How Long Will This Take at Bogota? [split topic]

[jj0109 2]

Hi everyone,

 

My wife had her interview on Oct. 2 at the embassy in Bogota, Colombia. They didn't approve her visa but they didn't deny it either. They kept her passport and all of her documents and needed us to find a new joint sponsor and send a certified divorce decree from my previous marriage. Both of those things have already been resubmitted. Can anyone give me an estimate on how long this process might take at the embassy in Bogota? We are now in administrative processing and the time-frames from everyone's experiences seem so variable. We are really anxious about this, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. So far, CEAC shows our case was touched the day after her interview (Oct. 3), but nothing has changed since then. Thank you in advance!

[Russ&Caro 1,549]

My wife's experience with the Bogota embassy was over 3 years ago so I'm not sure how helpful our experience is to your situation. As I recall, there was about 6-7 weeks delay from interview to having the passport and CR2 visa in hand, but that was primarily due to a system wide failure of a background check system. It was a worldwide system failure, not a Bogota failure. Had it not been for that, she probably would have sailed through in about 2 weeks.

 

We found Bogota embassy to be mostly responsive. We called multiple times and they answered our questions. We didn't have an RFE, like you, so our situation was a little different.

 

For more recent reviews of the Bogota embassy, I would click on the Colombia portal and then click on "Consulate Reviews". Good luck.

https://www.visajourney.com/portals/index.php?country=Colombia

[VegasJohn 29]

On 10/5/2018 at 8:48 AM, jj0109 said:

Hi everyone,

 

My wife had her interview on Oct. 2 at the embassy in Bogota, Colombia. They didn't approve her visa but they didn't deny it either. They kept her passport and all of her documents and needed us to find a new joint sponsor and send a certified divorce decree from my previous marriage. Both of those things have already been resubmitted. Can anyone give me an estimate on how long this process might take at the embassy in Bogota? We are now in administrative processing and the time-frames from everyone's experiences seem so variable. We are really anxious about this, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. So far, CEAC shows our case was touched the day after her interview (Oct. 3), but nothing has changed since then. Thank you in advance!

Hi - I'm curious about the divorce decree requirement because my fiancee will be having her interview in Bogota in the coming month or two, and I don't know if the copy I have given her of my divorce decree would be considered "official" - it's the official one I got in the mail from the court, but there's nothing on it to indicate it is a "certified" copy or anything special other than it's the copy from the Court. 

 

Also - how long after you received your NOA2 did you hear from them?  Is there anything you recommend we do immediately while we are waiting for the NVC packet?  Thanks! 

[jj0109 2]

8 hours ago, VegasJohn said:

Hi - I'm curious about the divorce decree requirement because my fiancee will be having her interview in Bogota in the coming month or two, and I don't know if the copy I have given her of my divorce decree would be considered "official" - it's the official one I got in the mail from the court, but there's nothing on it to indicate it is a "certified" copy or anything special other than it's the copy from the Court. 

 

Also - how long after you received your NOA2 did you hear from them?  Is there anything you recommend we do immediately while we are waiting for the NVC packet?  Thanks! 

Hi! I would that you should  go get a new divorce decree with a dry stamp and a wet signature, if you ask for for that in the court,  they will give you that. That was one of the thing that they made us resend.

My wife sent it to me by FedEx without any problem. 

 

[jj0109 2]

8 hours ago, VegasJohn said:

Hi - I'm curious about the divorce decree requirement because my fiancee will be having her interview in Bogota in the coming month or two, and I don't know if the copy I have given her of my divorce decree would be considered "official" - it's the official one I got in the mail from the court, but there's nothing on it to indicate it is a "certified" copy or anything special other than it's the copy from the Court. 

 

Also - how long after you received your NOA2 did you hear from them?  Is there anything you recommend we do immediately while we are waiting for the NVC packet?  Thanks! 

Our case was completed in August 15, and we received our interview day on August 31, about 16 days.

Have all your documents in order and wait that is my best advice. It was an unexpected struggle for us to have to resend documents,  and I hope you don't have to go through that  situation.

[VegasJohn 29]

3 hours ago, jj0109 said:

Our case was completed in August 15, and we received our interview day on August 31, about 16 days.

Have all your documents in order and wait that is my best advice. It was an unexpected struggle for us to have to resend documents,  and I hope you don't have to go through that  situation.

Thanks for the advice - I'm definitely getting everything lined up and will be going to the Family Court tomorrow to get the "original" divorce decree to avoid any issues.  Thank you for the input... 

[jj0109 2]

20 hours ago, VegasJohn said:

Thanks for the advice - I'm definitely getting everything lined up and will be going to the Family Court tomorrow to get the "original" divorce decree to avoid any issues.  Thank you for the input... 

No problem! If there's anything else I can help with, let me know, and I'll do my best to give you advice. I recommend calling NVC periodically to check on the interview date if you haven't heard anything from them yet. It took them about a week for them to say they received our documents. Good luck with everything. It will be over soon enough 😊.

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[Rosy90 5]

Buenos dias, alguien sabe si la embajada de Bogotá puede devolverme mi pasaporte que esta en proceso administrativo para poder viajar a otro pais?? Leí en la pagina de la embajada que si mi visa esta en proceso administrativo ellos me lo pueden devolver si lo necesito y luego cuando termine el proceso administrativo me lo piden para estampar la visa, pero eso lo leí en la seccion de visas de No inmigrante y la mia es de inmigrante entonces me quedó la duda.. ya les escribi un correo pero no me responden 😕. Saben de alguien que haya hecho esto?

On 5/10/2018 at 10:48, jj0109 said:

Hola a todos  

 

Mi esposa tuvo su entrevista el 2 de octubre en la embajada en Bogotá, Colombia. No aprobaron su visa, pero tampoco la negaron. Guardaron su pasaporte y todos sus documentos y nos necesitaron para encontrar un nuevo patrocinador conjunto y enviar un decreto de divorcio certificado de mi matrimonio anterior. Ambas cosas ya se han vuelto a presentar. ¿Alguien me puede dar una estimación de cuánto tiempo podría llevar este proceso en la embajada en Bogotá? Ahora estamos en proceso administrativo y los plazos de las experiencias de todos parecen muy variables. Estamos muy ansiosos por esto, por lo que cualquier consejo sería muy apreciado. Hasta ahora, CEAC muestra que nuestro caso fue tocado el día después de su entrevista (3 de octubre), pero nada ha cambiado desde entonces. ¡Gracias de antemano!   

Hola me esta pasando lo mismo, me dejaron en PA por los ingresos.. ya llevo 2 meses esperando, cuanto tardo tu proceso?

[jj0109 2]

Nos tomo 1 semana aproximadamente, mi cita fue el 2 de octubre y despues de enviar Todo, demoraron unos dias, ya el 17 estaba aqui en USA. En nuestro Caso nos pidieron el acta de divorcio de mi esposa original, y otro sponsor.

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