At175

1 hour ago, DAgg said:

No, I haven’t received anything. 
I wonder if the email is only for family preference category. 

Ah you might be right. I guess this long wait is messing with my head, overthinking and researching everything. 🙈

Hey, 

I saw somewhere that the NVC is starting to send emails every 120 days if the case is DQ-ed and not scheduled for an interview yet. Have any of you received something like that? 

Hi! Thank you for such a thorough explanation!

So if I understand this correctly, if we do not receive an email from NVC by the end of the first week of the month, then we most likely won't receive an appointment email for the rest of the month until next month comes? I hope what I'm asking makes sense lol. 

1 minute ago, RandW said:

I tried bringing this up several times on the phone too and they outright told me they couldn't discuss other cases with me and then told me ours was in the queue so I should wait till we are scheduled and hung up.

 

I think I need to start looking to escalate this issue. I've been trying to be patient for months but this is getting out of hand. I don't know how they can be scheduling every month (so its not an issue with the embassy being shut/COVID, etc) but skipping people for months and then not even trying to provide an explanation or fix it the next month? 

 

Please update me when you hear anything!

 

and if anyone knows of lawyers that would be willing to take up something like this, please message me! 

 

Yes, please keep me updated as well on how things go! You are right, any lawyers name that helped you would be useful.

17 hours ago, Lucky Cat said:

Case numbers, alone, are not private information.  I would give them that information for those who received interviews.  My understanding is that this should not happen at NVC.  Interviews should be given IN ORDER once you enter the queue for that consulate....unless those cases were expedited. 

Hey! I don't know how much I can help, but I think this is happening in my country as well. We don't have a lot of Albanians in here, but we know that there was a couple in June that got scheduled before another couple in May and the June case was not expedited. I heard about another case in Paris similar to this one. 

I've read here in Visajourney that they never skip the queue, but I honestly don't know what to think anymore. I've also called NVC and they only tell me I'm in queue with no other information. 

3 minutes ago, DAgg said:

Omg I can’t believe this!!! They process only 19 spouse visas but 353 tourist visas??

I dont think they are interviewing for tourist visas. I think they are just renewing them with no interview? My understanding is that they are not giving any new tourist visas.

My question is why did they do so few visas overall compared to march?

1 minute ago, At175 said:

That's crazy! I don't understand why that is. Maybe it's a process we don't know??? 

 

Btw, they just released the numbers this month. They only did 16 spousal visas on April...

They didn't do a lot of visas overall on April, very few compared to other months. 

1 hour ago, DAgg said:

What I don’t understand is how people with DQs in June and July interviewed faster than those with a May DQ date. I don’t think it was expedited either. 
If you calculate their wait times its about 7-7.5 months. For me it will be 8 on the 23rd of this month, meaning the backlog is increasing? 
It doesn’t make sense anymore. 

That's crazy! I don't understand why that is. Maybe it's a process we don't know??? 

Btw, they just released the numbers this month. They only did 16 spousal visas on April...

12 hours ago, shosholala said:

I did this analysis. In 2019, they processed 237 CR1/IR1 visas. In 2020, they processed 148, so if we assume they have the same visas each year roughly, then the backlog was about 90 visas -- which they cleared by March 2021, so it makes no sense to me that they haven't scheduled us, unless they processed very little CR1 / IR1s visas in April. 

I've done the same thing and I reached the same conclusion. I thought me and @DAgg would have for sure heard on March or April. SO, I am not sure what is happening. I don't know how to explain this. Did we have an increase in numbers of CR1/ IR1 visas over the year? Or maybe there is some process we don't know?  I can't explain it.  

Also, unfortunately there are not a lot of Albanians who use this site and we have no idea what months they are processing right now, be that before or after us.

8 hours ago, shosholala said:

@DAgg i'm getting impatient too with a December 2020 DQ date.. it doesn't make sense given they were processing them quickly earlier in the year. Albania hasn't published statistics on the month of April yet so maybe they are processing fewer CR1/IR1s in favor of other visas?

Last month they released the monthly statistics for march on April 21st, so we might have some idea at the end of this week on how many visas they issued this month. This might also help us understand whether they are giving priority to other visas instead of spousal ones. I don't think that's the case and I really hope it's not. Hopefully we hear soon.

11 hours ago, porsche993 said:

hey  @shosholala where is that link to see monthly visas? @DAgg thank you!!! I'm waiting just like everybody else haha

Hi!

You can google monthly immigrant visas NVC and you will be able to find how many visas each embassy issued each month. It's at travel.state.gov. 

Hoping we all hear something back soon! ☺️

Unfortunately I don't. I just know that they scheduled one interview last month that was DQ-ed on july 10th.

I am DQ-ed a couple days after you. Hoping they will contact us soon. I will keep you updated if I hear anything.

On 1/7/2021 at 3:41 PM, Biola said:

Glory be to God. My husband's visa was approved today. So excited, can't wait for him to join me here. 

 

Thank you to everyone on this website. You have all been helpful in making our visa journey successful. 

Congrats!! So happy for you! If you don't mind me asking what country did you have the interview in and how long did it take? 

2 hours ago, DAgg said:

They have temporarily suspended all visa services 😞

This is so sad. I wonder when they will resume now. I was hoping they would resume the visas today. Seems like this is gonna be a long wait. I wish they at least told us when they are planning to resume. 😞

2 hours ago, Bella9 said:

i can't fill my timeline since i dont remember the exact dates unfortunately but i know i was qualified in 24 of september .when were you qualified ?

i saw last night the latest update about embassy in albania and they have suspended everything til november 27 .It seems they are gonna work on visas end november .When do you think we are having our interviews ?

I was qualified October 2nd. Hopefully our time comes soon. It seems like they are really backlogged, and we might have to wait a bit. I will definitely let you know if I hear any updates though!

Yes, I don't know what is happening; why they are closed until November 27th. Shume e cuditshme.

I am in your position as well, in Albania. When were you qualified from NVC? Maybe you can fill your timeline so we know better.

The embassy are behind right now because the embassy was closed for so long; they are probably just starting again with interviews.  Nobody knows to be honest.

Edit: seems like they stopped processing  visas again. I do not know why

I am in your position as well. When were you DQ-ed? Maybe you can fill your timeline so we know better.

The embassy are behind right now because the embassy was closed for so long; they are probably just starting again with interviews.  Nobody knows to be honest.

9 minutes ago, Tschuulia said:

Hi there.

same here, i got laid off end of march and just got my job back with a bunch of hoping and praying! 
 

but im as well a super anxious person since i had to leave my husband last year after only 8 -10 months of knowing because my aupair year ended.

he's not coping very well and just decided to quit his Job looking for something new. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
so now we're in a misery, both mentally not functioning and trying to get him back on a job. 
its not fun at all. 
so i can understand how terrible people feel 

Ah no, I am sorry you have to deal with all this. Hopefully your husband finds a job soon! 

I feel you on the whole anxiety though. I feel like this process is not made for super anxious people haha. Hopefully we will be done soon and will be reunited with the loved ones. 

Hello friends,

I hope everyone is doing well during these turbulent times. I guess I just wanted to write to ask how you all are dealing and coping with waiting for the approvals. I have been having a really hard time myself, maybe because I have an anxious personality. I check the news everyday and check the VJ website and service center progress everyday. With the USCIS furlough news I have been even worse. Unfortunately, during these times I don't have a job, so it makes it even harder not to pay attention to these things. I guess I am wondering how you all are coping with this? What do you do to feel better while waiting for the responses? Maybe we, internet strangers, can help each other during these hard times. Especially knowing that we are all going through the same process. 

Thank you

Hello everyone, 

I have been reading a lot in this forum about the date change in the USCIS online account. My NOA1 is October 25th, and it seems like the last date they touched our case was December 20th. Should I be worried? It seems like some of you who had filed in October had much later date changes. Thank you in advance for your help

4 minutes ago, skjourney said:

Understandable, i have a hard time believing they will block direct family based applications, i think its all more targetted at people purely coming to work in US. 

I do too. However, one can never be certain during these times.

1 minute ago, skjourney said:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-immigration/trump-to-sign-executive-order-on-immigration-on-wednesday-idUSKCN2241M8

 

Many key details of Trump’s planned executive order are still not known, but one U.S. Department of Homeland Security official who requested anonymity said it would only apply to people applying for permanent residence from outside the United States, not those already in the country seeking to adjust their status.

Oh god! I am applying for CR-1 outside US and this article just scared me a lot. 

Thank you so much to both of you! I really appreciate you taking the time to respond to me! I feel so much better now.

Hello! 
My husband and I have filed for i-130. My husband is a US citizen and I am on STEM extension right now. 
When I first started OPT, I worked for a couple months with a company then switched. I finished working in the company on June 14th and that is what my I-20 shows. However, when I filled the I-130, I wrote down June 16th. I just realized that going over all my documents again and I don't even remember why I did that . Now I am freaking out that this will cause a problem in our application. What should I do in this case? 

Thank you in advance for your help!