Montreal embassy EB-2 interview wait time-Part 2

[SAHK 2]

6 hours ago, Canadian24 said:

Hello everyone! I am happy to say I've got IL! Our interview is September 19. I'm DQ July 23. Country of chargeability Canada.
There must be a bunch coming this week!🎉

Many Congratulations! its a great news and hope for others too! My DQ is September,2024, might be coming next month as 60 days reminder got on June 2nd.

[SAHK 2]

Did your Ecas changed to Ready from at NVC ?

[Cryons4time 6]

11 hours ago, Canadian24 said:

Hello everyone! I am happy to say I've got IL! Our interview is September 19. I'm DQ July 23. Country of chargeability Canada.
There must be a bunch coming this week!🎉

Finally some movement on DQ after March 2024. Congratulations cheers

[MaraR 1]

Congrats! My DQ date is April 2024. No interview letter IL yet. Waiting and hoping for it.

 

[Saphrin 4]

On 7/22/2025 at 7:15 AM, Canadian24 said:

Hello everyone! I am happy to say I've got IL! Our interview is September 19. I'm DQ July 23. Country of chargeability Canada.
There must be a bunch coming this week!🎉

Amazing news - congrats! The leap in the spreadsheet from March 2024 DQ to July 2024 DQ is very interesting, and gives us hope that it's still ~12 months from DQ. The tool still showing April 2024, so I guess we can't even trust that anymore 😅

Edited Wednesday at 12:43 PM by Saphrin

[Canadian24 39]

Thanks everyone! From what I remember from last summer, I feel like a bunch of people got IL within weeks in a weird order. The days from my IL to interview is 60 days, which is pretty long. So perhaps April-June 2024 DQ will get IL soon with a shorter IL to interview time like the 30-45 days we often see. Rooting for you!

[appleblossom 4,451]

10 hours ago, MaraR said:

Congrats! My DQ date is April 2024. No interview letter IL yet. Waiting and hoping for it.

 

What’s your PD and country of birth? Please fill in the timeline on your profile when you get a mo, thx. 
 

18 hours ago, SAHK said:

Did your Ecas changed to Ready from at NVC ?

It usually changes to ‘in transit’ once the IL has been received. 

Edited Wednesday at 01:23 PM by appleblossom

[appleblossom 4,451]

36 minutes ago, Saphrin said:

Amazing news - congrats! The leap in the spreadsheet from March 2024 DQ to July 2024 DQ is very interesting, and gives us hope that it's still ~12 months from DQ. The tool still showing April 2024, so I guess we can't even trust that anymore 😅

The tool is only updated once a month, so it’ll be more accurate next time it updates. 

[appleblossom 4,451]

10 minutes ago, Canadian24 said:

Thanks everyone! From what I remember from last summer, I feel like a bunch of people got IL within weeks in a weird order. The days from my IL to interview is 60 days, which is pretty long. So perhaps April-June 2024 DQ will get IL soon with a shorter IL to interview time like the 30-45 days we often see. Rooting for you!

I’m guessing it’s because there won’t be any visas now until October for most EB’s due to retrogression and/or the category becoming unavailable until the new Fiscal Year. So there’s no point in them scheduling it earlier. 

[Magnetron_ 25]

On 7/21/2025 at 2:50 PM, Emmajapan said:

Thank you very much for your reply. 

 

We will try and submit another police certificate if nvc does not receive our documents this week.

 

I guess you are from Nigeria 

 

Regards

@Emmajapan Yes. I'm from Nigeria. All the best with your application.

[Journeyman23 1]

2 hours ago, appleblossom said:

I’m guessing it’s because there won’t be any visas now until October for most EB’s due to retrogression and/or the category becoming unavailable until the new Fiscal Year. So there’s no point in them scheduling it earlier. 

That has been my guess too for the lack of updates in the last couple of months. Looking at visa issuance stats for Montreal (https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/immigrant-visa-statistics/monthly-immigrant-visa-issuances.html) from last year, the number of visas issued in EB category went down from ~60 in June'24 to ~30-40 in July & August to only 4 in September'24. Then, it jumped to ~390 in October'24.

 

Am I correct in thinking that the hundreds of visas that were issued in October must have received their ILs in August'24?

[Canadian24 39]

21 hours ago, Journeyman23 said:

That has been my guess too for the lack of updates in the last couple of months. Looking at visa issuance stats for Montreal (https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/immigrant-visa-statistics/monthly-immigrant-visa-issuances.html) from last year, the number of visas issued in EB category went down from ~60 in June'24 to ~30-40 in July & August to only 4 in September'24. Then, it jumped to ~390 in October'24.

 

Am I correct in thinking that the hundreds of visas that were issued in October must have received their ILs in August'24?

@Journeyman23 Yes you are right. If you look at the Google sheet there is a bunch of IL last summer on August 4, 6 and 9 for interviews in September. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NnYTWRgdQB9gj2SyQjBL3fzz5-OS9FJZQXFXCbSe0Ig/edit?gid=0#gid=0

[Canadian24 39]

*also, as Appleblossom mentioned, October is when a new batch of visas is issued because worldwide EB visas typically run out by mid-August. The new fiscal year begins on October 1st, so even if our interviews are scheduled for late August or September, they'll hold on to our passports and only issue the visas after October 1st. So there is a bunch issued beginning of October.