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Abena ne

@Spencer Gee Gold haha you are right 😶

hibbasaleem18

@hibbasaleem18 haha pity you say it can take 6 months you may never know my husband says it 😶
-@Abena ne

Oh I wish your husband is wrong in this 😭

And it just takes 3 months 😢

Heard so many people here getting their visas approved in approx 3 months

hibbasaleem18

@hibbasaleem18 haha pity you say it can take 6 months you may never know my husband says it 😶
-@Abena ne

Haha o I wish your husband is wrong in this 😭

Seen so many people sharing their stories here in which their visa got approved in 3 months 😭

Abena ne

@hibbasaleem18 haha 🤣, i wish is wrong some take even take 2.5 but some also take 6months , good news is what we wait for at the end 🤩

Abena ne

@Spencer Gee Gold hey , how is yours going ? You are 4 months in and nothing yet ?

Spencer Gee Gold

@Spencer Gee Gold hey , how is yours going ? You are 4 months in and nothing yet ?
-@Abena ne

Yes I’m still anticipating but I know I could get results anytime from now. Please who on here has tracked his or her application today, because there is error on the page, even in Belgium too when my wife tried to track it for me

netvirpret101

@Spencer Gee Gold hey , how is yours going ? You are 4 months in and nothing yet ?
-@Abena ne
Yes I’m still anticipating but I know I could get results anytime from now. Please who on here has tracked his or her application today, because there is error on the page, even in Belgium too when my wife tried to track it for me
-@Spencer Gee Gold

I'm also getting the error message. I phoned my embassy this week and they said due to the holiday season the processing might be delayed. I wonder how long the holiday season is, is it the entire 3 months of summer?

Spencer Gee Gold

@Spencer Gee Gold hey , how is yours going ? You are 4 months in and nothing yet ?
-@Abena ne
Yes I’m still anticipating but I know I could get results anytime from now. Please who on here has tracked his or her application today, because there is error on the page, even in Belgium too when my wife tried to track it for me
-@Spencer Gee Gold
I'm also getting the error message. I phoned my embassy this week and they said due to the holiday season the processing might be delayed. I wonder how long the holiday season is, is it the entire 3 months of summer?
-@netvirpret101

If I may ask, when did you get the error message??? Today or before today?? Because it did so last 3 weeks too. And pertaining to the summer holidays, I don’t think that the site’s error glitch is associated with it in any way. How along are you???

hibbasaleem18

@Spencer Gee Gold hey , how is yours going ? You are 4 months in and nothing yet ?
-@Abena ne
Yes I’m still anticipating but I know I could get results anytime from now. Please who on here has tracked his or her application today, because there is error on the page, even in Belgium too when my wife tried to track it for me
-@Spencer Gee Gold


Yep it has an error today.

hibbasaleem18

@Spencer Gee Gold hey , how is yours going ? You are 4 months in and nothing yet ?
-@Abena ne
Yes I’m still anticipating but I know I could get results anytime from now. Please who on here has tracked his or her application today, because there is error on the page, even in Belgium too when my wife tried to track it for me
-@Spencer Gee Gold
I'm also getting the error message. I phoned my embassy this week and they said due to the holiday season the processing might be delayed. I wonder how long the holiday season is, is it the entire 3 months of summer?
-@netvirpret101


I don't think they can take a break from so many applications this long, plus the holidays are for the schools right :( why do these people have to slower our process which is already slow :

Abena ne

@hibbasaleem18 it is not only school holidays , actualy work holiday also where workers can take 4 weeks of vacation so hence they said application should be done before holiday seasons   and spencer yes  is so long hopefully application of feburary and march can get a postive news before the holiday seasons ☺

netvirpret101

@Spencer Gee Gold hey , how is yours going ? You are 4 months in and nothing yet ?
-@Abena ne
Yes I’m still anticipating but I know I could get results anytime from now. Please who on here has tracked his or her application today, because there is error on the page, even in Belgium too when my wife tried to track it for me
-@Spencer Gee Gold
I'm also getting the error message. I phoned my embassy this week and they said due to the holiday season the processing might be delayed. I wonder how long the holiday season is, is it the entire 3 months of summer?
-@netvirpret101
If I may ask, when did you get the error message??? Today or before today?? Because it did so last 3 weeks too. And pertaining to the summer holidays, I don’t think that the site’s error glitch is associated with it in any way. How along are you???
-@Spencer Gee Gold

When I checked this afternoon the error message was there, but I remember a couple of weeks ago it was the same. They must be working on the site. [link under review]

skenderajprekaz

@netvirpret101 i think so they are working in site if was a holiday it has not to be anything with error

Abena ne

@Spencer Gee Gold i just tried to track it but it says error 🤷🏽‍♀️

peterjohn1104

@Spencer Gee Gold hey , how is yours going ? You are 4 months in and nothing yet ?
-@Abena ne
Yes I’m still anticipating but I know I could get results anytime from now. Please who on here has tracked his or her application today, because there is error on the page, even in Belgium too when my wife tried to track it for me
-@Spencer Gee Gold
I'm also getting the error message. I phoned my embassy this week and they said due to the holiday season the processing might be delayed. I wonder how long the holiday season is, is it the entire 3 months of summer?
-@netvirpret101

Haha, they have 20-32 days of holidays and I dont believe they use them all in summer.


but they always insist that its summer holidays and pretend to be as they are not in the office the whole summer :))

Abena ne

@peterjohn1104 lol 🤣🤣, so that means they not working july ? 😒😒

Spencer Gee Gold

@hibbasaleem18 it is not only school holidays , actualy work holiday also where workers can take 4 weeks of vacation so hence they said application should be done before holiday seasons  and spencer yes is so long hopefully application of feburary and march can get a postive news before the holiday seasons ☺
-@Abena ne

Yes I really hope so too

Spencer Gee Gold

@Spencer Gee Gold hey , how is yours going ? You are 4 months in and nothing yet ?
-@Abena ne
Yes I’m still anticipating but I know I could get results anytime from now. Please who on here has tracked his or her application today, because there is error on the page, even in Belgium too when my wife tried to track it for me
-@Spencer Gee Gold
I'm also getting the error message. I phoned my embassy this week and they said due to the holiday season the processing might be delayed. I wonder how long the holiday season is, is it the entire 3 months of summer?
-@netvirpret101
If I may ask, when did you get the error message??? Today or before today?? Because it did so last 3 weeks too. And pertaining to the summer holidays, I don’t think that the site’s error glitch is associated with it in any way. How along are you???
-@Spencer Gee Gold
When I checked this afternoon the error message was there, but I remember a couple of weeks ago it was the same. They must be working on the site. [link under review]
-@netvirpret101

Yes you are right, it happened weeks ago, the incident really made me panic as I saw a frightful message on my decision column but when I refreshed the page immediately, it came back as still “in treatment” I advice they should fix the site once and for all because a lot of people are depending in the site.

Spencer Gee Gold

@Spencer Gee Gold i just tried to track it but it says error 🤷🏽‍♀️
-@Abena ne

Same here even till this morning, I’ve tried it like 10 times but it’s same

hibbasaleem18

Hey everyone one more thing, the one's who applied for family reunion, did you guys get your documents legalized by the embassy?? I mean did you get them legalized before submitting the whole file or did you collectively gave all the documents at once?

Like in my case I submitted the documents for legalization first, and when I got them back I submitted my whole file after it when I got the appointment

How did you guys do it?

Abena ne

@Spencer Gee Gold fritful message ? Oh i hope it gets fixed soon

Abena ne

@hibbasaleem18 exactly as you did , that is the required way

Spencer Gee Gold

@Spencer Gee Gold fritful message ? Oh i hope it gets fixed soon
-@Abena ne

Same here

Spencer Gee Gold

Good morning everyone, please has anyone tracked his or her application this morning? I tried to track mine but the error page still keeps popping up.

vinothinijaikumar

Hi Spencer.. Yes still the site is down.  Getting Runtime error.

netvirpret101

Good morning everyone, please has anyone tracked his or her application this morning? I tried to track mine but the error page still keeps popping up.
-@Spencer Gee Gold

It's up an running again 😀

vinothinijaikumar

Hi All .. now the IBZ site is working!!

Abena ne

Hi dears , how long does ibz take to register on thier site and now 15weeks for me 😕

hibbasaleem18

Hi dears , how long does ibz take to register on thier site and now 15weeks for me 😕
-@Abena ne

Mine is 6 weeks and no tracking

Why is your taking sooo long, I think you should email the embassy and ask

hibbasaleem18

I think they will never reply on time. Has anyone of you ever seen the Belgium Immigration Office reviews on Google? There are so bad, nobody's satisfied with their responses and service.

Everyone has the same complain that they don't respond even physically on the counter!!! And make the people also wait so much even who are on the walk in appointments

Abena ne

@hibbasaleem18 after our application we never heard anything, until mail them last week only for them to say it is under processing and if they need anything they will let us know or at the end of the procedure and on june 24 at 12am we got an official email stating our file has been sent to fps and we shouldnt contact ibz until the end of the procedure because info desk wont give us the answer right away , 15 weeks  and still waiting yet to be registered , spencer said earlier he applied 28th febuary and hasnt gotten any response so it is confusing🤷🏽‍♀️

Abena ne

@hibbasaleem18 when you track it what does it says ? Mine says incorrect data blah blah like the usual response 🙄

hibbasaleem18

@hibbasaleem18 after our application we never heard anything, until mail them last week only for them to say it is under processing and if they need anything they will let us know or at the end of the procedure and on june 24 at 12am we got an official email stating our file has been sent to fps and we shouldnt contact ibz until the end of the procedure because info desk wont give us the answer right away , 15 weeks and still waiting yet to be registered , spencer said earlier he applied 28th febuary and hasnt gotten any response so it is confusing🤷🏽‍♀️
-@Abena ne


This is very strange, why are they taking so long.

They don't even bother to write new emails, they just have to send the default ones, but they are so lazy. I hope they respond soon to everyone

hibbasaleem18

@hibbasaleem18 when you track it what does it says ? Mine says incorrect data blah blah like the usual response 🙄
-@Abena ne


Mine says the exact as yours

Spencer Gee Gold

@hibbasaleem18 after our application we never heard anything, until mail them last week only for them to say it is under processing and if they need anything they will let us know or at the end of the procedure and on june 24 at 12am we got an official email stating our file has been sent to fps and we shouldnt contact ibz until the end of the procedure because info desk wont give us the answer right away , 15 weeks and still waiting yet to be registered , spencer said earlier he applied 28th febuary and hasnt gotten any response so it is confusing🤷🏽‍♀️
-@Abena ne

Yes @Abena was right, 17 weeks today and still no results. It’s has been “in treatment” since. Well like I always say,…in this kind of situation, all we can do is wait

Abena ne

@Spencer Gee Gold meanwhile some march applications have been approved  , yeah all we need to do is wait ,  , yes at @hibsalem they work in thier own time

Spencer Gee Gold

@Spencer Gee Gold meanwhile some march applications have been approved , yeah all we need to do is wait , , yes at @hibsalem they work in thier own time
-@Abena ne

Yes I know that some March applications had been approved and some of the are even in Belgium or planning to go. Yet,….all we can do is still wait till when they find it deem fit for each individual’s result to be out.

Abena ne

@Spencer Gee Gold have yall called ibz yet ? We waiting till july then we can call

netvirpret101

@Spencer Gee Gold have yall called ibz yet ? We waiting till july then we can call
-@Abena ne

We have tried so many times, but the call is always unanswered. You hold for 45min then you get cut off.

Spencer Gee Gold

@Spencer Gee Gold have yall called ibz yet ? We waiting till july then we can call
-@Abena ne
We have tried so many times, but the call is always unanswered. You hold for 45min then you get cut off.
-@netvirpret101

Exactly same here, they never responded

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