I can email this to you, what is your email address?

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Please use the PM function for trading personal information.

Rene
Moderator

By the end of the week, you're likely to have a slew of spam emails because you chose to put your unencrypted email in a public internet forum, and some bot gathered it.

Using the PM feature would probably have been more discreet.

Ian

Hi Glasgow1,

I would like to chat with you in more detail about some of the avenues that you explored while going through AP. Is there an e-mail address that I can reach you at?

It has been 3 months now for my case, and I had already been working in the US for a year, and had left for vacation, hoping to get the stamp done within the 2 weeks I was expected to be away. Unfortunately, having been born in Karachi, Pakistan (but with a British Passport), I shouldn't be too surprised that I got selected for AP. Frustrated, yes, but surprised, not really. I understand AP is necessary to ensure safety at the US borders, and I am fully ready to comply with this process, if only the actual process itself could be made more efficient such that I could help in expediting it.

It is obviously routine for anyone having anything to do with Pakistan to be singled out as a menace to the world, and while I have come to terms with living with this fact, I still can't help but feel anxious that my entire life is on hold right now in the US. I am truly embarrassed right now with the state of affairs in Pakistan, and I wish there was a way for me to prove that I am no menace to society, but instead a hard-working, tax paying member of society with a highly skilled job. My apartment rent is still due every month, car insurance expenses, cell phone expenses, cable and internet expenses etc etc.. you know the drill. It is hard to function normally without having even the slightest idea of when things will work out. I know they say "please allow up to 3 months, and in some cases 6 months or longer", but clearly that time frame is even more vague in practice. I know there have been cases far worse than the 3 months I am facing at the moment, but I do not want to have to wait longer before I consider it "appropriate" to start diving deeper into the status of my case.

Let me know if there is a better way for me to reach out to you.

Thanks, and looking forward to some responses.

And of course, please use the PM feature when passing this information to me Thanks!

i had my interview at london last month and i have been put in AP Would u plz be able to email me ur contacts at the embassy? i tried to pm you but it didn't let me do that!..... thank you

Respectfully, no one at the Embassy can help you. No one at all. There is nothing you can do. You can't find out why you're in AP; you can't find out where you are in the process; and you can't find out how much longer it's going to take.

All you can do is wait. That is what everyone in AP must do. It will take as long as it takes... anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 years. End of story.


That's because you've just joined.

Ian

Embassy do not deal with Visa's, Consulates do.

Usually there is a reason people are in AP.

Thanks for the feedbacks, do you think that i should keep sending the consulate emails in regards of my case and callin DOS or it's better not to bother them since i've been in Ap for only a month, i have read many posts where people said keep emailin them it helps!!

It does not help. Once you are in AP, it doesn't matter how much you email them, nothing will change until your AP is cleared. There is no way to know how long that will be, and there is no way for the consulate to inform you of how far you are along.

I wouldn't bother emailing them. They'll let you know whenever they need something from you.

Rene

I have been in AP now for almost 6 months, and I have to agree with the recent posts that there is literally nothing you can do to to expedite it. If it makes you feel better you can e-mail the embassy regularly and call DOS etc, but I have found, at least in my experience, that neither really helped. I did e-mail the embassy a few times at various points of my process to inquire about my situation, but generally was greeted with fairly unhelpful and standard responses. Like others have said too, the consulate can't do much about AP - this is a process, as far as I understand, that gains clearance from various agencies and most of it is run out of DC.

All I can say is that you have to be patient and keep waiting. I definitely made the mistake of checking on my case status too frequently, and it caused me a lot of unnecessary stress. I have learnt this the hard way now, but after waiting for almost 6 months, I have resigned myself to the fact that at no point will I ever know what is really going on, other than the fact that I am "pending", and no one will really be able to provide you with any more color.

All the best, and feel free to private message me if you want to discuss any further.

Thanks guys, is it true that congressman can know exaclty where your AP is at ( name checks, or fingerprint.... etc )
and does anyone know what was the longest AP ever at London ?

No.


2 years and 112 days.

Ian

the longest I remember was 4 years he was Russian

HELLO.
I have been in Admin.Process myself for 7 months now. It totally sux!. I am a US citizen who applied for my fiance`'s visa (k1) july of 2010, and in June 2011 she had her interview at London Embassy. SHe is Pakistani as well. I have tried to get help with congressmen but there isn't anything he can do. I have called and emailed the embassy few times., I get the same answers. It can taake another 1 day or maybe months. I just pray to God that it get approve soon. Its a very hard situation we are in. I mean everything is computerized nowadays, i wonder what is taking 7 months. And the worst part is that no agency says anything. You are just put in dark! there should be a better way to take care of this. Life just is stuck!!