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Will the National Vetting Center Go Away Under Biden?

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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the so-called National Vetting Center. What is this? It is a very weird institution. It is amorphous as far as I can see.  The only thing I can figure out that it has done is added about a month of processing time in most of our Visa cases. I have never seen anything that actually comes from them. 

It was apparently invented toward the beginning of Trump's Administration. He created this National Vetting Center as sort of an extra layer of reviewing cases associated with Immigration to the United States. A lot of people have asked me a lot of different questions about US Immigration. One thing that came up that I thought was video worthy was "do I think that in the aftermath of this are things going to get better under Biden?" and the general answer to that is it probably will but it is going to take some time. On to a specific question with respect to the National Vetting Center, will that go away? Well one thing that can always be said about US Bureaucracy is once something is invented it is kind of difficult to “dis-invent” it. So I don't exactly know if we are going to see the NVC, or I should say the other NVC, the National Vetting Center as opposed to the National Visa Center go anywhere. I have never been able to figure out what it does but I know it is there. It exists, I have seen the press releases on it. So what exactly is going to happen with respect to the National Vetting Center remains to be seen. 

I suspect though that the Biden Administration is not as overly concerned with placing high degrees of scrutiny on cases and for lack of a better term getting cases "gummed up" in the administrative framework of processing through Immigration. For this reason it may be somewhat logical to presume that we may see a far less active National Vetting Center or it may go away entirely, who knows. But if anything is going to happen, it is probably not going to happen particularly quickly.