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Hi Truserenity11: I keep hoping the 22-month wait is a temporary elongation. One factor that may have contributed to the longer wait this year is that Kenya snagged an unusually large number of Africa's 2024 diversity visas. Indeed, the published monthly immigrant visa counts for Nairobi reflect this. By my way of thinking, the more diversity visa interviews, the less interview slots for CR1/IR1 applicants. Since all the 2024 diversity visa interviews must be completed by September 30th, I think that means we will see more CR1/IR1 interviews beginning this October. Fingers crossed!

Hi everyone: I'm new to this thread, so before going further I just want to express my appreciation for the posts that have already been made. It's really helpful to learn from others' experiences. Anyway, just to add a little of my own experience, I am a USC, and my spouse and I became DQ on March 23, 2023, so we are coming up on our 18-month waiting mark for an IL. If it's true that the queue is currently taking 22 months, that means we won't be getting our IL until January, 2025. Ugh! Our wedding anniversary is December 29th, and we were really hoping to spend it in the USA, along with Christmas and New Year's. Back in the spring we got a one-way refundable ticket for December 18th, but now I'm starting to think I will need to fly to Nairobi instead. The one glimmer of hope I have is that, last year, autumn was a busy month for issuing IR1 visas in Nairobi. There were 45 issued in September, 2023; 85 in October, 2023; 105 in November, 2023, and then 60 in December, 2023. So, in effect, I am hoping that a bunch of ILs will be sent out in the next few weeks for interviews in November and December. Let's keep those fingers crossed! 🤞