Pending review = Final review?????

[Wendy<3Ahmed 12]

Good morning to our VJ family. My husband wrote to the embassy yesterday since we had reached our 3rd month mark. Today we receive an email as follows.

The case is still pending review, once the process is completed, we will notify Mr. XXXXXXXX of the next step.

Regards,

Consular Section

U.S. Embassy, Cairo

NI

Each of the previous replies we have received each week said we were still under mandatory administrative processing or just pending administrative processing. That we would be notified when the AP was completed. Now there is my question to you guys. This one today only says pending review. As well as to what the next step is. Since my dear husband had to request for his passport back to travel for work. Could that be Final Review or and I getting excited for nothing? Could the next step be to send in his passport back to them. Any insight would be greatly appreaciated.

We have been waitng so long. God willing, we are getting closer.

Edited January 4, 2012 by Wendy<3Ahmed

[bigdog 377]

It is the luck of the draw, and review is different per embassy. Hang in there.

[together4evr 360]

I truly hope this means within 2 weeks he will have his visa. But, I cannot tell with Cairo. They are not organized enough to predict or guess what they are actually saying. I am hoping for the best and I always believe in the power of positive thinking and the power of prayer. I will send good vibes your way.

[Darnell 8,479]

'pending review' means

it's in the review queue.

tis a new queue, to be certain.

[Om&Abo Malik 12]

Good morning to our VJ family. My husband wrote to the embassy yesterday since we had reached our 3rd month mark. Today we receive an email as follows.

The case is still pending review, once the process is completed, we will notify Mr. XXXXXXXX of the next step.

Regards,

Consular Section

U.S. Embassy, Cairo

NI

Each of the previous replies we have received each week said we were still under mandatory administrative processing or just pending administrative processing. That we would be notified when the AP was completed. Now there is my question to you guys. This one today only says pending review. As well as to what the next step is. Since my dear husband had to request for his passport back to travel for work. Could that be Final Review or and I getting excited for nothing? Could the next step be to send in his passport back to them. Any insight would be greatly appreaciated.

We have been waitng so long. God willing, we are getting closer.

I think this sounds similar to our email we received and his visa was issued bout 3 weeks later. So hang in there i think they would have told you administrative processing if it was still in administrative processing.

[Wendy<3Ahmed 12]

I truly hope this means within 2 weeks he will have his visa. But, I cannot tell with Cairo. They are not organized enough to predict or guess what they are actually saying. I am hoping for the best and I always believe in the power of positive thinking and the power of prayer. I will send good vibes your way.

Thanks for the positive vibes. We could sure use some. Your positiv view and words are help out ease my stress. Getting pretty close to your interview. Best wishes.

[Wendy<3Ahmed 12]

'pending review' means

it's in the review queue.

tis a new queue, to be certain.

Forgive me for my dumbness. Didn't understand what you said exactly. Did you mean its in queue(line) for the administrative processing to start, in queue for final review or in queue for visa issuance?

[Wendy<3Ahmed 12]

I think this sounds similar to our email we received and his visa was issued bout 3 weeks later. So hang in there i think they would have told you administrative processing if it was still in administrative processing.

Thanks for giving me back some hope. I called DOS today, they still said it was in AP, but I don't think or hope they aren't updated daily by the embassy. On Tuesdays is when I call DOS, praying that next week they will give us other news than being in AP still. And of course Ahmed, will email them next week too, to see what new phrase they have for us. LOL Can I ask you a favor, do you still have the email you mentioned? Maybe you can private message me the email part to see the difference. I know it's not for sure it will be the same pattern, as each case in different. Just gives me hope. Hoping you understand, I'm going crazy here.

Edited January 5, 2012 by Wendy<3Ahmed

[NY_BX 397]

Thanks for giving me back some hope. I called DOS today, they still said it was in AP, but I don't think or hope they aren't updated daily by the embassy. On Tuesdays is when I call DOS, praying that next week they will give us other news than being in AP still. And of course Ahmed, will email them next week too, to see what new phrase they have for us. LOL Can I ask you a favor, do you still have the email you mentioned? Maybe you can private message me the email part to see the difference. I know it's not for sure it will be the same pattern, as each case in different. Just gives me hope. Hoping you understand, I'm going crazy here.

I suggest, if you haven't done so already, that you call the embassy directly. Just let it ring and ring and ring until someone answers. Ask them what these phrases mean. They should have like a legend or a glossary of terms in the website.

Hope this is over soon!

[Om&Abo Malik 12]

Thanks for giving me back some hope. I called DOS today, they still said it was in AP, but I don't think or hope they aren't updated daily by the embassy. On Tuesdays is when I call DOS, praying that next week they will give us other news than being in AP still. And of course Ahmed, will email them next week too, to see what new phrase they have for us. LOL Can I ask you a favor, do you still have the email you mentioned? Maybe you can private message me the email part to see the difference. I know it's not for sure it will be the same pattern, as each case in different. Just gives me hope. Hoping you understand, I'm going crazy here.

at first when the embassy was telling us we were "pending review" the dept of state was telling us ap still but once the visa was issued dos knew about it. i can look in my email but i think it has been deleted but it was worded "pending consular officer's review" you maybe can send an email saying has administrative processing been completed and am i now in review?" something like that