Embassy says our case is at NVC? It's been 6month after interview

[kelsw 0]

I'm petitioning for my husband to come live with me in the USA. His interview was in April. They kept his passport and our original marriage certificate and his birth certificate. But they did not accept the translations that were submitted to the NVC because they weren't from Sri Lanka. We had translations we got in 2019 in Sri Lanka luckily, since they kept our documents so we couldn't get new ones, and turned those in. Our status has been "refused" since May 11, 2021. In a past email response to me asking about our case they said the updated documents were being reviewed by the consulate officer and that he would contact the applicant asap.

Aug 23, 2021 my husband received this email to his inquiry

 

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Thank you for your inquiry, 

  

Your case is currently being processed at the National Visa Center; generally foreign posts receive the Immigrant Visa files only few weeks before the visa interview. Applicants receive their appointment letters from NVC before we receive the immigrant visa files. 

  

Also please note that our office does not have the capacity to handle the usual amount of immigrant visa load yet, we will continue to inform NVC on the number of cases that we can process every month and NVC will continue to schedule that many cases. 

Considering we've had our interview already, we followed their instructions, and as far as we knew we were in administrative processing can anyone understand what this means? Do you think the embassy sent us this response by mistake? Or is our case actually at the NVC again and he will need to be interviewed again? 

They still have his passport and our original documents. I'm baffled, stressed, and honestly feel nauseated after getting this email. Covid there is getting bad, I'm scared for my husband.

Thank you anyone for your insights.
I have sent them an email asking for clarification. Waiting on their response.

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[SusieQQQ 11,586]

1 hour ago, kelsw said:

I'm petitioning for my husband to come live with me in the USA. His interview was in April. They kept his passport and our original marriage certificate and his birth certificate. But they did not accept the translations that were submitted to the NVC because they weren't from Sri Lanka. We had translations we got in 2019 in Sri Lanka luckily, since they kept our documents so we couldn't get new ones, and turned those in. Our status has been "refused" since May 11, 2021. In a past email response to me asking about our case they said the updated documents were being reviewed by the consulate officer and that he would contact the applicant asap.

Aug 23, 2021 my husband received this email to his inquiry

 

Considering we've had our interview already, we followed their instructions, and as far as we knew we were in administrative processing can anyone understand what this means? Do you think the embassy sent us this response by mistake? Or is our case actually at the NVC again and he will need to be interviewed again? 

They still have his passport and our original documents. I'm baffled, stressed, and honestly feel nauseated after getting this email. Covid there is getting bad, I'm scared for my husband.

Thank you anyone for your insights.
I have sent them an email asking for clarification. Waiting on their response.

Sounds like they didn’t read your query properly and sent a canned response for those still awaiting interview. Title your email “administrative processing query”.

[kelsw 0]

8 minutes ago, SusieQQQ said:

Sounds like they didn’t read your query properly and sent a canned response for those still awaiting interview. Title your email “administrative processing query”.

That is what I'm hoping for. I don't trust this embassy at all though. Considering once when we emailed them we got an automatic response that said they weren't processing visas when I saw people posting how they received their visa at that same time. Thank you for your response. This has been an incredibly stressful experience, as I'm sure a lot can relate.

[kelsw 0]

We just got an email saying to ignore that email. Whew. Thank you again.