Year 2016

This visa bulletin covers May interviews. For those that are current, and have forms processed early enough, they can expect their 2NL in about 2 weeks from now. I know I am going to get a lot of people who… Continue Reading →

  Today I am publishing the end of month file for March 1, 2016. Remember this is the status of the lottery after 5 months of processing – there are seven more months of processing left, even though we only have 5… Continue Reading →

A couple of days ago, the 2NLs were sent out and I managed to get some good counts of how many interviews were arranged for each region. I can also calculate response rates accurately from the latest data and with… Continue Reading →

People are receiving their 2NLs for April interviews, it will take a few hours – and possibly even a couple of days before all have gone out. The email itself has no useful information. It simply tells you to check… Continue Reading →

  I have had a number of questions and a suggestion for a FAQ about how to add a newborn child to the DV case. So – here are my tips for this situation. There is no problem with this happy… Continue Reading →

Today I am publishing the mid month file for February 16, 2016. Please take a look at the file and use filters on the file to work out specifics on any country/region you are interested in – I don’t have time… Continue Reading →

I have been writing blog posts about various topics for over a year now, and these are categorized in date order. That means some people may not have seen my earlier posts which offer lots of guidance on various DV… Continue Reading →

This visa bulletin covers April interviews. For those that are current, and have forms processed early enough, they can expect their 2NL in about 2 weeks from now. I know I am going to get a lot of people who… Continue Reading →

NOTE: – Because cases above the VBs could not have changed I save myself some time in not running a full extract every time. So – AF stops at 18700 in this file, and AS stops at 4900 – so… Continue Reading →

OK – now that we have the 2NLs for March interviews I was able to run a CEAC extract and calculate a couple of critical metrics. The response rate and the number of interviews that were scheduled for March. First… Continue Reading →