How common is Administrative Processing/Review

[mendeleev 68]

I found out Friday that our case has been put into Administrative Processing at NVC.

I know that Mike and Larissa had a very brief experience with Administrative Processing and that Turboguy and his fiance have been stuck there for months.

Are many others with Russian connections running into this? How long is it lasting for you?

[LaL 418]

I found out Friday that our case has been put into Administrative Processing at NVC.

I know that Mike and Larissa had a very brief experience with Administrative Processing and that Turboguy and his fiance have been stuck there for months.

Are many others with Russian connections running into this? How long is it lasting for you?

another member Yasi - is also stuck at NVC level and has been for over a year. This issue is not limited to SO's from Russia. You may get a bigger response of anecdotes in the NVC forum.

[chili74 0]

Our K-1 application was at NVC from March-November 2005.

[Turboguy 6]

There doesn't seem to be any logical pattern to give us an idea how long we will be. I see some who are a few months, I see some that go a few years, and one who went 5 years and still is not approved.

Russia does seem to get targeted some and having been here before on a K-1 seems to trigger it.

Edited June 4, 2007 by Turboguy

[jordoc 0]

administrative processing/review supposedly can be triggered by a variety of name variations, prior visits to U.S. by visa applicant, prior k-1s, criminal records, suggestion of scam marriage etc. I have been in administratiive review for almost 3 months(at Embassy level) My 129f was filed early Dec 06. She had 1 prior k-1 and returned to Russia well before visa was up. This is my 1st K-1 We have no skeletons in closet, but there is no rhyme or reason why they couldn't complete it by now in this day of computers. We are not listed yet for interview as of July, so will be at least who knows when. They will give you no specific reason. It is painful to be patient when you know you have a good honest loving relationship and just want to get married and have family. Good Luck!

[WIL&LB 0]

When I called the NVC, the customer service rep told me that all cases are considered in "Administrative review" until they are approved. Your timeline shows they just received your case on May 29. If you look at the Immigration timelines of VJ members with petitions for Russian citizens, you will see that usually it takes between 2 to 5 days before they are sent to the embassy. Mine took 7 days (yes I was scared). Thus, I would not start to worry until after at least 7 days.

[gogal2020 0]

When I called the NVC, the customer service rep told me that all cases are considered in "Administrative review" until they are approved. Your timeline shows they just received your case on May 29. If you look at the Immigration timelines of VJ members with petitions for Russian citizens, you will see that usually it takes between 2 to 5 days before they are sent to the embassy. Mine took 7 days (yes I was scared). Thus, I would not start to worry until after at least 7 days.

Ours took 3 months. Who knows what they do there at NVC, probably play solitaire all day and doing their cvontinuing education homework, they are all unqualified idiots.

Good luck, hope this goes faster for you.

Mike.

[MaxxumUSA 0]

When I called the NVC, the customer service rep told me that all cases are considered in "Administrative review" until they are approved. Your timeline shows they just received your case on May 29. If you look at the Immigration timelines of VJ members with petitions for Russian citizens, you will see that usually it takes between 2 to 5 days before they are sent to the embassy. Mine took 7 days (yes I was scared). Thus, I would not start to worry until after at least 7 days.

OK... This MIGHT be hope for me. I called the NVC after they had my case in their system for only one day. They told me I am in "Administrative Review" and sent to Washington DC. SO... Are ALL cases considered in A/R technically? Or has my case been flagged as soon as they received it since they told me it is going to DC?

I mean... maybe I am jumping the gun and everything is going normally and I just do not know the terminology?

Anyone know? Wil?

[Nagishkaw 510]

I was told last night by someone I spoke to at NVC that the cases are selected " randomly " for further checks. Im not sure I believe this. Maybe it is just the standard answer to pacify?

[Milenka 0]

When I called the NVC, the customer service rep told me that all cases are considered in "Administrative review" until they are approved. Your timeline shows they just received your case on May 29. If you look at the Immigration timelines of VJ members with petitions for Russian citizens, you will see that usually it takes between 2 to 5 days before they are sent to the embassy. Mine took 7 days (yes I was scared). Thus, I would not start to worry until after at least 7 days.

OK... This MIGHT be hope for me. I called the NVC after they had my case in their system for only one day. They told me I am in "Administrative Review" and sent to Washington DC. SO... Are ALL cases considered in A/R technically? Or has my case been flagged as soon as they received it since they told me it is going to DC?

I mean... maybe I am jumping the gun and everything is going normally and I just do not know the terminology?

Anyone know? Wil?

Sorry I can't clairfy, but I wanted to say that the same thing is happening with us. They said that the case was sent to D.C. but she said that this is normal...so who knows for sure. But our case just got there last monday so I am not really sure what this means...I think you may be right about all cases being in A/R untile approved...

[Thomas-n-Elena 0]

Random checks, isnt that what they do at the airports.

I believe that all cases go to admin review for a brief time. When we went to the NVC it took 2 weeks to forward to the embassy then 3 weeks to get from DC to Moscow apparently they had someone swimming across the ocean with our packet in his mouth(acutally it all goes by military post which means it goes from DC to New Jersey and then waits for a cargo bin to be full then gets aboard a military cargo plane then takes a flight, gets lost in customs for 1 week then onto the embassy where some part timer may sort through it in a week, then onto the Officer who looks at his calendar to see when the next holiday is so he can plan a taxpayer paid trip and if he sees a couple of free days might pencil in an interview or two. ) You may laugh but that is almost exactly how my cousin who works in the international criminal court in the Haig described the process to me and she works for the pentagon. She once sent some papers to the court from her office in the funny shaped building, went on vacation, two weeks later went to her office in the Haig and the package had not arrived yet. Its crazy but its our govt.

[slim 1,525]

Random checks, isnt that what they do at the airports.

I believe that all cases go to admin review for a brief time. When we went to the NVC it took 2 weeks to forward to the embassy then 3 weeks to get from DC to Moscow apparently they had someone swimming across the ocean with our packet in his mouth(acutally it all goes by military post which means it goes from DC to New Jersey and then waits for a cargo bin to be full then gets aboard a military cargo plane then takes a flight, gets lost in customs for 1 week then onto the embassy where some part timer may sort through it in a week, then onto the Officer who looks at his calendar to see when the next holiday is so he can plan a taxpayer paid trip and if he sees a couple of free days might pencil in an interview or two. ) You may laugh but that is almost exactly how my cousin who works in the international criminal court in the Haig described the process to me and she works for the pentagon. She once sent some papers to the court from her office in the funny shaped building, went on vacation, two weeks later went to her office in the Haig and the package had not arrived yet. Its crazy but its our govt.

How else would they save on postage?

[MaxxumUSA 0]

Having only known a few things about the term "Administrative Review" before hearing my case was in it... I freaked out. It was like saying: You're screwed! Hehe

I hope this is normal for all cases. I will call Monday if I have time until I have an answer on this. If someone else knows for sure then please chime in.

I've been stressing all night and morning. I'm going for a bike ride and get some wind in my face. And it's not a damn bicycle! Hehe

- David

[stevenw60 0]

Having only known a few things about the term "Administrative Review" before hearing my case was in it... I freaked out. It was like saying: You're screwed! Hehe

I hope this is normal for all cases. I will call Monday if I have time until I have an answer on this. If someone else knows for sure then please chime in.

I've been stressing all night and morning. I'm going for a bike ride and get some wind in my face. And it's not a damn bicycle! Hehe

- David

ugh, sorry dude, hopefully it only takes a week or two.

[Thomas-n-Elena 0]

Tricycle or Big Wheel?(I cant ride mine anymore has a big flat spot on the front tire from doing braking slide outs)

Edited June 10, 2007 by Thomas-n-Elena