Worried about filling in DS260 late. Any help pls?

[Capricorn80 4]

I'm worried about filling up the ds260 forms. I have been selected for DV 2015, CN AF201500007xxx. I am waiting to receive my passport on Monday to make sure my name and occupation are correct including other fields such as date of birth, month and year. So I have choosen Tuesdays as a blessed and lucky day to get it done since I'm a tuesday born and I also played on Oct 29, 2013 which was on a tuesday. Will this cause any delay in my process?

Another question, My AOS is coming from my sponsor, a lady who I met on the internet since 2004 and has been helping me until now, will there be any problem? She has no idea about the AOS..what does she needs to do? like documents she needs to provide? And where can we get the AOS form online? I'm speaking to her this evening my time...please I need a help.

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

No problem with waiting a few days or even a month or so to fill in your DS.

Sorry don't know anything about the AOS questions although I would expect the interviewing officer will ask you how you know the sponsor.

[Capricorn80 4]

Thanks Susie!

[nightingalejules 678]

Check out the June filers NVC thread. The first post in the thread has a link to the NVC wiki. Although it's written from the point of view of someone looking for a spousal visa, most of the information should still apply, especially the info about the i864 (the AOS form)

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

Check out the June filers NVC thread. The first post in the thread has a link to the NVC wiki. Although it's written from the point of view of someone looking for a spousal visa, most of the information should still apply, especially the info about the i864 (the AOS form)

No - almost none of that info will apply ....NVC and normal timelines have nothing at all to do with DV. Different centre (KCC), and different timelines, even for AOS. I864 specifically does not apply to DV cases at all.

Edited June 1, 2014 by SusieQQQ

[adinutzyc21 2]

I'm hijacking this, because I understood that you can delay filing the DS a lot more than a month without having any problems, and I'll need to delay this until September or October this year (I'm filing for OPT and I'm waiting for that to return to me before I file the DS form, just in case). Do you think that would be a problem?

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

I'm hijacking this, because I understood that you can delay filing the DS a lot more than a month without having any problems, and I'll need to delay this until September or October this year (I'm filing for OPT and I'm waiting for that to return to me before I file the DS form, just in case). Do you think that would be a problem?

You can certainly delay filing much more than a month - just that the OP had a pretty low number for Africa so I was trying to give him guidelines based on not delaying his interview beyond where his CN becomes current. Sorry, I should probably have been more clear on that point.

[brill 0]

Is there a general yardstick one can use in terms of what is a safe period of time between submitting DS-260 and when the CN is likely to become current based on historical trends in the Visa Bulletins? For example, filing the DS-260 at the beginning of September when the CN is likely to become current in November (October 15 Visa Bulletin).

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

Is there a general yardstick one can use in terms of what is a safe period of time between submitting DS-260 and when the CN is likely to become current based on historical trends in the Visa Bulletins? For example, filing the DS-260 at the beginning of September when the CN is likely to become current in November (October 15 Visa Bulletin).

KCC have historically taken between 1-2 months to process forms, the upper end of that being at particularly busy periods. Interview schedules are compiled around 7-8 weeks beforehand. Interviews are only scheduled for people whose forms have competed processing. So all in all 3-4 months before an expected interview date has been the "safe" period. However... I would think that with the switch to the DS260, this time must surely shorten. There is simply a physical delay that arises from 30000 or 40000 physical envelopes arriving at KCC, having to be signed for by poor T Campbell, moving to the right desk, getting the envelope slit open... I'd guess there must be some positive impact on lead time from the switch to it all going electronic, but not sure how much.

But filing your DS at the beginning of September is almost certainly too late for a November interview, as the Nov schedules are probably already being finalized (if they haven't already been earlier) at that stage. Don't forget that for DV there is "advance" notification, so the numbers current for November are published in the bulletin that comes out in September. (Last year the October bulletin, which included November DV numbers, was published on Sept 9). Interview letters will be posted to the website a few days after that bulletin is published. KCC just won't have time to review your case and schedule the interview. You might squeeze in for a December interview.

Edited June 1, 2014 by SusieQQQ

[brill 0]

KCC have historically taken between 1-2 months to process forms, the upper end of that being at particularly busy periods. Interview schedules are compiled around 7-8 weeks beforehand. Interviews are only scheduled for people whose forms have competed processing. So all in all 3-4 months before an expected interview date has been the "safe" period. However... I would think that with the switch to the DS260, this time must surely shorten. There is simply a physical delay that arises from 30000 or 40000 physical envelopes arriving at KCC, having to be signed for by poor T Campbell, moving to the right desk, getting the envelope slit open... I'd guess there must be some positive impact on lead time from the switch to it all going electronic, but not sure how much.

But filing your DS at the beginning of September is almost certainly too late for a November interview, as the Nov schedules are probably already being finalized (if they haven't already been earlier) at that stage. Don't forget that for DV there is "advance" notification, so the numbers current for November are published in the bulletin that comes out in September. (Last year the October bulletin, which included November DV numbers, was published on Sept 9). Interview letters will be posted to the website a few days after that bulletin is published. KCC just won't have time to review your case and schedule the interview. You might squeeze in for a December interview.

Even if it turns out to be a January 2015 interview, based on past trends can I take it that it is still "early" enough in Fiscal 2015 that the visa allocation would not have been exhausted?

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

Even if it turns out to be a January 2015 interview, based on past trends can I take it that it is still "early" enough in Fiscal 2015 that the visa allocation would not have been exhausted?

Oh yes plenty of time.