I used an apostille service. Now that I am doing it a second time for my biometric appt, I used Monument Visa and having them send it directly to the atty
Hi Cocoro,
Please would you send me the name of your immigration lawyer? I really need a good one to sort some things out with my dependents.
Thanks
We used Vanessa Rodrigues Lima of VRL Legal. She is really quite excellent.
Her info is available under the “contact” page.
Thanks and best luck
How long does the FBI Apostille take nowadays ?
Monument Visa told me at the end of June that they’re running at least 3 weeks nowadays, so hopefully close to that.
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I was also told 3 weeks for the FBI apostille.
The current wait for apostille is over 5 weeks. Monument visa just sent me an email that the State dept notified them that the wait is between 4-5 weeks. My personal experience is that my submission on Jul 1 has yet to be apostilled 
I am about a week behind you (July 8th) and no apostille for me yet either.
Also submitted on July 1 and nothing yet.
Submitted on July 21st
My apostille guy said he’s never seen a delay like this. I submitted early July maybe? Have yet to get it
It was worse in spring of 2021. 8-12 weeks due to COVID and WFH issues.
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I submitted FBI docs to an expediter (that I used last year) on June 30 and STILL nothing. He also says it’s the worst he has ever seen. I have only 2 weeks left before travel to Lisbon so I am hoping the apostilles will come. We are at 6 weeks + now, he had said it would be about 3 weeks when I sent them in. ARGGGG!
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Hi Heather
I don’t know who you used . I used Monument Visa and requested they send it directly to my attorney. I submitted Jul 1 and they just notified me that it had been received and sent on Friday. So yours will probably arrive this week.
It’s just one more thing adding to the stress 
The state dept is running around 6 weeks now according to them
Regards
Ravi
Hi Ravi, Thank you for letting me know! Indeed, that gives me some hope!!! I used: fbiapostilleservices.com because I used them last summer and had no issues… got them within the quoted time for back then, which was 4 weeks. Fingers crossed!
Submitted mine (via overnight mail) June 17 and received them in mail 6 weeks later. Arrived just in the nick of time
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Just an update, I got our apostilles back yesterday! It took 47 days.
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DoS is apostilling July 11 - 15 requests currently according to Monument Apostille.
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Just received a shipping confirmation for my apostilled background check that I ordered July 18 via Monument Visa
Apostilles are now taking 10-11 weeks?!??! What now?