How to check visa statistics. Probably the most common question we receive right now is
"How long is it going to be before I get an interview and how long is it going to be before
I can receive an approval on my K1 visa or my spouse visa to be able to enter the United States?
Are the embassies open? Are they closed? Are they processing cases? What is going on?"
There's actually a tool that you can use to be able to see visa statistics for the month.
To see what visas are being processed, what embassies and consulates, and how many of each type.
This is the type of topic that it's easiest if I actually show you exactly where
I'm looking. I'll put the links below so you can check on your own as well. I will go
ahead and I will share my screen so you can walk along with me and see how you can
get a feel for what is going on. It's not going to be perfect.
It's not going to tell you exactly how long you're waiting. You can at least see what types
of visas are being issued from what consulates and embassies and how many of each
type. You can just go to travel.state.gov, simply visa statistics. They have a monthly immigrant visa
and a monthly non-immigrant visa. Our firm focuses exclusively on assisting couples navigating the
immigration process, so the examples I'm going to pull are for fiancé and spouse-based cases.
Monthly immigrant visas. This is where if you are applying for
a spouse, if you're a United States citizen or a lawful permanent resident applying for your spouse,
you'll be looking here at immigrant visas. And then if you're going through the K1
fiancé visa process, you'll want to go here: monthly non-immigrant visas. You can
go ahead and do this together. See if it will come up on your screen. It looks like there's a
delay so I'm going to stop the screen and I'll share a different one.
Let me grab another one so you can see exactly.
I'm checking the immigrant visa right now so you can see an example.
There you go. This is March. On that prior page that we were on, you would
just do immigrant visas specifically. Most of our clients are going to be CR1 or an IR1.
You can simply just scroll down to whatever country that your case is in.
Let me do a popular one that people are asking about. Let's just see Ciudad Juarez.
We have a lot of people asking about that. It's one of the highest volume consults in the world.
So let me use that as my example. For conditional residents, individuals who are married to United
States citizen or permanent residents, you can actually see here too.
I'm going to highlight it. These are cases that have been processed
in March of 2021. These are all the different visa types, like I said I'm just focusing here
on conditional residence and things that fall in line with a couple-based cases that we assist
with. Also you can see that there were 1,474 immediate relatives. That's just
to give you a taste of how you can check that. Let's go ahead and I'll stop the screen.
I'm also going to show you non-immigrant visas.
We help hundreds and hundreds of couples with those and of course everybody
is wanting to know what's going on with K1 visa. Let me show you that one next
You should be able to see the screen again and now you can
see. Let's look at Ciudad Juarez again from Mexico. You can see there were 82 K1 visas that were
issued in march of 2021 for K1 fiancé visas. Just a handy tool. Again, I know that
doesn't answer your question of when you'll get an interview but at least it can give you an idea of
this embassy's opening. They're processing cases not at the volume they were pre-covered but
things are moving. You can see how many were issued in a particular month to get an idea.
We know that there are some countries especially when we were in really in the midst of COVID
and things really came to this screeching halt. Sometimes, we would see that only one or two
K1 fiancé visas had been issued. Sometimes depending on the country
we would know that was probably one of our clients that we got to help with
an expedite request because that's really all they were doing at that time.
A nice tool to see based on your country and your case type how things are setting.