Travel Ban Support Group

[NJ515 73]

1 hour ago, bashar26 said:

Just wanted to give everyone hope inshallah:

  

 my husband's visa was issued! After 4 months in administrative processing. He will come to the US inshallah next week.

  

Keep pushing anyone around you that you can for support. This is the only way. Be respectful to embassy staff but follow up over email at least once a month. Talk to your senators and representatives. Get anyone who can to make an inquiry on your case! I have a feeling we were only successful because of sustained pressure over time, from media as well if you can! I wrote a personal essay and last week when things were being spoken about in the news again, I posted it on FB and I believe this had some part in it.

That's awesome!!!   We interviewed a month after you... so exciting to think this may be nearly over for us and so delighted to hear this nightmare for you both has ended. Get Bashar on the plane tomorrow!  haha.

[salhasl 113]

7 hours ago, NJ515 said:

That's awesome!!!   We interviewed a month after you... so exciting to think this may be nearly over for us and so delighted to hear this nightmare for you both has ended. Get Bashar on the plane tomorrow!  haha.

While its great we are seeing a few visas issued there is no indication that the process will take less than a year for a majority of cases. This particular case was picked up by the media so I am not surprised it got processed faster. Ive also seen syria and yemen being processed bit faster. For iranians especially the december numbers are abysmal. Unless we start seeing 30 to 50 spousal visas being issued to iranians we can assume the average process will take an atrociously long time.

[simplykay 12]

1 hour ago, salhasl said:

While its great we are seeing a few visas issued there is no indication that the process will take less than a year for a majority of cases. This particular case was picked up by the media so I am not surprised it got processed faster. Ive also seen syria and yemen being processed bit faster. For iranians especially the december numbers are abysmal. Unless we start seeing 30 to 50 spousal visas being issued to iranians we can assume the average process will take an atrociously long time.

if you don't mind me asking what about the somalians  are their visas being issued do you have any information of that  please do share with us ..thank you 

[Rayyan 27]

Congrats to everyone’s whose visas has been issued. An uncle of mine has also been issued his visa today after a year in AP. Good luck to the rest of us.

[desparateIranian 0]

Hi Everyone,

Does anybody here has any information about visitor visas. My parents want to come and visit my sister, who is ill. They had a letter from her doctor when they went for their interview two weeks ago. The officer was convinced that they are eligible for a waiver and forwarded their case for further processing. Yesterday, however, we received an email that they are not eligible. My parents are both from Iran. I am a US citizen and my sister has a green card.

 

Regards,

 

Amir

[Rayyan 27]

Hello Everyone, hope everyone’s doing well.

 

My husbands visa was finally issued today.  So it took over 6 months to be issued. Thank you everyone for your support. Wish you all the best, it will come you just have to be patient.

All the best🙂

[simplykay 12]

3 hours ago, Rayyan said:

Hello Everyone, hope everyone’s doing well.

 

My husbands visa was finally issued today.  So it took over 6 months to be issued. Thank you everyone for your support. Wish you all the best, it will come you just have to be patient.

All the best🙂

 congratssssssssssss 

[mado1983 79]

4 hours ago, Rayyan said:

Hello Everyone, hope everyone’s doing well.

 

My husbands visa was finally issued today.  So it took over 6 months to be issued. Thank you everyone for your support. Wish you all the best, it will come you just have to be patient.

All the best🙂

alhamdilellah

[Adam82 14]

4 hours ago, Rayyan said:

Hello Everyone, hope everyone’s doing well.

 

My husbands visa was finally issued today.  So it took over 6 months to be issued. Thank you everyone for your support. Wish you all the best, it will come you just have to be patient.

All the best🙂

Alhamdulillah, Congrattssss!! 

Waiting for @salhasl dude to give us some discouragement as usual !!

[Muhammad&Mansory 117]

4 minutes ago, Adam82 said:

Alhamdulillah, Congrattssss!! 

Waiting for @salhasl dude to give us some discouragement as usual !!

I actually think Salhasl has been the most logicaland accurate person when it comes spreading news about the travel ban. It is good to be optimistic, but it is very bad to give people false hopes. We all want to have our visas or spouse's visas be issued. My wife has been in AP for more than 7 months and there is still no indication when she will get it. So, I try to keep hopeful and optimistic that she will get it soon; but at the same time reality hurts! Numbers are posted monthly and they are not telling a lot of great news! 

 

Anyways, I am still hopeful that things change in the near future! 

[salhasl 113]

39 minutes ago, Adam82 said:

Alhamdulillah, Congrattssss!! 

Waiting for @salhasl dude to give us some discouragement as usual !!

Lol. Sorry but this case is also an exception. He lived his entire life in saudi and hasnt visited yemen in an eternity. 

 

Logically speaking until the time you see  monthly IR numbers start going back to pre ban levels you can assume the ap average is that long. I watch Iran because mrs is iranian. Iran had 30 to 50 spousals. Now its 3 to 5. So every month 25 to 45 are going into ap. Until i see it back at 30 to 50 the average ap clock is ticking.

 

I am optimistic though that feb and march numbers should be better. On basis of my research before the ban 5535 ap took average of 1 year. Jan numbers come out feb end. And feb march end. If I don't see the numbers climb up significantly by march that means my worst fear is true and the ap backlog starts to get pretty bleak.

[foreverconfused 22]

27 minutes ago, salhasl said:

Lol. Sorry but this case is also an exception. He lived his entire life in saudi and hasnt visited yemen in an eternity. 

 

Logically speaking until the time you see  monthly IR numbers start going back to pre ban levels you can assume the ap average is that long. I watch Iran because mrs is iranian. Iran had 30 to 50 spousals. Now its 3 to 5. So every month 25 to 45 are going into ap. Until i see it back at 30 to 50 the average ap clock is ticking.

 

I am optimistic though that feb and march numbers should be better. On basis of my research before the ban 5535 ap took average of 1 year. Jan numbers come out feb end. And feb march end. If I don't see the numbers climb up significantly by march that means my worst fear is true and the ap backlog starts to get pretty bleak.

My fiancé was born & raised in Saudi. He is Somali, but has never visited also. Would he also be a part of this “exception”? Thanks.... 

[salhasl 113]

Just now, foreverconfused said:

My fiancé was born & raised in Saudi. He is Somali, but has never visited also. Would he also be a part of this “exception”? Thanks.... 

Sorry didn't mean to say exception because that means something else in the context of the waiver

 

I cannot say how long your case will take. All i meant to say is just because one case took 6 months its not going to take the same amount of time for others. Less than 1 year is the exception not the norm. You could be clean as a whistle but sit in AP for years. But in general i have seen Saudi cases process faster. This is the third travel ban ap less than six months coming out of saudi that i know of so there are more. Given our current administration priorities this does not surprise me.

 

 

[JessM28 62]

Hi All,

   Update on the In-it campaign: A group went on Friday to speak with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's legislative assistant. He said that the videos that have been made so far for the in-it campaign are super useful and will be used in congress hearings dealing with the ban. We are currently at 73 videos- and our goal is 100- we are so close!! The video should be less than 2 minutes (just over 1 minute is ideal). You can do it in anonymous mode where your video image will be distorted. It would be really great to get some more stories from other nations impacted by the travel ban (we have mostly Iranian). Please feel free to send me a private message if you have any questions or want more details. 

 

Remember- things don't change if we don't make our voices heard! 

 

https://in-it.com/travelban

 

Thanks!

 

-Jess 

[Tiger66 0]

@salhasl Are the numbers for Jan 2019 for Iranian IR1 Visa available? My wife interview was on Feb 2018. I am a US citizen. She is from iran. We are waiting for her application. Its been on AP since the interview.