US Embassy Reopening - Update Thread

[Mtu Mzuri 92]

5 minutes ago, LegalAlienn said:

Yes - I was nervous too and all other applicants today, but trust me.. If you guys have all VALID documents there is no need for panic attacks. The embassy staff is super friendly and all the things they ask is what you already know. I just wish they didn’t extend this COVID shitshow for this long so we had to wait. But it is what it is! 
I hope all other applicants worldwide get to get their interview dates ASAP! Speedy interviews to all of you! 

Thanks for the well wishes. Those waiting on Nairobi to open are still in the shitshow with no end in sight. Congrats to you. Enjoy!

[Ní hUisce 24]

Dublin has just closed for at least 6 weeks due to the level 5 lockdown here in Ireland 😥

[yusef94 7]

we just got DQ message from NVC. how long will it take until interview date is set?

Also, does anyone know how interviews in Ankara Turkey works? my wife doesn't speak English nor Turkish, will there be someone who speaks Arabic?

[Hilde 381]

11 hours ago, yusef94 said:

we just got DQ message from NVC. how long will it take until interview date is set?

Also, does anyone know how interviews in Ankara Turkey works? my wife doesn't speak English nor Turkish, will there be someone who speaks Arabic?

Try searching in other forums about requesting for an interpreter at the time of the interview. I have read about this somewhere here in VJ.

 

As for when you will get your IL letter... this is the one million dollar question. Each embassy is different. And now in times of COVID, it depends even more. Try searching looking at the Turkey Embassy website - some embassies provide information about that. If they don´t try searching for other group members from the same embassy. It takes some work, but you find great and specific information here.

 

Also: fill out your timeline so people can provide more specific answers.

 

Good luck!

Edited October 22, 2020 by Hilde
reminder to fill out timeline

[GregandNatty 195]

On 10/9/2020 at 6:15 AM, Mtu Mzuri said:

Don't lose heart. In about 25 days, there is an election. If all goes well, we will have a new president and new support for easing immigration restrictions. 

 

Nairobi stated that this month (October) they will be doing immigrant visa applications which were cancelled earlier this year. We are still waiting to be contacted. All will be well soon. Don't lose hope.

 

 

The Nairobi embassy approved over 250 DV  VISAs in September compared to 27 CR1/IR1 VISAs.   Let's see:  The department of state is approving 10 times more VISAs at this station for random immigrates than family members of US Citizens and you are saying the current administration is hard on immigration????   How much more lax do you want it?   

Fact is, the issues we are having are 100% due to COVID.

Personally, it rubs me wrong to see this many DV Visas being approved while a bunch of us are waiting months and months longer than normal to be with our family members.   If anything, this shows the current administration is being TOO lax with immigration 

 

[Mtu Mzuri 92]

10 minutes ago, GregandNatty said:

 

The Nairobi embassy approved over 250 DV  VISAs in September compared to 27 CR1/IR1 VISAs.   Let's see:  The department of state is approving 10 times more VISAs at this station for random immigrates than family members of US Citizens and you are saying the current administration is hard on immigration????   How much more lax do you want it?   

Fact is, the issues we are having are 100% due to COVID.

Personally, it rubs me wrong to see this many DV Visas being approved while a bunch of us are waiting months and months longer than normal to be with our family members.   If anything, this shows the current administration is being TOO lax with immigration 

 

Rubs me wrong too. And it's like they don't want to hear it. They told me this week that I need to be "patient" as if waiting a year (I applied in October 2019) for our k-1 isn't already being patient. 

[Mtu Mzuri 92]

1 minute ago, Mtu Mzuri said:

Rubs me wrong too. And it's like they don't want to hear it. They told me this week that I need to be "patient" as if waiting a year (I applied in October 2019) for our k-1 isn't already being patient. 

[GregandNatty 195]

15 minutes ago, Mtu Mzuri said:

Rubs me wrong too. And it's like they don't want to hear it. They told me this week that I need to be "patient" as if waiting a year (I applied in October 2019) for our k-1 isn't already being patient. 

 

June 2019 for me, with no end in sight for the Nairobi embassy.  I'm reading of others with DQ dates from March that still haven't gotten an interview and my DQ is May.   Pretty dang disheartining.   I'm just hoping that now that they've hit their quota of the DV VISAs that they will start cranking out family VISA at the same rate.    I read somewhere that Sept 30 was the deadline for 2020 DV VISAs,

 

Comical that they were saying they were working on only mission critical VISAs.   Lottery VISAs (DVs) are not mission critical -- they are charity. 

Edited October 23, 2020 by GregandNatty

[imsan 41]

2 hours ago, GregandNatty said:

Comical that they were saying they were working on only mission critical VISAs.   Lottery VISAs (DVs) are not mission critical -- they are charity

They started DV because a judge ordered them to.

[GregandNatty 195]

36 minutes ago, imsan said:

They started DV because a judge ordered them to.

What a bummer.   Well hopefully now its full steam ahead with family visas

[imsan 41]

1 minute ago, GregandNatty said:

What a bummer.   Well hopefully now its full steam ahead with family visas

Yes, its the highest priority right now. Maybe citizens should sue to get their spouses as well.

[DG92 6]

Anyone had any inkling when London might resume interviews? Their page gets updated so often and yet STILL nothing on K1s restarting

[nishv 2]

There is still no updates on K1 in India. Had any country started!???

[David & Olga 124]

4 hours ago, nishv said:

There is still no updates on K1 in India. Had any country started!???

Moscow Embassy is not doing any interviews at this moment - not even mission critical interviews - with a few exceptions. 

[Rlewis 73]

6 hours ago, nishv said:

There is still no updates on K1 in India. Had any country started!???

Canada has resumed K1s. They started with CR1/IR1 and have just finished all the cancelled K1s and are now scheduling new interviews for both K1/CR1/IR1