Nika P

Hey Sou, you'll find that out when you schedule your appointment. For example, for Dr. Nardone you'll find the booking dates here: https://progenda.be/calendars/docteur-nardone-raphael-medecine-generale-panel-physician-visa-schaerbeek?locale=en With the earliest date being Feb 17.

In Belgium, you'll need to visit a doctor beforehand for the varicella shot. My doctor first did a blood check to find out if I needed the shot because a lot of people have immunity without even knowing about it. Turns out that I was one of those people. He gave me a prescription for the vaccine that I needed to take to a pharmacy in case the blood report did come back negative for immunity though. Do not forget: if you are immune, you'll need to provide the report of your blood work to the immigration doctor.

I arrived in the US on a CR1 visa yesterday. I did not realize it at the time, but the Washington (IAD) CBP officer did not stamp my visa nor my passport. The stamp was supposed to endorse the visa. Doesn't that mean I don't have a temporary I-551 of one year like it says at the bottom of the visa? I asked the officer to change my mailing address. USCIS' Emma confirmed that the address change went through and that my green card is being processed, but could not tell me if I am a Lawful Permanent Resident and that I should ask an immigration lawyer. Emma further asked if I wanted an appointment to get a stamp. I said yes. However, that can take up to 30 days, apparently? Can I do anything at all without an I-551? I wanted to apply for jobs, and have interviews lined up, but I'm not even sure if I can do that now.

That date seems to be some kind of golden date for interviews, haha

Man I wish I could find a job that's willing to wait 😂 we have our interview dates on the same day!!

Yes. It says "In Transit".

My medical is August 9th. Good thing I never waited for my interview date to schedule that because the earliest medical date right now is September 15th in Belgium.

Oh, apparently the email also contains my interview date. In all that excitement I didn't scroll all the way down 😂 my interview is September 6th. Not the closest date but at least it's something.

Cheer up folks, we were right! NVC has started back up again!! Just got my "NVC left" email hope my embassy will take care of it quicker than NVC did 😂

Just saw a post on FB of a Chilean person that just got their IL. Their DQ date was June 15th. Maybe it's starting back up? Fingers crossed. Btw: the time between NVC left and consulate received is about a week according to VJ timelines. So, I'm pretty sure this person was in the same boat as us.

So, another week of no updates huh? Let's hope next week is our week 😂😭

In this thread we have a running theory that NVC halts all family-based visas in the months of June and July to process student visas for the US. This will probably be the case in China as well, if you think about the number of Chinese students in the US. I think we're going to get a response soon (late July or beginning of August).

June 21

No, sorry buddy. Just got a response from my embassy saying they haven't gotten my case from NVC yet. Which means the interview has not yet been scheduled.

Same, "At NVC". Today's the four-week mark. Let's hope that actually means something.

Also emailed mine last week Tuesday. The last time I emailed them it took them 12 days to respond. The time before that it only took them a couple of days... bureaucracy am I right? 😒

Anybody here have an update? Tomorrow's gonna be the fourth week since DQ. This is getting ridiculous. How would my embassy have gotten more than a month's worth of backlog in less than a month?

Belgian Embassy here. DQ since June 21 and been waiting ever since. I know of people in Belgium DQ'd earlier in June and getting their interview letter the following week. It's almost been 4 weeks for us. So this is an NVC thing most likely, right?

Hi! Thanks for your comment I think it will be fine in the case of Belgium. Interviews are scheduled pretty early! I am more afraid of my medical check being late than early haha.

Hi everyone, I just received a DQ from NVC and am currently waiting on my interview date. I went ahead and scheduled my medical check with Dr. Raphaël Nardone in Brussels (the earliest date was Aug 9th which I think is absurd as it is probably going to get very close to the interview date). If I'm correct, the information on the doctors on Visajourney is a bit outdated. The embassy website only qualifies four doctors for medical checks: two in Brussels and two in Luxembourg (Antwerp has been removed recently). That is why I am also confused about additional vaccine shots: I thought I was going to get them all during the check-up, but the email I received from Dr. Nardone says "your vaccination must be in order; please refer to the information given by the embassy of the country concerned." This is quite annoying because I know I need to get the Varicella shot, but thought I would get it here. So, what did you guys do? Where and how did you get any additional shots? Thanks in advance.