5 - 7 Month Backlog in Joburg, South Africa 🇿🇦

[LongHairDontCare 1]

As of August 1st 2025 :

 

5 - 7 month Backlog in Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦 for CR1 / IR1 cases

 

If you hope for your Spouse to be in the 🇺🇸 by Thanksgiving 🦃 or Christmas 🎄 2025 Transfer elsewhere NOT Joburg!

They have been hit w tons of old DQs from 2024!

 

And they have been hit w Student F1 / J1 and DV Visas trying to get processed by August 30th and Sept 30th respectively.

Transfer to Mumbai, India 🇮🇳, Jakarta, Indonesia 🇮🇩, Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭, The Philippines 🇵🇭, Nassau, Bahamas 🇧🇸, Georgetown, Guyana 🇬🇾 

[appleblossom 4,512]

23 minutes ago, LongHairDontCare said:

As of August 1st 2025 :

 

5 - 7 month Backlog in Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦 for CR1 / IR1 cases

 

If you hope for your Spouse to be in the 🇺🇸 by Thanksgiving 🦃 or Christmas 🎄 2025 Transfer elsewhere NOT Joburg!

They have been hit w tons of old DQs from 2024!

 

And they have been hit w Student F1 / J1 and DV Visas trying to get processed by August 30th and Sept 30th respectively.

Transfer to Mumbai, India 🇮🇳, Jakarta, Indonesia 🇮🇩, Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭, The Philippines 🇵🇭, Nassau, Bahamas 🇧🇸, Georgetown, Guyana 🇬🇾 

 

Are you sure? Interviews are currently being scheduled for those DQ'ed in April. Even the quickest consulates are 2-3 months from DQ to interview date so that's not too much longer - there are other consulates where the wait is over 1-2+ years for an interview including other African countries.  All consulates have a summer slowdown for immigrant visas due to the reasons you gave above, although I agree that a transfer can be worthwhile for some if they're eligible (it's not usually possible to just choose another consulate without a good reason i.e. being resident in that country).

Edited 18 hours ago by appleblossom

[SalishSea 18,468]

4 hours ago, LongHairDontCare said:

If you hope for your Spouse to be in the 🇺🇸 by Thanksgiving 🦃 or Christmas 🎄 2025 Transfer elsewhere NOT Joburg!

That's not how that works....