Waiting in line patiently, even constantly praying for the line to move may not work in the current immigrant visa backlog in the United States. The State Department prefaced the announcement with a nice defensive caveat - that prior to President Joe Biden's taking over the immigration iron bull by the horn, there were already 75,000 immigrant visa applicants on the National Visa Center's visa processing machine lined up for scheduling at the appropriate consular post. DQ applicants processed and scheduled for interviews at consular posts worldwide had doubled, decreasing for the month of September. Assuming there would be no DQ applicants added to the NVC DQ pool, how many months would the remaining immigrant visa applicants wait before they could expect to be interviewed? The State Department's opening paragraph of the September 2021 report states:"Since March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically affected the Department of State's ability to process immigrant visa applications.

Source: Manila Times September 19, 2021 15:45 UTC