Administrative Processing at National Visa Center

[TimmahTimmah 2]

Good day Visa Journey.

 

My fiancé and I were approved on a K-1 Fiancé visa through USCIS on April 16, 2021. Our case arrived at the NVC on May 11 and we got our case number on May 13, we have been patiently waiting for it to ship to our embassy (Seoul). We have been checking the 'alleged' second-Tuesday ship dates and coming up short thrice now (1st one we just missed, 2nd one the embassy didn't request any and this 3rd one we were told we were not on). After multiple calls to see if we were missing anything, the agent at NVC informed us that we went into Administrative Processing shortly after arrival (13 May is the date he told us). What does that mean for a case at NVC? I was under the belief that Administrative Processing was more of a dead zone during the consulate process (after it arrives at the embassy, after the interview). Has anyone run into this? If so, what do you do.

 

We are completely lost at this point and any advice would be greatly appreciated. 

[Snowy2020 1]

It meant a be patient . There’s a huge backlog. We were approved 09/20 and just yesterday for the email of our petition being sent to the embassy 

[payxibka 10,045]

12 hours ago, TimmahTimmah said:

Good day Visa Journey.

 

My fiancé and I were approved on a K-1 Fiancé visa through USCIS on April 16, 2021. Our case arrived at the NVC on May 11 and we got our case number on May 13, we have been patiently waiting for it to ship to our embassy (Seoul). We have been checking the 'alleged' second-Tuesday ship dates and coming up short thrice now (1st one we just missed, 2nd one the embassy didn't request any and this 3rd one we were told we were not on). After multiple calls to see if we were missing anything, the agent at NVC informed us that we went into Administrative Processing shortly after arrival (13 May is the date he told us). What does that mean for a case at NVC? I was under the belief that Administrative Processing was more of a dead zone during the consulate process (after it arrives at the embassy, after the interview). Has anyone run into this? If so, what do you do.

 

We are completely lost at this point and any advice would be greatly appreciated. 

Completely lost?  It's called a pandemic. 

 

Most consulates were shutdown for k1 visa processing for at least 6 mos. to more than a year, Seoul included.  

 

From Seoul's website.

 

 

While the Embassy and Consulates aim to process cases as soon as practicable, there are likely to be increased wait times for completing such services due to substantial backlogs and capacity constraint.