Form DS-5535 'SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS FOR VISA APPLICANTS'

[Tarsha 24]

7 hours ago, letitgo said:

What’s the gover Shutdown can you please explain more thanks 

The government shutdown is when senate and congress can’t come to a budget agreement. Last time it happened was in 2013. Some workers will be out of work, making things go a little slow, but no real panics as far as people not receiving visas...just a little slowness which has been going on for a while. I heard the people who will be affected are B1, F1, and diversity visas, but not family based visas as their budgets are implemented through the application fees

[Shazyyo 37]

11 minutes ago, Tarsha said:

The government shutdown is when senate and congress can’t come to a budget agreement. Last time it happened was in 2013. Some workers will be out of work, making things go a little slow, but no real panics as far as people not receiving visas...just a little slowness which has been going on for a while. I heard the people who will be affected are B1, F1, and diversity visas, but not family based visas as their budgets are implemented through the application fees

I guess Gov shutdown will affect those visa applications that are still not arrived to NVC. They are still with USCIS. Because the ones with NVC are under consular's consideration or may be under security checks in USA. We have been interviewed and our passports are with NVC. Waiting for final visa stamp... We are at final stages.. Allah will be with all of us.. Just pray and hope for the best that this shutdown wont affect us.

[Tarsha 24]

14 minutes ago, Shazyyo said:

I guess Gov shutdown will affect those visa applications that are still not arrived to NVC. They are still with USCIS. Because the ones with NVC are under consular's consideration or may be under security checks in USA. We have been interviewed and our passports are with NVC. Waiting for final visa stamp... We are at final stages.. Allah will be with all of us.. Just pray and hope for the best that this shutdown wont affect us.

Hopefully the shutdown is not long! The decision they couldn’t come to agreement on was the DACA program! 

[deab 4]

18 hours ago, Tarsha said:

Yeah, I heard that too...the budget already is covered for USCIS, DOS, and Embassy consulars 

The only problem is, AP is where we are all at, and AP goes through many government agencies for review. There is no way for us to know for sure if some of the agencies involved in that process would be affected or not. If they are all of our cases could go into a holding pattern until Congress can come to an agreement and the government gets back up and running again. If there is a shut down, each agency will be playing catch up from the shut down along with dealing with the case loads they already had. 😕

[Waiting4Parents 1]

14 minutes ago, deab said:

The only problem is, AP is where we are all at, and AP goes through many government agencies for review. There is no way for us to know for sure if some of the agencies involved in that process would be affected or not. If they are all of our cases could go into a holding pattern until Congress can come to an agreement and the government gets back up and running again. If there is a shut down, each agency will be playing catch up from the shut down along with dealing with the case loads they already had. 😕

I am a US federal employee, although not with DOS or USCIS, overall vibe is that all of the non-emergency/non-essential employees will not be working until the budget is resolved. I am assuming issuing visas and running background checks is not something that is critical for US operations and thus would be halted unless they have their budget allocated already, which is very rare for the government. Regardless, usually the shutdowns do not last that long. And it is still likely that things resolve over the weekend. If not, it will definitely affect all of those who are pending investigation from the US.

[SabrinaJerome 52]

On 25/9/2017 at 6:00 AM, Tarsha said:

Hopefully this form goes away. It expires November 29th and hopefully if they decide to keep it, it'll be apart of the original documentation submitted and not after an interview. US citizens do have until October 2nd to respond on a forum to the Department of State about this form if anyone is interested. Hopefully soon, everyone is approved 

 

On 30/11/2017 at 1:01 AM, 99balloons said:

IR1 spouse visa updated today Dakar, Senegal... Hopefully DS-5535 will expire tomorrow (didn't see any US news that it is being renewed) and our cases will keep moving.

Hi everyone,

Have people been getting the DS-5535 recently (Dec or Jan) even though it expired at the end of November? Or was it renewed?

 

[yousef5 4]

25 minutes ago, SabrinaJerome said:

 

Hi everyone,

Have people been getting the DS-5535 recently (Dec or Jan) even though it expired at the end of November? Or was it renewed?

 

What’s all this for I didn’t get it

[SabrinaJerome 52]

This form, DS-5535, is what many on this thread are talking about, because it has put them into Administrative Processing, and many are waiting for months with no information.

The DS-5535 is a form that has been given to visa applicants at their interview, and asks for supplementary information about their family, their travels, their social media names and email addresses, etc.

I am asking whether it was renewed since it was supposed to be valid only from May through November 2017.

[Tarsha 24]

2 hours ago, SabrinaJerome said:

This form, DS-5535, is what many on this thread are talking about, because it has put them into Administrative Processing, and many are waiting for months with no information.

The DS-5535 is a form that has been given to visa applicants at their interview, and asks for supplementary information about their family, their travels, their social media names and email addresses, etc.

I am asking whether it was renewed since it was supposed to be valid only from May through November 2017.

I saw a recent post on this thread the other day that the poster’s dad received it after the interview. If I’m not mistaken, the interview was January 3rd. 

[Tarsha 24]

On 1/17/2018 at 12:58 PM, Mia12392 said:

Anyone else have any updates to share?

Date update again today 

[rafiq akhtar 2]

13 minutes ago, Tarsha said:

Date update again today 

When was ur interview

[Waiting4Parents 1]

19 hours ago, Tarsha said:

I saw a recent post on this thread the other day that the poster’s dad received it after the interview. If I’m not mistaken, the interview was January 3rd. 

Yes. My dad was requested to fill out a form that is identical to DS-5535 after his interview on Jan 3rd. Even if the form is not in use "officially", I am assuming it is still being requested. Either way, it is causing the cases to slow down. 

 

No update since I sent the DS-5535 via email. 

[Tarsha 24]

17 minutes ago, rafiq akhtar said:

When was ur interview

August 24th

[Tarsha 24]

Just now, Tarsha said:

August 24th

14 updates so far (I’ve lost count) 

[rafiq akhtar 2]

On 10/01/2018 at 4:08 AM, deab said:

Hi all,

My husband had his interview July 21 and submitted his completed DS-5535 on August 2nd. Our case has been touched about 5 or 6 times since that time with the last file touch being Nov 1st. Tonight I sent an email to both CasaAdminProcess@state.gov and IVCasablanca@state.gov, cc’ing our attorney asking if they could provide an eta to the completion of The additional processing period and to let them know we are still looking forward to his arrival home to us in the United States. Has anyone else been in this process for this length of time? I’m fully expecting his arrival home very soon. If Inknew the date of his arrival this wait could be so easy but it’s the unknown that makes it so challenging. 

Hi... any update?