CarmenD

Dear Lord, No. Considering the time and effort plus the related expense for the medical exam, requesting “a redo of the medical exam every six months to keep it updated” while the consulate takes it’s sweet time to adjudicate the visa would constitute adding insult to injury

I’m well aware the DS-5535 requires travel information/details for all foreign COUNTRIES (i.e., other than one’s country of residence) visited over a 15 year span. It was arduously time consuming compiling my husband’s extensive work related (plus personal/vacation) travel all over the world going back to 2008, so I know. tophy123 wrote, and I quote: “Since we submitted extensive travel information for the last 10 years in ds 260” My comment speaks to the fact that the one and ONLY question related to ANY travel found in the online DS-260 form (“Previous U.S. Travel Information” section) asks to “provide information on your last five (5) U.S. visits”, provided, obviously, that the question “Have you ever been in the U.S.?” is answered in the affirmative. The DS-260 does NOT question for travel going back 10 or 15 years, nor to countries other than the U.S. At least not in the version of the form we completed, and thus I thought the tophy123 quote above, interesting There’s no “whole 15 years [travel] history that is also included in DS-260”; again, at least not in the version of the form we completed. If that were the case requesting same again in the DS-5535 would be redundant

Interesting .. the DS-260 we completed back in late 2022 requested information for the last 5 US visits, nothing else

Carson Wu, please ..lol

I feel these are the less complex SAO cases, but at least there’s some movement which inspires hope for all of us stuck in the deep Dreaded DS-5535 black hole at the Montréal consulate

I would be also .. surprised, but happy to learn otherwise for the benefit of those who interviewed in Montréal as things could be picking up with visa adjudication

Congratulations indeed! Note yagbawolo’s is a TAL, not SAO case.