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Take the updated/new info and documents to the interview, your case has already left NVC

Why don't you learn the process by clicking on the word "guides" at the top of any page of this website?  You will be seeking a visa first.  Once the visa is granted and used, the green card is issued.

Yeah bro , I got my DQ on 20Jan2021 .. so we will get our interviews soon as they say about increasing the immigrants visa for CR1 and IR1 .. all the best 😎😎

HI brother yes is defiantly good new!! i get DQ 10 feb 2021 what date are you DQ ?? HOPE this month they send us IL for April = ), abut the tax return of 2020 i will bring it just in case they request, but my lawyer just ask me for that paystubs but i will send the tax return 2020 to my wife. lest keep our self updated and hope to be call soon

Effect immediately 😎😎😎... very good news , I’m wondering if they schedule our interviews this month or next month . Are they gonna ask for 2020 tax return? Anyone have an idea about this ?? 

So I'm writing this faithfully. 
I'm getting my interview date this month by God's grace. 

Hoping this increase of operations helps everyone waiting for an interview!

President Biden has revoked Proclamation on F visas (Family preference). 
 
I need to express that those who got their interview dates until March 2021 are very lucky. Now things will go crazy in embassy with all the backlog of this "Family preference visas" that were waiting since June 2020 (and beyond due to covid lockdown of embassy).
 
I wish Embassy had used this opportunity of lesser work load to clear up the backlog in IR1/CR1 visa, until this huge wave of other applications comes. Unfortunately that did't happen. Poeple from November DQ are still waiting for an interview.  Now we are the part of this huge backlog.
 
Well, those who got their interview until March can feel very lucky. And for the ones that are waiting for an interview date, best luck to us.

I agree, this month has been different in regards to scheduling interviews. I'm not sure why that is but I called NVC the other day to try to get some information about it. While she couldn't tell me much (as usual but I decided to try anyway),  she did confirm that Abu Dhabi is still scheduling interviews and conducting them. When I further questioned if they could possibly be slowing down operations because of COVID or some other measures she once again confirmed they are still doing interviews. I guess that's something good? It doesn't solve the mystery about when anyone will get scheduled/why they haven't been scheduled yet but the way I'm looking at it is at least they are not stopping. 

This month, anyhow, seems extraordinary rather than previous 2 months to be honest. Normally people would get their interview letters in the middle of the month (14-15-16th) and each month of interview was covering roughly 2-2.5 month of DQ dates.
 
This month only 2 people got their IL in the forum (Both are October DQs and one of them as I spoke with him expedited his case). These two IL came around 8-9th of the month. And we haven't hear anything during 14-15-16-17th for the ones whose DQ are November and December which should be interviewed in March as per previous months statistics.
 
I do not know exactly, but something is not in place. Additional note: AUH embassy stopped nonimmigrant visa issue except medical-humanitarian cases. It can be that Embassy will not work full capacity this month, it can be that their staff are using their annual leave, or it can even be covid measurements related. We just simply do not know what is inside the box and blindly guessing.
 
No matter what, this months ILs are extraordinary compared to previous two months', that is for sure.
 
Let's hope the best. 
 
I was hoping that since they limited the nonimmigrant visas, they would've process more and more immigrant visas which they have very limited catagories already (IR1/CR1, EB3, K1,etc - Even no DV1). But that looks like this is not the case.
 
A side note, in general USCIS has approved almost 25% less cases in 4th quarter of FY 2020 (Which is July-August-September 2020). (144,000 worldwide approval compared to FY2020/1, FY2020/2 and FY2020/3 which were around190,000-200,000 approval). These 4th quarter approved cases mostly already got their DQ dates around August-September-October 2020 and had their interviews. I believe this less approval is a trend that continued at 1st Quarter of FY2021 (October-November-December 2020) as we can already see the affect on this on the VJ members. VJ members which got their NOA2 in these months are less than the previous quarters for sure. 
 
So statistically, there are less people waiting for their interview, hence less workload for embassies, still there is not much IL issued this month. Just weird. 
 
Also everything I wrote above are still so blindly guessed since we do not have information of the full picture. Just data of VJ members, their timeline etc is not enough to make concrete deductions. Still, while we are waiting, why not do some brainstrorm, right

As per the comments, some of October DQ are interviewed on February, but there is still some people whose DQ on September and October not yet interviewed. So I believe they will schedule interviews for people DQ on November   , December And January.

Today I saw that US Embassy in Abu Dhabi is not issuing any nonimmigrant visa if it is not essential (Health reasons or student). I remember they were issuing normal B1/B2 visas and other nonimmigrant visas as normal last week.
 
Also visa wait times for nonimmigrant visa is showing "emergency appointments only" now. Before it was showing 140 days for visitor visas and something like 30 days for others.
 
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/wait-times.html
 
https://ae.usembassy.gov/visas/immigrant-visas/
 
Do you think this would give a speed boost to immigrant visa interview numbers for the upcoming months? They will be less busy with nonimmigrant visas and they will have way more less nonimmigrant visa applications.
 
I wonder if this free slots of interviews will be assigned to immigrant visa, especially ir1/cr1 interviews and will melt the backlog or will continue like this.
 
Let's see. (fingers crossed)

By the grace of Allah my visa is approved today in interview and he kept my passport but when I checked the Ceac status now it is showing administrative process...Is it normal or no?

Nice of you sharing this information. Its really sad to wait since when i am checking the status they have called interviews for DQ's qualified for 21st and 25th.
What about the other dates really sad to know whats happening in NVC. Its been longinlgy awaiting since my DQ's got qualified on October 5th but not a proper update from NVC yet. Fingers crossed hopefully will happen soon. 😪
 

Received my visa in the post on Thursday 😁 My interview was on 5th Jan at which they had asked me to obtain and submit an original birth certificate. 

Hi Everyone,
 
Due to excitement, I have come up with more statistics for Interview Schedules in Abu Dhabi Embassy. I have gathered information of our 9 dear users who got their interview dates for January and February. I am not writing usernames and other inforamtion but just DQ, NVC End, Interview Letter and Interview dates as much as they filled.
 
DQ NVC End Interview letter Interview Date 10/1/2020 14-Jan 1/14/2021 2/9/2021 9/10/2020     2/8/2021 10/5/2020 1/15/2021   2/2/2021 8/14/2020     2/1/2021 7/23/2020 12/15/2020 12/15/2020 1/25/2021 6/16/2020   12/12/2020 1/12/2021 6/2/2020 12/15/2020 12/15/2020 1/12/2021 5/23/2020 12/15/2020   1/11/2021 5/21/2020 12/15/2020 12/15/2020 1/5/2021  
Here is a graph version of the data above;
 

 
Data tells us that eventhough the gap between the DQ dates are large, they all gather up closer in ragard to interview date.
 
So with this limited data we can say that users with DQ dates roughly around MAY-JUNE-JULY  got their Interview dates in January and AUGUST-SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER got their Interview dates in February.
That is not so correct to make a assumption witht his limited data however if we need to, we may say DQ dates of (OCTOBER)-NOVEMBER-DECEMBER-(JANUARY) may expect their interview to be scheduled for March if Embassy is working at this time same as previous months and if the actual applicants do not significantly differ and loaded for this months. (october and january is in brackets because october partially might not got their interview in February and thus january might not get partially in March as it is hard to go to a conclusion with limited data if all october DQs got visa appointment in February. At the end, this is a blind game:)
 
If we had more users uses VJ and everybody updates their Timeline, we would have a much better picture.
 
Please let me know if you have any further information regarding the workload if AD embassy or any further information of October DQs.

Any update on his? when is your interview?

I wonder how big is the backlog and if AUH embassy is working with reduced staff? We have got our DQ after a surprisingly very fast 2 days NVC process in January 21st.
 
I have created a graph for historical immigrant visa issuance in AD embassy with the data obtained from March 2017 to up to date. I have showed two lines, orange one is all class of immigrant visas issued (DV, IR, F, E everything), and yellow line is IR1+CR1.
 
Maybe would be useful for anyone.
 

Bro we just had our interviews and some of us including me were waiting since May! 
 
So just hang on tight, its difficult I know but you will get there. And they seem to be working at a fast pace now.

I got DQ in 18th august and I have interview on 2nd feb and I saw one comment here she had DQ for september and she had her interview on 8th feb so in sha Allah soon don't worry...

You will get interview letter on 15th feb as per my estimation...

Hello everyone, I have got today IL for February 08, 2021 🙌 
 

Hi everyone,
My husband's interview was today and he was approved. He said it was straightforward, they asked for his civil papers originals (birth certificate, marriage certificate, 2 police certificates - one from UAE and one from Jordan) 
They asked how we met, who is the joint sponsor. 
He was in and out in less than 2 hours.

I have interview on 2nd feb😍