Administrative Processing....how long????

[Joy&Fred 4]

My husband was given a green 221g and told to send his passport, police background check update (which is totally clear) and migration report (has not entered back to El Salvador since leaving). We sent it all in and now have been waiting a week. Anyone know how long the US consulate in El Salvador takes to complete this administrative processing before you get a response?

[Ryan H 3,851]

Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures to Mexico, Latin & South America regional forum; OP is asking for El Salvador specific answers.

[Joy&Fred 4]

Now the embassy is requesting a migratory report from the last 16 years, which will take another week to get from the DGME and  then God know how long until the embassy gets it processed. Waste of time and resources. I am a born US citizen, no family except my elderly mother, 2 young kids with disabilities, and my country wants to play games with all of our lives by not letting my husband return yet. I feel totally betrayed. Does anyone have any advice?

[TBoneTX 46,715]

Get them what they want as soon as you can, so that they can begin doing what they need to do.

[Joy&Fred 4]

He did go to DGME in San Salvador but the paper takes 5 business days to process. After that, he can send it to the US embassy but who knows how long it will take to get approved. My children are crying everyday for him and I can't even tell them when he will be back, and it is so hard for them to understand why he cannot. This is so unfair to them.

[Lanana2781 0]

We were put in AP for no known reason on May 22nd and nothing yet. Not even an update since the 24th ☹️

[Joy&Fred 4]

This is the most frustrating part of it all, the waiting.  We have turned everything in as of last week and now are getting to 3 weeks since the interview. They already know that we would suffer in my husband's absence but they still let it go on. It is unbearable to have him so far away from us. I hope that we get an approval soon so he can come home and we can continue our lives together.

[Teemo 252]

  On 6/10/2018 at 2:53 AM, Joy&Fred said:

He did go to DGME in San Salvador but the paper takes 5 business days to process. After that, he can send it to the US embassy but who knows how long it will take to get approved. My children are crying everyday for him and I can't even tell them when he will be back, and it is so hard for them to understand why he cannot. This is so unfair to them.

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I'm sorry your process feel so torturous. That said, 5 business days is like a blink of an eye in terms of immigration timeline. Some things take weeks and weeks. So be thankful that within 5 days you can be that much closer to possibly the very end of the process. 

[Joy&Fred 4]

No change from Administrative processing, but is says updated today June 20th. Does this give me and my family any hope or just back to the waiting game?

[jerson1988 7]

how did it go