Aberdeer

Holy moly, we also woke up this morning to an email that said our interview has been scheduled for Jan 6th, 2023. We can hardly believe it. Thank you all for your positivity and encouragement. @Caro1 wow a big congratulations to you as well. What a splendid strike of fortune that we both got our interview dates scheduled! Wishing you all the best.

Thank you all for the encouraging words Will keep on keeping my fingers crossed that we are nearing the end of this wait!

It says "At NVC" still. No changes there unfortunately.

Warsaw was designated for us originally. But we had our case transferred to Frankfurt to avoid difficulties with border entry in Poland once Russia invaded Ukraine. I was wondering if it just might be a different queue, but seems a bit odd especially with how insistent NVC is about saying "the Department of State schedules immigrant visa interviews in the order that cases complete the documentation process with NVC." As they put it when responding to an expedite request. Our case starts with FRN, even though the beneficiary is from Russia.

Currently sitting on 150 days since DQ'd in June for an IR-1 with our consulate being Frankfurt. But I'm seeing other VJ members having a much faster turnaround with Frankfurt...so I'm so worried that maybe something is wrong with our case and NVC hasn't let us know. IDK.

We have been DQ for an IR-1 application since June 30th, 2022 with Frankfurt as our Consulate (140 days ago). I can't shake the feeling that something has gone wrong with our case, because I'm seeing other Visa Journey members' timelines noting a later DQ date (even for Frankfurt, specifically) but have already had an interview scheduled (I'm extremely happy for them all of course ). But I can't help but wonder what is going on with our case that it continues to lag behind. Of note, we have received no communication from NVC about any issues with documents or anything, with the last communication being the DQ email. Is such a long wait time normal for an IR-1 visa interview currently? Checking the "Case Complete to Interview Spreadsheet" on Visa Journey seems to make it out that we are already over double the average wait time for an interview to be scheduled. Is anyone else having a similar experience? Am I going crazy over here waiting? Certainly, but it might help to know whether this amount of waiting for an IR-1 is normal.