Cable Text:  UNCLASSIFIED TELEGRAM

January 19, 2001

To:       ALL DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR  POSTS - ROUTINE
Origin:   VO
From:     SECSTATE WASHDC (STATE 10534 - ROUTINE)
TAGS:     CVIS, CMGT
Captions: None

Subject:  PROJECTED "V" VISA WORKLOADS

Ref:      00 STATE 242292

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1. As described in reftel, the Legal Immigration Family
Equity "LIFE" Act creates a new nonimmigrant "V" visa
category for the spouses and children of LPRs for whom
second preference petitions were filed on or before the
date of enactment of LIFE and who have been waiting for at
least three years for petition approval, adjustment of
status or an immigrant visa. While the date of enactment
fixes one end of the definition of the class by requiring
petitions to have been filed on or by December 21, 2000,
the other end of the pipeline will not be reached until
the last case filed on that date has waited past December
21, 2003.

2. The list below was developed to assist consular
managers in assessing the apparent effect of this new
legislation on workload and resources. The figures
represent a count of F2A immigrant visa petition
beneficiaries on record at the National Visa Center. The
count includes only non-current F2A immigrant visa
petitions which are at least three years old. It includes
immigrant visa files which have already been sent to posts
because the Qualifying Date has been reached; such cases
could be eligible for "VV visas if the cut-off date has
not been reached.

3. Not listed, however, are any F2A petitions which are
current. These must be processed as regular immigrant
visas. Applicants will not be permitted to apply for a
"V'' non-immigrant visa if they are the beneficiaries of a
current F2A petition. The Department intends to make this
clear to the public when issuing regulations on the new V
category. Also not listed are cases that NVC has not
reCeived from INS, which, for example, would include cases
filed before the December cutoff, but which have not been
approved. We have no reliable estimates for this part of
the class.

4. The Department and INS are working to develop the
necessary regulations to implement the LIFE Act. The
Department informally advised Congressional staff that we
intend to process V visa applications in a manner similar
to K (fiance') visa processing. In septel, we will
provide posts our general thoughts as to how this might be
accomplished.

POST              APPLICANTS

Abidjan                107
Abu Dhabi               99 + 7 Beirut
Accra                1,873
Addis Ababa          1,305
Algiers                 48
Amman                  841
Amsterdam               34
Ankara                 310
Asuncion                26
Athens                  20
Auckland                35
Bangkok                196
Belgrade               163
Belize                 146
Bern                    10
Bogota               1,954
Bucharest              255
Budapest                27
Brazzaville              1
Bridgetown             735
Brussels                13
Buenos Aires           104
Cairo                  236 + 95 Khartoum files
Caracas                323
Casablanca             170
Chennai                515
Ciudad Juarez      206,667
ColoMbo                 46
Copenhagen               4
Cotonou                  9
Dakar                  279
Dar es Salaam           30
Damascus               272
Dhaka                3,435
Djibouti                26
Doha                    20
Dublin                  37
Frankfurt              144
Freetown               244
Georgetown           1,722
Guatemala City       2,391
Guangzhou            3,933
Guyaquil             2,231
Hamilton                10
Harare                  20
Havana               1,967
Helsinki                 9
Ho Chi Minh City     2,264
Hong Kong              505
Islamabad            2,162
Istanbul                34
Jakarta                 79
Jerusalem              190
Johannesburg            31
Kathmandu               36
Kingston             3,664
Kinshasa                65
Kuala Lumpur            73
Kuwait                  39
Lagos                1,753
La Paz                 228
Libreville               6
Lima                 1,367
Lisbon                 117
Lome                    36
London                 367
Lusaka                  12
Madrid                  52
Managua                938
Manama                   4
Manila               6,958
Monrovia               192
Montevideo              33
Montreal               633
Moscow                 402
Mumbai               1,387
Muscat                   9
Nicosia                 16
Nairobi                213
Naples                 126
Nassau                  86
New Delhi            1,375
Niamey                   5
Oslo                    13
Panama                 125
Paramaribo              34
Paris                   90
Phnom Penh              95
Prague                 109
Praia                  376
Perth                    2
Ponta Delgada           29
Port au Prince        6,267
Port Moresby              9
Port of Spain           782
Rangoon                  81
Reykjavik                 7
Rio de Janeiro          294
Riyadh                  100
Sanaa                   885
San Jose                140
San Salvador          4,758
Santiago                138
Santo Domingo        14,596
Seoul                   800
Singapore                29
Skopje                   46
Sofia                   145
Stockholm                24
Suva                    104
Sydney                   27
Taipei                  568
Tegucigalpa           2,415
Tel Aviv                 86
Tirana                   93
Tokyo                   185
Tunis                    12
Va11etta                  7
Vienna                   17
Vientiane                43
Warsaw                3,791
Yaounde                 114
Zagreb                   31
ZZZ                     789 (homeless cases to be assigned)

Worldwide total     296,857

5. MINIMIZE CONSIDERED.

ALBRIGHT
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