Changing Embassy from Warsaw to Budapest

[LaszloSz 5]

I am a Hungarian-American dual citizen and I'm married to a Russian citizen with 2 kids. We have started the US immigration visa process a little bit over 2 years ago. At that time we indicated the Moscow embassy for the final interview. However, things have changed quite a bit since and their cases got automatically moved to Warsaw last December. We got the final approval on documents from NVC in March. But so far no word about scheduling their interviews.

 

In the meanwhile, we moved to Hungary in February - just in the nick of time before the war started. They got immigrant visas to Hungary (only took 2.5 months) so we can stay here as long as we need, in safety.

 

My question is whether it would make sense to request their cases to be moved from Warsaw to Budapest.
- Would it make it faster, considering that the Warsaw embassy is probably overwhelmed with all the cases transferred there from Moscow?   (my wife and kids do speak English, so if there's no Russian speaking staff that's not a problem)
- Is there some way to find out what are the wait times in Warsaw and in Budapest? 
 

I tried to find out information about this calling the Budapest embassy and also submitting a query to NVC but so far no luck finding out anything.

 

Any data or lead to getting information on this would be appreciated! 😀

[slavaskii 886]

I’m sorry there aren’t many filers from Hungary here to help, if I was you, I’d ask in the main Europe subforum and see if anyone knows. Otherwise, feel free to sort the IR1/CR1 charts by ‘Hungary’ and private messaging some of the recent applicants for their take. I feel like, no matter what, Poland will be longer than Hungary as I don’t think many Russians fled there as compared to Armenia/Georgia/Turkey/Kazakhstan. Worth a shot but ensure you know the backlog in Hungary first.

 

Also - transfers aren’t simple, you need to have residency in the new country (at the very least) and still need to request Budapest to take your file. Once you find out the wait for Hungary, definitely call (not email) the embassy in Budapest and ask about the transfer process. 
 

An aside as I type this, is that the embassy may actually tell you wait times over the phone. Maybe try giving them a call and just asking about times generally? Sorry I can’t be of terrible help, just throwing things out.

[AlIu 3]

On 5/11/2022 at 8:27 AM, LaszloSz said:

I am a Hungarian-American dual citizen and I'm married to a Russian citizen with 2 kids. We have started the US immigration visa process a little bit over 2 years ago. At that time we indicated the Moscow embassy for the final interview. However, things have changed quite a bit since and their cases got automatically moved to Warsaw last December. We got the final approval on documents from NVC in March. But so far no word about scheduling their interviews.

 

In the meanwhile, we moved to Hungary in February - just in the nick of time before the war started. They got immigrant visas to Hungary (only took 2.5 months) so we can stay here as long as we need, in safety.

 

My question is whether it would make sense to request their cases to be moved from Warsaw to Budapest.
- Would it make it faster, considering that the Warsaw embassy is probably overwhelmed with all the cases transferred there from Moscow?   (my wife and kids do speak English, so if there's no Russian speaking staff that's not a problem)
- Is there some way to find out what are the wait times in Warsaw and in Budapest? 
 

I tried to find out information about this calling the Budapest embassy and also submitting a query to NVC but so far no luck finding out anything.

 

Any data or lead to getting information on this would be appreciated! 😀

Your fiance can check here https://forum.awd.ru/viewtopic.php?f=326&t=350199  it is in Russian. For Rusdians getting visa in Hungary

[LaszloSz 5]

@slavaskii Thank you! No worries, you gave me good information to go on. 😁

 

@allu, it was not prominent in my post, but my family has the Hungarian visa already. It was not hard at all, but it was done before the war, so the situation might be different for people who are applying now. Most likely, it's still much easier than for most other EU countries. 

[AlIu 3]

8 hours ago, LaszloSz said:

@slavaskii Thank you! No worries, you gave me good information to go on. 😁

 

@allu, it was not prominent in my post, but my family has the Hungarian visa already. It was not hard at all, but it was done before the war, so the situation might be different for people who are applying now. Most likely, it's still much easier than for most other EU countries. 

You asked about waot time at Budapes

 

8 hours ago, LaszloSz said:

@slavaskii Thank you! No worries, you gave me good information to go on. 😁

 

@allu, it was not prominent in my post, but my family has the Hungarian visa already. It was not hard at all, but it was done before the war, so the situation might be different for people who are applying now. Most likely, it's still much easier than for most other EU countries. 

You asked about wait time in Budapest. There people are discussing this too. So you can asked there if it is fast or not there. I understood your fiance has Hungarian visa already.