HLC6567

Hi! Most likely you will want to check cases more similar to your own, but to answer your questions: My Russian wife was documentary qualified at NVC on November 11, 2021 and the case was originally sent to Moscow. The interview in Jerusalem was November 3, 2021, after the EU denied her a Schengen visa. I will leave you to fill in the gaps. You are able to look through VJ timelines to find cases similar to your own. For instance, here are CR1 timelines for *Israelis*: https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list.php?op6=All&op66=All&op7=Israel&op1=&op2=&dfile=No&op3=5&op4=1&op5=5%2C6%2C8%2C10%2C11%2C13%2C14%2C15%2C16%2C17%2C18%2C20%2C21%2C22%2C25%2C26%2C27%2C28%2C108%2C110%2C111%2C208%2C210%2C211&cfl=

It's interesting to me that nobody had any ideas. Maybe it was too specific or unbelievable. Sending an e-mail from a second account worked! I was actually able to get two replies from them. One focused on why our case was stuck, and another about retrieving the passport. I swear I did not pester them or write overly long e-mails! The last one didn't even ask for them to process our visa, but just how to get the passport back. It's ridiculous that I should be happy about this. I think the DoS has us in some kind of Stockholm syndrome now. 🤣

Hello Everyone, My wife had a CR-1 interview with the IV unit in Jerusalem on November 3, 2022. The case is now in 221g administrative processing. We had a request for a joint sponsor and then a request for an additional verification document which we submitted December 1, 2022. Our problem is that my wife is not an Israeli citizen and is there on a tourist visa. She arrived on October 27, 2022. We think her visa expires on January 24, 2023. What should we do? I've sent the unit a weekly e-mail starting December 14. Each week I've made it clearer and clearer we need her passport back with or without a decision but have not gotten a single reply -- not even to acknowledge my concern. Obviously we want the passport with a visa. If you look through our case, you might guess that we want it very badly. It's been a hellish year. These aren't competing objectives, but I suppose our top priority is to get her passport back and leave the country? I sent Jerusalem IV an e-mail from a second account without case number and name and they are definitely triaging e-mails. Around Christmas, my wife sent her own e-mail which was a sob story about her medical scare during the holidays and received a standard reply to wait. Should I even be worried yet? 2 weeks seems like a very short time left to arrange the return of a passport. I'm tempted to send some e-mails from a second account, but it seems like it would annoy whoever is ignoring the e-mails from my primary account. Is it worth it to annoy them? My congressman has opened a casework case for us. Should I ask her to badger Jerusalem IV immediately? I can and will fly to Jerusalem. But can I do anything there? Thanks for your help!

Hello all! I thought I posted an update to my CR1 wait, but I must have forgotten to submit it. Here it is again: DQ was on November 11 2021 Case Transfer to Warsaw was on December 18 2021 Interview Letter received September 1 2022 Interview Scheduled for October 14 2022

Please fill out your timeline so everyone can get a basic glance here: https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list.php?cfl=0&op1=3&op2=d&op3=5&op4=1&op5=5,6,8,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,20,21,22,25,26,27,28,108,110,111,208,210,211&op6=All&op66=All&op7=Russia&dfile=No&adv=0 See my post: https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list.php?cfl=0&op1=3&op2=d&op3=5&op4=1&op5=5,6,8,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,20,21,22,25,26,27,28,108,110,111,208,210,211&op6=All&op66=All&op7=Russia&dfile=No&adv=0 About the queue: it's quite incomprehensible and they are definitely doing things out of order. There is one couple where literally every step (I 130 submission, to NVC, DQ, embassy assignment, etc) they are after us, but had an interview on April 6. If you are looking at the number of visa approvals, CR1 are barely back to normal while it seems like they are rushing through (a backlog?) of DV and other visas. I would start pushing your case (or at least studying how to do so) sooner rather than later. Get help for writing your expedite request. And if you are reestablished in the US, contact your congressman.

Hello all! We are Russian CR1 hopefuls and I have been lurking on this site and especially this thread for almost a year now. Our case has taken so long (NVC case complete since November 11, 2021, Warsaw case transfer on December 20, 2021 and 600 days total) that we have started exploring options and I've filled out my timeline here. I need some tax help: If anyone has any suggestions on how to get an ITIN (temporary SSN) for my wife, let me know. Everyone who can validate her documents in Russia has left and obviously we don't want to mail in her passport right now. As for what I can contribute: - if you e-mail AskNVC to complain and ask for advice on how to write an expedite, they will immediately forward your 'request' to the embassy who will almost immediately reject it for lack of evidence ). I plan to e-mail a second, more formal, expedite request myself soon. - if I had to guess/regret not doing one thing during the process, it is harassing NVC/Warsaw to take our case earlier. I suspect priority is being given somehow to when your case was transferred to Poland (for us: December 20). I already knew in September that my case should be going there. And on November 19, 2021 I received an e-mail from NVC saying they had 'cancelled' my appointment in Moscow but not to do anything as they would reschedule it. So I didn't do anything and now I suspect we ended up at the back of the line behind some people who were more proactive. - I have been looking at the IR1/CR1 rates for Russian beneficiary/applicants, and I have listed them below. The basic summary is that there was a slowdown when Moscow stopped processing CR1s (some time around November in the reports) and the pace is picking back up now. But no, I have absolutely no clue if this means the backlog will be cleared, what order cases are being processed in, where exactly *my* case is, etc. etc. month year CR1 IR1 Total may 2022 16 24 40 apr 2022 10 28 38 mar 2022 8 28 36 feb 2022 4 11 15 jan 2022 6 9 15 dec 2021 8 11 19 nov 2021 10 14 24 oct 2021 5 14 19 sep 2021 6 17 23 aug 2021 9 25 34 jul 2021 7 36 43