What does "Your application requires further administrative review" mean?

[commocean 9]

Does anyone know what that phrase "Your application requires further administrative review" signifies? My wife just had her interview in Kuala Lumpur (She is Chinese.) and instead of a visa got a form letter saying "We regret to inform you that we are unable to issue a visa to you because you have been found ineligible to receive a visa under the following section(s) of the Immigration and Nationalities Act."

Several unchecked sections that don't apply are listed and then a box: "Your application requires further administrative review. We will contact you.."

The interviewing officer, and her interview notification letter both stated that all the requested paperwork was in order (however they did ask for my 2012 1040 which we provided. ) They didn't keep her or our son's passports and returned all our documents.

There was no reason or time to wait given.

Thanks.

Craig and Yan

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

It means you are in Administrative Processing. Look it up. Plenty of topics here and a whole forum devoted to the subject.

[stevie b 141]

you have now been placed into ap

it will most likely stay at the embassy

there is nothing you can do but wait at this point

[Darnell 8,478]

'further administrative review' usually means they need more time to finish up the casefile processing.

somethings missing, say a background check or two.

the big 'visual' that she's in for a long wait? the passports were returned, not held at the IV Unit in KL.

[commocean 9]

First, thanks to all who responded, even if it was just to gently remind me that this subject has been gone over a lot and I could look up those discussions. I am properly chastised and a little embarrassed. Yes, I know what AP means, on the surface. And I did read some of the other discussions. But I wanted to know what did it really mean. When would we be out of limbo? I was in a panic mode with no visa in hand after the interview. And the answer is. nobody really knows because each case is different and who knows what the CO is thinking. Just wait. (To those who responded I would like to say that the quality of your character is partially shown by how you treat God's less intelligent creatures.)

So yesterday, a week after the interview we got an email saying to come to the embassy with passports. (I assume they didn't keep the passports originally because my wife is a foreigner here and may need it for daily use.)

In retrospect I realize I've taken this whole process too nonchalantly. I just assumed that since I believe we are truly married and the law says that I should be able to bring family members into the US, there would be no problem. But whenever I discussed this with anybody I always added the caveat that, "They are the government."

So thanks to this community, we can get our airline tickets, my son can enroll in school, and we can make those ordinary boring plans that life depends on but get interrupted for so many reasons.

First, thanks to all who responded, even if it was just to gently remind me that this subject has been gone over a lot and I could look up those discussions. I am properly chastised and a little embarrassed. Yes, I know what AP means, on the surface. And I did read some of the other discussions. But I wanted to know what did it really mean. When would we be out of limbo? I was in a panic mode with no visa in hand after the interview. And the answer is. nobody really knows because each case is different and who knows what the CO is thinking. Just wait. (To those who responded I would like to say that the quality of your character is partially shown by how you treat God's less intelligent creatures.)

So yesterday, a week after the interview we got an email saying to come to the embassy with passports. (I assume they didn't keep the passports originally because my wife is a foreigner here and may need it for daily use.)

In retrospect I realize I've taken this whole process too nonchalantly. I just assumed that since I believe we are truly married and the law says that I should be able to bring family members into the US, there would be no problem. But whenever I discussed this with anybody I always added the caveat that, "They are the government."

So thanks to this community, we can get our airline tickets, my son can enroll in school, and we can make those ordinary boring plans that life depends on but get interrupted for so many reasons.

I'm sorry about the double. Don't know why that happened.

[Darnell 8,478]

That's the best news, ever !!! [come to Embassy with passports]

I predict 5 more business days till visa packet in hands.

Congratulations !

[commocean 9]

Thanks for that. I didn't understand about the 5 more days. You mean they don't give us the packet when we go back to the Embassy? Do we have to make another trip?

My wife, also, is Wuhanese.

[Darnell 8,478]

It's my understanding the visa packet is sent out from the embassy

to

whatever address she tells them to send it out.

The Visa is Printed then Glued into the passport, so that's some time, but

I hear KL is easy on calling in and asking for status, yes?