Transferring Immigrant Visa Cases to Budapest

[LaszloSz 5]

I am a US/Hungarian citizen and I got married in Russia and started immigrant visas for my family which are now all documentarily qualified. Their cases were first were in Moscow and then they all got moved to Warsaw in December.

Due to a couple factors we needed to leave Russia and got an immigrant visa to Hungary and moved to Hungary. We just got out of in the nick of time in February. Originally, we expected to spend only a few months in Hungary while the US visas would be ready. However, with the war in Ukraine, the process seemed to have stopped because the Embassies are prioritizing Ukrainian cases. So we decided that we settle in for a longer time in Hungary. Because of that I wanted to get their cases moved to Budapest.

 

I have been trying to get this done for a few months now, but I can't seem to get an answer to a very simple question: what is needed exactly to get this transfer done. I keep ending up talking with not Embassy personnel but some guys from US Tracvel Docs who does not know the answers and act as only intermediaries - bad ones at that. I sent all information about our living in Hungary to them but I have no idea what they presented to the Embassy because I keep getting rejections based on not being residents. Also every single question and answer takes weeks and at the end I'm no wiser. So it's pretty frustrating. I'd like to cut through the ####### and ask somebody directly at the Embassy: "What do you need to get the transfer approved?". 

 

Does anybody have any suggestion how to get this done?

[JeanneAdil 6,505]

If spouse is a legal permanant resident of Hungary,  u send a notice to ask the Hungarian embassy they will ask for case to be transfered to them

include your case # ,  both your names and both DOB's in your notice

[LaszloSz 5]

Thank you, @JeanneAdil!

 

Do you know HOW this can be done? 

I have tried a couple of times, but always seem to be not dealing with embassy directly but with US Travel Doc guys, and I don't know what information they do relay and what they do not. 

[JeanneAdil 6,505]

• helps to know if case has gone to Poland embassy or still at NVC

[LaszloSz 5]

The ceac.state.gov site shows them to be at NVC. They are all documentarily qualified, though.