Hello, everybody. In this video, I'm going to talk about some monthly immigrant visa issuance
statistics. I'm going to show you where you can check those and what it means for your
case in the different consulates. We're going to go through Mumbai, we're going to go through
Kabul, we're going to look at Madrid, for Nigeria, Kenya, and a few other embassies.
I'll show you how you can check that for yourself. And also, we'll talk about some
current litigation that is now being launched against certain embassies and consulates,
specifically Manila and Moscow, and the reason is because, these particular posts are specifically
not issuing K1 fiance visas, and also have a significant backlog with immigrant visas. These
litigations are specifically focused on the K1 fiance visa. And I know many of you are concerned
about that and may want to hear that information so I'll cover all this in this video. So, make
sure you stick around till the end. So, what are you waiting for? I'll see you on the other side.
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YouTube will be able to share this video with more people just like you. In this video, we're going
to specifically talk about the recent litigation that is now forming against the US Embassy in
Moscow, as well as the US Embassy in Manila, specifically, for delays in K1 visa issues. This
is a major problem. And I'll be talking about this in many other videos. And we'll be fighting these
consulates by trying to expedite our clients’ cases. And we’ve definitely been successful,
but there are hundreds of people that are still waiting for their appointments, and they're
still not able to reunite with their finances. And therefore, there's new litigation that is starting
and then we'll talk about that. We'll also talk about monthly immigrant visa issuance statistics
so you understand what's happening in different consulates and embassies around the world. So,
why are these lawyers suing the State Department, specifically the US Embassy in Moscow and Manila?
And what are they trying to achieve with this litigation? They'll be asking the federal judge
to force the US Embassy in Moscow, and Manila to resume processing of K1 visas in a timely manner.
One of the State Department's official duties is to adjudicate visa applications
and to actually issue visas. These embassies are not doing that at the moment. They're saying that
60 days of processing time is normal to adjudicate those case visas, but in many cases, it’s not
true. It's taking definitely much longer for this to happen. If you look at many other agencies like
USCIS, CBP, and Labor Department, they have most of them adjusted to all the delays of COVID-19 by
getting more people on board, by changing the way they process their cases. And they were able to
continue processing cases without severe backlogs. The State Department remains the only agency that
has not moved forward and continues to accumulate backlog, day in, day out. Not only the State
Department has made no changes, they’re indicating what exactly they're going to be doing to make the
situation a little bit different. So, what kind of people should consider joining sub-litigation?
I think if you try to expedite your case, first under national interest exceptions,
and you fail, for example, in the Philippines, we've seen in recent weeks, definitely, resistance
to having some success, both in Moscow and Manila, we have definitely a lot of pushback in the past
few weeks from both of these posts. And therefore, if your request to expedite has been turned down,
you may want to consider litigating if you don't want to wait any longer. If your I-129 has been
approved, and your case is stuck at NVC, and they’re not pushing it into the embassy and
you've tried to expedite your case and you failed, you should consider joining the litigation. If
your case is actually sitting in a consulate but no interview has been scheduled, and you, again,
you try to expedite and try to use any of the natural interest exceptions, and they refuse,
you may want to join litigation if you don't want to wait too long. If
your interview has been scheduled, but then it's been canceled at least once
and you're not able to get anywhere with the consulate, they don't respond to your emails,
they're not willing to entertain any exceptions, you may consider joining
the litigation. If you had an interview but your case is now stuck in administrative processing,
I definitely think you should consider litigating your case. Finally, your K1 visa was
issued but because of the travel restrictions, you're not able to travel to the United States.
Now, your visa is expired. The Embassy is not willing to issue your visa, definitely want
to litigate if you haven't received any federal response from the embassy trying to get your visa
issued. And in the monthly immigrant visa issue statistic, you can see it's broken down by year
and per month, and we can scroll down to see the current month of processing. The most recent month
they have online at the moment is March 2021. So, let's take a look. So, let's talk about Abu Dhabi.
You can see Abu Dhabi right now, March, they're processing CR1. They processed 29 CR1 visas. These
are the conditional resident visas. Let's look at IR1 immigrant visas. They're processing 88.
So, again, as you can see, the start date if you compare it to previous months, you can see
that they are moving forward, which is good news. We have a lot of questions about Abu Dhabi. So,
I wanted to show you what they do in Abu Dhabi. Let's look at this, Ababa, Ethiopia CR1s,
31 of them were issued in March. And IR1s, 125. As I mentioned before, this Ababa is definitely
moving forward and they're doing a good job with processing the visas. Hopefully, it will continue.
Now, let's look at Bogota. Bogota only processed 14 CR1 visas in March and 140 IR1 visas
in March. Again, they are slowly reopening and we can see some good movements in that
embassy as well. Let's look at Cairo. Cairo, CR1 visas, they've issued 12 CR1 visas in March.
And 80 IR1 visas, immediate relative visas in March. So, again, they are slowly reopening.
Again, try to compare it to previous months. And you can see that there's a slow movement forward.
We definitely want to see more from these embassies and consulates but it's definitely
happening. Let's look at Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, CR1 is only 13 CR1s. And when it comes to IR1
visas, there have been more than 50. There are more than 1,400 IR1 immediate relative visas
issued in the month of March. Definitely one of the busiest embassies. We're going to see more
movement from them in the next few months as well. Let's look at Lagos. Lagos, CR1s, there have been
174 CR1s. That's been a really good movement. As I mentioned, they've been pretty much open
on a consistent basis. And IR1s turn 43 which is not bad. And people are asking me about
fF3 visas from Lagos, have been only 14 F3 visas that were issued in March.
Let's look at Europe. Madrid, CR1, we have 17 Immigrant visas issued and
23 IR1s immigrant visas. So as you can see, very, very low processing capacity, and we
need them to start moving forward. With Moscow, Moscow only issued 3 CR1 visas. As you can see,
we don't have K1 statistics here because the K1s are considered to be normal services.
But you can see the trend from this embassy to... essentially, they issued one IR1 visa
in March and three CR1 visas, which is disgrace for this embassy. Let's look at Mumbai. Mumbai
issued 400 CR1 visas and 400 IR1 visas, and they're doing an effort to keep pushing forward.
Let’s go to Manila. CR1s, we had 175 CR1s in Manila, and 387 IR1 visas, immediate relatives,
and only three F3 visas in Manila. Again, this post is still backlogged. There are many...
there are thousands of people that are waiting to come from Manila. And these numbers are really,
really low. So, as you can see, you can do... the link is in the description of this video. You can
do the same for your embassy. You can go and take a look every month and track to see how many visas
they're processing. But as you can see, some posts are definitely doing a good job and they have a
nice healthy processing limit. But other embassies are literally stuck month by month. And that's why
litigation is necessary sometimes to force them to do what they're supposed to do. As I mentioned,
before litigation, we try to expedite. Our law firm had a very high success rate, with national
interest exceptions for almost every embassy in the world. And I do believe that it's a good step
to start before you go litigate. But if all fails, I do believe that litigation can be effective,
and it's not going to hurt you in any way. So, once again, if you have any questions post in the
comments below. Let me know what other videos you would like me to make. If you need help
with your individual case to expedite or any other help, text me at 619-483-4549 and I'll
be there to help you every single day. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in my next video.