IR-1/CR-1 Montreal DQ'd private message group goes public part 3

[YYZ&MIA 117]

3 hours ago, Shumai84 said:

I think it's the first one, but I'm not 100% sure. Please correct me if someone else knows exactly. 

its the first one.

[From_CAN_2_US 1,106]

So I really still have hope that Montreal will schedule more IR1/CR1 interviews in August in the coming weeks.

 

The last date of interviews right now is Aug 23. There is an entire week after that with nothing scheduled as far as I can see. There are no K1 interviews scheduled after August 20 either (from their VJ tracker).

 

 

[From_CAN_2_US 1,106]

7 hours ago, YYZ&MIA said:

I might be completely off here, but looking at the spreadsheet I dont see any new people DQ after Dec... I wonder what that means, if they have not found our forum yet or there had been very few marriages during the pandemic. If the ladder is the case, that should give the consulate to catch up on the backlogs by the end of this year, hopefully.

I have been thinking about this for a while too. After October there are very few applicants on the spreadsheet.

 

Personally, we delayed our marriage due to the pandemic. We wanted to get married when the pandemic hit and then had (or thought we had) no way of being physically together after March 20 2020. It took us 6/7 months to figure out a way to get married... I am sure there are many other Couples like us.

 

I am hoping this translates into there being very few applicants with DQ between November 2020 and Feb/ March 2021, reducing my wait time as May 2021 DQ.

I believe this reduction in numbers of applicants is partly what allowed USCIS and NVC to process our applications faster. (Our i130 was approved in about 80 days; our DQ was received in about 35 days from submission).My lot suffered through the height of the pandemic not being able to meet (no family exemption) or get married, but thankfully this was in some way made up for by quicker processing time in i130 and NVC stage.

 

Another thought - perhaps IR1/CR1 cases reduced in this period, but K1 cases have increased. Maybe Montreal is seeing this reduced backlog for IR1/CR1 cases in the future and increased backlog of K1 in the future and adjusting interview slots accordingly now?

All just speculation that I have kept to myself so far....

Edited July 10, 2021 by From_CAN_2_US

[DGF 730]

8 hours ago, YYZ&MIA said:

I might be completely off here, but looking at the spreadsheet I dont see any new people DQ after Dec... I wonder what that means, if they have not found our forum yet or there had been very few marriages during the pandemic. If the ladder is the case, that should give the consulate to catch up on the backlogs by the end of this year, hopefully.

I may be completely off base with what you're referencing here, but the people DQ after December are on the 2021 DQ tab. It definitely slows down though. Whether that's a product of the pandemic or just people not finding this group until they've been waiting a while (which is what is usually the case) I don't know. 

 

5 hours ago, T&S_MTL said:

What option did you guys select when registering for the appointment, am I right to think it's the first option? Since Im still having the issue this morning on the site (appointment not ready yet), I just want to make sure I'm doing things right...

5 hours ago, Shumai84 said:

I think it's the first one, but I'm not 100% sure. Please correct me if someone else knows exactly. 

It's the first one. I've updated the FAQ to reflect the new wording. 

 

[MA1793 28]

@Hawk Riders There is an update my timeline. My DQ date is actually Oct 6, 2020. Oops! And also missed the IL cutoff by 1 day

[DMV 18]

It looks like it takes 11 months to get an interview from DQ as of now. Personally, this is how I'm managing my expectations. The base case is that the wait time decreases to 8-9 months by December (processing March 2021 DQs in December 2021). The worst case scenario is that the backlog increases to 12-13 months and stays there (processing December 2020 in December 2021). The best case scenario is that they cut the backlog by a month every month i.e. make two months worth of appointments every month (processing May or June 2021 in December 2021). 

 

I was DQ'd in March 2021 so I don't expect to get an IL until October/November. 

[Twiz&Toz 240]

4 hours ago, From_CAN_2_US said:

I have been thinking about this for a while too. After October there are very few applicants on the spreadsheet.

 

Personally, we delayed our marriage due to the pandemic. We wanted to get married when the pandemic hit and then had (or thought we had) no way of being physically together after March 20 2020. It took us 6/7 months to figure out a way to get married... I am sure there are many other Couples like us.

 

I am hoping this translates into there being very few applicants with DQ between November 2020 and Feb/ March 2021, reducing my wait time as May 2021 DQ.

I believe this reduction in numbers of applicants is partly what allowed USCIS and NVC to process our applications faster. (Our i130 was approved in about 80 days; our DQ was received in about 35 days from submission).My lot suffered through the height of the pandemic not being able to meet (no family exemption) or get married, but thankfully this was in some way made up for by quicker processing time in i130 and NVC stage.

 

Another thought - perhaps IR1/CR1 cases reduced in this period, but K1 cases have increased. Maybe Montreal is seeing this reduced backlog for IR1/CR1 cases in the future and increased backlog of K1 in the future and adjusting interview slots accordingly now?

All just speculation that I have kept to myself so far....

I think ppl just haven’t found the group yet. 3 months ago there very few oct Dq on the list and it has since tripped. There is also a lot of law suits starting up about backlogs for other cases and they are starting different cases now so slowing us down. I got a feeling there is only a few staff left in the office that’s also adding to us slowing down. I checked and it seems they are hiring more staff in Mexico and there wait time is so short. I’m praying they hire more staff or reopen for appointment In Vancouver again. It is possible as they just opened another offices in different country’s.

[From_CAN_2_US 1,106]

55 minutes ago, Twiz&Toz said:

I think ppl just haven’t found the group yet. 3 months ago there very few oct Dq on the list and it has since tripped. There is also a lot of law suits starting up about backlogs for other cases and they are starting different cases now so slowing us down. I got a feeling there is only a few staff left in the office that’s also adding to us slowing down. I checked and it seems they are hiring more staff in Mexico and there wait time is so short. I’m praying they hire more staff or reopen for appointment In Vancouver again. It is possible as they just opened another offices in different country’s.

Oh that’s promising! What is the wait time like now in Mexico?

 

The other fact that is puzzling is that from the statistics, Montreal is processing more IR1/CR1 cases than ever before, by a lot. So from their perspective they have been doing much more for our category. I Guess thé number of applicants has somehow just increased so much. They have to realise the only solution is to hire more Staff and/or allow interviews in other consulates.

 

My husband shared this with me yesterday which demonstrates how Montreal is actually “ahead of expectations.”

 

http://visawhen.com/consulates/montreal/cr1ir1

Edited July 10, 2021 by From_CAN_2_US

[Twiz&Toz 240]

1 hour ago, From_CAN_2_US said:

Oh that’s promising! What is the wait time like now in Mexico?

 

The other fact that is puzzling is that from the statistics, Montreal is processing more IR1/CR1 cases than ever before, by a lot. So from their perspective they have been doing much more for our category. I Guess thé number of applicants has somehow just increased so much. They have to realise the only solution is to hire more Staff and/or allow interviews in other consulates.

 

My husband shared this with me yesterday which demonstrates how Montreal is actually “ahead of expectations.”

 

http://visawhen.com/consulates/montreal/cr1ir1

I been wondering why the number suddenly tripled but remember around sept last year uscis did a big case shuffle thats the only reason I can see the number jumping. We can only cross our fingers and hope Montreal get more staff at this point. 

[DMV 18]

1 hour ago, From_CAN_2_US said:

Oh that’s promising! What is the wait time like now in Mexico?

 

The other fact that is puzzling is that from the statistics, Montreal is processing more IR1/CR1 cases than ever before, by a lot. So from their perspective they have been doing much more for our category. I Guess thé number of applicants has somehow just increased so much. They have to realise the only solution is to hire more Staff and/or allow interviews in other consulates.

 

My husband shared this with me yesterday which demonstrates how Montreal is actually “ahead of expectations.”

 

http://visawhen.com/consulates/montreal/cr1ir1

The data in the link seems to be cut off at March 2021. If you look at the Excel sheet, the days from DQ to Interview decreased from 330 to 250 between December 2020 and March 2021. As we know the backlog has gotten to 320 + since then. In fact, May 2021 had the fewest CR1/IR1 cases processed since December 2020, there were no interviews in June, and presumably few interviews in July/August. So I don't think that "processing more cases than ever" is true at this point.  

Edited July 10, 2021 by DMV
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[DGF 730]

1 hour ago, From_CAN_2_US said:

Oh that’s promising! What is the wait time like now in Mexico?

 

The other fact that is puzzling is that from the statistics, Montreal is processing more IR1/CR1 cases than ever before, by a lot. So from their perspective they have been doing much more for our category. I Guess thé number of applicants has somehow just increased so much. They have to realise the only solution is to hire more Staff and/or allow interviews in other consulates.

 

My husband shared this with me yesterday which demonstrates how Montreal is actually “ahead of expectations.”

 

http://visawhen.com/consulates/montreal/cr1ir1

This is neat but completely ignores that they went from 2-3 months to 5-6 months over summer of 2019 (there is no backlog shown there even though only 16 visas were issued in June 2019), and with the backlog line being positive, implies that interviews are immediately available when we know that is definitely not the case. 

[ME_RHEDZ77 269]

Last May, the US DOS Consular Affairs held a Q & A live stream and discussed that one of their priorities is to reduce the backlog of immigrant visa cases. With the monthly report for the Immigrant Visa Backlog, I don't see they are doing their very best in reducing it. Even for reviewing and approval/document complete of a case now took longer than any other folks who got DQ'd in 2-3 weeks. But now I think NVC's approval/Documentary Complete takes minimum 1 month. I'm not sure if there are really a lot of immigrant visa cases who's documents are under review or they are just really trying to delay it so the Consular offices will be able to catch up with their interview backlogs, which I don't see it in Montreal for they had scheduled for interview those who were DQ'd in just 2 weeks.

 

For my case, it's been now 5 weeks since we submitted all the documents and still didn't receive a notice of being Documentarily Complete. 

 

With respect to the spreadsheet, we have only 1 folk who have her/his interview scheduled on Aug 23rd. If the Consular schedules an Interview per Category, I don't think the Consular will only conduct 1 CR1/IR1 Immigrant Visa for a day. I assume there are others who are might not aware and found the Thread.

 

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/visas-backlog.html 

 

 

 

 

 

[Melody1920 3]

For those of you who have interviews in august , are you planning to leave Canada as soon as you get your visa ? How long does it take to get green card after entering usa? Are you planning to come back after getting green card to dispose property , pack up etc … just curious how people have been planning the move as it is so uncertain regarding when you could have got the interview 

[DMV 18]

9 minutes ago, Melody1920 said:

For those of you who have interviews in august , are you planning to leave Canada as soon as you get your visa ? How long does it take to get green card after entering usa? Are you planning to come back after getting green card to dispose property , pack up etc … just curious how people have been planning the move as it is so uncertain regarding when you could have got the interview 

You could enter and go back since you can travel to the US on the multiple entry immigrant visa they issue you. I think you can even have an agent pick up your green card/SSN if you can't be there in person. If you want to delay entry, you can move up to 6 months after the date of your medical exam. 

[Shumai84 157]

6 hours ago, Melody1920 said:

For those of you who have interviews in august , are you planning to leave Canada as soon as you get your visa ? How long does it take to get green card after entering usa? Are you planning to come back after getting green card to dispose property , pack up etc … just curious how people have been planning the move as it is so uncertain regarding when you could have got the interview 

In my case, I'm planning to purge, pack up and leave Canada permanently within a month from the interview (interview on Aug 11th). I see most people get a passport back within 1-3 weeks so I think it's feasible, provided that my case won't be put on AP or it takes 5 weeks or more to get a passport back.  I know I'm taking some risk in case something goes wrong, but I already got a job waiting for me in the US and I need to give a firm start date with my new employer who's been so patient about this crazy delay in my immigration.  I believe it takes a month or so for a green card to arrive after you cross the boarder, but it really doesn't matter because the moment you are approved and the consulate issues an immigration visa, you are allowed to start working in the US legally.

 

I already gave a 60 day notice to terminate my apartment lease as well as renters insurance and started listing out all the things I need to do in the next 30 days. I also booked my medical for July 20th, reserved a rental car to drive from Toronto to Montreal, and booked a hotel for an interview as well. I'm an anxious person so I can't help but start planning everything ahead of time.... I'm kind of putting everything on the line assuming that the rest of the process will go smoothly. If I get put on AP, I will be screwed and don't know what to do. All I can do right now is to over-prepare everything and pray everything will work out.