ds-5535 Administrative processing

[AnasYana 1]

Hi everybody.

I have gone through the consular interview it’s been almost a month. It all went well according to the counselor. However at the end, he took my passport for further administrative processing (new Trump process - form ds-5535).

Since then the dates have been updated two times in the case status but no further news was given to me.

I was wondering if anybody had been through this process and if so how long did it take?

Thanks a lot!

[RJandHamid 1,133]

There is a big thread where a bunch of people who were asked to submit the DS-5535 post updates. It looks like the processing time is pretty unknown, but it's usually at least 3 months.

 

 

[AnasYana 1]

Ohh thank you so much

[Brahim2248 0]

Same with me, it happens sometimes that the consular officer might hand you the DS5535 form but nothing to worry about unless you are one of the bad guys lol 

We don’t know how long it takes so let’s just wait. 

[SamirAB 3]

On 1/15/2019 at 3:49 PM, Brahim2248 said:

Same with me, it happens sometimes that the consular officer might hand you the DS5535 form but nothing to worry about unless you are one of the bad guys lol 

We don’t know how long it takes so let’s just wait. 

Same thing happened to my wife. Looks like many cases like this some people have been waiting for 400 days still nothing at least 6 months for Morocco minimum. This is crazy. My wife was asked to fill out the DS5535 form twice at the NVC 7 months before interview and after the interview.

I don't know how the embassy is getting away with holding passport for more than 60 days. This is abuse of power

[NikLR 13,230]

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