CEAC STATUS READY FROM AP

[nas30 0]

I had applied for J1 visa and finished my interview on 19th April 2017 at Chennai, India.

The VO gave me blue form 221g with ' administrative processing' ticked.No documents asked

At first I was taken back by this and after going through the material on the internet, I lost all hopes.

My fellowship was due to begin by May and considering the average wait times I had dropped all my dreams.

I checked my CAEC status on 20th morning at 9.00AM and it was THE dreaded  ' ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSING'. update status was 19/4/2017

However when i checked again at 3.00PM the status was 'READY' update status was 20/4/17.

I don't know what to make of this.Is this good or a routine before it would slip into the DREADED 'AP' and months n months of nothing happening.

As I had gone through previous threads ,I was preparing to see a prolonged period of 'AP'

This however is a surprise and frankly I am a bit skeptical of this.

If anyone knows about this I would appreciate the info

[Ben&Zian 4,398]

CEAC status can change periodically. Sometimes "Ready" after AP leads to Issued; but it also could go back to "AP".

[nas30 0]

Today at around 3.00 pm status got updated to AP.

I dont know if this going to be  the dreaded AP ..

Any inputs...?