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I can recommend Fragomen, they were great. Please fill in the timeline on your profile, that's what contributes to the data on VJ and is much more useful, thanks.

Oh I agree, it was the ‘more certain result’ that I was wondering about, I thought maybe there was a loophole I didn’t know about. I agree that marriage makes sense, the best any litigation is likely to do is to get the exemption put back in place for immediate relatives.

The OP’s fiancée is from Syria, it’s a full ban.

Not specifically EB visa, but ALL immigrant visas from Venezuela. It was announced last June, back then there were exemptions from the ban for immediate relatives of US citizens (although that wouldn't have helped the OP anyway). Recently exemptions have been taken away too, so now it's all visas. https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/12/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-further-restricts-and-limits-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-security-of-the-united-states/

You are aware that anybody from Venezuela can no longer get an immigrant visa? So your wife's case won't be processed any further unless the ban is lifted/amended. Your visa should be issued, your wife's won't unfortunately. So you may need to make a decision on if you want to cancel your own case or keep going - bearing in mind that once you get that visa, you only have six months from the date of the medical to enter the US and activate it, and then will be a LPR of the US with all the obligations that entails.

Yes, take updated docs to the interview. Why has there been such a big delay? Whatever the reason for it was, that may need to be factored in.

It's a George Orwell 1984 quote.

Sounds like a glitch then, particularly if it's happening for others too. Try again tomorrow and hopefully it will work.

She's wrong, it's no different just because you're from Canada. The only thing to be aware of is from a tax point of view i.e. if you had a house to sell in Canada after becoming a US LPR (and therefore liable to US tax).

Right, and it gives the status much earlier than the interview stage. Maybe I’m misunderstanding your question.

I'm confused, the picture above says the interview took place last November? But yes, you usually have to be resident in the country you're interviewing in. Why is the spouse not interviewing where s/he is living? Is s/he a citizen of the other country?

It should display it much earlier than that, from when it's at NVC.

Might just be a glitch. What stage are you at?

Yes, but according to the DOJ's own guidelines, shootings for vehicle related incidents are only justified in very limited circumstances, neither of which fit from the videos I've seen. “Deadly force may not be used solely to prevent the escape of a fleeing suspect. Firearms may not be discharged solely to disable moving vehicles. Specifically, firearms may not be discharged at a moving vehicle unless: (1) a person in the vehicle is threatening the officer or another person with deadly force by means other than the vehicle; or (2) the vehicle is operated in a manner that threatens to cause death or serious physical injury to the officer or others, and no other objectively reasonable means of defense appear to exist, which includes moving out of the path of the vehicle. Firearms may not be discharged from a moving vehicle except in exigent circumstances. In these situations, an officer must have an articulable reason for this use of deadly force.” She was given conflicting instructions (some agents telling her to get out of the car, some telling her to move the car), nobody seemed to give her a warning or identify themselves, it doesn't look like she was aiming for the guy but instead backing up and then turning away from him, and he could have easily taken the time when he was getting ready to shoot to get out of the way instead. But as @ghostinthemachine said, I think we'll all just be coming at this from opposite viewpoints. There are already comments on this thread that are beyond belief for me, but I don't see the point in engaging in those. I'd love to debate (politely, and respectfully) sometimes, but the right wing viewpoints on this forum are often so extreme that it's just not worthwhile. I can't see how anybody can say that shooting this woman was justified, but I suspect others will not see how anybody can say it wasn't. The US is a very divided nation right now, and things like this will only make that worse unfortunately.

Of course cases are being updated. VJ is a very tiny sample size compared to the millions of cases USCIS process each year, so just because no cases were updated on here doesn’t mean anything. Plus of course, data on VJ relies on people completing/updating their timelines and a lot of people don’t do that, particularly when they’re busy with other things like holiday season. We can guess at when your friend may hear using the data (as I did above), but do remember that we don’t know if her case will be an outlier - for example, she may get an RFE that she doesn’t respond to properly, or her husband needs extra background checks etc. The very best thing you can do for her is tell her that if everything goes smoothly, her husband should be with her by the end of the year. But that there’s no point in obsessing over timelines, or comparing hers to anybody else’s in a journey with so many unknown and variables. Suggest she plans a visit or two to him during the year (or vice versa if he has a visa) to give her something else to focus on instead, and help build their evidence for the NVC stage. And lastly, I’d suggest to her that she joins VJ herself so she can find a community of others going through the same thing, and ask questions herself rather than through a third party. That would probably be the most reassuring thing she could do. Good luck to her.

As they said above - kept checking and managed to get an appointment that opened up. That’s the only thing you can do. Good luck.

Thread's a year old, I'm guessing the OP has their re-entry permit by now! 😁

Out of interest, why do you say that?

It means somebody is doing something. But it could just be an admin person scanning it ready to be looked at. Or somebody that's gone on vacation passing it over to a colleague's pile. Etc, etc. So it means it's in process, but still nothing to do but wait for them to look at it, do any final checks, and then issue the visa.

Perfectly normal, it was right before the holiday season so just waiting for it to the get to the top of the pile and somebody to look at it. Just a case of waiting I'm afraid.

Which family member are you petitioning? That makes a big difference as to timescales - see my response to you above. You could be waiting for decades yet.

Just keep checking for interview slots, multiple times a day. It’s likely you’ll snag a cancellation or they’ll open more up.

How many in the household overall, are they married?

Forget the DNA but focus on what else you can find. You say you have limited joint documents so what do you have? How much time have you spent together in person, both overall and since your previous refusals?

It depends. If you weren’t required to file (worldwide income didn’t hit the threshold etc) then just a letter stating that would do the trick. If you should have filed but didn’t, then bring your tax affairs up to date before filing.