Joppike

1 minute ago, taymar said:

They only send out ILs for 1 week at a time?? And only once a month?

If you look through previous posts here, they have been going out middle of the month to the end of the month. Besides that, it’s anybody’s guess what will happen next week.

18 hours ago, Ikhan said:

If everyone updated their profile on this website then we wouldn't have the thousands of unnecessary "When was your interview?", "when were you DQ", "When were you approved" questions. It's such a waste of time going through over 100 pages and seeing half of the posts asking the same thing over and over.  It literally takes 5 minutes to update your profile to show the dates for specific important events. 

 

 

Well said. Will do so now. 
 

Also, following the thread here and on Facebook, it seems no new IL’s went out this week. So Tuesday, January 19th will be when the next round of interviews are sent out. We should see IL’s for May 11th - May 18th sent out next week. Good luck to everyone waiting! 

2 hours ago, Izza Abdul said:

Can u please tell me when was your interview....my documents has been approved on May 15 2020...l m still waiting  for interview letter 😞

The interview was last week. For you, you will probably know your interview date in a few days so hold on! 

2 hours ago, Izza Abdul said:

Can u please tell me when did your documents has been approved / qualified 🤔

April 28th

7 hours ago, Lexushim said:

Or on 19th maybe.

Yes could be later this week or early next week.

14 minutes ago, fusman123 said:

Congratulations! Can you please tell how many days it took to get passport back with visa on it?

Its 32000 rupees 

5 business days! So very quick.

We just received the visa as well. Good luck to everyone that is waiting. 
 

Turnaround is very quick, hopefully it stays that way.

24 minutes ago, syed88 said:

For how many months did you provide the bank statement. I am so much happy for you girl. Please pray for us too that we all get interview letters soon.  This waiting time is so stressfull. 

We took tax transcripts. There were no issues. 

On 1/6/2021 at 8:04 AM, Jacob_Malik said:

My wife had her interview this morning and she was approved thanks to God. She told me the interview was pretty short with only a hand full of generic questions (like birthdays and how we met) and after looking at a few photos the interviewer said she was approved and told her she should have her passport back within 2 weeks

That's awesome! Best of luck to you! Travel is still open even with Covid-19. Can't wait to see my wife in U.S. as well.

17 hours ago, sarah6 said:

@Joppike did you submit wedding pictures on website or the applicant took them to embassy directly?

Took them directly with us.

12 hours ago, Skull78000 said:

Alhamdulilah my status has been changed to Issued since Yesterday..

Congrats!

11 hours ago, A49ER08 said:

I donno, I wasn't DQ June 1st.

I'm May 14 DQ

Good luck, I would guess you will get your interview notification middle to end of next week! 

53 minutes ago, Skull78000 said:

The interview went very easy Alhamdulilah !!

 

 my husband told them he wants the interview in urdu but they still made him take it in english!

 

They just asked few easy questions and checked few of the documents .. Alhamdulilah this long journey is over for me!!  

 

@jamesbond123  @Lexushim  @IFK  @Joppike   @Saim10

 

 

(Also if you have mistakes on your affidavit or DS 260 dont worry) they dont really care !!

 

 

i have been annoying to all of you always asking questions Sorryyy for that !! 

 

MAAshaa ALLAH

Congrats! Wife’s interview went well today too! Barely asked a few questions, it was super easy going.

Now we wait for AP.

8 hours ago, Aly2211 said:

Hey are planning to travel to Pakistan? I am also going to Lahore via Qatar at the end of this month.

Check this page for travel requirements. Right now it’s a Covid test within 96 hours for most travelers.

https://www.qatarairways.com/en/travel-alerts/requirements.html

On 1/2/2021 at 1:04 PM, Skull78000 said:

My husband has his interview in Islamabad embasssyy in 2 days Inn Shaa Allah please pray 😪 been such a long journey  ...

 

Dq-April 27 

Will pray. Good luck.

Good luck to everyone else as well. As the staff gets vaccinated in the coming weeks to months, the workload will pick up eventually.

5 hours ago, Lexushim said:

i think we should create a new year group/thread for isb embassy updates for IL?  let me know if you guys get any update...

Embassy services will resume Monday, December 28th. Long weekend for them and for us (but for different reasons ironically). 

Merry Christmas to all those waiting for the interview. 

20 hours ago, Lexushim said:

so we didn't get any emails today... so we will wait for january to get IL 😕

Why wait till Jan? It did slow down over this last week but some dates have more applicants than others. 
 

Also DQ April 28 and we got our IL two days ago.

14 hours ago, Fk20 said:

Hi everyone, 

 I am new to this so forgive me if similar questions have been asked. I am a US citizen and I initially filed the I-130 for my husband on Nov.2019 and that was approved in Sept. We have submitted all documents to the NVC and they were DQ'd on Oct. 28th. We are now waiting for an interview to be scheduled and based off what I read the embassy is open but there is no clarity as to where they are with scheduling appointments. Anyone have any advice? We have been married for a year but will be two years this July. 
 Thanks in advance! 

If he was DQ'ed October 28th, then there is still some time. Embassies are conducting interviews for people DQ'ed from March-April at the moment. We don't have a lot of data points to go by currently but you could be waiting for at least a few more months (most like 5-6 months or longer). I would suggest checking to see if you are eligible for an expedited request, that will help move things along. And expediting your petition will not affect your process time if you are rejected. 

14 minutes ago, Justhere780 said:

Helps ? This makes us stress ?! Finding out they are skipping some people and finding out i just got skipped isnt helpful 🤔  its something which takes away my peace and sleep ..

Then I suggest you try some stress reduction techniques. Your “peace and sleep” are small discomforts compared to the death and devastation occurring right now in the US and the world due to Covid-19. The embassies are doing the best they can. Or you can choose to ignore my post, either way, I have nothing further to say here.

5 minutes ago, Justhere780 said:

So your not sure about when they got the letter? Try to ask them ? Because its always an month away the date of interview..?

I’m sorry. I just know this person through someone and will not be asking them any questions. I’ve posted the information here for the board, hope it helps others. 

1 hour ago, Justhere780 said:

Interview are usually a month apart. How come he got it november 17 ? Which is like a week or so away?

I’m assuming they were scheduled a couple of weeks ago, I just found out about it today. 

Most of us on the board are under the impression that interviews are being given out in the sequence the DQ’s were approved. I also know of a couple of April DQ’s they were scheduled already as well. But those may have been expedites so I did not mention them here earlier.

I know of someone with May 4th DQ, with interview scheduled on November 17th. This case was not expedited. I don't know if they are going out of sequence, but some cases are moving faster and I am not sure why.

1 hour ago, aishaTayyab said:

When Allah has decided it’s the best time for us to meet. I’m honestly not even bugging at this point. I’m just living my life, chilling one last time

before officially entering my married life LOL but in all seriousness, idk when we’ll get it so I’m just patiently waiting as of right now and also I might just go visit him in December and stay there, travel to the entire north side, and just stay and have fun until he gets the visa and we can come back together.
 

I know this doesn’t answer your question but honestly there’s no point in driving yourself crazy. It’s a fact that there will be a delay so the least we can do is just pray to Allah and stay as optimistic and relaxed as possible.

Exactly, completely agree with this sentiment. I own my business and have taken some time off to work remotely while growing it. We are planning on traveling a bit and then attend A bunch of weddings and hopefully her interview and visa will soon follow. My family was asking about my plans and I told them I am taking a few months of retirement time and spending it now, consider me retired for the next few months. 

Though, along with Skull78000, I am expecting the interview to be sometime in December or early January at the latest. Hard to travel without having a rough estimate in mind. Though some things are not in our hands, call it fate or Allah’s will.

I did spend some time traveling the north of Pakistan this past summer. May I suggest that you visit Hunza, the area is beautiful.

8 hours ago, Skull78000 said:

NVC and Islamabad embassy do NOT work on weekend right ?

No, they don’t. However; they do have some employees come in and work on other things during the weekend. 

On 10/9/2020 at 4:37 AM, Hubby 12 said:

Alhumdulillah 

Dqd March 17th

interview November 23rd

Congrats! They are already doing new interviews, that's awesome news! Thank you for updating us!

6 hours ago, Skull78000 said:

Do you have any idea on when the official annoucement will be made ?

I'm estimating by the end of next week. I'm hoping they will have rescheduled interviews scheduled by next week and will start scheduling DQ'es applicants starting in November. Again, these are just estimates seeing as how other embassies have progressed.