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SusieQQQ said:
The expiry date is linked to your medical so usually a bit less than 6 months. No, it cannot be extended, and even the risky route of allowing it to expire & ask for a reissue (not guaranteed at all) wouldn’t work in your case as it would go past fiscal year end = they cannot reissue in the next fiscal year.
Your best option might be to wait till closer to the visa expiry to activate and hope that borders are more open there or quarantine gone. What is NZ’s vaccine rollout plan? Or as noted above, wrap up in 6 months if you can and just go for good.
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Thank you for your response. That's what I'll have to do!
 
Montreal is an incredibly busy consulate for immigrant visas. In normal times it has one of the longest wait times for immigrant visas to get scheduled. Yes you can say there are only a few DV visas but it’s a few added onto a huge caseload. You may well find that there just isn’t anything available before what would be the next regular DV slot, as opposed to some other embassies that seem able to fit DVs in quickly.
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A lawyer told me it was the busiest in the world indeed! That was 2 years ago. No idea if that's still accurate but I would assume so. Let's wait and see...! I have no idea how many DV2020 they processed (if any).
 
SusieQQQ said:
Don’t reschedule if at all possible (some embassies will not allow entry without the medical however, though I think that usually applies more to some AF countries). Rather attend the interview and send the documents afterwards to the embassy when you have them. It can be really hard at some embassies to get a rescheduled appointment even in a normal year and especially now, I would try at all costs to keep one that is already made.
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Thank you. I do understand they are not likely to reschedule in this situation. I will ask them about this case right after I go back to my country.
 
I submitted my documents last year in July and received an email saying congratulations, I had submitted all req documents..

Will it be an issue that it was done so long ago?
 
TheWitches said:
I was selected for DV2021 and I just received my interview date, it is in mid April. I live in New Zealand. If they decide to issue me a visa what I am wondering about is, will the immigration visa stamp in my passport be valid for only 6 months, or is there any way to apply to extend that? The borders in NZ are closed, and if I travel to the US to activate the visa, then come back while I get ready to really immigrate then I will have to go into quarantine for two weeks which will cost me $3000 plus money lost from income in that time as well.
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Congratulations on the interview date! Do you mind sharing your CN?
 
SusieQQQ said:
Montreal is an incredibly busy consulate for immigrant visas. In normal times it has one of the longest wait times for immigrant visas to get scheduled. Yes you can say there are only a few DV visas but it’s a few added onto a huge caseload. You may well find that there just isn’t anything available before what would be the next regular DV slot, as opposed to some other embassies that seem able to fit DVs in quickly.
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What do you mean the "the next regular DV slot"? Do you know how DV Visas are prioritized against other Visa types? My case number has been current since the first (September) visa bulletin. Based on a post I saw on VisaJourney, CR1 Visa interviews are about 5 months behind in Montreal. Do you think that DV Visas will go to the "back of the line" at the Montreal Consulate? if they do, and backlog is longer than 5 months, does that mean they will not be able to schedule any of the 2021 DV winners?
 
IMMIGRATION_FAN123 said:
What do you mean the "the next regular DV slot"? Do you know how DV Visas are prioritized against other Visa types? My case number has been current since the first (September) visa bulletin. Based on a post I saw on VisaJourney, CR1 Visa interviews are about 5 months behind in Montreal. Do you think that DV Visas will go to the "back of the line" at the Montreal Consulate? if they do, and backlog is longer than 5 months, does that mean they will not be able to schedule any of the 2021 DV winners?
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No, that’s why I said the next regular DV slot, not the next available opening. Montreal communicates its available slots with KCC and NVC and these two agencies then slot the ready cases in. What I meant was the chances of there happening to be an open slot soon that they could fit a DV in are very low given how busy the embassy is.
Also please note that the visajourney estimates are based on how long posters report waiting for interviews after being DQ. They do not get given an interview slot 5 or 6 months down the line.
As for knowing how DV is prioritized at Montreal I believe I already said above in post 1777 that I didn’t.
 
Hello guys! Maybe it’s a repetead question, but I am not clear what to do. My DV21 CN is EU33XXX, i completed DS260 on September 2020, and after all this period till now, my passport expired, now I applied and have a new one, also I changed my job, and I have been in US. Please advise if I should ask to unlock the DS260 and reflect these changes or? Thanks in advance.
 
Mjeshtri said:
Hello guys! Maybe it’s a repetead question, but I am not clear what to do. My DV21 CN is EU33XXX, i completed DS260 on September 2020, and after all this period till now, my passport expired, now I applied and have a new one, also I changed my job, and I have been in US. Please advise if I should ask to unlock the DS260 and reflect these changes or? Thanks in advance.
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In view of the fact that you’ve experienced several personal changes since your DS260 submission, and your CN not being current at the moment, my recommendation is to unlock and update the form with these changes.
 
puda said:
Where can I find this data, sorry?
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You can either:
1) visit official DoS page with monthly IV statistics per post and visa class (https://travel.state.gov/content/tr...tistics/monthly-immigrant-visa-issuances.html).
2) Go to https://dvcharts.xarthisius.xyz/ceacFY20.html and either: use the 2nd chart typing "Montreal, Canada", or download csv file with the data and look for cases with MTL embassy code.

Note, that 1) gives you number of visas without distinguishing between first time issuance and visa renewal due to court order, whereas 2) will give you accurate count of visas/cases that were issued *and* include cases that were refused and scheduled but not resolved.
 
Xarthisius said:
You can either:
1) visit official DoS page with monthly IV statistics per post and visa class (https://travel.state.gov/content/tr...tistics/monthly-immigrant-visa-issuances.html).
2) Go to https://dvcharts.xarthisius.xyz/ceacFY20.html and either: use the 2nd chart typing "Montreal, Canada", or download csv file with the data and look for cases with MTL embassy code.

Note, that 1) gives you number of visas without distinguishing between first time issuance and visa renewal due to court order, whereas 2) will give you accurate count of visas/cases that were issued *and* include cases that were refused and scheduled but not resolved.
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Hi Xarthisius. How often does the data on the site update? Does it update daily??
 
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