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Trump’s New Executive Proclamation - Travel Suspension 2.0

Mer2020 said:
Dear @SusieQQQ and what if it's not my fault I don't get a visa by midnight 30 Sept? As a winner of DV2020, I did everything, all documentation within the required deadlines and payments of course. Now they declare everything is just over...
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Mer2020 said:
Dear @SusieQQQ and what if it's not my fault I don't get a visa by midnight 30 Sept? As a winner of DV2020, I did everything, all documentation within the required deadlines and payments of course. Now they declare everything is just over...
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I understand the anger and frustration, and that telling you that this has happened to other people in the past (scheduled for interview but then they ran out of visas before they could go) isn’t going to help, but that is the law. You can’t expect the embassies to tell you anything else.
 
Noble Osei Owusu said:
So can't the law that stated we have to end on September be amended..becouse this is no fault of ours ..there should be an exception to any law moreover the system is new to this kind of pandemic..there should be a way out
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This is not our fault if we have Covid this exceptional year and I cannot understand even if it’s a law why we cannot postponed specially dv 2020 ??
This is the first time that something like this happened, why the 1month delay for the dv2021 results and any possibility to postpone safety our visas ??? I think that that possibilities exist and make a good sense
 
Just asking here, maybe a silly question : Is the date of announcement for the selectees a fixed unchangeable part of the dv act/law ? What i’m asking for is the reason, if they had the power to change the date of the announcement of the draw to one month after for the dv 2021(if part of the law), can they change the final date 30/09 of the dv 2020 for the same reason(unexpected global health crisis) ? Really there isn’t any way out of this situation?!
 
ihaxhaj said:
Just asking here, maybe a silly question : Is the date of announcement for the selectees a fixed unchangeable part of the dv act/law ? What i’m asking for is the reason, if they had the power to change the date of the announcement of the draw to one month after for the dv 2021(if part of the law), can they change the final date 30/09 of the dv 2020 for the same reason(unexpected global health crisis) ? Really there isn’t any way out of this situation?!
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No.
 
ihaxhaj said:
Just asking here, maybe a silly question : Is the date of announcement for the selectees a fixed unchangeable part of the dv act/law ? What i’m asking for is the reason, if they had the power to change the date of the announcement of the draw to one month after for the dv 2021(if part of the law), can they change the final date 30/09 of the dv 2020 for the same reason(unexpected global health crisis) ? Really there isn’t any way out of this situation?!
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Announcement date is not fixed by law. Neither is the registration opening date fixed by law. So they can change those as needed.
 
Noble Osei Owusu said:
But Brit there are exceptions to every law and evèry law is preve to amendments..whats your take on that too please
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Amendments are changes to the law which need to be approved by the system, in the case of the USA a democratic system where congress vote in the house and the senate and then the president normally signs the new laws into effect. That takes time. It doesn't just pop out of thin air.

There are not exceptions to the law. Otherwise the laws would be called suggestions.
 
Noble Osei Owusu said:
But in 2017 some cases were allowed to be interviewed beyond September 31 by court according to post made by Curtis
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The way that was stated by Curtis was misleading. This was discussed a couple of times already. No one got a DV2017 visa after the end of the fiscal year, because the law prevents it despite an order reserving them.
 
Noble Osei Owusu said:
But in 2017 some cases were allowed to be interviewed beyond September 31 by court according to post made by Curtis
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IN addition to what Susie said, I think people are reading more into the 2017 case than Curtis said. If you actually read what he said, he points out the visas were issued on September 22nd (from memory), and that the one case that did not get issued has still not been issued to this day. The case is in stalemate. As I put it today, the judge could order me to fly. Doesn't mean I can do it.
 
Britsimon said:
IN addition to what Susie said, I think people are reading more into the 2017 case than Curtis said. If you actually read what he said, he points out the visas were issued on September 22nd (from memory), and that the one case that did not get issued has still not been issued to this day. The case is in stalemate. As I put it today, the judge could order me to fly. Doesn't mean I can do it.
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No-one reads the fine print. To be blunt, I think people are reading into it want he wanted them to read into it, as an enticement to join the case. This is the way it is phrased on the main page - no caveats, and it is described as a successful outcome:

Further, two cases have been brought in the past that had successful outcomes for DV lottery winner participants. In a case filed in 2017 in the District of Columbia, the court ordered the government to set aside visas to be issued beyond September 30.
 
Would this affect the processing of documents and scheduling interviews?

US immigration agency proposes job cuts that could halt system
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US Citizenship and Immigration Services is preparing to furlough 70 percent of its staff, worsening immigration backlog.

The United States agency in charge of processing immigration applications has said it is preparing to furlough nearly 70 percent of its workforce unless it receives fresh funding, a move that employees say would bring an already backlogged system to a virtual halt.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an agency of the Department of State, is dependent on fees from new immigration applications for its operations and is facing a historic budget shortfall. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has made cutting legal and undocumented migration a centrepiece of his 2020 re-election campaign.

The number of new immigrants coming into the US has been dramatically stemmed by new regulations and a series of executive actions, along with travel restrictions put in place in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The agency has already seen a 50 percent drop in fees since March, when most travel and immigration stopped as countries moved to control the spread of the novel coronavirus, a USCIS spokesperson said in a statement.
USCIS has asked for a $1.2bn bailout from Congress to avoid the projected staff reductions.
"On or before July 2, approximately 13,400 USCIS employees will receive notice that if USCIS must proceed with an administrative furlough, they would be furloughed beginning August 3," the USCIS spokesperson's statement said.

Refugee and asylum 'skeleton crew'
The furloughs, if implemented, "will for sure cause noticeable delays immediately," one USCIS employee, who asked not to be named, told the Reuters News Agency. "There are already so many backlogs to work through. It's insane to even contemplate how bad this is going to get."
Meanwhile, the staff of the Refugee, Asylum and International Operations division of USCIS has been informed in an email seen by Reuters that notices would be sent on July 24 and 25 to approximately 1,500 employees of the 2,200 on staff in that unit.
Those kept on would be a "skeleton crew" to "keep the lights on", the email said.

On Monday, Trump signed a presidential proclamation banning entry for several categories of temporary visa holders and extended a ban on some green card applicants, which the administration said would help open more jobs for unemployed Americans. Critics say the measures will hurt the economy.
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@Britsimon : Hi Simon thanks for your continuous help and support for DV winners, please can you answer the below questions :

- There is any difference betwen AILA plaintiff and Curtis’ mandamus case in term of outcome and preference?
- Does both cases could affect each other by means positively or negatively?
- let say if the Curtis case get success in any of the 4 outcome he mentioned in his last video : i will be applicable for the ones participated in his case only or it apply for all DV2020 cases ready for inteeview?
Considering that some of us are interested to sign for curtis case but because the charges still they are unable to goahead with.

Thanks
 
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