ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSING AFTER APPROVAL, HELP PLEASE!

[Le Bangoulap 25]

After Interview at Lagos Consulate, the CO said we were approved and gave us a paper with an address she circled for us to go to the same address and pick up passports but now the status says ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSING and read thus:

Your visa case is currently undergoing necessary administrative processing. This processing can take several weeks. Please follow any instructions provided by the Consular Officer at the time of your interview. If further information is needed, you will be contacted. If your visa application is approved, it will be processed and mailed/available within two business days.

1. Has anyone ever experience this?

2. What should we expect from now?

We've already booked fly tickets, hope this will not last beyond the date of our flight.

Thank you

[Pitaya 2,577]

~Moved from K-1 Progress to US Embassy and Consulate Forum~

~Inquiry about AP at the embassy/consulate phase of the process~

[Ilovemyman 147]

Well I hope you be lucky and get passport soon.

My interview was well, I was approved on march 18 and I am in ap. No passport yet.

For that is better book flight when you have visa in hand , but many people change soon from ap to issued.

But sometimes ap take long.

[Avery Cates 1,141]

After Interview at Lagos Consulate, the CO said we were approved and gave us a paper with an address she circled for us to go to the same address and pick up passports but now the status says ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSING and read thus:

Your visa case is currently undergoing necessary administrative processing. This processing can take several weeks. Please follow any instructions provided by the Consular Officer at the time of your interview. If further information is needed, you will be contacted. If your visa application is approved, it will be processed and mailed/available within two business days.

1. Has anyone ever experience this?

2. What should we expect from now?

We've already booked fly tickets, hope this will not last beyond the date of our flight.

Thank you

AP is basically the black hole of the visa world. Especially in high fraud countries like Nigeria, it has the potential to take a considerable amount of time. I can be anywhere from 2 days to 2 years. There's no way to contact anyone about it, they won't tell you what they're doing or how long it will take.

This is one of the reasons we always say never purchase any plane tickets before you have the visa in hand.

[dwheels76 5,468]

After Interview at Lagos Consulate, the CO said we were approved and gave us a paper with an address she circled for us to go to the same address and pick up passports but now the status says ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSING and read thus:

Your visa case is currently undergoing necessary administrative processing. This processing can take several weeks. Please follow any instructions provided by the Consular Officer at the time of your interview. If further information is needed, you will be contacted. If your visa application is approved, it will be processed and mailed/available within two business days.

1. Has anyone ever experience this?

2. What should we expect from now?

We've already booked fly tickets, hope this will not last beyond the date of our flight.

Thank you

Sorry you bought tickets ahead of time. AP has started up like crazy lately in Lagos and as always advised you should never make travel arrangements until Visa is in hand. AP no one can tell you it happens often. The embassy will not tell you anything all you can do is wait. After a week or so you can start emailing the embassy and see. Hopefully this is a fast AP and not a lot of issues or wait. Really sorry.

[livindadream 156]

I once read that this happened to someone else...and it turned out to be nothing. They referred to the process of issuing the visa as "AP"...He checked his status and it said he was in AP, then then some hours later it said ISSUED....I'll try to find the link and post it. Hopefully that's all it is

Edited April 29, 2014 by AYOsGirl

[dwheels76 5,468]

Hopefully its just the usual AP that all Visa processing goes through. It will be a week tomorrow so see if it changes to Issued tomorrow thats the usual timeline of issue for Lagos.

[R.bwithlove 1]

My daughters fiancé,after interview it say ready than AP now is issue!

[Akeemakin 0]

Please don't be scared about the necessary AP, it happened to me this month, I went for my interview and it was approved CO gave a white papper where to pick my visa and a papper how to pay 165$ when I got home and check my status online the next day it went from ready to necessary AP after a day in Ap it went issued two days later I went to GSS at VI and pick up my visa.please that necessary AP you saw is when they are tidying up issuing the visa and the papper work, like somebody will print the visa another person will paste the visa and person will take it to the mailing room despatch it, so all this are called necessary AP.check your status tomorrow you will see that it has been issued. On Friday go and pick your visa at the picking point. They will send it tomorrow because Thursday is public holiday .the way am telling you now is the way it is.book your ticket now . Goodluck

[samename 28]

Don't worry yet. This happened to us last year and we were in AP for 3 days, the AP was only to process the visa.

[Le Bangoulap 25]

Don't worry yet. This happened to us last year and we were in AP for 3 days, the AP was only to process the visa.

Thank you very much for all your wonderful contributions.

TO God be the Glory!

Just a couple of hours after the AP, I checked again not without crying to God in prayer for speedy resolution of the AP, I found out that it has changed to ISSUED.

It's so good to have people as good as all of you in this forum.

God Bless you all!

[Le Bangoulap 25]

Please don't be scared about the necessary AP, it happened to me this month, I went for my interview and it was approved CO gave a white papper where to pick my visa and a papper how to pay 165$ when I got home and check my status online the next day it went from ready to necessary AP after a day in Ap it went issued two days later I went to GSS at VI and pick up my visa.please that necessary AP you saw is when they are tidying up issuing the visa and the papper work, like somebody will print the visa another person will paste the visa and person will take it to the mailing room despatch it, so all this are called necessary AP.check your status tomorrow you will see that it has been issued. On Friday go and pick your visa at the picking point. They will send it tomorrow because Thursday is public holiday .the way am telling you now is the way it is.book your ticket now . Goodluck

Your are very right. Thank you very much.

I checked my status less than 3 hours later and it said ISSUED. Now following the instruction of the CO during the interview to pick up passport the next Wednesday, I'm still in Lagos hoping that it will be ready for pick up as instructed. Do you think it should be ready for pick up.

Thank you

[Akeemakin 0]

Please don't wait till next week to pick up your visA. Please go there this Friday and pick up your visa.do as I told you you will see that this evening your visa has been sent to DHL for pick up.that finished up your visa issuing yesterday,today is for DHL to come and pick it up.dont wait for DHL people to contact you for picking up your visa

[mkenyanusu 0]

Dont worry it should update within a few days showing approved. All it means is the processing that happens after approval like visa printing.This happened to us in nairobi give it 3 to 7 days before you worry. As long as you have the green spprovsl you should be ok.

[Le Bangoulap 25]

Dont worry it should update within a few days showing approved. All it means is the processing that happens after approval like visa printing.This happened to us in nairobi give it 3 to 7 days before you worry. As long as you have the green spprovsl you should be ok.

It is over now visa is in hand.

Thanks for your advise and concern. Now preparing to write our experience in the review