illumined

On 5/3/2024 at 6:25 PM, Justin2024 said:

Hi illuminated, do you know where I can find the thread about it? Thanks

Here's the main one, there's a couple others floating around the embassy and Africa sub-forums. 

If you're documentarily qualified then it's up to the embassy to open a window, and from what people are saying there's quite a long wait for Lagos. There's a thread about it.

Yep, so far it's only been a week since DQ. Where are you at in the process?

Oh, I thought I had filled out the country info but I guess I didn't. Fixed now. I've got a timeline. I have looked at the portal but the only ones there are from several months ago, I was just seeing if there was alternatives. I guess not, thank you.

7 minutes ago, Redro said:

Where are you in the process? Trying to figure out which visa to apply for?

Applied for K1/ CR1? Had petition approved? submitted DS160/ DS260? 

Ah yes of course, I apologize for not including this. CR1, petition approved. Ds/260 with all documents just submitted the other day, waiting on NVC to look at it. Right now I'm trying to get an idea for how much longer. Best guess based on what I've seen earlier was around 3 months but was a while ago now and it might have changed.

The only info for the one I'm going through is for non-immigrant visas, they don't publish anything else.

14 minutes ago, Redro said:

There are no priority dates when it comes to immediate relatives. The priority date is always current. 
If you’re talking about interview dates. No one knows when interview dates will be scheduled for any of the visas. You need to speak to people going through the same consulate to know when an interview could happen after DQ. Some consulates have short DQ To interview of about days while some are longer 1.5+ years.

Which country are you going through? We can give you more precise information. Otherwise you’re looking at 18-24 months from submission of I-129F OR I-130. Although I believe K1 is going faster these days. 

Yaounde, Cameroon. The most recent I've seen was a post back in October saying their experience was a 3 month wait. I'm not sure how much that could have changed.

I've noticed there's been plenty of tools for other parts of the process to see what the service centers and NVC  working on, but I don't really see this with the embassies for IR1 and K1 visas. Is there anyway to know where each embassy is currently as far as priority dates? It's not posted anywhere I've found. 

On 1/7/2024 at 4:09 AM, Eberechi said:

Awww, I'm sorry about that. Please which country is your wife from? 

Cameroon.

8 hours ago, Eberechi said:

Hi, please has your wife's I-130 been approved yet? 

Unfortunately not.

On 12/29/2023 at 8:19 PM, Adraria said:

Is there anyone else still waiting for approval from USCIS? It looks like a lot of people here have had approvals. I'm still waiting PD January 26

 

 

We're still waiting too. PD Jan 27th.

While I'm still waiting for our CR1 petition to be approved I've found myself curious as to how long the embassy wait times are in Yaounde. I understand the wait time can vary wildly from embassy to embassy, but I've been trying to find immigrant visa interview times and haven't had success. Does anyone know what it is?

Ok I think I understand where I went wrong, I got this process confused with a different one that we had been considering when all this started. Then seeing how often these are filed together for people who are already living here kind of reinforced that. Thanks for clarifying.

My wife is abroad currently awaiting her I-130 to go through to eventually get a CR1 visa to come here. After she comes, how long does she have until she has to the file the adjustment of status form? I'm trying to understand timelines here for the next part of the process and what she's able to do in the meantime, thanks. 

Theoretically the goal is to get processing times back down to historical norms by September this year, with I-130s being back down to the far more reasonable level of 6 months. But honestly, how successful has it been? Processing times seem to keep going up, not down. Any thoughts on what their efforts are, and if anyone knows what they've tried that's worked and what hasn't?  

I filed my I-130 for my wife (Cameroonian) on 01/27/23. It ended up in Nebraska. Isn't that one of the faster ones?