Seeking advise and opinions - pushing to expedite the interview

[AhmadHamouda 5]

Hello all

 

Just wanted to share my situation and ask all you experienced folks on what to do!

 

Case:

- I’m DQed in 30/6/2023, waiting for interview in Cairo Embassy for Spouse visa. 

- My wife she’s American and she’s going to be there starting from August. 
- She’s pregnant and this is our first baby, she’s 4 months now and her due is in Dec-Jan. 
- She’s going to stay with her sister and family, her mother has Parkinson’s (stage four) so her sister will mainly take care of her mother. 
 

- I’ve sent an email to NVC to expedite the case, attached pregnancy reports and scan and her mother Parkinson report and we said that I need to be there to take care of my wife during her last months and during labor. 
 

- They replied ‘ they can’t expedite this case’. 
 

- Cairo Embassy is heavily occupied, people are saying i’ll wait for more than 6 months to just get an interview date (currently sending interview letter to people who are DQed in Feb 2023), and Sudan Embassy cases I think have been moved also to Cairo Embassy. 
 

Question; Should I push back? Send to the embassy asking for a reason? Send to the congressmen to seek his help?

Or it might frustrate them, like okay we’ll expedite it but hey you’re refused (during the interview) and i lose all hopes of reuniting with my family so better just stay quiet so I don’t upset them with me going to other resources of help like the congressmen and so on?

 

Sorry if It’s long, but I just wanted to make sure I did everything I could for my family. 

[beloved_dingo 1,976]

Unfortunately, pregnancy is not grounds for an expedite. Her mother having Parkinson's is unfortunately also not a circumstance that is relevant to the expedite. If she had complications from pregnancy or a high risk pregnancy, you would possibly have a better shot at an expedite since she is the U.S. citizen, because health of the U.S. Citizen can be a factor to expedite. However, pregnancy alone is not. 

[Boiler 45,426]

Nothing you have mentioned shouts expedite, do you have anything else?

[Crazy Cat 41,758]

1 hour ago, AhmadHamouda said:

Should I push back? Send to the embassy asking for a reason? Send to the congressmen to seek his help?

 

You can contact anyone you want, but the results are likely to be the same unless you have a justification for expedite.  You don't seem to have any grounds for expedite at present.  Please see this VJ thread:

 

 

Edited July 18, 2023 by Crazy Cat

[JeanneAdil 6,482]

USC  is the one who expedites a case

and in this instance,  she has no reason /women go thru pregnancy without the father a lot like when the husband is in the military

 

Right now USCIS ,  is getting thousands of expedite requests 

[SalishSea 17,786]

3 hours ago, AhmadHamouda said:

Hello all

 

Just wanted to share my situation and ask all you experienced folks on what to do!

 

Case:

- I’m DQed in 30/6/2023, waiting for interview in Cairo Embassy for Spouse visa. 

- My wife she’s American and she’s going to be there starting from August. 
- She’s pregnant and this is our first baby, she’s 4 months now and her due is in Dec-Jan. 
- She’s going to stay with her sister and family, her mother has Parkinson’s (stage four) so her sister will mainly take care of her mother. 
 

- I’ve sent an email to NVC to expedite the case, attached pregnancy reports and scan and her mother Parkinson report and we said that I need to be there to take care of my wife during her last months and during labor. 
 

- They replied ‘ they can’t expedite this case’. 
 

- Cairo Embassy is heavily occupied, people are saying i’ll wait for more than 6 months to just get an interview date (currently sending interview letter to people who are DQed in Feb 2023), and Sudan Embassy cases I think have been moved also to Cairo Embassy. 
 

Question; Should I push back? Send to the embassy asking for a reason? Send to the congressmen to seek his help?

Or it might frustrate them, like okay we’ll expedite it but hey you’re refused (during the interview) and i lose all hopes of reuniting with my family so better just stay quiet so I don’t upset them with me going to other resources of help like the congressmen and so on?

 

Sorry if It’s long, but I just wanted to make sure I did everything I could for my family. 

Won’t work, you’ll just have to wait.

[Littlest_traveler 0]

How long did it take from applying for the I-130/ immigrant visa to getting it approved?

[appleblossom 2,417]

1 hour ago, Littlest_traveler said:

How long did it take from applying for the I-130/ immigrant visa to getting it approved?

Top tip - click on ‘Timeline’ on the OP’s post/profile to see it (and do add your own - the more people that add Timelines the better). 
 

Looks like it was 13 months. 

[Redro 4,611]

14 hours ago, AhmadHamouda said:

Hello all

 

Just wanted to share my situation and ask all you experienced folks on what to do!

 

Case:

- I’m DQed in 30/6/2023, waiting for interview in Cairo Embassy for Spouse visa. - Congratulations on being DQ. 

- My wife she’s American and she’s going to be there starting from August. - Good move for her to move back to the US before the interview. 
- She’s pregnant and this is our first baby, she’s 4 months now and her due is in Dec-Jan. - Congratulations again! 
- She’s going to stay with her sister and family, her mother has Parkinson’s (stage four) so her sister will mainly take care of her mother. - I'm sorry to hear about your mother-in-law. It is good she has her sister to help her.  
 

- I’ve sent an email to NVC to expedite the case, attached pregnancy reports and scan and her mother Parkinson report and we said that I need to be there to take care of my wife during her last months and during labor. -Pregnancy is not grounds to expedite. Not a small number of applicants have a child on the way or have children while waiting for the visa to be issued. Mother has 2 options: 1.) She can move back to the US and receive US medical care and support from her family. 2.) She can remain in Egypt and receive medical care in Egypt and support from you. If the baby is born in Egypt (as long as the mother qualifies). The child can obtain a CRBA. 
 

- They replied ‘ they can’t expedite this case’. Expediting because someone is pregnant would mean many many couples would try to game the system and fall pregnant to "speed up" the process. Falling pregnant really isn't an exceptional event. 
 

- Cairo Embassy is heavily occupied, people are saying i’ll wait for more than 6 months to just get an interview date (currently sending interview letter to people who are DQed in Feb 2023), and Sudan Embassy cases I think have been moved also to Cairo Embassy. So, you'll probably have your interview January/February 2024. Your wife might have to update her I-864 to include the newborn. Does she make enough on the I864 to cover the additional dependent for I864 or are you using a joint sponsor? 
 

Question; Should I push back? Send to the embassy asking for a reason? Send to the congressmen to seek his help?

Or it might frustrate them, like okay we’ll expedite it but hey you’re refused (during the interview) and i lose all hopes of reuniting with my family so better just stay quiet so I don’t upset them with me going to other resources of help like the congressmen and so on? -Why do you think you might be refused? Do you think you might require a waiver for one reason or another or are you worried about DS5335? 

 

Sorry if It’s long, but I just wanted to make sure I did everything I could for my family. 

 

 

Edited July 19, 2023 by Redro