K-1 Visa Timeline 2020 March

[RishDan 77]

Hello and trust everyone is staying home and maintaining physical social distancing to help combat the current pandemic faced by the world. 

I would like to know if anyone has started the K-1 visa process from UAE this year (2020) and willing to share any experience  along the way, currently my stats is that we lodged the application and mailed to Dallas facility on March 26,2020 and got the first notification via email which I believe is called NOA1 on April 7, 2020. It was from USCIS California office acknowledging the receipt of our application. 

Can anyone share what would be the timeline or time frame for the next step ? While doing some research it varies from 4 months to almost 20 months in some cases within UAE itself. I’d be glad if anyone started very recently like in 2019/2020 willing to share their experiences and timeframe for the process. 

Major concern- I also read that the immigration to US is halted due to virus, will it affect the existing application or does it mean no new cases will be handled after April20,2020 after declaring the news?. 

Any thoughts and info regarding this matter will also be helpful.

Thanks in advance and stay safe ! 

[Greenbaum 12,259]

2 hours ago, RishDan said:

Hello and trust everyone is staying home and maintaining physical social distancing to help combat the current pandemic faced by the world. 

I would like to know if anyone has started the K-1 visa process from UAE this year (2020) and willing to share any experience  along the way, currently my stats is that we lodged the application and mailed to Dallas facility on March 26,2020 and got the first notification via email which I believe is called NOA1 on April 7, 2020. It was from USCIS California office acknowledging the receipt of our application. 

 

There are two places that you should visit here on VJ. One is the sub-forum for your country where you can talk and interact with others from your country who are proceeding with an immigrant visa just as you are. https://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/97-middle-east-and-north-africa/ and the other place is with those who are processing and find themselves in the NOA1 stage https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/733596-march-2020-i-129f-k1-filers/#comments

 

 

Can anyone share what would be the timeline or time frame for the next step?  You can expect 4-6 months maybe longer due to the pandemic. 

 

While doing some research it varies from 4 months to almost 20 months in some cases within UAE itself. I’d be glad if anyone started very recently like in 2019/2020 willing to share their experiences and timeframe for the process. 

 

Major concern- I also read that the immigration to US is halted due to virus, will it affect the existing application or does it mean no new cases will be handled after April20,2020 after declaring the news?. Embassies are closed to interviews, travel to the US is closed and USCIS and NVC are working with small staffs requiring things to be much slower the pre-pandimic.

Any thoughts and info regarding this matter will also be helpful.

Thanks in advance and stay safe ! 

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