Ability to redo medical Or Ability to re-issue CR1 visas?

[AdventureOutThere 0]

Hi, I have two questions:

 

Background:  Medical exam was in early June, 2020.  The embassy interview was in early July, 2020 and received a 221g requesting send some additional documents.  The 221g states that travel must be by a date in early December due to the 6 month medical exam expiration.  Due to the circumstances associated with developments of the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic, we are considering waiting until 2021 for the travel (this part is a certainty - we ARE waiting).

 

Would greatly appreciate your help with the following 2 questions to help us decide whether to send in the 221g documents now to get the visa now or wait on sending the 221g documents and thus get the visa later:

 

1) If we wait until 2021 and thus beyond the December expiration date of the medical exam, police certificates, etc. before we send in the documents requested in the 221g (in order to get the additional time), can we expect that the embassy will allow to re-do the medical exam and police certificates or do we risk that they will not allow re-doing the medical exam and instead just cancel our petition due to being after the medical exam expiration in December?  If they do allow re-doing the medical exam, would we have until the sooner of the new medical exam expiration date or 1 year from the July interview date or other?

 

2) If instead, we send in the documents in the 221g now and get the CR1 visa now, and then wait until 2021 and thus after the December expiration of the medical exam, would the embassy re-issue a new visa?

 

Your insight on this would be extraordinarily helpful.  Thank you in advance.

[pushbrk 13,181]

Send now and request that the visa issue be delayed.  This will require a new medical to be submitted.

[SteveInBostonI130 3,489]

If you do not answer in a timely manner to the 221g, there is a risk that the embassy will deny your visa and send the visa petition back to NVC/USCIS.

 

The visa expiration date is always 6 months from the medical exam.  If you get a new exam, any visas based on the results of that exam will expire 6 months from the date of the new medical. 

 

Police certs are good for 1 year, iirc, but, unlike the medical exam, it has no impact on the expiration date of the visa.  For example, if the police cert expires in October, then a visa issued in Sept will not expire in October.  If your police cert was obtained in January, it is good for an interview that is scheduled for January next year.

 

Follow the advise of @pushbrk.  Submit the requested documents now and ask them to delay issuing the visa.  

 

 

[AdventureOutThere 0]

Thank you both!!  This information is exceptionally helpful and just changed the course of our approach to our dilemma!!