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Ah. No, I didn't go through extra AP or have to complete the 5535. As @Boiler said, are you a third country national? If so, which country?

Just to say everybody has that - that just means the final step after interview and before the visa is sent to be printed. That's very different to being given a 221g which is 'proper' Admin Processing. My Admin Processing status only lasted a couple of hours before it changed to Issued (visa printed) - if you weren't given a 221g or DS-5535 then hopefully yours will change soon too. Good luck.

Some people are only a week, some are months or even years. Everybody's case is different. Were you told the reason for it, were you asked to submit any other documents?

Even if you can get a visa you’d need a waiver for it, and that’ll add 7-8 months. I wouldn’t have said it’s worth the hassle, cost or time when you can pop to Paris instead.

Is there any reason you’re waiting to petition your brother? Given how long he’ll be waiting, if you know you’ll definitely be petitioning for him, I’d be inclined to submit asap to get his space in line. Is your brother married? If not, your mother can also petition him when she’s got her GC which may knock a decade or more off his wait. Good luck.

Yes, that’s clear now - it wasn’t from the original post. 👍🏻

When your Priority Date (date you applied) is before the date on Table B you can start the second part of the process (pay fees, submit docs to NVC, complete the DS-260). But there's still no visa available to you at the point. Table A is when a visa becomes available to you, so when your Priority Date is before that date you'll then be scheduled for interview and actually able to get a visa. As you can see from the Visa Bulletin, that date is currently June 2020, so people who applied before that date are able to now get visas - so they've waited just under 4 years. The wait may speed up or slow down, no way of knowing unfortunately as it will depend on how many people are in the queue ahead of you. All you can do is watch the VB (it's released monthly) and see how the date is progressing. But yes, you may find that your husband can become a USC before your PD becomes current. If that is the case, then you will be processed straight away, as spouses of USC's are classed as immediate relatives, so don't have to wait. Good luck.

As said above, nothing for you to do really. As the DoS website says "Note: Visa applicants must qualify on the basis of the applicant's residence and ties abroad, rather than assurances from U.S. family and friends. A letter of invitation or Affidavit of Support is not needed to apply for a visitor visa. If you choose to bring a letter of invitation or Affidavit of Support to your interview, please remember it is not one of the factors used in determining whether to issue or deny the visa." Where is your sister from? Some countries are tougher than others, and the wait time for an interview varies hugely as well.

There are no fees paid during the interview. The only one you should have left to pay will be the $220/235 (depending on when the interview is, as the fee increases on 1st April) green card fee. You’ll pay that online once the visa has been granted/issued.

You've posted this in the section for family members of LPR's, so just to confirm - you are a USC? Have you already had the I-130 approved and now you just want to know the fees for the NVC/consular processing side of things??

Thank you. It's happened to me probably 15-20 times over the past few weeks (most recently yesterday), I'll let you know if it does it again!

As said above, yes, it's compulsory, and you can get it from your GP or the NHS app. But make sure it's the Summary Care Record, not your full medical records. When you book your medical they'll send you a full list of everything you need to take and give you details of it.

No, he needs his SCR, his little red book doesn't show anything other than childhood vaccinations and weight/height checks. The SCR is a standard thing that his doctor will be able to get to him fairly easily (I filled in a form on my GP's website requesting it and it was in my email inbox half an hour later). Or he can get it himself on the NHS app. And yes to long form birth cert being needed. Good luck.

I had my interview (also EB1 - last July) on the Monday afternoon and had passports delivered back on Thursday, so 4 working days in total. I think it's possible, but cutting it very fine as mine was unusually quick - so you'll have to hope yours is too! It's usually 7-10 days or so for passport return. As said above, does your status say issued? If so, you know the visa has been printed and put in your passport, so there's a good chance it will be back. Good luck.

OK, so your PD was definitely current when you were DQ'ed then and you should have been added to the interview line right away. I know that even spouses (higher priority than your case) are having to wait a really long time at Manila, so seems there is quite the backlog at the moment unfortunately. You've put your country as UAE on your timeline, is that where you live? If so, you might want to look at transferring your file there if it would be quicker to be interviewed there. Unfortunately I can't find any recent timelines for other F4 applicants for Manila, so not sure there are any other cases to look at that would be useful, but hope you don't have to wait too much longer.

What’s your Priority Date?

I amended my post above as I realised that was probably the case. But it doesn't tell you what work is being done really, it only tells you of approvals/rejections etc. I worked in immigration for a long time (for Canada, not the US), and often I'd go a whole week without granting a visa, as I was doing other stuff on my cases and they weren't yet at that point. So I'd be working hard, but if you'd looked at just my stats for cases finalised it would have looked like I'd done nothing! In other words, ignore that completely - you may just find that it was your case they were doing the background checks for on Thursday and Friday, fingers crossed…….🤞

As @Daphne . has said, a Field Office is different from a Service Centre. There was no holiday on Thursday/Friday, but how do you know they didn't process anything those days?

It’s the SF Field Office that is temporarily closed, so not relevant to your cases at all.

I know it's the NY Post so hardly a reputable source, but what a load of nonsense that is. They're only referring to mild cases, so not really relevant to those with serious long covid whose lives have been turned upside down with organ damage and other much more serious symptoms. One of my son's best friends hasn't been able to walk since she caught Covid in 2020, when she was hospitalised and nearly died. She was going to be a doctor and hasn't been to school in over 3 years. She's only been able to summon up enough energy in the past year to get in the car to leave the house. And a 5 minute Zoom chat with a friend exhausts her. Her teenage years have been destroyed by long Covid and her symptoms are far beyond those described in that article - she's only 16. Maybe it's taken more seriously in the UK as there was a very high profile case there, a man called Derek Draper who died of it earlier this year. He was the husband of a famous tv presenter, so that raised a lot of public awareness. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67893235#

See the link I gave you on a previous post, step 10 - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-8-scan-collected-documents/step-9-upload-and-submit-scanned-documents.html You're added to the queue for an interview and just wait to be notified of it. Good luck.

Ah. Unfortunately a long wait then either way. But at least if she's IR1 she's in the line straight away, whereas if she stays as F2A it could be another year or two before her wait for an interview even starts.

Back of the line for what? There is no wait for a Priority Date to become current if she's the spouse of a USC. There may be a wait for an interview depending on your consulate, but if you stick with F2A she's still a long way off even being added to the line for that, whereas as an IR1 applicant she'd be in the line right away. No, your previous wait won't speed up the process. But if you switch to CR1 she could be win the US by summer (again, depending on the wait for an interview at her consulate). Which consulate is it?

Yes, you absolutely should. There will be no PD as the spouse of a USC, as there is no waiting time for immediate relatives of USC's.

It really would! But I agree with Boiler, I think somebody has sent the email in error but when you actually get in to the system you won't be able to do anything. Keep us posted though, I'm intrigued.