White House Petition - PLEASE SIGN!

[irishhurler 13]

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/lift-travel-ban-us-reunite-couples-and-families

[NKDL 150]

Signed ☺👍🍀

[emma24 161]

I've spread on Twitter and Facebook. ❤️ 

[In4theJourney 171]

Never signed so many petitions in my life, my gosh let 2020 be over already 

[Ní hUisce 24]

Signed and shared. 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

21 hours ago, irishhurler said:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/lift-travel-ban-us-reunite-couples-and-families

But the ban doesn't affect spouses of USCs

[emma24 161]

4 hours ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

But the ban doesn't affect spouses of USCs

That's correct but this petition is asking for non-married couples to be exempted from the ban, such as Denmark and Norway have implemented.

[nykolos 711]

Many of these travel banned countries assist in documentation fraud, leading to a lot of bad actors entering the US..  Yeah,  it sucks that it effects the innocents, but until they can thoroughly vet them out, It's foolish to re-open the flood gates.  

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• Eritrea
• Iran — Suspended issuance of immigrant visas and non-immigrant visas except F, M, and J visas.^[13]
• Kyrgyzstan
• Libya — Suspended entry for immigrants and individuals on B-1, B-2 and B-1/B-2 visas.^[14]
• Myanmar
• Nigeria
• North Korea — Suspended entry for immigrants or non-immigrants.^[14]
• Somalia — Suspended entry for immigrants.^[14]
• Sudan
• Syria — Suspended entry immigrants and non-immigrants.^[14]
• Tanzania
• Venezuela — Suspended entry for officials of Venezuelan government agencies who are involved in screening and vetting procedures as nonimmigrants on B-1, B-2, and B-1/B-2 visas.^[14]
• Yemen — Suspended entry for immigrants and nonimmigrants on B-1, B-2, and B-1/B-2 visas.^[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_travel_ban

 

 

 

[MissyBunch 3]

Does anyone know if there's a petition or a push for this in Australia? 

[HRQX 4,145]

On 7/26/2020 at 3:22 AM, nykolos said:

Many of these travel banned countries assist in documentation fraud, leading to a lot of bad actors entering the US.

Note that the closed petition was for the Covid-related proclamations: Schengen Area; UK and Ireland; mainland China; Iran; and Brazil.

[ODJD 4]

Do you know who is in charge of determining when embassies/consulates open? It appears for many that the given embassy is closed and not processing anything. Do you know who makes that decision to open the embassy: local employees or the US government? I’m just wondering who/what is preventing the processing of visas since your petition is directed at the White House, and I didn’t know why. 

[Greenbaum 12,259]

12 hours ago, ODJD said:

Do you know who is in charge of determining when embassies/consulates open? It appears for many that the given embassy is closed and not processing anything. Do you know who makes that decision to open the embassy: local employees or the US government? I’m just wondering who/what is preventing the processing of visas since your petition is directed at the White House, and I didn’t know why. 

 

It flows down the line. First the President advocates the direction that immigration will take (congress is involved also), next is DOS (Department of State) as they manage the visa process with the direct responsibility to the embassies. Then it can, as it is now, will fall on local procedures (pandemic) then the safety of the embassy employees.  When all the ducks are in a row then they open for general business to include processing visas. That is the simple answer.

Edited October 20, 2020 by Greenbaum

[payxibka 10,045]

The Secretary of State published the reopening plan back in May.   Routine visa processing does not occur until phase 3.  Phase 3 does not occur until there is a "cautious resumption of normal" travel (amongst other things).

 

If a country is subject to a travel ban or has instituted some sort of internal travel restrictions (closed borders,  etc) the consulate will likely remain closed to routine visa processing until things change

 

 

Edited October 20, 2020 by payxibka