World International
Published Nov 11, 2006
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english_nurse
1,146 Posts
Again, something is wrong with that tape that you heard. All petitions continue to move forward up until the time that visa numbers get assigned.I do not go by when the PD is specifically, but more to when the DS-230 gets submitted and approved. No visa number is issued until they have approved the DS-230. It is not strictly based on when the PD date is.If your DS-230 would have been submitted even in September and approved, then you definitely would have been in line for a visa right now, but the issue is that you did not get the DS-230. You just had the fees paid for the visa in October, there is no way that you would have a visa number reserved for you. Especially since you did not even receive the DS-230 yet. The numbers do not get reserved until the DS-230 is approved.
I do not go by when the PD is specifically, but more to when the DS-230 gets submitted and approved. No visa number is issued until they have approved the DS-230. It is not strictly based on when the PD date is.
If your DS-230 would have been submitted even in September and approved, then you definitely would have been in line for a visa right now, but the issue is that you did not get the DS-230. You just had the fees paid for the visa in October, there is no way that you would have a visa number reserved for you. Especially since you did not even receive the DS-230 yet. The numbers do not get reserved until the DS-230 is approved.
why is it then, that my friend is getting the same nvc automated message as gale and last week it was saying her case was complete and on its way to the embassy?
she is being told there will not be a visa number for her
i think that ann h from here has had her case at the london embassy for a while and has also found out she will not be getting a visa number either?
just curious
:)
suzanne4, RN
26,410 Posts
why is it then, that my friend is getting the same nvc automated message as gale and last week it was saying her case was complete and on its way to the embassy?she is being told there will not be a visa number for heri think that ann h from here has had her case at the london embassy for a while and has also found out she will not be getting a visa number either?just curious:)
Again, it depends on when the case was actually completed, not when the PD date was in many cases. And if the case is just on the way to the Embassy, then there is not a visa for them. It means that the case was just completed. And as I have been saying all along, visas were gone in October, not on November 1st. There were less than a thousand left the beginning of October, and that was for all nurses and their dependents.
The onyl reason that November 1st keeps coming up is that is the date of the new month and there were no visas left for that month, and the posting comes out on the 10th of the month before.
Visa numbers are not reserved until the file is entirely completed and ready for the interview at the US Embassy.
And what do you mean awhile? Weeks or months? Any past the beginning of October would be very iffy to get a visa, and that is what you are seeing.
darksunshine
7 Posts
Can you please clarify something for me Suzanne. On your previous posts regarding this, you have said that retrogression for those of us born in the UK, or like myself, Australia, will only be temporarily affected, then things will speed up for us. Does this still apply do you know or we looking at a year or more wait even if their case is complete?
Beth
Can you please clarify something for me Suzanne. On your previous posts regarding this, you have said that retrogression for those of us born in the UK, or like myself, Australia, will only be temporarily affected, then things will speed up for us. Does this still apply do you know or we looking at a year or more wait even if their case is complete?Beth
Visas are released every quarter, depends on the number that want to emigrate from where you are to the US. Not sure of current waiting numbers at the present. Will know more probably in January when the next visas will be released. Soem countries have a greater number than the number released, and others have hardley any. That is how they came up with the 50,000 extra last year, they were not new visas created, but taken back from countries that did not use them.
a few weeks i think
A few weeks would have been after the visas were gone. There were only 1000 the beginning of October for the entire world. And that was for nurses as well as their dependents. All are counted in that number, so you were looking at perhaps visas for 400 nurses or so. Calculated by being married and having one child, some do not have kids and some have three.
If the DS-230 and its approval were not done by September, then the possibility of getting a visa from that 50,000 is non-existent. The numbers are assigned when the case is completed, not when the I-140 is approved.
Silverdragon102, BSN
1 Article; 39,477 Posts
well phoned NVC last night and now get that wonderful message saying no visas left and changed category.
arys1075
134 Posts
I see clearly now, there's no available visa nos, thats why some of my batch received packet 4 but there's no instructions yet for further medical and interview date. When I was in Knightbridge Drs, one guy told me that medical exam would finish by end of Oct (last month) for nurses immigrant applicants, I don't know if it's true. In the Philippines and other part of middle east, yes, it stopped.
batasMTR_RN
185 Posts
you think this is the reason why a lot of I140 is also not moving??? i mean has remained pending???