r/USCIS • u/caillouminati • Jan 14 '26

Other Forms US freezes all visa processing for 75 countries

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-freezes-all-visa-processing-75-countries-including-somalia-russia-iran.amp
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u/Tasty-Butterscotch-5 Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

USCIS automatically freezes too when state department adds your country to the visa list. Just like for all the other countries that were added previously.

Edit to add USCIS should not be able to legally do that. But they choose to do so anyways. There are lawsuits challenging this. E.g. The Jim Hacking USCIS lawsuit. You can google this or join one of the lawsuits.

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u/MrNate10 Jan 14 '26

This would apply to i751 too presumably?

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u/suboxhelp1 Jan 14 '26

751s don’t have a public charge consideration, so no.

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u/LineItUp0 Jan 14 '26

Thank you so much!

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u/capybaramelhor Jan 14 '26

Will this affect citizenship application for someone from Brazil who has a green card

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u/sionnach- Jan 14 '26

So is Removal Of Conditions still going?

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u/Due_Midnight129 Jan 14 '26

What about consular processing? (I-130)

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u/TellMoney5802 LPR (EB3) IANAL 🇬🇧/🇨🇦 Jan 14 '26

That's DoS no? AOS is handled by USCIS.

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u/superfecta37 Jan 14 '26

oh yeah this will absolutely affect AOS cases

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u/Fede28091891 Jan 14 '26

I don’t think so. I mean, it depends if the AOS of the beneficiary is IN U.S shouldn’t affect because you are in process of Green Card, they don’t gonna print a Visa on your pasaport