{"id":519,"date":"2012-08-22T19:21:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2012-08-22T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:21:52","slug":"l1-visa-stamping-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"L1 Visa Stamping Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My company filed an L1 visa application for me which was approved in September of 2009.\u00a0I went to apply for the L1 visa stamp in Madrid but was told that they could not issue the visa due to an &#8220;internal administrative process.&#8221;\u00a0What is an internal administrative process?\u00a0Does this mean that they will not issue the visa?\u00a0Can I go to another Consulate to apply?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen this type of issue before and it has always been related to either an FBI name check issue or anti-fraud measure that required a site visit by a USCIS hired private investigator.\u00a0I would not recommend applying for the visa stamp at another Consulate until this is resolved.\u00a0In our experience, it typically takes 1-2 months to complete the review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My company filed an L1 visa application for me which was approved in September of 2009.\u00a0I went to apply for the L1 visa stamp in Madrid but was told that they could not issue the visa due to an &#8220;internal administrative process.&#8221;\u00a0What is an internal administrative process?\u00a0Does this mean that they will not issue the &#8230; <a title=\"L1 Visa Stamping Delays\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=519\" aria-label=\"Read more about L1 Visa Stamping Delays\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,52,69],"tags":[272,203,218],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative-processing","category-eb1","category-l-1a-visa","tag-administrative-processing","tag-eb1","tag-l-1a-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}