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reason for expedite: 1) my immigration process is going more than 2 years 2) US Embassy in Moscow was closed 3) I had a 2-month delay because of i-140 re-submission 4) Possible Army draft because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

I got an interview appointment after I had expedited my case.))

the major advantage of Riga is no backlog that is why I tried it

That is what i found about NVC: #NVC schedules interviews on a monthly basis. We receive each embassy’s list of available appointment dates and times, and we fill them in the order that cases became documentarily qualified, as long as there is an available visa number. #

DV Lottery is an annual process. According to the logic described above, Embassies should serve only DV visas. I think it is not fair, cases should be processed in some ratio e.g 3DV : 1EB. A few words about ''waiting a little bit longer")) My process has been going more than 2,5 years. I faced a 2-month delay with the i-140 petition. Because of technical issues on the USCIS side with payment, we've re-submitted it and lost the time. Why NVC/Embassy does not respect my and employer's time?

It is interesting that DV people that had been transferred to Riga one week ago already got their appointments for August. As far as I know, NVC sends appointments once a month. For August it was several days ago. In July, NVC should send appointments for September... PS. I am in Russia :(

Hey. I was assigned to Warsaw after my i140 petition was approved. 18th of May I asked the US Embassy in Riga, Latvia to transfer my case. The Embassy had approved my transfer the same day. 24th of May I got an email from the NVC that my documents are complete (DQ). Now I am waiting for an interview appointment. A few days ago I sent a follow-up email to the embassy and got the response that it is fully booked by DV people and there is no guarantee to schedule an interview for me until the DV program ends (30th of September). I don't know where would be faster for me Warsaw or Riga... And it looks like DV people are in priority for an interview appointment...