U.S. Embassy in Bangkok Reopening on October 1

[dr224 1]

Hi, just updating my status for any of you who are waiting for your interview date. Our case was DQed at the NVC on June 15 of this year and we just received an interview appointment letter just yesterday. So don't give up hope, the process is moving along.

 

edit: we are an IR-1 visa applicant

Edited December 17, 2020 by dr224

[alcuin 0]

On 12/16/2020 at 8:56 PM, dr224 said:

Hi, just updating my status for any of you who are waiting for your interview date. Our case was DQed at the NVC on June 15 of this year and we just received an interview appointment letter just yesterday. So don't give up hope, the process is moving along.

 

edit: we are an IR-1 visa applicant

Congratulations and good luck with the interview.  My wife is DQed on July 27, so hopefully she isn't too far off.

Edited December 19, 2020 by alcuin
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[Brandon n Ratcha 0]

They just closed the embassy again  

My wife passed the interview last week, hope they can still mail the visa and passport. I feel so bad for everyone that got their interviews cancelled.

[Steve and Nicha 35]

Has anyone learned anything further on whether the Bangkok embassy is requesting new petitions from the NVC for K1s?  By now, they should be past their canceled interview backlog.

[alcuin 0]

On 12/19/2020 at 4:44 PM, alcuin said:

Congratulations and good luck with the interview.  My wife is DQed on July 27, so hopefully she isn't too far off.

I just got the interview appt letter today.  Interview scheduled for 2/10, hopefully that means the embassy will be open for the interview? Or is it an automated email that will need to reschedule the appointment... not sure.

[cbudd1989 1]

On 1/19/2021 at 8:53 AM, alcuin said:

I just got the interview appt letter today.  Interview scheduled for 2/10, hopefully that means the embassy will be open for the interview? Or is it an automated email that will need to reschedule the appointment... not sure.

Congrats, my wife was dqed October 6th i hope things keep moving at this pace. The embassy briefly closed all services due to covid concerns on the 21rst then reopened the 28th of December.

Edited January 20, 2021 by cbudd1989

[kappy66 15]

On 1/5/2021 at 5:02 PM, Steve and Nicha said:

Has anyone learned anything further on whether the Bangkok embassy is requesting new petitions from the NVC for K1s?  By now, they should be past their canceled interview backlog.

Of course not. They closed down yet again, for a flu like virus (I've had it, that's what it is for most). So frustrating.

[PK_ 43]

13 hours ago, cbudd1989 said:

Congrats, my wife was dqed October 6th i hope things keep moving at this pace. The embassy briefly closed all services due to covid concerns on the 21rst then reopened the 28th of December.

For IR-1/CR-1 interviews, I have been tracking the interviews that have been reported on one of the facebook groups. They are making quite a bit of progress. There's one person with DQ on 9/1/2020 that got an interview on 2/27/2021. The wait time from DQ to interview date has been dropping. If the the trend continues, your DQ on 10/6 is projected to have an interview on 3/5/2021 (150 days of wait time). Our DQ is on 10/7, so there's light at the end of the tunnel!

 

Edited January 21, 2021 by PK_

[cbudd1989 1]

12 hours ago, PK_ said:

For IR-1/CR-1 interviews, I have been tracking the interviews that have been reported on one of the facebook groups. They are making quite a bit of progress. There's one person with DQ on 9/1/2020 that got an interview on 2/27/2021. The wait time from DQ to interview date has been dropping. If the the trend continues, your DQ on 10/6 is projected to have an interview on 3/5/2021 (150 days of wait time). Our DQ is on 10/7, so there's light at the end of the tunnel!

 

That's fantastic news!

[kappy66 15]

Just received notification from nvc that my petition has been forwarded to Bangkok. My petition sat at NVC since March. Will keep you all updated.

[TBoneTX 43,061]

6 hours ago, kappy66 said:

my petition has been forwarded to Bangkok

Fingers crossed...

[Coin3 66]

7 hours ago, kappy66 said:

Just received notification from nvc that my petition has been forwarded to Bangkok. My petition sat at NVC since March. Will keep you all updated.

I also just got an email from the NVC saying my case has been forwarded to Bangkok. My NOA2 date was 5/15, quite a bit after yours, so it looks like the embassy decided to request a good portion of the K1 backlog all at once. Hope they start processing them quickly!

[J+J 49]

Our case changed to in transit as well yesterday!

I heard that all cases that have been approved (NOA2) last year were shipped...so embassy is about to have a huge caseload if that's true.

[Dr. Bob 48]

About time they took on new K1 cases! 😀

[kappy66 15]

On 1/26/2021 at 12:40 PM, J+J said:

Our case changed to in transit as well yesterday!

I heard that all cases that have been approved (NOA2) last year were shipped...so embassy is about to have a huge caseload if that's true.

If that's true, I hope they have an intelligent way of processing more than a years worth of visas.