US Immigration from Israel

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know what is the procedure right now with some embassies processing mission-critical and emergency visa services?

We received approval (Documentarily qualified) a week ago from NVC, and our case status still says "at NVC".

Interview location is Jerusalem, Israel.
Do they not send the case until the embassy has completely resumed all services?
And isn't our case (IR/CR1) a mission-critical category according to the proclamation in the link below?
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/Proclamation-Suspending-Entry-of-Immigrants-Who-Present-Risk-to-the-US-labor-market.html


Thank you for any assistance.

Okay, for now this is a hypothetical question. My husband and I have nothing to hide, we re first loves, happily married, we applied for a marriage visa while living together abroad, have been BEST friends for 7 years, we have nothing that anyone could accuse us of bad intentions in this Visa process.

We have recently gotten out of a manipulative church situation, here in Israel, where their MAJOR pet peeve was Israelis marrying Americans and moving to America. The church leaders are American themselves, they go to America whenever they care to, but they really hate when their people from their Israeli group move to the US. It s like leaving the faith and turning to Satanism for them.

We got out of the church when we realized how bad stuff was getting, but we are a bit uncomfortable with the situation of them finding out about our applying to come to the US. We re related to some of these people and they unfortunately found out about us one day moving. They were angry at us and said some manipulative stuff and told us that God would never bless us if we went to the US. Then we once heard one of the leaders say to someone else We ll do whatever it takes to make it to where you have to stay in Israel. The leader said he d write the people in charge and make sure they stayed put. This comment was said in jest to someone else, but my husband and I got nervous.

We left the church, but they still write us, and have even sent other people to write us to find out information about what we re doing.
If these people wanted to try to do problems to us for our process, would the USCIS take their word over ours? If they said they suspected fraud to manipulate the situation, what would that do to us?

I know they d have nothing on us if they claimed it and needed proof to back up their claims, but I don t know how USCIS works. I would hope they d need proof . I just want to be prepared if there was ever an issue.

Thanks for answering with whatever you know.
I hope this isn t taken as a super weird question. Lol.

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My husband and I are living in Israel. He had a great job when we came here, had $10k in savings, we had a nice spot. Coronavirus hit, wiped out our savings due to shutdowns, we tried for Social security here and it was laughable what they gave. He s tried getting 10 Different jobs and they all closed a day or two after he started working. Last I heard unemployment was like 23% here and it doesn t look great economically. The leaders are killing people with the shutdowns and rules.

my husband and I do not want to be pulled apart. We were apart for 7 years and 6600 miles. I can t work here, I don t know the language, my husband is bilingual and still can t find a decent job.

I have 5 job opportunities back home that are good jobs and will more than cover our cost of living, but we don t want to be apart.

can I apply for hardship to expedite the I-130? Should I try?

Hi everyone . We are still in the NVC process and our submission of documents are really on hold since I can t obtain police clearance from the Philippines as of this time due to the pandemic. I am living abroad and to even get an appointment at the Phil embassy is impossible. My question is , Is the 1 year expiration in the NVC process starts when you have paid the fees? I am a bit in panic because it s taking us so long to upload civil documents since I have no idea what am I doing. I have all the civil documents except for the nbi clearance which I can t obtain right now. If it will take a while for me to upload documents in NVC , will I be in trouble for the 1 year expiration ? This is not so clear to me. Can anyone enlighten me please. Thanks