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DV 2021 ALL SELECTEES

Sm1smom said:
Sending two different passports on the basis of being a dual national makes no sense to me, considering KCC only needs to verify the passport one used in filling out the initial eDV entry form as part of the document verification process. I do not think KCC spends enough time going over the DS260 form to see how many nationality is listed on it, which is what I believe has resulted in the confusions described by the person who previously posted about this.

It is possible I’ve also told someone in the past to send both passports (reflecting dual nationality as listed on the DS260 form), however the more I think about this the more I’m convinced that is not necessary. Maybe there’s some other reason for this recommendation Simon is aware of which I haven’t come across. So if that is what Simon told you to do, I guess this is one of those rare occasions in which we disagree on what to do (until I’m convinced otherwise).
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As I was the one who post the original observation about the lack of KCC IQ to process two passports - I’d like to further explain. Since Montreal is not processing any DV, I got an advice simply to “move” myself to the birth country where I hold a valid passport/citizenship. KCC approved my “move”. DS-260 is very clear to fill- it asks for the “travel document”. As originally I listed the Canadian passport as the first/primary I added the secondary passport as the secondary.

if KCC didn’t want to see more than one passport they would not allow to have the function to “add passport” in their intake screen. Hiding a valid passport from KCC doesn’t make sense to me. As such, my understanding would be to include all of my valid passports and list the first one as the travel document to enter US.

The problem is that the contractor clerk at KCC who probably has not graduated high school - can’t understand why my travel document is not issued by the same country of where the interview occurs. I had unfortunate luck to get a clerk who simply couldn’t care less and delayed the DQ to a point that now it’s useless. For anyone who reads this post and live in Canada or any place that arbitrarily the embassy is not processing documents - if you can move your case to another county - make sure to put the new country passport as the first in the list as you may get a really stupid KCC clerk who can blow up your chance like in my case.

regardless, I think it is my faith. Both myself and spouse were selected for DV 2021….one of us is a plaintiff in the hopeless bad luck law suit. Perhaps the universe tell us to stay where we are. I hope that one of the unfortunate (like in Afghanistan) got in instead of us. I am speechless in terms of how outdated the whole DV process is, regardless the covid circumstances. Having an email system to manually send/receive documents without proofing, lack of basic explanation, websites that are constantly not functioning, fighting against valuable immigrants in courts - all make me think that maybe America is not that great after all.
 
Hello everyone.

I won the lottery DV2021, but my case number is very high like AS00035XXX. DS260 has been sent fast, but interview does not scheduled yet.
Is there still some hope to take interview or Should I give up, even though I acknowledged that 'Current' means everyone including high case number can take interview.
 
jokaz said:
As I was the one who post the original observation about the lack of KCC IQ to process two passports - I’d like to further explain. Since Montreal is not processing any DV, I got an advice simply to “move” myself to the birth country where I hold a valid passport/citizenship. KCC approved my “move”. DS-260 is very clear to fill- it asks for the “travel document”. As originally I listed the Canadian passport as the first/primary I added the secondary passport as the secondary.

if KCC didn’t want to see more than one passport they would not allow to have the function to “add passport” in their intake screen. Hiding a valid passport from KCC doesn’t make sense to me. As such, my understanding would be to include all of my valid passports and list the first one as the travel document to enter US.

The problem is that the contractor clerk at KCC who probably has not graduated high school - can’t understand why my travel document is not issued by the same country of where the interview occurs. I had unfortunate luck to get a clerk who simply couldn’t care less and delayed the DQ to a point that now it’s useless. For anyone who reads this post and live in Canada or any place that arbitrarily the embassy is not processing documents - if you can move your case to another county - make sure to put the new country passport as the first in the list as you may get a really stupid KCC clerk who can blow up your chance like in my case.

regardless, I think it is my faith. Both myself and spouse were selected for DV 2021….one of us is a plaintiff in the hopeless bad luck law suit. Perhaps the universe tell us to stay where we are. I hope that one of the unfortunate (like in Afghanistan) got in instead of us. I am speechless in terms of how outdated the whole DV process is, regardless the covid circumstances. Having an email system to manually send/receive documents without proofing, lack of basic explanation, websites that are constantly not functioning, fighting against valuable immigrants in courts - all make me think that maybe America is not that great after all.
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Goodness gracious!

Who said anything about “hiding” dual citizenship information from KCC on the DS260 form? Yes of course any selectee with dual or multiple citizenships is required to disclose them on the DS260 form. However it is still obvious to me there’s no need to send copies of different passports to KCC in support of the listed multiple citizenships. Same way you are not required to send educational or work experience documents to KCC even though the information is listed on the DS260 form. Or you didn’t notice KCC is not asking for those documents even though the information is listed on the DS260?

Again, the only passport that matters to KCC is the one which contains the information listed on the eDV entry form.

By the way, I’m tagging this claim of yours “The problem is that the contractor clerk at KCC … can’t understand why my travel document is not issued by the same country of where the interview occurs” RIDICULOUS! KCC is familiar with selectees interviewing in countries that did not issue their travel documents. Interview location has never been based
country of citizenship or holding some travel documents that corresponds to that country.

Yeah, America isn’t that great after all. So maybe you should stop fighting tooth and nails, or expending so much energy and resources to immigrate to the US. America can indeed do without your negativity you know.
 
Sm1smom said:
Goodness gracious!

Who said anything about “hiding” dual citizenship information from KCC on the DS260 form? Yes of course any selectee with dual or multiple citizenships is required to disclose them on the DS260 form. However it is still obvious to me there’s no need to send copies of different passports to KCC in support of the listed multiple citizenships. Same way you are not required to send educational or work experience documents to KCC even though the information is listed on the DS260 form. Or you didn’t notice KCC is not asking for those documents even though the information is listed on the DS260?

Again, the only passport that matters to KCC is the one which contains the information listed on the eDV entry form.

By the way, I’m tagging this claim of yours “The problem is that the contractor clerk at KCC … can’t understand why my travel document is not issued by the same country of where the interview occurs” RIDICULOUS! KCC is familiar with selectees interviewing in countries that did not issue their travel documents. Interview location has never been based
country of citizenship or holding some travel documents that corresponds to that country.

Yeah, America isn’t that great after all. So maybe you should stop fighting tooth and nails, or expending so much energy and resources to immigrate to the US. America can indeed do without your negativity you know.
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KCC official instruction state: “Passport Biographic Page: You and each family member immigrating with you must submit a photocopy of the biographic data page of a currently valid passport.”

hence: if I have two passports from different countries that are valid (and which I listed them in DS-260 as I had to), my interpretation would be sending both passports and include the country name in the file title.similarly to police certificates etc.

Your interpretation perhaps aligns with the interpretation of the clerk who reviewed my file where we were disqualified because of sending both passport documents. For me this is nonsense as it is arbitrarily a pick and choose process with no consistency as the instructions are vague.

I’m upset like many others as we have spent so much time to get no result and the clerks at KCC are clearly do not demonstrate any thinking (such as ignoring files that are not relevant for them). With a better quality and customer service they could process many files but they have chosen by their lack of clarity (which explains why there are thousands of threads here as no one has clarity about what KCC think and need) to make the process unfriendly, not welcoming, extremely unnecessarily complex. Like in the pandemic they could do online interviews etc
 
jokaz said:
KCC official instruction state: “Passport Biographic Page: You and each family member immigrating with you must submit a photocopy of the biographic data page of a currently valid passport.”
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My interpretation would be different. It says of A currently valid passport. Singular. Not of all the passports you hold. I would send one to kcc but bring all to an interview.
 
Dear my name:

Congratulations! Our records indicate that your case is ready to be scheduled for an interview when your case number becomes current and appointments are available. Interviews are scheduled numerically based on region and which case numbers have already been processed.

All DV 2021 interviews must be concluded by September 30, 2021. Please refer to the visa bulletin at travel.state.gov to locate the current numbers being processed. This bulletin is updated after the 15th day of each month. Once an interview date has been scheduled, you will receive notification via the email address listed on your DS-260 to check dvprogram.state.gov for details.

If your case becomes current and you have not received notification to check dvprogram.state.gov, you may contact KCCDV@state.gov to confirm all of your documents have been received, and that you are ready to be scheduled for an interview. This notice does not necessarily confirm that all your documents have been received or are acceptable.

This notice is not a guarantee of receiving a visa or a visa interview. KCC is a document processing facility and does not make adjudicatory decisions.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Just received this email today. I guess I'm now documentarily qualified, It seems as if Judge Metahs' decision is forcing them to do their jobs. I'm not sure if I should be making preparations to travel back to my home country where the interview is or wait until I receive the actual interview scheduling. I think due to the covid Pandemic with the PCR tests and all those hurdles put into place, I should be making my preparations for travel, would love to hear everyone's opinion.
 
ziadusa said:
Dear my name:

Congratulations! Our records indicate that your case is ready to be scheduled for an interview when your case number becomes current and appointments are available. Interviews are scheduled numerically based on region and which case numbers have already been processed.

All DV 2021 interviews must be concluded by September 30, 2021. Please refer to the visa bulletin at travel.state.gov to locate the current numbers being processed. This bulletin is updated after the 15th day of each month. Once an interview date has been scheduled, you will receive notification via the email address listed on your DS-260 to check dvprogram.state.gov for details.

If your case becomes current and you have not received notification to check dvprogram.state.gov, you may contact KCCDV@state.gov to confirm all of your documents have been received, and that you are ready to be scheduled for an interview. This notice does not necessarily confirm that all your documents have been received or are acceptable.

This notice is not a guarantee of receiving a visa or a visa interview. KCC is a document processing facility and does not make adjudicatory decisions.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Just received this email today. I guess I'm now documentarily qualified, It seems as if Judge Metahs' decision is forcing them to do their jobs. I'm not sure if I should be making preparations to travel back to my home country where the interview is or wait until I receive the actual interview scheduling. I think due to the covid Pandemic with the PCR tests and all those hurdles put into place, I should be making my preparations for travel, would love to hear everyone's opinion.
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Congratulations!
How much time is really left for medical exam etc? Unless they give an extension to the deadline my thinking is that it’s too late anyway at this stage
 
ziadusa said:
Dear my name:

Congratulations! Our records indicate that your case is ready to be scheduled for an interview when your case number becomes current and appointments are available. Interviews are scheduled numerically based on region and which case numbers have already been processed.

All DV 2021 interviews must be concluded by September 30, 2021. Please refer to the visa bulletin at travel.state.gov to locate the current numbers being processed. This bulletin is updated after the 15th day of each month. Once an interview date has been scheduled, you will receive notification via the email address listed on your DS-260 to check dvprogram.state.gov for details.

If your case becomes current and you have not received notification to check dvprogram.state.gov, you may contact KCCDV@state.gov to confirm all of your documents have been received, and that you are ready to be scheduled for an interview. This notice does not necessarily confirm that all your documents have been received or are acceptable.

This notice is not a guarantee of receiving a visa or a visa interview. KCC is a document processing facility and does not make adjudicatory decisions.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Just received this email today. I guess I'm now documentarily qualified, It seems as if Judge Metahs' decision is forcing them to do their jobs. I'm not sure if I should be making preparations to travel back to my home country where the interview is or wait until I receive the actual interview scheduling. I think due to the covid Pandemic with the PCR tests and all those hurdles put into place, I should be making my preparations for travel, would love to hear everyone's opinion.
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Not related. The order was out this afternoon, KCC won't even have been told yet.
 
SusieQQQ said:
By contrast, and this is of course just my opinion, I never understood why named plaintiffs did get an advantage. Some years back I remember reading a Q&A with someone from DoS or USCIS, I don’t remember which, and the question was asked why they did not allow people to pay extra and move to the front of the line for immigrant visas, in a similar vein to premium processing for work visas. The response was that all immigrants should be treated on an equal basis and there should be no advantage given to some just because they can afford to pay extra. Well, this is pretty much what happened when named plaintiffs got preference before - effectively they got an advantage because they could pay (even if the payment did not go to uscis/Dos), and that surprised me given what I had heard before. I don’t believe either Mehta or DoS addressed this though. Anyway, again this is just my opinion and also why I personally am more in favor of class action, I understand some here will disagree.
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I agreed with you 100%. Because this is a DIVERSITY VISA, VISA should be given at random order instead of whom can afford attorneys. The class action lawsuit should be a better format. But unlike other class actions lawsuit, the final order will result in monetary compensations/penalties to pay the legal fees. These DV related lawsuits' goals are receiving immigration visas. There is no money involved. In this scenario, the incentive for attorneys would be diminished, unless they want to do it pro bono. What's the correct answers, I don't know.

That being said, today's J. Mehta's Memorandum Opinion and Order is a great win for all DV2021 selectees, the legal war is not over yet, but it's a great win today.
 
Hello Folks,

Hope you all doing okay.

My case number is AS30xxx and I live in Jordan.

I checked "savediversityvisa" website and it's showing that Jordan reached to 34XXX after being stuck on 23XXX for a while.

However, I haven't received communication yet knowing that I sent my documents back in April without KCC asking for it.

Should I give up at this point? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you.
 
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