K3 Interview Gone Bad

[morocco4ever 63]

Hubby didn't get the visa. He arrived at the Cairo Embassy and a lady asked to see his passport, birth certificate, army certificate and marriage contract. She took them and told him to go to the TNT office to pay some money (so we thought that was for the return of the visa and passport after approval). When we returned back to the Embassy he was told to meet with a man. He met with him and he asked Hassan no questions. Just gave him all the papers back except his passport and handed him a piece of paper that said he’s on indefinite Administrative Processing with no reason. When Hassan asked how long this will take, the man said he can’t answer that question. He said that it could take one week, two weeks, three weeks, six months, or eight months and there’s no way for him to tell. When Hassan started to ask more questions, he was asked to leave. The document says not to call or email the embassy to inquire about this.

Now what????? Please help.

Are you sure it says "indefinite Administrative Processing"?

I didn't want to say much before, but Cairo just doesn't give same-day visas. The only people who receive visas fairly quickly are either female or non-muslim. He will have to go through the security checks that everyone else does. They take approximately 2 to 3 months. Then if there is a name hit, as in our case and many others who have common names, its another round of checks, sometimes including a complete set of fingerprints. and a few more months. It seems to be a fairly standard processing time for Egypt of 3 to 6 months to get visa in hand. We are now on month 8 but that was because they required some additional paperwork after the interview.

Without knowing more of what his 221g says, its hard to say exactly, but this sounds like the usual things. Just takes some patience. I think everything is just fine.

Why would they keep the passport if it is going to take more than a couple of weeks? Not sure how Cairo does things.

Darlin... Cairo kept Mohammed's passport too and its been 8 MONTHS (and counting). They keep it if they plan to attempt to issue. They return it if the case is being denied or sent back.

Well now that just sucks! What if he has to travel to a different country for work in the meantime?

[Together4ever 1]

Yep. This is one of the complaints. They hold the passports indefinitely. BUT on the other hand, its insurance they're still working to issue the darn visas.