DS5535-Jeddah-O1A

Here is my screenshot for J1 visa waiver, does it means that the all the paperwork has arrived USDOS and my case is under deliberation ?

I am mechanical engineer.

I wish to share my experience of applying for an O-1A visa from Jeddah Saudi Arabia. I also included my wife (O-3) in my application. I would like to mention here that I have visited US times on internships and for conferences and so has my wife. We had our visa interview on 3-Oct-2018 at morning 9:30 am. After waiting for more than an hour we were called for the interview with one of the consular officers. As advised by my attorney I brought all the petition documents with me along with some additional paperwork. In totality, it was more than 200 pages and when the consular officer asked for the case documents I passed on all of these. To be fair, these were a lot of documents which were difficult for the consular officer to be processed at the moment. Anyway, the CO went through these and asked me a few questions pertaining to my qualifications. After a few brief questions which I answered in detail, the CO handed over me documents highlighting my rights in the US. At this point, I was very happy that my case is going to be approved but soon after that, the CO noticed that I have also filed an immigrant petition which was already approved  CO asked me that what are my plans after I finish my O-1 assignment, to which I specified that I am going to file for a green card later in the US.

After this discussion, the CO mentioned that they need to look up my case and they will call me again for another interview in a few days. They did not call me yet and I think they are not going to but they did send my wife DS-5535 on 8-Oct-2018 asking for a lot of details including social media handles, and travel details. Since then there has been no update in the case status.

Here is the timeline:

Interview date: 03-Oct-2018

DS-5535 sent:  08-Oct-2018 (sent filled form back on 09-Oct-2018)

Nationality: Indian