Rio de Janeiro Interview

[Hilde 381]

14 minutes ago, klew said:

@Hilde That's not the news I was hoping to see this morning. I see that you filed for IR-1/CR-1 in NY (the same as we did).

 

If you don't mind me asking, when were you documentarily qualified by the NVC? And has your interviewed been previously cancelled/rescheduled? We are also sitting here in Brazil as patiently as possible waiting for our interview to be scheduled in Rio.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news here. Not a good look

 

I am not sure why my timeline insists on putting my location in NY. I am in Rio de Janeiro. 

 

My DQ date is in May 2020 and I have NOT had any contact from the consulate. I did not have any interviews scheduled, unfortunately. 

 

If you go to PORTALS - on the top of this page, you will see others with a similar timeline as you and who have the same embassy. If you look on the right side of that page, you will see a list of the next interviews at your embassy. If you click individually on those names, you will see their info - some of whom had interviews for February and are now scheduled for August.

 

That´s all the news I have... 

 

[Faisal1 235]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/ 

 

Sec. 2.  Resumption of Visa Processing and Clearing the Backlog of Cases in Waiver Processing.  (a)  The Secretary of State shall direct all Embassies and Consulates, consistent with applicable law and visa processing procedures, including any related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), to resume visa processing in a manner consistent with the revocation of the Executive Order and Proclamations specified in section 1 of this proclamation.

[Icedamericano 0]

15 hours ago, Faisal1 said:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/ 

 

Sec. 2.  Resumption of Visa Processing and Clearing the Backlog of Cases in Waiver Processing.  (a)  The Secretary of State shall direct all Embassies and Consulates, consistent with applicable law and visa processing procedures, including any related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), to resume visa processing in a manner consistent with the revocation of the Executive Order and Proclamations specified in section 1 of this proclamation.

This is great news! However, it isn't clear to me if this is going to make much difference at the Rio consulate, judging by the fact that covid is wildly out of control here... Hopefully it won't take much longer. 

[Faisal1 235]

2 minutes ago, Icedamericano said:

This is great news! However, it isn't clear to me if this is going to make much difference at the Rio consulate, judging by the fact that covid is wildly out of control here... Hopefully it won't take much longer. 

I think its a clear  message to open embassies with precautions.  But lets see what happen next. Because embassy doing events and only stop processing applications that not fair 

[Icedamericano 0]

3 minutes ago, Faisal1 said:

I think its a clear  message to open embassies with precautions.  But lets see what happen next. Because embassy doing events and only stop processing applications that not fair 

What events are going on? I'm out of the loop. 

[Faisal1 235]

Just now, Icedamericano said:

What events are going on? I'm out of the loop. 

  If you follow embassy facebook   They do events 

[Icedamericano 0]

On 1/11/2021 at 11:19 AM, Hilde said:

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news here. Not a good look

 

I am not sure why my timeline insists on putting my location in NY. I am in Rio de Janeiro. 

 

My DQ date is in May 2020 and I have NOT had any contact from the consulate. I did not have any interviews scheduled, unfortunately. 

 

If you go to PORTALS - on the top of this page, you will see others with a similar timeline as you and who have the same embassy. If you look on the right side of that page, you will see a list of the next interviews at your embassy. If you click individually on those names, you will see their info - some of whom had interviews for February and are now scheduled for August.

 

That´s all the news I have... 

 

Anyone thinks it's strange that almost all of the most recently updated interview dates from Brazil are CR1s? There are barely any IR1s. I wonder if this is because there are way more fiancee visa cases.

1 minute ago, Faisal1 said:

  If you follow embassy facebook   They do events 

Agreed, doesn't make any sense to do events but not process visas.

[Faisal1 235]

4 minutes ago, Icedamericano said:

Anyone thinks it's strange that almost all of the most recently updated interview dates from Brazil are CR1s? There are barely any IR1s. I wonder if this is because there are way more fiancee visa cases.

Agreed, doesn't make any sense to do events but not process visas.

Yes  i know process  of visas  are only problem of virus not events that is very strange to me as well

[klew 1]

8 minutes ago, Icedamericano said:

Anyone thinks it's strange that almost all of the most recently updated interview dates from Brazil are CR1s? There are barely any IR1s. I wonder if this is because there are way more fiancee visa cases.

Agreed, doesn't make any sense to do events but not process visas.

I agree. Though if you're looking at data updated on this website I assume there are just fewer people with IR-1 cases being tracked here. Not there are fewer IR-1 cases being processed.

 

16 hours ago, Faisal1 said:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/ 

 

Sec. 2.  Resumption of Visa Processing and Clearing the Backlog of Cases in Waiver Processing.  (a)  The Secretary of State shall direct all Embassies and Consulates, consistent with applicable law and visa processing procedures, including any related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), to resume visa processing in a manner consistent with the revocation of the Executive Order and Proclamations specified in section 1 of this proclamation.

Hi Faisal1, US Citizen here waiting on my spouse's visa in Brazil. I truly hate to be a negative Nancy but I don't believe this has much affect on us here in Brazil. It appears to be related to the countries previously affected by the Muslim ban. See here for more information. Biden has (at least indirectly) expressed that he is not planning to resume things in Brazil due to our COVID. I believe that until 3/4 of the population in Brazil are vaccinated and/or cases numbers drop and stay low, things will not change outside of emergencies. I've been watching the COVID progress here.

 

I hope I am wrong and we all start seeing more significant movement with interviews and case processing soon.

Edited January 22, 2021 by klew

[klew 1]

11 minutes ago, Icedamericano said:

Anyone thinks it's strange that almost all of the most recently updated interview dates from Brazil are CR1s? There are barely any IR1s. I wonder if this is because there are way more fiancee visa cases.

Agreed, doesn't make any sense to do events but not process visas.

I would actually recommend watching this page to see how many visas are actually being issued each month.

 

Hope that helps!

[Faisal1 235]

8 minutes ago, klew said:

I agree. Though if you're looking at data updated on this website I assume there are just fewer people with IR-1 cases being tracked here. Not there are fewer IR-1 cases being processed.

 

Hi Faisal1, US Citizen here waiting on my spouse's visa in Brazil. I truly hate to be a negative Nancy but I don't believe this has much affect on us here in Brazil. It appears to be related to the countries previously affected by the Muslim ban. See here for more information. Biden has (at least indirectly) expressed that he is not planning to resume things in Brazil due to our COVID. I believe that until 3/4 of the population in Brazil are vaccinated and/or cases numbers drop and stay low, things will not change outside of emergencies. I've been watching the COVID progress here.

 

I hope I am wrong and we all start seeing more significant movement with interviews and case processing soon.

Well as i read that all embassies and consulate. Also i am waiting for my lawyer to comment on this. And i am waiting for my lawsuit against rio consulate because they are doing events outside. But only stop processing visas that are not banned.   Very unfair that indian consulate working fine while covid 19 is 2nd most cases there

[Hilde 381]

Updated today:

at least it’s going up, even if ever so slowly...

 

May: CR1: 3 / IR1: 5

June: CR1: 1 / IR1: 3 

July: CR1: 1 / IR1: 3 

August: CR1: 1 / IR1: 4

September: CR1: 1 / IR1: 5

October: CR1: 2 / IR1: 6
November: CR1: 3 / IR1: 7
December: CR1: 6 / IR1: 7

[Hilde 381]

1 minute ago, Hilde said:

 

Updated today:

at least it’s going up, even if ever so slowly...

December: CR1: 6 / IR1: 7

I would love to know when these last 6 CR1 and 7 IR1 had their DQ! 

[Icedamericano 0]

43 minutes ago, Hilde said:

I would love to know when these last 6 CR1 and 7 IR1 had their DQ! 

Aren't these just expedited cases or am i understanding wrong?

[Faisal1 235]

4 hours ago, Icedamericano said:

Aren't these just expedited cases or am i understanding wrong?

Yes only expedite cases