AndiB

in transit!

Something seems up with 21st NOA2s that were put online on 23rd as a few seem to be getting theirs later than other 21st Sept. Anyway, only inquired twice but 13th Oct: Received 17th Oct: case number made and received Hoping for transit next week case number or received? There is a delay between NVC receiving your case and processing it.

You don't get an invoice number, you want case status on CEAC and choose immigration, it will only ask for case number. You can't request transfer without proof of residence in another country, I know someone who did for Serbia but submitted residence documents. I believe Russians are getting schegnan visa by essentially lying about which country they intent to use it for sadly. I would look for a russian group to chat with on how they're doing things.

I believe you have your answer which is don't risk it on a k1. If you have a k1 processing, def not faster to do spousal so only benefit is if you prioritise gc/ being in status continuously over time. I just got my approval and theoretically could have visa in hand within 14months of filling. Yes the uscis website says 16.5 months but vast majority are getting approved at 11-13months right now with it speeding up a bit every month. Good luck!

Both here and the fb group for UK. After some digging it seems most likely they had nationality + passport to their home country as well as lacked a passport for the country the interviewed in. Think one was Thailand but UK one I remember clearly it was a gal who hadn't lived in Spain since she was 11 so didn't think she needed a pcc but was told to and sent into AP until it was produced. So as long as I don't have nationality/passport for birth country i should be fine.

Looking for experience from anyone who inmigrated as a child and has citizenship in a new country. Did you need your police cert from your home country for k1 interview? Please dont quote 'you dont need police certs if you were under 16'. Ive seen numerous cases of people needing it despite leaving as a child but they didn't have citizenship for their interview country.

sure it'll be fine, I don't think slow down really happened much last yr but difficult to judge. I just got mine just short of 11months even with the summer number chaos

Howdy, just snuck in at end of month NOA1: 24th Oct 2022 NOA2: 23rd Sept 2023

Approved today! We're still in shock as we expected late oct NOA1: 24th Oct 2022 NOA2: 23 Sept 2023 Just under 11months ❤️ If I had my together I could be in US by xmas/new years so k1 can be done in 14months now ❤️

Numbers are good this week. Oct is weird in that they're approving cases from 3-20th Oct (range 07500) which is a wide range to have in week 1. Lots happening last week or so of Sept too. Hopefully decent next week, wouldn't expect an ave over 250/day but glad we seem to be out of the slump. My VJ estimate jumped all the way into Oct now too 😍

Hiya, I've asked around and gotten different answers so hoping the more experienced folks here or someone in a similar situation will know. I was born in another country, left age 11 and lived in a second country until I was 15. I have not returned as a resident to either. I still have citizenship to the second country. I will be interviewing for K1 in London, my current nationality and home. I know I need a police report for UK and any country I resided in post-age 16 but I've seen people get refused pending documents for countries they haven't lived in since under 16. It seems due to fact either they don't have UK nationality (settled status) or because they have nationality for another country. My question is, will I need a police check for the first and/or second country? One is my birth country and the other I hold active nationality for. Once again, I know what the embassy website says but it doesn't explain why people are being asked for criminal records for countries they haven't lived in since like age 11 so some detail is missing here...

Talk of processing hitting 700-800 last week! I am unsure if the spreadsheet I follow includes RFEs as it's usually almost 100 out from totals I see elsewhere so we're either meeting incoming or close to! Either way we shouldn't be seeing jumps in wait times any more (maybe we'll get one more 0.5 increase) and hopefully by spring they'll be tackling the backlog if not sooner! Unless there's a drastic change I don't know if we'll see much of a decrease in wait time this year but maybe we'll at least see some but right now I'm just happy that we shouldn't have longer waits coming!!