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If you check CEAC you'll see when they were received too, it'll say the date your case was updated.

We've already got return tickets booked, leaving on 29th July and our interview is 17th July. So might be cutting it fine but we did make sure we booked flexible tickets just in case we need to change them! 3 days is super quick though, that's great.

When I contacted them, I was offered medical dates from only a week or so away, they seemed to have plenty of availability. Most people get 6-8 weeks notice of their interview, so that should be tons of time to get the medical done unless they suddenly get backlogs. I guess the only other reason to book the medical in advance is if you know there may be follow up documents required that could delay things.

I emailed them, but yes. They said they didn't need the IL to book our medical in. The only thing I would say is that obviously the visa is only valid for 6 months from the date of medical, not an issue for us as we want to leave straight after we get our passports back (hopefully!) anyway, but may mean it's too tight time wise for people who want longer after receiving their visa before they have to go to the US.

Not necessarily, you could do consular processing rather than AOS. But yes, India will be your country for processing purposes, so a much longer wait - you might want to just apply for EB2 NIW directly from Canada instead and wait it out there?

This thread may be useful - Not many recent cases but gives you an idea at least, seems the wait isn’t too bad at all.

Why the H1-B if you'll have a TN by then? I can't see any employer wanting to spend the extra on that when it's not necessary? Not sure an EB1 will work for a dentist, but as above, have a look at EB2. If your employer won't sponsor an immigrant visa (lots are reluctant to, as it cost them a large amount of money and means you can then go and work for anybody else), then you may need to look at EB2 NIW. Good luck.

India does have it's own PD though? It’s up to each consulate how to use their 7% quota up (if at all - very few countries do) and which visas to direct their efforts to. Even if DR chose to use 13,000 for F2B then as long as they don't issue more than 12,620 across the other categories they're not doing anything wrong. And even if it is more than the limit issued in the end (unlikely), remember that not all of those will count towards the cap anyway (for example, if they were born elsewhere but processed via DR they would come under another country's cap). Last year DR issued 33,217 IV's in total but 20,214 were immediate relatives so didn't come under the country cap, plus presumably quite a few were others that don't come under the cap (i.e. some F2A's), so they were well under the 7% anyway.

Our weren't, we got ours well before the IL arrived and it was no problem at all. We also booked our medicals ahead of receiving the IL as our teens were doing A Levels & GCSE's across May & June, so had very limited dates when going to London for a day was possible. It was no problem at all.

We'll have to agree to disagree. Not sure what DR means, have only seen it for Dominican Republic on this forum, but assume you mean something else?

The PD is on the Visa Bulletin, released each month - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2023/visa-bulletin-for-june-2023.html And it is possible that there is no movement, it just means that there are still too many people in the queue who applied prior to 22nd Sept 2015 and they're working through them. With a limited number of visas available each year, and far more people applying than there are visas available, the date won't change until those people have been processed.

See the post above your first one, same situation for you unfortunately. It means you can’t have an interview scheduled yet as there is no visa available for you. The current date in this months Visa Bulletin for F2A is 08 Sept 2020. Good luck, hope it doesn’t take too long for your date to become current. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2023/visa-bulletin-for-june-2023.html

What is your Priority Date? It doesn’t look as though it’s current from your timeline?

Not sure what you mean about age, as this category is for those already over 21. But there’s no allowances for those that want to marry, they would have to wait or give up their chance of an IV in this category. If their parent later becomes a US citizen they could be sponsored if married.

Same answer as the last time you asked I’m afraid -

Medicals are valid for 6 months, but your visa validity will be linked to when the medical expires - so you don’t want to have the medical done too early, otherwise you’d have no time to enter the US before your visa expires. Most medical providers require you to have the IL first before you can book anyway.

Most people have to arrive without a job, you're much more likely to get hired when you're actually in the US. Could you not move to a less expensive area though, at least to start with?

Unfortunately perfectly normal. If you search you’ll see that people that have been receiving IL’s this month were DQ’ed in Nov 21, so you’ve got about another year to go unless they pick up the pace. Good luck.

That will depend on the consulate. Some are only 3 months or so from DQ to interview date, others are 2 years or more. Is yours Germany or somewhere else? And no, you just get given a date. You can reschedule, but would potentially have to wait much longer for a new date, so it's not a good idea unless you really have to.

If you're not even DQ'ed yet, then definitely smarter to wait I think. I don't know if Germany has a backlog for interviews at the moment, but even in a quick embassy it would be 3-4 months from DQ to interview date so that wouldn't leave you much time before the visa expired. I'd keep your 25th July appointment, you won't be interviewed before then anyway, so that may work and if that's still too early you can cancel and reschedule.

You’ll need to check with the place where she’ll have the medical. Some won’t take appointments without the IL, some will. We booked ours before we had our IL with just the case number, we knew the IL was imminent and we only had one week when we could get the medical done due to our children sitting important exams. So we just went ahead as the doctors in London let you do that, but not all will. We ended up getting the IL just before the medical date anyway so took it with us, but they never asked for it. Also just bear in mind the visa will be valid for 6 months from the date of medical usually. So if you have to wait a while for the interview that could be problematic.

Your UK driving licence isn't valid if you're not resident there. Here's the list of acceptable documents from when I applied a couple of months ago, hope it helps - Proof of current address You must provide one acceptable proof of your current address from either of the following lists: One valid document that shows your name and current address. Full driving licence/provisional driving licence ID card from your country of residence Medical/health Card Immigration document OR One document dated within the last 12 months that shows your name and current address. Utility bill (this does not include a mobile phone bill) Bank or building society statement Credit card statement Pension letter or statement Letter from a central, regional or local government department Letter from an employer on headed paper Letter from a school, college, or university on headed paper TV licence Letter from a bank Letter from a medical service Mortgage statement Council tax bill or polling card House, motor, travel or health insurance certificate or document Letter from a solicitor Formal tenancy agreement or letter from letting agent

I've got no idea about Stockholm, my consulate is London and they usually only send out IL's once a month, so perhaps you just missed the cut off for that month?

You can do, but the immigration timelines on VJ don't say 6 weeks, it seems to be quite a bit longer than that so I wouldn't worry just yet - https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list.php?cfl=0&op1=3&op2=d&op3=5&op4=1&op5=5,6,8,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,20,21,22,25,26,27,28,108,110,111,208,210,211&op6=All&op66=All&op7=Sweden&dfile=No&adv=0 Might be worth asking in the Europe sub forum to see if anybody has any recent experience. Good luck.

+1, it's definitely needed. I don't know how you're having to apply now (I applied in April, so had to fill in a form, scan it and email it to them with the supporting docs, as the website had been hacked prior to that), but in the form I had to complete it was on the checklist of required supporting documents, and then at the end of the document there was a list of acceptable proofs. "Proof of your current address. You must provide ONE proof of your current address from the ‘Proof of current address’ list at the end of the application form. Your current address is where you live now and can be outside of the UK. Any proof of address that is not in English must be translated into English. The UK driving licence paper counterpart is not an acceptable proof of address, even if it shows your current address".