You can do a search on this page. Someone just posted last week that they applied on the 18th and their interview is scheduled for August 6th so 2 to 3 weeks from applying to interviews. Also, tomorrow is a holiday.
Anonymous participant 200 because there are countless people who receive their notices after hours and on the weekends when the embassy is closed. Also people tend to receive approvals at the same time.
Embassy is closed over the weekends, but it seems that some embassy has it set that notices/updates go out after working hours. It isn’t like someone sits at the computer, hits approve and it automatically gets sent to you. They can approve on Friday afternoon and the notice gets auto generated and sent on a Saturday.
- that is a very simple understanding of the policy. I worked for the UN. I was paid for via an overseas source into an overseas bank but at that time still required a work permit.
I had a Norwegian coworker pass away when I lived in Mongolia. It cost 90,000USD to ship her body home. She was insured, so she got shipped, but many people don’t realize the costs and don’t have repatriation insurance.