AP in Turkey

[carol and jacob 0]

My fiance had his interview in Ankara, Turkey on 01/28/2010. He had a current permanent residency card (green card) when he returned to Turkey and expired 9 months later. Our relationship began before he left and grew over the past 2 years when I visited him in Istanbul and we became engaged in Feb. 2009.

Everything went fine but the consular wanted to substantiate his entries and exits to and from Turkey by a certification from the police. At his interview, he had his passport with all documentations of when he left the US and re-entered Turkey. He also sent the documentation of his approved permanent residency for 10 years in the US. He only got a paper instructing him what the consular wanted him to send back to the Ankara embassy, no form number ie. 221g. She told him that once his papers were received, he would receive a new appointment within 5 business days. The papers were received by the embassy, 2/2/2010 according to UPS and 2/5/2010 according to the embassy (found this out by calling the Dept. of State).We believe that they are trying to make sure that he was in Turkey at the time that his green card expired.

My questions are:

Has anyone had a similar issue?

Is this considered to be in Administrative Processing (AP)?

How long have people in Ankara been in AP?

Is there anyway to track this process?

We are hanging in limbo....any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Ban Hammer 13,470]

moved from mena to Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia) as that includes turkey in that region.

[carol and jacob 0]

My fiance had his interview in Ankara, Turkey on 01/28/2010. He had a current permanent residency card (green card) when he returned to Turkey and expired 9 months later. Our relationship began before he left and grew over the past 2 years when I visited him in Istanbul and we became engaged in Feb. 2009.

Everything went fine but the consular wanted to substantiate his entries and exits to and from Turkey by a certification from the police. At his interview, he had his passport with all documentations of when he left the US and re-entered Turkey. He also sent the documentation of his approved permanent residency for 10 years in the US. He only got a paper instructing him what the consular wanted him to send back to the Ankara embassy, no form number ie. 221g. She told him that once his papers were received, he would receive a new appointment within 5 business days. The papers were received by the embassy, 2/2/2010 according to UPS and 2/5/2010 according to the embassy (found this out by calling the Dept. of State).We believe that they are trying to make sure that he was in Turkey at the time that his green card expired.

My questions are:

Has anyone had a similar issue?

Is this considered to be in Administrative Processing (AP)?

How long have people in Ankara been in AP?

Is there anyway to track this process?

We are hanging in limbo....any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edited February 24, 2010 by carol and jacob

[NY_IZMIR 1]

I know this isn't quite the same, but when my wife had her K3 interview in Ankara, they told her she had to send in her old passport (one she had with her maiden name, that she got cancelled when she got one using new last name.) And also that I needed to send my W-2's for the past few years, even though I had sent in IRS transcripts for the past 3 years in our packet. She left her new passport with them.

We weren't sure how long it was going to take, but to our surprise, she had her passport with the Visa stamped and delivered back to her via UPS in about 10 days.

Obviously every situation is different, but just letting you know not to panic too much.

Good luck.