I’m waiting for a response after administrative processing under 221(g) and I’m trying to make sense of the entries in the status. There’s a field “last update date” — does that mean they looked at our applications that day and closed them? Or is it just a technical system timestamp that doesn’t indicate real progress on the case?
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My date also updated after 221(g) when the case was under review — and there were no letters, no requests. I asked at the consulate; they said “we updated it, check your account”, but didn’t explain what exactly they updated. One person said the date changed for the first time in 21 months precisely when a defendant was appointed in the case — there was real movement, and he thought the coincidence wasn’t accidental. So the date by itself doesn’t tell you anything — you need to see whether there was anything around that time: a letter, a request, movement in the case.
Thanks — that bit about 21 months is spot on, so you should look not at the date itself but whether there was anything real and relevant around it. And for you, after that update, did anything move in the end or is it still hanging?