Travel Ban Support Group

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On 9/5/2020 at 11:38 AM, Maan_1980 said:

Hello,

I'm a Syrian citizen who was born in Saudi Arabia (so My state of chargeability is Saudi Arabia), and my wife is a US citizen, we have been married for more than 2 years and we are residing in Istanbul Turkey, our case was approved by the USCIS and the NVC 2.5 months ago, and now we are in the line waiting for our interview to be scheduled at the embassy in Ankara - Turkey.

As I understand that I'll be subjected to the travel ban because of my citizenship, so we need to prepare a waiver package to propose it during the interview.

 

My wife's temporary resident permit will be expired within 2 months and it can't be renewed, and she also needs to travel to the US as soon as she can to attend the internship at the hospital to graduate, and she does not want to travel without me.

 

Also, I’m sponsoring my wife because she doesn’t work, ant this point is very clear in our case since she was added me as a joint sponsor.

 

My questions are:
1- What should we include in the waiver package?

2- Have any one done that before?

3- Does our status eligible to file an expedite request for our interview?

4- Since My state of chargeability is Saudi Arabia, does that support our case anyhow?

5- Since my wife is in the medical filed, does that support our case anyhow? because as I see the medical field workers are having a special attention those days.

 

Finally, I just wanted to say that I’m confused because I’m about to get the Turkish citizenship after a few months and once I get it I’ll be a dual citizen who is exempted of the travel ban, so I’m afraid if we filed for expedite we may stuck in the waiver process for unknown time and if we postponed our interview until I become a dual citizen my wife will be overstayed in turkey.
 

Please advise.

Hello Maan, 

1. You don't need a waiver package, the officer that will interview you will apply for the waiver on your behalf and they will not ask for any extra paperwork.
2. I have interviewed at Amman Embassy on the 27th of February and have entered the US on the 4th of March 2020. It took them 2 business days to approve my waiver. 

3. Your case defiantly isn't eligible for expedite. Expedite is only for extreme cases like medical extreme reasons. 

4. I don't know. 

5. I don't know. 

 

I don't think you need any special support for your case since nowadays almost everyone is being approved. So don't worry. 

My best wishes to you and your wife.