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That seems strange to me. My spouse received an email saying that the visa was ready 3 business days after our interview and she picked it up today (1 week after the interview). If they said the visa was approved at the interview, you may want to make sure you didn’t miss an email. Unfortunately I’m not certain what the best way to get in touch with someone at the embassy would be, but if there’s an option to call that could be worth trying.

Hi, sorry for not replying earlier. We received our interview date letter approximately one month after the DQ date with NVC and the interview was scheduled for approximately 2 months later. So it was just about 3 months from the date NVC approved the documents and the interview taking place. Hope that helps!

Sorry, I realized I didn’t respond to your question regarding the medical exam. Based on what we received from the NVC, you don’t schedule the medical exam until after you receive the interview date so we still haven’t done that yet. This is a link to a timeline that NVC included in an email that I found helpful in case you haven’t come across it yet: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-10-prepare-for-the-interview.html

Thanks! We just received the notice from NVC that everything is in order yesterday, so we are just starting our wait time to the interview. It doesn’t look like there is a lot of info re time frame online, but hopefully it doesn’t take more than a 2-3 months. The docs that took time were mainly on my end with some of the tax records I needed to submit, but it sounds like you’re all set on that front. I’m not sure how long the police records are valid for, but it took less than 2 weeks to get them online and we did it after we received the USCIS approval so it shouldn’t hold things up if you wait until you get the formal USCIS approval. We did find out though that for Peru they require two extra certificates in addition to the police records. The three criminal record documents they require including the police record certificate are called: 1) Certificado de Antecedentes Policiales, 2) Certificado Judicial de Antecedentes Penales, and 3) Certificado de Antecedentes Judiciales a Nivel Nacional. This is the state department website that explains that they are needed for Peru: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/Peru.html We googled each form and there are instructions on how to get each online and it was pretty straightforward luckily. Lastly, I’m not sure I understand your final question, but I don’t think there’s a way to bypass the NVC processing and interview date if you’re applying from abroad. The visa isn’t issued until after the interview is completed based on what I know.

My spouse and I are going through the process in Lima and I can confirm that the NVC process is moving quickly if you have everything in order. We had to wait on some documents a couple months, but once we submitted everything to NVC it took ~3 weeks for NVC approval. Now we are just waiting to see how long it takes for the interview to be scheduled in Lima.