Where do I begin? My fiancé and I have been down a long, difficult road. We have been together for 4 years. Broke up and got back together. Long distance relationships can be difficult, not matter how much you love one another. That said, after waiting a year to get through USCIS and the NVC, we finally got our interview a few weeks back. We thought we had all the papers and documents ready. We really know one another well, and she speaks fluent English, so I was cautiously confident that things would go well. I should have expected the worst. At the end of the interview, she was given a 221G form and told to supply additional evidence: a court record (our lawyer seems to have missed this document), an original divorce decree (she only had the copy that was in the I-129 file), and, to my surprise, the CO asked for more photos, chats, and travel records, even though examples of each were in the file my fiancé was asked to bring to the interview. We gathered all the documents and returned them via courier service within a couple of days. From what I have been reading and hearing, AP is a "holding pattern." No one can tell you how long it will take and what the outcome will be. According to my fiancé several others were given 221G forms the day of her interview. Is this common these days? I was under the impression that CO's were supposed to issue them sparingly. One other question for now: when I search our case on CEAC, it says "refused." Is this common for those in AP? I appreciate any help and advice.
Thank you for replying. I truly appreciate the information and clarification. I will admit that I had been receiving a lot of contradictory information these last few week and months. It's one of the reasons I turned to the forum. I noticed people here had firsthand experience. This is extremely helpful. Yes, it's only been about 3 weeks, so we just have to be patient. My challenge is that some of my fiancé's relatives have given her the impression it should have been done after a week of receiving the additional documents; others have given her the impression that all hope is lost. I am trying to keep her calm and in the middle of the two "extremes."
Thank you for the well wishes. We, too, hope to receive a status update to "issued" soon.
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