Montreal embassy EB-2 interview wait time

[farzady 42]

Hi All,

 

It's end of the month any news about IL.

[VA21202 109]

7 minutes ago, farzady said:

Hi All,

 

It's end of the month any news about IL.

Eagerly waiting for end of day Thursday (30th)

[ALC 61]

1 hour ago, CanadianMD said:

Updated for May 2022 Statistics. Think this format is easier to interpret.

 

 

Yes sir! Bar graph is clearer!

[JustHopeful 40]

We were just curious, are the number of Employment Based DQed applications greater or fewer in 2021 than 2020? As 2021 was like the peak of pandemic and not may people working at NVC is there a possibility that the number of people DQed is not that many. Hence a glimmer of hope that the EB queues will move relatively faster?

 

Just a hypothetical question, members with experience may have a more informed view. Would love to read your thoughts.

[lpool_pak 0]

3 hours ago, can_do said:

I don't have anything like that. No mention of "Visa Class".

When you open your case at https://ceac.state.gov/IV/Login.aspx

it should take you to your submitted ds260 form. That should have your visa class on top right. 
please let me know if you need more info. 
thanks 

[F2J_March 49]

Mine is follow to join case for my spouse based on my eb3 petition and mine  says E3 visa class

Edited June 27, 2022 by F2J_March

[From_CAN_2_US 1,106]

17 minutes ago, JustHopeful said:

We were just curious, are the number of Employment Based DQed applications greater or fewer in 2021 than 2020? As 2021 was like the peak of pandemic and not may people working at NVC is there a possibility that the number of people DQed is not that many. Hence a glimmer of hope that the EB queues will move relatively faster?

 

Just a hypothetical question, members with experience may have a more informed view. Would love to read your thoughts.

This is a great question, and for the longest time we were debating the same thing about CR1/IR1 applications. We noticed on our spreadsheet that number of DQs were lower from November 2020 onwards. And Looking at the numbers of how many visas they MTL processed per month once they crossed October 2020 DQs, it does appear that the number of DQs were fewer. I am not sure if this is because of NVC working slower or simply fewer applicants once the pandemic hit,  because of border closure making new marriages difficult and thus fewer people filing.

 

Not a direct answer to your question, but some related stats.  

[Leeching Spouse 87]

21 hours ago, From_CAN_2_US said:

Looks great and really helpful. How about a bar for family preference visas?

Sure, I'll add that in next. I assume Montreal only will suffice? Which categories of Family-based visas? Seems a bit more convoluted than I originally imaged...

Edited June 28, 2022 by CanadianMD

[From_CAN_2_US 1,106]

1 hour ago, CanadianMD said:

Sure, I'll add that in next. I assume Montreal only will suffice? Which categories of Family-based visas? Seems a bit more convoluted than I originally imaged...

I was thinking it would be good to show for both London and Montreal. The reason is to see if London cleared off their FB backlog before moving on to EB, and whether Montreal is doing that too.

 

I would say number to add would be F1 + F2B + F3 + F4 + FX.

[Leeching Spouse 87]

1 minute ago, From_CAN_2_US said:

I was thinking it would be good to show for both London and Montreal. The reason is to see if London cleared off their FB backlog before moving on to EB, and whether Montreal is doing that too.

 

I would say number to add would be F1 + F2B + F3 + F4 + FX.

I'm happy to add that, but will need to clarify which exactly so I don't add the wrong info...

 

Looking at Jan 2020, there's F11, F12, F24, F25, F31, F32, F33, F41, F42, F43, FX1. I assume I only add the F11, F31, F41, FX1 in this case? Since the -2, -3, -4, -5 are accompanying parties?

 

Looking at May 2022, there's F1, F2B, F3, F4, FX only.

[From_CAN_2_US 1,106]

3 minutes ago, CanadianMD said:

I'm happy to add that, but will need to clarify which exactly so I don't add the wrong info...

 

Looking at Jan 2020, there's F11, F12, F24, F25, F31, F32, F33, F41, F42, F43, FX1. I assume I only add the F11, F31, F41, FX1 in this case? Since the -2, -3, -4, -5 are accompanying parties?

 

Looking at May 2022, there's F1, F2B, F3, F4, FX only.

Wow, I had no idea there were so many family preference categories.

 

Whether to count accompanying parties or not - I think keep consistent with how you counted the EBs. If you didn't count accompanying parties for EB, don't count for FB.

 

Thanks so much for taking the time to do this.

[Leeching Spouse 87]

Included FB categories too but excluded the accompanying individuals

 

Edited June 28, 2022 by CanadianMD

[From_CAN_2_US 1,106]

9 minutes ago, CanadianMD said:

Included FB categories too but excluded the accompanying individuals

 

Amazing what perspective this gives. Looks like Montreal is really prioritising FBs right now. I am speculating within a month or two, they will switch to prioritising EB to balance it out.

[VA21202 109]

3 hours ago, CanadianMD said:

Included FB categories too but excluded the accompanying individuals

 

Thanks a lot for taking the time to put this together!

[ALC 61]

@CanadianMD btw, have you found a way to move to the US yet? I think you mentioned you contemplating moving there then do an AOS?