Visas: Immigrant Visas

Status: No effective date given. The document does not state one. Read the source before relying on timing.

From the published effective date. Nothing here records a court changing it.

• Document number: 2021-20020
• Type: Proposed Rule
• Published: September 16, 2021
• Comments close: October 18, 2021
• Agency: State Department

Official abstract

The Department of State (``Department'') seeks public comments identifying barriers that impede access to, and fair, efficient adjudication of, immigration benefits, and recommendations on how to remove those barriers, and identifying any Department actions that fail to promote access to the legal immigration system.

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