RobZ

Successful interviews for both my kids in Sydney on 21 March 2023.  Its now 16 business days (due to Easter) since then and still no passport returns or changes on CEAC (they say READY). 
 

Emailing consulate gets me a auto-reply.  
 

What other options do I have other than wait?

On 3/23/2023 at 6:19 AM, JonoMoto said:

I was approved and told a week, it's been 8 working days thus far and it's yet to be issued.

 

I've seen lots of variability in receiving visas back... Hard to tell. 

Did you get it yet?  Got approval at interview on 21st March but still no change to CEAC status and no passport back. 

We have a interview at Sydney Consulate next week. Wondering if anyone has any recent reports on how long passports are taking to come back?

52 minutes ago, l.hudson@ymail.co said:

So how long did you wait between each RFE?

10-12 weeks.   Your resubmission date becomes your new submit date.  And things just start again.  You go to the back of the queue.

17 hours ago, PaoSelle said:

For anyone that received an RFE did you have to fall back in line and wait again?

yep on my 3rd now.   It's so frustrating because they ask for things they didn't ask for in the previous 2.   It's very inefficient.   They should really open up a 12-24 hour response window where it will get looked at immediately and if you miss that then you go back to the end of the line.  

3 minutes ago, chaoticenergy said:

Yeah so they have the W2 but could they be asking for 1099 if your petitioner has any?

No there are no 1099s (none required as petitioner is an employee with only W2s).  Just W2's.  They have all W2s from 2018 to 2021.  All accepted.  All tax transcripts, all tax returns, everything.  All accepted.

Just now, chaoticenergy said:

So what more do they want? I mean they reviewed it. Can it be 1099?

Nope.  Just a W-2.  They have it.  It's accepted!   

44 minutes ago, chaoticenergy said:

Did you label your 2021 W2 and uploaded as a separate document... 

Yep sure did.  See attached.

I submitted additional documents requested (2020 W2 for petitioner) from an RFE on June 6th.  Yesterday all documents were reviewed and are marked as ACCEPTED.  However there is now a new message to submit a 2021 W2 for petitioner.   This WAS submitted (although not asked for) on the June 6th resubmission.   It seems my only option, crazy as it sounds, is to resubmit this one document even though its sitting there already, marked as Accepted.     And wait another 3 months.  This process - especially without the ability to call/contact someone - is frustrating.   I get they don't want to be inundated by calls but surely give people who are in my situation 24 hours to ask a q and respond.    

We applied on Sep 2018 and successful interview in Sydney last week.   First approval was January 2019.   At NVC March 2019.  Interview date received mid May 2019.  

I'm about to go through interview in a couple of weeks CR1.   

My current employer is ok for me to work remotely for them,  with Australian income being paid into an Australian bank account when I relocate to the US.

My wife earns enough money and so her income is all we provided on the Affidavit of Support/i864.    My financials/income was not mentioned.

Am I ok with the above?   If I'm asked about my future work it is ok to state that I will continue to work for my current employer remotely?

Just concerned if I have missed anything.

Whilst we patiently wait I thought I'd create some data for each country from the spreadsheet showing min, max and average times from CC to Interview Notification (this data doesn't seem to be anywhere)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14Z0dJFAllOdEszZrK0D3rdtVtZgHy4SyGmsBq8972oY/edit?usp=sharing

Mods: If this isn't allowed please delete.

Note:  This is for approx. 4000 entries in the spreadsheet and goes back a number of years.   I've cleaned up some of the data but not much.  I also removed ones that had 0 days between CC and Interview notification as I think thats suspect.

52 minutes ago, jgub said:

 

me too guys! cc april 13- so hoping for june interview- trying to call now..

G'day!!  Let us know how you go after the call..

14 minutes ago, alannah_rose said:

Has anyone from Australia had their interview scheduled lately? I've been waiting about a month now (CC on 20 April) and its driving me crazy!! Having to put domestic holiday plans on hold for next month while I wait for my interview date!

 

Plus I emailed NVC last week asking about it and still haven't got a response 😫

I'm from Australia (hi - nice to see an Aussie here) and nope no interview yet.  My CC was 15 April.