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.