DylemmaUK

Over a year after applying, this morning got my visa approved at the embassy! So happy! Just so you know, it's very busy and they're pretty efficient at getting people seen- I'm positive there will be even more appointments available soon!
Thank you again for all your help and advice.

Just got mine too DQ 13/03/21 
Interview 23/08/21
 
So so happy 💞

Congrats!! Mine too! Exciting 🎉

Thank you! Today my CEAC status has been updated to “Issued.” Cried a lot lol. Feeling incredibly surreal. 
 
Just reviewed! Thanks for sending the link. 

Your DS260 number is on the bottom of the confirmation page, under the barcode....it would have been in an email you received when you submitted the ds260. If you do a quick Google image search, you'll see where I mean.

Thank you I’ll try again tomorrow x

@DylemmaUK, the same happened to me a while back. You need to give it about a day before registering for the courier and confirming the interview date. It takes their systems a bit of time to update, that's all.

Just got mine too DQ 13/03/21 
Interview 23/08/21
 
So so happy 💞

Just got mine too DQ 13/03/21 
Interview 23/08/21
 
So so happy 💞

Aaah. Yay. 
I can’t believe I’m writing this. 
18.5. months, 1 daughter and a LOT of tears later, my CR1 visa has finally been APPROVED. 🎉 
 

🌟 My interview day summary: may be helpful especially if you have kids! 
On Monday morning, I flew with my 10 month old daughter from Belfast to London Gatwick. 
 
My interview date was the day after, we arrived at the Embassy at around 8:30, my interview wasn’t until 9, lol. We walked around the building once to calm my nerves and then went to the “Visa Services” entrance to see if it was too early or not to enter. The lady was super helpful, asked for my passport and appointment letter, stamped my letter and told me to go to the front of the queue as I seemed to be the only other Immigrant Visa applicant amidst a lot of Non Immigrant applicants.   
 
When I got in there, I was asked for my appointment letter again, given a ticket and asked to go up the elevator to the 1st floor. I sat in front of windows 20-24 (for Immigrant Visas).
 
We waited only 5 minutes to be called to the first window. A helpful man asked for my passport, birth certificate, marriage certificate, police certificate and 1 of my visa photographs. Then I scanned my fingerprints. He asked a few questions;
* “Is this your first marriage?”
* “Is this your husbands daughter?” - to which I responded by asking if he wanted to see her birth certificate, he didn’t and said “no, don’t worry”
* “When do you want to travel?” - I explained that our daughter is 1 soon and hopefully before then. He encouragingly said, “Oh, you’ll definitely be able to make that work.” This calmed me as he kind of was confirming that there weren’t going to be any issues with my visa lol. 
 
We sat down again, this time waiting for about 20 minutes. My daughter was hungry (I had to nurse her in the embassy and had no unpleasantness from anyone - thankfully.) She also decided that she was a little grumpy at this point because her morning nap matched up with my appointment time (Mom life lol). Of course, this is also the time that we were called for the second time. 
 
We went to a different window. Was asked to raise my right hand and take an oath, then scan my right hand fingerprints again. At this point, my daughter was tired and bored. The lady was SO lovely and literally said, “everything looks good here, I don’t want to make life anymore difficult for you.” She asked me where I met my husband, told me we needed to get her CRBA, I told her we already had and asked would she like to see it. She said no and told me that was great. 
She gave me a form about domestic violence to read and crossed out points regarding marriage fraud on the back, telling me they didn’t apply to me. She used the words, “ok well if you have a read of this and everything seems ok to you, you’re good to go. Keep an eye on your CEAC tracker for delivery updates.” She kept my passport and waved goodbye to my little girl, trying to keep her occupied lol. 
 
I am SO excited to see my husband, make up for lost time with our little girl and just enjoy being a Mom for the first time in a long time. This experience has taken a lot away from us as first time parents but we have MADE IT and are so excited to see each other. ♥️
 
So happy to read that lots of you are getting appointments this week. That is amazing. 

Just got mine too DQ 13/03/21 
Interview 23/08/21
 
So so happy 💞

Haven’t seen anyone no. I dq’d in March and hoping to hear something soon as my husband and three kids are there and I’m here without them. 

Hi everyone,
Wanted to update you all.
 
I have shared our story a couple of times but basically we were approved expedite by NVC one month ago after being DQ'd in February. They finally admitted to having a technical issue which resulted in our case not being transferred by the NVC to the Embassy but we finally have been able to schedule our interview today!!! Praise the Lord.
 
Interview is SO soon as we already completed the medical. 
Appointment is next Tuesday, the 13th!!! 
 
So thankful for this thread and for the support. Hoping you all still waiting won't be far behind. 

Yeah I was similarly hoping for it but the curve ball of nothing last month wasn't exactly a delight, however, that also happened in January, have to keep fingers crossed they will pick up again soon. Getting very frustrated as we've been married 3 years in July and really haven't been able to live together at all.....but it's not a fast process and we understand that but getting the DQ finally was a promising step, hopefully, not too long now for either of us. Fingers very crossed for you not being too long apart from husband and kids etc.

I DQ’d March 13th and based on other people’s dates was expecting my IL this month for July. With none going out in May I'm now thinking it may be delayed. My husband and three kids leave thebUK to move in just over a week. Hoping I am not too far behind them 😢

Immigrant and non-immigrant processing are completely different. One isn't related to the other so don't worry. 

I'm working on the premise that with the President in the UK in June then maybe he is visiting or there is some kind of heightened security so no June interviews.  So fingers crossed now for some news in June for July interview dates for people (hoping that Feb 23rd DQ might fall into that)!