Not Good news "Glitch crashes global US passport, Visa operations"

[dburnt 59]

guess I was lucky - interview on the 15th, and CEAC updated on the 16th with issued (visa delivered by courier on the 21st (weekend in between)).

does anyone know if this would impact POE at all?

[Udella&Wiz 325]

go down, become unavailable, potato potaaaato.

Databases do not crash regularly in the IT world, not my IT world. If they did then I would certainly be out of a job along with our DBA!

This sounds like what sweetmelissa alluded to in the message she received and others posted in the main forum thread about this subject. Sounds like it was a problem that took the DB offline and things are already back up. Sounds like this happened back about July 11 and delayed processing for approximately 1 week.

[FZSA 23]

guess I was lucky - interview on the 15th, and CEAC updated on the 16th with issued (visa delivered by courier on the 21st (weekend in between)).

does anyone know if this would impact POE at all?

same question here ?????

[waka1 28]

The system has a "glitch" right. This is very sensitive data, if there was a breach do you think we would be told ? Is the NSA supercomputers down also ?

Damn, Putin and the Ukraine rebels

[Ashiraz 16]

When did she have her interview. We're 10 days post approval and no Visa.

I love the IT people at State, describe it as "glitch"

She had her interview on the 17th and got her visa picked up on the 24th. It was issued on the 21st though.

[thatangela 134]

Servers do crash regularly in the IT world. Otherwise, my fiance wouldn't have a job.

It doesn't mean Immigration servers specifically crash regularly. It just means servers in general crash. Regularly.

[Jamaican Jewel 1]

I suspect it happened around July 11th and just getting reported now...

[sheldonsgirl 19]

U.S. Department of State: Consular Affairs

Yesterday · Edited

The Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs is currently experiencing technical problems with our passport/visa system.

This issue is worldwide and is not specific to any particular country, citizenship document, or visa category.

We apologize to applicants who are experiencing delays or are unable to obtain a passport, Consular Report of Birth Abroad, or visa at this time.

We are working urgently to correct the problem and expect our system to be fully operational again soon.

I just copied and pasted this from US Dept of State: Consular Affairs facebook page

[bdrew612 1,071]

U.S. Department of State: Consular Affairs

Yesterday · Edited

The Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs is currently experiencing technical problems with our passport/visa system.

This issue is worldwide and is not specific to any particular country, citizenship document, or visa category.

We apologize to applicants who are experiencing delays or are unable to obtain a passport, Consular Report of Birth Abroad, or visa at this time.

We are working urgently to correct the problem and expect our system to be fully operational again soon.

I just copied and pasted this from US Dept of State: Consular Affairs facebook page

I remember seeing that yesterday on their Facebook page, yet they haven't bothered to put it on their website...

The US Embassy in Honduras has actually post that notice on their website in the Immigrant Visa page. The Embassy in London has not.

[Ryan H 3,812]

Multiple duplicate threads on this topic merged.

[JIJourney 96]

U.S. Department of State: Consular Affairs

Yesterday · Edited

The Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs is currently experiencing technical problems with our passport/visa system.

This issue is worldwide and is not specific to any particular country, citizenship document, or visa category.

We apologize to applicants who are experiencing delays or are unable to obtain a passport, Consular Report of Birth Abroad, or visa at this time.

We are working urgently to correct the problem and expect our system to be fully operational again soon.

I just copied and pasted this from US Dept of State: Consular Affairs facebook page

We read that part

[kempo23 0]

I just saw this on Bureau of Consular Affairs website it a bit different from what I read earlier I did my interview on June 6 did not get a 221g but have not heard anything yet I hope Jamaica is all good

Important Notice

The Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs is currently experiencing technical problems with our passport and visa system. We are operational, but currently issuing documents at a reduced capacity.

This issue is worldwide and is not specific to any particular country, citizenship document, or visa category.

We apologize to applicants who are experiencing delays or are unable to obtain a passport, Report of Birth Abroad, or visa at this time.

We are working urgently to correct the problem and expect our system to be fully operational again soon.

Routine passport services are not affected at this time. We will be posting updates to travel.state.gov as more information becomes available.

[caiti92 23]

Today is officially 5 months since our NOA1 and we are nervously waiting the NOA2 from the TSC. I'm wondering if our I129-F petition had been in the system long enough to not be as affected as others or if this directly affects us. I am so nervous. Does anyone have any input?

This is my first time dealing with the visa process and I truly can't believe how ridiculously complicated and buerocratic it is for people in love to simply get married in this country. It's heart breaking to hear such negative news after waiting so long JUST for our NOA2 and I'm sure others are in the same boat. I really hope they are able to figure this out quickly.

[Alko 6]

I called NVC last night, and told representative that I heard on news about the glitch and database being down. She said she knows nothing about it.

[bdrew612 1,071]

Department of State Consular Affairs Facebook page just posted another status update.

UPDATE: Our visa and passport processing systems are now operational, however they are working at limited capacity. We are still working to corrrect the problem and expect to be fully operational soon.