Question re: administrative processing and petition validity.

[spectheintro 18]

Hello all:

My brother-in-law has been in administrative processing for a K-1 petition for nearly seven months now. I understand that this is highly unusual, given that most AP is between 2 weeks to 2 months. I'm a little concerned that his petition has expired because the AP has taken so long.

Is this a possibility? His fiancee e-mailed the embassy three months after his interview and they said that the visa was still under administrative review, without any mention of potential petition expiry. Does anyone have any advice/guidance on what to do in order to move this process along?

Thanks.

[mrsnija 1]

try contacting your congressman...

[C-ma'am 684]

**Post moved from K1 to Waivers & AP

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

Hello all:

My brother-in-law has been in administrative processing for a K-1 petition for nearly seven months now. I understand that this is highly unusual, given that most AP is between 2 weeks to 2 months. I'm a little concerned that his petition has expired because the AP has taken so long.

Is this a possibility? His fiancee e-mailed the embassy three months after his interview and they said that the visa was still under administrative review, without any mention of potential petition expiry. Does anyone have any advice/guidance on what to do in order to move this process along?

Thanks.

The embassy will extend the validity automatically while in AP.

The petitioner can email every few months to inquire of the status.

She can call DOS more often for status inquiry.

The senator can do nothing about it.

It will only expire if it gets returned to USCIS, CSC does not reaffirm returned K1 's, VSC sometimes does.

It is not really that unusual to be in longer AP given the country.

[spectheintro 18]

The embassy will extend the validity automatically while in AP.

The petitioner can email every few months to inquire of the status.

She can call DOS more often for status inquiry.

The senator can do nothing about it.

It will only expire if it gets returned to USCIS, CSC does not reaffirm returned K1 's, VSC sometimes does.

It is not really that unusual to be in longer AP given the country.

Thank you for this. I will be sure to tell his fiancee to e-mail the embassy again to inquire about the status of the application. I was surprised at the length because my wife (his sister) only took 1 month for AP, but we were married and she is a woman, so perhaps that explains the difference in AP times.

[stevie b 141]

try contacting your congressman...

this is wrong

nobody can influence the embassy's ap process

this is covered over and over here on vj

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

Thank you for this. I will be sure to tell his fiancee to e-mail the embassy again to inquire about the status of the application. I was surprised at the length because my wife (his sister) only took 1 month for AP, but we were married and she is a woman, so perhaps that explains the difference in AP times.

Yes, him being male most likely is the cause. Our case was in AP for 16 months and is not a MENA country. It happens.