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5 Mar, 9 tweets, 3 min read
Wow! The latest report from Govt on Immigrant Visa backlog as of 2-8-2021, courtesy of @ckuck.

* 188,390 documentarily qualified (DQ) applicants in immediate relative IV categories

* 284,614 DQ applicants in family preference IV categories awaiting appointments.

#NoBan
Now, these numbers include only documentary qualified applicants and ONLY in the IR and family priority categories. It does not include the EB and DV cases. Adding the cases in the pipeline at NVC that are not yet DQed, we are looking at ~1Million cases!

JFC!
Now the same report provides latest stats in another critical category: visa interviews conducted. Get this!

In the month of January 2021 DOS conducted TOTAL of

* 8,273 interviews for all immediate relative IV categories

* 262 interviews for all family preference IV categories
262, YES! 262 TOTAL interviews for family preference IV out of ~300K documentary qualified applicants and if memory serves this time period covers the Young plaintiffs (case handled by @curtisatlaw & team)
I'm not sure but this report appears to include in these IR numbers (K-1/K-2) and if so the numbers for true IV is even grimmer, as in Jan '21 DOS issued 2091 fiance visas.
But back to numbers. According to the report grand total of 8,535 interviews in IR & Family priority categories. A truly outrageous number but there is more bad news. When govt reports "interviews" and "cases" in the visa context they are not talking actual visa issued but units
Based on prior reports (of course, DOS stats are as opaque as mud) it looks to me that only about 165 family priority "interviews" resulted in visa grants for a total of about 302 Fam priority visas in Jan.
According to official stats for January 2021 DOS issued total of 11,880 immigrant visas in ALL immigrant categories.

travel.state.gov/content/dam/vi…
February issuance should be higher but not anything close to normal processing volume. This is going to be a #shitstorm

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#PP10014 is gone and the period for DOS to review & adjust any implementation, guidance, etc arising from the awful #entryban was supposed to have been completed. I have not seen anything specific posted but KCC has made some improvements - MOSTLY SYMBOLIC- but 🧵
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#NoBan tweeps, PP10014 must be next!
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Anyone has a link to @potus letter terminating the national emergency and freezing funding to Trump’s wall.
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Whoooo. 1st "blanket" NIE for the EU COVID-19 entry bans: "those applicants who are found to be otherwise qualified for an F-1 or M-1 visa will automatically be considered for a national interest exception to travel." travel.state.gov/content/travel…
This could be encouraging, #noban tweeps!!! All that @TravelGov need to do is POST one of these bloody notices and #DV2020VisaHolders with valid visas will have their dreams turn to reality!

Let's do this, DOS!
First time I have seen F/M being able to be scheduled in most European consulates. Major improvement on some of the exempted NIVs also. #NoBan
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