PREFERRED customers — senior citizens, the physically handicapped and pregnant women — usually get to the head of the line first. That's in the Philippine setting.

In the US, the Covid-19 pandemic dramatically affected the Department of State's ability to process immigrant visa applications since March 2020. US embassies and consulates have tweaked their visa operations on a location-by-location basis, depending on their assessment to include local and national lockdowns, travel restrictions and host country quarantine regulations to contain the spread of Covid-19.

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