It depends on the sponsor’s income. Does it meet the applicable poverty guideline level to cover their personal household plus plus you, plus the other couple combined together? If yes, they will need to declare on your form they have also sponsored this other couple. Also, it may depend on your relationship with this sponsor. Hopefully it is a strong/close one which you can demonstrate should you be required to provide some proof of your relationship with this sponsor.
No.. Montreal is currently not processing any DV cases and as a result, no interviews have been scheduled at the consulate. You can keep track of it in https://savediversityvisa.org/daily-visa-statistics/ . When you scroll all the way to the bottom, you'll see the list of working embassies(in green) and the silent ones(in red).
Thanks for your reply. A few questions:
1. Multiple D selectees who are in Canada including myself have contacted the embassy multiple times. They have replied indicating the prioritization plan and also mentioned that they are not processing DV cases.
Just to clarify that this is only true if KCC has DQ’d you and “closed” the case. In general, this is absolutely not true and is in fact the worst time to change as it leads to delays and is up to the applicant to deal with both consulates to move it. It is always better if possible to make the change with KCC before it is scheduled.I realize you are answering under specifics for DV21 but wanted to clarify in case dv22 selectees are reading and misunderstand the implications for their own cases.
In any case, it's not a lot of us in MTL. I don't see how the 24K plaintiffs would ever impact our chances at this consulate. The only thing that is impacting us is their unwillingness to process any case!
Thanks for clarifying. I was ignorant about this. Apologies if I have misled anyone.
Based on what you said “In any case, it's not a lot of us in MTL,” do you have an estimate of how many people are DQ’d for an interview at the US Consulate in Montreal?
https://dvcharts.xarthisius.xyz/ceacFY20.html and select Montreal as the embassy. Reminder that winners based in Montreal were born outside of Canada.
Hi!
Okay, so status update on this: The interview happened today and our application got approved!!! The interviewer didn't even mention the country of chargeability issue. The interview was quick and simple and we've been told that our documents are all good. We should receive our passports back with visas early next week.Short question (Maybe a bit too little too late to ask, but still) - I'm a DV2021 selectee having an interview scheduled for next week (all documents and medical is done). I claimed the wrong country of chargeability (I listed Latvia (a place where I lived almost all of my life) instead of Russia (where I was born).
I know that normally in case of this kind of error if the country is from the same region, and there's no additional benefit I'm extracting from this error, CO will usually let it pass. But on one other DV-related forum (Russian speaking) a few people mentioned that rules around this topic have changed. I couldn't find any official or reliable source of information for that matter. Does anyone know if that's the case?Got me stressed a bit..
Thank you!
Great! Thanks for the feedback. So on this sample of one it appears that the policy hasn’t actually changed. All the best with your move to the US.
Hey, I can only get an e-copy not an original cert. Is this okay for the consulate?
I can only get an email version of my police certificate from Abu Dhabi, was this okay? Did the consulate accept it?
Your CN is low but you sent your DS-260 + docs extremely late so there is no way for us to know. Are you actually saying that they already told you that your case is ready for interview or you are hoping to be ready for interview and waiting for your 2NL?
Yep, they said that to me as well last month. I can’t say what that means. Maybe they are working on both at the same time?
I think so, what’s your case number and Region ?