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

[BatmanFlow 481]

Well my stepdads extra TB tests (cause X-ray weren’t clear) finally came in yesterday and his case was updated today. So I assume consulate got it today. His wait starts now. He was approved aside from getting medical. So hopefully this isn’t a wait like 5535 

[ice-qube 648]

46 minutes ago, Redie said:

Well transparency would be appreciated. It’s stressful thinking that something is wrong with your case when they give you a time frame of 2-3 weeks especially when it’s only a medical that they are waiting for. How hard is it to look a your medical report that is right in front of them and approve your visa! I just don’t get it!

Transparency, ha! This is immigration... it's as opaque as it gets, and they like it that way.

[ice-qube 648]

30 minutes ago, BatmanFlow said:

Well my stepdads extra TB tests (cause X-ray weren’t clear) finally came in yesterday and his case was updated today. So I assume consulate got it today. His wait starts now. He was approved aside from getting medical. So hopefully this isn’t a wait like 5535 

Hopefully not anything like 5535...

[ice-qube 648]

What I love is... when I was in Montreal for the interview, there was a girl one ahead of me, from the line and I got to talking to her. She also was moving to South Florida to be with her spouse. She was not even born in Canada, I learned. However, she walked out of there all smiles and approved, and I am still stuck here. 

[Federico 147]

23 minutes ago, Redie said:

Well transparency would be appreciated. It’s stressful thinking that something is wrong with your case when they give you a time frame of 2-3 weeks especially when it’s only a medical that they are waiting for. How hard is it to look a your medical report that is right in front of them and approve your visa! I just don’t get it!

Some people can’t  process if the C.O tell them you need to wait from 3 to 6 months. With the medical stuff that is something that don’t make sense for me, if that it’s the only pending thing why not to issue the visa after they receive the result if the person is healthy. probably A.P are not classified, because that can be solved when they receive the results.

[ice-qube 648]

9 minutes ago, Federico said:

Some people can’t  process if the C.O tell them you need to wait from 3 to 6 months. With the medical stuff that is something that don’t make sense for me, if that it’s the only pending thing why not to issue the visa after they receive the result if the person is healthy. probably A.P are not classified, because that can be solved when they receive the results.

I hate to give into confirmation bias, but I think this lends some more evidence for the "clearing out the backlog in queue by speeding up interviews and then diverting a percent to another queue" theory, in that, they can slow down the number of immigrants they are actually approving at once, while still cleaning up the interview queue...

[Federico 147]

5 minutes ago, ice-qube said:

I hate to give into confirmation bias, but I think this lends some more evidence for the "clearing out the backlog in queue by speeding up interviews and then diverting a percent to another queue" theory, in that, they can slow down the number of immigrants they are actually approving at once, while still cleaning up the interview queue...

Make sense, could be.

[candyg 33]

47 minutes ago, ice-qube said:

I hate to give into confirmation bias, but I think this lends some more evidence for the "clearing out the backlog in queue by speeding up interviews and then diverting a percent to another queue" theory, in that, they can slow down the number of immigrants they are actually approving at once, while still cleaning up the interview queue...

I agree with this theory too, although we really do not know what is going on. I think they were clearing the queue for interviews and were very friendly with the distribution of 221G and DS5535s. 

[ice-qube 648]

42 minutes ago, candyg said:

I agree with this theory too, although we really do not know what is going on. I think they were clearing the queue for interviews and were very friendly with the distribution of 221G and DS5535s. 

Yeah that is basically what I am saying. I didn’t invent this hypothesis but it still strikes me as most likely. Whatever the case, I am very frustrated with this process now.

[DS5535 135]

@ice-qube I know I asked you to let me know about any updates but since I sent that message ive checked about 40 times.

 

I got updated today Jan 6, 2022 but still "Refused"

 

Did yours update?

Edited January 6, 2022 by DS5535

[Rosinasaur 58]

3 minutes ago, DS5535 said:

@ice-qube I know I asked you to let me know about any updates but since I sent that message ive checked about 40 times.

 

I got updated today Jan 6, 2022 but still "Refused"

 

Did yours update?

Mine just updated today as well. Still "Refused" as well, but still... it's something.

[Danii 312]

Just now, Rosinasaur said:

Mine just updated today as well. Still "Refused" as well, but still... it's something.

Its a good sign... I spoke to FB User RC and she also said that only a few minutes after an update did her status change to Issued. I'm assuming they did the same for my case!

[ice-qube 648]

28 minutes ago, DS5535 said:

@ice-qube I know I asked you to let me know about any updates but since I sent that message ive checked about 40 times.

 

I got updated today Jan 6, 2022 but still "Refused"

 

Did yours update?

Well, of course mine didn't. Sigh.

[ice-qube 648]

26 minutes ago, Rosinasaur said:

Mine just updated today as well. Still "Refused" as well, but still... it's something.

When was your last update before this?

[ice-qube 648]

31 minutes ago, DS5535 said:

@ice-qube I know I asked you to let me know about any updates but since I sent that message ive checked about 40 times.

 

I got updated today Jan 6, 2022 but still "Refused"

 

Did yours update?

Before today, when was was yours last updated