For fiancé and spouse visa interviews, specifically in Mexico, there have been some
recent updates, just recently announced about a week ago on the Department of State website.
We wanted to make sure we updated all of you with exactly what these updates are.
Typically, we don't do country specific updates but Mexico is such a high volume consulate. They are the highest
volume in the world. They have so many cases and one of the longest backlogs. And so,
what they're doing, the announcement that's made, it's really important for those of you who
are going through an immigration process through a consulate through the US embassy or consulate in
Mexico but it's also indicative of some changes we're seeing and we're hoping to see in other
consulates across the world as consulates and the Department of State and immigration is
adapting to COVID and the changes that we've all experienced over the past year.
There was a recent announcement on the Department of State website or the
US embassy or US consulate website rather. I will post the links below. For those of you who
are watching this on the replay on the YouTube channel, if this information is helpful to you
please give the video a thumbs up because this is really important information we want to share
not just with individuals going through the embassy or the consulate in Mexico but also
hopefully changes we'll see for other consulates as well. The announcement is this, there's
two parts to this. This is pulled from the official language on the
announcement is that the US consulate general in Ciudad Juarez has resumed routine immigrant visa
operations and that they're scheduling thousands of socially distanced interviews. This is great
These are the kind of announcements that everybody's waiting for at all US embassies and
consulates across the world. We're hoping that things can resume to normal. All
of us want that very much and so this is a great announcement that they are working on
resuming routine normal processing to start moving cases. We are definitely seeing that that is true.
Again, the US consulate in Mexico is very high volume. It's already had a very long
line of backlog and COVID just aggravated the backlog. But really, this is great. We are seeing
the individuals who had previously had interviews scheduled and then canceled right before COVID
March through June of 2020 that they are working on getting through those. We are seeing
interviews being scheduled. We're hoping now with the routine that they're resuming
these routine processing that we will all start seeing more and more interviews being scheduled.
We know that there's still going to be a long wait. This is great, this is good
news. It doesn't mean you'll necessarily get an interview tomorrow or the
next week. It really depends on when your case was documentarily qualified when
how long you've been in line but this is good news. We'll hopefully see more and more
interviews being scheduled. The other part to this, the other really great part of the announcement
is with regards to fiancé visa applicants. We've had a lot of people in our Facebook group who
are going through a process. Spouse and fiancé visa through Mexico. We've had a lot of
people asking, "Is this good news? What does it mean?" For K1 visa
applicants, they actually made an announcement that they are going to be scheduling fiancé visa
interviews for K1 visa applicants in Mexico City. This is great news because previously all
interviews for fiancé visas, spouse visas, family visas, everything went through the US consulate
in Ciudad Juarez. With Mexico being so high volume with having so many people in line for
interviews, having just one location where all of those interviews occur aggravated
that backlog. With COVID, it just got worse. This is a step in the right direction
This is great news that the fiancé visa applicants will be able to have interviews in a
separate location. Hopefully that will help not just fiancé visa applicants to have interviews
It'll free up the resources for officers that are at Ciudad Juarez and consulate in
Mexico. They can also process more cases there. Some of the questions we were receiving from
individuals who are K1 fiancé visa applicants is, "I wrote on my application that I would
be processing in Ciudad Juarez, that's where I'd have my interview. Do I need to
make any changes? Do I need to notify immigration?" You don't have to do anything. You just need to
wait for a decision on your case and you'll just need to wait for the National Visa Center to let
you know, if you're a K1 visa applicant, when you can begin the next steps for the process and they
will let you know where your interview will be. But hopefully, this is good news. Hopefully, this
will mean that things will be moving a little bit faster, not just for individuals from Mexico.
This is applicable in the sense that it's indicative or it shows rather that the Department
of State and immigration is trying to adapt and change as I said to everything that's happened
over the past year. Hopefully we'll see other US embassies and consulates making similar
taking similar steps and trying to find creative, unique ways to have interviews in other
places to get things moving because we know all of you just want to have your interviews
and you want to be able to be together and start your lives in the United States.
I think this is some really great news and we'll keep you posted as we know more.