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| Montreal, Canada |  Review on June 3, 2024: |
Nelly & John
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
Because I have read a lot of reviews on here that discuss getting delayed and/or other negative outcomes, I wanted to quickly drop a note from a more positive experience. If anything, our bigger delay was the time between my spouse being approved by USCIS and her children being approved. USCIS issued my wife's approval in late October but then didn't approve the children until February. So that was very frustrating because the first approval triggered the NVC process and we were really hopeful to have things moving fairly quickly. However, this turned out to be somewhat good anyway, because in gathering all the documents for NVC, we found a couple of issues that took time to fix. So by the time the children were approved in February, we really had our documents correct.
As for the consulate in Montreal, after a February approval from USCIS, the NVC did their paperwork approval in a couple of weeks and then they notified us in April of an early May interview time. My wife went to the interview with the two children accompanying her. The process was fairly quick, with a very early 7:45am time. She was done by about 10am and we spent the rest of the day touring Montreal. She said the interviewer and other staff were very friendly and helpful. Now, our case was probably as standard as they come - both long-time residents and native-born citizens of our respective countries, with no recent international extended travel, no other red flags at all really. I do suspect that some people get delayed because of small issues, like being born elsewhere, living in other countries recently, etc. But I'm just speculating.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #33217