Scheduling Interviews in Abu Dhabi Embassy

[Amira Zed 4]

8 hours ago, Hancy Jaise said:

By the grace of God visa got approved. It only took one hour and 45 minutes. Only plastic cover was allowed. First security checked got token number 3 and fingerprint and gave birth/marriage/police certificates medical records and 1 photo to a counter then called the number. Questions are how we met, when was our marriage, what i am doing here, where in the U.S my spouse is, where are we planning to stay in US(alone or with parents) and then he took the passport for Visa. 

Congratulations dear

[Hancy Jaise 8]

1 minute ago, Amira Zed said:

Congratulations dear

Thank you 

[Scoshp 2]

12 hours ago, Hancy Jaise said:

By the grace of God visa got approved. It only took one hour and 45 minutes. Only plastic cover was allowed. First security checked got token number 3 and fingerprint and gave birth/marriage/police certificates medical records and 1 photo to a counter then called the number. Questions are how we met, when was our marriage, what i am doing here, where in the U.S my spouse is, where are we planning to stay in US(alone or with parents) and then he took the passport for Visa. 

Congratulations!! Quick question, how much was the fees you were required to pay at the embassy. Hopefully this question will help others.

[Hancy Jaise 8]

22 minutes ago, Scoshp said:

Congratulations!! Quick question, how much was the fees you were required to pay at the embassy. Hopefully this question will help others.

Didn't have to pay at the embassy because already paid when our case was at NVC

[Scoshp 2]

On 1/24/2021 at 1:00 PM, LewsTT said:

 

Thanks! I sent it to them last Sunday and received it back on Thursday. So a total of 5 days from submitting to empost to getting it back in my hands.

How much were the fees paid at the embassy?

[LewsTT 38]

6 hours ago, Scoshp said:

How much were the fees paid at the embassy?

 

There is no fee that needs to be paid at the embassy. Once you are issued the visa, you have to go to USCIS site and pay immigration fee of $220.

[RandW 30]

On 1/24/2021 at 3:16 AM, Misiu said:

 

 

So with this limited data we can say that users with DQ dates roughly around MAY-JUNE-JULY  got their Interview dates in January and AUGUST-SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER got their Interview dates in February.

That is not so correct to make a assumption witht his limited data however if we need to, we may say DQ dates of (OCTOBER)-NOVEMBER-DECEMBER-(JANUARY) may expect their interview to be scheduled for March if Embassy is working at this time same as previous months and if the actual applicants do not significantly differ and loaded for this months. (october and january is in brackets because october partially might not got their interview in February and thus january might not get partially in March as it is hard to go to a conclusion with limited data if all october DQs got visa appointment in February. At the end, this is a blind game:)

 

If we had more users uses VJ and everybody updates their Timeline, we would have a much better picture.

 

Please let me know if you have any further information regarding the workload if AD embassy or any further information of October DQs.

This is really insightful! I totally get the excitement of trying to estimate which months will be scheduled next, I have been comparing data since we were at the USCIS stage to try to get an idea of when we would be approved 🤣 

Wanted to add that I know of a few people (myself included) whose cases had August or September DQs but did not get scheduled for February interviews...not sure why but we can only hope we will be scheduled for March!

 

Edited January 27, 2021 by RandW

[Misiu 33]

10 hours ago, RandW said:

This is really insightful! I totally get the excitement of trying to estimate which months will be scheduled next, I have been comparing data since we were at the USCIS stage to try to get an idea of when we would be approved 🤣 

Wanted to add that I know of a few people (myself included) whose cases had August or September DQs but did not get scheduled for February interviews...not sure why but we can only hope we will be scheduled for March!

 

Correct, with just a little, discrete data set it is really hard to come to a conclusion in statistics. Especially when we  have indeed very limited information of how NVC and Interview scheduling works.

 

Isn't NVC scheduling the interviews with basis of "first comes, first served"? I thought they list people on their DQ dates and fill the slots until a cut date of the last person got appointment to the next month. While there are people got their interview with a DQ date in october for february interview period and I think none of them expedite or anything, why other people with DQ date of August and September weren't placed to the slots of February? That is a mistery I do not have answer:)

 

Hopefully we all get our interview dates as soon as possible. Bon chance for March!!

[SFA14 22]

On 1/26/2021 at 9:49 AM, LewsTT said:

 

There is no fee that needs to be paid at the embassy. Once you are issued the visa, you have to go to USCIS site and pay immigration fee of $220.

How do you know this? We are not asked to pay any fees. Was this communicated to you?

[LewsTT 38]

9 minutes ago, SFA14 said:

How do you know this? We are not asked to pay any fees. Was this communicated to you?

 

Yes they give you a little slip with the fee payment link on it.

 

Just Google USCIS immigration fee. 

[UAE Abudhabi CR1 3]

8 hours ago, Misiu said:

Correct, with just a little, discrete data set it is really hard to come to a conclusion in statistics. Especially when we  have indeed very limited information of how NVC and Interview scheduling works.

 

Isn't NVC scheduling the interviews with basis of "first comes, first served"? I thought they list people on their DQ dates and fill the slots until a cut date of the last person got appointment to the next month. While there are people got their interview with a DQ date in october for february interview period and I think none of them expedite or anything, why other people with DQ date of August and September weren't placed to the slots of February? That is a mistery I do not have answer:)

 

Hopefully we all get our interview dates as soon as possible. Bon chance for March!!

Nice of you sharing this information. Its really sad to wait since when i am checking the status they have called interviews for DQ's qualified for 21st and 25th.

What about the other dates really sad to know whats happening in NVC. Its been longinlgy awaiting since my DQ's got qualified on October 5th but not a proper update from NVC yet. Fingers crossed hopefully will happen soon. 😪

 

[Hancy Jaise 8]

Got passport back in 2 days and inside the passport there was a small paper about the website for immigration fee.

[sababha 2]

so the NVC got back to me with one unaccepted document. If I submit it again, how long would they take to re-review that document? Is the second review faster than the first one? 

[BISHO 13]

2 hours ago, sababha said:

so the NVC got back to me with one unaccepted document. If I submit it again, how long would they take to re-review that document? Is the second review faster than the first one? 

According to me experience, it will be accepted within 2 weeks. I submitted my rejected documents on 9th and i got DQ on 19th . So not more that 2 week . And there is another applicant got the approval within 2 weeks . 

[sababha 2]

19 hours ago, BISHO said:

According to me experience, it will be accepted within 2 weeks. I submitted my rejected documents on 9th and i got DQ on 19th . So not more that 2 week . And there is another applicant got the approval within 2 weeks . 

ok thank you !