Good morning everyone
I had my interview on March 26,2009 the interview went good but the CO gave me my passport back and she says she needs to do some AR .
every time i call DOS or send emails to the embassy asked about my status they said ''the case is pending AP''
on July 30,2009 i got an email from the embassy asked me to send them my passport .
they got my passport on Aug 2,2009.
since that day every time i email them to ask my status they say '' the case is pending CO review''
the embassy called me and they told me to go to them on Sept 27,2009 for a second interview .
i had a second interview on Sept 27,2009 it was very long interview about 40 minutes with 2 CO a man and a woman.
after they done i asked them if we are approve or if there any new news for us ? they said no good news no bad news .and they need to talk to my fiancee .
they didn't give me my passport back .
We sent them ''Emails and they said the case is pending CO review''
Last week we sent them Emails and they said '' the case is under ongoing AP !!!!''
My fiancee called them to see whats going on they told her that the case is under ongoing AP .she asked them if they are going to send our case back to USA or if they are going to deny us they said no .they said they just looking over a couple of documents!!!
I was wondering why they put us again under AP if we already have been under AP for more than 5 months ?!!!!
BTW they didn't call her so far and she tried to talk to anyone in charge of our case but the embassy didn't allow her to talk to anyone of them .
My fiancee asked her congressman and her senator for help .and they the embassy sent them Emails and they said '' the case is under ongoing AP....''
I was thinking that they might put us under AP for another 2 or 3 months and then they will send our case back to USA for review .so it will expire and they will close it there in USA.
What do you guys think about that ?
Thank you so much .

I think that you were actually placed in Administrative Review first, instead of Administrative Processing. The difference at least according to the London embassy is that AR is done at the embassy stage at the discretion of the COs and the AP is mandatory routine processing (aka security checks, etc) done at DOS/Washington DC. My fiance was also in AR for so long while we were thinking he was on AP the whole time, but his AR ended a while ago and he has been on AP ever since. You can read my post here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...t&p=3385997 explaining the difference I found out. I don't understand why they just don't do the processes at the same time or wait so long to start the AP part, but there is nothing we can do about the way they do things. I hope that you get out of AP soon, I don't think that your case will be sent back to the USA, I just think they started the AP part of your processing recently.

Thank you so much for the link . i really appreciate it .

Hot Guy --- Sorry for this hell.

There is a great woman - Tammy - who I suffered through AP with. Her husband from Bangledesh (excuse my spelling) who cleared AP at least once and they hit it again. It seems that DOS will clear a name once and then by the time they communicate this to you and prepare to issue the visa they run the name again - and another name hit comes up. Maybe this is happening to you as well.

They are telling your congressperson that you are still in AP -- not that the case is going back to US.

Keep the faith!!

That would be tammy2688.

Good news is they are hanging onto your passport.

You are welcome, just remember it is a good thing they are holding on to your passport. InshaAllah it won't be long.

In fact i don't know if its a good thing or not .cause i don't know if they forgot to give me my passport back to me .or if they didn't notice that they have it !!!!
I hope that you will hear good news soon .and Inshaallah it wont be long time till your love got the visa in hand .

They cannot forget to give your passport back because all the documents they have for you are logged into their system, so they must have logged your passport in the system as well that they have it. Just call DOS and ask whether your passport is in the system. Keep praying and I hope it will not be long!