F1 Visa and Administrative Processing (Almost Done) (Multiple merged threads)

[quistarrok 51]

Hi community - my relative is a citizen of Russia. She aim to apply for computer science degree (BS) in the US. 
 

Is there a risk of F1 denial or administrative processing?

 

I am not completely clear about Technology Alert List - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_Alert_List. Russia is on a list. Majors like “Robotics” and “Information Security” are listed as sensitive majors. 

 

is Technology Alert List and risk of F1 denial / AP is for “master and higher degree” only or it applies to undergraduate degree like bachelors as well?

 

 

[Boiler 45,744]

No F1 is guaranteed.

 

Usually other factors are more important.

[appleblossom 2,815]

Might be worth having another read of your previous thread about another close relative who’d applied for a F1. As explained in that, it’s more to do with being Russian that anything else, so yes, the risk of AP is high. 
 

What relative to you is this? 

Edited February 5 by appleblossom

[quistarrok 51]

13 hours ago, Boiler said:

No F1 is guaranteed.

 

Usually other factors are more important.

Thank you. Could you please clarify what would you mean here?

[Boiler 45,744]

17 hours ago, quistarrok said:

I am not completely clear about Technology Alert List - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_Alert_List. Russia is on a list. Majors like “Robotics” and “Information Security” are listed as sensitive majors. 

 

Factors other than this

[quistarrok 51]

Hello All - I hope you are doing well.

 

Here is a situation. My relative was put in administrative processing (AP) for an F1 visa last summer. The embassy just emailed her that AP is almost done and requires her passport and a copy of their email. It has been 8 months since AP started, and the relative is currently in a different country (Russia) (not the country of the embassy she interviewed at, which is South Korea).

 

Questions:

 

1) First of all: is it a good sign, i.e., likely F1 approval than not?

 

2) Should she return to South Korea, where she was interviewed? The email from the embassy says that she needs to ship the passport/copy of the email via courier. It does not say that she needs to come to the embassy herself. Eventually, if the F1 visa is approved - she will get the passport back via mail domestically (right?). Then, does she need to go back to South Korea? Her parents live in South Korea and can pick up or receive the passport (with an F1 visa).

 

3) Even though the email from the embassy did not ask for an I-20, does she need to get an UPDATED I-20 and provide it to the embassy, as the validity dates for the visa need to be shifted? The university welcomes her to come to study for this fall semester (2024).

 

4) How urgent does she need to be to get the passport the embassy requested? The university told her they could reissue the I-20 in April (i.e., in a month or two).

 

Hope for your advice.

[quistarrok 51]

Hello All - I hope you are doing well.

 

Here is a situation. My relative was put in administrative processing (AP) for an F1 visa last summer. The embassy just emailed her that AP is almost done and requires her passport and a copy of their email. It has been 8 months since AP started, and the relative is currently in a different country (Russia) (not the country of the embassy she interviewed at, which is South Korea).

 

Questions:

 

1) First of all: is it a good sign, i.e., likely F1 approval than not?

 

2) Should she return to South Korea, where she was interviewed? The email from the embassy says that she needs to ship the passport/copy of the email via courier. It does not say that she needs to come to the embassy herself. Eventually, if the F1 visa is approved - she will get the passport back via mail domestically (right?). Then, does she need to go back to South Korea? Her parents live in South Korea and can pick up or receive the passport (with an F1 visa).

 

3) Even though the email from the embassy did not ask for an I-20, does she need to get an UPDATED I-20 and provide it to the embassy, as the validity dates for the visa need to be shifted? The university welcomes her to come to study for this fall semester (2024).

 

4) How urgent does she need to be to get the passport the embassy requested? The university told her they could reissue the I-20 in April (i.e., in a month or two).

 

Hope for your advice.

[Boiler 45,744]

I would send it with her parents as the delivery address and with a new I 20

 

Sounds positive 

[quistarrok 51]

2 hours ago, Boiler said:

I would send it with her parents as the delivery address and with a new I 20

 

Sounds positive 

Thank you for the advice. Obstacle is that the school will issue new I-20 only in April. Is it safe to wait until she gets updated I-20 or should she give them passport now as they requested? Confusion is that embassy might issue visa based on old I-20 which is incorrect? 

[Boiler 45,744]

Normally an F1 is a couple of weeks, here the issue is presumably because she is Russian and that hurdle has been passed.

[powerpuff 6,744]

Three related threads on F1 and AP merged. Please do not start another thread on this topic as that’s considered spamming; keep all further questions and follow ups in this thread only.

 

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[quistarrok 51]

Any other valuable advice, deal community? Need help.