Move Immigrant Visa Office from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

[Lia792 5]

I made this poll because I feel that there should be a way to petition for an alternate immigrant visa office, if not a complete removal of the immigrant visa office from Ciudad Juarez. I suppose it is convenient for USCs who drive there, but I feel it is completely wrong for the government to force us to use that office when it is one of the most dangerous cities in the world according to CNN reports.

http://news.aol.com/article/mexican-border...d-juarez/765475

No.2 according to Real Clear World: http://www.realclearworld.com/lists/most_d...dad_juarez.html

I would like to set up a petition from USCs that would have to go through Ciudad Juarez to have another alternative. I haven't quite figured out how...online? on paper?

[e+c 0]

I made this poll because I feel that there should be a way to petition for an alternate immigrant visa office, if not a complete removal of the immigrant visa office from Ciudad Juarez. I suppose it is convenient for USCs who drive there, but I feel it is completely wrong for the government to force us to use that office when it is one of the most dangerous cities in the world according to CNN reports.

http://news.aol.com/article/mexican-border...d-juarez/765475

No.2 according to Real Clear World: http://www.realclearworld.com/lists/most_d...dad_juarez.html

I would like to set up a petition from USCs that would have to go through Ciudad Juarez to have another alternative. I haven't quite figured out how...online? on paper?

I think it should be in a location more convenient for a majority of Mexicans. It's so far from central/southern Mexico.

I don't understand why it's that office that can only do fiance visas. Or why they would choose that particular location for K1 visas. Why not Mexico City too?

[Saddle Bronc 124]

I chose b but not for safety reason, but due to the reason that citizens of the other NAFTA-partner country have to oft go to inconvenient location for their GC's--so why not make Mexico on par with Canada on that score!

[Lia792 5]

e+c, having lived in Mexico for the last six months, I see that the country is centrally-based. Maybe Ciudad Juarez was a relevant city 50 years ago, but for probably the last ten years it has become less and less attractive as the site of a government office.

Saddle_Bronc, I don't know much about the location of the immigrant visa offices in Canada, but I've got to wonder why the US govt makes it so hard for so-called partner countries.

Thanks for your input!

[Saddle Bronc 124]

e+c, having lived in Mexico for the last six months, I see that the country is centrally-based. Maybe Ciudad Juarez was a relevant city 50 years ago, but for probably the last ten years it has become less and less attractive as the site of a government office.

Saddle_Bronc, I don't know much about the location of the immigrant visa offices in Canada, but I've got to wonder why the US govt makes it so hard for so-called partner countries.

Thanks for your input!

Immigrant visa issuing consulate in Canada has been at Montreal for more than 10 years--sometime between 1985 (when my sister got her GC through marriage to a GC holder--issued at Calgary) and 1999 (when I got my own GC through work), DepState decided to "centralise" it there. Montreal is in province of Quebec, which makes much noise about that it "should be a separate nation due to anti-French-language discrimination" in rest-of-Canada--despite of 5 of 22 PM's of Canada coming from Quebec (4 French-speakers, 1 Irish-origin).

[MrsBocanegra 3]

I think they should give people more options. Juarez is so far for most people and very unsafe. I think they should leave the Juarez office and make one in DF as well.

[rymusic04 0]

They should defenitaly change it!!! a couple of days after I was there, there was a killing at the denny's right next to the consolate at 2:00 in the afternoon. We had jsut ate there two days prior!!!

[MrsBocanegra 3]

They should defenitaly change it!!! a couple of days after I was there, there was a killing at the denny's right next to the consolate at 2:00 in the afternoon. We had jsut ate there two days prior!!!

I heard about that... we ate there too... Scary...

[Lia792 5]

Yeah, Montreal is not very central to say...Saskatoon.

(Mental Note: Do NOOTTTT eat at the Denny's in Ciudad Juarez. LOL or do not eat in the city at all, just hide in the hotel room and then jump and duck back and forth between the embassy.) It's really weird; yesterday I was watching the national news and they said 39 people had been killed that day throughout Mexico, and it made me reflect that we are living in a war that has become normal to us.

[e+c 0]

I think they should give people more options. Juarez is so far for most people and very unsafe. I think they should leave the Juarez office and make one in DF as well.

Yup, DF makes MUCH more sense to me. I was really surprised when my fiance said that he had to go to Juarez. I thought for sure someone gave him bad information.

[웃 910]

They just built a brand new consulate in Juarez last year so I doubt they plan on moving anytime soon. But.....Here is a list of the US consulates in Mexico (I think they should process the K1/3s in any US consulate; not just in Juarez):

Consulate General Ciudad Juarez

Consulate General Guadalajara

Consulate Hermosillo

Consulate Matamoros

Consulate Merida

Consulate General Monterrey

Consulate Nogales

Consulate Nuevo Laredo

Consulate General Tijuana

Edited December 15, 2009 by Confucian

[e+c 0]

They just built a brand new consulate in Juarez last year so I doubt they plan on moving anytime soon. But.....Here is a list of the US consulates in Mexico (I think they should process the K1/3s in any US consulate; not just in Juarez):

Consulate General Ciudad Juarez

Consulate General Guadalajara

Consulate Hermosillo

Consulate Matamoros

Consulate Merida

Consulate General Monterrey

Consulate Nogales

Consulate Nuevo Laredo

Consulate General Tijuana

I do believe it's just Juarez. My fiance called the consulate in DF and was told that they didn't know anything about the K1 visa because only Juarez processes those types of visa. Which is annoying and hence the cause of this discussion.

[Utah Mom 0]

Of all the places to have the ONLY location for these young women to go to, most alone! Juarez is so dangerous that we don't know how to get my future daughter-in-law there safely and back out again! Even the physicians in Mexico that I work with tell me it's not safe for ANYONE!