I am starting a new thread to track cases from NVC - embassy to GC.
The best news for RN in China, Phillippines and India has been great and informative thread, but I think it is more appropriate and convenient if we start a new thread.
Also with the rapid scheduling of interviews for most of us, I am looking beyond the CP and anticipating the GC!
The August interview schedules are out already in India, and recently in the Philippines and hopefully in China.
Here is my case details
Category : EX Schedule A
USCIS receipt : April 2004
Processing Center : Vermont
I-140 approved : October 2004
NVC case number : MNL2004813XXX
NVC forwarded packet 3 : April 5, 2005
Packet 3 sent back to NVC : May 3, 2005
NVC case completed : May 16, 2005
Consular Interview : August 29, 2005
Visa received : ???
Date of entry in the US :???
GC receive : ????
I hope you can also post here your details interview experience.
I too, like most of the bloggers here, was just waiting for an interview date until the july VB put it on hold. My PD is Nov2005, and I submitted all the required docs(updated DS230,NBI clearance,photocopy of passports, pics, etc) as early as March 19,2008. I never checked when it was case completed coz I learned from HLG that inquiring the status of your case at the NVC can cause delays. Anyway, I guess we'll just have to wait for October.
BTW, what will happen after your wife gives birth, considering the visas are unavailable? Will you have to wait for october before your baby can be given a visa? Did the consul say anything about this?
Thanks and good luck!
Hi tabaching_dj, we have the same pd. My lawyer only got the request for updated docs April 29 (according to them they called the NVC a few weeks before that and NVC said they were delayed sending out the requests for updated docs that it why it was only received on April 29) and I submitted them as soon as my lawyer informed me. My case was completed for the third time(2006, 2007, 2008) last May 14, 2008 but I guess this is useless now since I read a post here that we have to submit again when our PD becomes current again. Time and money spent updating the docs just went into waste. This is my third time to be declared documentarily qualified but again this is useless since we have to be declared documentatily qualified again(fourth time when our PD becomes current again next fiscal year).
my pd is dec2004, after the release of march2008 vb on mid feb, we started to update our files. updating your files takes a lot of time... imagine the timeline of sending, reviewing and waiting for next instruction, it took couple of months, ill try to breakdown the timeline, this is based on my case that my pd is about to be current but my files were not.
feb 15: march 2008 vb [eb-3 phil 01 jan 05]
feb 20: updated ds230 and nbi sent to nvc
march 18: my case was reviewed and declared documentarily qualified (nvc told me to wait 6-8 weeks for the next instructions)
may 16: (7 weeks and 3 days after my case was declared documentarily qualified) got my appointment date (june 24).
june 24: consular interview, [visa not yet delivered].
if my case was documentarily qualified since last year, i should got my appointment date within march 2008 then, if things goes smoothly, by may2008 i should have my visa.
suzanne is right, its not just about your pd's are current. your files should be updated too. nvc prioritize documentarily qualified applicants. when the pd of a documentarily qualified applicant is about to be current in the next vb, they were the one's who's in the front line... keep your files updated!
hi dotph, i don't think it matters if you were documentarily qualified last year or not( you would still have not gotten an appointment date in march 2008 when your pd became current). a lot of us here whose pd became current on the may 2008 vb were already declared documentarily qualified last year and yet we still do not have an appointment date when our pd became current on may 2008 instead we were asked to submit again updated docs and we were declared documentarily qualified again last may 2008 and now we are still affected by retrogression and we have to repeat submitting the docs and be declared documentarily qualified again next fiscal year.
If you have gone thru the petitioning process and were actually approved for everything in the past, this is different than for some that have current PD dates, but never had approval on the first DS-230. That is why things have been jumping all over the place. This is what I am talking of, as well as the fact that there is still a limit on the number of visas per year, so having things done does not mean that one will be getting a visa right away.
Well, like you, my case was already completed 3 times. I just hope NVC will change their minds in asking for a fourth updated DS230 and just forward our case to the embassy. From what I'm seeing so far, I think we need our PDs to be current at least 3-4 months to get an interview and receive our visa, but I'm optimistic. :nuke: October is just almost 2 months away
Hi guys for the first time my attorney ask for my DS-230 last june 10, send it them june 13.....received by my attorney june 18 and I called the NVC-AVR today june 28..got the message "Case Completed june 25".....good news for us even there is no visa available till october, at least it is now completed heheheh.
After I read your post I immediately called NVC. I thought they stopped processing since no visa is available. But the automated response says that my case was completed on june 18, 2008. Well I just hope visa will be available on October for us.
In our case, the major cause of the delays are the exams and some missing documents, basically its in our part. That time were not aware of retrogression, VB and other stuff about this immigration process. Thank god i found this forums, most of the information ive got is from this forums.
@fruity, yes the consul asked us together. About St. Luke's, they're very strict and well organized. They check your papers very carefully, name's and spellings etc., ask you some questions about your identity.
@agp_ph, it still falls on PD's, maybe there are applicant's same as you that are documentarily qualified but PD's are much earlier.
I like to share this to you guys, last feb when march VB comes out [current PD's are Jan05], our agency calls a meeting for those PD's are about to be current. Im lucky enough to see their list, and i was shocked, they were about 40 nurses whose PD's is around 2004, then think about their dependents +2, +3 ,+4... then it was just for our agency, what about all over the phils. Annual visa limit of 10k-15k is too small for us here in ph, but at least were lucky enough that our VB is moving unlike to those in india., what i think didnt move at all.
Hi, most of us here are in the same boat. I'm into the second wave of case completion at NVC. One was last sept. 2007 and the second was last june 12th of this year. I was asked to submit DS230 thrice since 2005.
First week of March this year, the NVC voice prompt requested for my updated DS230 so i send in the documents to my lawyer immediately. But sadly, the NVC request letter reached my lawyer just in the 3rd week of May so that was the only time that my updated DS230 was resubmitted. On June 9 , the NVC voice prompt said they received my documents and on the 12th it was case complete (for the second time). My wish now is to get an interview even if no visa is still available.
I have 4 co-nurses who had their embassy interview last may26, june4, june17, & 19 who till now has not received their visas......atleast they're more than halfway through.
Plumbabe, We are lucky that our "case was Completed" than "Missing Documents" like what dotPH is saying.... hehehhe what we have to do now is go back to our daily routine, for me go to work everyday as an a ICU nurse and maybe we can make it next year 2009. there is a long line of early PD's ahead of us. :nuke:
With the backlog that is waiting, do not expect the US Embassy to schedule any interviews until visa have been assigned to those that have already had the interview and are just waiting.
The visa numbers actually ran out before they got assigned one, so that is why they got the interview to begin with. It does not help anyone at all to have the interview when there are no visas available.
And yes, new visas become available in October with the new fiscal year, but not sure how they will be used at that time. Please do not expect that all of you will get an interview then, it is just not going to happen. Especially when you understand that there are only just under 10,000 visas total and including dependents. Not the 15,000 that someone mentioned, so you are looking at only about 2700 actually that will get the visa for themselves and their spouses/children. Not many when you consider how many are waiting.
The other issue that most of you need to take into consideration is why there are quite a few that have PD dates from either 2004 or 2005 and are still in your country waiting for a visa. This definitely means that there were issues with the petitions initially or you would have been in the US long ago. These are issues on your side of things, not with the US government.
Thanks suzanne for the correction, so thats actually 10k visa annual limit. And thats very true, most cause of the delays is in our part and not the US government, they just do what they have to do. When they review your case and it is incomplete, they will automatically go to the next case. They're not gonna wait, they will just inform you that you files are incomplete, ask you to complete it, go back to the back of the line and again wait for your turn.
Based on what happen last few years ago, October, which is the start of the new fiscal year, it doest mean that they will start to distribute the visas on the first month. My prediction is, they will start giving visas by 2nd quarter of the next fiscal year, so probably by feb or march 2009, like what happen this fiscal year and considering the presidential elections that is scheduled this november. Well, that was just my prediction, what will happen on the next fiscal year still depends on USCIS and to the next President of US of A.
Its really a long wait, specially for us who in CP that took the typical path. Damn those in AoS for not playing fair... But, there is always something that we can do when everything seems impossible, just talk to "him", he knows whats best for us...
agp_ph
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Hi tabaching_dj, we have the same pd. My lawyer only got the request for updated docs April 29 (according to them they called the NVC a few weeks before that and NVC said they were delayed sending out the requests for updated docs that it why it was only received on April 29) and I submitted them as soon as my lawyer informed me. My case was completed for the third time(2006, 2007, 2008) last May 14, 2008 but I guess this is useless now since I read a post here that we have to submit again when our PD becomes current again. Time and money spent updating the docs just went into waste. This is my third time to be declared documentarily qualified but again this is useless since we have to be declared documentatily qualified again(fourth time when our PD becomes current again next fiscal year).