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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing paper filings for Fiancé and Marriage Visas. Why are we talking about this? Look, I do paper filings still. I know the system is trying to nudge and push everyone into the digital filing system; I don't want to do it. I don't want to deal with a memory hole, one, which is really what it amounts to is if this system has an error, or they lose things. Look, they lose things anyway sometimes. It's rare but over nearly 20 years of doing this, yes, I have seen USCIS, as well as the Embassy, as well as the National Visa Center lose things throughout the process of getting Visas for folks back to the United States, so that's not unheard of; it's even easier digitally. Then on top of it, with digitization, there is really no accountability, whereas with the paper filing, you have a paper filing; there is something to rely on in terms of the filing itself. In the case of fiancé(e) visas, you don't really have a choice; you have to deal with that type of filing anyway. 

But that being said, different people have different types of cases, how they process through etc., there may be different types of problems. I like knowing that there is an anchor of a paper filing, rather than just some digital thing that they can just sort of wipe away at will if they should so desire. And by the way, in the aftermath of a rather recent case - although it has been in the past year - involving a waiver I had where basically they just denied it even though it was procedurally completely incorrect, and then I brought that to their attention and they said, "well it is still denied because we say so." This arbitrary and capricious and imperious attitude from immigration authorities is I don't think going to abate any time soon, especially through the rest of this Administration and it is yet one more reason why I am in favour of paper filings because again, where there is an underlying paper filing, there is less ability to play games, for lack of a better term. And unfortunately, it seems like obstructive gamesmanship is the name of the modus operandi of this current Administration with regard to legal immigration, as I have seen more of it recently. Just making RFEs or Request for Biometrics or just all sorts of, in my opinion, frivolous requests or requests that I won't say completely lack merit, but did you really need to do an RFE for that? Is that really that big of a problem? And then setting it up in such a way that if you don't answer and oftentimes answer quite quickly, they will just close the case, and then you are stuck with having to try to get them to reopen it or something of this nature. 

Again I think paper filings forestalls this. That is why I am going to continue to do it and I've had overall success when looking at that strategy over the course of the last 18 years, and I think that means it's a good idea to continue that into the future.