Biden revokes Trump ban on many green card applicants

[nelmagriffin 148]

Is this true?

 

Reference: Biden rescinds Trump's pandemic-era ban on certain immigrant visas - CBS News

UPDATE 2-Biden revokes Trump ban on many green card applicants.

[Yousef Rezai 1]

I am very happy to tell you that it’s true. President Biden reversed the immigration ban today. 

[Yousef Rezai 1]

The immigration ban ended for immigrant visas, not nonimmigrant visas. For example, employee visas will not be issued until March 31th. 

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

15 minutes ago, Yousef Rezai said:

The immigration ban ended for immigrant visas, not nonimmigrant visas. For example, employee visas will not be issued until March 31th. 

The revocation says the following; proclamation 10052 is the non immigrant work visa PP so your statement is incorrect.

 

     Section 1.  Revocation.  Proclamation 10014, section 1 of Proclamation 10052, and section 1 of Proclamation 10131 are revoked. 

[HRQX 4,145]

11 minutes ago, SusieQQQ said:

The revocation says the following

For PP 10052, it only says "section 1 of Proclamation 10052" was revoked. Thus the following section is still in place until March 31: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/06/25/2020-13888/suspension-of-entry-of-immigrants-and-nonimmigrants-who-present-a-risk-to-the-united-states-labor

Sec. 2. Suspension and Limitation on Entry. The entry into the United States of any alien seeking entry pursuant to any of the following nonimmigrant visas is hereby suspended and limited, subject to section 3 of this proclamation:

(a) an H-1B or H-2B visa, and any alien accompanying or following to join such alien;

(b) a J visa, to the extent the alien is participating in an intern, trainee, teacher, camp counselor, au pair, or summer work travel program, and any alien accompanying or following to join such alien; and

(c) an L visa, and any alien accompanying or following to join such alien.

Edited February 25, 2021 by HRQX

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

42 minutes ago, HRQX said:

For PP 10052, it only says "section 1 of Proclamation 10052" was revoked. Thus the following section is still in place until March 31: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/06/25/2020-13888/suspension-of-entry-of-immigrants-and-nonimmigrants-who-present-a-risk-to-the-united-states-labor

Sec. 2. Suspension and Limitation on Entry. The entry into the United States of any alien seeking entry pursuant to any of the following nonimmigrant visas is hereby suspended and limited, subject to section 3 of this proclamation:

(a) an H-1B or H-2B visa, and any alien accompanying or following to join such alien;

(b) a J visa, to the extent the alien is participating in an intern, trainee, teacher, camp counselor, au pair, or summer work travel program, and any alien accompanying or following to join such alien; and

(c) an L visa, and any alien accompanying or following to join such alien.

Ah - thanks for the correction.

[phoenyxx 30]

So, hopefully then this backlog will soon be cleared? Last spoke with a rep at uscis they said my case wouldn't be current until Jan next year, yet our PD is MAR1020. 

[techworker42 1]

Does that mean for F2A applications that NVC can now start scheduling interviews? Last time I talked to NVC they said they couldn't schedule my spouse's interview until March 31st because of the prior administration's proclamation. Does this act from the new administration allow F2A interviews to resume?

[HRQX 4,145]

4 minutes ago, techworker42 said:

Does this act from the new administration allow F2A interviews to resume?

Yes: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/rescission-of-presidential-proclamation-10014.html

Not Yet Interviewed:  Immigrant visa applicants who have not yet been interviewed or scheduled for an interview will have their applications processed according to our existing phased resumption of visa services framework.

[techworker42 1]

Great news, thanks!

 

Although I do see in the phase resumption document that for immigrant visas like F2A, it will be IR of US citizens prioritized and no mention of IR of LPR, so I assume they won't be scheduling interviews for a while. Better than nothing at least.

[Falak 1]

My mother case was in AP from nov 2019. Last update was on oct 2020 that consular has reviewed the additional documents and cannot make any decisions due to the ban.  yesterday i just login to ceca website and saw that they reopen the DS260 in the document section. Which means they asked for resubmit the DS260, which i did. Has anyone had the same situation ? What does that mean ? What will be the next step. Please share your experiences. Thanks 

[Butterfly2 70]

3 hours ago, techworker42 said:

Does that mean for F2A applications that NVC can now start scheduling interviews? Last time I talked to NVC they said they couldn't schedule my spouse's interview until March 31st because of the prior administration's proclamation. Does this act from the new administration allow F2A interviews to resume?

Hi, can you share your DQ date please?

[Mario001 11]

Does this affect the people filling for a K visa?

Thanks!

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

8 minutes ago, Mario001 said:

Does this affect the people filling for a K visa?

Thanks!

They were never affected by the ban in the first place 

[Mario001 11]

Sorry, I wrote my question poorly.

What I was trying to understand is the following:
Given that K visas are not being processed across US embassies in Europe because of the travel ban, now with this new update, will these visas start to be processed at their respective embassies?

Thank you.