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Anyone who was SELECTED with high CN, but NEVER got interview??? Please share your experience

thank you so much for your help, guys! my wife already has J1 visa and needs to refresh it once in every year.
my plan is to remain on B1/B2 visa and time to time to travel to my wife to USA..
soon I will probably send the documents to Kentucky and try my luck..do you think that I might have even problems with port of entry officer? Is it possible that officer will not let me enter USA on my valid multi-entry B1/B2 visa just because I have sent documents to KCC?
 
lightL said:
thank you so much for your help, guys! my wife already has J1 visa and needs to refresh it once in every year.
my plan is to remain on B1/B2 visa and time to time to travel to my wife to USA..
soon I will probably send the documents to Kentucky and try my luck..do you think that I might have even problems with port of entry officer? Is it possible that officer will not let me enter USA on my valid multi-entry B1/B2 visa just because I have sent documents to KCC?
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What i know is that they cancel all other US Visa before continuing with your interview. Tomorrow i will put a hyperlink here for you to read about a similar case but he got his DV Visa.
 
Lucky18 said:
Thank you, raevsky! I will wait to see then decide whether to send dsp122.
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don`t delay sending the form this guy talking no sence he is not a winner never been in the process befor not a lawyer he is liar so please don't pay him any attention and proceed for sending your documents
 
lightL said:
thank you so much for your help, guys! my wife already has J1 visa and needs to refresh it once in every year.
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And herein lies the problem. If shee comes to US and goes with AOS at some point, she will have to get the waiver, after which she cannot extend anymore.

I am tired of repeating myself. Just because some rich person from this one country was able to go to USA on a tourist visa while pending petition, or some other story about somebody else does not mean anything. Everybody has to do their own homework and find out the consequences of their own actions in their own cases. Things can be different for people, countries, categories, or the mood of the CO.
 
aos13 said:
And herein lies the problem. If shee comes to US and goes with AOS at some point, she will have to get the waiver, after which she cannot extend anymore.

I am tired of repeating myself. Just because some rich person from this one country was able to go to USA on a tourist visa while pending petition, or some other story about somebody else does not mean anything. Everybody has to do their own homework and find out the consequences of their own actions in their own cases. Things can be different for people, countries, categories, or the mood of the CO.
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I agree with you, consulates differ and the surrounding concerning your wanting to go to US with a non immigrant visa differ. So if i was this person as you have advised let everyone do her/his search we have google, we have people who have been thru the same path in this forum even me i got tired of looking for a story i read somewhere of someone with the same issue but i will try to get it. Keep looking in this forum you wont miss a double like you. Success to you all :D
 
Just my 2¢, I've never heard of anyone not getting their interview either, but nobody goes onto the internet to post bad news. Chances are if you are a member of these forums, you're diligent and smart enough to be able to follow the process, or ask questions.

Nonetheless, that does not means it doesn't happen, or hasn't happened. I think it would be foolish to assume that simply because nobody has heard of it happening, it has not happened. If one the reads corresponding literature surrounding this program, especially legal literature, it is quite obvious law firms have encountered individual petitioners who were not called in time for their interview by the time the fiscal year ended.
 
I have read of people from my region not getting to an interview and about people being denied visas so yes there are such cases even in 2003 as i remember. there was a post i came across from a guy from my country saying that he never got his second letter and he was wondering why but latter find out through the visa bulletin that for that year the September cut off was below his number so actually he never got to an interview due to his high case number.
 
CN linked to the chances of getting an interview

I am new to this forum, but I was wondering: it seem that everyone is linking the CN to the chances of getting an interview. However, I don't necessarily see that link. If, let's say, people with smaller CNs - like 00010xxx, for example, never go through with the process, I don't think the processing center will just wait until the earlier CN's apply or not and thus diminish the chances of those of us with higher CNs. Maybe it is just wishful thinking, but it seems to me that this practice on the behalf of the KCC would be somewhat illogical.
 
stelunea said:
I am new to this forum, but I was wondering: it seem that everyone is linking the CN to the chances of getting an interview. However, I don't necessarily see that link. If, let's say, people with smaller CNs - like 00010xxx, for example, never go through with the process, I don't think the processing center will just wait until the earlier CN's apply or not and thus diminish the chances of those of us with higher CNs. Maybe it is just wishful thinking, but it seems to me that this practice on the behalf of the KCC would be somewhat illogical.
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The interviews are scheduled in chronological order according to numbers. Of course KCC doesn't just wait for everyone (see the visa bulletin for numbers) but they will have a good idea of the "no-shows" from (1) people who haven't sent in their forms (you're not scheduled an interview if they don't have your forms) (2) past experience of statistically how many people don't follow through (3) updated experience from the current year as to how it's progressing. The fact remains that if your number is 50000, you will wait longer than the person whose number is 1000; and the fact that you have to wait raises the risk, however slim, that visa numbers will be exhausted before you get your chances to interview - which is what people are worrying about. There are more numbers issued than visas available, precisely because some applicants don't follow through and others get disqualified/rejected along the way, but this means there is always a risk visa numbers get exhausted before some high numbers get a chance. This has happened before, but not for about 10 years if I recall correctly.
 
Here's a fact which I saw first hand; on August 7th when I had my interview I saw the list of DV interviewees (mostly with high case numbers above 70,000) at the security gate and there must have been at least 35 people scheduled for interviews on that day itself and only 3 people showed up including myself!

There are plenty of no-shows everywhere I'm pretty sure!


Case No - DV2013AF0007XXXX (applied the first time and got it the first time - lucky me!)
Entry Checked - 1st May 2012
Forms Sent To KCC - 10th May 2012
Received By KCC - 12th May 2012
Confirmation From KCC - 25th May 2012 after I sent them an email
2nd NL - 14th June 2013
Police Clearance (TZ) - 13th June 2013
Police Clearance (UK) - 21st June 2013
Medicals - Completed 24th June 2013
I-134 - 16th July 2013
Bank Statements - 22nd July 2013
Interview - Wednesday, August 7th 2013 @ 8am - US Embassy Tanzania - SUCCESS!!! SUCCESS!!! SUCCESS!!!
Visa Pick up - August 14th 2013
Departure Date - August 17th 2013 - booked already on Emirates!
Port of Entry - Washington Dulles
 
Momo1980 said:
Here's a fact which I saw first hand; on August 7th when I had my interview I saw the list of DV interviewees (mostly with high case numbers above 70,000) at the security gate and there must have been at least 35 people scheduled for interviews on that day itself and only 3 people showed up including myself!

There are plenty of no-shows everywhere I'm pretty sure!


Case No - DV2013AF0007XXXX (applied the first time and got it the first time - lucky me!)
Entry Checked - 1st May 2012
Forms Sent To KCC - 10th May 2012
Received By KCC - 12th May 2012
Confirmation From KCC - 25th May 2012 after I sent them an email
2nd NL - 14th June 2013
Police Clearance (TZ) - 13th June 2013
Police Clearance (UK) - 21st June 2013
Medicals - Completed 24th June 2013
I-134 - 16th July 2013
Bank Statements - 22nd July 2013
Interview - Wednesday, August 7th 2013 @ 8am - US Embassy Tanzania - SUCCESS!!! SUCCESS!!! SUCCESS!!!
Visa Pick up - August 14th 2013
Departure Date - August 17th 2013 - booked already on Emirates!
Port of Entry - Washington Dulles
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Yes that is an awesome statistic. In a way though, it isn't a surprise. The costs of the process and the reality of the hardships to be faced must be a huge barrier to someone in the poorer countries. Even with the funds and a plan in place it is still a daunting prospect!!!
 
SusieQQQ said:
The interviews are scheduled in chronological order according to numbers. Of course KCC doesn't just wait for everyone (see the visa bulletin for numbers) but they will have a good idea of the "no-shows" from (1) people who haven't sent in their forms (you're not scheduled an interview if they don't have your forms) (2) past experience of statistically how many people don't follow through (3) updated experience from the current year as to how it's progressing. The fact remains that if your number is 50000, you will wait longer than the person whose number is 1000; and the fact that you have to wait raises the risk, however slim, that visa numbers will be exhausted before you get your chances to interview - which is what people are worrying about. There are more numbers issued than visas available, precisely because some applicants don't follow through and others get disqualified/rejected along the way, but this means there is always a risk visa numbers get exhausted before some high numbers get a chance. This has happened before, but not for about 10 years if I recall correctly.
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Thanks so much for the encouragement! It seems I was very ignorant about this aspect until I started looking into this forum yesterday. And it was a clear realization that I really want this! Thanks again and let's all keep our fingers crossed for each other!
 
stelunea said:
Thanks so much for the encouragement! It seems I was very ignorant about this aspect until I started looking into this forum yesterday. And it was a clear realization that I really want this! Thanks again and let's all keep our fingers crossed for each other!
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I must say, having seen after posting that that there are over 140000 winners this year, I think the chances could be quite high that not everyone will get to interview before visa numbers are exhausted. The process will require a lot of patience from you - good luck!
 
SusieQQQ said:
I must say, having seen after posting that that there are over 140000 winners this year, I think the chances could be quite high that not everyone will get to interview before visa numbers are exhausted. The process will require a lot of patience from you - good luck!
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Agreed. Does seem likely....
 
Incidentally - my memory was slightly faulty about precedents for visa numbers being exhausted (ie not all regions being current by fiscal year end in Sept):

in 2003 fiscal year, Africa, Asia and EU all ended the FY at a cut-off rather than current:
http://travel.state.gov/visa/bulletin/bulletin_2984.html

For 2004 only Oceania and SA were current by year end (not NA as in 2003)
http://travel.state.gov/visa/bulletin/bulletin_1466.html

2005 - only Oceania current at year end:
http://travel.state.gov/visa/bulletin/bulletin_2616.html

I can't find published number of winners for these years.

From 2006 onwards all regions current at year end, except Africa still cut-off in 2008 (and exception of certain countries with per-country limits in some of the other years).
 
Thanks Raevsky. So # of winners for those years 87000, 110000 and 100000. All well below current number of winners and yet still all in years of cutoffs (I wondered if there had just been more winners in those years, but no.)

Of course, presumably immigration in those boom days was more attractive than it's been the past few years...

All in all I definitely think a high chance of not all regions making it to current by FY end.
 
194787 winners in DV-1 (DV-95) program. I said before DV-14 would look more close to DV-1 than other lotteries.
If you exclude 40 thousand extra winners from Poland in DV-1 and take into account quota there was 55000, not 50000 as now, you would get similar number per quota unit
 
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raevsky said:
194787 winners in DV-1 (DV-95) program. I said before DV-14 would look more close to DV-1 than other lotteries.
If you exclude 40 thousand extra winners from Poland in DV-1 and take into account quota there was 55000, not 50000 as now, you would get similar number per quota unit
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Was Bangladesh still on DV95? Also, was it also a year when regions did not go current by fiscal year end? (I could only get data back to 2003).
 
raevsky said:
194787 winners in DV-1 (DV-95) program. I said before DV-14 would look more close to DV-1 than other lotteries.
If you exclude 40 thousand extra winners from Poland in DV-1 and take into account quota there was 55000, not 50000 as now, you would get similar number per quota unit
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i hope
 
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