Immigration question on how long before the US embassy will receive our documents and the next steps?

Question

My wife and I were denied her visa from the us embassy in Lima,Peru over a year ago. After sending back our documents to the California office for final disposition, and many months of Senator and lawyer inquiries they finally contacted us and gave us about one week to send documents on why they should not deny the case, so after I sent them over fifteen hundred pages of e-mails, yahoo and gmail messages, health insurance forms and other things proving our relationship they took just two weeks to approve us for the second time for our I130, and it is my understanding it now goes back to Lima again. My question is does anyone out there know what the next process will be? Will they just contact my wife and give her her visa, or does she and or we have to come there for yet another interview? Any help would be appreciated as they did not provide ANY info pertaining to this after approving us again

Answer 1

I presume that after the immigrant visa denial, the consul returned the petition for revocation. DHS contacted you or your attorney with an invitation to appeal. You appealed, and DHS finally decided in your favor. Is that right?

Now the petition goes back to Lima. There are two possible choices: the consul will give up and issue the visa, or will remain unconvinced that the case is genuine and will try a new revocation. He can also (but most consular officers don't know this) simply refuse to issue the visa and leave the case in suspense forever.

If I were you, I would wait two or three months, then ask nicely if they've received the file yet and if so, if they are willing to issue the visa now. Even if they are, you will probably need to refresh some of the documents originally submitted with the visa application.

Good luck.

Answer 2

this is a bad time for visas