wizzard166

Hi Viki24 I just made a post related to yours moments ago on today June 25. I'm not sure if waiting periods are different for your type of interview, as opposed to what we are waiting for. I got my Fiance here in July 2009, and the interview for the K1 Visa only took about a Month after the NVC received it from USCIS. They had taken one year at that point from my original submission of the K1 Visa Petition, to its approval. Back then the one year was three times the normal wait period prior to us (three months had been typical before 2008 between submission of the K1 and ultimate approval). Once approved back then however, the interview flowed pretty quickly from date of approval. Now we have been waiting 13 years from the time we submitted a Petition to bring my Wife's Unmarried Son Over Age 21 here. The VISA was approved within weeks, but back then in 2009 the expected wait time for Filippine people for "Available Visa" was 12 years. We waited the 12 years, have had all paperwork and fees approved and received by the NVC in March 2022, and one year and three months later are still waiting for the Manila Embassy to give available dates for interview to the NVC. So if wait time for available interview dates is the same for your type of Petition as our type of Petition is, don't hold your breath. Wizzard

We would appreciate any input we can get on a heartbreaking situation. I brought my Wife here and married fourteen years ago this coming July 8. Not long after she got her Green Card, she filed a Petition to bring her Son here from the Philippines under the category Unmarried Son Over The Age 21. The Visa was approved within weeks, but as many of you know the Waiting Period For Available Visa for a Filipino back then was 12 Years. I followed online the current wait time, and date then being worked on for many years. My Wife ultimately got her Citizenship after five years, but we left her status the same as the original Petition as Permanent Resident. I didn't try to change her Status to Citizen, because the waiting period and date being worked was actually one year and a half sooner for Permanent Resident than it was for a Citizen. I researched it here and also called USCIS and found out it was our option to change her status to Citizen or leave it as Permanent Resident, so we left it as Permanent Resident for the shorter time period. The years went on and our date finally came up as being reviewed, back in November of 2021. Then they contacted us and said I had to be added as a Co Sponsor and not just a Family Member on the Petition. I submitted the extra application, they reviewed it, and we finally got status of all paperwork and fees having been successfully submitted in March of 2022. In March of 2022, with the online account showing all paperwork and fees successfully submitted, we began the wait of getting a notice of an interview date from the Embassy. My understanding was that the NVC at that point would send our case to the US Embassy in Manila, and we would now just wait for the notice of an Interview Date. That notice has never come, and it is now ONE YEAR AND THREE MONTHS since all of our fees and paperwork were successfully processed. I've tried calling the NVC, which I had done years ago and spoke to people, but now there is a recording saying they no longer take phone calls. They refer you to the online form to ask questions. So I tried that unsuccessfully, and simply got a reply that they were waiting for the Embassy to give them a date. Next I called the US Embassy Manila, they too don't take calls about cases, and refer you to the HOTLINE. I called the Hotline and expressed all of this, and they put me on hold to review. They came back on phone and said that they never received our case from the NVC. SO I WAS TOLD BY NVC THAT THEY WERE WAITING FOR AN INTERVIEW DATE TO SEND THE CASE TO THE EMBASSY, AND THE EMBASSY TOLD ME THEY DO NOT SET DATES FOR INTERVIEWS UNTIL THEY RECEIVE THE CASE FROM THE NVC. This is a disgusting case of both sides making excuses that they are waiting for the other side to do something. Every Month I get an email from the NVC thanking us for our patience, expressing that Embassies are still behind on scheduling things from the experience with COVID. They claim they are waiting for a list of available dates from the Embassy to be sent to the NVC, so they the NVC can assign individual cases (on a first come first served basis) to the Embassy. This is exact wording from the June 2023 email I received: This notice is to inform you that your case for an immigrant visa is documentarily complete at the National Visa Center (NVC) and has been since 17-Mar-2022. NVC has received all of the fees, forms and documents required prior to attending an immigrant visa interview. Your petition is awaiting an interview appointment. At this time, no further action is required. We appreciate your patience. Your case will remain at NVC until an appointment is scheduled, at which time we will send it to the appropriate U.S. Embassy or Consulate General. We will notify the applicant, petitioner, and attorney (if applicable) when an appointment is scheduled. The U.S. Embassy or Consulate tells NVC which dates they are holding interviews. NVC fills these appointments on a first-in, first-out basis and is unable to predict when an interview will be scheduled PLEASE I NEED HELP. SOMETING SEEMS TO BE VERY WRONG; YET, AS THE EMAILS IMPLY EVERYTHING IS PROGRESSING NORMALLY. Normally they say; in other words it is alright to make us wait twelve years to have our case worked on for a VISA, and then jokingly tell us they are now waiting for the Embassy approaching a year and a half to tell them a date is available for an interview? Is this Normal? Is there something I don't understand, where we have been singled out to torture? Is there anything I can or should be doing to make this end and get an interview for my Wife's Son? Thank you in advance for any input any or all of you can give to me. The Wizzard

When my wife obtained her Fiance Visa and came with me to Florida, it was July 2009. After about half a year, when she was a Permanent Resident, she filed a Petition to bring her Son here too. His category was Non Married Son Over The Age 21. The Visa was immmediately approved, and that started the absurd 12 Year Wait for an Available Visa. I personally tracked the changes every month with the date of his Priority Period, and that date was finally reached around March of 2021. That began a need to send more documents, because NVC insisted I wasn't added as a Family Member eligible to be on the application. Moral of the story is a couple of additional requests from them for more evidence and documents stretched things to this past March 10, 2022. This is when we received a letter from the NVC stating that ALL DOCUMENTS WERE NOW RECEIVED AND APPROVED. Now this whole ordeal just continues to go on and on, since the NVC sent the Completed Documents to the Embassy in Manila Philiippines for an Interview. In the two months that have passed, we have not once received anything from the Embassy in Manila regarding receiving her Son's papers and scheduling of an Interview. I've gone online to the US Embassy in the Philippines to see if I can get any sense of what they are doing. The best I came up with is a page called the CONTACT page, on which you can file an Inquiry. That page also has a paragraph saying how slow things are right now, and indicating that as of April 30, 2022 they were currently working on Interviews for cases whose Documents were COMPLETE at the NVC in the Month of January 2022. I completed for my wife an Inquiry back those first days of May, asking if they could expedite her Son's Interview. I mentioned that my Wife sent him back to a four year University degree as an RN, while waiting for the twelve years to pass. I suggested in the Inquiry that it would help the US to bring him here sooner than later. We've of course heard nothing. Can anyone give us some input on what we are in for; especially, with the Embassy being the one in Manila. Has anyone had their Son or Daughter get an Interview in the last few months in Manila? If so can you tell us what the date was that the NVC said your documents were ACCEPTED AND COMPLETE. It's been many years since I was first one who looked for answers, and then helped others by contributing answers, after I filed a Fiance Visa for my wife to get here in April 2008. My fellow members back then were wonderful with help and advice, and I'm hoping that now fifteen years later I'll receive some help again. Thank you, Carl