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Guys, just FYI, London, UK has just announced that they would start processing DV cases.
London embassy did no such thing. There's just one case in CEAC that's assigned to that embassy. It might have happened due to multiple reasons. It does *not* imply that London embassy will start processing DV visas in bulk. That actually applies to a lot of embassies that account you quoted claims to be "operating normally".
Unless of course you can point me to a page on https://uk.usembassy.gov/ and prove me wrong...
 
Wow, woke up to a lot of activity on here, and high emotions it seems.
So is this news to people that DV isn't a priority visa?
To the extent that they are getting pushed right to the back of the line for the remainder of the fiscal year? Yes actually, especially after the concerted effort many embassies went to to go all out and issue a boatload in September last year. I thought that at the least they would issue “normal” allocations to DV, not well below normal.
 
Guys, just FYI, London, UK has just announced that they would start processing DV cases.


It makes sense with what we were talking about yesterday. Now, they won't process a LOT of cases and it will only be beneficial to embassies/consulates with a low number of immigrant visas. (And I am talking about less than 500 DV winners per year here)

I am expecting Paris or Montreal to follow suit.
I think that Twitter feed posts some real nonsense in interpretation btw. Just my humble opinion.
 
London embassy did no such thing. There's just one case in CEAC that's assigned to that embassy. It might have happened due to multiple reasons. It does *not* imply that London embassy will start processing DV visas in bulk. That actually applies to a lot of embassies that account you quoted claims to be "operating normally".
Unless of course you can point me to a page on https://uk.usembassy.gov/ and prove me wrong...
Sorry, no, they definitely won’t process visas in bulk but that embassy *finally* accepting 1 case is still a somehow a positive trend. Considering that they have a low number of DV selectees + immigrant visas overall, they might be able to process all of them.

I must admit that I only look at the data from that Twitter account and don’t even look at the “operating normally” nonsense. In fact, I didn’t even know they were claiming that!

I am going to add that a lot of the nonsense also comes from the lawyers... who barely even know what’s going on. Just my opinion of course. When you get them to say that thanks to their lawsuit, one of their plaintiff got their visa approved... ugh, what? It was under normal processing. Thankfully a lot of users call them out on their bs.
 
Sorry, no, they definitely won’t process visas in bulk but that embassy *finally* accepting 1 case is still a somehow a positive trend. Considering that they have a low number of DV selectees + immigrant visas overall, they might be able to process all of them.

I must admit that I only look at the data from that Twitter account and don’t even look at the “operating normally” nonsense. In fact, I didn’t even know they were claiming that!

I am going to add that a lot of the nonsense also comes from the lawyers... who barely even know what’s going on. Just my opinion of course. When you get them to say that thanks to their lawsuit, one of their plaintiff got their visa approved... ugh, what? It was under normal processing. Thankfully a lot of users call them out on their bs.
Hm re operating normally (whatever that means in a COVID world) if you look at pre-pandemic numbers (fy19), London seemed to issue an average of somewhere in the teens of DVs (total visas not cases) per month - anywhere from single digits to around 20. Montreal looked similar. Total IV issuances out of these posts in FY19 and the preceding few years was around 4K for London and 4.5-5.5k for Montreal. Without doing a detailed breakdown most of those will be some sort of family category and therefore have preference under the new system. Then again slotting in say 15 DV visas a month could be both “normal” DV wise for these consulates and still align with the priority system. So who knows how they’ll approach it. The more serious issues are going to be at the middle eastern, African, Easter European consulates that issue both a significant amount of IVs and DVs a year, some of which are still not even open.
 
Hm re operating normally (whatever that means in a COVID world) if you look at pre-pandemic numbers (fy19), London seemed to issue an average of somewhere in the teens of DVs (total visas not cases) per month - anywhere from single digits to around 20. Montreal looked similar. Total IV issuances out of these posts in FY19 and the preceding few years was around 4K for London and 4.5-5.5k for Montreal. Without doing a detailed breakdown most of those will be some sort of family category and therefore have preference under the new system. Then again slotting in say 15 DV visas a month could be both “normal” DV wise for these consulates and still align with the priority system. So who knows how they’ll approach it. The more serious issues are going to be at the middle eastern, African, Easter European consulates that issue both a significant amount of IVs and DVs a year, some of which are still not even open.
I have seen data for Yerevan embassy... it was scheduling about 250 interviews in every month(2020) and now it scheduled only 12 cases in April and then nothing. That really hurts:confused:
 
I have seen data for Yerevan embassy... it was scheduling about 250 interviews in every month(2020) and now it scheduled only 12 cases in April and then nothing. That really hurts:confused:
Yes, and to be fair, I wouldn’t expect more than that with the new tiers in place. Again, it will be only beneficial to certain consulates.
 
Hello! I hope you are all doing good.
I have a question.
I live in country B but I come from country A. I have gathered all my docs and already sent them 2 months ago. If I go back to my home country for vacation (not more than 15 days), do I need a new police certificate from country A for my interview (if I will ever get an interview date ofc) ?
Thank you in advance and best of luck to everyone in this unusual year!
 
Hello! I hope you are all doing good.
I have a question.
I live in country B but I come from country A. I have gathered all my docs and already sent them 2 months ago. If I go back to my home country for vacation (not more than 15 days), do I need a new police certificate from country A for my interview (if I will ever get an interview date ofc) ?
Thank you in advance and best of luck to everyone in this unusual year!
No
 
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my possibly flawed understanding was that scheduling is largely complete before the VB is released, so most of it for June interviews should have been done before the 9th. Why those 2 weeks? surely a whole month is more representatIve of a cycle in KCC’s (or NVC’s) life? I don’t understand the time frame. If we want to be critical then we need more data.

It is nevertheless pleasing to me to know that despite the ban having gone on for nearly half the fiscal year, we have almost half of available DV visas DQ for the year already with 5 months still to go. Especially bearing in mind that judging from posts here some of those DQ cases required 6 or 7 sets of docs sent (and opened and read and looked at by) KCC. I guess it’s all dependent on your perspective.
 
my possibly flawed understanding was that scheduling is largely complete before the VB is released, so most of it for June interviews should have been done before the 9th. Why those 2 weeks? surely a whole month is more representatIve of a cycle in KCC’s (or NVC’s) life? I don’t understand the time frame. If we want to be critical then we need more data.

It is nevertheless pleasing to me to know that despite the ban having gone on for nearly half the fiscal year, we have almost half of available DV visas DQ for the year already with 5 months still to go. Especially bearing in mind that judging from posts here some of those DQ cases required 6 or 7 sets of docs sent (and opened and read and looked at by) KCC. I guess it’s all dependent on your perspective.
Could you pl tell us if the response of kcc about 11,112 cases are till now or for KCC is over ,will not continue to process documents , and could you pl tell us if all these cases 11,112 are received the emails confirmation ready or maybe there are still cases among these cars(11,112) not received the confirmation email
 
my possibly flawed understanding was that scheduling is largely complete before the VB is released, so most of it for June interviews should have been done before the 9th. Why those 2 weeks? surely a whole month is more representatIve of a cycle in KCC’s (or NVC’s) life? I don’t understand the time frame. If we want to be critical then we need more data.

It is nevertheless pleasing to me to know that despite the ban having gone on for nearly half the fiscal year, we have almost half of available DV visas DQ for the year already with 5 months still to go. Especially bearing in mind that judging from posts here some of those DQ cases required 6 or 7 sets of docs sent (and opened and read and looked at by) KCC. I guess it’s all dependent on your perspective.
Could you pl tell us if the response of kcc about 11,112 cases are till now or for KCC is over ,will not continue to process documents , and could you pl tell us if all these cases 11,112 are received the emails confirmation ready or maybe there are still cases among these cars(11,112) not received the confirmation email
 
Worth noting in that discussion: yesterday government filed a report in one of the DV lawsuites that summarizes work done by KCC in past few weeks (source can be found here [1]). Some interesting points:

1. A total of 11,112 DV-2021 cases, representing 23,692 applicants, have been determined to be documentarily qualified.
2. Between April 9 and April 22, KCC scheduled mere 135 cases.
3. Numbers they provide for total DV21 cases scheduled nicely match what can be seen in CEAC for that period. That allows me to say that for this week they haven't scheduled a single case yet...

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Could you pl tell us if the response of kcc about 11,112 cases are till now or for KCC is over ,will not continue to process documents , and could you pl tell us if all these cases 11,112 are received the emails confirmation ready or maybe there are still cases among these cars(11,112) not received the confirmation email
 
Hello guys.
I will be participating in the new lawsuit of Curtis Morrison. The deadline to apply is 31 of May I guess. Does any know if in general the lawsuits like this have any limitations in turns of plaintiff numbers ? I was hoping to wait till end of May (maybe they will sent the invitation by that time), and if not - apply. But then there will be already too many plaintiffs. Logically, anyone can apply till deadline.. just wanted to make sure.
Thank you very much !
 
Could you pl tell us if the response of kcc about 11,112 cases are till now or for KCC is over ,will not continue to process documents , and could you pl tell us if all these cases 11,112 are received the emails confirmation ready or maybe there are still cases among these cars(11,112) not received the confirmation email
If they are described as documentarily qualified they will have received a confirmation email.

Someone just reported in another thread being asked to submit documents after ds260 submitted last week so it seems they are still going ahead with processing for applicants.

And please don’t submit the same question multiple times, we can all read the thread.
 
Hello friends, my case number is current according to visa bulletin. However, I still haven’t received email requesting for me to send the documents. DS 260 was sent in September, 2020.
Also is there a data on how many selected winners choose a particular embassy for their interview. Thank you
 
Hello friends, my case number is current according to visa bulletin. However, I still haven’t received email requesting for me to send the documents. DS 260 was sent in September, 2020.
Also is there a data on how many selected winners choose a particular embassy for their interview. Thank you
Most of us haven’t received an email yet asking to send our documents. You’ll just have to wait and see. You are automatically assigned the embassy where you live so there is no way to know who selected what.
 
Hello guys.
I will be participating in the new lawsuit of Curtis Morrison. The deadline to apply is 31 of May I guess. Does any know if in general the lawsuits like this have any limitations in turns of plaintiff numbers ? I was hoping to wait till end of May (maybe they will sent the invitation by that time), and if not - apply. But then there will be already too many plaintiffs. Logically, anyone can apply till deadline.. just wanted to make sure.
Thank you very much !
maybe really....no
As I know, Goh case would have 2 rounds of plaintiffs (similar to Milligan case)
Curtis Morrison is a good lawyer. But what I concern is the plaintiff numbers....As I know some countries with a lot of selectees, these selectees are unnecessary to pay the initial fee. Undoubtedly this would encourage more and more ppl to join the lawsuit.
Let's say there are 5k plaintiffs. Really can I benefit from the lawsuit in a limited time?
 
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