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Immigration Breaking News: K1 Fiancé Visa Processing Update (What You Need To Know) | USCIS Updates - YouTube
Channel: Law Offices of Jacob J. Sapochnick
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Hello, everybody. In this video, I wanted to
provide an update about the K1 litigation,
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the status of K1 visas around the World, what's
happening with K1 visas, which embassies are
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issuing, and where cases are being stuck, and
what can you do about it? So, let's dive right in.
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Welcome back to our Immigration channel. This
is the place where you get the most up-to-date,
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immigration news, immigration updates, and
everything else you need to make your immigration
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stress-free. In this video, I want to talk about
K1 visa litigation, K1 visa updates. I mean,
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I have so many comments that people are
asking what's happening with the K1s.
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What is Biden going to do about it, has anything
changed since President Biden took office? So,
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we'll talk about the current litigation that is
pending. We'll talk about what's happening in
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embassies and consulates. And we'll talk
about what you can do to make your case,
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to make your K1 case move a little bit faster.
So, make sure you stick to the end. I’ll break
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it down in detail, step by step. Those of you
that are watching this for the first time, make
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sure you click the notification bell, so you don't
miss any more videos. I'm going to try to provide
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you these up-to-date updates, as soon as I know
more, and I want to share them with you. And also,
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give us the big like so YouTube will be able
to share this video with more people just like
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you who are waiting for their K1 visas. So, what's
happening with K1s? As you know, we have embassies
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and consulates around the world that keep giving
excuses to clients saying that they're not issuing
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visas at the moment, they're not willing to,
they're not able to issue visas, either because
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of the travel bans. Because as you know, we still
have a travel ban from all the Schengen countries,
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other European countries, UK, Ireland, Brazil, and
now, we have South Africa that has been added to
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the list of the travel ban. So, in most of these
countries, right now, we have a strong resistance
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from embassies to even issue visas, to even get
an appointment to issue visas. And as you know,
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those travel bans specifically say only one thing.
They're saying that you cannot enter the US if you
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fly directly from those countries, it doesn't
mean that you're not allowed to issue any visas.
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If you reside in any of these countries, all
it means is that as long as you stay two weeks
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outside of the US and get your COVID test three
days before you enter the US, you should have no
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problem to get your visa and come to the United
States. Those consulates seem to still refuse to
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do so at the moment. And even countries that are
outside of that travel ban. We've got cases in the
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Philippines, we've got cases in Jordan, and we've
got cases in Kenya that are not issuing K1 visas
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because they are blaming it on the proclamations.
They're blaming it on different things.
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This is not right. If you remember my previous
K1 visa update, and all you have to do is search
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on YouTube, K1 visa updates, and you're going to
see our videos right there. And I've done a video
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in December, I’ve done a video in November.
And I mentioned to you that some consulates,
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to this day, were confusing the ban, the
proclamation ban that was issued in April,
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that specifically barring certain family members,
spouses of green card holders, parents, and
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certain immigrant visas from entering the United
States. K1 visas were never part of the ban,
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to this day. And they were not part of the second
ban as well. So, remember that those embassies
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and consulates, they use the proclamations, are
not doing so right. And we'll talk, in a second,
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about what you can do, how to deal with those
consulates when that happens. So, if you remember,
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as I mentioned in the previous update about
Milligan versus Pompeo, the plaintiffs had some
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success. And the court essentially ordered that
the named plaintiffs, the people that were part of
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the first round of litigation to be issued their
K1 visas, and many of them started to get their
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visas, the ones that were actually mentioned in
their lawsuit. In fact, the main named plaintiff,
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Miss Milligan, just arrived in the United States
and is about to get married to her husband.
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We are sharing a picture, where… here, you can see
it. This was in a Twitter account of Jeff Joseph,
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which is one of the attorneys representing Miss
Milligan in this litigation. And so, we are super
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excited for her. She is the named plaintiff. The
whole lawsuit is named after her and we are so
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happy that she's in the US now able to finally
marry her spouse. But what about all the others.
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All the others are still pending. So. if
you have a K1 visa in one of the countries
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that are under the travel ban, so all the
Schengen countries, Ireland, UK, Brazil,
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and South Africa, if you're one of those people
that have a K1 visa from those countries,
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you can join the third round of litigation. I
know that they are looking for more plaintiffs
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to see if they can continue suing the government
to be to allow these more people to be able to
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come. There's going to be another party in this
litigation that we're waiting for the judge
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to rule, whether the consulates and embassies
are acting legally by not issuing those visas
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to plaintiffs, whether they are named in
litigation, or they're coming from countries
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outside of the travel ban. But if you are somebody
who has a K1 visa, and you're one of the countries
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under the travel ban, you have two options,
you can either try to join this litigation,
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or you can sue the consulate individually,
you can sue them individually.
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So, whether you're part of these travel ban
countries or not, if your case is taking too long,
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you can sue them individually, under a mandamus
law lawsuit, or before you sue them, some of the
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things that we do in our office is you can try to
try to expedite your case, request an emergency
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appointment. And using some of the exceptions,
whether it's Hardship to the US citizen,
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there are many things that you can do. There are
many reasons why you can try to get an exception
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for them to issue an emergency appointment. So,
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between these or suing them, those are the
current options that we have right now because
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quite a few of these embassies are wrongfully
denying visa appointments to applicants stating
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that either they are subject to the travel ban,
which this litigation should cure, or the issue
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or the refusing to issue a visa appointment
for whatever reasons. So, once again, until
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the Biden administration is going to clearly give
instructions to these embassies to issue K1 visas,
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which we don't have at the moment, we are
expecting the travel bans to be lifted in the
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next few weeks. If that happens, this update may
change as well. And we may see some more movement
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on the side of the embassies. But
at the moment, my suggestion to you,
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if your K1 is stuck, I will try to see if we
can... if you can expedite it before suing them.
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Again, the results on an expedite request could
be received in a matter of a couple of weeks.
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And whether you should wait or proceed with
lawsuits. And if you are part of the travel ban
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countries and you have a K1, you
may consider joining one of the
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lawsuits that are going around. And then
many, many class members that are joining.
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And sometimes, you can benefit from that as well.
The bottom line is that no matter what you do,
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you have to be proactive, you should not be just
waiting because there are thousands of people that
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are stuck around the world right now waiting for
their K1 visa interviews. And if you're going to
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be one of them that you're sitting and waiting,
nothing is going to happen. So, once again,
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trying to expedite. And again, there's a phone
number right here. And if you do need help to
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try to push those embassies and try to get some
traction, we've been very successful in doing so
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in the past few months. And we'd be more than
happy to work with you as well. So, just send
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us a text in this number and request an expedited
case for your K1, and we'll be right there to help
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you. So, this is the update that I have for you
for early February. Things may change in a couple
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of weeks. And I promise you, I'll come back with a
more recent update. So, thanks again for watching.
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If you're K1, don't lose hope. As you can see
quite a few of these K1s are coming back. Some
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of them, after litigation. Some of them are after
expedited, like we've done, but the most important
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thing is, do not lose hope because things are
going to get better. So, thanks for watching.
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Leave me a comment. Let me know what you think,
any questions, and I'll see you in our next video.
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