F 1 how long does it usually take for visa inspection? 202 1 year.

However, in practice, the visa officer of the visa officer (VO) can decide whether to entrust the relevant departments of the State Council (visa office, FBI, etc.) to conduct a more in-depth background investigation on the applicant before deciding whether to grant the visa. (This is called checking)

Inspection, officially called "administrative processing", mainly refers to the further examination of visas. Official website, the State Department of the United States, said that there are actually only two states for American visas, one is to pass and the other is to refuse.

Generally speaking, the visa officer will inform the visa result (pass or reject) on the spot during the face-to-face signing.

Over-signing: only the passport will be taken away from the submitted materials, except the DS- 160 confirmation page and SEVIS fee receipt, and all other materials will be returned, and the information prepared three days after the visa is clearly written on the list given to you by the visa officer.

Rejection: All the materials you submitted will be returned and your passport will not be taken away. The visa officer will give you a reason for refusing the visa.

Check: If the visa officer did not say yes on the spot, but gave a notice of 22 1(g) (the specific form will vary according to the printed version of the consulate), it means that the applicant has been checked. In addition, you can also check the visa status through the embassy in official website. If the visa status has not been updated to issued for more than five working days, it means that the applicant has been reviewed.

Update time of visa status information: Generally speaking, it will be updated after 5: 00 in the morning 1 1 on weekdays, and it is not excluded that it will be updated suddenly at other times. You can query unlimited times.

According to the State Council's statement:

The administrative review of visas in the United States is mainly to eliminate unsafe factors.

However, according to our experience, there are generally three situations to check: sensitive applications, complicated past experiences, and related immigration tendencies.

According to the official news of the American Embassy, it takes about 2-8 weeks to process all kinds of visas.

However, according to the feedback from students currently being investigated in China, there are not a few cases where the waiting time is longer than this.

Here are some related data published on a website:

an empty promise

Time-consuming: within 3 weeks;

Generally speaking, this situation is basically caused by objective reasons, such as the maintenance of SEVIS system. Generally speaking, VO will inform you face to face during the face-to-face signing, and basically it will be issued and checked as scheduled.

Time-consuming: at present, it is basically about 45 days;

Most of the check belong to this category, and the most reason is that they are studying sensitive majors. In the past, as the official said, it took 3-4 weeks to issue it, but during this period, you may need to submit some supplementary materials, which should be supplemented in time according to the requirements of the consulate.

Long check

Time: 60 days later;

If you have been investigated for more than 60 days, it is basically because your major is a sensitive area that you have focused on recently. For example: materials, AI, ML, ROBO control, AE semiconductor, etc.

This kind of situation will generally be sent back to the United States to strengthen the trial, and additional materials may be needed, but even students studying these majors need not worry too much. Because if you only have a master's degree, you may have participated in some projects, but there are no academic research results. If you have not participated in the relevant work full-time, you can judge that there are no substantive sensitive issues and you can issue them within 90 days. But basically, don't expect a five-year visa. Most of them will issue visas for one year.

Generally speaking, in domestic visas, check passports should be left at the embassy, and in rare cases, passports will be returned.

During the inspection, if you need to use your passport in an emergency, you can send an email or call the embassy to ask for it back. The embassy can send your passport back according to your request, but this may affect the final visa result, so please apply carefully.

If the visa is checked, these countermeasures should be completed in time.

1. Prepare supplementary materials as required by the visa officer. After learning the results of the inspection, you must ask the visa officer whether it is necessary to submit supplementary materials at the first time. Ask about the submission method and time limit, and prepare the materials in a true, rigorous and orderly way. If the supplementary materials submitted conflict with the materials left at the time of signature, please explain them in detail when preparing new materials.

2. After being checked, always pay attention to answering the phone and checking the mail. (phone number and email address reserved), embassy staff may ask some questions found in the trial by phone or email. If the applicant misses the answer, causing misunderstanding, it is likely to lead to refusal.

3. Contact the school to explain the situation, and notify the domestic emergency contact person in the visa application information form (DS 160) to inform the investigated situation, and hope that the embassy will prepare for the investigation and cooperate with the information required by the visa office truthfully and accurately.

4. If the examination date is very long and it is expected to exceed the admission date on the I-20 form, you need to contact the target institution in advance to communicate the latest registration date. If necessary, you need to change the new I-20 form and apply for a visa again.

Tips:

In the inspection cases, some are sensitive majors and some are not. However, there are many general science and engineering, which are related to chemistry, physics, biology, mechanical engineering, biochemical engineering and computer cs in Otawa.

If you know that your major is sensitive, you'd better be prepared to be examined before going to the visa. If the visa officer has doubts about the applicant's professional sensitivity, he will generally focus on several materials of the applicant, including: resume, study plan and personal information introduction of the tutor. Therefore, we should fully prepare these materials so as to provide them in time when the visa officer needs them.

Finally, students who have been checked should not be too flustered. If there is no problem in itself, it can basically pass. Although it may take some time, the result will basically be good news!