Interview date

[Hush 0]

My husband's case is DQd at NVC in April 2021. We did not get interview appointment letter yet. I am a LPR and my husband visa type is CR1.

Does anyone know, how far Mumbai consulate is behind from now? Is there any way we can find out they are picking up cases from which month? 

[Crazy Cat 41,845]

If you are not a US citizen, this is an F2A visa category.....

Edited October 17, 2021 by Crazy Cat

[Hush 0]

Yup category F2A but visa type on our documents is CR1 as we have not completed 2 years of marriage.. do we have an India when will we get a interview date?

[HRQX 4,145]

7 minutes ago, Hush said:

Yup category F2A but visa type on our documents is CR1 as we have not completed 2 years of marriage..

Conditional spouse of LPR is either C21 or CX1: https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/lawful-permanent-residents/ImmigrantCOA

C21	Spouses of alien residents, subject to country limits, new arrivals, conditional
CX1	Spouses of alien residents, exempt from country limits, new arrivals, conditional

Edited October 17, 2021 by HRQX

[JeanneAdil 6,498]

Spouses of permanent residents are in family preference category "F2A," in which demand nearly always outstrips supply. ... If no permanent resident visa number is ready for someone in the F2A category when their I-130 petition is approved, they get put on a waiting list.

[aaron2020 11,651]

32 minutes ago, Hush said:

My husband's case is DQd at NVC in April 2021. We did not get interview appointment letter yet. I am a LPR and my husband visa type is CR1.

Does anyone know, how far Mumbai consulate is behind from now? Is there any way we can find out they are picking up cases from which month? 

Your husband would get a CR21 or CX1 visa since you are an LPR; not a CR1 for the spouse of a US citizen.

There is no way to know how behind the consulate is and there is no way to find out.  Sorry.

[Hush 0]

Thank you all.

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

28 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

Spouses of permanent residents are in family preference category "F2A," in which demand nearly always outstrips supply. ... If no permanent resident visa number is ready for someone in the F2A category when their I-130 petition is approved, they get put on a waiting list.

F2A has been current every month for a few years already, visa availability is not the issue. The only issue is consulate capacity /wait time. 

[Hush 0]

Thank you. Visa availability you mean the quota subject country limit right. And wait time/avaialbility means consulate is working with limited capacity so not able to schedule because of limited working capacity.. Is that correct. I m just trying to understand the situation right now. My husband got approved by USCIS in Feb 2021 and DQ is April 2021.. still we have to wait for 2 years for his interview??

[SalishSea 17,827]

1 hour ago, Hush said:

Thank you. Visa availability you mean the quota subject country limit right. And wait time/avaialbility means consulate is working with limited capacity so not able to schedule because of limited working capacity.. Is that correct. I m just trying to understand the situation right now. My husband got approved by USCIS in Feb 2021 and DQ is April 2021.. still we have to wait for 2 years for his interview??

No one knows.

 

But it is likely they are prioritizing services for USCs and visas for immediate relatives of USCs.  You just have to wait.

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

3 hours ago, Hush said:

Thank you. Visa availability you mean the quota subject country limit right. And wait time/avaialbility means consulate is working with limited capacity so not able to schedule because of limited working capacity.. Is that correct. I m just trying to understand the situation right now. My husband got approved by USCIS in Feb 2021 and DQ is April 2021.. still we have to wait for 2 years for his interview??

Too many questions in one paragraph to be able to sensibly give a yes or no answer.. The quota is not a problem for F2A for the last few years as demand has consistently been below quota. If you look at the visa bulletin you will see this indicated by F2A showing “C” for current, rather than a priority date cutoff.

 

 

2 hours ago, Jorgedig said:

No one knows.

 

But it is likely they are prioritizing services for USCs and visas for immediate relatives of USCs.  You just have to wait.

The DoS has published its priority tiers for immigrant visa issuance https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/immigrant-visa-prioritization.html and you are correct, family preference visas are tier 3 while K and IR visas are above them at tier 2. This situation is almost certainly exacerbated by bigger backlogs having built up in the family preference categories due to them having been banned for almost a year under Trump.  
 

So if your husband got DQ’d in April 2021, understand that this DQ happened just after the ban was lifted. The ban had been in place almost a year so there was already a year backlog in front of that -from both people who had been DQd since early 2020 (or even late 2019 in some cases) whose scheduled interviews got cancelled, and those DQing after the ban came in in April 2020 and just piling up in a queue waiting for the ban to lift. This is even apart from the Covid backlogs that had built up from embassy closures. Add in limited capacity and while no one can know how long it will actually take, all those people in front of your husband in line does unfortunately probably mean it will be somewhere longer than a year before he gets an interview. What you can do is try find a local forum and see what DQ dates people are reporting for scheduled interviews.
 

 

[Hush 0]

Thank you all for all your answers. I appreciate ur help.