Year 2015

Over the last week or so I have been checking daily (sometimes hourly) for the “in Transit” update in CEAC for the September interviews. I normally like to publish the in Transit update to show how many interviews are being… Continue Reading →

  I am taking a short trip, so I won’t have access to my PCs for a week, so I thought I would extract a CEAC file to keep you all going! As you can see from the file, there… Continue Reading →

I have created a page with a recommendation for temporary health insurance options for new immigrants., This is especially useful for the period of time when you are activating your LPR status (as you will not want to start an ACA… Continue Reading →

AOK, first off, congratulations to EU and OC that both got pretty good and even unexpectedly good numbers for the last VB. Whilst many in OC region will still have missed out, EU got within a few hundred cases of… Continue Reading →

The numbers are released – theses are for September interviews – meaning these are the final numbers that will be made current this year. Case numbers higher than these numbers will not get any benefit from their DV lottery selection in… Continue Reading →

Finally people are receiving their 2NLs for August interviews.   The 2NL is an email which tells you to check the ESC website for your appointment details. The email itself has no useful information.

  This is the month end file. Let me first say – I believe the issued numbers for this file are still understated due to the system issues. The issues have been resolved, but it is possible that embassies have… Continue Reading →

PLEASE READ THE TEXT BELOW RATHER THAN ASKING QUESTIONS I HAVE ALREADY COVERED. As most of you will know there  have been technical problems affecting the visa issuing systems that are being resolved at this time. Those same problems had an… Continue Reading →

More odd happenings. The normal behavior for the release of the 2NLs is that the 2NLs are sent and CEAC is dated later – often within an hour or so of the 2NLs being sent. This month, the 2NL emails… Continue Reading →

Why I will NOT predict the final cut off for DV2015   I wanted to make clear the reasons why I have decided not to issue a prediction (or guesstimate) for the final Visa bulletin.   Over the last few… Continue Reading →