K1 Visa Waiver

[GringoHombre 3]

Below is an excerpt from the Feb 2nd, 2021 White House Press Briefing:

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Q    So the President’s third executive order, as I’m reading it — “Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration System and Promoting Integration of New Americans” — should visa applicants in the K1, the student E2 visa programs, should they take this as a sign that they’ll be granted travel waivers to return the United States?  I know you were asked about that last week.

MS. PSAKI:  Yeah, I was, and it is still under review. Obviously, as we talked about a little bit last week — or I don’t remember if you were here that day.  But —

Q    I wasn’t.

MS. PSAKI:  But it was a question someone else asked.  And married couples, as you know, are able to travel.  There was a review of students and of couples who were not married; that review hasn’t concluded yet.

 

What would travel waivers mean in this context?  

Also, here's the applicable language from the executive order from Feb 2nd, which should hopefully leads to all immigration processes being sped up.

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(b)  Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall each submit a plan to the President describing the steps their respective agencies will take to advance the policy set forth in section 1 of this order.

(c)  Within 180 days of submitting the plan described in subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall each submit a report to the President describing the progress of their respective agencies towards implementing the plan developed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section and recognizing any areas of concern or barriers to implementing the plan.

 

 

[aaron2020 11,651]

No one knows since the 90 days and 180 days reviews are not done.  

[HRQX 4,145]

41 minutes ago, GringoHombre said:

What would travel waivers mean in this context?

That is talking about National Interest Exemptions (NIE) or something similar to the following proclamations:

• https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/28/2021-02024/suspension-of-entry-as-immigrants-and-nonimmigrants-of-certain-additional-persons-who-pose-a-risk-of Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
• https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/05/2020-02424/suspension-of-entry-as-immigrants-and-nonimmigrants-of-persons-who-pose-a-risk-of-transmitting-2019 mainland China
• https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/03/04/2020-04595/suspension-of-entry-as-immigrants-and-nonimmigrants-of-certain-additional-persons-who-pose-a-risk-of Iran

 

But it looks like the current Administration still wants to maintain the unlawful "No Visa Policy" in those countries:

 

Edited February 18, 2021 by HRQX