{"id":1951,"date":"2018-06-15T13:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britsimonsays.com\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2018-06-15T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:22:23","slug":"vb-for-august-2018-interviews-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/britsimonsays.com\/vb-for-august-2018-interviews-released\/","title":{"rendered":"VB for August 2018 interviews released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
AFRICA<\/td>\nCURRENT<\/td>\nExcept:
\nEgypt:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 21,325<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ASIA<\/td>\nCURRENT<\/td>\nExcept:
\nNepal:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a06,950<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EUROPE<\/td>\n23,325<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS)<\/td>\nCURRENT<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OCEANIA<\/td>\n1,400<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SOUTH AMERICA,
\nand the CARIBBEAN<\/td>\n		1,585<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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This is for August interviews and is the penultimate VB for the DV2018 year.<\/p>\n

For the inevitable questions. CURRENT means all case numbers in the region can be scheduled. AS region being current was expected, AF region was not.<\/p>\n

Those that are current, and have forms processed early enough, they can expect their 2NL in about 1 to 2\u00a0 weeks from now. For the last three months there have been delays in 2NLs for a large number of people – so we still expect some people to be interviewed that were current in June and July. It is obvious that there has been some delay in scheduling interviews – at least in some embassies. Since this is not normal I don’t have good answers for what that means, what impacts that will cause and so on. Because AF regon is now current it means that the AF embassies that are scheduling interviews as normal will be able to have ANY case number scheduled, but I suspect there will still be some scheduling problems in some of the embassies. It’s going to be interesting.<\/p>\n

It looks like there has been a small redistribution from Asia (because AS region cannot use its quota while the travel ban is in force), and that has benefitted OC, SA and EU. Because of this OC and SA might exceed their previous expected numbers (so people with borderline high cases just got some good news) whilst EU is still a low number despite more visas from AS.<\/p>\n

One more VB to go for DV2018.<\/p>\n

For DV2019 winners – remember this VB is NOTHING to do with your numbers – this is just DV2018.<\/p>\n

To those new to looking at VBs, let me explain what the \u201cexcept\u201d XXX country means.<\/p>\n

Processing is spread out over the full year.\u00a0You can see the progress of the two previous years\u00a0in this post about\u00a0basic 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, 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\u00a0lottery draw process<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AFRICA CURRENT Except: Egypt:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 21,325 ASIA CURRENT Except: Nepal:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a06,950 EUROPE 23,325 NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS) CURRENT OCEANIA 1,400 SOUTH AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN 1,585     This is for August interviews and is the penultimate VB… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nVB for August 2018 interviews released - BritSimonSays.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"DV lottery information, Enter and win Green Card lottery, DV2015, DV2016\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/britsimonsays.com\/vb-for-august-2018-interviews-released\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"BritSimon\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/britsimonsays.com\/vb-for-august-2018-interviews-released\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/britsimonsays.com\/vb-for-august-2018-interviews-released\/\",\"name\":\"VB for August 2018 interviews released - 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