The government have modified the page that was originally the announcement of the DV pause. This should be closely followed by guidance to the embassies to allow them to start issuing visas on the 221g cases – although we may need to wait a day or so before the embassies give corrected feedback.

For those that need to renew medicals, you should hear from the consulates about that in due course, but if I were you I would start reaching out to the physicians and embassies to get that part moving. Remember, in some places medical appointments may become a backlog situation.

Of course the other part is what is happening with the training pause. This was raised today in the CLINIC case, but in that case the Judge was not convinced that the training pause was in itself evidence of non compliance with her order, but she instead pushed heavily on the 221g cases, making it clear that no training pause was a factor in those cases because the 75 country public charge policy could not be reapplied to those cases. So – she ordered the government to provide a status report on September 8, and warned that the report should be accurate “on penalty of perjury”. In other words she wants clear measurable facts about how many issuances there have been. It cannot be “none”.

So – this is good news, but the battle is still complex since the cancellations need to be resolved and the deadline is in 30 days. So – we are not out of the woods yet.