Episode 26: Fiance Visa: Start to Finish

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We get so many questions on Fiance Visas we decided it was time we do a full episode on them. Listen in for walkthrough of the whole process.

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Transcript

 

Jim Hacking: How does the entire process work, of bringing my fiance to the United States, and getting them a Green Card?

Hi, I’m Jim Hacking, Immigration Lawyer, practicing law throughout the United States, out of our office here in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Today’s question comes from Siree. And Siree is a US citizen, and Siree has a fiance back home in India that Siree wants to bring to the United States. And Siree’s wondering, how does that process work? So let me walk you through it.

So only US citizens can sponsor their fiances. Welfare permanent residents, Green Card holders, are not allowed to sponsor fiances that come to the United States. So luckily Siree’s already a citizen, and that takes care of one big hurdle. And so the process works by filing a form called an I129F, paying the filing fee, and submitting documentation of the relationship. And so USCIS has been taking about five or six or seven months to approved I129F’s lately. And the things you need to put in there are sort of important. Obviously you have to submit all the right forms, and then you’re going to want to submit some particular evidence.

One piece of evidence is that you’re going to have to show that you’ve been in each other’s physical presence in the last two years, that is, that at some point in the last two years you’ve met face-to-face. You cannot file a Fiance Visa if you have not met your spouse face-to-face: that’s something that surprises people sometimes when they come to see us. And part of our job, as the immigration lawyer, is to prove that. We’re going to have to develop evidence, like your travel receipts, your plane tickets, photos, phone calls, emails, anything related to the trip itself. If you went to see shows, or tickets for anything, if you took train rides or if you met with family; you’re going to want to provide proof of all of that, because you have to sort of convince the immigration service that you have in fact met face-to-face. That’s one thing.

Another thing besides the forms that you’re going to have submit, is a statement that you and your fiance intend to marry within 90 days of arrival. So typically what we do is we have a simple statement from the US citizen, and a simple statement from the foreign national, and it basically says, who I am, how I met my fiance, sort of tell a little bit of the story, talk about the last time that you met face-to-face, because that’s also good evidence of those two years physical presence requirement that I just talked about, and then a clear statement in the affidavit or the statement, that you and your fiance intend to marry within 90 days of the foreign national’s arrival in the US.

So you send all that off to the Immigration Service and that goes to the USCIS, to the right Service Center, and then once that’s approved, like I said, five, six, seven months later, then your case is sent for processing at the Embassy. At this stage you have to file a electronic form with the Department of State: so you’re switching from one agency to another. At this point you’re switching from the US Citizenship and Immigration Service, which approved the Fiance Petition, and then sends it onto the State Department for processing at the Embassy.

And during that stage, you’re going to file a form called the DS160, and this is an electronic form that you fill out, and it has a lot of the same information that was already asked in the I129F, but like I said, you’re dealing with a different agency, so you have to outline all that same evidence and same information again. There might be a little bit more about criminal history of the foreign national. We have seen more and more questions added to the DS160, so it does take a little bit of doing, and then we have to submit evidence in the form of a checklist to the Immigration Service to get everything to the Embassy.

And then once it gets to the Embassy, each Embassy does things a little differently, it depends which Embassy you’re dealing with: some are very organized and methodical; some are very laid back and ‘loosey-goosey’ and so one good thing about working with our firm, or other experienced immigration firms, is that we’ve sort of developed a list of the things that each Embassy that we’ve dealt with before, has asked for: the little nuances or the little unusual things about that particular Embassy; and so that’s really helpful.

Eventually you’re going to pay that fee for the Non-Immigrant Fiance Visa, and then once the person comes they’re going to be issued a K1 Visa, and they’re going to be allowed to enter in the United States. Once the foreign national is here, and you, the US citizen, marry the foreign national, then at that point you’re going to file for Adjustment of Status, you’re going to file an I45 application, to adjust status, and you’re also going to file for a Travel Document and Work Card, because those adjustment cases are taking a really long time and you might want to have the ability to be able to leave the United States, or work in the United States, while you’re waiting for that Green Card to issue.

In the past there weren’t many interviews on these standalone Green Card cases where the Embassy has already approved the person to come, but we’ve been seeing more and more that USCIS, which is the agency that actually handles the Green Card, is scheduling more of these for interview, so you might get an interview on that, and you and your spouse are, at that point, going to have to show that it’s a valid marriage and demonstrate the relationship.

So that’s sort of the whole process, from start to finish. That’s how you get the Green Card for the foreign national through the fiance process.

Right now, through a strange quirk in the way things are working, fiances are coming to the United States more quickly than spouses. So if you have not already gotten married, that is probably an option that you want to discuss with an experienced immigration lawyer.

One thing you don’t want to do is what a client of ours recently did, and that is to pretend that they had a fiance case, at least that’s what USCIS thought; USCIS thought they were actually already married. So one thing that you have to be careful about is not actually filing for a fiance case when you’re in fact a spouse. And some people try to do that, or allege to try to do that, because they think they’re spouse/fiance is going to get here faster. So basically, if the relationship has been consummated, and a ceremony has been held in which it was recorded with the local government, for the most part you’re going to be considered married, and if you try to come as a fiance, that’s most likely going to get denied.

And if you have any questions or emails about this, or suggestions on other videos that you’d like for us to do, you can either record it at immigrationanswersshow.com, or you can email us at info@hackinglawpractice.com. You can also always give us a call to Schedule a Consult if you like, 314-961-8200.

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Episode 25: What Happens If My Naturalization Case is Denied?

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Hearing your naturalization case has been denied is the worst. In this episode we discuss what options you have when you get the news, and whether or not you should appeal.

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Episode 24: Can I Apply for Citizenship While My 10-Year Green Card is Pending?

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Still waiting? On this weeks episode we explore whether or not you should apply for citizenship with a pending Green Card application.

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Transcript

[0:00] This is the immigration answers show with Jim hacking episode number 24.

[0:05] Welcome to the immigration answer show with your host immigration lawyer Jim hacking.

In each episode Jim will answer your questions about the u.s. immigration system. Discover why the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, national public radio, and buzzfeed.com have all featured Jim and get the help you need navigating our complex immigration laws. Now onto the show.

[0:32] Welcome to the immigration answers show where we answer your immigration questions 3 days a week you’ve got questions and we’ll do our best to answer them every Monday Wednesday and Friday now on to today’s question about the u.s. immigration system.

[0:44] Can I apply for citizenship while my i-751 petition to remove conditions on a green card while it is still pending.

Our question today comes from one of our viewers name Ty and Ty wants to know can he go ahead and apply for citizenship even if USCIS has not yet decided whether to give him a 10-year green card. So what are we talking about here well of course If anyone gets a green card based on marriage and that marriage is less than 2 years old at the time that the green card is approved they’re only giving a 2-year conditional green card and at the end of those two years in that three month. Before the 2-year anniversary of the green card.

They and their spouse have to file an i-751 which is a petition to remove conditions on that green card, that is to give them a 10-year permanent permanent green card.

And we say that that’s filed with the spouse and usually it is but sometimes the non-citizen does file without the US citizen but in this case we’re talking about a situation where the marriage is still valid, the couple is still together, and they have filed a joint I 751.

USCIS at the current time is taking way way way too long to decide these cases they used to take six or seven or eight months now they’re running a year-and-a-half easy.

So that means that by the time that they’re finally getting their green cards they were already eligible to apply for citizenship and it sounds like our friend Ty is in that situation so he and his spouse have filed an I 751 to remove the conditions on his green card.

That case has been pending and pending for way too long.

He’s now at the 3-year kark and at the three year mark if you’re still married to the u.s. citizen you can apply for citizenship and Ty is wondering whether that makes sense to do or not.

[2:22] It’s funny we just had a consult last week with someone who had gone ahead and done that.

We don’t usually recommend that people do that but I certainly understand why people are doing it and you want to get your place in line.

And there’s no rule that says you can’t so the rules specifically allow you to file for citizenship even if you’ve not yet received your conditional Green Card lifting through the i-751 so another words.

You don’t have to wait for the i-751 to be approved.

To apply for citizenship no just because you don’t have to the question Still Remains should you and so I think in this situation it comes down to whether or not you’re willing to take the gamble on your I 751 being denied.

The fact is most i-751 Czar granted especially if the marriage is legitimate in the couple’s done a good job of putting everything together so there’s certainly no reason why you can’t do it.

And the only reason you wouldn’t want to do it as if you’re worried that the i-751 is going to get denied.

The filing of the citizenship case does start that clock ticking and so I think there’s a real argument to go ahead and do it if someone came to me and asked me specifically should I do it.

I used to say no but now the given the fact that I 751 they’re taking so long.

I think I’d take the mindset of going ahead and doing it so if you’re willing to take that small risk that your I-71 going to get tonight or that your N400 naturalization application.

Is going to be pending for a long long time.

Then you should go ahead and file for naturalization there’s no rule that says you can’t you probably want to get things moving especially with the way things are so delayed immigration right now we think it’s probably the right call.

[3:58] Kyrie hope this helps answer your question if you have questions and you want to reach out to us you can go to our emigration answer show.com podcast that’s where the recording is to record your own questions if you like this video.

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[4:34] We hope you found this immigration answer interesting and helpful we look forward to answering more of your questions in the future please be sure to give us a review on iTunes or wherever you download your podcast and please share the show with people you think might find it helpful,

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[5:06] Thanks for listening to the immigration answer show with Jim hacking be sure to visit us on the web at immigration answers show.com if you have an immigration related question please send us an email.

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Episode 23: Letters of Support

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How helpful are letters when trying to prove that a marriage is valid? On this weeks episode we explore what you can do to make your letter some of the strongest evidence you can provide.

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Transcript

[0:00] This is the Immigration Answers Show episode number 23

[0:05] Welcome to the immigration answer show with your host immigration lawyer Jim Hacking.

In each episode Jim will answer your questions about the u.s. immigration system. Discover why the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, national public radio, and buzzfeed.com have all featured Jim and get the help you need navigating our complex immigration laws. Now onto the show.

[0:31] Welcome to the immigration answers show where we answer your immigration questions 3 days a week you’ve got questions and we’ll do our best to answer them every Monday Wednesday and Friday.

Now onto today’s question about the u.s. immigration system.

What information should I put in letters are affidavits from people that want to a test to our marriage being valid?

We handle a whole lot of spouse and fiance cases. In those cases sometimes our clients want to submit evidence above and beyond the financials and the photos and the documentation of a life together.

They ask us if we want to have a letter or an affidavit from a family member to explain to USCIS or the state department that our relationship is valid so the first thing to keep in mind is that this evidence is not particularly compelling. I don’t think that the immigration service sees this

as the most important evidence. If I had to give a hierarchy of evidence of course the best evidence of a valid marriage is a child with both parents on the birth certificate.

After that, the main thing that they’re concerned about is the commingling of assets, so they want to see documentation that you have incurred debt together, spent money together, have joined your money together, that you’re living together, that you’re incurring the bills that a normal married couple would have.

[1:45] But in the event that you want to submit evidence like this though we’re talking about today affidavits or letters I do have some important things to keep in mind number 1 is that you dont want it to be an affidavit and a letter signed by someone that may or may not even be a real person.

It is not very compelling to the immigration service I was in an interview a couple weeks ago in Memphis Tennessee and the officer said I don’t necessarily put any wait into the letters that people bring to me they could have been written by you could have been written by your lawyer I don’t really put much stock in it but I think that be harder to do.

It was an affidavit if the if the information provided by the person writing the letter of the affidavit

put it in writing and put it under oath in front of a notary that means they’re sworn to tell the truth, and that means that the letter should carry more weight so I think an affidavit would actually carry more weight than just a plain old letter. An affidavit is simply a written statement that is sworn to under penalty of perjury that is that you swear to tell the truth.

And what should you put in the affidavit? Well the first thing you want to do is going to have identifying information for the person providing the affidavit you want to have.

The person who’s writing at explain who they are what their full legal name is what their address is and their contact information because in theory usas could contact the person in,

verify what’s in the affidavit so you want to make it easy for the officer or at least show that you’re not scared to have them go contact the person who wrote to the affidavit.

[3:16] This piece of information that you’re going to have them put his their immigration status so it’s probably best to have an affidavit from someone who’s a US citizen or green card holder.

The next thing to keep in mind if you want to have someone who’s known you for awhile at least known one member of the couple for a while.

And they want to explain their knowledge the basis of their knowledge and how they know you what they know about you how long they’ve known you those kinds of things and then they want to talk about the foreign National how they were introduced to the for National Forest.

They’ve always on the for National and they’re just getting to meet this US citizen they want to explain what they’ve observed at they can’t just say I think this is a great couple.

And I think you should give him a green card now know what you want them to do is start and give examples of how they seen you two together.

How they seen you spend time together how they seen you interact together if they seen you fight that’s not so bad either because that’s what married couples sometimes do so.

Anything in there that can give it some flavor that can let the officer see that this is not just some regular old affidavit that this is like a form printed off the internet.

Those kinds of things are going to be helpful in the last thing you might want to have him do as is regardless of whether they knew the citizen longer or the beneficiary longer is to have them.

[4:26] Explain their feelings for the beneficiary explain why they think this is a good person why they think they should get an immigration benefit why you think they’d be a good lawful permanent resident United States.

And then you can even invite them to contact you if they feel the need I think those are all the great things put in the affidavit and then once it’s written up.

You’re going to want to take it to a notary public so notary public is someone who is authorized by the state that you live in to give.

Oats or do you receive those sent it to make people swear things under penalty of perjury so you have the notarized that they’ll put a little stamp on it and that’s going to go a long way towards making the evidence a little bit more compelling.

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[5:35] Thanks for listening to the immigration answer show with Jim hacking be sure to visit us on the web at immigration answers show.com if you have an immigration related question please send us an email.

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Episode 22: Adjusting Spouse’s Status as an LPR

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How can you help your spouse adjust their status if you are an LPR? Tune in to this weeks show to find out.

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Transcript

[0:00] This is the immigration answer show with Jim Hacking episode number 22.

[0:05] Welcome to the immigration answer show with your host immigration lawyer Jim hacking.

In each episode Jim will answer your questions about the u.s. immigration system. Discover why the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, national public radio and buzzfeed.com have all featured Jim and get the help you need navigating our complex immigration laws. Now onto the show.

[0:31] Welcome to the immigration answers show where we answer your immigration questions 3 days a week you’ve got questions and we’ll do our best to answer them every Monday Wednesday and Friday now on to today’s question about the u.s. immigration system.

If I’m a green card holder can my spouse stay in the United States if I file for adjustment of status for them.

Every now and then we come across a case where there is a lawful permanent resident let’s call him Juan living in the United States.

And let’s say his spouse Maria happens to be in the United States on a student visa.

She is not a lawful permanent resident, she is just the spouse of a lawful permanent resident. The question is what kind of status does Maria have to maintain in order to be able to stay in the United States.

Here’s the general rule if you want to adjust your status- you need to be in valid immigration status at the time of your adjustment.

So in a situation like this Maria would need to maintain her student status throughout the time the Green Card case is pending and the reason for this is that there is a backlog

on the processing of green card cases for the spouses of green card holders. I know that sounds a little bit confusing, but basically there are a limit on the number of green cards that are available in all kinds of green card categories and that includes green cards for the spouses of green card holders, that is, lawful permanent residence’s husbands or wives. So that is the kind of thing that can screw people up because they assume that once they file for the Green Card based on their marriage to a green card holder that that allows them to stay in the United States.

[2:08] Some of this confusion comes from the fact that the spouse of a US citizen who is out of status is allowed to adjust status so the rules are different when you’re married to a US citizen so if one were already a US citizen then if Maria were out of status at the time that they applied for Jasmine or the time of her interview, that would be forgiven- the fact that she was out of st

atus but that rule only applies to US citizens.

That rule does not apply to the spouses of lawful permanent resident so that’s really where the confusion comes in so if you are married to a green card holder and if you want to adjust your status you need to make sure that you find some valid status to be in and that you maintain that status both at the time that you file and the time of your actual adjustment.

And in a lot of situations that can be up to a year and a half or two years or even longer depending on how many people are in line ahead of you.

[3:00] We hope you found this immigration answer interesting and helpful we look forward to answering more of your questions in the future.

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[3:32] Thanks for listening to the immigration answer show with Jim hacking be sure to visit us on the web at immigration answers show.com,

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This show does not constitute legal advice and no attorney-client relationship is formed. If you have specific questions about your situation be sure to consult with an experienced immigration lawyer.

Episode 21: Getting a Green Card After Divorce

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Divorce is a difficult process to go through, but it doesn’t have to spell the end of your Green Card. This week we talk about what you should do after a divorce to get your Green Card.

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Episode 20: Delayed Green Card

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Increased background checks under the current administration have led to significant increases in wait times for Green Cards. This week we talk about what you should do if your Green Card is excessively delayed.

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Transcript

[0:00] This is the immigration answer show with Jim hacking episode number 20.

[0:05] Welcome to the immigration answer show with your host immigration lawyer Jim hacking.

In each episode Jim will answer your questions about the u.s. immigration system discover why the New York Times The Wall Street Journal national public radio and buzzfeed.com have all featured Jim and get the help you need navigating our complex immigration laws now on to the show.

[0:32] Welcome to the immigration answers show where we answer your immigration questions 3 days a week you’ve got questions and we’ll do our best to answer them every Monday Wednesday and Friday.

Today’s question about the u.s. immigration system today’s question comes from Eyad and he is wondering about his delayed Green Card case.

[0:49] Hello Mr. Hacking I would like to ask your assistance on my case.

I came to the states in November 2015 married in January 2016 after 3 months,

and applied for my Green Card application I got my interview appointment in December 2016 before 1 month and after Two weeks they asked me for additional evidence I submit to them immediately and now it’s almost 1 year.

There is no any response from their side. I

made the submit service request but I didn’t get any update from them I went to the local office and they informed me that my case is pending because there is a security check.

The security check as they mentioned is from overseas I don’t know why. I have a Turkish passport so I would like to know if you have any solution for this background check or Security check as they said or if we can speed up the process.

Looking forward to hear back from you thank you very much.

Hey Eyad first let me Begin by saying I’m sorry you’re going through such a delay we’ve been seeing this more and more recently especially with men who are applying for green cards or citizenship.

[2:22] From predominantly Muslim countries and of course turkey is a predominantly Muslim country.

One thing I want to begin by saying is that you know we don’t really put much stock into what answers do you get when you go down for infopass.

Whenever you call USA s or make an infopass appointment it’s our experience that they basically just tell you what they think the problem is but they don’t really dig deeply into why your case is being delayed.

And we’ve heard all kinds of reasons background check, name check, Security check there’s lots of names for the delay but basically your case is being delayed due to a program called the controlled application review and resolution program which was a former secret program connected to the immigration service and 30 other federal agencies that is basically designed to slow down immigration to the United States for

[3:13] people from predominantly Muslim countries. The CARP program as it’s called was unknown until the American civil liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the immigration service to find out why these cases were being delayed and they took some Discovery they got some documents and then got to take depositions and found out that lo and behold there is a secret program called CARP and that basically the carp system works like this: they assume that you’re a terrorist and then they work their way backwards to try to disprove that assumption.

And so there’s no way for you to challenge it no wait for you to try to get your name off the car place there’s no way that you’re going to be able to actually get an answer as to whether your case has been corrupt is the phrase we use and so.

In our experience you’re just going to keep banging your head against the wall when you’re talking about doing things like infopass appointment calling the 1-800 number.

Calling the USCIS On budsman which is somebody who’s an employee at immigration that supposed to help you get answers.

[4:14] We’ve also found it to be ineffective and when you call the u.s. senator or congress person to try to get them to help you with your case none of those things really work.

Basically your case is up on a shelf somewhere and no one’s really looking at it and when you go in what they tell you to try to make you go away and I’m sad to say that’s sort of the honest truth.

In my experience the only thing that works is actually filing a lawsuit against the immigration service. When you file a lawsuit you’re asking a federal judge who works outside of the immigration system to compel immigration to rule in your case the law says that

[4:55] any agency that has an issue before it whether that’s the immigration service,

Internal Revenue Service Department of Labor or any other Federal agency that whenever they have an issue or case before then that they have to rule on it in a reasonable amount of time.

It sounds like your case is approaching 2 years and we would say that that is patently unreasonable that anything over a year is way outside normal processing times that there’s some fundamental issue.

That is making them hold up your case and that you can’t get any relief other than going into federal court.

Our lawsuits have been very successful we filed over a hundred of them in all different kinds of immigration scenarios including one like yours green cards.

We’ve filed many lawsuits for delayed Green Card cases and basically what the lawsuit does is when we filed a lawsuit we serve a copy of it upon each defendant and they have 60 days to answer so usually things get moving about 45 days after you file we start hearing things for the immigration service when I get a decision when I get an interview and it just basically gets the case movie.

It doesn’t work in every single case but it works in most cases and so we’ve had a lot of success with this it’s actually one of my favorite things to do I really enjoy helping people get the immigration benefits that they deserve.

It’s a service specialty that we’ve developed not a lot of immigration lawyers are familiar with writs of mandamus which is the type of lawsuit that you filed lawsuit under the administrative procedures Act.

And so this is really something I think you had that we could help you with anyone else is listening is experiencing it away especially if you’re from a predominantly Muslim country we think we can help you.

[6:30] We have filed a few of these for people who are from Muslim countries and those have worked as well. We just filed one last week for a fella from India so the lawsuits work.

The reason that they work is because in the loss of your asking the judge to declare the controlled application review and resolution program carpet illegal.

And they don’t want a judge to rule that way so what they seem to be willing to do is to do some horse-trading that they’ll decide your case in exchange for you not asking the judge for an actual declaration that carb is illegal.

The CARP program itself is under attack up in Seattle there’s a federal class-action that’s going on and the ACLU and some other lawyers are working up there,

to try to overturn CARP to get it cancelled but in the meantime we’re using the courts to try to get action on one case at a time we’ve tried to class action route,

it didn’t work for us so we’ve been doing them one at a time ever since. We hope this helps you have any questions make sure to visit our website.

And check-out CARP you can search for a bite just searching C-A-R-P or controlled application review in resolution program also we have some videos on our YouTube channel so we hope you found this helpful and if you want to talk about it yeah just give us an email.

Send us an email or give us a call at 314-961-8200 thanks everybody for listening.

[7:49] We hope you found this immigration answer interesting and helpful we look forward to answering more of your questions in the future please be sure to give us a review on iTunes or wherever you download your podcast and please share the show with people who you think might find it helpful.

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That’s www.Immigrationanswershow.com/FQ and we’ll try to answer it on an upcoming episode.

[8:19] Thanks for listening to the immigration answer show with Jim hacking be sure to visit us on the web at immigration answers show.com,

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Episode 19: Extreme Vetting

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Extreme vetting has been on the rise under the current administration. This week we discuss a fiance case from Algeria and how they could be affected by this trend.

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Episode 17: Travel Ban 3.0

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We have a special episode for you this week. Jim spoke at a mosque over the weekend about Travel Ban 3.0 that is going into effect around the country, and answers a lot of questions people are having about it. Be sure to listen in.

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