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TravelRe: U.S. Immigration Questions: Ask A U.S. Consular Officer by Smileface2020(m): 2:36pm On May 07, 2015
Just a smile after reading this.........lol I love reading ur responds your doing a wonderful job and I love it when people put in their best in everything their doing,..... Keep it up and may God continue to bless you for us all..,... One love.



VisaOfficer:
Well, it's technically true, for a few days each month, anyway. Here's how our conversation about scheduling goes:

1. Two or more months ahead of time, NVC contacts me and requests our schedule for (to give an example) June.

2. I reply with a schedule that is deliberately light -- for instance, I'll say that we can only see 80 cases per day. (That would be a very very easy day.) That gives me flexibility in case an officer suddenly needs to take some leave without a lot of notice, etc.

3. A month later, NVC contacts me and says "Our first round of scheduling is completed per your instructions, and we now have a backlog of such-and-such a number of cases."

4. By now I know more about how many officers I'll have each day, so I reply and say "We can take all those cases. Please distribute them as follows." This lets me schedule more lightly on the days when I know officers will be on leave or working outside the office.

5. Usually, some weeks later, NVC contacts me a third time and says "Our second round of scheduling is completed per your instructions, and we now have a backlog of such-and-such a number of cases." My goal as a manager is to always take all those cases. Sometimes there are so many that we have to be creative -- for instance, that's why we put a Saturday in June on the schedule.

6. Also around this time, NVC is also asking me how many cases we can take the next month (in this example, July). So there are days each month when, technically, there's no slot available for interviews, because we just filled June and July hasn't technically opened yet (although that will happen any hour now). Right now I know NVC's not going to ask me to add numbers in June again -- and, if they did, I'd have to tell them we're already scheduled far above normal numbers that month. So anyone whose case is ready, for instance, tomorrow, will not be able to get a June appointment, because it's too late for NVC to ask us to take more cases in June. But they'll likely be scheduled in July.

Is anyone still awake after reading all this detail? smiley
TravelRe: U.S. Immigration Questions: Ask A U.S. Consular Officer by Smileface2020(m): 2:34pm On May 07, 2015
Just a smile after reading this.........lol I love reading ur responds your doing a wonderful job and I love it when people put in their best in everything their doing,..... Keep it up and may God continue to bless you for us all..,... One love.
TravelRe: U.S. Immigration Questions: Ask A U.S. Consular Officer by Smileface2020(m): 9:09am On Feb 13, 2015
Okay..... Thanks for ur quick respond. Now what about the age gap could that be the reason for my denied. Thanks once again for ur help
TravelRe: U.S. Immigration Questions: Ask A U.S. Consular Officer by Smileface2020(m): 8:53am On Feb 13, 2015
Good am Ma, I hope you slept good. Pls, I ve some questions that I need you to help me and answer. I went for my interview last Month I answered all the whole questions the CO ask me without telling any lie but at the end a white letter was handed to me which states that under section 221g my case will remain pending while it will be returning back to the states with a recommendation is revoked.... I want to know how long it can take ur office to send the paper work back to USCIS and how long will it take USCIS to respond back. Am asking this question base on our experience with USCIS at the first stage when my wife filed the I-130 for me it took us such a long time before our case was approved by USCIS though I understand they have a whole lots of peoples cases with them.. My wife and I are wondering if I was not approve because of our age gap. Can age gap be the cause of my denied because we have such a long age gap though we love each other that is what matters to me. We have know each other now for 4 years. Am ready to wait since I don't have anything to be Alfred about during my interview I did the best I could do and am happy I never lied nor argue with the CO I just want to know how long we will have to wait. I will be looking forward to hear back from you. Have a bless day......

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