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On 4/4/2021 at 2:09 PM, Wuozopo said:

When the embassy was fully staffed doing lots of interviews, the calendar of appointments was never that far out. Like right now you would only find April and May dates. Those were typically K1 fiancé visas or DCF spouse visas because they schedule their own appointments. DCF filing is pretty much over since the USCIS office in London closed permanently. K1 interviews were suspended March 2020 except for a few exceptions. Thus the calendar during covid times isn’t updated with many open dates, if any. The last of the DCF group said they would check each morning or refresh and a date or two would show up eventually. 
 

So say NVC gave you a June 5 date. The procedure is to wait until June 6, then log into your account and pick a new date.    In pre-covid times, you would not find anything beyond July. By the end of June, there would be some July still not taken and August would open.  With the visa unit’s current limited staff and interviewing schedule, the calendar is not populated with much as explained earlier. Most people interviewing are IR1/CR1s who are assigned dates at NVC so the calendar is kinda dormant. Things may change by the end of summer as the pandemic situation evolves. Right now it’s all a guess, as is when the NVC may schedule you.
 

You will have the option to change an interview you don’t want. You might have to work harder to find a date,  or by that time things may be eased up and the calendar is once again abundant with dates and K1s grabbing them up. I personally would not contact NVC and ask them to delay sending your file to London. You might get lost that growing purgatory of K1 files who have been trapped at NVC for a year now. You might be calling them saying “Hey remember me? I asked you to hold my file until August. It’s September now. What? You can’t find it now, but I can ask again if I haven’t heard from you by November.” Getting released to London is the best progress for your file. The entire world is bottlenecked at NVC.

I appreciate the thorough answer. Do I have to wait until the day after I miss my appointment though? Is it not possible to call the embassy and request an appointment change at all? 

On 3/30/2021 at 3:00 PM, Wuozopo said:

 You can’t play the timelines because they are not a predictable thing as you already experienced with NVC. If you don’t like the interview assigned, you can always reschedule, but you won’t get to pick the exact preferred date. You will have to choose from what is available (if any) or wait until they open up the calendar in London. You may get lucky or maybe not. Set your priorities and pick your battles. If Dec 27 is a target priority, then be willing to accept a February or March interview if it comes to that.

Thanks. So I take it if I were to reschedule my appointment that there isn't some sort of calendar of available dates for the rest of 2021 for example? I wouldn't mind an interview from mid-August onwards I just think a June/July date is a bit risky if I want to go there in late Dec.

On 4/2/2021 at 9:36 PM, scarletheart said:

Hi! I think you can always send an inquiry to NVC to ask them to hold your case until you're ready. You can delay your case while it's still at NVC rather than when it is already at the Embassy where it's ready to schedule  Just a thought

Thank you, I'll have a look in to this.

On 3/27/2021 at 4:47 PM, scarletheart said:

What I would do is to still attend the interview, get the visa and max out the deadline (6months) validity before leaving. Let’s say you get a May or June interview, and visa is issued, the validity of the visa would be 6 months from the medical. If your medical is by June then it would be valid till December. If this is too risky, what I would do is to fly to the US sometime after the visa is issued and come back here for a while to finish my business then go back to the us for good. If this doesn’t work, you can email the nvc/embassy (depends where your case is atm) to delay your interview

Thank you.

Unfortunately I can't permanently move until December and our 2 year anniversary is 27th December so ideally I'd arrive after that date in order to get a 10-year green card as opposed to the 2-year one.

You don't happen to know if I can delay my appointment to a certain date (within reason; say the month of September etc)?

Hey everyone,

Is there any way to delay my medical and interview appointment dates? I completed the NVC stage in January assuming I would be DQ'd in April/May and have my interview scheduled for approximately September time. 

However, I was DQ'd 48hrs later which puts me in the April batch for interview dates; and I currently have work commitments until Christmas time. 

Any help is much appreciated, thanks!

Hi all,

Hope everyone is doing well. Does anyone know whether NVC processing times on posted on their website are totally accurate? Currently states that they are working on cases from ~3 months ago, however I was just wondering if others had recent experience with them and could share. I looked on the timelines however it's hard to get an accurate representation.

Does anyone also know whether different countries are processed slower/faster?

Thanks!

34 minutes ago, PBabz said:

I took a trip at the beginning of September to see my husband; flew into Dulles via Heathrow. 
Some advice from my journey:

1. DON’T CHECK IN ONLINE 

2. Get to the airport early, since you’ll need to check in at a desk and speak to someone

3. Bring along all that you mentioned you have prepared already 

4. Make sure you know where you’ll be staying and be prepared to give this address when checking in (an employee from homeland security was at Heathrow and asked for details from me)

5. Have a wonderful trip, enjoy every moment  most know about the exception to the proclamation by this point so you shouldn’t have any issues really 🤞🏽

Thank you very much for the quick response! Did you fly straight from Heathrow or did you connect through Heathrow? My only concern is that my first flight is from Glasgow and I'm not sure how accustomed they are/have been to this whole situation! 

Hi all,

I'm flying to Chicago shortly, to visit my spouse, from Scotland and via Heathrow.

My question is; has anyone flown to the US from the UK recently and if so, what did you have to do (if anything).

I have our marriage certificate, a copy of the procolomation excluding spouses, a copy of my spouse's passport, and have checked that my ESTA hasn't been cancelled.

If anyone could offer some advice I'd very much appreciate it!

Thanks.

5 hours ago, Cdnusagurl said:

Hey everyone, we filed in May 2020 and are still waiting. I'm really hoping to hear something by this January at the latest. Although I know that might not happen since they keep moving their dates further and further back.

Unfortunately I wouldn't get your hopes up, it looks like they're currently processing December 2019 filers. We filed in January 2020 and still waiting..

Has anyone else seen the significant increase in processing times on the USCIS website? I'm assuming this is an error; surely it can't have increased by that much?

January 2020 filer here, still no update. Very frustrating! Anyone else in a similar situation?

4 minutes ago, stringpuller said:

I used the live chat and they said its still at potomac. 

Currently trying to get an answer from the live chat but as it's automated I keep going in circles. What question(s) did you ask specifically to get the answer? Thanks.

On 8/31/2020 at 1:43 PM, stringpuller said:

Feb 3rd here. No date changes. Last i checked it was Potomac. They sent potomac a bunch of cases from other centers this year. 

13th Jan PD also at Potomac, how do you double check which Service Center your case has been assigned to? 

So do you think online submissions are being processed faster? I suppose that would make some sense (however doesn't seem like it would be fair!)

I'm just not entirely sure how there can be such a large difference in approval times where beneficiary's country, service centre, no RFE etc are all the same - what other variables are there?

Thank you. So does that mean that applications that don't incur RFE's will be approved significantly faster than 12 months? 

Hi,

I see that there are numerous I-130's that have been approved in the past week or so that have only taken approx. 3 months from the noa1 date. However, there are also applications that have taken around a year.

These are applications from the same service centre and beneficiary's country of origin (Nebraska and the UK, respectively).

I'm just curious as to why there seems to be such a large time discrepancy between some of the applications?

Thanks in advance!