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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing - this is kind of a report - it's sort of an update if you will on what's going on in the immigration world, at least the US immigration world, and we are seeing a number, we are seeing a major spike in Requests for Evidence in almost all of our cases. 

Now I primarily do Fiancé(e) and Marriage Visas. I've been doing that for almost 20 years from our offices here in Bangkok, and over that time period, I feel like I have got déjà vu making this video because really only during the first Trump Administration - and even then it was basically the final two years of that Administration - that we had to deal with this just proliferation of Requests for Evidence and honestly, a lot of it is very redundant or just hyper picky, hypercritical, very picayune sort of requests for evidence. Here recently, we've been inundated with them in both our Fiancé(e) Visa cases as well as our Marriage Visa cases. In my opinion, I kind of get the argument in Fiancé Visa cases. You're not yet married, you want to prove up the bona fides but where you have got a married couple, and it's clear that they are legally married and you have got evidence of their relationship, to issue an RFE, to redundantly request again evidence that has already been submitted oftentimes of the relationship, again in a marriage context, I really question whether this is a good use of resources by the immigration apparatus. 

Now that being said, I'm sure they would say that we feel like it's a good use of resources, but in my opinion, it seems pretty redundant, especially when you consider the whole process is pretty redundant. I mean you are already dealing with Homeland Security where you have to file. Then you have to file a redundant set of documentation in the aftermath of an approval by Homeland Security, you're going to have to file a basically a duplicative petition with the National Visa Center before even again duplicating things with hard copy documentation at an Embassy or Consulate interview abroad. So the whole thing is really a process in constant redundancy. To be having these RFEs especially on the Marriage Visas, like the CR-1, the IR-1 and the K-3, again, I just, I really question whether this is a good use of resources. That being said, we still have to deal with them, and we are continuing to deal with them from our offices here in the Kingdom of Thailand.