Increased Denials & Delays in some US Visa Categories, Rajiv in QnA, Feb 12, 2025
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Guestbook Entry for Shoba Marudur, United States
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Shoba Marudur
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United States
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Georgia (GA)
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Mita B.
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United States
State
Missouri
Recording for June 26, 2025 Conference Call with Rajiv S. Khanna
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FAQs: US Visa & Social Media: What you need to know about new screening policies and their impact
USCIS Issues Guidance Regarding Family-Based Immigration Policy
Release Date
08/01/2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is issuing policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual that will enhance the capability to screen and vet family-based immigrant visa petitions. This update explains requirements and adjudication of these petitions, including eligibility criteria, filing, interviews, and decisions.
Guestbook Entry for Siddhartha Nandi , United States
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Siddhartha Nandi
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United States
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SC
Green Card holder parents bringing to US a child born outside USA
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Guestbook Entry for Nirmala Nori , United States
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Nirmala Nori
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United States
State
Virginia
Radio Show 2013, September 4
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Guestbook Entry for Anand Bagavandoss, United States
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Anand Bagavandoss
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United States
State
LA
Radio Show, 2013, September 27
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Radio Show, 2013, October 23
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Guestbook Entry for Igor, United States
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Igor
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United States
State
Virginia
Radio Show, 2013, October 30
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Policy Memo on Handling Certain Family-Based Automatic Conversion and Priority Date Retention Requests Pending a Supreme Court Ruling
This policy memorandum (PM) provides guidance for properly assigning priority dates in those instances where a petitioner requests that the priority date from a separate, previously filed petition, be applied to a later filed family-based second-preference “B” petition (F2B) or seeks adjustment of status in the F2B category, based upon an originally-filed family-based second-preference “A” petition (F2A) pursuant to Public Law 107-208, the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA).
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Gautam C Ijoor
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United States
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Virginia
Interview in Tampa
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Florida
So, we had our interview in Tampa. We waited for about an hour and begin to get worried when people arriving after us started to get called in. Eventually after waiting for an hour we were called. the officer was nice and courteous. He asked for our ID's then a few questions about how and when we came about living on this planet. Then he
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GC Interview Seattle DO
The interview took place @ 11:45 a.m. but we had been there for over an hour. There were at least another 50 couples waiting and as some couples left new couples would arrive, so the room had about 100 people waiting at all times.
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Interview Experience at San Jose
The questions I had - I am very grateful.
Now to the story about my interview experience today: My appointment was at 1:30PM but we arrived there at 1:05PM and we were called in like 5minutes later. The officer was very nice and he started off by making small talk about how deep my voice was when I answered him. This was as we walked down the hallway towards his office.