I promised myself that once my fiancee and I had her visa issued, I would create a thread and hope to answer questions for anyone else who was like me who wanted specific answers but couldn't get them.
Before you go any further, the first thing to understand is EVERY CASE IS DIFFERENT
My specific case had the following details.
We filed the case on October 5th at the Texas Service Center. I live in Los Angeles, CA. But I read somewhere online that if I send it to Texas, it would be better. Anyway, I received letters here and there. I received an RFE which was a request for more evidence. I thought that was weird because I had sent like 10 pictures of us being loving and cute together. It turns out that all they wanted was a letter from her saying that she wants to marry me. So we sent that out the very next day. That was processed pretty quickly too. The USCIS worked very efficiently in my experience.
Fast forward to her Interview, this is the part that made both of us worried. We filled out the 3.5 Electronic Packet and sent it to the Islamabad Embassy. They sent us an email with her Interview letter on January 25th and scheduled her interview for February 16th.
Her interview went smoothly, she took a ridiculous amount of pictures and chat logs and call history and pictures of gifts and my airline ticket stubs and credit card statements and anything else that she could find to prove that we were a legitimate engaged couple. At the end of the interview, the CO said, "Everything looks fine, you'll get your passport back in 3 weeks."
Now the waiting started. We waited 7 weeks and sent them 2 emails in those 7 weeks. I made a table of the event to make the tracking easier. If you guys have any questions, feel free to ask me.
Date Event Status Days Since Her Interview
December 16 Case Creation Date Ready
February 16 Actual Interview Ready for Interview
February 19 Status Update Date Ready for Interview 3 days
March 9 Status Update Date Ready for Interview 3 weeks & 1 day – 22 days
March 18 Status Update Date Ready for Interview 4 weeks & 2 days – 31 days
March 29 Status Update Date Ready for Interview 6 weeks – 42 days
March 31 Status Update Date Ready for Interview 6 week & 2 days – 44 days
April 1 Status Update Date Ready for Interview 6 week & 3 days – 45 days
April 4 Status Update Date Ready for Interview 6 week & 6 days – 48 days
April 6 Changed to NIV Ready 7 week & 1 day – 50 days
April 7 Administrative Processing ISSUED 7 week & 2 days – 51 days
Final thing, Don't lose hope. That CEAC status doesnt change much.
My Urdu is terrible. So it’s been 5 weeks since your interview? What did they tell you at the interview? Did they need more documents? Unfortunately it’s a waiting game. Submit everything they ask for in a timely manner and then just have to wait for them to approve.
Congrats! Last I saw interviews were being scheduled for May. I hope you get yours soon!
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In 2016 I came to USA with a tourist visa then applied for f1 which got denied before I applied for adjustment of status in 2017. F1 got denied in September and I applied my adjustment of status in July. I did my interview in November since then I haven't heard from uscis. Does this mean I'm on remover proceedings I'm so worried that my f1 deniel visa can affect my current status. Any advise will highly appreciated
