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DV 2019 Ghana Selectees

Hi am Kingsford from Ghana,Dv 2017AF0000005**... After my interview ,I don't when my visa maybe available and anytime i check, it's stated Administration Processing. Please may I know the reasons?
 
yippee1985 said:
Hi am Kingsford from Ghana,Dv 2017AF0000005**... After my interview ,I don't when my visa maybe available and anytime i check, it's stated Administration Processing. Please may I know the reasons?
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DV2017? That’s long over. Your status update will always show AP, nothing else will be done to the case, no visa will be issued, no further updates will be provided. That FY year has ended, it is completely over
 
nero1gh said:
MY EXPERIENCE
1. Got info on 1NL around mid May 2018 from my wife as I was working out of Accra. I was selected! You have no idea what the feeling was, I just couldn't it and i was yearning to just come back to the city to celebrate and start gathering my documents. I also had to cough up money for passports for all 4 of us as mine was the old non-biometric passport but none of my derivatives had ever held one. That was a hell of a ride as for some reason, passport books in Ghana were in short supply as I was told. I wanted and expedited service so I paid GHS 1,600 for all 4 of us(approx. $328)

For your information after submitting my DS-260 for all 4 of us, the CEAC website shutdown and after it was restored, I was unable to login again. I had some mistakes I needed to correct that freaked me the hell out, but @Frank Boakye saved the day with his information that I could make those changes at the consulate before the interview. I have still not been able to login to the CEAC site where the DS-260 was submitted up to date.

2. Received 2NL on 2nd November, 2018 and my interview date was 6th December 2018. Myself (Principal Applicant) and all 3 of my derivatives were listed on my 2NL. Our appointment was at 7:30a.m.

POLICE CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE
3. Went for our (Myself and Wife) clearance appointment on the 3rd week of November and we were given 3 days to come for it. However, it took me a week to get it as I later found out it was ready after 3 days but the officer who conducted the exercise had taken it and kept it for us.

MEDICAL APPOINTMENT
4. Went for our medical appointment at the Holy Trinity in the 3rd week of November, 2018. We paid almost GHS 7000 (approx. $1,434).

INTERVIEW DAY
Our inventory for the interview included the following:
All birth certificates and photocopies
All academic certificates and photocopies( I had SSCE certificate and it was laminated)
Sealed Medicals Envelopes for all 4 of us.
2 Police Clearance Certificates (Me and my wife only)
Marriage Certificate and 2 photocopies.
DS-260 Confirmation Pages for all 4 of us.
2NL
Passports
$1,300 for visa fees (I couldn't get $20 change so I had GHS 100 on me, that caused some drama though as u will find out later)
2 Passport pictures each (American size)
4 Photo Albums (One for my first daughter, one for pictures before we married in 2012, one for wedding pictures, one for engagement pictures)
We also took along "prayer"

At about 7:45am, I moved towards the unofficial waiting place under the tree adjacent the consular section gate of the consulate. In 5 minutes we were all called in to follow a queue where our 2NL and passports were inspected by a young man who had some sort of an appointment list. Our appointment was confirmed and we moved a head to a security man who checked our 2NL and passports again. We were not allowed to send our bags and any electronic devices including cell phones, so we left that with the Police Officer's post in front of the gate. We were further ushered in to a second area where we were checked for possession of any electronic device or any offensive item.

Within the consular section of the consulate, all immigrant visa applicants were asked to sit at one place, we were about 35 people. We were asked to go to a window for briefing after 10 minutes. At the window, a friendly looking ma of about 40 spoke to us about the DV applicants and the process and documents required prior to our interview. The first was to pay the visa fees, then go for inspection and collection of documents at one of the windows and then the final interview.

My attempt to pay our visa fees was met with a rejection by the Cashier as I was told the consulate does not accept cash payments in different currencies(Please refer to my cash at hand above). I was also told that once you enter the embassy you cannot go out. However, I remember at the first window for the briefing I was the only one that was bold enough to ask a couple of questions, that sort of made me the go to person when others wanted some clarity after the briefing. Leveraging on that, I decided to go back to the man who gave us the briefing to talk to him about my case and he obliged with a note for me to return by 9a.m., it was 825a.m. when I left the consulate in my quest to get a change for $20.

I dashed out with such speed and breath some of the security officers thought I was been chased out, lol. I asked a few people around and I was told I needed to go to Labone, about 10 minutes drive from the consulate. I chanced on a forex bureau after about 5 mins drive only to be told by the attendant that he could only get $50. I desperately looked around and found an ATM as I had my wallet and bank cards on me. I withdrew an additional GHS 150 to add to my GHS 100(exchange rate on the day was GHS 5 to $1). I now had a total of $1,350 dollars as opposed to the exact fee of $13,20. I quickly dashed back to the consulate, showed my note to them and they allowed me in. I was asked to join the queue again to make payment to the cashier, all this while my wife and kids were in the consulate. My kids were having play time with our passport pics and photo albums and making noise all over the place. I made payment and got $30 change.

In about 5 minutes, we were called to submit our documents at window 13. We got there and a very calm looking lady also Ghanaian I believe requested for my documents first in a particular order(Passport, Birth Cert, Educational Certs, Police report, DS-260 confirmation page, Marriage Cert, 2 Passports size pics), all documents were received as original and photocopy. It was at this point that I told the woman about the mistakes i had made on the DS-260 for my wife and younger daughter and she obliged to make the changes for me (Thanks @Frank Boakye ).
We submitted all documents in the format as described above except there was no marriage certs, educational certs and police reports for the kids. My wife's educational certificates were not taken either. Our albums were huge so she asked us to open them up and slide them into the open space on the ledge on her window so we could get them in on the other side of the window to her. All set, we were asked to wait for our interview.

I moved into the washroom to kill a bit of the pressure and nerves, came back to sit and my wife followed with a visit to the washroom as well. Within 2 minutes we were called to window 3 for our interview and all of us went to the window.

THE INTERVIEW:
Me and wife: Good morning
CO: Good morning
Co: Adults, please raise up your hands and take your oaths.
Me and Wife: Raised our hands and took the oath.
CO: Where is your mother, asked my first daughter who was hanging on her moms shoulder.
Daughter: Pointed to her mom.
CO: Have you guys been married before?
Me and Wife: In unison, NO
CO: Have you guys been divorced before?
Me and Wife: In unison, NO
CO: Do you guys have any kids apart from these kids?
Me and Wife: In unison, NO
CO: What is your highest educational qualification? To Principal Applicant, ME.
Me: Blah blah blah... original certificate was right in front of him, he looked at it and looked back at me and our eyes crossed.
CO: Where do you wanna stay in the U.S.?
Me: Blah Blah Blah.
CO: Are you serious? You don't mean it right?
Me: That's is the address I would be staying.
CO: Wait a minute, CO whips up his phone from his desk, types something and shows me a road map? Do you see that?
Me: Stunned and confused at this stage, just looking and saying no.
CO: Oh you don't get it right?
Me: Yes.
CO: Well that is a very populated city with lots of immigrants and its expensive too.
Me: Well, that is where I am going now because I have someone there whom I trust and can support me and the family hosting us for a few months before we integrate.

At this stage, another CO comes to our window to pull our CO away. CO politely excuses us. Comes back after a minute and a half.

CO: Starts giving us our original documents back and ask. How did you guys submit these albums in here?
Me: Told CO how we sent it via the open space by opening it first.
CO: Well, am not going to look at your albums so yu guys have it back. CO opens to push through the space, sees me and wife kissing in one of our pictures and exclaims...OOOOO.
Me and Wifey: LOL
CO: pushes all our albums to us and ask whether we have been married before, whether we had kids anywhere and whether we have been divorced before.
Me and Wife: In unison, NO.
CO: Do you want to go to America? Ask my first daughter again.
Daughter: Answer with a positive response with a head gesture, gets her chin hitting the ledge as she was standing now and could only manage a height up to the level of the ledge.
CO: Exclaims again....
CO: I believe you guys are truly married and these are your only kids... I am going to APPROVE your visa. You guys prepared very well for your interview. Welcome to America! You would have your visas within 2 weeks but please do not make any travelling plans or sell your property or quit your job until you have your visas and passports back. CO hands us a sheet with instructions on how to Collect your Visa.

CO kept photocopies of all our documents, Medicals, Police Certs and all our passports. You have no idea the kind of excitement that followed us all the way through. We are yet to hear from the Consulate after our interview on December 6, 2018. Our checks on CEAC after the data was uploaded shows READY, last date of update is December 14th, 2018 for all 4 of us.

Thank you.
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This story ended today on a positive note...Its been 8 months of waiting but its taking 24 hours for everything to come to a Glorious end. Thanks everyone, peace out!
 
nero1gh said:
This story ended today on a positive note...Its been 8 months of waiting but its taking 24 hours for everything to come to a Glorious end. Thanks everyone, peace out!
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Congrats!!

So, there is someone on another forum that also got "issued" yesterday and DHL notice today, I am wondering if that is you with a different username or another Ghanaian family that also took so long? Same interview date.
 
Hi family, this forum has given has us a lot though, I need your assistance on this finally. In case my partner gets approved and we officially settle down in 2months later, can he make a legitimate case for me to join her immediately? Need some more clarification on this to add to what we read on Brit's page. Thanks!
 
Abeyan100 said:
Hi family, this forum has given has us a lot though, I need your assistance on this finally. In case my partner gets approved and we officially settle down in 2months later, can he make a legitimate case for me to join her immediately? Need some more clarification on this to add to what we read on Brit's page. Thanks!
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Do you mean if you don’t get a DV derivative visa but he applies for a spouse visa for you? In that case the answer is no. It usually takes about one-two years to approve a spouse petition for F2A category, and then it also depends on the priority date. You would have to wait this out at home unless you could legitimately get another visa, which would be unlikely with an immigrant petition filed for you.
 
SusieQQQ said:
Do you mean if you don’t get a DV derivative visa but he applies for a spouse visa for you? In that case the answer is no. It usually takes about one-two years to approve a spouse petition for F2A category, and then it also depends on the priority date. You would have to wait this out at home unless you could legitimately get another visa, which would be unlikely with an immigrant petition filed for you.
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Thanks so much for the information. We are set to get married after Eid festival which is certainly after her interview. Well, I personally think there is no need to rush and no need to go against the regulations of the embassy so hopefully after a successful interview and we get married finally, we will follow due process accordingly.
 
Abeyan100 said:
Thanks so much for the information. We are set to get married after Eid festival which is certainly after her interview. Well, I personally think there is no need to rush and no need to go against the regulations of the embassy so hopefully after a successful interview and we get married finally, we will follow due process accordingly.
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Ok so you understand the process then:
- your spouse gets a green card after she emigrates
- she files an i130 petition for you (filing fee $535)
- you wait for approval of petition and priority date to become current (usually approx 2 years total for F2A)
- you attend an interview at your embassy ($325 fee). The main things here are (1) proving the marriage is genuine (2) she will have to fill an i864 affidavit of support for you, showing she earns enough to sponsor you (for a household of 2 this is currently $21137 but it rises each year)
- obviously you also have to pay the medical and $220 green card fee doing it this route as well
 
SusieQQQ said:
Ok so you understand the process then:
- your spouse gets a green card after she emigrates
- she files an i130 petition for you (filing fee $535)
- you wait for approval of petition and priority date to become current (usually approx 2 years total for F2A)
- you attend an interview at your embassy ($325 fee). The main things here are (1) proving the marriage is genuine (2) she will have to fill an i864 affidavit of support for you, showing she earns enough to sponsor you (for a household of 2 this is currently $21137 but it rises each year)
- obviously you also have to pay the medical and $220 green card fee doing it this route as well
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Okey, I understand the process now. Thanks for throwing more light on this for me.
 
Good morning
Tomorrow marks two weeks after the interview. As of 3rd July, the CEAC site says issued. I haven't heard anything from DHL, should I still have patience n give it time or I should reach out.
 
Tett said:
Good morning
Tomorrow marks two weeks after the interview. As of 3rd July, the CEAC site says issued. I haven't heard anything from DHL, should I still have patience n give it time or I should reach out.
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did you create the account on http://www.ustraveldocs.com/gh? if you did then have patience you will be notified if your passport is ready for collection by text message or email but if you didnt then you better create the account asap.
 
SSK4U said:
did you create the account on http://www.ustraveldocs.com/gh? if you did then have patience you will be notified if your passport is ready for collection by text message or email but if you didnt then you better create the account asap.
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SSK4U said:
did you create the account on http://www.ustraveldocs.com/gh? if you did then have patience you will be notified if your passport is ready for collection by text message or email but if you didnt then you better create the account asap.
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Oh okk thanks.. but I had an old account from my previous B2 visa application. I tried creating a new one but I wasn't to. So I just left it like that.. hoping it won't cause any problem
 
Good day to you all any information for me

I went to the interview on the 9-7- 2019 after some few questions I and my wife was asked by the interviewer to sit down for him to cross check the documents he will give as a call we have been waiting more then one hour twenty minutes and I was given a letter to continue the interview the next day. So on Wednesday we were saparated and I went in first and later my wife . After they were then with my wife they ask weather someone tought us and she said no.they were they Gus doing the interview the next day a lady and a guy my wife told me the guy was forcing the lady to ask her questions because they were working together but the lady said she was satisfied and the guy ask her 3 times and the guy told him to inform me that we should go him we will be called.
Currently our case is under administration processing .Any help I will be grateful.
 
Tett said:
Oh okk thanks.. but I had an old account from my previous B2 visa application. I tried creating a new one but I wasn't to. So I just left it like that.. hoping it won't cause any problem
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okay it won't any problem but was it the same passport you used or a different one. you can call dhl to check
 
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