The Mystery of AP at NVC

[sakurasama 0]

I really can't believe it. Long story, short. My first case (KI filed in April 2005) was given a 221g after the interview, couldn't get info from the New Delhi Embassy to clarify what I needed to meet the 221g, asked for an extension, they finally gave me the information I needed, accepted my fiance's passport and a month later sent it back saying our petition had expired and was being sent back to DHS. Reapplied, waited 8 months for my NOA2. Did numerous celebratory dances and now I am in AP at NVC. I just found out by calling them and asking when my case would be forwarded to New Delhi. I was told they couldn't tell me why my petition was in AP, how long it might be in AP and when I asked what the person's name was whom I was speaking with she told me she couldn't tell me and that there was no one who could give me any more information. How cloak and dagger is that! Than I asked if this was the United States of America (it is, unrecognizable though it may be). I am sooooooo sick of this bureaucratic nonscense and being treated like a nonperson.

I have been waiting over two years to get my fiance here. Advice, sympathy, any one else who is in the same boat!! I am just about to break down; I can't take it any more...

[trueimage 0]

I think it is common for middle eastern petitions to spend a little time in AR. I know that doesn't make you feel better, but that's just how it is. It'll spend a little time at NVC undergoing background and name checks and then be sent off to the New Dehli. I'm sorry that you have a difficult time with this. I hope the rest will go more smoothly for you. Good luck!

[mendeleev 68]

We were in Administrative Processing for about a month. For a lot of folks, it lasts about that long. Usually the NVC person will give you a first name, to help you with your notes, but some are rude. In my experience, the people at DOS in Washington are less rude but there, too, there was one rude one.

Call every few days asking for the status of your case, at least every week.

AP is a secret, quite untransparent aspect of the process that seems, at least as currently applied, to be an innovation of the current administration. It is another reason to count the days until January 20, 2009.

[sakurasama 0]

One month would seem like a blessing with all the time I have been waiting! The aide at my Congressperson's office called but couldn't get anymore information than I could. To soothe my mental health issues I bought a ticket to India (retail therapy!).

I really do wonder what has happened to our country. I can't understand why we are bothering to discuss illegal immigration when our legal immigration system is in such a mess. My fiance is in India and wouldn't be able to get a tourist visa but at this point if he was European, Canadian or south of the border and we were having this much trouble, I would absolutely go illegal. I am an ESL teacher and I have a student who is a naturalized American. Her husband is illegal and I asked her why she doesn't make him legal since she has that option. She told me that he would have to go back to Mexico and wait and her family needs him here. It makes sense- especially when you can't count on the USCIS processing things in a timely manner. Another one of my student's is a permanent resident- here absolutely legally- and he is looking at a 5 year wait to bring his now pregnant wife over. It is absolutely ridiculous. Why play by the rules when the short term costs are so (too!!!) high?

[Quinn 2]

I'm not even going to pretend I understand what goes on in that mysterious AP part of NVC, but did you withdraw your old application? Maybe the AP is because you reapplied when you had another petition already pending? Just offering some explanation...but it's really more of a shot in the dark. I'm so sorry this is happening to you. It's awful awful awful.

[purplerose 0]

I really can't believe it. Long story, short. My first case (KI filed in April 2005) was given a 221g after the interview, couldn't get info from the New Delhi Embassy to clarify what I needed to meet the 221g, asked for an extension, they finally gave me the information I needed, accepted my fiance's passport and a month later sent it back saying our petition had expired and was being sent back to DHS. Reapplied, waited 8 months for my NOA2. Did numerous celebratory dances and now I am in AP at NVC. I just found out by calling them and asking when my case would be forwarded to New Delhi. I was told they couldn't tell me why my petition was in AP, how long it might be in AP and when I asked what the person's name was whom I was speaking with she told me she couldn't tell me and that there was no one who could give me any more information. How cloak and dagger is that! Than I asked if this was the United States of America (it is, unrecognizable though it may be). I am sooooooo sick of this bureaucratic nonscense and being treated like a nonperson.

I have been waiting over two years to get my fiance here. Advice, sympathy, any one else who is in the same boat!! I am just about to break down; I can't take it any more...

I am in the same boat as you!!Delhi embassy did the same thing to me.We received a 221g asking for more info.After we turned it in we got another letter saying our petition had expired.What is the deal with all this ####### they are doing to us.I went to india and got married this past march and filed all the papers again.I have been trying to get him here for over two years !!I feel like no one could understand how this waiting feels,but i guess im not the only one.We just have to take it day by day and know each day that passes is one day closer to getting our loved one.