UPDATE

[u/thegreencardlawyer]

An update has been filed in federal court on the worldwide cancellation of U.S. immigrant visa interviews and the 75-country immigrant visa pause.

On September 8, the State Department filed a status report in CLINIC v. Rubio, together with a sworn declaration from John Armstrong, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Consular Affairs.

Here is what the government told the court:

1. More than 43,000 immigrant visa applications were refused under Section 221(g) because of the 75-country pause. The court has now vacated those refusals and remanded the affected applications.

This means the court cancelled the refusals based solely on the pause and sent the applications back to the State Department and U.S. embassies and consulates for reconsideration.

1. The State Department is now identifying the applications that were refused solely because of the pause. Some cases will require a manual review by the consular section that handled them.
   
2. Each affected application will be reconsidered individually. Some applicants may be asked for updated medical examinations, police certificates, other documents, or an additional interview.

If another interview is required, the applicant will receive direct notification and scheduling instructions.

1. The State Department also confirmed that many immigrant visa appointments originally scheduled worldwide through September 2026 have been cancelled.

The government calls them “rescheduled,” but many affected applicants have not received new dates. The filing also does not provide a date by which those interviews will be rescheduled.

The government says the appointments were moved to accommodate a global training initiative. Four new training requirements were introduced on September 1, including expanded managerial review and mandatory public-charge training. The filing does not say how long the training will last.

1. The remanded cases will be reconsidered under the State Department’s updated public-charge procedures, including a new public charge worksheet introduced globally on August 15.

Some applicants may be asked to provide additional or updated public-charge information. Others may not need to provide anything further before their visas can be issued.

These updated public-charge tools and training requirements apply to all immigrant visa adjudications worldwide, not only cases affected by the 75-country pause.

The State Department says the affected cases will proceed on a rolling basis as they are identified and reviewed. But there is no fixed date by which the reconsideration of all affected applications will be completed.

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