Woodandy81

Just called NVC today, and was informed that case went to review department on May 8th (scan date March 28th). From looking at spreadsheet, 14 days (so far...) seems on the long side for the amount of time spent there, although there are a couple of 14 days, and a 13 day, also listed. I do have two separate cases going through that are independent of each other but linked (one petition for each parent) which may explain that length of time, but still a little concerned that it's taking a while.

Has anyone discerned a trend between length of time in review department and likelihood of a checklist?

Thanks for any insight.

On 4/15/2017 at 7:49 AM, lucasmso said:

I just received an email from the NVC scheduling my interview for May 22nd. My case was complete on April 4th and my scan date was March 30th.

Congratulations - great news! This seems to suggest that the timeframe can be considerably less than up-to 11 weeks if this case was processed in 6 days!

Thanks in advance for anyone that might have some insight here, and apologies for using this thread to ask an IR5 based question, although I think the same process and timeframes apply, and many of the posts seem to suggest it'll play out the same way. 

I am a USC petitioning for both parents to move from the U.K.  Our scan date with NVC was March 27th, and initially - based on their stated processing times online - we had hoped for approx 30 days for case closed, then another month or so until interview. Following threads here, we're now realizing that's not the reality, and up to 11 weeks is the current timeframe. 

We (my family) haven't seen them in quite a while, and because of job commitments, would need to visit in the summer (late June / early July). Initially we had hoped they may be here by then, but that seems pretty unlikely now. 

My question (not a very precise one, more seeking an opinion) is whether it's worth buying non-refundable flights now (while still not really expensive) to visit them, or wait it out to see if for some reason things move faster and they get over here by that point. We're aware that them coming here in the meantime as visitors is a non-starter so we have ruled that one out. 

No hard-and-fast answer but trying to predict based on current times and working with a budget that might not stretch to buying flights there when prices are higher close to the time! Thanks!