JoeySantino

Still waiting on any action or interview date for our case filed in January 2020; lived in New York and then moved to New Jersey (USCIS office is Newark); is anyone else on a similar time-frame with either of these offices? I called USCIS some weeks ago; they said my case is outside of expected processing times and that they'll send me an e-mail with an update; but nothing has happened yet

Does anyone have any status updates or any movement on their case in NYC field office or Newark field office? Looks like we're gonna be the slowest  I estimated a Jan 2021 or Feb 2021 based on other progress reports I had seen but it's just my estimate (which could be wrong)

7 hours ago, fakeeh said:

congrats how much please

I think it's $5000 per family if you join a big case, or $15,000 if it's your own case by itself

Visa approved, my fiance is here now, waiting time was 5 months from interview date....how? WoM (Writ of Mandamus) - I highly recommend Curtis Morrison

1 hour ago, missileman said:

Make sure the new immigrant is covered by a health care plan within 30 days of arrival.

But it seems like they're gonna try to block people from entering before if they can't show they can afford health care. The requirements for financial support are 125 percent of poverty level...with this proclamation it will maybe go up a lot because I assume the immigrant can't use any aca tax credits 

I've been on "or" for 12 days with any other updates....this is agonizing, can anyone tell me if this is normal or not?

What's the longest anyone has waited after a change to "or" ?

33 minutes ago, mado1983 said:

Maaaan it feels i lost my chance like they were waiting for me not to answer

E-mail them everyday

15 minutes ago, always1234 said:

 Maybe they figured out that people figured out that the change from / to or means something, so they are working on that ... wild guess here..

lol - I was thinking this earlier today

16 minutes ago, JUV said:

My case got reopened but i didn’t receive any email from embassy. When i checked it, new section added for social networking. My case under AP since August 2018.

What do you mean case reopened? Is this relating to the DS-260?

5 minutes ago, Ayanledame98 said:

There was  notice on the site saying they will be doing maintenance up to 9am California time on Monday.

Well it's 12:40pm California time now, and still not working

1 hour ago, Ayanledame98 said:

It will be down until my be around 8pm eastern time

How do you know?

Doesn't work for me either 

Doesn't work for me either 

CEAC isn't working

5 minutes ago, Jorgedig said:

It's your money to lose.  But 6 months is not long at all, and if it is still stuck on background/security checks, it will be denied.

I don't think that's true...a writ asks for background checks to move forward too

27 minutes ago, Jorgedig said:

They will not.  There is a pinned post about it here on VJ.

 

 

No, Pregnancy is NOT Grounds to Expedite Your Process
 

Filed a writ of Mandamus , seriously

Most people look forward to Friday/Saturday because it's the weekend - I don't, because the embassy is closed that day so no updates - lol 

3 minutes ago, A&M24 said:

2 to 3 days as i remember, but it depends on each embassy, i know some case waited  for   2 weeks and they did  contact them , which embassy are you dealing with?

Abu Dhabi

Has everyone who had "/" change to "or" been contacted ? How long does it take after this change ? Up to a week?

You don't need to wait 12 to 18 months....even 100 days is enough 

3 minutes ago, Le212 said:

Hi! I’m just looking back at your post and I was thinking about hiring a lawyer in the foreign country. How do you know that we have to hire a lawyer in the states and not the foreign country? 

Because you're dealing with US law.

2 minutes ago, Louis&Zahra said:

Hello everyone!

 

My fiancée and I have been looking at this forum for a few months. She’s Iranian and has been put into administrative processing since March after her interview at Ankara’s U.S. Embassy.

It’s encouraging to see some of you already getting visas, we’re both eager to get her visa and start our lives together in America. So far we’ve only had updates when the embassy responds to our email inquiring about her visa.

 

I’d like to know if there’s been an automated system implemented in Ankara’s embassy, and if they know anyone that’s had their visa’s issued in Ankara?

 It seems like other embassies have a higher rate of visa issuances that were on AP, but Ankara has a tendency to give them right away. I haven’t heard of many getting visas issued that are already in AP at Ankara’s embassy!

 

Best wishes,

 

 Louis & Zahra

Were you asked to submit Form DS-5535?

This is pretty big, court said government's argument that consular non-reviewability doctrine doesn't apply to waiver cases
 

The only bad news is that they didn't grant his preliminary injunction for Iranian plaintiffs, but the court says the case can proceed - this can be a potential nightmare for the government for a court to say that these cases can all be reviewed. Does anyone have any opinions?

It's quiet here today