Wife's H4 was send in Administrative processing after being told at the interview that visa is approved

[arslan_16 0]

Visa Officer told my wife that visa is approved on the 13th of May. We didn't get the passport for 10 days and I emailed them. They told me that our case is in administrative processing(last Friday 24th of May). However, the CEAC website still shows that the visa is approved. I am not sure what it means.

1. How is Administrative processing taking in Pakistan, specifically Karachi
2. Will the Embassy ask us for more information or we supposed to contact them on our own
3. Should I contact the Embassy regularly or not?

If anyone else is in the same boat, please reach out to me

[appleblossom 2,803]

1 minute ago, arslan_16 said:

Visa Officer told my wife that visa is approved on the 13th of May. We didn't get the passport for 10 days and I emailed them. They told me that our case is in administrative processing(last Friday 24th of May). However, the CEAC website still shows that the visa is approved. I am not sure what it means.

1. How is Administrative processing taking in Pakistan, specifically Karachi
2. Will the Embassy ask us for more information or we supposed to contact them on our own
3. Should I contact the Embassy regularly or not?

If anyone else is in the same boat, please reach out to me

 

Did they give you any document or reason for the AP? Anything else they asked you to submit? AP is very common for Pakistan unfortunately, particularly males. 

[Crazy Cat 41,984]

17 minutes ago, arslan_16 said:

Visa Officer told my wife that visa is approved on the 13th of May. We didn't get the passport for 10 days and I emailed them. They told me that our case is in administrative processing(last Friday 24th of May). However, the CEAC website still shows that the visa is approved. I am not sure what it means.

1. How is Administrative processing taking in Pakistan, specifically Karachi
2. Will the Embassy ask us for more information or we supposed to contact them on our own
3. Should I contact the Embassy regularly or not?

If anyone else is in the same boat, please reach out to me

You're stuck until they finish. 2 weeks is not a long time for AP in Pakistan. It could be much longer....maybe many months.

Edited May 28 by Crazy Cat

[arslan_16 0]

31 minutes ago, appleblossom said:

 

Did they give you any document or reason for the AP? Anything else they asked you to submit? AP is very common for Pakistan unfortunately, particularly males. 

No they didn't. It happened after I emailed them when we didn't get the passport in 10 days. How long is the current AP taking and I am the male lol

[arslan_16 0]

20 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

You're stuck until they finish. 2 weeks is not a long time for AP in Pakistan. It could be much longer....maybe many months.

2 weeks would be awesome. But I have heard cases like 4 months and one unfortunate one for 8 months. Do you have any refernce?

[appleblossom 2,803]

31 minutes ago, arslan_16 said:

2 weeks would be awesome. But I have heard cases like 4 months and one unfortunate one for 8 months. Do you have any refernce?

 

If you search the forum you'll find lots of references from others who have been through the process or are going through the process. But there's no way of knowing how long yours will take, it could be another day, or another year. 

 

You say that you're the male but also talk about 'our case' in your first post, so have you already got your visa? 

[Crazy Cat 41,984]

53 minutes ago, arslan_16 said:

2 weeks would be awesome. But I have heard cases like 4 months and one unfortunate one for 8 months. Do you have any refernce?

 I said it has only been 2 weeks so far, but it could take many months.  Hopefully, it will end soon. 

[arslan_16 0]

8 hours ago, appleblossom said:

 

If you search the forum you'll find lots of references from others who have been through the process or are going through the process. But there's no way of knowing how long yours will take, it could be another day, or another year. 

 

You say that you're the male but also talk about 'our case' in your first post, so have you already got your visa? 

Our because her case depends on mine. Yes I have my H1-B last year and it will expire in October, that is why I didn't go for interview

I see cases but not many for H4. Will it be exactly like other administative processing cases or some how different? For example, they haven't told us which documents to provide, and case officer had told her that interview is clear

[arslan_16 0]

8 hours ago, Crazy Cat said:

 I said it has only been 2 weeks so far, but it could take many months.  Hopefully, it will end soon. 

Ok, I thought it could actually end up in 2 weeks, sigh. Anyways, they haven't told her for any documents, I am not sure if I should email them for this or not

[appleblossom 2,803]

8 hours ago, arslan_16 said:

Ok, I thought it could actually end up in 2 weeks, sigh. Anyways, they haven't told her for any documents, I am not sure if I should email them for this or not

 

It may only be another couple of weeks, but no way of knowing, it depends on what they're checking and how quickly they get responses/information from any third party. But if they haven't asked her for any other documents and have kept her passport, that's promising. No point in emailing them, nothing to do but wait it out I'm afraid. 

 

Good luck.