Delay in Delivery of Approved Visas

[subz1987 6]

For those of you who interviewed between June 9th and this week and had their embassies be reconnected this week, did you get your visas issued yet? Wanna get an estimate on how fast they're going through cases now.

[l&ns 2]

Canada Embassies finally updated their info:

Resumption of Visa Services 26 June 2015

Visa Update: Visa processing has resumed at the U.S. Embassy and consulates in Canada. Interview appointments are now available. Some posts in Canada have openings as soon as June 26. To schedule an appointment, visit https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-ca/niv.

For those travelers whose interviews were cancelled during the systems outage: check your email for a message with instructions to reschedule your interview, or visit https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-ca/niv.

If you are waiting to receive your approved visa: we are currently working to eliminate the backlog of visas awaiting printing, and anticipate that we will be able to print the majority of visas by early next week. You will receive an email when your visa is ready to be picked up at the Loomis location you selected when you applied.

We deeply regret the inconvenience these technical problems have caused for travelers waiting for visas and are working hard to return to normal processing. Updates will continue to be posted here, and on the State Department website travel.state.gov.

http://canada.usembassy.gov/visas/visas/visa-services-interruption.html

[debbiericardo 2]

For those of you who interviewed between June 9th and this week and had their embassies be reconnected this week, did you get your visas issued yet? Wanna get an estimate on how fast they're going through cases now.

Interview june 9th . Last update 17th admin processing

[VSRoberts 1]

An answered prayer...

Interview date: June 5

Update: ISSUED

"We have authorized issuance of your visa. Barring unforeseen problems, the visa packet will be delivered to your designated address by courier service within 7 to 10 working days from the visa issuance date. Do not finalize travel plans, purchase plane tickets, dispose of property, or cease employment until the visa is delivered to you."

Edited June 25, 2015 by VSRoberts

[SantyAndAllie 155]

We know a couple interviewed June 9th, visa issued on Monday at our consulate (Guayaquil, Ecuador). Also saw someone with a June 11th interview with a visa yesterday.

[Russ&Caro 1,549]

For those of you who interviewed between June 9th and this week and had their embassies be reconnected this week, did you get your visas issued yet? Wanna get an estimate on how fast they're going through cases now.

I know lopezgallo interviewed on June 11 and was notified of his wife's visa issuance yesterday and her children's visa issuance today. But note, this is from the Colombia consulate which has notified people that they're going to work through this weekend to clear the entire backlog. So it probably depends on your consulate and how much they're prioritizing the elimination of their backlog.

[smartgreen 10]

status updated as of 26th, still shows as Ready only

my short term visitor pass expires on 28th which means i need to leave the country and come back for the visa. another 700-800 dollar. damn!!!

My entire Jun is ruin because of this sh!t.

[kimmygeee 7]

My fiance was in AP since June 2nd and it just went back to ready -.- and they updated it now from June 12th to the 16th... I guess they are messing around with it

edit: Now it changed back to AP and the date changed to 22nd, today may be the day *-* Also it says non-immigrant visa on the top now.

Edited June 25, 2015 by kimmygeee

[Aria637 0]

Ours still stuck on June 18 on AP, after interview if approved did your status change to ready right away or did it go to ap?

[Deepujhajj 9]

What you guys talking about ready it shows ready before interview after interview ap and then issued

[kimmygeee 7]

What you guys talking about ready it shows ready before interview after interview ap and then issued

I'm talking specifically what happened to me. After the June 2nd interview my fiance was put in AP. I had no updates until today where I noticed that it changed to ready and back to AP. Another side note, the headline changed from Immigrant visa application to non immigrant visa application where my case creation date also changed to June 19th. So that's the reason it went back to ready and then to AP minutes after.

[kimmygeee 7]

Ours still stuck on June 18 on AP, after interview if approved did your status change to ready right away or did it go to ap?

It depends on your visa type. Ours is the K-1 so that's the reason it went back to ready for a couple of minutes because in a sense they created a new case changing the statuses from immigrant to non immigrant visa. At least that how I took it. I don't think many people see it back to ready because again it all changed in a matter of minutes but I've been constantly refreshing that page haha

After the interview it immediately went to AP to answer your question

[Deepujhajj 9]

I'm talking specifically what happened to me. After the June 2nd interview my fiance was put in AP. I had no updates until today where I noticed that it changed to ready and back to AP. Another side note, the headline changed from Immigrant visa application to non immigrant visa application where my case creation date also changed to June 19th. So that's the reason it went back to ready and then to AP minutes after.

So your visa category k1 ok for that it's going like that i think what for cr1 it shows ready for interview when scheduled before interview then after that ap if required otherwise issued what coz of this tech issue mine interview was 16 june cr1 visa nd till today it was showing same ready for interview update dates 16 18 20 23 24 now changes to ap i think now it will change to issue soon if they working on it

[mlh 93]

Update from London!

http://www.usembassy.org.uk/specialrelationshipmagazine/delays-in-visa-and-passport-processing/

[faisalk 19]

Technological Systems Issue

JUNE 25, 2015

Visa Systems Issues

• The Bureau of Consular Affairs reports that 165 posts, representing more than 85 percent of our nonimmigrant visa demand worldwide, are now online and issuing visas.

• Posts overseas issued more than 82,000 visas on June 24.

• Posts overseas have issued more than 238,000 non-immigrant visas this week. For context, if systems had been operating normally, posts would have issued approximately 540,000 visas since the outage started.

• We will continue to bring additional posts online until connectivity with all posts is restored. All posts worldwide are now scheduling interviews with applicants, including with those who applied after the systems problems began on June 9.

• We deeply regret the inconvenience to travelers who are waiting for visas, as well as their families and U.S. businesses that have been affected.

• We continue to post updates to our website, travel.state.gov.

Just saw this update on travel.state.gov.It might be a typo but they are saying 165 posts counts for 85% which doesn't make sense as it said 50 yesterday counts for 75%