Runner19

17 hours ago, Ineska said:

Yay!! So happy for you guys! Congrats! 

We are hoping to be right behind you! Do you know what kind of med records / vaccination records your parents had to bring/show from Russia to the med exam in KZ?

 

Safe travels to your parents and hope they’ll be in the US soon!

When started scheduling our appt with IMC, they sent us this list:

9 hours ago, Ineska said:

@Runner19 - congrats on your parents apt and good luck! Hope they’ll join you soon 🙏🏻

Would you mind sharing your timeline for how long everything took/processing center?

 

I filed i130 for my mom in Russia in July 2022, it got moved to Vermont Center right away. The case status went to “it’s taking longer than usual..” about a week ago. I am trying to get a better timeline and not sure where else to turn.

 

Thank you for your time in advance.

Hi! We filed our petition in June 2021, got approved at the end of July 2022. Submitted docs to NVC July 28, got an RFE in early November. DQ December 20-21. Then our cases were transferred back and forth a couple of times, ended up in Almaty. Interview scheduled on February 28 for March 28. I hope that helps!

Thank you for such detailed review!

Did you email at this address: USAKZ@state.gov? They responded pretty quickly to me - 2-3 days. 

So, an update on our cases. Previously NVC has set one case to go to Warsaw and kept one in Almaty. I asked Almaty to keep them together and Almaty took the Warsaw case back, so that was good. Then today we got our interview appointments. I don't know what is going on, but they scheduled one parent for March 28 and the other for April 18. I asked Almaty to keep them together for March 28, hopefully they can make it happen. Getting close!

Almaty told us that NVC will contact us, so it really is weird.

My understanding is that Covid vaccines are not required for IR type of visas

No worries. We still have 2 different locations for my parents, so I wrote Almaty to keep them both there, we'll see if that will do anything.

It's parents - so IR5

Well, we are now at one case with Warsaw number (ceac working) and one case with Almaty number (ceac also working). Another weird thing as normally things changed together.

Yep, one case changed its number back to Warsaw. Not sure what is going on at NVC and how long it will take them to schedule now

More weirdness with our cases. This morning we got another email about our interviews being canceled(nothing was scheduled), now the Almaty case numbers stopped working in CEAC. That's how it started 2 weeks ago when they transferred us to KZ. It looks like they are transferring our cases again somewhere. 

@stacys, which email did you use? USCGAlmatyInvitation@state.gov?

15 hours ago, stacys said:

Correct. As of last Wed there were three dates available for February with multiple spots and time slots. As of this morning, I believe, Feb 2nd is all booked, there are two spots for Feb 7th and 3-4 spots for Feb 21. My parents want their interviews for the end of march or any time in April. 

Thank you for clarifying that. I will go ahead and email them to see if we could schedule it ourselves too. 

2 minutes ago, stacys said:

Yes, they responded that they had not opened their interview calendar for 2023 and recommended to continue checking on traveldocs. And couple days later the 2023 calendar appeared. So far it only shows available slots for February and all other months are greyed out. I will continue to check for dates every day, hoping for slots to open up for the end of March 

Thanks! I think I will write them as well, this is interesting that they want you to schedule it yourself. Did I understand correctly that the dates in February are available for scheduling, but you wanted to have the interview in March? I'm just wondering, because February would be fine with us. 

@stacys, Did you get any update from Almaty yet? 

Travel.state.gov does have this line for Almaty consulate, if I click on it though there is nothing there. It's Ustraveldocs Kazakhstan.

7 minutes ago, Moscowmojo said:

Why do you need to create an account with Traveldocs?  I have not do that and we have an interview date.

Maybe I'm wrong and it was just for Poland? I remember you had to register to specify where to pick up the passport. I will have to look it up again

8 minutes ago, stacys said:

Runner19, did your parents receive scheduled interview appointments in Almaty? My parents interviews were scheduled for Warsaw in February, since they currently do no have Schengen visa, I reached out to Almaty post and they immediately took over their cases. This morning i received an email from Almaty asking me to create a profile for both of my parents at ustravelsdocs and schedule their appointment. I created their profile but got a message that no appointments are available. Now what? Do I check every single day? Do i pay for a bot?

I emailed Almaty just in case and I am waiting on their response. But i was wondering if anyone else received assigned interview appointments? 

Hey! My parents have not received their interview date yet, we were just notified that their interview location will be in Almaty. My understanding is that NVC will schedule the interview and we don't have any control over it. We still need to create the accounts with UStraveldocs once the interview is scheduled. When was y'alls DQ date? Interesting to see what Almaty says. 

1 hour ago, Moscowmojo said:

I received this email from the consulate in KZ.  

 

Greetings!
 
Please be informed medical exam must be done in the panel physician clinic of our consular district, which is IMC Almaty +7 727 3786464.
 
 
Best regards,
 
Consular section
U.S. Consulate General
97 Zholdasbekova str., Samal Towers
Almaty, Kazakhstan, 050059
 

Thank you for clarifying that! We really weren't expecting KZ and their website is no help!

1 hour ago, Moscowmojo said:

Our case was DQ on 12/16/2022.  The NVC moved it from Warsaw to KZ the week before and we received the interview date on 1/9/2023.  Good luck with your case!

Thank you! Good luck with your case as well!

The whole consulate page looks ancient. The document that I found seems to be from 2013 and it's the first thing you see in the Russian version. I hope to get more instructions once the interview is scheduled.