In AP for 18 months now.

[Lexushim 105]

ASKING FOR A FRIEND!!

 

Hello everyone! I am asking this question on behalf of my friend, S and her husband, A. S & A got married in January 2018, and filed for CR1 in May 2018 through a lawyer. Then, in May 2019, A had his interview at ISLAMABAD Embassy and he got a 221g slip and they asked for tax transcripts, W-2, and chats but kept his passport. Then in July 2019, S  physically went to embassy  in Pakistan to ask on update and they said they have all the documents and its in process and will take a few weeks to months. the CEAC said its under administrative processing. Then, she kept contacting the embassy and involved the local senator twice too, and they got the same reply, "it's in process."  until today, its the same status on the website and embassy won't give her any update on the case if her documents are accepted or not.

Then after a long wait in Sept 2020, she tried finding another lawyer to see what can be done about her case because it's out of normal processing time. When the new lawyer checked with the NVC, she discovered that the old lawyer had not signed his "preparer" section/ put his appearance as a lawyer initially while filing the case and that NVC had reopened her case after being at embassy for so long. also, they discovered the lawyer had also missed questions about terrorism on the DS260 form. Now... they also discovered another issue with A's name on passport (only one name apparently)...

 

So, now, the new lawyer gave her presence in the application, sent more pictures of the couple, and more evidence about her marriage to the NVC via email... and waiting for NVC's reply... (current status)
 

this is such a messed up situation for them. What should she do in this case? Should she re-apply her application or appeal or what? please give serious suggestions/opinions/ advice and share what can be done to speed her process... its been almost 3 years since she got married and he's in AP since 18 months now post interview... She is really depressed and doesn't know what do.... please help.

 

thanks...  @sm2397

Edited November 17, 2020 by Lexushim

[JeanneAdil 6,492]

Well 2nd lawyer should have uploaded the additional evidence on CEAC not to NVC as the embassy has the packet and it is in AP

and unforunately the applicant and bene are responsible to check the application before signing and making sure papers are right 

the passport name should have noted when the passport was issued and corrected before any application was sent in

and for the ds260 the lawyer should have informed the bene to fill it out as only the bene knows the answers

 

now  as far as that embassy is concerned,  a long long AP while they do the security checks is normal 

so sorry people go thru this but it happens with many of the high fraud countries because of poor record keeping,  and the same names used multiple timesde

tell your friend to be patient and wait to hear that a new medical exam is needed as that would be good news

he can only pray the embassy does not deny and return the packet to the USA

[Lexushim 105]

12 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

Well 2nd lawyer should have uploaded the additional evidence on CEAC not to NVC as the embassy has the packet and it is in AP

and unforunately the applicant and bene are responsible to check the application before signing and making sure papers are right 

the passport name should have noted when the passport was issued and corrected before any application was sent in

and for the ds260 the lawyer should have informed the bene to fill it out as only the bene knows the answers

 

now  as far as that embassy is concerned,  a long long AP while they do the security checks is normal 

so sorry people go thru this but it happens with many of the high fraud countries because of poor record keeping,  and the same names used multiple timesde

tell your friend to be patient and wait to hear that a new medical exam is needed as that would be good news

he can only pray the embassy does not deny and return the packet to the USA

Sorry she did upload at CEAC, not NVC email.**

[2019 16]

13 hours ago, Lexushim said:

ASKING FOR A FRIEND!!

 

Hello everyone! I am asking this question on behalf of my friend, S and her husband, A. S & A got married in January 2018, and filed for CR1 in May 2018 through a lawyer. Then, in May 2019, A had his interview at ISLAMABAD Embassy and he got a 221g slip and they asked for tax transcripts, W-2, and chats but kept his passport. Then in July 2019, S  physically went to embassy  in Pakistan to ask on update and they said they have all the documents and its in process and will take a few weeks to months. the CEAC said its under administrative processing. Then, she kept contacting the embassy and involved the local senator twice too, and they got the same reply, "it's in process."  until today, its the same status on the website and embassy won't give her any update on the case if her documents are accepted or not.

Then after a long wait in Sept 2020, she tried finding another lawyer to see what can be done about her case because it's out of normal processing time. When the new lawyer checked with the NVC, she discovered that the old lawyer had not signed his "preparer" section/ put his appearance as a lawyer initially while filing the case and that NVC had reopened her case after being at embassy for so long. also, they discovered the lawyer had also missed questions about terrorism on the DS260 form. Now... they also discovered another issue with A's name on passport (only one name apparently)...

 

So, now, the new lawyer gave her presence in the application, sent more pictures of the couple, and more evidence about her marriage to the NVC via email... and waiting for NVC's reply... (current status)
 

this is such a messed up situation for them. What should she do in this case? Should she re-apply her application or appeal or what? please give serious suggestions/opinions/ advice and share what can be done to speed her process... its been almost 3 years since she got married and he's in AP since 18 months now post interview... She is really depressed and doesn't know what do.... please help.

 

thanks...  @sm2397

So the name on his current passport and the name on his visa application do not match?

if that was the issue how did the NVC documentary qualified him before the interview?

 

 

[Lexushim 105]

31 minutes ago, 2019 said:

So the name on his current passport and the name on his visa application do not match?

if that was the issue how did the NVC documentary qualified him before the interview?

 

 

Only one name. Not other name on passport. The application went as a single name.