Elizaamato

Yes, they were all waiting for an interview in Rio. There are few people in this group who are applying abroad, like at the Paris Consulate (Brazilians that live in Portugal or France) for example. Apparently, for most of the Consulates, the NVC manages to schedule the interviews according to the DQ, no matter where is going to be your interview. There are few exceptions like Canada, that due to its proximity to the USA, has a high demand for US visa applications, and probably because of that, has a huge waiting list there. But for most of the Consulates, NVC schedules all DQs from June23 quite at the same time, for example. It might have a little variance of 1 month between the Consulates, but the line is pretty the same almost everywhere unfortunately.

This is actually a Whatsapp group from people waiting for interview in the Rio de Janeiro Consulate. There are more than 600 people waiting for the interview there. Our case was addressed to Rio, but since I live in Portugal, we transferred the case to Paris recently. As there is a lot of people on this list, we can clearly see that ILs usually are sent on the first week of every month (that helped me to cool down my anxiety, because before knowing that I was checking my e-mail every single day), and in the last batch of interviews they invited only DQs from May and June 2023.

Oh that's right! Sorry @Natashavilacha, never mind! So if I've just read everything correctly in this thread, we have the following people currently on the waiting list for Paris: @isimoes (DQ Jul/23), @zaboo26 (DQ Nov/23), myself (DQ Nov/23) and @Cool-ant_622 (DQ Dec/23). Let's cross our fingers that this line moves fast!

@zaboo26we've got information from another group, where you can see that right now they are sending the IL for people who were DQ in June/2023. So I would say, you should be prepared to wait around 5 months more unfortunately. I am DQ from Nov/23, so when you receive your IL, will mean that I am about to receive mine too 😀

Hi @Natashavilacha would you mind sharing when your case became current on visa bulletin? I am also waiting an NIW interview in Paris and my DQ is from Nov/23. I’ve got worried when I saw you are DQ from March/23 and your interview is going to be in May/24.