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Form DS-5535 'SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS FOR VISA APPLICANTS'

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How are you all doing? I just came here to tell you all to calm down and everything will be fine soon. I had gone through this process and all I did was exercised patience. I was on AP for 9 months. I

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Hello everyone,   I am here to share the good news. My husband's visa got issued today exactly 17 months after his interview date. I hope this journey ends for everyone who is waiting.

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Finally.visa issued...7 months on ap...embassy lebanon.cr1..with ds5535...inshallah evryone gets ur visa soon

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3 hours ago, TangierMorocco said:

Please contact your senator. I know we will eventually have the visa for our loved ones; however we should not let other suffer too!!!

I have applied for a non immigrant visa, can i still contact a senator? I thought only immigrant visa applicants can contact senator. If there is a way please let me know.

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3 hours ago, Khan1985 said:

I have applied for a non immigrant visa, can i still contact a senator? I thought only immigrant visa applicants can contact senator. If there is a way please let me know.

Thanks Khan1985. Contacting the senator applies mainly to American Citizens and Green card holders. Since they are tax payer and for the citizens they vote in the elections. I wish you best of luck!

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4 hours ago, tiyyo said:

Can you give us an idea to what you said in your email? It would help tremendously for us who want to also contact our congressman.

Hi Tiyyo. If you live in the US and an American citizen or a green card holder, you need to contact your congress representatives: Including the senators and congressman representatives. They can raise the problem at the congress and also contact the Embassy on your behalf. I am an American citizen, I pay my tax and do everything by the book. My senators should know what I am going through is simply unfair. I am separated from my loved one (My spouse) for no known reasons. We did everything we are asked to do and yet we didn't get visa for our spouses. My senator should know this. So if you are in US and you are a citizen, you need to contact your senators. I appeal to everyone here to contact his/her congress representatives and senators. If we do not do so, this is going to be delayed for unlimited time, we will suffer and others will also suffer. 

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6 hours ago, Shazyyo said:

Lawyers don't reply. They say its a routine thing and AP has been happening since a long time. Nobody can expedite this process. Some cases have short AP and some have the longest. I think only prayer can change the current situation now.

I am asking you to contact your senators not the lawyers. Senators always respond to their constituent queries. Members of the congress matter. They need to be informed about what is going on so that they may fix this at the Federal level.

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6 hours ago, SabrinaJerome said:

TangierMorocco is saying to contact your government representatives so that our voices can be heard, for the benefit of others in the future.

Hi Tiyyo, no, I am not asking you to contact your government.

I am asking you to contact the USA members of the congress if you are a US citizen or green card holder. If you are not a US citizen, I request you to be patient and wait until you get your visa. So my appeal only apply to the US citizens and green card holders. Thank you!!!

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2 hours ago, TangierMorocco said:

Hi Tiyyo, no, I am not asking you to contact your government.

I am asking you to contact the USA members of the congress if you are a US citizen or green card holder. If you are not a US citizen, I request you to be patient and wait until you get your visa. So my appeal only apply to the US citizens and green card holders. Thank you!!!

I meant the US government representatives. Congresspeople and senators represent you in the government. And, "your", meaning the reps that represent the US resident.

And, of course, any American can be writing to their reps for any reason, so if you have friends or family, who are concerned about this, they can write too!

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October 2011: Met in Spain

2012-2014: Video chat + visas + visits and vacations = we made it through!

June 2014: Moved to Spain, got engaged 

December 31, 2015: got married

April 20, 2016: sent I130 package

May 2, 2016: package received in Chicago Lockbox - - - 12 days for delivery!! Don't use TNT couriers!! 

May 2nd or 5th, 2016: email NOA1... accepted and sent to.... NEBRASKA 

And now.... breeeeeeathe..... be like water my friend....

October 26th, 2016: NOA2 [We had waited almost 6 months. Received notification from the phone app, never got an email.]

November 9th 2016: USCIS sent the petition to NVC (app notification) [waited 2 weeks after approval for this]

November 25th 2016: NVC received and created account for our petition [waited 16 days after USCIS sent it, for NVC to acknowledge receipt]

Dec 1st 2016: Chose agent online DS261 [a few days later than it could've been since the above NVC email went to SPAM!]

Dec 6th 2016: Case available for paying fees. That was fast, I think! 5 days!

Took a long time to get package out because... life... and husband's family in Morocco had to travel to get police document.

Feb 20th 2017: Scan date at NVC, received weird email.

April 28th 2017: CHECKLIST. Moroccans are required to send a Court Report regardless of Police Record status. My husband had to go back to Morocco to get it in person. Also, NVC wants a 2016 tax return now that is 2017. My bad.

September 15th 2017: 2nd Scan Date at NVC. Sent for document review October 20th.

Nov 10th 2017: Email requesting document be brought to interview. Will schedule interview.

Case complete date??: TBD :clock:.... November 8th!!

Interview date : January 18, 2018!!           Result: Administrative Processing      :mellow:

Embassy called for new medical last week of August. New Medical Sept 10.

Visa ISSUED September 14, 2018. :blink:

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4 hours ago, TangierMorocco said:

I am asking you to contact your senators not the lawyers. Senators always respond to their constituent queries. Members of the congress matter. They need to be informed about what is going on so that they may fix this at the Federal level.

Oh okay. My mother lives in USA but unfortunately she is neither a citizen nor a green card holder. :'(

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7 hours ago, TangierMorocco said:

Hi Tiyyo, no, I am not asking you to contact your government.

I am asking you to contact the USA members of the congress if you are a US citizen or green card holder. If you are not a US citizen, I request you to be patient and wait until you get your visa. So my appeal only apply to the US citizens and green card holders. Thank you!!!

My husband is a green card holder in US. I had my interview on 5th March 2018( last month) Can i also contact the congressman? as i am not the sponserer, my husband is.

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16 hours ago, TangierMorocco said:

Hi Tiyyo, no, I am not asking you to contact your government.

I am asking you to contact the USA members of the congress if you are a US citizen or green card holder. If you are not a US citizen, I request you to be patient and wait until you get your visa. So my appeal only apply to the US citizens and green card holders. Thank you!!!

Hi TangierMorocco~

Yes I am US citizen trying to get my husband here...I was just asking if you could give me some ideas in what to say in the email/letter to our representatives. I thought while we are a group of people trying to get our loved ones here, the more letters and emails sent to them will make them see how much waiting we are doing. 

How long have you been waiting? You don't have your timeline filled out....

Married: 09/01/02016

I-130 sent: 11/21/2016

NOA1 received: 11/25/2016

NOA1 hard copy: 11/30/2016

NOA2 hard copy: 09/21/2017

NVC received: 10/01/2017

DS-261 completed: 10/06/2017

AOS paid: 10/11/2017

IV fee paid: 10/20/2017

DS-260 completed: 10/25/2017

AOS/IV mailed: 10/26/2017

AOS/IV received: 10/31/2017

CC: 12/06/2017

Interview: 02/20/2018   AP:(

2nd Interview: 02/25/2019 (It was a STOKES!! I think I surprised them because I all ready had a trip planned over there to see him!!!)

Visa in hand! 08/12/2019

Arrived in US: 10/10/2019

10 year green card: 11/08/2019

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13 hours ago, tiyyo said:

Hi TangierMorocco~

Yes I am US citizen trying to get my husband here...I was just asking if you could give me some ideas in what to say in the email/letter to our representatives. I thought while we are a group of people trying to get our loved ones here, the more letters and emails sent to them will make them see how much waiting we are doing. 

How long have you been waiting? You don't have your timeline filled out....

How long you are in the process 

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Soo.. the legal department of my company has contacted the embassy for an estimate dates for DS-5535 completion.

 

 

The reply was.. "DS-5535 takes from 2 to 7 months to get approved."

 

 

I have applied for a B2 visa - business visit.

 

It got approved in person, took my passport then called me the day after to fill the DS-5535 form.

 

 

 

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