Interview Expedited Timeline - Montreal

[Amle 6]

Hello, 

our case was approved for expedite at the interview stage in Montreal. Wait times for interviews are 5-6 months currently, with expedite it’s much faster. But how much? We got approved for expedite on Friday and it said that the consulate would be in touch to book our interview. Has anyone recently been through this to know an average timeline? 
Right now it says for visa status in CEAC that our visa is in transit to the consulate. 

thank you, 

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Just now, Amle said:

Hello, 

our case was approved for expedite at the interview stage in Montreal. Wait times for interviews are 5-6 months currently, with expedite it’s much faster. But how much? We got approved for expedite on Friday and it said that the consulate would be in touch to book our interview. Has anyone recently been through this to know an average timeline? 
Right now it says for visa status in CEAC that our visa is in transit to the consulate. 

thank you, 

 

If it helps, this case from earlier this year was 2 months for an interview, so hopefully you'll have yours around February time as a rough guide - 

 

 

Good luck. 

[AandMScoop 1]

Did you also apply for expedited process for the I-130 and NVC stage? If you did how long did that take for you?

 

We applied to expedite the I-130 with USCIS on October 5th 2024 and we have yet to hear anything back. We have called probably 10 times now with varying answers as to what is going on. Really frustrating.

[Amle 6]

2 hours ago, AandMScoop said:

Did you also apply for expedited process for the I-130 and NVC stage? If you did how long did that take for you?

 

We applied to expedite the I-130 with USCIS on October 5th 2024 and we have yet to hear anything back. We have called probably 10 times now with varying answers as to what is going on. Really frustrating.

 
Nope. We attempted expedite twice during I-130. Once with the help of a congressman whose office told us we had a very strong case, they thought we’d be pushed through. Denied both times. Expedite at USCIS stage is nearly impossible. We applied for my visa 490 days ago (August 2023) and had to wait out the entire I-130 process per normal wait times (15.5 months). NVC only took us a few weeks to get through to be DQ’ed and then we requested expedite 2 days after being DQ’ed. It took 30 days to hear back regarding the interview expedite.  

[AandMScoop 1]

On 12/24/2024 at 2:14 AM, Amle said:

 
Nope. We attempted expedite twice during I-130. Once with the help of a congressman whose office told us we had a very strong case, they thought we’d be pushed through. Denied both times. Expedite at USCIS stage is nearly impossible. We applied for my visa 490 days ago (August 2023) and had to wait out the entire I-130 process per normal wait times (15.5 months). NVC only took us a few weeks to get through to be DQ’ed and then we requested expedite 2 days after being DQ’ed. It took 30 days to hear back regarding the interview expedite.  

 

Thank you for your response. Good to know, we were told we had a good case to expedite by an attorney and we have just reached out to a congress member as well but haven't got a response from them yet. I guess we wont get our hopes up for our expedite request going through at the I-130 stage but we will continue to call them to see what is going on.

 

Good to hear that it is easier to get the case expedited at the NVC and Interview stages and hopefully we can get those approved.

 

Thank you again for your response.