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My husbands interview was today and by the grace of god we were approved! He will be picking up his visa next Tuesday and flying to California next Wednesday. I am so grateful to this website and all its members who have offered kind words and so much helpful information that has ultimately led to this moment! Thank you all so much and I wish you nothing but luck and success in your journeys!!!!

Thanks a billion to Almighty. Just woke up and received IL. OMG! I was expecting to receive IL in Nov and interview date to be in December 2019. My DQ/CC is August 6th. Guess what? IL is on November 4th. I have only 14 days. I emailed NVC to expedite my case. State department said it was denied. However, I also emailed Dhaka, Bangladesh about this. They said they would look into it. I think it worked. I know people whose case was completed on July, 2019 have interview date end of Nov, 2019. I got Interview at the beginning of Nov, 2019. Anyway, thank Allah.
 
@naz94 @OldDhaka @theblooray

I hope we hear something soon. We are getting near the end of the month and based on what you have provided, there were few May CC folks got interview for early November. I do hope it rains ILs this week for Mumbai, especially IR1-CR1.
By the way, I really appreciate that you still active here on VJ and provide helpful information even after getting your visa approved. Lot of people does not do that. So, a big thank you from me.🙏

Yea it sucks a lot... This will be the 3rd Christmas my wife and I are apart and I wanted to go this Christmas and I don’t think it will happen. I just hope this process will be over soon.

This whole process has been so stressful. I really thought my wife and I would finally be able to be together for this Christmas and seeing as some of you have been waiting for the interview longer than I have I don’t think that’s going to happen now 😓.. Since we’ve been married we haven’t been able ti be together for the holidays due to the flights being crazy expensive and also thinking that we would get our interview. 

Trying to be optimistic but the sadness it’s taking over my feelings. It’s seems like the seconds are minutes and the minutes hours, ughhh! I want to be with my husband🥺
 
Santo Domingo embassy it’s taking a eternity to give me an appointment 🙁😭😭 a lot of people had been to their interview already And the weir thing it’s that the cc it before mine. 
 
PD: July 2, 2018
CC: June 10, 2019
Embassy: Santo Domingo

i guess your prayers worked ; )
 
 
Interview  Date: November 13, 2019
Cc: May 28, 2019
PD: October 18, 2018
IL: October 18, 2019 
Type: IR-5
 
Country: Egypt 
 

We had our interview today and we got approved!! 
 
I(petitioner) attended the interview at the embassy in El Salvador with my wife(beneficiary) and it went pretty smooth. 
 
They asked us how we met, when we met, if all of her trips to the US were with a tourist visa, why we got married in the US, and they wanted to see pictures of the wedding. They didn't ask a question about my AOS documents. 
 
Then the officer told us "Your visa is approved".
 
I am so glad we are almost done(I know this doesnt end until we are finally at our home in the US but it feels like we are almost done).
 
I wish all of you good luck in your journey!
 

Trying to be optimistic but the sadness it’s taking over my feelings. It’s seems like the seconds are minutes and the minutes hours, ughhh! I want to be with my husband🥺
 
Santo Domingo embassy it’s taking a eternity to give me an appointment 🙁😭😭 a lot of people had been to their interview already And the weir thing it’s that the cc it before mine. 
 
PD: July 2, 2018
CC: June 10, 2019
Embassy: Santo Domingo

Trying to be optimistic but the sadness it’s taking over my feelings. It’s seems like the seconds are minutes and the minutes hours, ughhh! I want to be with my husband🥺
 
Santo Domingo embassy it’s taking a eternity to give me an appointment 🙁😭😭 a lot of people had been to their interview already And the weir thing it’s that the cc it before mine. 
 
PD: July 2, 2018
CC: June 10, 2019
Embassy: Santo Domingo

Trying to be optimistic but the sadness it’s taking over my feelings. It’s seems like the seconds are minutes and the minutes hours, ughhh! I want to be with my husband🥺
 
Santo Domingo embassy it’s taking a eternity to give me an appointment 🙁😭😭 a lot of people had been to their interview already And the weir thing it’s that the cc it before mine. 
 
PD: July 2, 2018
CC: June 10, 2019
Embassy: Santo Domingo

Hello everyone! 
Reading up on some of conversations you all have going. Im on same track as some of you, with CC date of 07/19 
 
I called and got through to NVC last week, and as many of you have been told, they are not much help (but dont blame them, they rely on the consulate to give them the appointment availability). Lady I spoke to was really nice and even went as far as suggesting contact with santo Domingo embassy directly, to find out it they can offer better understanding of just how backed up they are. 
 
She also did mention that from what she sees on the computer, Santo Domingo schedules interviews for the upcoming month throughout thr current month, up until the last week or so. 
 
 
Lastly, the whole 30-90 day time frame to obtain IL she mentioned is not "set in stone" , meaning that this is just an estimated wait time the NVC tells people they will receive interview..for some it can be longer, but for many it can be within that time frame. 
 
 
Hope this helps!

Hello all! This may be helpful to anyone who is waiting on the Guayaquil consulate. 
 
Our CC was Sept 27 and we just got our IL today, Oct 15. Interview is Nov 15! Much faster than we anticipated! Fingers crossed to all of you waiting on your IL! 

I got IL for Nov. 12 - Montreal.  
CC June 11.  I'm so happy!

I also received IL for Montreal on Nov 4th this morning. CC on June 4th. It’s been a long wait. 

Just called NVC - the rep told me they are done scheduling for October. They will begin scheduling November later this week. Bummer 😕
But maybe y'all find this information useful. 

Hi All timeline as follows: 
 
PD: 3/26/19
CC: 9/17/19
IL: Pending 
Embassy: Santo Domingo
visa: CR1
 
My visa type does not need to be current PD for it to become available but nvc is all over the place right now in terms of scheduling. Given that the fiscal year starts on October 1st does that mean that hopefully I can get an IL before the end of the year or is my Pd considered when scheduling? 

Got IL few hours ago,
Mumbai consulate 
CC06/10/19
CR1/CR2,
PD 04/24/18

Good New beyonce happy...got IL today Santo Domingo Cc June 19 interview for Oct 29

well I just got some awful news. I just had a gut feeling that something is terribly wrong, so I called NVC again just to ask if we are indeed documentarily qualified and I spoke to a very nice super helpful lady that told me that our attorney is a moron (not in those words) and we are absolutely not DQ and waiting for interview letter is not the stage we are in. Basically, in those little messages they sent asking for documents, they requested my previous marriage termination documents which somehow our lawyer missed. So until we submit those we can't move forward. Now those documents are somewhere lost in the mail or something as I mailed it to my husband in england a week ago and he still hasn't received them. We also noticed that our joint sponsor wasn't added so I asked why wasn't it requested and she told me that she doesn't know why they didn't ask for joint sponsor and her guess is that my affidavit of support was incorrectly filled out. So the way I see it, our interview won't be scheduled until December or so, until we fix this mess. The lawyer submitted "all" of our documents in may. This is absolutely beyond frustrating. 

Hello,
 
Just wanted to give an update on my case.
 
I got approved this week in mumbai embassy. CC June 21st.
Petitioner my wife (USC). I had my case expedited. Reason pregnancy. We sent Doctor's Medical Certificate to NVC in July end as it was the beginning of her 9th month. I guess that is the reason the expedite got approved.
 
Then in august i got the chance to book my interview and the only available slot was September 30. I booked it and continuously kept monitoring if any other prior slots opened up. Fortunately, a slot for this week opened and i rescheduled.
 
So i had my interview and got approved. Unfortunately, i could not be there earlier for the birth of my Daughter.
 
Anyways the interview was easy. The CO was the very nice lady. Asked all the generic questions:
who is calling you?
what is the name of your spouse?
Love marriage or arrange?
who arrange the marriage?
when you do first meet her?
what is your spouse location in usa?
who is the joint sponsor?
where does he/shes lives in usa?
What is your relationship with the joint sponsor?
Where will you be staying in usa?
What are plans after going there?
What kind of job will you be looking for?
Where was the wedding?
 
How many people attended the wedding? Do you have pictures? I brought two slim albums of 40 photos each. She barely looked in there
How did your families know each other? What did they see in you to select you as their daughter's husband? How long your families known each other?
 
Asked me what was the reason for expedite? I told her pregnancy, so she asked when is the baby due? I told her the baby is born already.
 
Do you have your child's birth certificate with you? I said no, we applied and we are waiting. I also took video call screen shots of my daughter. I color printed out those screenshots. So i asked her if she wanted to see my daughter pictures and showed her. She was like this is good.
 
Then she asked questions about my time in usa. what i did over there, how long was i there for, was i ever out of status and so on.
 
Here are the tips before the interview:
Make sure you have the original civil documents and their photocopy, medical envelope and passport ready. 
Dress formally
Be there before time
and please smile.
 
Hope this helps
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Case completed on 30 Aug and I received email today (13 Sep) with interview date on 18 Oct. London Embassy.

Got IL this morning!
 
Interview 1 October
DQ 19 August 
The Bahamas
 
And here I thought it was going to take a while because of their notice! Praying for everyone to get IL very soon! 
 
 
 

I got IL
CC 06/03
CR 2
ID 10/04..

Just got  an IL
Mumbai
On 7 October
Cr1