Cable Text: UNCLASSIFIED TELEGRAM
January 19, 2001 To: ALL DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR POSTS - ROUTINE Origin: VO From: SECSTATE WASHDC (STATE 10534 - ROUTINE) TAGS: CVIS, CMGT Captions: None
Subject: PROJECTED "V" VISA WORKLOADS
Ref: 00 STATE 242292
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1. As described in reftel, the Legal Immigration Family Equity "LIFE" Act creates a new nonimmigrant "V" visa category for the spouses and children of LPRs for whom second preference petitions were filed on or before the date of enactment of LIFE and who have been waiting for at least three years for petition approval, adjustment of status or an immigrant visa. While the date of enactment fixes one end of the definition of the class by requiring petitions to have been filed on or by December 21, 2000, the other end of the pipeline will not be reached until the last case filed on that date has waited past December 21, 2003.
2. The list below was developed to assist consular managers in assessing the apparent effect of this new legislation on workload and resources. The figures represent a count of F2A immigrant visa petition beneficiaries on record at the National Visa Center. The count includes only non-current F2A immigrant visa petitions which are at least three years old. It includes immigrant visa files which have already been sent to posts because the Qualifying Date has been reached; such cases could be eligible for "VV visas if the cut-off date has not been reached.
3. Not listed, however, are any F2A petitions which are current. These must be processed as regular immigrant visas. Applicants will not be permitted to apply for a "V'' non-immigrant visa if they are the beneficiaries of a current F2A petition. The Department intends to make this clear to the public when issuing regulations on the new V category. Also not listed are cases that NVC has not reCeived from INS, which, for example, would include cases filed before the December cutoff, but which have not been approved. We have no reliable estimates for this part of the class.
4. The Department and INS are working to develop the necessary regulations to implement the LIFE Act. The Department informally advised Congressional staff that we intend to process V visa applications in a manner similar to K (fiance') visa processing. In septel, we will provide posts our general thoughts as to how this might be accomplished. POST APPLICANTS
Abidjan 107 Abu Dhabi 99 + 7 Beirut Accra 1,873 Addis Ababa 1,305 Algiers 48 Amman 841 Amsterdam 34 Ankara 310 Asuncion 26 Athens 20 Auckland 35 Bangkok 196 Belgrade 163 Belize 146 Bern 10 Bogota 1,954 Bucharest 255 Budapest 27 Brazzaville 1 Bridgetown 735 Brussels 13 Buenos Aires 104 Cairo 236 + 95 Khartoum files Caracas 323 Casablanca 170 Chennai 515 Ciudad Juarez 206,667 ColoMbo 46 Copenhagen 4 Cotonou 9 Dakar 279 Dar es Salaam 30 Damascus 272 Dhaka 3,435 Djibouti 26 Doha 20 Dublin 37 Frankfurt 144 Freetown 244 Georgetown 1,722 Guatemala City 2,391 Guangzhou 3,933 Guyaquil 2,231 Hamilton 10 Harare 20 Havana 1,967 Helsinki 9 Ho Chi Minh City 2,264 Hong Kong 505 Islamabad 2,162 Istanbul 34 Jakarta 79 Jerusalem 190 Johannesburg 31 Kathmandu 36 Kingston 3,664 Kinshasa 65 Kuala Lumpur 73 Kuwait 39 Lagos 1,753 La Paz 228 Libreville 6 Lima 1,367 Lisbon 117 Lome 36 London 367 Lusaka 12 Madrid 52 Managua 938 Manama 4 Manila 6,958 Monrovia 192 Montevideo 33 Montreal 633 Moscow 402 Mumbai 1,387 Muscat 9 Nicosia 16 Nairobi 213 Naples 126 Nassau 86 New Delhi 1,375 Niamey 5 Oslo 13 Panama 125 Paramaribo 34 Paris 90 Phnom Penh 95 Prague 109 Praia 376 Perth 2 Ponta Delgada 29 Port au Prince 6,267 Port Moresby 9 Port of Spain 782 Rangoon 81 Reykjavik 7 Rio de Janeiro 294 Riyadh 100 Sanaa 885 San Jose 140 San Salvador 4,758 Santiago 138 Santo Domingo 14,596 Seoul 800 Singapore 29 Skopje 46 Sofia 145 Stockholm 24 Suva 104 Sydney 27 Taipei 568 Tegucigalpa 2,415 Tel Aviv 86 Tirana 93 Tokyo 185 Tunis 12 Va11etta 7 Vienna 17 Vientiane 43 Warsaw 3,791 Yaounde 114 Zagreb 31 ZZZ 789 (homeless cases to be assigned)
Worldwide total 296,857
5. MINIMIZE CONSIDERED.
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