Plane tickets before visa in hand

[MrJetz 0]

Hi all,

My fiance just completed and passed her interview last week, Friday, August 9th. Thus, in the natural order of things, I started researching plane tickets. In the process, I found out that there was only a few seats left on the plane I was looking at for the way back. Due to work conflicts and scheduling, I have a very short window to take time off and travel to Vietnam to pick up my fiance. So I bought the tickets right then and there.

I also did research on the Vietnam timelines on this forum and saw that the average period to receive the visa is two weeks after the interview approval.

Nonetheless, I am nervous that I made the decision to buy the plane tickets before the actual visa in hand.

Questions:

1 - Should I be nervous? Is there a high probability that the visa will not arrive within 1 month's time frame? (I scheduled her flight to be the end of September.... that leaves her more then 1.5 month to obtain the visa)

2 - Has anyone been through any scenario where they did not receive the visa after an approved interview?

Thanks all!

[Hamad and Chau 2]

pull out your case number, HCM2013xxxyyy

go to this site and do a query, you are immigrant visa

https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx?

After the interview was complete, it should have said: Ready, date of interview

Then it changes to: Administrative processing, whatever date they put it in AP

And finally it goes to: Issued, whatever date your visa is issued

[MrJetz 0]

Oh nice! Thanks!

It says Issued, should be receiving within 10 business days....

[Hamad and Chau 2]

So, then one more thing to reduce delays:

make sure that the person(s) name(s) you put on the EMS delivery form are actually AT HOME when they come to deliver. We put 2 people down for our CRBA, only one goes out when a delivery is pending.

[MrJetz 0]

oh, thanks for the info!

However, she lives alone in the city, and she works... luckily, i have her placed at a hotel, so the receptionist can accept the paperwork....

she has been there for a while, and I stay there whenever i visit.... she received her packet 3 thru them, so I believe they are pretty reliable....

[mr smith 0]

You are good to go then, congratulations!!!!