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Bcz of this backlog ppl lives are on stake, hopefully this backlog will end soon. May God make things easy for all of you guys, and IA soon things will get back to normal as they were before this covid.

Who is calling you or who is sponsoring you? When did you guys get married When was the last time you guys met eachother What is he doing What will you do when you ll be in states Where does he live in USA Is he live alone or with family How long you guys have been married What were you doing here during this wait time How you guys met eachother and who arranged your marriage. And Alhamdulillah interview went well, before interview I was really panicked, but the person who interviewed me was so nice, that at the end I was thinking that the stress that I was in before interview wasn't worth it. And Alhamdulillah I am in states now with my husband.

Interview Experience: Visa Category: IR1 DQ Date: December 18th, 2020. Interview Date: April 7th, 2022. Interview Location: Islamabad Embassy, Pakistan Interview Time: 8:30 am Total Amount of Time spent: 2.5 hours to 3 hours. Language chosen by my wife for the Interview: English. Interviewer: “Very nice and friendly” according to my wife J After my wife was called by the interviewer and before he started asking questions, he reviewed documents at ceac website for about 5 minutes before starting the interview. Questions Asked: 1) What is your name? 2) What is your father’s name? 3) Who is sponsoring you? 4) What is his name? 5) What does he do for a living? 6) What is your highest level of education? 7) Do you have any kids? 😎 Is this your first marriage? 9) Is this his first marriage? 10) Arranged or Love marriage? 11) How many times has he visited you since marriage took place? 12) Then asked for photos for all the trips. I had collected and compiled photos from the 3 events of our marriage, Nikah/Shadi/Valema and had separated our pictures from the trips by years on to a Microsoft word file. My wife printed these compilations in color and took them with her to the interview and that is what she showed him. The interviewer looked at all the pictures. After that, he congratulated my wife stating “your Visa has been approved.” After that, he gave my wife the approval letter and held on to her passport stating that my wife should except the passport with the visa on it “within 2 weeks.” After giving the approval letter, the interviewer wished my wife a happy stay in the United States. Alhumdullilah! All praises to the Almighty Allah Swt, and without his help, we wouldn’t have gotten through this. To tell you the truth, from the time of interview letter to the actual interview, there was not a lot of time, there were only about 9 days! And Even though, I thought I had most of the documents already ready for the interview, getting them ready for the interview, like printing them and arranging them in a folder took a lot of time. Also, trying to get a medical with that short amount of time was also very rushed but thanks to the almighty everything turned out well. So, my advice to the people waiting for interviews, PLEASE PLEASE PLESAE get all your documents ready and good to go. Do as much as you can to save yourself the headache of trying to arrange everything in time while also making sure you do not miss anything! Also, a big shout out to all the people in this group, not only the Admins and moderators but also participants of this group as well. Reading through all these posts answer many of my questions. Once again thank you so much to everyone, especially the Admins. And best wishes for everyone. Now we just wait for the passport with the Visa stamp on it!

Thanks everyone for your help, especially Rabea Kruegel. Received my passport today with US visa I had my interview on the 23rd, Monday. The CO ask me the following questions •Who is sponsoring you •What does your husband do •When was the last time he visited you •Can you show me some pictures of you two together & handed me the congratulatory letter with a smile! I submitted these docs on portal & took all with me to the interview too in one file organised with chits. Sponsor - [x] birth certificate copy - [x] Passport copy - [x] W2 recent 3 years - [x] Tax return recent 3 years - [x] Tax transcript recent 3 years - [x] I864 updated - [x] Entry exit - [x] Money transfer - [x] Passport size 2 photos Beneficiary - [x] Birth certificate original - [x] Translated birth certificate - [x] Nikkah nama, translation, NADRA approved - [x] Police report 2 years - [x] ID Card - [x] Passport - [x] Passport size 2 photos - [x] DS260 - [x] Marriage photos - [x] Nvc letter - [x] Chats Co-sponsor - [x] Birth certificate copy - [x] Passport copy - [x] W2 recent 3 years - [x] Tax return recent 3 years - [x] Tax transcript recent 3 years - [x] I864 updated My status changed from Ready to AP on 23rd May AP to Issued- 24th May Passport received- 30th May Embassy: Islamabad
 Visa Category: IR1 DQ: 02-Oct-2020
 Interview Letter: 20 Oct 2021 
Interview Date: 8 Nov 2021 
Visa issued: 9 Nov (Alhamdullilah) 
Available for Pickup: 11 Nov 2021 

Hi guys, I want to share my interview experience as I have got a lot of help from the previous posts based on others’ interview experiences. I had my interview on 8th Nov Monday but I reached Islamabad on Saturday to be on the safe side, and I will recommend everyone to travel a day earlier from your interview. 
I stayed at sector G-7 in Islamabad that was near the Diplomatic Enclave Shuttle service in a hotel that was very reasonable in price for 2200RS per day. Luckily there I met a guy who provides services to rent a car with driver and he can find you best possible hotels in ISL as well, a very nice guy very punctual and polite, I will share his number below in the post so you can call him directly with my name as a reference and he will help you out with everything in Islamabad. 
On the day of the interview, I left for the Shuttle Service at 6:30AM. Shuttle service starts at 7:00 AM. In the Diplomatic Enclave Shuttle Service, they will ask you for the following documents. Interview letter ID card photocopy ID card original Passport. Make sure you keep them at the front of your file for easy processing. 
From the first counter, they will verify your ID card and Interview letter and will ask you to go to the ticket counter. There the guy will ask for your passport and will give you a ticket, keep it safe with you, and on the other counter deposit your belongings and they will give you a token for it.

 Shuttle service will take you directly to the embassy and the driver will call out for which embassy it is. 
 I entered the embassy, there were guards who will guide you through the gates, so don’t worry about that they are very helpful. You will need to take 2 gates to go up, there you will have a security scan and then finally you will go to the place where the interview will take place. 

 So at the first counter, you will meet a Pakistani guy who will take your fingerprint and will ask for the following documents and will give you a token against that and will ask you to wait for your turn. 1: Nikkah Nama 2: Marriage certificate NADRA 3: English translation of nikkah Nama 4: My Birth certificate NADRA 5: 2 pictures (2×2) 6: My Passport Then I was called for the interview, the guy who took my interview was very humble. Questions asked were: 1. Is this your love marriage or arranged? 2. Where does your wife live? 3. When did you guys get married? 4. Where are you planning to go in the US? 5. Do you have a child? As I have a daughter he asked me if I have her birth certificate? I said yes, do you want to see it? He said yes it would be great. Saw the birth certificate asked for fingerprints again and said congratulations your visa is approved. The interview hardly lasted for 4-5 mins. 

I uploaded everything on the CEAC website under additional documents for Applicant/Petitioner and Joint Sponsor. I created an excel sheet that has all the documents that you can upload and take with you to the interview, it will help you a lot. Below is the link
 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EZyKxisp85AZ5vNcvKd42d_uaRh6Wt9w8GN1Oxh_E3U/edit?usp=sharing And that was it.

 FinallyI would like to thank my wife for all the support and for helping me out with everything while taking care of our 2-month-old daughter.
 Last but not least I would like to thank all the moderators especially Rabea Kruegel for all the help provided throughout, may God bless you all for what you guys are doing.

 Zeeshan Malik: +92 333 5728646(Driver) Best of luck to everyone.

I have some detailed post of some ppl, if you guys want that I can share it over here.

17 months right now. Nd 23 Feb 2021 CR1/Ir1 dqed cases scheduled for interview till the month of August

Yeah

Mine too 10th August, at 830.

Hey when is your interview?

Let's just wait for the start of next month.

You upload it once you get IL

IA

Mine 16

Whats your dq date

Now for the remaining 4,5 days of July I hope they cover some more days of feb