In this video, will give you an update as to what's happening with employment and
family-based interview waivers. Yes, interviews are still continued to be waived, but also,
an interesting trend coming from immigration,
what immigration officials are doing right now that is so different. And I will update
you as well in this video. So, what are you waiting for? I'll see you on the other side.
Hello, everybody. So, in this video, I'll give you a full update, a recent update on what's happening
right now with immigration, interview waivers both on family and on employment-based of our cases.
And also, just a lesson, an update about a recent trend that we see coming from the USCIS that you
might find very interesting. But before that, if you're here for the first time, make sure
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I'm an immigration attorney located in San Diego, California. We help clients in all 50 states. And
we’re excited to create those videos for you every single week. And also, we bring you a lot of the
updates that we see in our cases that happen every single week in our office so we can share
that with you as we get that information from the USCIS as well as the State Department. So,
let's talk about interview waivers. I know quite a few… every time we make those videos, I know
there's a lot of interest. People want to know what's the trend and those things are evolving
since they started in early May. And immigration started to do so. And remember, to this day,
there's no official policy of them, and it's not announced anywhere that they're doing it but it's
happening on a regular basis. So, let's talk about what's happening right now with waivers.
And for us, what we see is that a lot of employment cases are getting interview
waivers. But an interesting trend that has just started happening a couple of weeks ago,
is that USCIS is actually calling. They're calling clients over the phone. They're not
sending a letter. They're not sending a fax or an email. They're actually calling and the first
time when this happened a few weeks ago, one of my clients said “Listen, I got a call from USCIS.
Is this real? And I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure what to say. But he took the call.
And basically, it was an official from USCIS. The number was also on the caller ID.
It says USCIS. And it was actually the officer adjudicating the case. In this case,
it was an EB2 case, green card based on EB2, the national interest waiver case. And the officer
identified himself that he’s from USCIS. He told the client that he's calling about his case.
They're doing some final checks. And he asked him, essentially, only a few questions. He asked him
to know what he's doing right now, where he is employed. He wanted to know how many employees are
currently working at his company because remember, there was a national interest waiver, he's
creating jobs. And then they asked him questions about his future plans, what he intends to do once
he gets his green card. Again, it's all related to the EB2 national interest waiver. And that's
it. It was very short, about 3 to 5 minutes. And when the interview was concluded, within a week,
the client received approval for his Adjustment of Status case. And then his green card arrived
in the mail a few days later. So, again, since then, it happened to a few more clients. So,
if you do get a call from USCIS, again, I'm always cautious about people calling from IRS,
or from all these agencies, there's definitely a lot of scam going on. But USCIS actually,
they have this system right now where they're calling people.
And remember, let them do the talking. They have all the details. So, the officer
was not asking the clients for identifying information, just asking the actual individual
that he's talking to but then all the other information, they had on file, and that's it. So,
they seem to be calling, USCIS seems to be calling specifically in employment-based
cases. They are not calling anybody in the family petitions. So, if there will be an interview for a
family petition specific case, that interview will happen in-person. The interviews that were waived
for our family petition, for family cases, and I made a video about that as well, are specific to
what we see as long term marriages, those that came here on a K1 Fiancee visa and then they are
adjusting their status, as well as some military families. Those are the ones that we've seen
being waived on the family side. But on the employment side, there's a lot of cases that are
being waived, EB2s, EB3 cases, a lot of national interest waivers, those cases that don't require
an employer. And like I said, recently, USCIS has also been calling applicants. So, once again,
if you get a call, and you look at the phone and it says, USCIS Caller ID, just be aware that it
is happening. It's not a hoax. Of course, try to verify. Our clients ask questions from the USCIS
officer, he gave him the right information, he was able to verify that he is actually working
on his file, and he was able to get that case approved. So, also, we wanted to report
some interesting news on 751 waiver cases. So, again, when you file the Removal of Conditions,
sometimes they'll call you for an interview. But what we've seen in quite a lot of our clients that
their interviews have been waived, and they'll be receiving their green cards based on 751
filings without an interview. So, those are also great news in that respect. And finally, people
were asking me about N400. So, we have a lot of our N400s that were filed early in the year,
and at the end of last year, and many of those interviews were rescheduled. If you remember,
during the pandemic, we had a lot of people that had interviews scheduled for April, May, and June,
all these interviews that were rescheduled because USCIS we're not taking people in-person are now
getting priority and getting those interviews scheduled. So, we have a lot of our N400
interviews being scheduled right now for people that were rescheduled before, during the pandemic
when USCIS offices were closed. So, those are actually hopeful news to see. And hopefully,
that will continue as well. As well as, oath ceremonies have been scheduled, follow up
clients were approved. And now they're getting their oath ceremony is being conducted. So,
hopefully, that will continue as well. I wanted to tell you about an interesting case that we had.
Remember that a lot of our DV Lottery clients, they were inside the US, I'm not talking about
those that are outside of the US but those that are inside the US are waiting for their interviews
to be scheduled. They were so worried because September 30 was the deadline to get those cases
scheduled for adjustment. So, we had a very interesting case where one of our attorneys,
Maria. The office was very persistent with USCIS, she was emailing, she was calling almost every
day trying to get the client getting his fingerprints, biometric schedule because
he didn't have the biometrics scheduled, and without those, he wouldn't be able to finish
his case. So, finally, through a lot of efforts, USCIS agreed to schedule biometrics and his
interview literally less than two weeks before the deadline. And our client was able to get
his Adjustment of Status interview, and he was approved for his green card based on DV Lottery.
We hear... we get a lot of emails from clients, from people that follow us on Facebook,
on YouTube, and Tiktok that were not able to get their interview scheduled, and they missed out.
And these are devastating news. Like I said, with USCIS, it is important to be persistent,
consistent, and make sure that they know that we're not going to give up until our clients
are going to get their interview scheduled. This is exactly what happened in this case. And he was
able to get his appointments. Remember, if your case is delayed, and you're not getting your
results, it is important to put pressure, whether it's on USCIS or the State Department. And we'll
talk about that in a separate video. But what we do to help our clients get their F2A,
K1s, and CR1 interviews expedited and scheduled, we're not going to
stop until they do so. So, just to summarize, interview waivers continue. Now, immigration,
USCIS officials actually call you on the phone. And if they do, make sure you pick up the phone
and go through that short interview. Three, five minutes, they verify employment
or other things that are relevant to your case, whether it's an EB2 or EB3 or EB1 case. And at the
end of that, they will approve the 45 without an interview and they'll send you the green card. So,
that's happening a lot right now. And also, on the family side. we've seen quite a few of these
interviews being waived. And we'll continue to report as we see that in cases that are happening
in our office. So, hopefully, this information was helpful. If so, make sure to subscribe to our
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