visa delay

[andi.pierre 0]

Good afternoon VJ

I really need some help

has this every happen to anyone- My fiance had his interview for K1 visa on june 4 at the haiti embassy. The CO gave my fiance a 221(g). for a 2nd interview with me there

on July 27, 2012: My fiance and I arrive at the embassy for the 2nd interview.

At the end of a succesfull interview, he was told by CO, " Congrats, your visa has been approved" and they kept his passport. he was not given any kind of receipt or 221G whatsoever. upon asking when i will get my passport back, he was told, You will get your passport back in 10 days and was handed over a slip which says " Welcome to America". It has been almost 1 month & we have not received the passport yet. Every time I call to check on his passport , they say the same thing: " Your passport in under process at US embassy/Consulate". On the top of that, when I called DOS, VO says, your case has been put under admin processing and they have not made a decesion yet. I do not understand this, why would they tell him,he is approved for visa at the interview and DOS says "they have not made a decision yet". Any comments, suggestions guys? How long will it take to get passport back and above all, what is the impact on outcome of all this?

[Xanax 349]

This sounds like administrative processing (AP) which has no time limit, it can take weeks, months and some unfortunate people have waited years.

I am sure someone with more knowledge will jump in soon with some advice.

Edited August 20, 2012 by Xanax

[C-ma'am 684]

Unfortunately, this kind of scenario happens frequently. Maybe they needed to corroborate extra information and jumped the rope by letting you know it was approved.

If they still have his passport, it's a good sign.

Do you have an email address that you could use to contact the embassy and ask them? After all, they said you were approved and they also gave him the Welcome to America paper.