Troubles with visas in China??

[NUWORLD]

 

Computers crash all the time. they will get it fixed soon enough.

 

 

You are correct on your first point. As for getting fixed soon enough, obviously any failure and downtime on a system like this one is not acceptable. For that reason, substantial companies in the private sector deploy redundancies and backups that prevent this kind of problem for occurring. People get fired and are held accountable in the private sector. Some of the American public is trained to accept less from the government than they would from their local bank or major shopping website.

 

 

You bring some good point, But were talking about the government we live in today's world

where e-mails are gone like a fart in the wind.

hard drives, like magic just vanish in thin air.

 

Who lost there jobs???

No one did and or will.

We live in there world and do as they say.

[MarcRosie]

Does anyone know if this is causes delays in the visa interview process or just issuing visas. My wife's daughter is waiting in Guangzhou now and tomorrow her interview is scheduled at 7:45AM. We haven't been able to find out one thing about interviews. Anyone know or have heard anything?

[Randy W]

Does anyone know if this is causes delays in the visa interview process or just issuing visas. My wife's daughter is waiting in Guangzhou now and tomorrow her interview is scheduled at 7:45AM. We haven't been able to find out one thing about interviews. Anyone know or have heard anything?

 

 

There doesn't seem to be any mention of ANY delays in the interviewing queue - that would seem to only serve to complicate things at their end.

 

I'm sure you'll have them show up as scheduled.

[MarcRosie]

Of course...after all we have had to go through to get to this spot in this process...she will be there for the interview.

[MarcRosie]

Wife talked with people in Guangzhou (that are in the know) and they said interviews had not been affected by the problems. Just that if a visa was issued that it would be longer wait than normal to get your hands on it.

[Randy W]

Posted on Facebook

U.S. Department of State: Consular Affairs

21 hrs ·

As of July 27, the Department of State has made continued progress on restoring our system to full functionality. As we restore our ability to print visas, we are prioritizing immigrant cases, including adoptions visas. System engineers are performing maintenance to address the problems we encountered. As system performance improves, we will continue to process visas at U.S. Embassies and Consulates worldwide. We are committed to resolving the problem as soon as possible. Additional updates will be posted to travel.state.gov as more information becomes available.

 

 

[Randy W]

. . . and also on their web page at http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english.html

[Randy W]

The Beijing Embassy speaks!

 

US visa delays likely to continue, says embassy

 

Delays in issuing visas for the United States are likely to persist as the computer problems causing them have not yet been resolved, Nolan Barkhouse, spokesman for the US embassy in Beijing, said on Monday.

 

"Our recordssystem has been experiencing significant performance problems, including outages, since July 19," he said.

 

Barkhouse said the visa service returned to online working last Wednesday, but it is still operating at a significantly reduced capacity.

 

"The delay will continue until the document backlog is cleared," he said.

 

The problems affecting the US State Department's central visa and passport database mean applicants around the world face delays.

 

[Randy W]

. . . and this update today

 

U.S. Department of State: Consular Affairs

14 hrs ·

Update regarding Ongoing Consular Consolidated Database Performance Issues

 

[Please note that this is an update to yesterday's frequently asked questions and answers. We are only sharing new and updated content here. To find prior answers to frequently asked questions, please visit our official website http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/news/ccd-performance-issues.html]

 

The Consular Consolidated Database (CCD) is still performing below its normal operational capacity. However, to give you an idea of the progress we have made, from the start of the operational issues on July 20 through July 28, we issued more than 220,000 nonimmigrant visas globally. Based on our average production figures, we would have anticipated issuing closer to 425,000 nonimmigrant visas in that time period, indicating we have been able to print nonimmigrant visas for about half of all approved travelers.

 

Q: How are embassy/consulates returning passports to applicants who need to travel but don’t have visas?

 

Some individuals would like to have their passports returned before their U.S. visa is printed, and we are working with our posts around the world to develop procedures to manage these requests.

 

Q: How can I contact my embassy/consulate to find more information?

 

Each embassy and consulate will post contact information on its website for applicants with questions about the status of their cases. Check the webpage of the embassy or consulate where you scheduled your interview for additional information.

 

Q: How are cases being prioritized? What about medical emergencies?

 

More than 50 percent of pending nonimmigrant visas cases are being printed, with the goal of prioritizing those pending the longest.
In addition, we are prioritizing immigrant visa and adoption cases, nonimmigrant medical emergencies, and humanitarian cases.

 

Q: What is the outlook for NIVs? When do we estimate the backlog will be processed?

 

Current efforts are focused on restoring the system to normal operations, while continuing to adjudicate new applications.

 

We are committed to reducing the number of pending visa cases as quickly as possible. Applicants should anticipate that visa issuance may be delayed 10-14 days until the system is restored to full functionality and pending applications are printed.

 

 

[Randy W]

. . . and this interesting note on the Guangzhou consulate's web site

 

• Notice

  July 31, 2014: The U.S. Embassy in Beijing and consulates in Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang will have an administrative closure for non-immigrant visa applicants on Friday, August 1. Immigrant visa appointments at the consulate in Guangzhou are not impacted..

If you are affected by these closures, you are required to reschedule your existing non-immigrant visa appointment. Your appointment can be rescheduled by logging on to your appointment profile and selecting new dates and times. There is no need to contact the call center or customer support.

We regret the inconvenience caused.

 

Edited August 1, 2014 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Guest ExChinaExpat]

 

. . . and this interesting note on the Guangzhou consulate's web site

There is no need to contact the call center or customer support.

The HELL ya Say!

 

 

 

 

After over 30 years working in the technical communications industry, I am no longer surprised to see the wide chasm that separates computer technology in the US private industry from that of US government. It defies logic when a government agency [meaning, any government agency] spends ten times more to create, develop, and maintain a computer communications network than the private sector, that their systems do not work and function with ten times the integrity. These delays and data loss are catastrophic and by our government's own accounts affecting tens of thousands and probably millions of people. No heads will roll for this unacceptable loss. No accountability, no names, no explanation, and no calling to the carpet. Some of the reason it's allowed to continue in the world of US immigration is the strangle hold consulates have on the balls of applicants and petitioners. They are afraid to complain for fear of reprisals by pissed off immigration officials who in fact hold everyone's gonads at the ready on a chopping block.

Edited August 1, 2014 by ExChinaExpat (see edit history)

[tsap seui]

How nice it must be for the company who brought us the wonderful computer set up for Obama Care, as well as being allowed to set up the computer system for immigration, to be able to rake in many millions for their lame efforts, and still have government contracts. LOL Who is in charge of this business called....America? Oh yeah, "who" is on first base, how remiss of me to keep forgetting that. All ya gotta do to get government contracts is be the worst company of the bunch bidding on the contract, ya don't have to be any good, and who cares how you perform.....the bucks roll in and a good time is had by all..er...ah....except for the American citizens and their families.

 

I know my IQ level went up by 60 points just by moving away from the swamp gas air in DC, if our country hadn't been formed in the clear air in Philly back in the day, we'd most likely still be trying to figure out how to grow corn nowadays. This kinda shit begs the question, with all of the governmental stupidity, how the hell did we ever become thought of a world leader....dumb luck??????

Nobody is in charge...and our snowball is rolling down the hill. God bless our unraveling society.

 

tsap seui

How much stupidity can we endure before our train finally rolls to a stop...the "engineers" looking at each other with stupid looks on their faces asking...."What happened?"

[NUWORLD]

How nice it must be for the company who brought us the wonderful computer set up for Obama Care, as well as being allowed to set up the computer system for immigration, to be able to rake in many millions for their lame efforts, and still have government contracts. LOL Who is in charge of this business called....America? Oh yeah, "who" is on first base, how remiss of me to keep forgetting that. All ya gotta do to get government contracts is be the worst company of the bunch bidding on the contract, ya don't have to be any good, and who cares how you perform.....the bucks roll in and a good time is had by all..er...ah....except for the American citizens and their families.

 

I know my IQ level went up by 60 points just by moving away from the swamp gas air in DC, if our country hadn't been formed in the clear air in Philly back in the day, we'd most likely still be trying to figure out how to grow corn nowadays. This kinda shit begs the question, with all of the governmental stupidity, how the hell did we ever become thought of a world leader....dumb luck??????

Nobody is in charge...and our snowball is rolling down the hill. God bless our unraveling society.

 

tsap seui

How much stupidity can we endure before our train finally rolls to a stop...the "engineers" looking at each other with stupid looks on their faces asking...."What happened?"

 

 

Could be any day now buddy, even God himself is scratching his head looking down on these fools.

as for the computers crashing.

 

They know dam well what the problems is and could give a rats ass.

Everyone will be going a vacation for 5 weeks or? how ever long they like.

They know the problem will still be there when they get back. (We'll take care of it them or when we get around to it)

 

Life will go on for these fools and nothing will happen to them.

[lhp]

I got a kick out of reading comments on this slashdot thread about the computer problems. Sounds like USCIS's computer people are just incompetent. What a shocker.

[Randy W]

I got a kick out of reading comments on this slashdot thread about the computer problems. Sounds like USCIS's computer people are just incompetent. What a shocker.

 

 

I hate to play Grammar police here, but it's the Dept. of State computers that are affected, NOT (hopefully) those of the USCIS - it makes a difference as to who's affected, as you can see in other threads.