The dreaded DS-5535 thread for Montreal. Post here and support each other (split)

[candyg 33]

52 minutes ago, ice-qube said:

but i mean did they just say, we see you are in immigration process, and then ask, or you *offered* that fact?

No she didn’t “see” anything on my file that would indicate I’m in administrative processing. The question was where I was going and who lives there. I told her I’m visiting my husband and that’s when she asked “who is sponsoring who” 

Edited March 12, 2022 by candyg

[Danii 312]

1 hour ago, UiiiU said:

Just checked the CEAC website and my DS-260 application stated it was "re-opened" with an expiration date application to be completed by March 30th, 2022-- what does this mean? Has anyone experienced this? (My interview has been over a year already)

I've seen this happen to a few other people and think it's common after many months have passed. I believe this problem was resolved after contacting NVC. Not sure of the details, but I would suggest you contact NVC as soon as you can and see what they say. 

[ohmygod 60]

On 3/11/2022 at 8:41 PM, Danii said:

I've seen this happen to a few other people and think it's common after many months have passed. I believe this problem was resolved after contacting NVC. Not sure of the details, but I would suggest you contact NVC as soon as you can and see what they say. 

Good luck to all in waiting! This is the last possible week before the medical expires. Hopefully this is the week!

[hkn1 32]

3 hours ago, ohmygod said:

Good luck to all in waiting! This is the last possible week before the medical expires. Hopefully this is the week!

My medical expires in about 1 month...hoping y'all with closer medical expiration dates hear back this week, fingers crossed. At this point I'm coming to terms with having to do a second medical...another 300$ down the drain, if the cost hasn't gone up yet like everything else in life 😝 hoping for this week to be good news here!

[BatmanFlow 481]

14 days for my mom before her's expires. But probably need the visa issued this week to make it to USA before the expiration. The cost of second medical is ok, but the wait and unknown and further delays that a second medical will cause is infuriating

[BatmanFlow 481]

i emailed my congressman asking for an update for the request i sent on march 1, i was so annoyed and let it know in my email

 

"I am looking for some miracle here. its disheartening that a 63 year old woman needs to go through such an extensive background check, even after being cleared by all background agencies and sent to interview. What kind of threat does a 63 year old Canadian citizen, retired, pose to the US? what triggered her to get a DS 5535 form? a policy setup by Trump administration to weed our hard criminals from certain countries, when did a canadian fall under these guidelines?"

[Danii 312]

1 hour ago, hkn1 said:

My medical expires in about 1 month...hoping y'all with closer medical expiration dates hear back this week, fingers crossed. At this point I'm coming to terms with having to do a second medical...another 300$ down the drain, if the cost hasn't gone up yet like everything else in life 😝 hoping for this week to be good news here!

I would advise everyone to avoid the Montreal clinic if they're thinking about it in the future. It was overall a very smooth process but it cost around $540 (standard visit with one vaccine, but that's still around 450ish!) Better to go to Toronto!

Edited March 14, 2022 by Danii

[ice-qube 648]

3 hours ago, BatmanFlow said:

14 days for my mom before her's expires. But probably need the visa issued this week to make it to USA before the expiration. The cost of second medical is ok, but the wait and unknown and further delays that a second medical will cause is infuriating

6 days left on my medical. nada.

[BatmanFlow 481]

11 minutes ago, ice-qube said:

6 days left on my medical. nada.

sorry dude, looks like another medical is inevitable now

[ice-qube 648]

Just now, BatmanFlow said:

sorry dude, looks like another medical is inevitable now

Indeed. There is no other conclusion to make. 

[ice-qube 648]

2 hours ago, BatmanFlow said:

i emailed my congressman asking for an update for the request i sent on march 1, i was so annoyed and let it know in my email

 

"I am looking for some miracle here. its disheartening that a 63 year old woman needs to go through such an extensive background check, even after being cleared by all background agencies and sent to interview. What kind of threat does a 63 year old Canadian citizen, retired, pose to the US? what triggered her to get a DS 5535 form? a policy setup by Trump administration to weed our hard criminals from certain countries, when did a canadian fall under these guidelines?"

It is unreal that they are using this form against us. I feel like it is being used in such a way as to purposefully slow the flow of immigrants, in general, even as they sped up the other parts of the process. And it has fallen hard on your mom and people like me, because now we are caught in this web. And they can pretty much keep it going indefinitely, at their whim. Exactly why, I have no clue.

[BatmanFlow 481]

1 minute ago, ice-qube said:

It is unreal that they are using this form against us. I feel like it is being used in such a way as to purposefully slow the flow of immigrants, in general, even as they sped up the other parts of the process. And it has fallen hard on your mom and people like me, because now we are caught in this web. And they can pretty much keep it going indefinitely, at their whim. Exactly why, I have no clue.

yea its ridiculous how they apply this form to anyone they want, no real set guidelines at all, and of course no timeline either.

there's no accountability at all, would love a job like this where i have nothing to worry about or deadline to meet

[ice-qube 648]

3 minutes ago, BatmanFlow said:

yea its ridiculous how they apply this form to anyone they want, no real set guidelines at all, and of course no timeline either.

there's no accountability at all, would love a job like this where i have nothing to worry about or deadline to meet

The open-endedness is most troubling of all the aspects. Now that my medical is expiring, how much longer will I wait? Even just for the communication indicating that i am *allowed* to go get the second medical? Then once done, how long to wait? There is no indication of anything. Literally, it could be any amount of time. I never thought this AP would stretch my timeline to the five additional months it has; now I can’t even conceive of when this will be resolved.

[ohmygod 60]

1 hour ago, ice-qube said:

6 days left on my medical. nada.

mine is until March 24th. I am not sure how they calculate 6 months, so around that

 

[ice-qube 648]

23 minutes ago, ohmygod said:

mine is until March 24th. I am not sure how they calculate 6 months, so around that

 

They take whatever day you had medical, and say exactly six months from then. Not by days really just by the month. So mine was Sept 20, so it expires Mar 20