Marriage VISA application

For US citizens applying for spouses in Iran, the process appears to be much more complicated. After processing of the I-130 petition and preliminary consular work with the National Visa Center, interviews must be conducted at US embassies in Turkey, the UAE, or Armenia. The major difficulty is that because of the travel ban, your husband will have to obtain a waiver of the ban from the Department of State which is generally not cooperative in granting them. If you can enlist the aid of your local congressman or senator, that might help to push the process along although there is no guarantee of such. Finally if your husband has dual citizenship with a country which does not have a travel ban by the US, it may be possible that he could bypass the ban if he is traveling to the US on the non-Iranian passport (please note that I am not expert in the workings of the travel ban and whether the exception applies to immigrant visa processing). Due to the limitations of the Lawyers.com Forums, Alan Lee, Esq.'s (the "Firm") participation in responding to questions posted herein does not constitute legal advice, nor legal representation of the person or entity posting a question. No Attorney/Client relationship is or shall be construed to be created hereby. The information provided herein by the Firm is general, and requires that the poster obtain specific legal advice from an attorney. The poster shall not rely upon the information provided herein as legal advice nor as the basis for making any decisions of legal consequence.