ddy51

16 hours ago, Momandgirl said:

ddy51: did your interview get scheduled finally?

Nope. No luck yet. 

10 hours ago, shizac said:

the portal is not  allowing us to ADD A JOINT SPONSOR. We uploaded it in the supporting documents area for the petitioner which was the only way to upload anything at all on the website, they emailed us weeks after saying to UPLOAD IT IN THE CORRECT TAB. The portal DOES NOT allow adding joint sponsor at this stage and we fail to understand: Where is that magical correct tab?

Hi there. We had a similar situation and lots of other people are facing the same now a days. But the only difference these cases (including mine) and your case is that we faced the issue before interview (at NVC stage) while you're facing it afterwards. IMO, it doesnt make much of a difference. 

What I can tell you is that solution to your problem is going to come from NVC and not the consulate. So you call NVC and request them to reopen the add a joint sponsor tab for your CEAC portal. 

1 hour ago, willcrack said:

O & O - A few questions for you:

 

Did NVC start electronic processing of documents for Lagos in July/August 2018? Were your documents all uploaded on CEAC?

 

Do you know of others around your CC date that is also waiting for an interview date at Lagos?

 

Have you contacted your Congressperson's office about this unfair delay? If so, what was the result?

 

Thanks...

😁 hahaha... Oh dear you are thinking exactly what I am thinking. I asked @O&O the same question about Lagos consulated being shifted to CEAC processing in July/August 18.

16 hours ago, missileman said:

If I had proof of that, then I would contact my Senator's office again....with the proof.

If Visajourney is a bogus forum where people post fake updates and timelines then I believe I might be wrong. But even if it is legit, it wont be a viable proof.
 

Why can't NVC itself check itself. They dont have to do an extensive search by putting in many filters. Just check the last case they scheduled for interview and they'll have the proof. 

31 minutes ago, missileman said:

I think you have done all you can do at this point.  It is the responsibility of the consulate to notify NVC of available interview dates.  It sounds like NVC is doing their job of FIFO.

NVC is not* doing the FIFO properly. 

Wow.  It has been the most frustrating wait of my life. 

CC on Oct 2. Since then all CC from Oct, Nov and almost all from Dec have been scheduled interviews. Yet I stand here waiting. Been waiting for more than 3 months now. 

Tried expdite request which was rejected by the consulate saying " To be fair to all candidates, NVC schedules interviews in the order they are completed".

Tried congressmen. Senator didnt respond, representative asked the NVC about the status and gave us the same.

Do we have any other place where we can raise the issue? 

On 12/16/2018 at 3:35 AM, adar24 said:

Given the PDs of all who have so far received interviews at Mumbai Consulate, it does appear as if the PD + CC date is considered when granting interviews. The good thing is that Dec 2017 folks are getting interview dates, so 2018 PDs should not be far behind. 

Nope. Not true at all. 

CC: Oct 1, 2018

PD: Sep 12, 2017

No interview dates yet. 

I don't want to sound pessimistic but this is on basis of my research and experience over the last one year of the case complete to interview progress. 

Most likely time during which you can expect to receive interview dates is the last week of month (Usually 26th -28th of the month). This pattern was followed during the abnormal last month as well. And apparently that time of  the month is over and if my hypothesis holds true we are looking at December end now with February interview dates.

Only thing which suggests that we might get interview dates this week is that very few interviews have been scheduled till now. 

5 minutes ago, CJlove said:

Wow... You and I filed CR1 around the same time. I guess Mumbai is slower than Chile... I filed CR1 on September 15, 2017. CC on August and interview on Novermber 16... AP after interview and still waiting. I hope you get your interview date soon... Sending some positive juju~~~ ☘️☘️👍🙏🙏🙏

I got RFE at USCIS stage but after that as well NVC has been super slow in appointing interview date, been almost 2 months of idle time. Till last month everyone was getting interview date for the month after, without fail. I dont see anyone here with CC date before 20th Sept 2018, for mumbai Consulate. But God knows what went wrong last month that they scheduled only a handful of interviews and those too were very randomly selected.
Mumbai generally is not slow, majority of the people with CR1 filing from January 18 are already there in the states with their spouses. Its just some people are running outta luck. 

10 hours ago, sanjusuga1 said:

Oh man, we are also waiting. We filed for CR1 for my spouse in October 2017 and we are still waiting for an interview date. Our CC was on 10/26/18, and we are from India. Is there anyone else in the same boat? I have no idea when to expect the interview letter. 

Filed for CR1 on 12 Sep 2017, got CC on 2nd Oct 18, still waiting for interview date for mumbai consulate.  

4 hours ago, S&J2018 said:

I think the prediction and expectation is for NVC to start scheduling interviews at the end of this week and next week for January.  

I called them yesterday and they said they'll start scheduling interviews for January month at the End of the day. But I guess they did not. 

5 hours ago, willcrack said:

I think the reason for, that based on a few data points here, is that whenever the dates are made available by the consulate, the NVC automated interview scheduling system is scheduling based on the priority date rather than the CC date.

 

Most of the scheduling done in the middle of the month IMO is to fill up slots opened up due to cancellations etc.

@willcrack not true. I have seen people with cc later than mine and pd from Feb-March 2018 getting interview dates. My pd is 12th Sep 2017.

And this time it doesn't seem like "vacated slots because of cancellations" filling,  because those numbers are very less. So many people have got interview dates last few days which is not usual. 

15 minutes ago, AnuR said:

Case completed on September 27,2018. Yet to hear from NVC for an interview date at Mumbai consulate. Anyone else in the same boat? Are they still scheduling interviews for December at Mumbai?

 hoping that they are... In the same boat. You missed the November Date by a whisker.

1 hour ago, raj75176 said:

Case Completed  : Sept 24th  (09/24).

 

Still waiting interview date from Mumbai Consulate

 

They have appointed interviews for people whose cases were completed almost recently. But no sign for people like you and me. Hope we get it soon. 
Anyways have not seen anyone getting interview dates in the first half of December I feel that slot is still vacant and we will get interviews in that time only. 
Fingers crossed.

wow so many people getting interview dates today. Hope we are also in line. 

9 hours ago, MsKayC said:

Well we have a wait till Tuesday since NVC is closed on Monday... looking forward to all of us getting our dates by Friday since that's when they are scheduling till this month

 

@MsKayC  any source for the info that " they are scheduling till Friday this month"? 

I thought scheduling was done during the last 3-4 days of the month and first 2-3 days of next month. By Friday, it would be the middle of the month.

I thought @dwheels76 has also a break like NVC for the December month. 

3 hours ago, Marriedforlove said:

Yes, I'm one of them. My CC 10/11/18. I'm still waiting for an interview date. When I view similar timelines, I see a few couple whose CC was after ours and they got an interview date in December. When I called NVC and told them, they told me it's not possible as they go in CC date order. 

On 11/7/2018 at 6:03 AM, willcrack said:

Looking at data from https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xbLl_8yDgHLeDaLnTrPdYc44J0sjPSFfYCKxlKx6uTY/edit#gid=0

 

it is clear that for almost all Mumbai cases that an interview was scheduled within 3-4 weeks (if not earlier) of being "case complete". For one, it is clear that their automated system is either not taking case complete date for prioritization for scheduling (based on most recent data) or that the fact that the online processing switchover for Mumbai has screwed things up. But... there probably is also a supply-demand issue here:

 

1. ) November has the most consulate holidays for Mumbai, thereby spilling over cases to December.

2.) December might be a slow month with consulate staff on vacations

3.) An entire nation sending one of the highest immigration applicants to the US has only one consulate - Mumbai, dealing with immigrant visas. Now, how smart (or not) is that?

 

I have called NVC and the contract agents there are clueless without any good info or guidance for their customers.

 

I am pretty much taking that it will be scheduled later in November for a January interview date... barring a situation where they had a system glitch.

As per my observations-

1) I have not seen anyone with cc before 20th sep being still held up for interviews so the spillover is unlikely.

2) This is a plausible argument as there have been very few interview appointments throughout the globe. But then this should have impacted the interviews last year as well, I didn't see any hints of the same in last year's "cc to interview December" forum. 

3) The fact that they were doing just fine till now (almost 5-6 months since Delhi consulate was closed for immigrant visas) suffices to prove that there is enough personnel and infrastructure available in Mumbai to handle the cases as they become ready for interviews. 

BTW some offline cases (cc before oct 20) are also waiting for interviews. 

2 hours ago, thatguyuknow said:

Getting really tired waiting for an interview date for London.

 

Looks like the whole NVC process is going slow. The only countries I've seen with December interviews is India.

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I feel like American officers working in the consulates take off during the holiday season. Even for India consulate, not all have been appointed Interviews. 

10 hours ago, pp5 said:

Thats true. Normally they go by cc. looks like they have not scheduled interviews of people whose case was processed electronically. My cc is Oct 5, electronic submission, still waiting for interview.

no they're not on VJ. But I guess if you search here, you'll find many such cases.

10 hours ago, pp5 said:

Thats true. Normally they go by cc. looks like they have not scheduled interviews of people whose case was processed electronically. My cc is Oct 5, electronic submission, still waiting for interview.

you're right about this. Mumbai consulate has switched to online processing for the first time and I think they just missed all the EP cases. The thing is for them its just a casual error but for us it's another month of wait which seems more than eternity. 

4 hours ago, baburao said:

i guess  cc date, priority date plus any special requests are taken into consideration to set interview date..

Nope this is so not true.

It's a very random process, I feel, more than anything they need better programmers.

I know atleast 5 cases where there were no special requests, case complete were later than mine, pd was later than mine but still they have been scheduled interviews.

7 hours ago, thatguyuknow said:

I wonder if it’s an automated system that schedules the interviews or a person? Anyone know? 

 

I assume the consulate give give nvc the dates the have available and nvc fill them automatically?

Yes it is an automated system which is run by a scheduling department and the reps at NVC you talk to do not have any idea about how that system works because they're not the ones working in the scheduling departmens.

Even the supervisors are not sure about the system. 

Every month end, NVC schedules interviews for the cases completed in that month for interview dates in the next to next month. At least that has been the case with CR1 visas for Mumbai Consulate. But this time around, not everyone whose cases were completed in October 2018 were scheduled interviews. Lots of people are left. Is Mumbai getting too crowded? or is December a month with an expected aberration like this?     

you dont need to upload either. You can take all these docs to interview.