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12 hours ago, TiEy said:

Did your visa get issued?

Nope

4 minutes ago, Carpe Vinum said:

It will reconcile within a few days. K1 switches from non-immigrant to immigrant in the ceac system during the process. That is why the non-immigrant status is stuck as application received. That process is finished. You are looking for the refused to change to issued then you are good to go.

I hope it gets issued soon , the process is so overwhelming ,,Thank you so much for the feed back!🙏🏾

9 minutes ago, Carpe Vinum said:

This question comes up about once every 10 days) Refused is an interim status. It doesn't mean refused. Why DOS chose this verbiage a year or two ago no one knows.

Hey carpe vinum, my worry isnt really the “refused” status cos i know its not an actual refuse, but my confusion is why does it show two different status at the same time: Immigrant refused & non immigrant application received? Isnt a bit weird?

1 hour ago, Crazy Cat said:

Perhaps you can post a screenshot of the actual "Refused" screen.  It sounds like it is some sort of administrative processing which is normal.  Visas are actually approved after all administrative processing is complete, regardless of what the officer says.  Your real indication of approval will be when the status changes to "Issued".  Hopefully, that will be soon.  Good luck. 

Hey crazy cat here are both status

Hey everyone,

My k1 visa got approved and the passport stayed with the embassy and they said they will print the visa. For two month the Ceac stayed non-immigrant application received. 

Today 
When i check my case number under immigrants , it shows :”immigrant application” “refused” with the long text.  *not the actual refuse btw”

when i check the case number under the non immigrant with the 160-DS number ,it shows: “non-immigrant” “application received”.

what does that mean? , and why does it show two different status? Did this happen to anyone before?

thanks!

Paris embassy is a total mess , for us its been almost two months since they received the passport and said they would print the visa. We emailed them and send them inquiries and tried to call them for a follow up, they just ghosted us basically. Unfortunately I dont have an advice to be honest , because we did everything and no response from them. I think its the culture at the paris embassy to ignore ppl 😤. I have seen other ppl on here who are complaining about them, here is a link for ppl sharing their experiences 

www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/766977-us-embassy-in-paris-k1cr1/

On 6/9/2021 at 5:41 PM, ANubis_66 said:

K1 Visa - Paris, France embassy

 

I just need to know if anyone else is on the same boat with me. I did the interview on May 20th and since then no update on the online status it's still saying "Ready".

 

At the time of the interview I was told I was approved and will receive the visa in the mail but since then didn't hear anything. How long should I wait for? Online says 7-10 business days. It's been more than that.

Should I worry about it? Just because not a single update online

If you did your interview at this US embassy please share you timeline. 

 

 

Please advise

Thanks

 

 

 

 

Hey there,

did you hear back from them yet? I have the same situation , interview completed , was approved , they took the passport, last response from them they said they would print the visa but nothing after that. Its been a month and 10 days waiting for paris embassy to send the visa. Its very hard to get in touch with them , they never respond. 
Thanks for sharing your experience!

49 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

yes,  they have to fix it 

they have to find out about a packet and where it went 

and if you're from Turkey ,  i would say it can very possibly be a name issue either on the embassy end or with the postal service

but where is your passport,   that is usually delivered with the sealed packet by the courier

They have the passport, and they confirmed they received it.

1 hour ago, JeanneAdil said:

But what country did u come from?

if you have a name that matches or closely matches any other name in the system,  it can be your problem

Originally from Turkey, but also French resident and naturalized. The embassy acknowledge their mistake that they didnt send a sealed envelop or issued a visa and said they would print a new visa. But that was 2 months ago.Recently they again asked for that we corrected them AGAIN. 

do you guys think the reason why they not getting back to us yet, is because they are fixing the mistake from their end?

11 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

this is Paris embassy so strange yes,   when something of this nature happens ,  it is usually country where the person's name is "too much like a lot of others"

so.  are u a citizen of France or resident from another country that could have name issues?

Hey Jeanne, thanks for the response.

A resident of France for almost 10 years now! Yes they are strange, and pretty unorganized i must say lol. They never replay to emails or public form inquiries, I called them couple of times they kept sending me to a dead end machine ,, but last week the front lady answered and said the visa section isnt available by the phone and i should contact them thru the public form, i did , and no response as of yet!!

2 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

What is the online status?  It sounds like your passport is lost.  

Hey Crazy cat , thanks for the quick reply.

the ceac says: non immigrant , application received! They did confirm they received the passport and the mail post also send us a confirmation that the embassy received it!

Hey everyone, 

I am hoping everyone is having a good day!

I would appreciate every answer and response to my question.

we had our K1 visa and got approved and embassy asked for a new medical and a passport to be sent to them which we did.

When they received the documents they confirmed they received them and said they want us to send the sealed envelope that we received from them before!!!! We told them we havent received an envelope from the embassy,,, then they replied immediately and said they apologize because they thought they issued a visa  before 🤔!! And that they were going to print a new one.

couple weeks left we havent heard from them, we sent them an email to follow up , the person who replied said they need us to send back the sealed envelope to issue a new visa ,, we told them AGAIN we havent received sealed envelope before  and we havent had a visa from them before and that it is a misunderstanding thats and that we already clarified that in a pervious email. The person ghosted us and didnt reply back. Since then we havent heard from them!!!

Did that happen to anyone before where the embassy thought they sent an sealed envelope or issued a visa but they didnt? It has been 2 months that they have the passport but not getting back to us. Do you think they are fixing the issue on their end which taking them

this long? Its weird to me that they think they issued a visa from before.

On 7/15/2021 at 5:51 PM, JobbinsKnobbins said:

Over the past two months it appears that the Paris embassy is not doing anything for K1 applicants.  Passports being held onto, interviews not being scheduled, radio silence from the embassy when users contact them.  Its been growing into more than just a concern, but its difficult to track what is going on.

We're making this thread in hopes to gather all the information regarding the embassy during the pandemic but also for posterity.

Importance of having and updating the Visa Journey Timeline:

When you create and update the Timeline, your information (namely dates) will be available to give an average on getting the NoA2 (based on others also providing their timelines) but will also show other couples with similar timelines and even when their interviews are scheduled (among other details).
Since Embassies don't have any information on how they are progressing, this is the closest we have to check and track their progress. Keep in mind that not everyone applying for the visas are in this forum.

With that said, US Embassy in Paris deals with residents from France and Portugal (since 2012), so we check for both countries for the K1 and the CR1/IR1 visas:

K1 visas France: https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list.php?op6=All&op66=All&op7=France&op1=5&op2=d&op3=1&op4=1&op5=5%2C6%2C8%2C10%2C11%2C13%2C14%2C15%2C16%2C17%2C18%2C20%2C21%2C22%2C25%2C26%2C27%2C28%2C108%2C110%2C111%2C208%2C210%2C211&cfl=0
K1 visas Portugal: https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list.php?op6=All&op66=All&op7=Portugal&op1=5&op2=d&op3=1&op4=1&op5=5%2C6%2C8%2C10%2C11%2C13%2C14%2C15%2C16%2C17%2C18%2C20%2C21%2C22%2C25%2C26%2C27%2C28%2C108%2C110%2C111%2C208%2C210%2C211&cfl=0

CR1/IR1 visas France: https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list.php?op6=All&op66=All&op7=France&op1=i&op2=&dfile=No&op3=5&op4=1&op5=5%2C6%2C8%2C10%2C11%2C13%2C14%2C15%2C16%2C17%2C18%2C20%2C21%2C22%2C25%2C26%2C27%2C28%2C108%2C110%2C111%2C208%2C210%2C211&cfl=0
CR1/IR1 visas Portugal: https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list.php?op6=All&op66=All&op7=Portugal&op1=i&op2=&dfile=No&op3=5&op4=1&op5=5%2C6%2C8%2C10%2C11%2C13%2C14%2C15%2C16%2C17%2C18%2C20%2C21%2C22%2C25%2C26%2C27%2C28%2C108%2C110%2C111%2C208%2C210%2C211&cfl=0

Note: Even though this shows the results for both countries, doesn't mean that everyone is residing in the country and for that you check by looking at what consulate is chosen for the interview on the couples' page.

Finally, one last information regarding the Embassy is their working days. All Embassies enjoy the days off from US and their respected country. This page shows the dates for the French US Embassy: https://fr.usembassy.gov/holiday-calendar/

Hey , thanks for this post.

we also did the interview on 6/9/2021 , and on 7/9/21 the ceac changed to application received and the immigrant changed to non immigrant.

on 7/21/21 they received the passport from us and the updated medical exam and they said would print the visa. Since then we havent heard from them nor ceac updated ,, and we’ve sent multiple emails but no response . Am glad you guys shared your experiences as we thought we were the only ones getting ignored by the embassy. Am not sure whats happening with paris embassy ya’ll.