K1 Visa Timeline

[Danhimself 0]

10 hours ago, Bri&Alejandro said:

No one can say for certain since we have never dealt with anything like this. 1.5 to 2 years may be the reality. Right now you are waiting for USCIS to approve the petition. Pre covid that took 4-6 months for a normal case. But USCIS is delayed, so the estimates on their site are likely accurate (6-8 months). From there, the petition has to go to the NVC, then to the embassy, then an interview is scheduled. Most of the embassies have not been processing since last year, or processing very little. Keep in mind that they have a years worth of backlog to get through on top of the petitions that are still getting added every day. The reality is we are all in this for the long haul. 
 

For some perspective, we sent our petition in December 2019. We were approved in March 2020 and still waiting for our petition to be sent to Colombia. 
 

It’s going to be a waiting game but just stay patient! Hopefully things will begin to speed up this year. 

 Consider yourself lucky, I filed in early December 2019 for Bogota Embassy and we didn't get NOA-2 until August.  That means your case is likely to be 5 months worth of applications ahead of mine when filing around the same time.  Both USCIS and NVC are a joke, a pure example of  federal incompetence at its finest. It's completely dependent on how lazy the agent is that your application ends up with. Some cases may be dependent on some extraordinary circumstances like legal issues, criminal background checks, etc.  My case was as simplistic and cookie cutter as it gets and these clowns couldn't do a decent job. 

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6 hours ago, Danhimself said:

 Consider yourself lucky, I filed in early December 2019 for Bogota Embassy and we didn't get NOA-2 until August.  That means your case is likely to be 5 months worth of applications ahead of mine when filing around the same time.  Both USCIS and NVC are a joke, a pure example of  federal incompetence at its finest. It's completely dependent on how lazy the agent is that your application ends up with. Some cases may be dependent on some extraordinary circumstances like legal issues, criminal background checks, etc.  My case was as simplistic and cookie cutter as it gets and these clowns couldn't do a decent job. 

Oh yeah, we definitely got lucky. We were approved March 30th and everything came to a halt just after that. I think our petition had just made the cut before everything stopped/slowed down. I know there were a lot of petitions sent just after our date in December that got delayed by months. Unfortunately, covid really put a dent in everything. Employees were sent home, embassies were told to stop processing...it all just stopped. All we can hope is that things begin to speed up this year, I know we are all ready to be reunited with our fiancé’s.