After being trapped in the black hole of administrative processing for roughly 17 months, our case was finally approved yesterday!
My fiancee attended the appointment for the third interview at the embassy in Nicaragua. She had to resubmit the DS-160, acquire new police reports and medical exams, and provide proof of our ongoing relationship since the previous interview 13 months ago. She was only asked 3 questions at this third interview - "what is your name?", "when did your fiancee last visit?", and "show me a photo of you together". They also returned all of the evidence we had submitted at the 2 previous interviews.
They took her passport, and said it would be returned with the visa attached in 3 weeks. Does anyone know how long this actually takes in Nicaragua?
From what I have read people usually receive their passport with the visa stamp within 2-10 days. I will be visiting her for Christmas, and I would like to bring her home with me.
I just recently discovered this forum and have been reading everything pretty thoroughly. So in regards to the case, it is for my husband we are applying for an IR1 visa. Overall this process altogether has taken about two and a half years now, but thankfully we should be almost done.
On the 3rd of April my husband had his visa interview. He says the interview went very well, however, there were two documents - his birth certificate and our marriage certificate - that were not accepted because they were not from the central registry. After the interview, he received a letter referencing section 221g and requesting that he send in these additional documents.
He was able to go to the central registry and send in the documents via Cargo Trans the following day and from what I understand the case is in Administrative Processing. He did not get a physical receipt after sending in the documents, so my question is, is there a way to know when the embassy receives his additional documentation?
I know all cases go into administrative processing, but it worries me a bit about not really knowing if they have everything that is needed.
My other question has to do with my husbands police record. So, my husband is a gunsmith and was previously arrested with the crime being possession of firearms and altering characteristics of firearms. Basically, he was working on a gun and did not have proper documentation to do so. This has all been annulled, but obviously, still shows up in his police record that it happened and that it was later annulled. During my husbands interview he was asked a few different questions about this incident and the interviewer said that he would have to read very carefully all the documentation on the case, but did not say anything other than that before explaining to him that he needed to resubmit his birth certificate and marriage certificate.
My question on this is, could this possibly delay further his visa case? We do have an immigration lawyer we've been working with here in the states and she says there shouldnt be any issues with his record due to it already being annulled. His record is something that has worried me the whole time we have been going through this immigration process, but other than requesting documentation, we have not had any problems thus far. I just wanted to know if anyone had any similar experiences or advice.
At the end of the interview they kept his passport and he was told that once everything was done & processed they would let him know so he could pick it up.
Lfinau3 got a reaction from Ocean Bound in 221 (g) documentation // cases with police record (merged)