UK embassy - over 5 business days from interview and no visa

[featherB 1]

Calm down, calm down, calm down. Seriously! Getting stressed and angry about it is just going to affect you (badly - it's not going to make you feel any better!) and won't do a thing to get your visa to you any quicker. Fingers crossed you get it VERY soon, though. Just try to relax and know that, as you're approved (pending fingerprint results, which you know will be fine as you know you have no dodgy criminal past to worry about!), you *will* have your visa right there in your hand soon enough.

I do agree their fingerprint scanning thing seems a bit dodgy, though. When mine were taken, the woman did it a few times, and was making these noncommital noises about them. She said they weren't great, but would 'be okay for what they need'. I was half expecting them to come back and say my prints weren't good enough and needed doing again. Oh, she also came out from behind her window to clean the fingerprint reader with a computer screen wipe or something, but still frowned at the results when she took my prints again. I think they're doing their best with the equipment they have, rather than 'incompetent', to be honest....

[Sonshyne 2]

We had an interview in Jamaica on March 20th and still have not recieved the visa. We decided to wait for a month before making flight arrangements for him to come to the US thinking this would be plenty of time.... Well here we are with about 2 weeks left.... and still NO VISA It's looking like his April 25th arrival maybe delayed.

[Nicole72082 0]

Thanks Wes - you are right, I just forget sometimes that we are dealing with red tape fiends and not normal compassionate half way intelligent human beings...The latest in my saga is that the state dept told my Fiance the embassy screwed up taking my fingerprints (on the 8th attempt and when I asked whether the machine was ok as they seemed to be having lots of issues with it I was told 'These will do, don't worry') and the FBI have refused to approve them as they are too low density. According to my record the embassy were aware of this the Thursday before last but instead of doing the decent thing and inviting me back in to re-take them (I'm tempted to buy an ink pad and do the job myself -there are 'how to' instructions on the FBI website that a 4 year old could follow) have continued to email me with template excuses blaming 'System delays' and have attempted this week to re-send them to the FBI.Yeah, because they won't remember not being able to approve them the first time...

What a farce!

Hope yours gets sorted out soon, at least with VJ we know the system can and does work when it wants to!

Hey, have you heard anything recently??