Form DS-5535 'SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS FOR VISA APPLICANTS'

[Sarac9 1,122]

3 hours ago, ibnfawzi said:

Wanted to share some good news to help other see it through. to sum up my last few posts, my fiancee was contacted ~2 weeks ago to update her medical and criminal records. Asked for my updated taxes as well. She had everything turned back in to the consulate in Casablanca last Thursday.  Since then noticed a few changes on CEAC (first time it was updated in over a year!). Checked her case today, and it says issued! So now it's just the logistics of getting it through the courier they use to deliver. A little bonus is I had saved up so many miles from traveling back and forth, I'm treating her to a business class ticket to her new home   Sadly because of work I can't fly there to escort her home.

 

Total time in AP: 411 days -or- 1 year, 1 months and 16 days. 

This whole process sucks. It is literally nothing but a waiting game by the administration to force people to abandon their applications. It only took 2 weeks to actually process her visa. The extra 13 months the case is just sitting in a file.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU!! I havent been on this thread long, only two months, but i read from the beginning, your struggle and of course the others who are also still waiting. I wish you and your fiance the best of luck! 

[Tanger h 0]

Félicitation 

[99balloons 12]

5 hours ago, Sarac9 said:

 

Congrats ibnfawzi!  I am happy that your fiancee will finally come home to you.

 

I have a huge news to report too. On Oct 16 our case got touched on CEAC but I thought it was due to senator's inquiry. I had senators and congresspersons inquire over time with no avail. On 11/13, the case changed to expiring soon.  This morning, 11/14 it was back to AP.  I have an Indian co-worker whose husband's company relocated them to Canada due to uncertain immigration future and she was in the US this week. She asked if I heard anything about my hubby (she met him 5 years ago when he was in the US) and my answer was no.  5 minutes later I checked my email. There was an email from embassy...

The embassy's email starts with "Your visa is ready for issuance...."  and asks for updated forms and tax returns and medical.

 

We are IR-1 since submission Aug 6 2014!  I am US citizen for 35 years or so, being a legal child immigrant from Poland ages ago.  He received DS5535 in early Sept 2017 (his interview was late August). My husband is from Mali (native French speaker) and is a musician who traveled all over the world. The DS5535 went into volumes of additional pages.  It was tough trying to piece the travel history of concerts and tours and getting the correct English names for all countries to his native French.

 

We are working on getting all the updated forms ready and figuring out logistics of his travel to the embassy (1400 km one way) between my booked travel to Mali last 2 weeks of this year. Hopefully our visa journey is reaching its end and we'll finally be together again in the same house for the rest of our lives. I am so happy! I'd love to be able to fly to Mali, visit with our family (it's been a year since we went to Dubai in the summer) and just collect my husband and fly back home together. Fingers crossed. I am so happy today. For those still waiting. Never give up. One day when you are almost ready to give up hope, good news will come. We are not finished yet, but after 4+ long years this is the best news ever!!!

[Le212 28]

Hey guys! I haven’t been on AP for long and I’m expecting a long wait from what I’ve heard. I haven’t sent them an inquiry or contacted them since I sent in the DS-5335 form. I only sent them one inquiry in the beginning because I didn’t understand what AP was. But my case has been “updated” 4 times in a short period of time. Last 2 were very strange since I don’t have a senator contacting them and I haven’t been contacting them either. Updates were 11/08 and 11/14 but still AP. At this point I don’t wanna get my hopes up with case updates. 

 

Do all cases get frequent updates days apart?!! 

Edited November 15, 2018 by Le212

[Ahmed&Freda 628]

15 minutes ago, 99balloons said:

Congrats ibnfawzi!  I am happy that your fiancee will finally come home to you.

 

I have a huge news to report too. On Oct 16 our case got touched on CEAC but I thought it was due to senator's inquiry. I had senators and congresspersons inquire over time with no avail. On 11/13, the case changed to expiring soon.  This morning, 11/14 it was back to AP.  I have an Indian co-worker whose husband's company relocated them to Canada due to uncertain immigration future and she was in the US this week. She asked if I heard anything about my hubby (she met him 5 years ago when he was in the US) and my answer was no.  5 minutes later I checked my email. There was an email from embassy...

The embassy's email starts with "Your visa is ready for issuance...."  and asks for updated forms and tax returns and medical.

 

We are IR-1 since submission Aug 6 2014!  I am US citizen for 35 years or so, being a legal child immigrant from Poland ages ago.  He received DS5535 in early Sept 2017 (his interview was late August). My husband is from Mali (native French speaker) and is a musician who traveled all over the world. The DS5535 went into volumes of additional pages.  It was tough trying to piece the travel history of concerts and tours and getting the correct English names for all countries to his native French.

 

We are working on getting all the updated forms ready and figuring out logistics of his travel to the embassy (1400 km one way) between my booked travel to Mali last 2 weeks of this year. Hopefully our visa journey is reaching its end and we'll finally be together again in the same house for the rest of our lives. I am so happy! I'd love to be able to fly to Mali, visit with our family (it's been a year since we went to Dubai in the summer) and just collect my husband and fly back home together. Fingers crossed. I am so happy today. For those still waiting. Never give up. One day when you are almost ready to give up hope, good news will come. We are not finished yet, but after 4+ long years this is the best news ever!!!

Awesome!  That's great news!  Wow 4 years!  So glad its almost over.  We are going on year 2 and praying daily.  

13 minutes ago, Le212 said:

Hey guys! I haven’t been on AP for long and I’m expecting a long wait from what I’ve heard. I haven’t sent them an inquiry or contacted them since I sent in the DS-5335 form. I only sent them one inquiry in the beginning because I didn’t understand what AP was. But my case has been “updated” 4 times in a short period of time. Last 2 were very strange since I don’t have a senator contacting them and I haven’t been contacting them either. Updates were 11/08 and 11/14 but still AP. At this point I don’t wanna get my hopes up with case updates. 

 

Do all cases get frequent updates days apart?!! 

We did at first.  We had updates 10/30, 10/31, 11/1, 11/2 and 11/6 and is now quite.  My senator will not be contacting them until it reaches 60 days since my interview (which was on 10/23) and I have not yet made any queries.  I figured the first two was them sending us the questionnaire and us sending it back then I got excited with the continued updates.  IhsallaAllah we will hear something soon.   

[Le212 28]

13 minutes ago, Ahmed&Freda said:

Awesome!  That's great news!  Wow 4 years!  So glad its almost over.  We are going on year 2 and praying daily.  

We did at first.  We had updates 10/30, 10/31, 11/1, 11/2 and 11/6 and is now quite.  My senator will not be contacting them until it reaches 60 days since my interview (which was on 10/23) and I have not yet made any queries.  I figured the first two was them sending us the questionnaire and us sending it back then I got excited with the continued updates.  IhsallaAllah we will hear something soon.   

Thanks! Okay lol just really didn’t want to get my hopes up. Inshallah we will hear something soon!

[Queeniam1963 7]

2 hours ago, 99balloons said:

Congrats ibnfawzi!  I am happy that your fiancee will finally come home to you.

 

I have a huge news to report too. On Oct 16 our case got touched on CEAC but I thought it was due to senator's inquiry. I had senators and congresspersons inquire over time with no avail. On 11/13, the case changed to expiring soon.  This morning, 11/14 it was back to AP.  I have an Indian co-worker whose husband's company relocated them to Canada due to uncertain immigration future and she was in the US this week. She asked if I heard anything about my hubby (she met him 5 years ago when he was in the US) and my answer was no.  5 minutes later I checked my email. There was an email from embassy...

The embassy's email starts with "Your visa is ready for issuance...."  and asks for updated forms and tax returns and medical.

 

We are IR-1 since submission Aug 6 2014!  I am US citizen for 35 years or so, being a legal child immigrant from Poland ages ago.  He received DS5535 in early Sept 2017 (his interview was late August). My husband is from Mali (native French speaker) and is a musician who traveled all over the world. The DS5535 went into volumes of additional pages.  It was tough trying to piece the travel history of concerts and tours and getting the correct English names for all countries to his native French.

 

We are working on getting all the updated forms ready and figuring out logistics of his travel to the embassy (1400 km one way) between my booked travel to Mali last 2 weeks of this year. Hopefully our visa journey is reaching its end and we'll finally be together again in the same house for the rest of our lives. I am so happy! I'd love to be able to fly to Mali, visit with our family (it's been a year since we went to Dubai in the summer) and just collect my husband and fly back home together. Fingers crossed. I am so happy today. For those still waiting. Never give up. One day when you are almost ready to give up hope, good news will come. We are not finished yet, but after 4+ long years this is the best news ever!!!

Congratulations!!! Love  each other always and remain happy! Such great news!! Victory is yours with commitment & faith!!!

[Caseinquiry 4]

3 hours ago, 99balloons said:

Congrats ibnfawzi!  I am happy that your fiancee will finally come home to you.

 

I have a huge news to report too. On Oct 16 our case got touched on CEAC but I thought it was due to senator's inquiry. I had senators and congresspersons inquire over time with no avail. On 11/13, the case changed to expiring soon.  This morning, 11/14 it was back to AP.  I have an Indian co-worker whose husband's company relocated them to Canada due to uncertain immigration future and she was in the US this week. She asked if I heard anything about my hubby (she met him 5 years ago when he was in the US) and my answer was no.  5 minutes later I checked my email. There was an email from embassy...

The embassy's email starts with "Your visa is ready for issuance...."  and asks for updated forms and tax returns and medical.

 

We are IR-1 since submission Aug 6 2014!  I am US citizen for 35 years or so, being a legal child immigrant from Poland ages ago.  He received DS5535 in early Sept 2017 (his interview was late August). My husband is from Mali (native French speaker) and is a musician who traveled all over the world. The DS5535 went into volumes of additional pages.  It was tough trying to piece the travel history of concerts and tours and getting the correct English names for all countries to his native French.

 

We are working on getting all the updated forms ready and figuring out logistics of his travel to the embassy (1400 km one way) between my booked travel to Mali last 2 weeks of this year. Hopefully our visa journey is reaching its end and we'll finally be together again in the same house for the rest of our lives. I am so happy! I'd love to be able to fly to Mali, visit with our family (it's been a year since we went to Dubai in the summer) and just collect my husband and fly back home together. Fingers crossed. I am so happy today. For those still waiting. Never give up. One day when you are almost ready to give up hope, good news will come. We are not finished yet, but after 4+ long years this is the best news ever!!!

such great news after long AP torture, but when the time comes no one can stop it, I am thrilled when good news comes across, wish you a happy life together!

[tiyyo 68]

22 hours ago, Caseinquiry said:

remain positive hope thing moving along, I established serious communication as well, but strange that they stopped updating on their website after their replies, I am sure they open the file but no updated reflected the site, anyone has a similar situation.

They have been updating our case about twice a month. Just so frustrating. All the way around. 9 months of AP.

[S.S 6]

3 hours ago, tiyyo said:

They have been updating our case about twice a month. Just so frustrating. All the way around. 9 months of AP.

And i see no update after the senator contacted on our behalf. 8 months and 10

days in AP. Dont know whats going on.

[ibnfawzi 46]

I think most of can see by now that members of Congress are just barely worthless to help. I had both VA Senators, my district's House Rep and the Rep that has helped my Mosque's community before as well reach the embassy and inquire. Not a lick of help. They essentially tell you there is nothing they can do.

 

But i urge everyone to constantly communicate with them. They need to know, and be reminded regularly, their constituents are facing hardship because of the government at a federal level. They represent us. They are suppose to work for us. 

[tiyyo 68]

11 hours ago, ibnfawzi said:

I think most of can see by now that members of Congress are just barely worthless to help. I had both VA Senators, my district's House Rep and the Rep that has helped my Mosque's community before as well reach the embassy and inquire. Not a lick of help. They essentially tell you there is nothing they can do.

 

But i urge everyone to constantly communicate with them. They need to know, and be reminded regularly, their constituents are facing hardship because of the government at a federal level. They represent us. They are suppose to work for us. 

It's even at the point that I've contacted my congressman so many times that even their staff doesn't answer my emails. Time Time Time 

[tiyyo 68]

I got a response from the embassy to the email I sent on the 13th yesterday. I asked for an update on my husband's case and the reply was one single sentence.

"The case is still in administrative process."

 

I think they are tired of the emails.

[ibnfawzi 46]

Alhamduillah, fiancee has visa and passport in hand. /me is dancing.

[S.S 6]

24 minutes ago, ibnfawzi said:

Alhamduillah, fiancee has visa and passport in hand. /me is dancing.

Many congratulations to you.. Its good to hear such great news. Wish you a happy life ahead.