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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing Consular Processing in the aftermath of the approval of an I-601 Waiver. So for those who are unaware, we're talking about US Immigration here, and for example, let's say somebody is applying for a K-1 Fiancé(e) Visa and during the interview, oftentimes - my clients are advised to be very open about any possible grounds of inadmissibility - but let's say during interview, let's say a ground of inadmissibility is discovered, a case is denied at interview, but it may be possible to seek a remedy of the denial, a waiver of the denial through filing of what is called an I-601 Waiver application. Once an I-601 waiver is approved, then at that point you have to deal with the aftermath of the approval, basically going and getting the Visa.

Now the protocol here in Thailand is generally they actually do a whole other interview; we just saw one of these go down in the past week now. I've discussed in other videos; we have seen Trump's Visa pause. I have actually seen now K-1 Visas issued through the US Embassy here in Thailand and the pause only pertains to Immigrant Spouse Visas but again the point I'm trying to make is we are seeing visas still actually being issued. A recent case of mine that got approval back at the end of 2025, after nearly 5 years of processing - I think we filed the underlying case in 2020 - it has gone through, there was a legal ground of inadmissibility present, and it was waived, and that person's approval came through. Now it came through in the aftermath of this pause, so for the past couple of months the case has been stuck in what's called "Administrative Processing" which is like a catch-all bureaucratese word meaning "we are just sort of continuing to review it, we are not issuing it yet". I don't love the term Administrative Processing; it is a catch-all term for basically “we are just doing whatever we feel like doing” and I don't think that that is really the right way things should be done. But that said, we have to deal with the system as it is. 

Long story short, we saw another interview post-approval in this K-1 case, post-approval of the waiver, which presumably in the aftermath of that we are going to go ahead and see the case processed out. But yeah, effectively it's like a redundancy. They go back and they sort of re-interview post-waiver, double check all documentation before they end up actually issuing a Visa subsequent to the approval of an I-601 Waiver from a US Embassy or Consulate outside the United States.