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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the National Visa Center. We are specifically discussing those who have Attorney representation and are undergoing the United States Immigration process. 

I have had this happen a few times here recently where under the current circumstances involving the delays associated with the lockdowns pertaining to COVID-19, we are seeing cases not processing as quickly as they otherwise would or folks are getting frustrated because things are just at a standstill and then they go ahead and take it upon themselves to contact, for purposes of this video, the National Visa Center. 

I have to state this is not an overly prudent course of action. It is a better idea to contact your legal professional first; contact your Attorney, discuss the situation with them and if the consensus is that it is a good idea to contact the National Visa Center, let your Attorney do that. There may be limited circumstances where dealing with National Visa Center, especially the online system, it may be a better idea to do that on your own but if you are calling in to the Call Center and everything it is not an overly good idea to do that on your own especially without your Attorney talking to you first and advising you first because you may inadvertently disrupt your own case. There are ways of doing it, especially at NBC, as it is more administrative body, it is a clearinghouse in a way and I mean it is in a true sense very much a bureaucracy and you are simply moving paper through there. There are a million ways that I can think of, off the top of my head in which a case could be stymied just by contacting NVC and saying something that causes them to then go ahead and move the case over to some other queue if you will to be dealt with in a different way and while you may think you are speeding things up you may actually be slowing things down.

So those who are dealing with the US Immigration process especially during this situation, 2020, I think you could almost refer to 2020 as a "situation" but those of you who are dealing with it, I truly sympathize. I have said this to clients. It is a bad situation to be in processing through the current conditions and frankly the current Administration is not overly conducive to facilitating smooth processing of Visa cases so I totally understand the desire to want to be proactive in dealing with your case but before doing that, contact your Attorney, have a session back and forth where you get some idea of how you want to proceed. Your Attorney may tell you it is not a good idea to contact them at all but they may say "yeah, okay under your circumstances we may need to go ahead and see what is going on here".  That stated if that is the case, then presumably although not under all circumstances but under most virtually all circumstances, I think your Attorney would then go ahead and proceed in dealing with the matter directly. 

The thing to take away from this video, in a sense, do not go behind your Attorney's back for lack of better term and contact the government yourself because you can put your case in a world of hurt for lack of better term and place yourself in a detrimental position compared to what you otherwise might have been in if you do something and inadvertently cause a problem in your case.