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Glad to help! Unfortunate news is that he currently doesn't have a medical until April 2. The Mater wouldn't let him schedule it before we had the date. He's on the cancellation list of course, but I suspect we might get put in processing limbo for a while after the interview while we wait for the medical to be done and processed. Oh well, what's another few weeks 🙄

Hello @AMulr and @Adrian2D, just wanted to ask what your experiences were with the medical-after-interview situation. At the moment we have our interview scheduled for March 21 and medical for April 2, though my husband is on the cancellation list. I'm wondering: - @Adrian2D did you have to keep ringing the clinic to get your new date like @AMulr did, or did they reach out to you? - In the case where the medical is after, does the embassy keep your passport, or do they have to give it back to you so that you can bring it to the medical -- in which case you'd have to bring the passport back afterward? Thanks, and I hope everything went smoothly for you both!

For anyone looking for a recent timeline for IR1, we just got scheduled: DQ 26 December Interview Letter from NVC on 7 Feb Appointment is on 21 March

Yes, and I hear they're backed up/some folks are needing to do medicals after interviews. My husband just filled a form requesting an appointment and they said they won't give him one until he has an interview date. So I suspect it may ultimately may be the medical rather than the interview that is the last step.

Sorry to hear some of you are still waiting! We were DQed just after Christmas, here's our timeline: Submitted 6 Jan 2023 (Nebraska transferred to Texas) Approved 7 Dec 2023 NVC welcome letter 12 Dec 2023 Docs submitted 19 Dec 2023 Documentarily Qualified 26 Dec 2023 Now just waiting on interview date in Dublin (and medical). Definitely nice to feel like things are moving along after all of the waiting. I hope you all get good news soon!

Nice! So bit of a long wait for the letter, but the interview is sooner than I've seen for some other folks. Did you have any issue booking a medical at the Mater in time? We were considering calling up and asking for a medical appointment before we have the interview date, since I know the clinic can get backed up.

Why would London cover Dublin? Not the same country. FWIW, I asked Dublin embassy earlier this year about DCF and they said they don't do it. But yeah, definitely get started ASAP and you won't be worrying about domicile for a while.

I actually only just got passed to NVC, but am trying to build out a very rough timeline so we can plan our move. Once you get a date I'd appreciate you reporting back, thanks!

Just got our approval! Logged in, saw a new "Actively Reviewed", and the approval notice was under "Documents". Hilariously the estimated time, which had been "taking longer than expected" since the summer, went back up to 4 months on the same day it was approved. Didn't get any email about it, so definitely keep checking Sent 1/6/23, Approval 12/7/23. Texas service center. No K3 or expedite. Hang on friends, the next step is within reach!

Hi all, anyone have recent intel on the wait time for an interview in Dublin for a CR1/IR1 visa, post DQ?

Unfortunately I'm not seeing much evidence yet that the reduced processing times are "true", either from my own case or the various groups I'm in. I'm a Jan 6 filer, currently in Texas. Estimated time dropped from ~7mo to ~4weeks around the same time as everyone else saw the big reduction. It then counted down nicely and is now in "taking longer than expected". Of course there's still time for the situation to change, but I'm staying buckled in assuming the ~12mo we'd expect normally for the USCIS stage.

Yeah, same. Ours was at 7 months and dropped to 5 weeks last week, now 4 weeks. This thread on Reddit's r/USCIS community suggests that there might be a legitimate operational change behind this, but there's no way to know for sure unless/until people actually start seeing faster-than-expected approvals.

All right friends, let's get this thread started so we can stay in touch about progress as it comes. I'm a USC petitioner, living with my husband (New Zealand/British citizen) in Ireland. Here's what's happened with my case so far: 1/6/2023: Filed I-130 online. Got NOA1 and active review right away. NOA1 was from Nebraska. 1/7/2023: Got one of those generic "we have taken action on your case" emails. No change in the online tool, so I asked Emma to see if my case had been transferred. Agent said it was in Texas. 1/10/2023: Another of the same email. Asked Emma again out of curiosity. Case still in Texas, so perhaps the action taken was to assign it to an officer 🤷‍♀️ I'm sure we are many months out from any action, but my engineer brain wants to understand how the operations of all this works. It's awful but sort of fascinating. Best of luck to you all.

@Spouse_vis I'm a Jan filer, but after filing and getting NOA1 from Nebraska and active review right away, I got a similar "we have taken action" email that didn't seem to map to any changes in the online status. I asked Emma about my service center a couple days later and she said my case was in Texas, so I suspect the action taken was the transfer from Nebraska to Texas. Now we wait.