The definition of administrative review..

[Robb and Kim 0]

Robb had his interview on November 8th at the embassy in New Delhi and was approved under the condition he get his fingerprint clearance from Austratlian Federal Police back to them. The main question I have is this: What exactly is "Administrative Review"? Is that currently what we're going through? I know that generally after someone is approved entirely at their interview it takes about 7-10 days before physically receiving their passport and visa by mail. Will this process now be different after he turns in his fingerprint clearance or should we expect roughly 7-10 days for this as well? All of his other submitted documents at the interview were looked over and he was told they were fine and the interview was great.

I am incredibly fearful this will be yet another lonely Christmas for myself and my family and we're hopeful they'll return this clearance in a timely manner but I've heard/seen that AP can take quite a lengthy time once EVERYTHING is submitted. Please help, any and all suggestions or responses will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!

[Louza 10]

I don't mean to freak you out or anything but the sooner you send in those additional documents the better. At my interview (which was October 31) I was asked to submit additional paperwork & even though the embassy received the documents 5 days after my interview I still didn't get my visa. My husband & I have been following up with the Dept of State & all they keep telling us is that my application is pending AP. The only extra information the visa specialist gave my husband was that since it's been 2 weeks & the embassy hasn't requested anything else we should take that as a good sign.

So my thoughts to you guys would be to send in that fingerprint clearance asap & to follow up with DOS.

Good luck to you

Edited November 22, 2012 by Louza