IR5 not issued, medical expires next Friday

[jskibo 588]

Trying to figure out how to play out FIL IR5 with expiring medical.

 

Both parents went for Medicals in late January with Interview scheduled last week in January

Both popped for Sputum with March 24th as return for results date

MIL got call Feb 24 and in treatment for 6 months

FIL passed March 24th, Medical shows expiring June 24th now

FIL Interviews first week in April, receives 221G for AKA NBI on corrected birth certificate name (original was missing letter in last name)

Responds to RFE April 25th

Status changes to Issued April 27th, no LBC package

Status changes back to Ready May 10th

Status changes to Refused May 16th

LBC package comes with 221G and returned passport now for Different middle initial on marriage certificate (Both mother's names swapped on marriage certificate so it's showing his Mother in law as his mother and middle initial of her last name).  221G requests New NBI with "U" name and letter of explanation.

Respond with new NBI and letter (upload to CEAC and delivered via LBC)

Passport returned along with blank letter (only has his name and address, nothing else) May 27th via LBC

May 29th he goes to embassy, talks to guard, someone came out and spoke with him and took his passport and said they would be in touch as it was an error

Wife calls several times over the next week, they tell her she needs to wait a week for response.....nothing.

June 13th, wife calls embassy, explains still refused, no further 221G or instructions after last blank letter and medical expires in two weeks.  Also requests new Health Case Number so he can redo medical

June 14th Embassy calls FIL says they are sending an new 221G for NBI AKA full middle name (last one requested just "U" middle name) and he should receive this week, he mentions medical expiring June 24th

June 16th embassy calls FIL again and says don't wait for LBC to deliver 221G, send new NBI AKA and letter ASAP so they can issue visa

 

So FIL is supposed to receive the new NBI AKA tomorrow (Friday).

 

Does it make any sense to send it in this weekend via LBC?  If they get it Monday or Tuesday the very best case would be a visa issued Wednesday that expires Friday.  He still needs to do CFO PDOS and be on a plane by Thursday to enter on June 24th, an impossible task as I see it.

 

Better to wait for new Health Case Number and repeat medical?

What if he sends everything in Monday and they issue a visa Wednesday that he can't possibly use?  Is that a complete "do-over" to get it re-issued?

His PD is July 2019 so this has been an agonizing process compared to wife's 7 month CR1 back in 2015

 

 

 

 

 

[Crazy Cat 39,411]

If an issued visa expires and the visa holder did not travel due to circumstances beyond his/her control, then the consulate has the discretion to reissue.......but it would require a new medical since the expiration date of the visa is tied directly to the latest medical.

Edited June 16, 2022 by Crazy Cat

[jskibo 588]

13 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

If an issued visa expires and the visa holder did not travel due to circumstances beyond his/her control, then the consulate has the discretion to reissue.......but it would require a new medical since the expiration date of the visa is tied directly to the latest medical.

Thanks, I'm guessing best to send the new AKA NBI back after the current medical expires so they don't issue a visa that we can't use and just get a new HCN to redo the medical.

 

Of course our luck is SLEC will do something dumb like "oh you have to do Sputum again"

Edited June 16, 2022 by jskibo

[RO_AH 1,619]

10 hours ago, jskibo said:

Of course our luck is SLEC will do something dumb like "oh you have to do Sputum again"

Almost always sadly. My wife was very lucky and passed without sputum on her 2nd medical.