K1 Visa Interviews Are Being Scheduled - YouTube

K1 and K1 visa interviews. For the people who are going through the fiancé visa process  

or any of our couples going through the immigration process,  

it's stressful. The waiting is the hardest part.  

I have had a lot of couples, a lot of individuals in our Facebook group  

YouTube channel, clients, everybody is  asking, "Are K1 visa interviews being scheduled?"  

What is going on with K1 visa interviews? I wanted to make this video to let you know  

first and foremost, K1 fiancé visa interviews, yes, they are being scheduled.  

We are seeing that the way that they are being scheduled, historically, before COVID, when you would  

do a fiancé visa, you would actually be able  to get online and schedule your interview  

for your fiancé visa. But with COVID, US embassies and consulates closing and there  

weren't interviews occurring. As the world started to try to open back  

up and the US embassies and consulates started to open back up, they were slowly starting to  

schedule interviews. There is just such a large backlog at all US embassies and consulates  

that it's slow. You all know that. It's slow for those interviews to be scheduled  

but they are definitely being scheduled. We help hundreds and hundreds of couples in navigating  

the immigration process and we are having couples being scheduled for their fiancé visa interviews  

While I mentioned that you used to be able to get in and select your date  

now what we are seeing happening is the US embassies and consulates are sending an email  

letting you know, "You've been scheduled for your fiancé visa interview." They're just scheduling  

people because they're in a state of triage right now and they're working on getting through  

the backlog in any way they can. The US embassies and consulates, they  

are scheduling individuals for their interviews and we are receiving emails, as iI mentioned, saying  

"You've been scheduled for your interview. Take these next steps." That is when  

you would be filling out additional paperwork, additional forms, and preparing  

for that interview, medical exams, and all of that. Yes, we are seeing interviews being  

scheduled. Just to give you an overview, I  had a couple people in our Facebook community,  

if you're watching this on youtube and

and you're not part of our Facebook community, we have a private

Facebook group, Immigration for Couples. In this group, we provide a community  

of support and all of the couples are able to share their stories and provide emotional  

support to one another. In this private Facebook group and this community, I've had  

a lot of couples asking about certain embassies, specifically I know everyone who's going through  

a fiancé visa process or a spouse visa process through Manila, Philippines. A lot of  

individuals is asking what's going on with that specific consulate. Typically, I don't give  

specific consulate information just because it varies so much. Today, I wanted to give you some  

numbers to help you understand. There is a video that I made about how to check fiancé visa  

or statistics for any type of visa, not just fiancé visas. Spouse visas,  

any type of case, you can actually check the statistics of that embassy or consulate online  

I have a separate video I can link to where I walk through that process.

You're looking at how many cases were decided in months prior. The US embassies and consulates don't have  

something like USCIS where they can give you an estimated time that you have to wait.

In June, that's the statistics that they have available. In June of 2021, Manila had that   

they call adjudicated or decided 50 K1 or fiancé visas and 31 K2s, which are children that  

are coming with the future intended spouse. That's low for the Philippines.  

When you check on their website, the Philippines have the routine visa services  

suspended. They're trying to triage, they're trying to do as many cases as they can every month.  

Manila, Philippines, they have a very high volume consulate. They have many many people  

that are going through there. So yes, that is a low number. But the important thing is yes, interviews  

are being scheduled just at a slow rate. To give you an idea, other countries I had  

checked on that. Paris, they had 30 fiancé  visas that had interviews. Colombia had 42,  

Germany 25, Guatemala two. It really just  varies so much by each US embassy and  

consulate. It depends on their volume, it depends on what's happening on the ground with COVID,  

staffing, there's just so many factors to take  into consideration that it's hard to just give  

a general answer of when you will get an interview. We look back at those statistics and  

we also see with the hundreds of clients we're helping, we start to get a feel  

for how things are moving. One of the other embassies that I wanted to highlight is in  

Mexico. Something that the US has done in Mexico with the US embassies  

is that there's a consulate. It's a US consulate in Ciudad Juarez  

and that's really historically been the main place that interviews occurred for spouse and  

fiancé visas. What they have done is they actually have another consulate, a US consulate in  

Mexico City. Recently, immigration made an announcement

"We're going to start processing and scheduling interviews in Mexico City too."  

Once that happened, we have started seeing interviews being scheduled much much  

faster. In Mexico, that's the highest volume consulate in the world. They just  

have so many people that are going through. It had a huge backlog, estimated usually more than two  

years for couples and fiancés going through the process.  

Between Mexico and Ciudad Juarez, they've done over 400 interviews and we are seeing those being  

scheduled much faster. While somebody from one country might get their fiancé visa interview,  

it might take a year or it might take six months, It really depends on so many factors. But again, my  

point is just to let you know that we are seeing interviews being scheduled. Pay attention to your  

email. They will send you an email and we are seeing that they're giving pretty minimal notice.  

Usually two to three weeks. Just be as ready as you possibly can. Have the documents ready that  

you can and I know you're probably checking your email multiple times a day and  

checking status online. Keep doing that and I hope you get an interview soon. Hope that helps.