ak2021

Thank you everyone providing their case status 

For my case,

Dec 4, 2021 Fee paid
Dec 24, 2021 POE: JFK

Last Case Status update: March 19, 2022: Card is being produced

Case status online says Card is being Produced

1 hour ago, Tamilselvi said:

Hi @ak2021

I am sailing in the same boat. Need your advice.

I have been called for Interview(IR1 at Mumbai Embassy) on 01-Dec-2021 along with my daughter and her I-130 is still in Progress. 

So can I Re-schedule the interview till her I-130 gets completed?

Or If I attend the interview and if the Visa gets refused, Do we need to attend the interview again along with Medical check-up and Biometric?

I am very much confused. Please pour your thoughts.

 

Thanks in advance.

Tamizh

You can attend and get your medical and biometric and the consular will ask if you are travelling alone or with daughter, if daughter's case is pending then he will give you 221g saying submit daughter's approved petition or they will approve your case and you have get your daughter's case expedited.

In the mean time, contact USCIS and say your interview is scheduled and can I get my daughter's case expedited and also get your local congressman to ask for it. Call NVC and ask them too. I did all 3 and it helped.

16 hours ago, Bochog said:

Is there a downside to requesting an expedite? 

 

Let's say they reject the request? Are they going to put you in the bottom of the stack just because you wasted their time? LOL

 

We've been DQed since August of last year, but still no interview schedule, hence I want to explore this option.

There is no downside of requesting an expedite and there no such thing as bottom of the stack.

search this forum for expedite request and you will get answers.

58 minutes ago, SaifRehman said:

can you please tell me what is the procedure of expedite what we need to show for this service ?? im waiting for DQ submitted documents on 18 August for my parents mine will be islamabad embassy 

This forum has lot of information regarding the expedite process. just search the forum and you will find them.

On 10/14/2021 at 10:35 AM, NJS said:

I just got the appointment confirmation today 10/14. Here is my entire timeline. 

 

Expedite Request 7/28

Under Review 9/20

DQd both 9/23. Documents Submitted to NVC on 7/14 (mother) and 7/19 (father)

Expedite Approval 9/28

Appointment 10/19

When did you get the email about the interview appointment and which embassy?

* Date Email was sent to NVCExpedite@State.gov:  SEPT 1st 2021

* Date NVC Acknowledged and Replied:  OCT 15th 2021 -- Under Review

* Date US Embassy/Consulate Approved Expedite: OCT 19th 2021 -- Same day checked CEAC it said In Transit

*Date US Embassy/Consulate Case Status : OCT 21st 2021  CEAC status says Ready

Waiting for the Interview appointment.

1 hour ago, AAnil said:

Thanks for the update. Since I had not seen many post interview dates (for IR visa) in Sep and Oct (this month), I wasn't sure if the Consulate in Mumbai is giving appointments for IR visas. Then some people told me that they are not giving new appointments, but giving only to those whose got cancelled. 

I presume yours was not a cancelled case. 

On your question, it is my logical deduction that the consulate is asking for your daughter's I-130 approval. The reason I deduce that because from what I understand, in consular processing there are only two steps: 1. Approved I-130 2. Completing the NVC documents 
What is really odd is that the required NVC documents (for your wife's case) were not specific to your case. I mean if your daughter's I-130 approval was a pre-req prior to issuing her IR1 visa, then it should have been one of the documents requested by the NVC. 

Well, I am not a lawyer, so I don't know the nuances of the visa issuance process. But from what you are describing, the light is at the end of the tunnel. It might be some wait time, but there are no signs for any show stoppers.

All the best for your case.

 

Anil

Thanks for the response. At the end of the interview consular said I could give you the visa but you are still going to wait for daughter's case so in that case once her case is approved send her approved petition through VAC and we will approve it.

According to my wife there were lot of people at the interview mostly seniors.

Also when do they open 221g appointments?

1 hour ago, dwheels76 said:

That would be the I797 approval from USCIS.

Is that the I 130 - Petition for Alien Relative Approval Notice?

I have that, if this is the document then I can send them the copy ?

5 minutes ago, AAnil said:

in which year and month did your wife get documentarily qualified at NVC?

 

Thanks.

Anil

March 2020 (Initially it was F2A and later upgraded to IR1)

Hi,

My wife went for the interview on Oct 5 IR1 and I also applied for her daughter I130 and her case is currently pending at NVC. In wife's appointment letter daughter's name was listed as Additional Applicant so she took daughter to the interview with her passport. (completed Medical and biometric as well)

Interview went ok and in the end the CO asked wife the passport and removed tourist visa and also asked daughter's passport and removed her tourist visa too and returned the passports back and said approving your case won't help since you have to wait for your

daughters case to reach here so once her case is approved we will approve your case and gave 221G and the letter says

"Bring the following documents to the VAC:
 -- evidence of approved petition for your child"

he said you can drop off copy of the approved petition at one of the drop off locations.

my question is what is the approved petition for the child means? is it I130 or NVC Documentarily Qualified?

thanks for the help.

6 hours ago, Nisha0414 said:

What's your service center? 

Nebraska

I applied for step daughter I130 online

First got the NOA1 the next day saying its in CSC but when I asked Emma 2 weeks back it said its in Nebraska.

I asked to be upgraded as I became US Citizen got the approval this morning.

Hi, 

I have read few comments here and thought i post my question here.

I am currently waiting for my Oath ceremony to become a US Citizen (hopefully this month)

I applied green card for my wife and her daughter Jan 2018 (I was LPR at the time)

Now, she is DQ' d and waiting for IL at Mumbai. Now, my question is the following

 Once I get the Citizenship, I am going (or have to) to upgrade my wife's case from F2A to IR1 which hopefully won't be an issue but daughter as for me she is my step daughter (minor 12yrs)

what should i do? as she wont be a derivative anymore. Some said apply I130 but that will delay my wife's interview which already been so long.

what are my options? they both have tourist visa and have visited me in US few times in last 4 years.

Can I apply her I 130 when they both come here and do Adjustment of Status? (Wife will attend her interview and bring daughter on tourist visa)

Since she will be joining school in Sept so I have to find something to make sure both come here in time for the school.

Thanks

I am in the same situation what if the child is in US on Tourist visa and I file for her I 130 and 485, is that possible?

I thought you can only add deriatives to green card sponsoring applicants and not US Citizens.