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I hope my timeline can provide some perspective, in case you are anxiously waiting. Everything will eventually work out. Remember SELF-CARE. Best of luck to all of you!

Certificate Of Naturalization Was Issued: May 23, 2024

We scheduled you for an oath ceremony for your Form N-400, Application for Naturalization: May 9, 2024

We recommended that your Form N-400, Application for Naturalization, be approved. Your case was submitted for quality review: May 8, 2024

Your Form N-400, Application for Naturalization, was placed in line for oath ceremony scheduling: May 8, 2024

We scheduled an interview for your Form N-400, Application for Naturalization: March 29, 2024

We are actively reviewing your Form N-400, Application for Naturalization. Our records showed nothing is outstanding at this time: October 5, 2023

We received your Form N-400, Application for Naturalization, and sent you a receipt notice: October 5, 2023

So here's the situation. I am a Canadian, my wife is Mexican. She is with me in Canada under PR. I am able to get a green card through work without too many issues, however, my wife had previously overstayed for over one year in the US and as such is facing her ten year ban. We have a kid on the way. I would love to get out of Canada, but I see no point in pursuing a green card unless I can extend it to my wife and child. Considering the ban my wife is facing, I'm not sure whether or not this is even feasible and I was hoping to get some advice on how to proceed, if at all. Thank you all in advance.

Hi,

I received my letter from the NVC and am trying to register my Fiancee's delivery address so that she can receive Packet 3 for the instructions on applying for the Visa, Pre-interview checklist, and appointment scheduling. I am currently stuck on the first page as it asks for the DS-160 Confirmation Code, but we have not received Package 3 yet so we can't apply? Have any recent Vietnam K-1 applicants figured out how to register the Fiance/Fiancee's home address for Package 3 delivery? Do we follow the instructions and complete the DS-160 before receiving Package 3?

Thank you!

Hey all!

Big props to @XCindyX on brainstorming shared knowledge to come up with this little additional search method.

In the Google Drive information for each monthly timeline post, it was shared how to dissect NVC case numbers. Please correct me if I've misinterpreted this for cases later in the year with three digit Julian dates, but the formula seems to be this: Embassy code + year of case creation + Julian date the case number was assigned, plus 500 + case position.

To put into an example, if my case was assigned for the Johannesburg embassy in 2024 on April 1st (Julian date 92), and my case is first to be assigned a number on that day, my case would be JHN2024-592-001 (minus the dashes, just showing how the formula breaks down).

Why is this useful to know? Well it may help to understand that all visa cases sent to the embassies from the NVC, fit this formula. It's not just K1/CR1. Since we have the visa statistics from the Department of State website to show just how many visas of each type are processed monthly at each embassy, we can estimate how many a given embassy will accept and issue.

Granted it is entirely a guessing game to figure out which days the NVC issued case numbers for any particular embassy but at the very least, I was able to easily figure out what the statuses were for other cases on my day alone. Thinking I was in a good position in eighth for my day (008 at the end of my case), a quick search showed me that there is not 009 or above, meaning my case was in dead last for my date.

Searching my case number and altering the last three digits to 001-007, I additionally learned that I'm not alone in waiting. Initially our three month wait at NVC made me think that there was something specifically wrong with us; at the very least, this confirmed that there were a variety of statuses for the same wait time. Of the eight of us, three cases were ready and two were in transit. Our case and two others (positions 003 and 004) were still sitting at NVC.

Again the whole process is incessantly opaque, but what this at least attempts to do is demonstrate how complex the selection process can be. Factoring in all the visa types/priorities/regional quotas, it is difficult to read when a visa case will move out of the NVC. But we're all in this process together, and where our case sits ultimately is at the whims of many factors, all requiring patience and hope that we'll break the line soon.

Hey everyone, I have my interview in about 3 weeks and noticed last week a few mistakes on my DS260 that our attorney says are immaterial (honestly forgetting to include something, misunderstandings, etc), but to make a list and bring to the interview for correction/addition.

I m wondering if others have been in this situation too, and how the interview went with bringing in a few corrections needed?

Thanks!