I have been following this nonsense for a long time and my uncle is stuck at this terrible embassy and my wife is also stuck in Pakistan. She’s still in the I-130 phase so you guys can imagine it’ll be years before she can come here. Very very terrible process.
I wanted to add in some info that might explain why Islamabad moves the DQ dates so slowly. This is all originally stemming from president Trump, all delays and nonsense was caused by him. He was the one who shut down all consular processing in 2020. He also implemented the Muslim ban from several countries and people don’t think pakistan was effected but trust me it indirectly was because: my uncle, his wife visited Iran once and when her interview came along they rejected just because of this Muslim ban on Iran. Even though she just visited, now that Biden ended that ban. Many Pakistani applicants who were originally denied during 2018-2020 are trying again and getting interview dates since their cases are much older than those DQ’d in 2021 and 2022. Also many petitioners who were originally not citizens now have become citizens have upgraded their cases to IR, and they all have much earlier DQ dates. This embassy is choked and clogged with so many qualified applicants and they are working so slowly it’s never going to get better unless some miracle in policy changes or the new ambassador does something.
lastly wanted to add the last piece of disgusting news from this embassy. My uncles wife had her IR1 interview back in November 2021… but she has been in administrative processing this whole time till today!!! My uncle contacted congressman and he inquired to the embassy but they sent back generic response saying your case will be handled when we get to it blah blah. What a terrible embassy. Such a broken process. Separating loved ones from their families for years. Shame on them and this whole American immigration process.