US Immigration from Afghanistan

Dear Friends,

If anyone out there is going through or has gone through a similar situation, I ask that you PLEASE respond and give me some hope.

- Dec. 3, 2021, mailed K1 Petition to USCIS. My Beneficiary is from Afghanistan but resides/works in Dubai, UAE.

- Dec. 10, 2021, received text from USCIS that application was received.

- Dec. 16, 2021, received 1st I-797 letter stating application was received.

- Jan. 15, 2022, received 2nd I-797 letter stating 129F Petition was approved and will be forwarded to National Visa Center (NVC).

- March 4, 2022, called NVC to follow up on 129F Petition and was informed 129F Petition was received on Feb. 20, 2022.

- March 15, 2022, received email from NVC that 129F Petition will be forwarded to US Embassy in Abu Dhabi.

- April 6, 2022, checked visa status on Check Visa Status Website and status showed 'Ready' for interview on March 17, 2022.

- April 13, 2022, Beneficiary completed DS260 and submitted to Embassy and also scheduled interview for April 27, 2022.

- April 27, 2022, Immigration Interview with Consular in Abu Dhabi. Interview lasted 20mins and Immigration Officer APPROVED my beneficiary, however, our 129F was tagged to go into Administrative Processing regardless of officer's decision.

- April 27, 2022, status on Visa Status check showed 'Administrative Processing'

- April 28, 2022, status on Visa Status check was changed to 'Approved'. Beneficiary received email from Immigration Officer to mail his Passport to US Embassy for Visa Insurance.

- May 2, 2022, Beneficiary mailed passport to Embassy.

- May 12, 2022, status on Visa Status check showed 'Issued'.

- May 17, 2022, Beneficiary received passport with US Visa sticker placed in his passport.

My Beneficiary and I were in disbelief how quickly our visa was approved. We cried tears and celebrated feeling so blessed!! Sadly, our happiness was short lived. On May 25, 2022, my Beneficiary received a call from the Immigration Officer that there was a problem with the visa issuance and that my beneficiary needed to return back to Abu Dhabi for a 2nd interview.

- May 25, 2022, Beneficiary received email from Immigration officer that his visa has been revoked and a 2nd interview was needed.

- May 26, 2022, 2nd Immigration Interview. At the interview, the officer had no knowledge why the visa was revoked, only that supplemental questions for Visa approval was needed to remedy the situation. During the interview, my Beneficiary asked the officer to double check his Passport Number incase the letter O in his passport was mistaken for a 0 (Zero). Upon checking the system, the officer discovered the typo and admitted to mistakenly entering 0 (Zero) instead of the letter O into the computer system and felt strongly the reason the visa was revoked was because of this very reason.

- May 29, 2022, supplemental questionnaire form was emailed to Embassy.

- June 24, 2022, status in Check Visa Status showed 'Application Received'.

- June 28, 2022 status in Check Visa Status shows 'Refused/Administrative Processing'.

We have emailed the Immigration Officer once during this waiting period and received an email that she has no control or knowledge how long our visa would be in administrative processing and for us to wait. It has been trying and difficult to stay positive. Please, if anyone has gone through something similar to what my Beneficiary and I are experiencing I would greatly appreciate any knowledge/insight/support.

Much Gratitude!

My petition was at NVC stage, I had gotten the case number and invoice and access to CEAC account, but then our petitioner died and NVC locked my CEAC account. Then after a few months, I filed humanitarian reinstatement in 2021. This year on 27 January 2022, USCIS approved my humanitarian reinstatement application with the following update.

Case Approval Was Reaffirmed And Mailed Back To Department Of State

As of this date it has been 45 days, the NVC has not unlocked my CEAC account. When I try to login into CEAC the following notice appears;

Your petition has been returned to USCIS for administrative action and is no longer at the NVC

Anyone with a similar experience, please let me know how long will it take for NVC to open my CEAC account, now that the petition is reaffirmed. Thanks.

Hello. My wife is currently asking me to help petition for her sister to come to the US, my wife is a US citizen. Her sister lives in Afghanistan and is married but does not have any kids yet. I tried to research if it was possible to have them come through humanitarian parole but am not sure if it is possible, right now the situation in Afghanistan is such that getting a job to support a family is very difficult because of all that's going on. The father in law of my wife's sister was a police chief in Kabul and retired 3 years ago and the current government doesnt take too kindly to people that were a part of govt before, so they legitimately have a fear for their life. I'm sure most of you know about everything that has happened in Afg this past year. Now I don't know if they would all be able to come here as from what I read, getting humanitarian parole is very difficult now.

So my wife asked if its possible to at least petition for her sister and her husband to come to the US, and from what I searched on USCIS website, its not exactly clear to me how to get it done, if possible at all? Any information in the right direction is greatly appreciated.

Does this just mean someone is going to look at my papers and decide on my expedite request? Can someone explain to me like i'm 5 ?? thank you

U.S. Department of Homeland Security
USCIS Vermont Service Center
38 River Road
Essex Junction,VT 05479-0001

Type of service requested:
-- Expedite


The status of this service request is:

We researched your case and found that your case has been assigned to an officer and is currently being processed. We will send you a written notice when we make a decision on your application or to let you know if we need any additional information. We regret that we cannot provide a definitive timeframe on the processing of your application but assure you that we are committed to the timely processing of applications.

We cannot expedite this process any further at this time.