poetmj
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DV 2021 ALL SELECTEES
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shatruji
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Dear Susie Madam and Britsimon Sir,
My current interview location is Colombo, Sri Lanka. I am a Sri lankan citizen.I want to change it to Dhaka, Bangladesh as I have to urgently re locate there. Bangladesh is not eligible for DV 2021. Could you tell whether I can change the location to Dhaka? My CN number is 11***
Thanks
My current interview location is Colombo, Sri Lanka. I am a Sri lankan citizen.I want to change it to Dhaka, Bangladesh as I have to urgently re locate there. Bangladesh is not eligible for DV 2021. Could you tell whether I can change the location to Dhaka? My CN number is 11***
Thanks
walidk1952
Member
MY case number is AS21XXX . When you advise to submit my ds260 form.? Should I submit now or wait for next visa bulletin since numbers are progressing slowly.
Thank you
Thank you
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
Both, with an explanation of why you have a new one. (Yes, even if it seems obvious to you, they require an explanation of the passport is not the one you entered with)
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
You understand I presume from reading earlier posts that it takes a while for KCC to process the DS260, then they request documents from you, and then they take some time to process those documents, and that they will not schedule you for an interview until all that is done? And that scheduling takes place around 6 weeks before the interview month? So an understanding that this entire process may take a few months in itself, is something you can work with when deciding when to send in your DS260.
PhantomHigh
Active Member
I have similar situation like yours.
I applied for Police Clearance Certificate at South African Embassy last October.
Until now, they still haven't recieved back the certificate due to "current pandemic situation".
I wrote a formal letter to KCC explaining my situation and attached a receipt of my application.
Still no response though.
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
Did you investigate paying an agency in SA to get it for you as was previously suggested?
I think it's not the best idea to hold off on your document submission in the current scenario, it may cost you to get an appointment date later. Keep in mind that nowadays document confirmation takes time usually more than 2 months. I got mine after more than 4 months of document submission. And also if you got more documents to sent it may take more time.
PhantomHigh
Active Member
I actually found a couple of them and asked for quotes. Will start the process this week.
PhantomHigh
Active Member
Agree
PhantomHigh
Active Member
Will requesting KCC to unlock DS260 cause delays to my case?
TheKey
Active Member
It depends what you’re changing. If you’re just changing your US mailing address, I doubt it would cause noticeable delays. Changing information that requires more processing (e.g. changing passports or past travel info to the US) may cause some delay.
If it’s something as minor as the mailing address, I’d just change that at the interview at this point. I’d imagine KCC is overwhelmed with many cases.
MarkoGrujić
New Member
Help!I am stuck in filling ds260 information on work experience.I qualify for lottery on high school diploma,but i need to enter my history where i worked.Problem is that in last 15 years i am living in capital city of Serbia Belgrade and all this time i am renting flats.In ds260 i have entered address of my hometown.That address is in my passport and in my ID.But every place i worked is in Belgrade,not in my hometown.Will that be a problem on interview,because Belgrade is from my hometown 100 km away?Will they ask me,you lived 100 km away and traveled every day to work in Belgrade all this 15 years?Problem is that renting flats in Serbia is not regulated,so when you rent you just give rent to owner and that is all,for the system you live on your address on ID.No owner will give his address to you so you can put that address in new ID,so all this time i changed more than 10 locations but my address remained the same in ID all this time.If i enter address in Belgrade where i rented apartment i don t exist in system on that address,only on my address onID in my hometown.Can that disqualify me?
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
the catch-22 (which isn’t really one) is that if it is major enough to require a delay it definitely needs to be done at this stage so that it’s sorted out before interview. You never want to be put on AP anyway, but this year may be a particularly tricky year to go on AP.
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
You’re overthinking it. List the actual addresses you rented at.No one at the US embassy cares if it is on your ID or not. They do care that you are honest in your answers.
Sm1smom
Super Moderator
The address on your passport or ID are irrelevant to the DS260 form. List the address of places you’ve actually lived in.
MarkoGrujić
New Member
The only problem is that it does not exist in the system that i rented appartment on those addresses.The owner of apartment in Serbia only give me the key and that is all.He does not go to the police to say "Hey i have renter on my address i want police/municipality to have him registered in the archives that he lived on my address".That regular system does not exist in Serbia,so if i enter all addresses where i lived the embassy cannot check those addresses because the owners of the apartments did not registered me to the police/municipality that i lived there,that is the problem.If i enter that data i can be disqualified because embassy cannot check those addresses,that is the problem.The only address which serbian system can recognize is my address in my hometown.Thanks for the replies.
Sm1smom
Super Moderator
Where on earth did you get the warped information that you will be disqualified if the embassy is indeed unable to verify you lived in those places in Serbia? So you will lie on the DS260 by stating you lived in your home town all those years when you were physically present/living in other cities? We’ve already told you to go ahead and list the correct address of the different places you did live at, but go ahead as you wish.
Lying on the form is what can get you denied and potentially barred from the US, not because the embassy cannot verify some address like you’re thinking.
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
Who told you the embassy disqualifies you if they cannot find you at every past address you listed? You think they even try to do that? What do you suppose they do for people whose landlords have moved on, or when buildings have been demolished to build a mall,or whatever? You really are getting some odd information somewhere. What do you suppose they do in countries where there is barely even a formal address system in some towns much less formal landlord relationships? Or countries that don’t require you to have some sort of official address on your ID at all times? I don’t know what “regular system” you are talking about where landlords register people at the police or municipality but it doesn’t exist anywhere I ever lived, including the US.
I can tell you for sure what does disqualify you - intentionally lying under penalty of perjury on your DS260. (And as you already pointed out it’s not practical to have lived there and worked where you worked so that lie they will probably figure out. ) Just state the factual addresses you lived and stop overthinking it, really. Please don’t be one of those people that comes back with a denial story because someone told them telling the truth was a bad idea.