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How K-1 Fiance Visas Will Be Different under Biden - YouTube
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- If you're engaged to get married
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and your fiance is outside the US,
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you've gone through the
visa petition process
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to bring your fiance to the US
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so you can get married and live together
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in the United States with
legal immigration status.
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You're going through the K-1 visa process,
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2020 has been a really rough year for you.
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There's a lot of misinformation
going on right now
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about what's going on with K-1 visas.
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It's a source of a lot of confusion,
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and the cases are being processed
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in a very, very slow,
delayed manner, if at all.
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President Trump has lost the election.
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We're gonna have a new president.
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President Biden will be
inaugurated in January,
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and I wanna discuss a little more today
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in today's video about
what's really going on
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with the K-1 visa and what
you should be able to expect
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once we have President Biden in power.
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(upbeat music)
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Hi, I'm Josh Goldstein.
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I'm an immigration lawyer in Los Angeles,
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and I help people across the country
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and the round the world get unstuck.
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So you can achieve your immigration goals.
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And there's probably no immigration goal
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that's more important than being together
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with the person you love
and you intend to marry.
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I remember when I got
engaged to get married,
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it was only a few years ago.
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My wife and I were so in love,
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we are so in love and we
were planning our wedding
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and it was such an exciting time.
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We didn't have the obstacle
of dealing with immigration.
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So I can only imagine
what it's like for you
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and others who are going
through the K-1 visa process.
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But I wanna tell you what's
really going on in 2020
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and how that might change in 2021,
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once Biden is inaugurated.
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In March of 2020, the Trump administration
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made a decision to arbitrarily suspend
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routine processing of visas.
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And one of their decisions
was to take K-1 visas
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and basically not process them anymore.
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They were not gonna make
them a priority anymore.
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So if you have filed
a I-129F visa petition
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for your fiance, it would get
to the National Visa Center
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and it would just sit there.
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One of my clients got a message
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from the National Visa Center
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that says we're no longer
processing K-1 visas.
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And that's essentially
been what's happened.
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They made a decision to
not process K-1 visas.
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So the effect has been
K-1 visas were delayed
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and delayed and delayed and delayed.
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And many people reached out to me
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and hired me to file a lawsuit
to challenge the delay.
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And I was able to get
a lot of cases approved
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at consulates around the world;
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in Casablanca, Pakistan, Afghanistan,
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Cairo, Jerusalem, and Russia,
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and many, many, many other places.
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We were able to get those cases approved,
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even though the government
and the Trump administration
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made its policy to delay those cases.
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The decision to use the coronavirus
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to basically stop processing K-1 visas,
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the coronavirus and the pandemic
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have nothing to do with fiance visas.
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Nevertheless, the Trump administration
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is using the pandemic as an excuse
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not to process K-1 visas.
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And it was very opaque about this.
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There was no sort of announcement
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that they were gonna do this.
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They just decided not to
process K-1 visas anymore.
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Biden will soon be president.
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January, 2021 he takes office,
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and I expect that this arbitrary decision
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not to process K-1 visas will be reversed.
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And we will see the consulates
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returned to normal functioning.
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The pandemic is a serious matter.
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It will interfere with the routine
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visa processes at various consulates.
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But nevertheless, it's
not gonna be the situation
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where they're going to,
in a mysterious way,
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in an arbitrary way, just stop processing
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certain classifications of visas.
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I don't expect that to happen.
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I think the K-1 visas
will begin to be processed
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as competent, functioning
consulates begin to be rebuilt.
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By maybe the end of 2021,
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I expect to see K-1 visas be processed
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as they well should be.
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What can you do in the meantime?
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Well, if you're stuck right now,
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then reach out to me
because I can help you.
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I have tools and insights
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into how to get delayed visas approved,
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and I'd love to help you.
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And if you wanna hear about
other changes that we expect,
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as far as immigration goes
with the Biden administration,
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check out my next video here.
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