Difference between Administrative review and Additional processing.

[Torikul]

Is there any difference between Administrative review and Additional processing? Or both are the same? Please everybody, if you have any knowledge or idea about this post here.

 

[raevsky]

Much difference.

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/87969.pdf

9 FAM APPENDIX E, 404 USING TERM
“NECESSARY ADMINISTRATIVE
PROCESSING”
(CT:VISA-1060; 10-07-2008)
The phrase “necessary administrative processing” should be used to refer to
clearance procedures or the submission of a case to the Department. Posts
should not inform interested persons, including attorneys, that a case has
been referred to the Department for a name-check or an advisory opinion,
especially with respect to cases in which the referral has been made in
advance of an anticipated visa application. Drafters should also avoid
reference to other clearance procedures or processes whenever possible,
making exceptions to this rule only when justified by circumstances such as
the pressure of widespread local public interest or important local inquiries.

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/121610.pdf

7 FAM 1230
ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW AND APPEAL
OF LOSS-OF-NATIONALITY FINDINGS
(CT:CON-289; 03-26-2009)
(Office of Origin: CA/OCS/PRI)
7 FAM 1231 INTRODUCTION
(CT:CON-289; 03-26-2009)
a. Persons held to have lost (or not lost) U.S. nationality by performance of
acts made expatriating by statute have the right to request an
administrative review of the finding as part of the due process of law
guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. INA
349(b) (8 U.S.C. 1481(b)) places the burden of proof “upon the party
claiming that loss has occurred.”

 

[Torikul]

Thanks for the details. But there are two phrases quite same to listen; "Additional processing" and "Administrative processing". Are those same?

 

[raevsky]

Term "administratvie review" regarding visa processing is not a legal term. Different laypeople use it for different purposes. Administrative review in context of visa processing is a legal term, as you see.