KJO

Desparado,

If you want to try and call them do so but I know when I was in the processing calling the embassy was a joke. I was put on hold transferred to endless ringing and no one answering the phones. When I emailed them I had a reply the next day or the second day at the latest. Good luck.

I really agree with Mary on this one. Any communication with the embassy should really be by email. I have also found that calling DOS is helpful and gives some indication of what may be going on at the Embassy, mostly just clues, but it is better than being totally in the dark. It seems they update an interagency database fairly regularly. And they can tell you limited information in advance of what you may hear from the embassy.

Hope this is helpful.

hmmm... I agree with you guys about calling. I have been calling the embassy ... some days are better than others. My fiance emailed them like 3times and 2/3 time he never got any reply. But I will try emailing tonight and if no response by Thursday then I will try calling them. Thanks alot you guys for your input!!

KJO ... since our cases are VERY VERY similar .. I was wondering if you contacted the embassy and what did they say about sending the visa... and about how long it would take ...

Desparado - the major difference in our cases is that my fiance is Afghan so sending his passport in is not really an option. He will have to just stay in ISL while they process it. So we are hoping that we impress upon them that it would be nice to do it quickly.

Mary - any word from your Afghan friend who applied for a CR-1?

Desparado,

If you want to try and call them do so but I know when I was in the processing calling the embassy was a joke. I was put on hold transferred to endless ringing and no one answering the phones. When I emailed them I had a reply the next day or the second day at the latest. Good luck.

I really agree with Mary on this one. Any communication with the embassy should really be by email. I have also found that calling DOS is helpful and gives some indication of what may be going on at the Embassy, mostly just clues, but it is better than being totally in the dark. It seems they update an interagency database fairly regularly. And they can tell you limited information in advance of what you may hear from the embassy.

Hope this is helpful.

"Dear Applicant,

Please be informed that we are ready to continue processing your case. However, as we go ahead with this, we would like you to submit a new Police Clearance certificate from Peshawar, a new medical report and your passport.You can come to our office any working Monday, between 08:00 to 10:00 am with these items and a copy of this message and submit them. We look forward to seeing you come to our office with these documents.

Yours truly,

Immigrant Visa Unit"

I am curios when was your interview that they are asking for these three things again?

"Dear Applicant,

Please be informed that we are ready to continue processing your case. However, as we go ahead with this, we would like you to submit a new Police Clearance certificate from Peshawar, a new medical report and your passport.You can come to our office any working Monday, between 08:00 to 10:00 am with these items and a copy of this message and submit them. We look forward to seeing you come to our office with these documents.

Yours truly,

Immigrant Visa Unit"

I am curios when was your interview that they are asking for these two things again?

Actually my fiance had an enormously stressful time making it to his interview from Afghanistan. He was hitting all kinds of police blocks, etc so he missed his medical exam and lost his police certificates en route. At the interview they just told him he would have to provide these things before the visa is issued. That's the story KS.

Congratulations Zaki and KJO. I emailed embassy about the status of case, they haven't replied yet. Hopefully I will also get some good news

Fingers crossed. I will pray for you!

I have a good news from my side today. I sent email to US embassy yesterday and receive reply

"Please contact with American Express after three days for collection of your passport and visa packets."

At last the process is going to end. Thanks for all of your help especially Marry.

Zaki

Zaki Congrats!!!! I really think all this is because they got a new Ambassador in March. It seemed like before then, things were moving at a snail's pace or not at all.

I have some good news too. Looks things are really moving!!! We got this from the Embassy today. We knew that we still had these things pending. We are just excited that they are asking him to bring the passport.

"Dear Applicant,

Please be informed that we are ready to continue processing your case. However, as we go ahead with this, we would like you to submit a new Police Clearance certificate from Peshawar, a new medical report and your passport.

You can come to our office any working Monday, between 08:00 to 10:00 am with these items and a copy of this message and submit them. We look forward to seeing you come to our office with these documents.

Yours truly,

Immigrant Visa Unit"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...ml?hpid=topnews

New article of shooting at Mosque. I am praying no delays for any of you that are in this process and we have a friend there now that went to get his wife and bring her back to the states.

does anyone know what the US embassy does in a stituation like this?

I emailed the embassy because now I'am also worried my husband's interview date is August 28, 2007.

Im praying that everything goes well for everyone. inshallah

I just got an email from the embassy today so they are working even though it sounds kind of tense in ISL.

On our case, apparently DOS just COMPLETES a security/background check but it is still the embassy that gives CLEARANCE. Here is the response we got from our inquiry about what we thought was DOS security clearance.

"Our record indicates that we have a response from the State Department and that is in review. However, it is difficult to predict that the response is a clearance. We will immediately contact the beneficiary once a clearance is received. Please check back with us after a week

Yours truly,

Immigrant Visa Unit"

KJO saw your other post where your clearances are done now, congratulations and hope you post visa is ajudicated soon. http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...c=76270&hl=

I meant to post this here!!!

Hi Folks,

I just wanted to check in to let you all know that I called DOS and my fiance passed the security clearance. YEAH!!! The visa specialist said that the case has been forwarded back to the embassy. I thought it would be good to share this with you all especially since there was a few others that had their interviews at the end of March.

I'm hoping this part goes quickly. When he was interviewed he was told congratulations, your visa was approved, we just have to go through administrative processing.

Fingers crossed things will go quickly for us and others. Allah akbar!

Hi Folks,

I just wanted to check in to let you all know that I called DOS and my fiance passed the security clearance. YEAH!!! The visa specialist said that the case has been forwarded back to the embassy. I thought it would be good to share this with you all especially since there was a few others that had their interviews at the end of March.

I'm hoping this part goes quickly. When he was interviewed he was told congratulations, your visa was approved, we just have to go through administrative processing.

Fingers crossed things will go quickly for us and others. Allah akbar!

Hi yall...

has their been any MEN approved for visas SINCE 2007?????????????????????? if so tell us about it..

Hi Shon

My fiance was told congrats the day of his interview....that he was approved for the visa but would be placed on AP for 45 days. The CO said if 45 days passes and he hears nothing from them to call or write. So in terms of AP, nothing out of the ordinary.

Hope this is helpful.

KJO

Hi All,

Good news my fiance finally got an appointment date for the K-1 visa! Yeah! Thought I would share our timeline with everyone as encouragement that thinks are moving along (albeit at glacial speed) in the ISL embassy.

The stars seem to be aligning for us though. I'm getting ready to start a new job with the federal government, but before my start date I knew I could take 3 weeks to go for a visit. I was sure I was going to have to make a second visit for the interview because we had not heard back from them yet. Happily we got the letter and the appointment is the day before I was scheduled to return back to the US. Really incredible!

Btw - XStrangerX2007, my lawyer and numerous people on VJ suggest that the spouse/fiance go to the interview. Even if you aren't allowed to talk much. I understand that your mere presence strengthens your case.

Good luck to everyone else. I'll write again after the interview to let everyone know the outcome.

Hi Folks,

I just sent in the documents for packet 3.5. What is the average turn around time for an interview appointment these days? I'm guessing we'll get an appointment sometime in March. What have other people been experiencing?

Shon - Congrats on getting out of AP hell!

Hi Guys,

Do you know if girls get stuck in ar/ap process too in Pakistan? I know that almost all of men have to go through this BS. Any experiences?

Sufi

yes its possible, but higly unlikely.

Ladies do get AP/AR. not always but they do. I have a friends wife that got off AP/AR last week

it took her 6 months to clear.

Hi Friends,

I have two questions, First does anyone know what triggers AP/AR? I'm living in fear that my fiance (a man) will get put on AP/AR. I would just like to understand if it can be avoided.

Second, if I am a USC by birth does my fiance have to wait for his case to become current? I didn't know there was a quota for fiance visas, or am I confused?

Other than that we've hit a similar snag as Fazel (?) and have been waiting for almost a month for Packet 3.5 to be sent to our lawyer here in the US since there is no functioning postal service in Jalalabad Afghanistan. I called last week and they are apparently sent another one out to us by regular post. Fingers crossed it will arrive shortly!

This is only the second time I've posted here but I wanted to let you all know that I really appreciate this forum and the spirit of sharing here. I log in often and I've benefitted from this thread greatly.

Best,

Kirsten

Hi Friends,

I am new to the forum and have read through many posts here. I really appreciate the community spirit on the forum and willingness to help.

I am an American woman engaged to an Afghan man. We met while I was working in Afghanistan. We both worked on the same USAID project. I had to return to the US because my assignment was over.

We applied for a I-129F visa and I just got notification that the NOV2 (petition) was approved. I am trying to anticipate the next steps so I was wondering if anyone had any experience. Btw, the embassy in Kabul only processes diplomatic visas so every other type of visa must be processed in Islamabad which is why I am on this forum.

I understand that my fiance will get a packet in the mail but Afghanistan does not have a functioning postal service and there is no DHL to Jalalabad where he lives. He could however designate a place in Kabul to have it sent for him to pick it up. I had my lawyer send a message to NVC about it. But I thought I would tap into some of the wisdom here in this form.

So here is my question: Does anyone know if they can send the packet out by e-mail or if they would email him notification of next steps? It seems that almost all communication is done through the post.

Thanks,

KJO

P.S. Mary, thanks for your email. I did a search for Omid and sent her an email through VJ.

Hi Friends,

I am new to the forum and have read through many posts here. I really appreciate the community spirit on the forum and willingness to help.

I am an American woman engaged to an Afghan man. We met while I was in Afghanistan. We both worked on the same USAID project. I had to return to the US because my assignment was over.

We applied for a I-129F visa and just got notification that the NOV2 (petition) was approved. I am trying to anticipate the next steps so I was wondering if anyone had any experience. Btw, the embassy in Kabul only processes diplomatic visas so every other type of visa must be processed in Islamabad which is why I am on this forum.

I understand that my fiance will get a packet in the mail but Afghanistan does not have a functioning postal service and there is no DHL to Jalalabad where he lives. He could however designate a place in Kabul to have it sent for him to pick it up. I had my lawyer send a message to NVC about it. But I thought I would tap into some of the wisdom here in this form.

So here is my question: Does anyone know if they can send the packet out by e-mail or if they would email him notification of next steps? It seems that almost all communication is done through the post.

Thanks,

KJO