danb1978

10 hours ago, Olivia.H said:

Hi, after a long wait I've just received an interview appointment for the end of January! For those waiting, I'm in the F2B category and I was DQ on the 22nd January 2021.

Amazing news! I waited about a year with my category too. Best of luck for your interview and don’t worry too much about it. Mine was fairly straightforward! They only asked me two questions. 

3 hours ago, Wuozopo said:

Well his post said “got email this morning” and the date on the post says 9/24. I believe that’s your answer. Good luck to you.

Hi, as above, my Interview email came on 24th Sept which was exactly a year to the day after I was DQ’d 

1 hour ago, Kris_0121 said:

Good to hear that you’ll be going soon.

 

Your plan sounds exactly like what I will hope to do in the future. Let us know how long it takes for your SSN to come through  and what the transition is like too, please.

 

Which state will you be moving too?

 

All the best

 

Kris

Yes, no worries, will do. 

I'll be going over in the next few weeks so i'll let you know how it goes. 

I'm moving to Texas.

Dan 

4 minutes ago, Boiler said:

It is multiple use.

Awesome! Thanks for confirming that. 

So i'll be going for a visit in the next month or so then moving completely a few months later 🙂

1 hour ago, Kris_0121 said:

Hey Dan,

 

This is amazing news! Congratulations 🎉 I’m so glad everything went as expected for you and was all very straight forward. 
 

I appreciate your detailed feedback about the process so that I can prepare myself accordingly for when the time comes…whenever that may be LOL

 

Fingers crossed I’m hoping it will be by summer next year.

 

If you don’t mind me asking, Are you planning on moving permanently straight away within the next few months or will you visit then come back to the U.K. and figure the permanent part later on?

 

Thanks

Kris

Thanks Kris! I hope you get some good news soon!

Thats a good question, as i'm trying to work that out as we speak. I was hoping to go and visit at least in the next month or so which would activate my visa and then move completely a few months later once i have tied up loose ends etc. The only thing i'm not sure about at the minute is if i am able to come in and out of the country with just the stamp in my visa as i'm told the green card takes 90 days to arrive. I know the first time you go, you use the stamp on the visa but im not sure if its ok to use that multiple times until your green card comes? I was going to ask the question on here once my plans were in place.

Does anyone reading this thread know the answer?

Dan 

7 hours ago, Teety said:

Hi Dan, congratulations 👍🏾
please what was your priority date and when were you DQ’d? so I have an idea of where they are at ! Thanks 

Hi Teety, 

Thank you! 

My PD was Aug 2014 and i was DQ'd Sept 2020.

Hope you hear some good news soon!

Hi Everyone! 

Great news, i had my interview today and I was told that my visa will be approved! 

The process was unbelievably straight forward. I arrived at the Embassy and after firstly joining the wrong queue (my bad), I went straight in. Did the airport security stuff etc then went to the main building. 

My ticket was called as soon as i arrived to the windows. I spoke to the first officer and they checked my documents. The only documents he needed were Passport, Photographs, IV Letter, Birth Certificate and Police Record. My dad had already uploaded a new AOS and Tax Return to the CEAC website, i brought copies of everything else with me but they didnt ask for them. Then i sat back down and waited for about another 10 minutes for the second part of the interview. The lady I spoke to at the 2nd window asked me to swear an oath to tell the truth etc then only asked me two questions, how long my petitioner had been in the USA and how long its been since i saw them last. And that was it, all done! The lady told me that my passport would be back with me in a few weeks via courier and then im good to go! 

Over seven years waiting has finally delivered! 

I hope you get some good news soon Kris! 

Regards

Dan 

6 hours ago, Kris_0121 said:

Hey Dan,

 

Thank you for this detailed update! I assume they wanted to know if you have had the COVID vaccine too?

 

Glad all has gone well for you and yes another step closer. I’ll let my Dad know to send over recent tax returns when the time comes.

 

I look forward to hearing how the interview goes.

 

Regards

Kris

 

 

Yes they asked about my covid vaccine status. I printed off my record from the NHS website which shows the bar codes for each jab. 
 

I’ll let you know how the interview goes in a couple of weeks! 🙂

On 9/24/2021 at 8:09 PM, Kris_0121 said:

Hey Dan,

 

This is brilliant news! Another step closer to obtaining the visa - very exciting! 
It’s good to see some movement in our category (Fb-1)  and now I have some idea of an estimated interview date, which seems to be anything up to 1year from DQ….Soo, I guess I still have a good 8 months or so to go before I get to the front of the line…lol
 

If you don’t mind, could you please keep us updated with your experience of both the medical and embassy visits?
 

I’m curious to know what they ask at the London interview and documents to bring.

 

All the best with your journey

Kris 

Hey Kris, 

Medical completed today! One step closer! 

It was straightforward. The gave me a chest x-ray, blood test, no urine test as i am in my 40s, they checked my vaccine records and i had to have the flu jab to bring me up to date, checked eyes, reflexes and felt my stomach, asked about my medical history and that was it. 

Embassy interview in a couple of weeks! I'll update again once that it done! 

A note about documents, after asking on another thread i have uploaded a new passport photo and a new police record (although i was told that the police record is valid for 24 months rather than 12 months so i might not have needed to do that) to the CEAC website and my father has uploaded a new AOS and tax return. i'll be bringing these also to the interview but i'll let you know if they ask for them or not. 

Dan 

Hi all, i had my medical today and the experience was similar to the above poster. No urine, just blood (im 43) 

7 hours ago, carlapat said:

Hi! Just had my interview for an F2 visa last 20/09, I just brought a new updated copy of my I-865, new tax transcript, and recent W2 of my sponsor, I did not upload any of them prior to the interview and they accepted them. Got my visa approved.

Fantastic! Thank you Carlapat for the update and congratulations on getting approved! 🥳

4 minutes ago, Wuozopo said:

I don’t know anything about the actual uploading process or what the screens look like. I was K1 and was in and out of NVC in two days.  
 

Lately the COs have given out 221g slips to IR1/CR1s who need to provide more documents. Even if they bring a copy of the document, they are told to go home and upload.

 

I’d say give it three days average for them to get back to your case and finish the processing. You shouldn’t be delayed more than a week. They have been quite fast lately. 

Ah brilliant. I could handle a week! I was worried it was going to delay things by a lot longer if it had to go back to NVC and work its way through their system. When i was applying, i was missing something and it added another 2-3 months onto the process that's why i was worrying.

I've found the place on CEAC that @Chancy mentioned so i may as well just ask my sponsor to upload the new Tax Return and possibly an updated AOS to there so that its in place for the interview and i will upload new passport photos, i had already applied for a new police record thinking that it expired after a year, i didnt realise it was two years but i guess it wont harm anything uploading that also.

Thanks for your replies guys, much appreciated!  It's all such a minefield but hopefully i'm getting there now 🙂

2 minutes ago, Chancy said:

 

Your visa will not be denied just because of outdated documents.  At most, the consul officer will give you a 221g letter to provide the updated document after the interview.  In that case, your visa status will be set as temporarily refused until you submit whatever is required on the 221g.

 

I suggest you bring updated passport photos and your sponsor's 2020 tax transcripts to the interview.  If there were any major changes with their financial circumstances, bring their updated I-864 as well.  Police certificate should be valid for 2 years, but the CO has discretion to ask for a more recent one.  The CO will tell you if any of the documents need to be uploaded to CEAC.

 

Thank you Chancy.

A couple more questions if i may?

Is there any way of uploading these documents in advance of the interview to CEAC to alleviate the possibility of being temporarily refused? The option is greyed out on my account due to their being existing documents and the case being passed to the embassy. 

If not and i get to the point of the interview and am temporarily refused until they receive the updated documents. Do you know by any chance how long these things take to clear up if the documents are uploaded immediately? Could it be a case of another few months of patiently waiting? Or is it usually quicker? Also is there a chance that the interviewer would just accept the documents there and then?

Dan 

Hi all, 

I'm scheduled for my interview at the end of October after waiting at DQ since Sept 2020. I am F11 Category (Unmarried Son of US Citizen Over 21).

I filed my DS-260 in April 2020 with the necessary documents.

Due to the length of time between filing the DS-260 and now, i'm currently trying to work out if i need to upload new documents eg Police Certificate/AOS/Tax Return/Passport Pictures(as they are now over 12m old)  or if i can just simply take them to the London Embassy? Does anybody know the definitive answer? And if they need to be uploaded, where do i do that?

I haven't been instructed by the NVC or the Embassy that i need new documents but from reading a few posts on here it seems i will need them with it being over 12m since filing. I've got no issue getting them if needed but i just didnt want to turn up at the London Embassy and be denied because i hadn't uploaded them beforehand. 

I've dropped a Contact Us form on both USCIS and the London Embassy and i have had no reply. 

Can anyone steer me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance. 

Dan 

8 hours ago, Lee1303 said:

Wow congratulations please what is your priority date?

Hi Lee

Thank you 😊

PD was Aug 14

Hi everyone! 

Great news! I woke up to an email this morning letting me know that they have scheduled an interview for the end of October! (F1 Unmarried Son over 21 of US Citizen, DQ'd Sept 2020) 

I'm so excited! I'm hoping for good news for everyone else waiting for interviews in London soon! 

I'm currently trying to work out if i need to upload new documents eg Police Certificate/AOS/Passport Pictures(as they are now over 12m old)  or if i can just simply take them to the London Embassy? Does anybody know the definitive answer? And if they need to be uploaded, where do i do that?

Dan 

20 minutes ago, Kris_0121 said:

Hey Dan,

 

This is brilliant news! Another step closer to obtaining the visa - very exciting! 
It’s good to see some movement in our category (Fb-1)  and now I have some idea of an estimated interview date, which seems to be anything up to 1year from DQ….Soo, I guess I still have a good 8 months or so to go before I get to the front of the line…lol
 

If you don’t mind, could you please keep us updated with your experience of both the medical and embassy visits?
 

I’m curious to know what they ask at the London interview and documents to bring.

 

All the best with your journey

Kris 

Hi Kris, 

Yes of course i will keep you updated, no problem at all. 

Hopefully its smooth sailing from here but i will let you know. 

Dan 

1 minute ago, Wuozopo said:

@danb1978  

 

London will want everything for an immigrant visa uploaded. People who take documentation  to the interview still get told the visa can’t be completed until the applicant uploads what is needed. 
 

 

Thank you.

How do i upload new documents, do you know? Do i upload at the same place i uploaded before https://ceac.state.gov/? Theres a contact us form for the embassy maybe i should fill that in and ask them what to do?

Hi, 

I've finally had my interview scheduled for the end of October after being DQ'd since Sept 2020. 

Do i need to obtain new versions of any of my documents? e.g Police Report/ AOS etc. If so, do i just bring them to the interview or do i need to send/upload them anywhere before the interview?

I think the Police report is only valid for 12m? The one i uploaded in my application was from April 2020 so i guess i need a new one?

I'm visa category F11 (Unmarried Son of US Citizen over 21) 

Any help would be great, thank you! 

Regards

Dan 

Hi everyone! 

Great news! I woke up to an email this morning letting me know that they have scheduled an interview for the end of October! 

I'm so excited! I'm hoping for good news for everyone else waiting for interviews in London soon! 

Dan 

Hi everyone! 

Great news! I woke up to an email this morning letting me know that they have scheduled an interview for the end of October! 

I'm so excited! I'm hoping for good news for everyone else waiting for interviews in London soon! 

Dan 

11 hours ago, JonnyB said:

Oh yes...and every other vacination.

I've also been trying to get Tetanus booster from my GP - told NHS doesn't do routine tenanus boosters!  Although if I'd said I'd cut myself a few days ago (or had) you can have one free at A&E if you can stand the wait.

Similarly the MMR which again GP's office said NHS doesn't do for adults - although a friend who's a GP said you can press them for adult MMR if you haven't ever had one, depend on your doctor.  Mine's a scrooge obviuosly and refused.

Had my Tet and MMR on the day at the Visa Medical place for the charge.  One in each arm. lol!

Thats strange as i asked my GP for Tetanus and MMR a few weeks ago and i was able to receive the jabs without any issue. It must vary from practice to practice maybe. I told them it was for my visa and they just let me have the jabs straight away. 

On 8/26/2021 at 8:44 PM, Olivia.H said:

Hi all,

 

From what I can read in this forum, it seems like there has been quite a lot of progress with IR1/CR1 visas, but I'm not sure what does this mean for FB categories... In my case (F2B visa application), my priority date is March 2015 and I have been 'documentarily qualified' since January '21. I have been getting the 60 day reminder emails, but it's hard to gauge how much longer I'll have to wait for an interview.

 

Has anybody had an appointment set up for one of the FB categories? Is anybody else also waiting and what's your 'documentarily qualified' dates?

Hi Olivia, 

I'm in the F1 Category (unmarried son of US Citizen). My PD is current and i've been DQ's since Sept 2020. I'm hoping for good news soon. I'll update as soon as i hear anything from London.  

Dan 

29 minutes ago, Kris_0121 said:

Hey,

 

Yes, I agree the volume is much less in our category. Upon further research this weekend, I have taken a look at the statistics for our visa category at the London Embassy.

 

F1 - Visas issued from LDN for Fiscal Year 2021

June - 4

May - 4

April - 3

March/Feb/Jan/Dec/Nov/October - 0

 

So although the demand is less for our category, the movement is very slow and the pandemic has only added to the snail train😩

 

Nevertheless from looking at the FINAL ACTION DATE chart on the Visa Bulletin this month, visas technically should be current for those whose priority date is up to 22-NOV-14. Therefore, NVC should be arranging interviews with the embassy for F1s as they are now at the front of the of the line to be issued a visa.

 

With your PD being August 2014, you definitely should have received an interview letter so fingers crossed in the next few weeks you hear something. 🙂 It might be worth you contacting them to chase your case up now too.

 

I hope that information was useful. I just wish there was a way to find out more because like you said we’ve done the longest waiting part.

 

Kris

Thanks for the info Kris. From what i can make out, once you file with the NVC, the interviews are scheduled based on the DQ date rather than PD date (although the PD date still needs to be Current) . I filed in April 2020 and it took until Sept 2020 (i originally said Aug 2020 on this thread but i realised the other day it was actually September 2020) to get DQ'd as there was an initial mistake with the information i uploaded. So i guess that put me back in the queue a little bit. The way i tried to place it in my head was that the embassies closed in March/April 2020 so whoever was scheduled for interview before me (ie anyone in our category who was DQ'd before Sept 2020) will be ahead of me in the queue. So im guessing that there is 5-6 months worth of backlog ahead of me (Mar/April 2020 - Sept 2020). The unknown is how fast they are working to try and clear that backlog. If they are now working at the same pace as before the pandemic (which they may well not be yet) then I would have 5-6 months to wait from July when things ramped back up again. There are so many variables unfortunately though. They could be working faster than usual to catch up or they could be working slower than before due to ongoing restrictions so we have no real way of knowing. I may try and contact them at some point but all the contact forms state for people not to contact for that reason as they cant comment on visa availability etc at the moment. I got the reminder email a few days ago from NVC telling me i was still in line and that they would be in contact as soon as an appointment was available. That comes every 60 days i think. 

I'll update if i find anything else out.  

4 hours ago, Kris_0121 said:

Hi Danb,

 

I’m glad to have finally come across someone in the same visa category as myself within the U.K. waiting for an appointment at London Embassy (F1- Unmarried Daughter over 21yrs of US Citizen). Most of the threads I’ve read previously in regards to the timeline for DQ to interview was anything up to 5months for Spouses. But as Raft said the backlog seems to be clearing much quicker now for them.  I’ve noticed quite a few in the marriage category, who DQ’d in May/Early June now have interviews for September. Apparently, they’re done in batches. But you are right, it’s so difficult to work out the timeframe for the F1 category.

 

PD- Feb 2015

I DQ’d June 27th 2021 and I’m yet to hear anything but you DQ’d almost a year before me so I really hope you hear something soon.
 

Please keep us updated with how you get on.

 

Hi Kris_0121, 

Ah a fellow F1 applicant for the London Embassy! Yes we are few and far between it seems which makes it hard to work out how long we have left to wait. 😩 

Whilst the marriage category seems to work quicker than ours in terms of the wait for interview i think the backlog in our category is less in volume so im hoping they can pick up and start catching up really soon. 

I will definitely update this thread with any information i find out and also as soon as i receive word of my interview. As frustrating as it is, we have done most of the waiting now, (it's just over 7 years in total now for myself,) hopefully only a few more months left to go!  

Here's hoping for good news really soon! 

Dan