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    IR-1/CR-1 Visa
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  1. Thank you misu for detail… very helpful …. I am beginner in all of this… I am hoping to receive DQ this week for my father! After two times back and forth with NVC! I will educate myself after receiving such! But for now please tell me how much wait is for us after he gets  DQ this week for the interview in Abu Dhabi to be scheduled? That helps both of to be be patient….. thanks!

  2. Thank you misu for detail… very helpful 

  3. I have finally received my passport today with visa. Let me give some information for the ones that will have their interview soon; My appointment was in June 8th at 8:30. I would recommend to arrive earlier. Parking is easy, there are a lot of parking spots outside of the embassy. You cannot enter to the Embassy parking by car. I have been at Embassy garden around 7:15am. They are putting people in line of seats at the garden. Gates do not open until 8:20 or so. So if you come early you need to wait outside. Since nowadays it is hot, note that outside they have two fan for cooling but they are not so effective. Waiting outside can be a little disturbing. When I arrived there were 3 people ahead of me. And once they opened the doors there were around 10-15 people behind me in the line. Once they open the doors, they take people in as first comes first serves order. First you go to the window outside of the building, there they check your passport and interview letter. Then they let you in to the first room for screening. After that, they send you to the main building where the interview will take place. When you enter the main building, they check your documents again and give you a line number. Then you sit and wait to be called. First window took from me these below documents; * Original of the Birth Certificate (If other than english, with original translation) * Original of Wedding certificate (If other than english, with original translation) * Original of Police Certificate for any country you have lived more than 6 months or one year (I am not sure which one, but I believe 1 year) * 1 US standards photo * Original of your passport. After you give these documents then they put them to a sealed bag and you wait again. There were 3 officers the day I had interview for this process. One lady was a persian speaker, one gentleman was Indian and one lady was Arabic speaker I believe. After you gave your documents, and you wait for short while, they call you for fingerprints from another window. There is another lady in the salon that walks around constantly and helps people with their fingerprints etc. Once you give your fingerprints, you again just wait. Then, your number is called from another window and you have your actual interview. . There was a very kind gentleman that did my interview. He asked the classical questions. * Where did you meet your wife * When did you meet your wife * What you do in UAE * Did you ever had USA visa before * When do you plan to move to USA He wanted to see some pictures of us. I had brought over 100 pictures but he wanted only a 10 or so selection. Be informed that the gap that you give your documents to officer in the window is not that wide, so giving a photo album might be tricky. You can give the pictures out of the album. After all, he told me that everything went fine. He told me that they will cancel my valid US B1/B2 visa and will give me a new visa. He wished me luck in USA and everything is finished. I have brought lots of documents, lots of proof etc with me but they have not required from me. I would suggest you all to bring everything anyhow. Better to be prepared. They have not asked me 2020 tax returns, I had brought with me along W-2. Also, you can bring your documents in binders or folders. Lots of people was carrying these transparent big file envelopes, and others were using binders. I came with a binder and transparent plastic for my pictures. You can bring your phone with you to the garden of the Embassy, so you wont get bored. They take your phone, car key and other electronics if you have and put a locker and give you a ticket for it to get it back after the interview. I had left my phone in car in any case, that why I got super bored while waiting outside for 1 hour. You do not need to:) All along it was a very good experience. Consular officer was a nice gentleman, and if you have everything right and no red flag, they are helpful to you. My interview was at 8:30. I arrived to embassy at 7:15 and exit around 9:20. All took around 2-2.5 hours. Interview took itself no more than 5-10 mins (really hard to assess the real time due to stress:)) Finally, the evening of the interview my status in ceac tracker is turned to "administrative processing". I have stressed a little bit, as AP is a scary topic. I kinda knew that this is normal procedure between interview and visa issued but you cant help to the stress once you see it on the screen. So if you have verbal confirmation of the approval but your case is seen AP, you do not need to worry directly. Thursday finally it changed to issued and very shortly I got a mail from Empost that my passport is delivered to the Main hub in Muroor street. Since Empost is not working Friday and Sunday, today at 8 am I went to pick up my passport and it was so quick, in 2 mins they gave my package. In the package there is only your passport and two paper is attached to it. One says that they sent our immigration package electronically so we do not need to cary any packages with us to give border control. And second paper is explaining how you make payment for your greencard. As a summary timeline for me was like this; June 8th, Tuesday - Interview June 8th, Tuesday - CEAC Tracker switched from "Ready" to "Administrative processing" June 10th, Thursday afternoon - CEAC Tracker switched from "Administrative processing" to "Issued" June 10th, Thursday - Empost sent mail for the tracking number and link June 13th, Sunday - Passport collected with Visa.
  4. According to Ankara Embassy's website, they are already open and issuing immigrant visas to only Turkish Citizens and Third country nationals with Turkish residency. They do not provide service to TCNs without Turkish residency at the moment. https://tr.usembassy.gov/visas/immigrant-visas/ Looks like in April they had issued 51 IR1/CR1 visas. There was the lockdown that finished in May 17th. So I am not sure if they were giving interview dates for that dates, probably not. But now the lockdown is eased and they should be working.
  5. Hey to all, I have also received my email just 10 mins ago. My interview is scheduled to June 8th, 2021. My DQ date was January 21st, 2021.
  6. There is a new update from Embassy about immigrant visas. Looks like people from countries like Iran and Iraq are still having hard time to enter to country if not more other countries. Now looks like everyone is prioritized, so backlog of banned categories will affect the process more and more. Lets hope the best but for IR1/CR1 it looks like a long wait will be there. Best luck to everyone!
  7. Hi, I am a Turkish citizen that lives in UAE as an expat. My documents are qualified in January 2021 and waiting interview letter for Abu Dhabi Embassy. However it looks like things are not going well in Abu Dhabi embassy and we haven't even hear any IR1 visa interview is booked for April. We have members with November 2020 DQ date still waiting visa interview and nothing is progressing yet (Actually weird because until March interviews everything was seemed going smooth in AD embassy but for a reason I dont know why everything changed for April) Meanwhile Embassy in Ankara is going pretty good with Interviews. On Turkish forums I follow, people get their interview dates for April with February DQ already for IR1 visa. My question is, is it possible to change Embassy for interview in demand if you are citizen of that country? I am in UAE as an expat so I am here on residency visa basis which is 2 years valid and subject to renew every two years. My residency will expire in September 2021 so I do not have any ground to expedite my case. I still have my job and everything so Expedite doesn't seem an option for me, neither I have right to expedite while some people in UAE are geniunly need the expedition as we are all expats here and our stay here solely depends that we have jobs and lots of people are loosing their jobs already due to pandemic. In this regard, what would be my chance to request my interview location to be changed to my home country? Is it possible? How long would it take? Would it make things worse?
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