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Walt91 said:
Hello,
I have a question related to aos of my non immigrant M1 (vocational studies) visa. Due to the current block on green card processing I’m looking for my options to do a aos instead of counselor processing at my local embassy in Amsterdam. I am currently in the Netherlands but still hold a valid student m1 visa. I am in my home country due to the pandemic and was planning to go for an interview here in Amsterdam. Now this is blocked my question is; Can I adjust the status of a m1 visa and if so, once the travel ban is lifted can I fly back to the US on my M1 and legally apply for Aos ? My case number is eu31xxx. thank you so much!
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it’s visa fraud to enter on a non immigrant visa with intent to adjust status... so no, you can’t go this route.
 
SusieQQQ said:
Well he’s blocked the entry of people who don't already have visas as of today, so it’s moot imo - an embassy is not going to issue a visa that isn’t allowed to be used - visas only have an expiry date, not a “valid from” date. But yes, I guess embassies could go ahead and interview and just put a hold on issuance until the ban is over. That makes more sense from a workload point of view (assuming they open) than just postponing everything.
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Yes, i meant this. Maybe after interview applicant will be put in AP and after the ban will be lift they will Issue the visa. This could be the best scenario for us
 
valerio74 said:
Yes, i meant this. Maybe after interview applicant will be put in AP and after the ban will be lift they will Issue the visa. This could be the best scenario for us
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The risk you would bear there is that if the ban gets extended to the end of the FY, you would have paid all fees for nothing. (I’m not saying this is a likely outcome - just that there is a risk paying the fees with no absolute certainty of when the ban would end)
 
SusieQQQ said:
it’s visa fraud to enter on a non immigrant visa with intent to adjust status... so no, you can’t go this route.
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I mean it’s a current visa and study I’m following, I’m just not in the United States due to covid and I’m suppose to continue the study after the travel ban is lifted. It just so happen that I was selected for the dv2020. My plan was to travel back from the United States once my case number became current and got an interview date. Now I had to leave early and cant really do counselor processing in my home country. Continuing my study and apply for AOS after the travel ban it that still considered fraud then even though i will be traveling on a valid m1 visa?
 
SusieQQQ said:
The risk you would bear there is that if the ban gets extended to the end of the FY, you would have paid all fees for nothing. (I’m not saying this is a likely outcome - just that there is a risk paying the fees with no absolute certainty of when the ban would end)
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Yeah, I know. However at the moment I don’t have this risk because my case is still to KCC. I have not yet received my 2NL.
When you call them they said that are again processing documents but 2NL has been blocked by DOS at the end of March (so before the EO) because of the closure of embassies around the world .
 
Walt91 said:
I mean it’s a current visa and study I’m following, I’m just not in the United States due to covid and I’m suppose to continue the study after the travel ban is lifted. It just so happen that I was selected for the dv2020. My plan was to travel back from the United States once my case number became current and got an interview date. Now I had to leave early and cant really do counselor processing in my home country. Continuing my study and apply for AOS after the travel ban it that still considered fraud then even though i will be traveling on a valid m1 visa?
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That plan constitutes entering the US on NIV with a preconceived intent of processing AOS - it is considered a fraudulent misuse of a NIV - regardless of when the visa was issued. You did not decide on processing AOS while already in the US, this decision is an after thought and it unfortunately is not allowed. AOS is for people currently in the US when the decision to process AOS was made.
 
I called Holy Trinity Hospital in Accra to get an update about my medical report which was on hold since last month but
I was told that the Ghana embassy have asked them to submit all reports at their end during the Lockdown and mine have been sent to the embassy this afternoon.
Does it mean embassies still accepting interviews?
 
Ellen 94 said:
I called Holy Trinity Hospital in Accra to get an update about my medical report which was on hold since last month but
I was told that the Ghana embassy have asked them to submit all reports at their end during the Lockdown and mine have been sent to the embassy this afternoon.
Does it mean embassies still accepting interviews?
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It certainly means they are preparing for when they can ... I guess we don’t know when that will be yet thoigh
 
Sm1smom said:
That plan constitutes entering the US on NIV with a preconceived intent of processing AOS - it is considered a fraudulent misuse of a NIV - regardless of when the visa was issued. You did not decide on processing AOS while already in the US, this decision is an after thought and it unfortunately is not allowed. AOS is for people currently in the US when the decision to process AOS was made.
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Thank you for clarifying! Let’s hope the best for counselor processing.
 
SusieQQQ said:
well, the “obvious“ solution is for most or all regions to go current quickly once they can start issuing again (clearly DV issuance is going to be way below quota this year), except that some embassies (in countries where there are lots of DV applicants and/or immigrant applicants in general) won’t have the capacity to deal with a surge in interviews in the last couple of months. The best you can hope for is that those embassies will schedule DVs ahead of non-sunset clause visas, but as above other affected visas in general total more than DV so... there will almost certainly be a bottleneck at some embassies.
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This sounds interesting, but I guess that means that KCC has to process them all before they go current, or not? I'm not too sure about how it works. And then, let's just say the region goes current, does that mean that someone (with a higher CN than others) can get an interview just because their embassy it's not overloaded and only has 1 or 2 dv lottery cases /interviews per month?

Thanks :)
 
low_23 said:
This sounds interesting, but I guess that means that KCC has to process them all before they go current, or not? I'm not too sure about how it works. And then, let's just say the region goes current, does that mean that someone (with a higher CN than others) can get an interview just because their embassy it's not overloaded and only has 1 or 2 dv lottery cases /interviews per month?

Thanks :)
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I'm not too familiar with the US government system, but isn't DoS PART of the government? I mean, if Trump wants us out, why would THEY do everything they can to allow more visas to be issued? Aren't they supposed to adopt the 'immigrants out' state of mind?
 
valerio74 said:
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Yeah I have read that, but there is write that it’s denied the “entry” to USA for 60 days. Maybe not the issuance , people could do interview and after AP and when this ban will expire it will be ISSUED as the lawyer is writing
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I don't think people will do any interviews during the ban . But I do pray this can happen
 
Charles Oppenheim, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division, stated during a conference call this afternoon that the May 2020 Visa Bulletin has finally been cleared for release. He expects to issue it Friday, April 24, 2020.
Hopefully this will be true!!!
 
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Airspray said:
I'm not too familiar with the US government system, but isn't DoS PART of the government? I mean, if Trump wants us out, why would THEY do everything they can to allow more visas to be issued? Aren't they supposed to adopt the 'immigrants out' state of mind?
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Right, I don't see them neither doing an effort to process /interview /issue as much as they can.
 
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