boofydon:
Good day visa officer. I was asked to bring along photocopies of all "civil documents" when coming for my interview. Please what does that mean?

VisaOfficer:


Just trying to be sure I understand: So the child is actually your wife's biological child, but you didn't list the child on your original entry, so you had to claim that you adopted her later? Was your wife included on the original entry, or did you marry her later and add her later?

abos:

the child was born bef I met my wife in 2009 and the child was born in 2006 ,when we play the lottery the child went for an holiday in my wife's sister place and we couldnt add her , and wen we filled the form too we couldnt include her because the adoption process has nt started it was later that we got to knw about nairaland and we started asking questions about how to go about the situation

VisaOfficer:


For my part I hope to see your name on our appointment list soon!

eoc4ever:
Hello ma

I have an upcoming interview at the consulate, i checked the ceac site this morning and saw that my status updated date was showing today's date. What does it mean? Was my case file reviewed or was there an info that was updated on my case file?

tonyphil:


Dear VO
Goodmorning....my wife has filed the i130..but dint include copies of her birth certificate or passport...
Won't this result in RFE?..
Thanks for being there.

VisaOfficer:


Greetings,

Actually, I have no idea. How the CEAC site updates itself is a mystery to me. I could check your case to see if any action was taken, if you felt comfortable sharing your case number.

VisaOfficer:


That's a normal waiting period. If you have an emergency, we can expedite the case, but we're very strict about what constitutes an emergency.

darryshine:



Dear VO, thanks for your response, however, every case complete that have seen from lagos has interview within the waiting period of 40days. i have not seen any October case complete that has 60days waiting period. I have indeed hoping to have xmas or new year with my wife and kid. NVC supposed to have completed my case the first or second week of october. The dec 30th (two months) date really breaks my heart.

Sisitodun: Hello!
Got my appointment today. My case was completed on the 29th of August, interview scheduled on 2nd of October (after 34 days) for 25th of November. So waiting time from Case Complete to interview is about 85 days. Phew!

eoc4ever:


LGS2014643058.

Thanks ma.

Tisa:
Hello,
A friend of mine is currently being filed for buy her husband in USA, the case has gotten to Nvc stage however we are both invited for a conference in USA schedule for January. She said she may not be able to apply for non-immigrant visa to attend the conference because of her ongoing immigrant filing process.
In light of the above can you advice her as to applying for the non immigrant visa to attend the conference or if she should not cos of the ongoing immigrant process.
Thank you.

Gbola2014:
Dear VisaOfficer

I have a very quick and simple question. I and my sibling were petioned for by our stepfather . However due to some documents needing to be straighten out we had to wait for a few years our case to be reaffirmed. It was reaffirmed recently and we were called in for an interview but were told to just come in and not bring any medical for now just fill the online DS260 form. The interview went very well, two or three questions were asked. The interviewing officer requested for a medical and police report and my
Ds260 submission page(we didnt fill one of the ds260 in time before the interview) and I should only come and not my sibling any more and i should bring his passport and mine in, with our medical and police report.

Please could you help shed some light on that?

Sounds very good to me.


Thank you..
Awaiting your response

jusugo92:
So happy, I picked up my K-1 visa today after 6 months of administrative processing.Thanking God for the patience between I and my fiance and more espiecially the Visa officer for taking out her precious time to answer questions on this thread.To everyone on administrative processing,i pray you get your approval soon.Thanks

VisaOfficer:


No new actions taken. I see you're scheduled for an interview tomorrow at 07:00, but nothing has happened otherwise.

VisaOfficer:


In other words, you failed to include your pre-existing stepchild in your DV application, then decided to present adoption papers so that you could pretend the child was not pre-existing. And, because the adoption papers you presented were fraudulent, you got caught and ended up with a permanent ineligibility to the United States.

I'm relieved to hear that you actually have SOME relationship with this child. If that's true, it's marginally better than trying to smuggle a non-related child into the United States for purposes unknown. It's still attempted human smuggling, however.

If you have the opportunity to apply for a visa in the future, and if the visa would otherwise be granted, at that point the officer will give you the instructions for filing for a waiver of your ineligibility under INA 212(a)(6)(E), attempted human smuggling.

VisaOfficer:


It might. Would it be possible for her to pre-emptively send those copies to USCIS so they can include the copies in the petition? Maybe by scanning them via e-mail?

ggeorge:
Hello VO Ma,i just want to ask as an F2A Beneficiary....after My interview and Visa is approved, do i have to wait for months or years for a Visa number to be available before i am been issued a visa or what pls, i am just curious.

omotfavy:
Please i want to ask if a child under 2years need to go for medical examiation,she is just 8mths old then i did medicals/interview in April,visa was approved in july unfortunately,i was sent a txt dat my case is no more current but am optimistic it wil b current by dec,wil i need to go for medicals again before i can collect d visa and since my pport is already at d embassy,do i need to cum collect den submit again?

omotfavy:
Am sure it wil b current nxt month cos my priority date is march 7,2013.i want to ask,cant it b kept den d visa done widout me cooming ova cos am a nurse on permanent morning because i ve a small bby,i only ve offs on weekends and Ekiti to Lag is a long journey which i cant go to fro sameday?

VisaOfficer:


In general, as soon as an officer approves a case, we issue the visa. That's because we don't approve cases until we're ready to issue. However, in some rare cases, the cut-off date for the visa category changes while we're processing a case, and we can't issue the visa until the case becomes current again. The worst part is that the computer doesn't alert us until we're actually trying to print the visa, so the beneficiaries have already gone home thinking that their visas will be ready in a week. It's frustrating for us and even more frustrating for the beneficiaries!

It usually only takes a few months for the dates to catch up again, but no guarantees. You can always check cut-off dates at http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/law-and-policy/bulletin.html .