Josh B K
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I corrected your DQ date to June 18, 2025. Thanks for spotting my error.
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@Gloria Moore I added your DQ date to my tracking sheet. I'll be in touch with you to follow-up on when you receive your interview. Thanks for sharing the data.
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Hello friends. Here is my update for March. I collected examples from 4 couples who received interview notices in late March (March 25-28). On average the couples waited 378 days from the DQ date. The latest DQ date I was was March 31, 2025.
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I'd reach out to your states department of state or vital records to see what you can get your hands on. They usually have expedited services for a fee.
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Hello. I saw your message on my thread about wait times in Ciudad Juarez. I answered your question on the thread. I also wanted to pass you a URL to a Google Sheet where I keep all my raw data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1omDM3XmhO72N-KcYG-lpadogppY3iIjXXUuB7iLoYD4/edit?gid=258561260#gid=258561260
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Hello Friend. The average wait time from Documentarily Qualified to an interview notification has been 380 days for those who received notifications in 2026.
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Hello friend. I saw your dates on Visa Journey and they were close to mine. I was wondering if you have received your visa interview date in Ciudad Juarez? If so, can you share with me the date you received the notification and the date of your interview. I'm tracking other petitioners who are waiting for appointments in Ciudad Juarez, and I like to share monthly news.
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Hello Josh,
I appreciate what you're working on - i actually posted an update in the thread
but here is the timeline so far:
- Date you received notice from NVC that you are Documentarily Qualified (DQ'd) - March 03, 2025
- Date you received an interview assignment from NVC - 03/13/2026
- Date of your interview (if you have received an interview assignment) - 04/20/2026
Have a great Monday!
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I'm a retired us citizen sponsoring my spouse for a permanent resident visa (IR-1). I am seeking confirmation or advice on how to represent my income/assets on the I-864. In my initial I-864 submission, I reported my annual adjusted gross income which exceeds the requirements over the past 3 years, but all of my income is from interest, dividends, and capitol gains on my savings. I don't have a salary. The NVC accepted my documents but said "The income reported as stated on form I-864 is insufficient to overcome the public charge grounds of inadmissibility for visa issuance". They invited me to submit an updated I-864 with other income and assets. I updated my I-864 to report all my financial assets that bear the interest and dividends on which I support myself. I also included all my real estate (primary residence and two vacation homes). I provided account statements and property valuation/tax records as my supporting evidence. Have I gone about this correctly? Is this how a retired sponsor should complete the I-864? How does the state department determine the sufficiency of a sponsor's assets when they don't have a salary income? If there is still concern about my affidavit of support, will the contact me and tell me what additional evidence they need before my spouses consular appointment?
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@emeditz, we received our interview date for the consular appointment today. We will travel to the consulate on April 9th 2026. I wanted to share the happy news with you. If all goes as planned, I expect we will have our visa by the end of April 2026. In total we will have waited 2 years and 7 months.
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Good morning, Ciudad Juarez Visa Applicants. I want to share the happy news that, today, my spouse and I received our appointment notification email. We were documentarily qualified on February 12, 2025 and received the email today, March 2, 2026 (383 days). Our appointment is scheduled for April 9th, 2026 (421 days from DQ Date). Here is my normal monthly update: Since my last update, I've tracked 6 applicants who finally received their appointment dates. The latest DQ date I have encountered so far which has received an interview assignment is March 4th, 2025. Here are my charts: You can see a slight trend downward in wait times.
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Christina! We received our appointment notification email today! Our appointment was scheduled for April 9th 2026. We are very excited. We received the "you've got mail" ding while we were still in bed. I hope you received an email as well. If not, stay hopeful that it could arrive this week!
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Sure, @Cristina0123! There are two facebook groups I follow where people announce appointments and questions about the Ciudad Juarez Consulate. https://www.facebook.com/groups/406904153165017 https://www.facebook.com/groups/consuladojuarez Most posts are in Spanish, but you can get a lot of value out of the group by just searching for the terms "llego cita" ("The appointment arrived"). An example of a common post is attached. In Spanish, they refer to the Documentarily Qualified date as "CC" (Case Closed). People usually share their CC date and the date of their interview. Usually, I see people announcing appointments between the 20th and 28th of each month. I assume the NVC releases appointments in batches.
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Oh @emeditz, I'm so happy for you guys. I can only imagine the agony you must have felt when news of pausing visa processing for certain nations was announced. I am so relieved to hear that you are together now. You also waited a long time, and you deserve this happiness.
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Hello Friends! I see on facebook groups today that many people are reporting they received notification of their appointment date over the past days. Once I finish checking in with people from the community, I'll post my latests data.
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Hello @RSJRGT: You made a post on the thread for appointments in Ciudad Juarez recently. I just noticed that many people with DQ dates in February and march are announcing online that they received appointment notifications in the past 2 days. I wanted to check if you have received any e-mails from NVC.
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Of course, check these two facebook groups:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/406904153165017https://www.facebook.com/groups/consuladojuarez
Everyone posts in Spanish. The key phrases you are looking for are "llego la cita" or "llegó la cita". Usually every month between the 20th and 30th you will see lots of posts with people announcing their happy news.
This year, I see people with DQ dates in January, February, and March of 2025 receiving appointments, but there are also people with January 2025 DQ dates who still report they are waiting.
Good news, we are getting close! Bad news, the process is opaque, and I don't understand why they start assigning appointments for some people in February and March when people from January are still waiting .
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Hello @Cristina0123, I hope you and your spouse are doing well. I see posts online that people are receiving interviews for DQ dates in february and march. By chance have you received an email from the NVC?
Joshua
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@pb14mph Thank you for sharing your dates with this group! I've added you to my list, and I'll be in touch to see how the process goes for you guys!
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Hello @UScitizen2023, Have you received notification of your interview in Ciudad Juarez?
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My spouse and I are still waiting for an interview assignment in Ciudad Juarez, but based on announcements we've seen in FaceBook, we are hopeful to receive a notification of an interview date in February or March. Our DQ date was February 12, 2025. I'll announce here when we finally get an interview date assigned.
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Welcome to our thread @Cristina0123. My DQ date is February 12, 2025; so, I expect we will both receive our appointment assignments soon. Based on my data, I expect to receive a notification in March 2026. I saw some people with January DQ dates receiving appointments this month; so, it's not unreasonable to hope for a notification in February. My spouse is Mexican and lives in Guadalajara. I am in Mexico a lot; so, we see each other regularly. My home is in Seattle, WA. Waiting over two years has been grueling, but hope is starting to spring forth as we approach 1 year from our DQ date.
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Happy January and Happy New Year. Today, I saw lots of announcements from people receiving their appointments in Ciudad Juarez for Documentarily Qualified (DQ'd) dates between November 29, 2024 to January 27, 2024. Below you can see my updated data charts. The average wait times chart is updated with new baselines for 2026. The gauges go red if average time to assign an interview climbs to over 450 days or average time for an appointment grows to over 550 days. The Observations gauge is reset to go green when I get more than 70 observations from real cases. Below you have a graph showing all my data points. X-axis shows the date the couple was documentarily qualified and the y axis shows the days they waited from DQ'd date to interview assignment. The trend is holding pretty steady at around 400 days.
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Hello @UScitizen2023, I've been tracking Ciudad Juarez interviews and I've seen some people with Documentarily Qualified dates in January 2025 receiving appointment notifications. I wanted to reach out and ask if you've received a notification of interview assignment.
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@Hark Z I added you to my tracking list and will stay in touch with you. Thanks for sharing your details!
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Thank you @TBoneTX! Since you have the power to edit, can you please remove the FB-1 from the title. I think that confused people since it's not really a correct label.
