Gretch

A client in Rwanda? My stepson has spent his whole life with his mother so this would be a hard case for us to make.

Yes, there was a big covid holdup, we got unlucky with the service center, he got processed as someone already in country and we weren't notified of the error for ages, the NVC site kept being down when I tried to check and I finally found a message saying they wanted another copy of my marriage certificate which they definitely already had, but I didn't get any separate notice of this... that kind of thing. I'm an American citizen by birth but in the meantime his dad has become a citizen and could have applied for him in the first place!

He's twelve, and will be interviewing in Kigali, Rwanda. I don't imagine there will be many with that info but I did write a post in the regional forum, too, I case it may be helpful to others. Mostly just wanting to find out if the interview scheduling process did change. Since the embassy doesn't get that much traffic, hopefully it'll be closer to two months.

Doubt there are many questions on this way but starting the topic anyway, maybe it will be useful for someone. I'm an American citizen petitioning for my minor stepson. We got DQ on 11/14/24. Will update when we get an interview. Back in 2016, it was a week between finishing at NVC and scheduling the interview, for my husband! I thought it would be easy to bring a child over, but apparently nothing is easy.

I filed for my husband in 2015. Based on the records from our timeline here, the NVC approved the application 9/26, the embassy received it 10/3, and he had his interview 11/14 (this is all 2016). Now I'm petitioning for my minor stepson to come. It's been a nightmare--I petitioned in December 2020 and nothing happened for ages--but we finally were documentariliy qualified at NVC on 11/14. I expected to hear an interview date within a few days, but now the embassy tells me it's the NVC who schedules, and the internet tells me it takes 2-3 months? Do I have that right?