US Embassy Ankara - Waivers and Administrative Processing

[bashar26 21]

Starting this forum to try and collect more information on Administrative Processing at the US Embassy in Ankara. I have been in AP for 2 months now. I am Syrian, and my wife is a US citizen. We are applying for my spouse visa. We started in March 2017. My wife is now in the US. We don't know if she should move back to Turkey to be with me. We want to know if anyone has been issued a visa waiver from Ankara under the travel ban.

 

I noticed today that the Ankara Embassy website status check page is updated automatically (https://tr.usembassy.gov/visas/immigrant-visas/iv-status-check/)... meaning that my case updates are pretty meaningless. But ceac.state.gov seems to be more accurate. Does anyone know if case updates mean anything at all?

 

Thanks all.

Kat and Bashar

[LeoUSA 57]

Hello Bashar,

I am Syrian too and have done my interview back in June and still under AP .. you have to wait for about 6-8 months (if you are lucky enough) to get an answer . So it is up to you to wait or not

How was your interview ? what did the counselor tell you ?

[bashar26 21]

The officer didn't say much, just gave me the form explaining I was in Administrative Processing and I had to fill out a DS-525 (or whatever that one is that takes your social media history). 

 

What embassy did you interview at?

 

[LeoUSA 57]

16 hours ago, bashar26 said:

The officer didn't say much, just gave me the form explaining I was in Administrative Processing and I had to fill out a DS-525 (or whatever that one is that takes your social media history). 

 

What embassy did you interview at?

 

I did mine in Amman, Jordan

[Mustafa91 0]

My situation and yours are the same , my wife is in AP since October 3 2018 , she did the interview in ankara and now we living together in turkey and waiting the waiver approval from Washington , I'm not going back to the u.s until we get the visa 

Edited May 1, 2019 by Mustafa91