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[VJmember2020 32]

Hello all, just curious.. looking at the timelines posted on the forum here on VJ it seems like 2019 k1 visa's have sped up by approximately 4 months as people submitting their k1 have gotten their interview day within 6 months... is this correct? 

[Loren Y 2,756]

I have noticed that also. A lot of posts getting noa2 in only 4 months. But I noticed NVC is taking a little longer now, but the time to visa in hand seems to have dropped like you said.

[SalishSea 18,133]

Yep.  NVC is taking longer, and EAD/AP is taking MUCH longer.

[VJmember2020 32]

7 minutes ago, Jorgedig said:

Yep.  NVC is taking longer, and EAD/AP is taking MUCH longer.

So is the NVC the ones who grant the k1 visa. ? 

I thought after interview, the beneficiary will receive the visa within weeks? 

[Wuozopo 4,293]

19 minutes ago, toothfixer said:

So is the NVC the ones who grant the k1 visa. ? 

I thought after interview, the beneficiary will receive the visa within weeks? 

NVC is located in the US, and is the place where USCIS hands-off the case to the Dept of State who grants visas. Falling under the Dept of State umbrella is NVC, embassies, consulates.

 

NVC receives the approved K1 petition file, gives it a new Dept of State case number, then forwards to London.

 

They don't do that much to take so long.

 

Edited July 19, 2019 by Wuozopo

[VJmember2020 32]

8 minutes ago, Wuozopo said:

NVC is located in the US, and is the place where USCIS hands-off the case to the Dept of State who grants visas. Falling under the Dept of State umbrella is NVC, embassies, consulates.

 

NVC receives the approved K1 petition file, gives it a new Dept of State case number, then forwards to London.

 

They don't do that much to take so long.

 

 

So how are people getting interviews within the 6 month period ? 

[Wuozopo 4,293]

37 minutes ago, toothfixer said:

 

So how are people getting interviews within the 6 month period ? 

I couldn't say. I do not watch timelines.

[SalishSea 18,133]

I have noticed recent posters complaining of the NVC taking 6-8  weeks to forward the petition to the consulate, in some cases.  Last year, our petition took 6 months for approval, but our NVC/transit/interview process was speedy.  

[Mimiso 59]

It’s definitely quicker to get Noa2. Mine came in 80 days, and NVC received my case in 3.5 weeks and is about to ship out to the embassy I assume this Tuesday. My fiancé has already booked his medical for next week, so if everything goes as planned, the interview will be booked within 5 months from sending out the I129 application. Of course every case is different. The Advanced parole is what worries me. We have a UK wedding to go to next May, and looking at the processing time aren’t so sure we will make it.

[futurecoloradogrl 82]

I sent off the application in Feb this year, received NOA2 in less than 3 months, and my interview is at the end of July (could have been speedier with booking the medical in my case, have an ill older family member here so haven't been rushing). Assuming all goes well hopefully I'll have visa in hand early August.

 

When we were looking at timelines in late 2018/beginning of 2019 it looked like we'd be waiting 6-8 months just for NOA2 so it was a pleasant surprise for the process to start moving so fast for everyone. 

[wbeem 568]

12 hours ago, Mimiso said:

 Of course every case is different. The Advanced parole is what worries me. We have a UK wedding to go to next May, and looking at the processing time aren’t so sure we will make it.

You can request an expedite on the AP if you have planned travel. It won't speed up your EAD (unless you have a valid reason for that and request an expedite there also) or your AOS, but you can certainly get your AP processed quickly if necessary.  

Assuming you are getting married soon after your arrival in the US, get those forms in ASAP. 

It looks like the K1 process on the home country side is going way faster now, but the follow-on processes this side .... ugh!  

When we applied for K1 in 2014 it took us 224 days to NOA2. it looks way better now, and it should!  The wait times a few years ago were absolutely ridiculous. But then our AP/EAD was only 90 days and we added a month to what it would have been because we rescheduled our biometrics for a month later as we were going to be out of town the day they set the appointment.  It's taking way longer for that now. You win some, you lose some.  

[Mimiso 59]

We definitely plan to do a quick civil ceremony so that we can get the applications sent out as soon as he gets here. I’ll try and see if we can expedite the AP due to plans. Thanks for the tip!

[Wuozopo 4,293]

In 2008, my K1 case was already in London 10 days after NOA2. Vermont Service Center was moving them out while California Service Center would hang on to them for weeks before sending to NVC. NVC never took more than 3 days from receiving to sending to the consulate. Start to finish was 4.5 months and that seemed too long. It's never quick enough when you're the one waiting. 

[wbeem 568]

7 minutes ago, Wuozopo said:

In 2008, my K1 case was already in London 10 days after NOA2. Vermont Service Center was moving them out while California Service Center would hang on to them for weeks before sending to NVC. NVC never took more than 3 days from receiving to sending to the consulate. Start to finish was 4.5 months and that seemed too long. It's never quick enough when you're the one waiting. 

Ain't that the truth!!  

When we were waiting and waiting and waiting ... some of the filers got bored enough to start all kinds of analytical sheets. They noticed a pattern that suggests difference service centers have varied methods of handling the outgoing files for NVC.  At the time CSC was processing K1's in a couple of weeks. TSC was taking 8-9 months.  But when the files got sent to NVC, Texas sent them out daily and CSC would send out a big batch every 2 weeks or so.  Still, it only took 7 days for ours get get from NVC to London so at least that part went fast. 

I think they keep refining broken systems and sometimes they fix them, a lot of the time they just break them more.