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YellowDuneBuggy   60

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Hi,

My wife and I live in Holland, she's American, I'm Italian. We applied for a CR1 visa.

The NVC has closed the case and it's ready to send it to the consulate in Amsterdam for the interview.

 

What is the situation of the consulates around the world?

 

In the US consulate of Amsterdam's website, it states:

 

Due to limited staffing, the U.S. Consulate in Amsterdam is only able to provide very limited emergency non-immigrant visa services until further notice.  This change in services does not affect currently scheduled immigrant visa appointments.

 

What does it mean?

Are they providing ONLY non-immigrant visas?

Are they providing immigrant visas normally and very limited non-immigrant visa?

 

This is very unclear!

 

I saw other consulates' websites:

Germany seems to be closed, Belgium and Denmark seem to be open, UK is only slowing down.

 

Can you please share your info with me?

 

Thanks

 

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pushbrk   13,102

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3 hours ago, YellowDuneBuggy said:

Hi,

My wife and I live in Holland, she's American, I'm Italian. We applied for a CR1 visa.

The NVC has closed the case and it's ready to send it to the consulate in Amsterdam for the interview.

 

What is the situation of the consulates around the world?

 

In the US consulate of Amsterdam's website, it states:

 

Due to limited staffing, the U.S. Consulate in Amsterdam is only able to provide very limited emergency non-immigrant visa services until further notice.  This change in services does not affect currently scheduled immigrant visa appointments.

 

What does it mean?

Are they providing ONLY non-immigrant visas?

Are they providing immigrant visas normally and very limited non-immigrant visa?

 

This is very unclear!

 

I saw other consulates' websites:

Germany seems to be closed, Belgium and Denmark seem to be open, UK is only slowing down.

 

Can you please share your info with me?

 

Thanks

 

What they say about non-immigrant visas is irrelevant to you.  They said this has nothing to do with currently scheduled immigrant visa appointments.  You are waiting for yours to be scheduled.  You're in the queue.  Whether you wait patiently or not is up to you, but waiting is the only available option.

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Ryan H   3,830

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Chancy   6,243

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9 hours ago, YellowDuneBuggy said:

Are they providing immigrant visas normally and very limited non-immigrant visa?

 

The announcement relevant to you is on this page -- https://nl.usembassy.gov/health-alert-covid-19-testing-requirement-for-air-travel-to-the-u-s-u-s-consulate-general-amsterdam-netherlands/

 

"The Visa Unit at the U.S. Consulate General is currently processing limited immigrant visas (IR-1, IR-2, CR1, CR-2) and emergency and mission critical non-immigrant visa services only.

[...]

By U.S. Mission Netherlands | 21 January, 2021 | Topics: Alert, News"

 

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