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Seem to be about 5 months from DQ date so hopefully you'll hear early next year, this thread may help - https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/773618-nvc-to-mumbai-consulate-gather-here/page/75/#comments Good luck.

OK, hopefully not too much longer then. It's about a year from DQ to IL for spousal cases usually (which will take priority over yours I'd imagine) so fingers crossed you hear soon.

Only one F2A issued last month in Lagos, same in the month before. But when were you actually DQ’ed? You don’t have a timeline set up so I couldn’t see it.

If both PD’s are current then whoever was DQ’ed first will be scheduled first. So in your example you’d get an interview after the other person, as they were DQ’ed and added to the queue for an interview first. IL’s aren’t given based on PD, I don’t know where you’re getting that from. They are scheduled in order of DQ date, once current the PD isn’t relevant to the rest of the process (unless it retrogresses before visa issuance of course). HTH.

Maybe just as well you didn’t….it tends to suck you in, I was checking it 10 times a day throughout our whole application. 😂 Congrats on the visa being issued, it’ll tell you when it’s on the way too.

No need to be worried, it does take longer for those who mail docs, usually about a week extra but don't forget the processing time was much longer recently so you'll have been caught in that.

Sounds like you're logging in to CEAC rather than just using the status checker page - https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx HTH.

Yes. Your job has no relevance to a spousal application, you could be unemployed, or retired, or a student etc.

OK. I'm still confused, if you can answer the questions asked by others above that will help.

Are you asking this on behalf of somebody else? As Boiler said, your post history/timeline is very confusing.

That sounds odd, surely the only way to pay another visa fee is to reapply for another visa? I can't see how the system would let you pay twice for the same visa application. Could you keep the 8th appointment instead and not reschedule that one, even if you have to move things around to make it? That would be far less hassle in the long run unless you can't attend for a completely immovable reason.

So you can leave your job, no problem. You can't travel until you have AP, but once you have that you're good to go. Good luck with it.

How are you applying for a green card? Just checking as you've posted this in the spouse visa section, so your spouse is sponsoring you, it's not an employment based sponsorship?

Yes, you could have a US credit card or bank account whilst outside the country, but in that case they wouldn’t have local US transactions on the statements. Providing statements that show regular transactions at stores in the US for things like gas, bills, groceries etc are what will show you’re living in the US.

12 years is ridiculously optimistic. Here’s this months VB, you can see the current date on it for that category is April 2007, so 16.5 years ago. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2024/visa-bulletin-for-october-2023.html But it’s not linear, that category doesn’t move much so don’t expect it to advance quickly - @Boiler said the other day that it’s only moved forward 1 month in the past 3 years. You can see all previous VB’s on the website to give you an idea. So at that rate you’re looking at a heck of a lot longer than 16.5 years, which is why you shouldn’t expect anything before 20 years or even far, far longer. Then add on the time it will take for your brother to sponsor his children and that’s potentially another decade or two - more if any of them are married by then and he he has to become a citizen first.

It does mention it on the website, yours did go quite a bit over the week it says to allow before continuing on to the next step though.

There's no money to pay for them now, there would only be a fee if a visa is available for them in many years. No chance for the children aged 10+ IMO, possibly a chance for the younger - but which country are they from? I assume your brother knows sponsoring his then adult children would also take a long time and there won't be any way of them all moving together?

Perfectly normal and nothing to worry about. Usual time from DQ date to interview date for Ankara seems to be about 5 months, but I believe Turkish citizens are given priority from what I've read on VJ, so your wife may have a longer wait. This thread may be useful -

No, they’ll all be uploaded at the NVC stage, much later. How old are the children? Unless they’re infants and the I-130’s take a really long time to be approved they’re likely to age out, so it would just be his wife anyway.