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Good luck! I actually am doing both at the moment. Waiting for my consular interview at MTL (DQ June 2020) and also just filed the AOS as a dependent on my spouse’s application…current processing time for I-485 at our assigned service center (Nebraska) is 32.5 months as of today. Here’s hoping my interview at MTL comes before spouse’s 32.5 month wait 😅 We are both listed as each other’s dependents in the applications so yup hoping for either one to get done asap.
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Hopefully a good batch coming up. 8 days more for month end!
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The stats and the DQ dates we see are two different numbers. The stats are for the visas issued in the month of May 2022, which means they received their letters in April 2022 or so. For perspective of scale, we don’t have even a single person out of that 100 that were issued EB visas on this forum/tracker.
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@204 Thanks for sharing! Based on the graphs shared earlier, I think this is the first time since July 2019 that MTL has touched 100 EB visas issued. Moreover, it’s only the third time MTL touched a 100 EB visas since 2017. I guess March 2020 was an abnormally huge DQ month for EB, and probably >95% of the applicants aren’t here on the forum. Trying to think of what other reasons there could be for us to not see that March 2020 date move while they are issuing record EB visas each month, any ideas?
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https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/772877-part-iv-the-big-ir1cr1-dqd-message-group/?do=findComment&comment=10691038
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IR/CR got letters for early August interviews. Let’s hope August is the month for some EB interviews to get slotted once again! 🤞🏻
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Sure, you can find updates here for Montreal: https://ca.usembassy.gov/embassy-consulates/consular-operations-updates/ I personally haven’t checked at other consulate pages but I’m sure they may have periodic updates as well.
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Amazing thanks so much for doing this key first step and research! I really am hoping I can join in, depends on what my employer says. Will keep you posted, thanks a lot! All the best with this!
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Thanks for the update! Spoke to Goldstein over the weekend and they’re willing to file individual too (cannot do group despite it looking like similar cases, they said). Sharing this if anyone, especially NIW self petitioned folks, are interested. I’m unable to proceed since I’ll have to get the green light from my employer and employer’s law firm
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Apparently they updated it yesterday but the timestamp at the top still says May 4 so I didn’t read further. Just read the details below and the info is still inaccurate We know FB interviews were in the Aug-Oct range after yesterday’s batch. So yup, now on top of no information, there’s potentially inaccurate information coming in as well. “As of June 6, 2022, most Immediate Relative and fiancé(e) visa cases being scheduled for interview in Montreal were documentarily complete at the National Visa Center in April 2022; most Family Preference cases scheduled for interview were documentarily qualified June 2020; and most Employment cases scheduled for interview were documentarily complete in March 2020.”
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The consulate usually updates their page in the beginning of the month, wonder what the delay here is, I hope they’re waiting to send out a few EB letters soon and then update it so they can finally change the “March 2020” to at least April 2020 after these 3 months! And also maybe true up the FB DQ date for those who got IL’s since it’s definitely not March 2020 this point (although even last month it had gotten to June/July 2020 but they still shared the March DQ date) @LMIV Assuming your CEAC status is still At NVC?
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Yes, I hope you get it soon! Let’s hope for a nice surprise from MTL and I wish you get the letter as soon as possible. They owe you this after two rounds of March letters!
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Highly likely, specially coz all of July interview dates seem filled up. Unfortunate.
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DQ Aug-Oct 2020. Interviews to be held between July 22-29. This is the forum: https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/719462-f2a-category-montreal-interview-pending/page/38/#comments
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Exactly @ALC! Maybe their plan is to flush out all the FBs now and that might take another 6 rounds of letters to get to a backlog free state (assuming they do 3 months in each round). But you’re right, if they could just communicate what the plan is, that would be super helpful and be a lot less frustrating. At this point unfortunately we just don’t know their plan.
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FB got letters today (saw one up to Oct 21 2020). Congrats @204! I remember you were active here, back when EB and FB moved together very slowly at MTL. Good luck to you
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Thanks, that’s great news! I-140 in Premium Processing shouldn’t take more than 15 days anyway. Good to know I-485 timelines are looking better, thanks for the link!
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Appreciate if you can share any links to this. My spouse just filed for us via AOS so will be great to re-calibrate the 15 month expectation to 3-6 months. Thanks!
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That’s really great, grateful for her effort. Wow, 6 months working with Senators and MTL manages to actually make things worse for us each month….they are something else altogether
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Thanks so much for taking the time to do it! Appreciate it, looking forward.
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I would assume so, if you notice the actual post I shared it seems the person is talking about an EB2 application, albeit in an EB3 forum ”Interview letter received today. EB-2 DQ 9th Feb 2022 Interview date 27th April “
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Oh things in London are awesome now! They sped up so much and the wait is really short right now, like a couple of months kinda short.
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Yeah it’s definitely a tricky one. I’m in no position to suggest but given that you’re just starting the MTL journey, it might make sense to do AOS if you can get an L1. Personally I’m no switching to AOS right now coz I’m Jun 2020 DQ and thought I was close but apparently not. But I’m too nervous to switch at this point so I’ll stay here while I can and wait it out. To each their own, it’s a very case specific choice tbh…lot of factors
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My attorney said anywhere between 15-24 months these days. Checked the USCIS website and that sounds about right for the I-485 AOS. The fastest I saw was about 15 months, the slowest was 32. https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/
