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I am a US/Hungarian citizen and I got married in Russia and started immigrant visas for my family which are now all documentarily qualified. Their cases were first were in Moscow and then they all got moved to Warsaw in December. Due to a couple factors we needed to leave Russia and got an immigrant visa to Hungary and moved to Hungary. We just got out of in the nick of time in February. Originally, we expected to spend only a few months in Hungary while the US visas would be ready. However, with the war in Ukraine, the process seemed to have stopped because the Embassies are prioritizing Ukrainian cases. So we decided that we settle in for a longer time in Hungary. Because of that I wanted to get their cases moved to Budapest. I have been trying to get this done for a few months now, but I can't seem to get an answer to a very simple question: what is needed exactly to get this transfer done. I keep ending up talking with not Embassy personnel but some guys from US Tracvel Docs who does not know the answers and act as only intermediaries - bad ones at that. I sent all information about our living in Hungary to them but I have no idea what they presented to the Embassy because I keep getting rejections based on not being residents. Also every single question and answer takes weeks and at the end I'm no wiser. So it's pretty frustrating. I'd like to cut through the ####### and ask somebody directly at the Embassy: "What do you need to get the transfer approved?". Does anybody have any suggestion how to get this done?

I am a Hungarian-American dual citizen and I'm married to a Russian citizen with 2 kids. We have started the US immigration visa process a little bit over 2 years ago. At that time we indicated the Moscow embassy for the final interview. However, things have changed quite a bit since and their cases got automatically moved to Warsaw last December. We got the final approval on documents from NVC in March. But so far no word about scheduling their interviews. In the meanwhile, we moved to Hungary in February - just in the nick of time before the war started. They got immigrant visas to Hungary (only took 2.5 months) so we can stay here as long as we need, in safety. My question is whether it would make sense to request their cases to be moved from Warsaw to Budapest. - Would it make it faster, considering that the Warsaw embassy is probably overwhelmed with all the cases transferred there from Moscow? (my wife and kids do speak English, so if there's no Russian speaking staff that's not a problem) - Is there some way to find out what are the wait times in Warsaw and in Budapest? I tried to find out information about this calling the Budapest embassy and also submitting a query to NVC but so far no luck finding out anything. Any data or lead to getting information on this would be appreciated! 😀