Scandinavians Part 2

[swelove 8]

On 9/16/2020 at 4:01 PM, RTimo said:

how many days does it take for the embassy at Stockholm to return the passport?  please share your experience 

Hej @RTimo, how did your interview go? How long did it take you to get visa in hand after your interview?

[RTimo 7]

15 hours ago, swelove said:

Hej @RTimo, how did your interview go? How long did it take you to get visa in hand after your interview?

I will share when my husband gets the visa because the first officer took all the affidavit of supports documents but gave him back the proof of my income. Ive been seeing emails since Friday but they still did not respond back

[isamanda 4]

On 10/5/2020 at 6:29 PM, Simon Pacis said:

Will just add to this. Was DQ on 8th Sep. Wrote the embassy today and got this reply:

 

“The immigrant visa unit at the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm is performing limited services for applicants subject to exceptions from the current presidential proclamations (i.e. spouse or child of a U.S. citizen). While the Embassy aims to process the cases as soon practicable, there is likely to be increased waiting times for completing such services due to substantial backlogs. We are currently scheduling IR1/CR1 cases from the National Visa Center that were documentary qualified for an interview in late spring/June of 2020”

 

I sure hope I won’t have to wait until December or next year potentially. Anyway, just wanted to add.

I received an email from US Embassy in Stockholm and they wrote me that they are currently scheduling people from july so means it can go fast, as if you got this response on the 5th of October and they were working with june and I got response today that they are working with july.

[theswedishyolk 7]

Just got an email from NVC saying my interview was cancelled. However I didn’t have an interview scheduled in the first place. What’s going on here? 🤔

[swmfly 45]

10 minutes ago, theswedishyolk said:

Just got an email from NVC saying my interview was cancelled. However I didn’t have an interview scheduled in the first place. What’s going on here? 🤔

Sounds like you're about to get your appointment notification. This happened to several members in this group over the summer. In our case, we received notification of the scheduled appointment within 24 hours of the first message (the one stating that our interview was cancelled).

[theswedishyolk 7]

16 minutes ago, swmfly said:

Sounds like you're about to get your appointment notification. This happened to several members in this group over the summer. In our case, we received notification of the scheduled appointment within 24 hours of the first message (the one stating that our interview was cancelled).

Wow if that is the case they are working very quickly. I got my NVC online form approved on September 1st 

 

I haven’t expedited or anything 

 

How far ahead in time to they usually schedule the interview? 

Edited October 23, 2020 by theswedishyolk

[swmfly 45]

2 minutes ago, theswedishyolk said:

Wow if that is the case they are working very quickly. I got my NVC online form approved on September 1st 

 

I haven’t expedited or anything 

Hm.

Have you been notified of being documentarily qualified (DQ)?

[theswedishyolk 7]

24 minutes ago, swmfly said:

Hm.

Have you been notified of being documentarily qualified (DQ)?

Yeah I was DQed on September 1st. I first submitted my NVC application mid-July

Edited October 23, 2020 by theswedishyolk

[swmfly 45]

11 minutes ago, theswedishyolk said:

Yeah I was DQed on September 1st. I first submitted my NVC application mid-July

If you were DQd on September 1st after submitting mid-July, then that's fast -- but sounds great for you! 

For us, we were notified of the interview about 8 weeks after being DQd. We were DQd in May and received the notification of appointment for interview in July. We were notified of our case being expedited, but we never requested it (and there was nothing expeditious about our total process time -- start to finish took over 2 years).

 

Sounds like your DQ to appointment notification could be about 6 weeks. Keep us posted if you receive your appointment in the coming days.

[Simon Pacis 6]

40 minutes ago, theswedishyolk said:

Yeah I was DQed on September 1st. I first submitted my NVC application mid-July

Please let me know if any progress! Was DQ sep 8th after submitting aug 27. Insane and still don’t understand how!

[theswedishyolk 7]

Ok here is an update. Now I got a message saying that my request to expedite was approved. I have made No such request 😄 but I don’t mind of course 

[theswedishyolk 7]

Do I need to bring vaccination records to the medical exam? 

[snowdog 153]

12 minutes ago, theswedishyolk said:

Do I need to bring vaccination records to the medical exam? 

Yes, bring documentation of anything you have already and anything you are missing they will let you know so you can go and get it yourself.

[theswedishyolk 7]

Got myself an interview! 11th of december 

[Simon Pacis 6]

3 hours ago, theswedishyolk said:

Got myself an interview! 11th of december 

Wow, so great! Hoping I’m up soon then 😀