We would appreciate any input we can get on a heartbreaking situation. I brought my Wife here and married fourteen years ago this coming July 8. Not long after she got her Green Card, she filed a Petition to bring her Son here from the Philippines under the category Unmarried Son Over The Age 21. The Visa was approved within weeks, but as many of you know the Waiting Period For Available Visa for a Filipino back then was 12 Years. I followed online the current wait time, and date then being worked on for many years. My Wife ultimately got her Citizenship after five years, but we left her status the same as the original Petition as Permanent Resident. I didn't try to change her Status to Citizen, because the waiting period and date being worked was actually one year and a half sooner for Permanent Resident than it was for a Citizen. I researched it here and also called USCIS and found out it was our option to change her status to Citizen or leave it as Permanent Resident, so we left it as Permanent Resident for the shorter time period. The years went on and our date finally came up as being reviewed, back in November of 2021. Then they contacted us and said I had to be added as a Co Sponsor and not just a Family Member on the Petition. I submitted the extra application, they reviewed it, and we finally got status of all paperwork and fees having been successfully submitted in March of 2022.
In March of 2022, with the online account showing all paperwork and fees successfully submitted, we began the wait of getting a notice of an interview date from the Embassy. My understanding was that the NVC at that point would send our case to the US Embassy in Manila, and we would now just wait for the notice of an Interview Date. That notice has never come, and it is now ONE YEAR AND THREE MONTHS since all of our fees and paperwork were successfully processed. I've tried calling the NVC, which I had done years ago and spoke to people, but now there is a recording saying they no longer take phone calls. They refer you to the online form to ask questions. So I tried that unsuccessfully, and simply got a reply that they were waiting for the Embassy to give them a date. Next I called the US Embassy Manila, they too don't take calls about cases, and refer you to the HOTLINE. I called the Hotline and expressed all of this, and they put me on hold to review. They came back on phone and said that they never received our case from the NVC. SO I WAS TOLD BY NVC THAT THEY WERE WAITING FOR AN INTERVIEW DATE TO SEND THE CASE TO THE EMBASSY, AND THE EMBASSY TOLD ME THEY DO NOT SET DATES FOR INTERVIEWS UNTIL THEY RECEIVE THE CASE FROM THE NVC. This is a disgusting case of both sides making excuses that they are waiting for the other side to do something.
Every Month I get an email from the NVC thanking us for our patience, expressing that Embassies are still behind on scheduling things from the experience with COVID. They claim they are waiting for a list of available dates from the Embassy to be sent to the NVC, so they the NVC can assign individual cases (on a first come first served basis) to the Embassy. This is exact wording from the June 2023 email I received:
This notice is to inform you that your case for an immigrant visa is documentarily complete at the National Visa Center (NVC) and has been since 17-Mar-2022. NVC has received all of the fees, forms and documents required prior to attending an immigrant visa interview. Your petition is awaiting an interview appointment. At this time, no further action is required. We appreciate your patience.
Your case will remain at NVC until an appointment is scheduled, at which time we will send it to the appropriate U.S. Embassy or Consulate General. We will notify the applicant, petitioner, and attorney (if applicable) when an appointment is scheduled.
The U.S. Embassy or Consulate tells NVC which dates they are holding interviews. NVC fills these appointments on a first-in, first-out basis and is unable to predict when an interview will be scheduled
PLEASE I NEED HELP. SOMETING SEEMS TO BE VERY WRONG; YET, AS THE EMAILS IMPLY EVERYTHING IS PROGRESSING NORMALLY. Normally they say; in other words it is alright to make us wait twelve years to have our case worked on for a VISA, and then jokingly tell us they are now waiting for the Embassy approaching a year and a half to tell them a date is available for an interview? Is this Normal? Is there something I don't understand, where we have been singled out to torture? Is there anything I can or should be doing to make this end and get an interview for my Wife's Son?
Thank you in advance for any input any or all of you can give to me.
The Wizzard
Melanie p. valdez
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3:58 pm June 25, 2023
