IR1/CR1 Interview timeframes in Warsaw

[TBoneTX 45,250]

1 hour ago, AVMNUSA said:

She ended picking up her visa Friday afternoon.

What a relief for both of you!

[AnaBanana12345 20]

I wanted to provide an update on the visa interview my parents had two weeks ago. We had all documents and I had no doubt everything will be ok. My dad received an approval on the spot and my mom was refused a visa due to... A LACK OF MAIDEN NAME ON HER POLICE CERTIFICATE FROM BELARUS. This was so frustrating as nobody ever told us the maiden name had to be included (though it is logical). So if you have a fiancé/mom/sister applying for the US immigrant visa in Warsaw, please ensure the maiden name is covered in the police certificate (again, this information is nowhere to be found, so just include the maiden name!). Otherwise you will get a green slip from the US consular officer and you will have to go back to Belarus to obtain the new certificate. Luckily, you can order such certificate in Belarus within 3 business days, but the travel back and forth is draining as now it takes up to 24 hours to get to Warsaw taking into account all the border controls, plus you have to pay for additional nights at hotels, have to wait a lot, etc... My mom told me there were at least 10 women in line with her with the same issue as she came back to Warsaw, so this seems to be a recurring issue for many Belarusian women applying for the immigrant visa.

 

Another thing to keep in mind - if you are refused and were given a green slip, this is not "Administrative Processing" which may usually take months (and I think you would have received a white slip instead). The difference between a green slip and a white slip is that the green slip means your visa is on hold and US consular officer requires some additional information (so I believe this means your visa is approved pending additional documents), and so my mom had to bring the new police certificate. Your CEAC status will state "Refused" but once you bring the missing document(s), your visa will be approved and my mom's CEAC status quickly changed to "Issued" and she received her passport with visa in the afternoon of next day following her submission of the new certificate.  The white slip and status on CEAC "Administrative Processing" means they need to dig deeper in your case and you may be asked to provide more documents and information upon request, and this usually takes months from what I read..  

 

Overall, the interview process in Warsaw was smooth and took only a few minutes. As long as you have all documents in order and uploaded in CEAC, you should be fine. If you have questions, you can always call the Polish or US numbers and there are very nice people working there who will answer all your questions.  

 

I hope this information is helpful. If anyone has any additional questions, please let me know. 

Edited June 26, 2023 by AnaBanana12345

[Irina1234567 0]

On 6/26/2023 at 5:44 PM, AnaBanana12345 said:

I wanted to provide an update on the visa interview my parents had two weeks ago. We had all documents and I had no doubt everything will be ok. My dad received an approval on the spot and my mom was refused a visa due to... A LACK OF MAIDEN NAME ON HER POLICE CERTIFICATE FROM BELARUS. This was so frustrating as nobody ever told us the maiden name had to be included (though it is logical). So if you have a fiancé/mom/sister applying for the US immigrant visa in Warsaw, please ensure the maiden name is covered in the police certificate (again, this information is nowhere to be found, so just include the maiden name!). Otherwise you will get a green slip from the US consular officer and you will have to go back to Belarus to obtain the new certificate. Luckily, you can order such certificate in Belarus within 3 business days, but the travel back and forth is draining as now it takes up to 24 hours to get to Warsaw taking into account all the border controls, plus you have to pay for additional nights at hotels, have to wait a lot, etc... My mom told me there were at least 10 women in line with her with the same issue as she came back to Warsaw, so this seems to be a recurring issue for many Belarusian women applying for the immigrant visa.

 

Another thing to keep in mind - if you are refused and were given a green slip, this is not "Administrative Processing" which may usually take months (and I think you would have received a white slip instead). The difference between a green slip and a white slip is that the green slip means your visa is on hold and US consular officer requires some additional information (so I believe this means your visa is approved pending additional documents), and so my mom had to bring the new police certificate. Your CEAC status will state "Refused" but once you bring the missing document(s), your visa will be approved and my mom's CEAC status quickly changed to "Issued" and she received her passport with visa in the afternoon of next day following her submission of the new certificate.  The white slip and status on CEAC "Administrative Processing" means they need to dig deeper in your case and you may be asked to provide more documents and information upon request, and this usually takes months from what I read..  

 

Overall, the interview process in Warsaw was smooth and took only a few minutes. As long as you have all documents in order and uploaded in CEAC, you should be fine. If you have questions, you can always call the Polish or US numbers and there are very nice people working there who will answer all your questions.  

 

I hope this information is helpful. If anyone has any additional questions, please let me know. 

Hi, could you please tell me when your mother reapplied for police certificate from Belarus, she put ticks at both crimes and administrative misdemeanors, right? And did they accept such a police certificate?

 

I am asking coz I am currently waiting for interview in Warsaw and according to your information I have to go to Belarus to take a new form of police certificate with my Maiden name on it. The previous police certificate I took I put a tick on crimes only and without my maiden name 😅

 

thank you for sharing info, it’s very useful and helpful 😊

[AnaBanana12345 20]

8 hours ago, Irina1234567 said:

Hi, could you please tell me when your mother reapplied for police certificate from Belarus, she put ticks at both crimes and administrative misdemeanors, right? And did they accept such a police certificate?

 

I am asking coz I am currently waiting for interview in Warsaw and according to your information I have to go to Belarus to take a new form of police certificate with my Maiden name on it. The previous police certificate I took I put a tick on crimes only and without my maiden name 😅

 

thank you for sharing info, it’s very useful and helpful 😊

Hello. Yes, she put checkmarks for both crimes and administrative offences and also a checkmark for her maiden name to be included. From what I understand, before the new form was agreed between Belarus and USA Embassy in Warsaw, there was no form and different content could go through... Now that they agreed on a new format of the police certificate, everyone has to follow the same rules and format. So information has to be included on 1) crimes, 2) administrative offences and 3) maiden name has to be included in parentheses after your married name. The people in Belarus who are taking requests for these police certificates presumably should know this as well, but you never know... Hope it helps. It was so frustrating for us to find this out when my mom was already in Poland, so I hope this information helps many of you from Belarus to avoid the horror of going back and forth...  

[Irina1234567 0]

On 6/30/2023 at 7:34 PM, AnaBanana12345 said:

Hello. Yes, she put checkmarks for both crimes and administrative offences and also a checkmark for her maiden name to be included. From what I understand, before the new form was agreed between Belarus and USA Embassy in Warsaw, there was no form and different content could go through... Now that they agreed on a new format of the police certificate, everyone has to follow the same rules and format. So information has to be included on 1) crimes, 2) administrative offences and 3) maiden name has to be included in parentheses after your married name. The people in Belarus who are taking requests for these police certificates presumably should know this as well, but you never know... Hope it helps. It was so frustrating for us to find this out when my mom was already in Poland, so I hope this information helps many of you from Belarus to avoid the horror of going back and forth...  

Thank you for the detailed explanation, I really appreciate it )) one more question, did your mother upload the updated police certificate(the one with maiden name on it) to CEAC website ? Or she just brought it to the US embassy in Warsaw?

 

I am already DQ, waiting for interview now and I don’t know if I should upload the new police certificate (with maiden name ) to CEAC website before interview or it’s better to leave it as it is and take the new police certificate to the interview. 
 

Thank you for your help in advance )))

[Alliaksandra 0]

Добрый день!

есть ли кто из РБ кто недавно получил дату интервью

по визе жены в варшаве?

[Irina1234567 0]

13 minutes ago, Alliaksandra said:

Добрый день!

есть ли кто из РБ кто недавно получил дату интервью

по визе жены в варшаве?

I did )

[Alliaksandra 0]

13 minutes ago, Irina1234567 said:

Я сделал )

а можете поделиться когда было DQ а когда пришла дата интервью?)

[BenNomad 88]

4 minutes ago, Alliaksandra said:

а можете поделиться когда было DQ а когда пришла дата интервью?)

У нас (из РФ) DQ было 06.07 и письмо получили вчера, 16.08. Собеседование будет 04.10

Для РБ наверное такой же срок. Посольство отправляет письма раз в месяц

[Alliaksandra 0]

я в панике просто и 2 день в слезах так как у меня DQ было 06.07 и вчера не пришkо мне ничего а другим пришло хотя там DQ намного позже меня, даже пришло тем у кого DQ 31.07

[Irina1234567 0]

17 minutes ago, Alliaksandra said:

а можете поделиться когда было DQ а когда пришла дата интервью?)

У меня DQ было 12.06 и письмо пришло 12.07. 

[BenNomad 88]

Я ожидал письмо после 20-го. Подождите еще неделю, должно прийти. Кто знает, какой у них порядок. У нас "priority date" 17.06.2022. Может быть отправляют по приоритету?

[Irina1234567 0]

7 minutes ago, Alliaksandra said:

я в панике просто и 2 день в слезах так как у меня DQ было 06.07 и вчера не пришkо мне ничего а другим пришло хотя там DQ намного позже меня, даже пришло тем у кого DQ 31.07

А все эти другие тоже из РБ?

[Alliaksandra 0]

4 minutes ago, Irina1234567 said:

А все эти другие тоже из РБ?

нет из РФ, я уже даже в NVC написала гневное письмо с вопросом где моя дата) ив посольство писала но они меня послали

[Irina1234567 0]

2 minutes ago, BenNomad said:

Я ожидал письмо после 20-го. Подождите еще неделю, должно прийти. Кто знает, какой у них порядок. У нас "priority date" 17.06.2022. Может быть отправляют по приоритету?

Я в июле тоже ожидала письмо в 20х числах и priority date 20.04.2022