NIE + K1 visa

[molehills 67]

Has anyone (non plaintiffs in Milligan or other suits etc.) gotten a K1 visa recently under Secretary Blinken's NIE to K1 applicants?

 

My fiancé had his interview today and was given verbal approval and they took his passport, but we're Schengen Area, so I told him to specifically ask that if granted the K1 visa, it be noted within his passport that the visa is an NIE to PP 10143 "the travel ban", just to try to avoid anyone at CBP or airports who may not be up to date on the news that I so vehemently follow. I skimmed through some K1 NIE posts here already, but can't seem to find anything that's for a non-Milligan plaintiff or who's been granted a K1 in a travel banned nation since the Secretary of State's order.

The CO told him after the interview that the rules changed and he doesn't need it anymore and that previously, he would have had to travel to a 3rd party country to quarantine to then enter the US. 

 

Does anyone in a similar situation and timeline have any experience? Was "National Interest Exemption to PP 10143" blatantly written in your passport? Am I just too worried? Regardless of what it says in the visa, we're still going to have all the DoS webpages and items printed and ready to go when he is scheduled to fly (we're planning for end of June). The last thing I want to do is have him turned away at POE.

 

Thanks in advance if anyone can give advice or past experience. 

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from Process & Procedures to Progress Reports.

[payxibka 10,045]

On 5/27/2021 at 11:41 AM, JCB86 said:

Has anyone (non plaintiffs in Milligan or other suits etc.) gotten a K1 visa recently under Secretary Blinken's NIE to K1 applicants?

 

My fiancé had his interview today and was given verbal approval and they took his passport, but we're Schengen Area, so I told him to specifically ask that if granted the K1 visa, it be noted within his passport that the visa is an NIE to PP 10143 "the travel ban", just to try to avoid anyone at CBP or airports who may not be up to date on the news that I so vehemently follow. I skimmed through some K1 NIE posts here already, but can't seem to find anything that's for a non-Milligan plaintiff or who's been granted a K1 in a travel banned nation since the Secretary of State's order.

The CO told him after the interview that the rules changed and he doesn't need it anymore and that previously, he would have had to travel to a 3rd party country to quarantine to then enter the US. 

 

Does anyone in a similar situation and timeline have any experience? Was "National Interest Exemption to PP 10143" blatantly written in your passport? Am I just too worried? Regardless of what it says in the visa, we're still going to have all the DoS webpages and items printed and ready to go when he is scheduled to fly (we're planning for end of June). The last thing I want to do is have him turned away at POE.

 

Thanks in advance if anyone can give advice or past experience. 

Notation not needed anymore 

[molehills 67]

42 minutes ago, payxibka said:

Notation not needed anymore 

Presumably because it's been awhile since the order's been out and everyone is aware of the order?