Nonimmigrant Visa Waiver of Ineligibility Application
#571
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I now actually envy you guys on here as the US embassy in Madrid have had my file since last may and passport returned to them since Early Feb-it has now expired and i am still waiting on a response! I asked them if they wanted a new passport to which they said no;48 weeks and counting...any suggestions
#572
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Re: Nonimmigrant Visa Waiver of Ineligibility Application
I now actually envy you guys on here as the US embassy in Madrid have had my file since last may and passport returned to them since Early Feb-it has now expired and i am still waiting on a response! I asked them if they wanted a new passport to which they said no;48 weeks and counting...any suggestions
Get a valid passport. Get yours back if you need it to get a new one. They will not place a visa in an expired passport.
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Re: Nonimmigrant Visa Waiver of Ineligibility Application
Right, getting the thread back on track!
Sorry to hear your plight Marbella. Its hard enough process as it is getting any info as we all know without problems. When there are problems such as yours there is no one to contact and no accountability. Its a bit of a joke isnt it.
I was pretty enthusiastic after reading that someone a few pages before this stated they waited 20 weeks and 3 days. I was then confused by the previous posters comments saying they had waited 27 weeks. As it transpires they had missed the original email so that would support the case that the timescales have in fact decreased slightly.
So the question is how long do the embassy wait between initial email and email reminder?
Im at 21 weeks today. So hopefully any day!
Sorry to hear your plight Marbella. Its hard enough process as it is getting any info as we all know without problems. When there are problems such as yours there is no one to contact and no accountability. Its a bit of a joke isnt it.
I was pretty enthusiastic after reading that someone a few pages before this stated they waited 20 weeks and 3 days. I was then confused by the previous posters comments saying they had waited 27 weeks. As it transpires they had missed the original email so that would support the case that the timescales have in fact decreased slightly.
So the question is how long do the embassy wait between initial email and email reminder?
Im at 21 weeks today. So hopefully any day!
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Right, getting the thread back on track!
Sorry to hear your plight Marbella. Its hard enough process as it is getting any info as we all know without problems. When there are problems such as yours there is no one to contact and no accountability. Its a bit of a joke isnt it.
I was pretty enthusiastic after reading that someone a few pages before this stated they waited 20 weeks and 3 days. I was then confused by the previous posters comments saying they had waited 27 weeks. As it transpires they had missed the original email so that would support the case that the timescales have in fact decreased slightly.
So the question is how long do the embassy wait between initial email and email reminder?
Im at 21 weeks today. So hopefully any day!
Sorry to hear your plight Marbella. Its hard enough process as it is getting any info as we all know without problems. When there are problems such as yours there is no one to contact and no accountability. Its a bit of a joke isnt it.
I was pretty enthusiastic after reading that someone a few pages before this stated they waited 20 weeks and 3 days. I was then confused by the previous posters comments saying they had waited 27 weeks. As it transpires they had missed the original email so that would support the case that the timescales have in fact decreased slightly.
So the question is how long do the embassy wait between initial email and email reminder?
Im at 21 weeks today. So hopefully any day!
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So the question is how long do the embassy wait between initial email and email reminder?
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Re: Nonimmigrant Visa Waiver of Ineligibility Application
Right, getting the thread back on track!
Sorry to hear your plight Marbella. Its hard enough process as it is getting any info as we all know without problems. When there are problems such as yours there is no one to contact and no accountability. Its a bit of a joke isnt it.
I was pretty enthusiastic after reading that someone a few pages before this stated they waited 20 weeks and 3 days. I was then confused by the previous posters comments saying they had waited 27 weeks. As it transpires they had missed the original email so that would support the case that the timescales have in fact decreased slightly.
So the question is how long do the embassy wait between initial email and email reminder?
Im at 21 weeks today. So hopefully any day!
Sorry to hear your plight Marbella. Its hard enough process as it is getting any info as we all know without problems. When there are problems such as yours there is no one to contact and no accountability. Its a bit of a joke isnt it.
I was pretty enthusiastic after reading that someone a few pages before this stated they waited 20 weeks and 3 days. I was then confused by the previous posters comments saying they had waited 27 weeks. As it transpires they had missed the original email so that would support the case that the timescales have in fact decreased slightly.
So the question is how long do the embassy wait between initial email and email reminder?
Im at 21 weeks today. So hopefully any day!
#578
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Re: Nonimmigrant Visa Waiver of Ineligibility Application
Just a small update on my travel after receiving a waiver of ineligibility on a B2.
Heathrow Airport, no additional questions beyond why are you travelling.
Arrived at Dallas Fort Worth, having almost run from the plane got to arrival hall with only about twenty people in front of me.Half an hour later the hall was full(so run)
After about 20 mins called forward. Asked why are you travelling, what job do you have, fingerprints taken, where are you staying and how long for.
Then said you will have to come with me,no explanation, just told to wait in a room with about twenty/thirty others (only one other European person present)
No announcements or notices, or any indications as to what was happening, just every 15mins or so someone called to the window.As most of these conversations were in Spanish, I had no idea what was being said.
After about hour and a half I was called,when I got to the window I was told that the visa was not a right of entry and only request for permission to enter(which I knew).
I was then handed my passport back and the Officer said, almost apologetically, we have to do this and I was sent on my way with no questions or anything else,so I am not sure exactly what they were doing during the hour and a half.
Generally painless apart from not knowing what was going happening or how long it would take.
Ps a small tip, if you have someone waiting for you, the room has signs saying “No Cellphones” but no one seemed to worry about using them.
Pps The room has no toilet but if you go to the window and ask they will unlock the door and let you use the one in their room.
pps They did not take my I 94 from me when I left, some say send it to Kentucky other say take it with you next time ???
Heathrow Airport, no additional questions beyond why are you travelling.
Arrived at Dallas Fort Worth, having almost run from the plane got to arrival hall with only about twenty people in front of me.Half an hour later the hall was full(so run)
After about 20 mins called forward. Asked why are you travelling, what job do you have, fingerprints taken, where are you staying and how long for.
Then said you will have to come with me,no explanation, just told to wait in a room with about twenty/thirty others (only one other European person present)
No announcements or notices, or any indications as to what was happening, just every 15mins or so someone called to the window.As most of these conversations were in Spanish, I had no idea what was being said.
After about hour and a half I was called,when I got to the window I was told that the visa was not a right of entry and only request for permission to enter(which I knew).
I was then handed my passport back and the Officer said, almost apologetically, we have to do this and I was sent on my way with no questions or anything else,so I am not sure exactly what they were doing during the hour and a half.
Generally painless apart from not knowing what was going happening or how long it would take.
Ps a small tip, if you have someone waiting for you, the room has signs saying “No Cellphones” but no one seemed to worry about using them.
Pps The room has no toilet but if you go to the window and ask they will unlock the door and let you use the one in their room.
pps They did not take my I 94 from me when I left, some say send it to Kentucky other say take it with you next time ???
Last edited by sevorg; Apr 18th 2013 at 3:02 pm. Reason: add question
#579
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Re: Nonimmigrant Visa Waiver of Ineligibility Application
Just a small update on my travel after receiving a waiver of ineligibility on a B2.
Heathrow Airport, no additional questions beyond why are you travelling.
Arrived at Dallas Fort Worth, having almost run from the plane got to arrival hall with only about twenty people in front of me.Half an hour later the hall was full(so run)
After about 20 mins called forward. Asked why are you travelling, what job do you have, fingerprints taken, where are you staying and how long for.
Then said you will have to come with me,no explanation, just told to wait in a room with about twenty/thirty others (only one other European person present)
No announcements or notices, or any indications as to what was happening, just every 15mins or so someone called to the window.As most of these conversations were in Spanish, I had no idea what was being said.
After about hour and a half I was called,when I got to the window I was told that the visa was not a right of entry and only request for permission to enter(which I knew).
I was then handed my passport back and the Officer said, almost apologetically, we have to do this and I was sent on my way with no questions or anything else,so I am not sure exactly what they were doing during the hour and a half.
Generally painless apart from not knowing what was going happening or how long it would take.
Ps a small tip, if you have someone waiting for you, the room has signs saying “No Cellphones” but no one seemed to worry about using them.
Pps The room has no toilet but if you go to the window and ask they will unlock the door and let you use the one in their room.
pps They did not take my I 94 from me when I left, some say send it to Kentucky other say take it with you next time ???
Heathrow Airport, no additional questions beyond why are you travelling.
Arrived at Dallas Fort Worth, having almost run from the plane got to arrival hall with only about twenty people in front of me.Half an hour later the hall was full(so run)
After about 20 mins called forward. Asked why are you travelling, what job do you have, fingerprints taken, where are you staying and how long for.
Then said you will have to come with me,no explanation, just told to wait in a room with about twenty/thirty others (only one other European person present)
No announcements or notices, or any indications as to what was happening, just every 15mins or so someone called to the window.As most of these conversations were in Spanish, I had no idea what was being said.
After about hour and a half I was called,when I got to the window I was told that the visa was not a right of entry and only request for permission to enter(which I knew).
I was then handed my passport back and the Officer said, almost apologetically, we have to do this and I was sent on my way with no questions or anything else,so I am not sure exactly what they were doing during the hour and a half.
Generally painless apart from not knowing what was going happening or how long it would take.
Ps a small tip, if you have someone waiting for you, the room has signs saying “No Cellphones” but no one seemed to worry about using them.
Pps The room has no toilet but if you go to the window and ask they will unlock the door and let you use the one in their room.
pps They did not take my I 94 from me when I left, some say send it to Kentucky other say take it with you next time ???
The airline gate agent is supposed to take the I-94 from you when you depart the USA (I would usually approach them with it visible - either against the cover of my passport or open at the page where it's been fixed). Mail the thing to Kentucky and keep boarding pass stubs from your return flight, just so you can prove you did depart the US. Probably won't be an issue though.
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Ian
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On NO occasions of having done this have i met with a negative response. I have always explained the scenario at the time i hand it over and the officer has taken the document and all was good with the world once more. Like i say it has only been a couple of occasions that this has happened out of about 20 or so flights over the last 2 and a half years.
I would suggest that if your return to the US is not immediate then follow the official guidelines, i would not recommend retaining the I-94. Whilst im not saying that the alternative is correct, my experiences have been that there have been no negative impacts, but that could be down to the situation I was in.
Last edited by DavidLemon; Apr 18th 2013 at 6:32 pm.
#582
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Apparently if you leave on a commercial flight they automatically know you left the US but for the sake of a stamp and proof of postage I would send it off, after everything we have been through to get a waiver is it worth putting another spanner in the works for overstaying!
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2 day's behind you, and still waiting too !! and emails think they give 30 days for final email so the other people I would say they got at 23 if they picked upon the first email and i remember 2011 we missed holiday came 2 weeks after my family returned bk home and they sent an email which by then we wasn't intrested as you can imagine and we also got a final reminder and thinking about it that was about 4 weeks from the first one its a joke I though backlogs of visas are ment to ease as the months go on but not the case so just about given up now takeso just taking each day as it comes
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2 day's behind you, and still waiting too !! and emails think they give 30 days for final email so the other people I would say they got at 23 if they picked upon the first email and i remember 2011 we missed holiday came 2 weeks after my family returned bk home and they sent an email which by then we wasn't intrested as you can imagine and we also got a final reminder and thinking about it that was about 4 weeks from the first one its a joke I though backlogs of visas are ment to ease as the months go on but not the case so just about given up now takeso just taking each day as it comes
Yes it is a joke, but what can you do? I've lost over £3000 now with rearranged travel plans.....
I think they need to start processing renewals with no further criminal charges since last waiver differently. They should delegate the decision to the embassy in these cases.
I went Thailand for the first time last Christmas. Had I knew then what I know now I wouldn't have bothered with all this is USA visa hassle. Nowhere else cares about my aged crimes, why USA?
Last edited by TranceMaster; Apr 24th 2013 at 9:23 pm.