{"id":1532,"date":"2017-02-08T23:41:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T23:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britsimonsays.com\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2017-02-08T23:41:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T23:41:22","slug":"march-2017-visa-bulletin-realeased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/britsimonsays.com\/march-2017-visa-bulletin-realeased\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2017 Visa Bulletin Realeased"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The \u201cMarch\u201d visa bulletin has been published. It concerns the case numbers eligible for April interviews<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For those that are current, and have forms processed early enough, they can expect their 2NL in about 1 to 2\u00a0 weeks from now. I know I am going to get a lot of people who will ask me this exact question \u2013 so let me say that again. 2NLs will be sent in about one or two weeks time – that means the latter part of the month. The schedule is that VBs are published between the 8th and the 15th of each month, and 2NLs go out from the 15th to the end of the month (most typically around the 20th to 24th)<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is possible that some people will be current for April interviews, but will not be scheduled in April because they submitted late, or there is a processing backlog that causes a delay.\u00a0March interviews were based mainly on cases submitted up to early September.<\/p>\n

To those new to looking at VBs, let me explain what the \u201cexcept\u201d XXX country means (for Iran Nepal, Egypt and\u00a0Ethiopia).<\/p>\n

Processing is spread out over the full year.\u00a0You can see the progress of the two previous years\u00a0in this post about basic questions<\/a>. \u00a0However, some countries have a high number of selectees and those selectees are concentrated in the lower case numbers. For various reasons, mainly\u00a0to do with embassy capacity, KCC slow down certain countries as compared to the region. So \u2013 in Africa, any case with a case number shown as under the new number can be interviewed but for cases from Egypt or Ethiopia, that number is lower. That isn\u2019t a big problem, it just \u201cslows down\u201d those countries a little more than the rest of the region. Since selectees from those countries all have lower case numbers, this slowing down does not present any risk. It does not (at this point) mean they won\u2019t allow all selectees an interview from those countries.<\/p>\n

To understand why some countries get lower case numbers, read this article about the lottery draw process<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read this link if you are unsure how to read the visa bulletin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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