Mumbai Consulate - Any recent "IR" interviews/interview scheduled?

[A&k 2019 22]

On 8/15/2019 at 9:58 AM, Bipin_us said:

 

Which is your category ? 

[Bipin_us 20]

4 hours ago, A&k 2019 said:

Which is your category ? 

CR1 

 

[Flowerkira 3]

5 hours ago, Bipin_us said:

CR1 

 

Just saw in spreadsheet, someone named smit patel with cc 7/18/2019 got interview letter on 8/8/2019 and interview date 9/6/2019 all done and dusted in 50 days. If he falls in cr1/ir1 category?

[Bgb 4]

36 minutes ago, Flowerkira said:

Just saw in spreadsheet, someone named smit patel with cc 7/18/2019 got interview letter on 8/8/2019 and interview date 9/6/2019 all done and dusted in 50 days. If he falls in cr1/ir1 category?

I think he is F2A

[ram_shan 46]

13 hours ago, wisedog said:

The other candidate was in CR-1. I'm in CR-5. In theory they both have same priority date. 

Regardless, I do find it odd that other than that one report of an interview for the April 30 DQ CR-1 candidate 2 days ago, there;s been no update from anyone else. 

Agree - when will this nightmare end  

Expect people with CC  dates 1st May to 15th May to get ILs next week.

[wisedog 58]

1 minute ago, ram_shan said:

Expect people with CC  dates 1st May to 15th May to get ILs next week.

Fingers crossed. My date is April 29 (for dad), and May 7 (for mom) and still waiting 😕 Hope your words come true

[Tenzi 3]

Did anyone get the interview date in mumbai embassy for IR1 or CR1 category .. please share . 

[JJ & JT 63]

16 hours ago, Tenzi said:

Did anyone get the interview date in mumbai embassy for IR1 or CR1 category .. please share . 

Someone who had a DQ date of April 30th got their IL last wednesday. But another person with the same date as well as people who had DQ-ed on April 29th haven't gotten their ILs. 

[A&k 2019 22]

3 hours ago, JJ & JT said:

Someone who had a DQ date of April 30th got their IL last wednesday. But another person with the same date as well as people who had DQ-ed on April 29th haven't gotten their ILs. 

That 29th April guy is not from CR1 category . 

See, in page 11 he mentioned that 

[rockvil 72]

8 minutes ago, A&k 2019 said:

That 29th April guy is not from CR1 category . 

See, in page 11 he mentioned that 

actually, my DIL is waiting on CR1 for Apr 29th as well.
@wisedog has IR5 for his parents with 2 different DQ dates - 4/29 and 5/7 (I think)

[wisedog 58]

5 minutes ago, rockvil said:

actually, my DIL is waiting on CR1 for Apr 29th as well.
@wisedog has IR5 for his parents with 2 different DQ dates - 4/29 and 5/7 (I think)

@rockvilis correct. also in theory IR5 & CR1 have same priority. but what do i know? 🤷‍♂️

[rockvil 72]

1 hour ago, wisedog said:

@rockvilis correct. also in theory IR5 & CR1 have same priority. but what do i know? 🤷‍♂️

I don't know what to believe and what not to.

I was totally surprised that someone with a 4/30 DQ got an IL which according to NVC will not happen unless expedited regardless of visa category.

The only thing that made sense was that the person's priority date was earlier than our case.   This is not explicitly stated anywhere on the NVC site.  I have asked my lawyer but they haven't responded yet.

[ram_shan 46]

According tot he spreadsheet, maximum Number of days between CC and Interview is 164. 

Edited August 18, 2019 by ram_shan

[wisedog 58]

29 minutes ago, ram_shan said:

According tot he spreadsheet, maximum Number of days between CC and Interview is 164. 

Wow, and yes, that was a CR-1 case for @pp5. That fellow had a lot of patience. Doing a cursory search on  pp5 on VJ, it appears there was an issue with Mumbai consulate "forgetting" to process all the electronic processing cases back in Fall 2018/early spring 2019. And so (based on reading forum posts), it seems a lot of people were impacted then!

 

The part that I find interesting is that who is Mumbai consulate processing? Looking at their case processing statistics, it's clear there was a slow-down in May of this year. But April and June were back to normal (July stats are not posted yet). So, in theory, there should be a slow-down (From normal) of just 1 month. But clearly, a lot of us have been delayed for a lot more than that. I don't quite understand who all (from CR/IR quota) have Mumbai consulate been processing? These people clearly are not on VJ.

 

Let's hope this coming week brings a smile on to a lot of our faces. This drought has got to end! 

Edited August 18, 2019 by wisedog

[ram_shan 46]

26 minutes ago, wisedog said:

Wow, and yes, that was a CR-1 case for @pp5. That fellow had a lot of patience. Doing a cursory search on  pp5 on VJ, it appears there was an issue with Mumbai consulate "forgetting" to process all the electronic processing cases back in Fall 2018/early spring 2019. And so (based on reading forum posts), it seems a lot of people were impacted then!

 

The part that I find interesting is that who is Mumbai consulate processing? Looking at their case processing statistics, it's clear there was a slow-down in May of this year. But April and June were back to normal (July stats are not posted yet). So, in theory, there should be a slow-down (From normal) of just 1 month. But clearly, a lot of us have been delayed for a lot more than that. I don't quite understand who all (from CR/IR quota) have Mumbai consulate been processing? These people clearly are not on VJ.

 

Let's hope this coming week brings a smile on to a lot of our faces. This drought has got to end! 

So the slowdown last year was only for Electronically Processed Cases. That explains why some other categories got their appointments without any delay during that period.

 

I think for July and August, NVC prioritized FB categories over IR1/IR5 categories to prevent wastage of numerically capped green cards. We should see some slight improvement in September but starting October, I expect NVC to again start scheduling based on DQ dates.