas issued before March 28 are not valid yet. 

On 9/26/2020 at 7:37 AM, Captain Ewok said:

That is strange.  We use invisible recaptcha (google based) to screen bots.  Maybe google is blocked.

 

https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/invisible.html?ref=producthunt

 

Some searching indicates this may be the issue...

Yeah, Google is blocked. 

5 minutes ago, Luckycuds said:

No. It's that they haven't yet gotten caught for committing fraud. 

Immigration knows their path - b visa, marriage, AOS, and approves their green card applications. I don’t know what’s left to be “caught”. 

Obviously I do not recommend this path. And based on some decisions made by the government(and not my feelings about it), I use the word questionable. 

3 hours ago, Jorgedig said:

Not questionable.  Fraudulent.

I can see how that makes sense, but in reality people have gotten green cards that way (not all), so apparently some are considered not fraudulent by the government. I don’t know why or how

Without seeing each other in the last 2 years, you don't qualify for a K1 visa.

It's ok to get married while on a tourist visa - I know a ton of people did that, filed for CR1 and came back to the home country to wait,  no problem. It's questionable if you marry, stay and AOS.