Which path do I take?

[dulce_lluvia 0]

I received a letter from the NVC that my petition is on it's way to Kabul, and that they will contact my fiance when they are ready to begin processing.

However the letter also gives a website where I can do the next steps and prepare for the interview.

In the next steps, after filing the DS-160 for Kabul, the instructions at the confirmation page has a list of documents i will need, and instructions on how i should set up my own interview.

But from what I have been reading, and from another page from the U.S Embassy in Kabul, it says that once my package is there, they will contact my fiance and mail it to him. Then he will return it signed, along with any other documentation they ask him to fill out, and then they will give him an appointment date. So i am completely confused now.

Do i make the interview date myself, and expect them to have received my petition by then, or am i supposed to wait for them to give me an interview?

Has anyone else experienced this?

Thank You.

[pch1 64]

Follow the steps provided...

http://kabul.usembassy.gov/applying_for_a_visa.html

[sunnysoshi123 0]

Hi there!

I was confused by this as well and the people in Kabul won't answer questions on the phone so while I'm waiting for a response to my email I called the NVC and asked them:

Basically what the person told me was that although a K1 Visa is a non-immigrant visa, some other countries consider it as an immigrant visa, this includes Afghanistan. For this reason, we have different paperwork/steps than some of the other countries on this website. The best option he said was to wait till the embassy contacts you regarding your case DON'T SUBMIT ANYTHING UNTIL THE EMBASSY CONTACTS YOU. Until then, start gathering your affidavit of support documents and maybe do some mock-interviews with your fiance. Honestly it's just a matter of waiting.

I also confirmed this with the medical clinic because I was going to check and see when to schedule my fiance's medical exam and the person who answered was very helpful and also said that for a K1 visa you need to wait till they contact you because when they contact you they will give you the documents they need, your interview date, and medical exam date. You do all of this at once and the embassy contacts you at every point apparently.

Note: I haven't actually gone through all of this yet but this is what I have gathered from a family friend who brought his fiance over this past December and what I've gotten from the NVC, hope this helps! Good luck and inshallah I hope this process goes smoothly for you and your fiance :-)

[Amhara 460]

The process has changed a little since we went through it last year. Then, you had to wait 6-8 weeks for the embassy to schedule an appointment for you which was another 4-6 weeks out. Now, based on the experience of other Kabul applicants, it seems they are scheduling appointments within a matter of a few weeks and requesting that the applicant get their medical exam AFTER the interview.

My guy was able to schedule his medical before his interview was scheduled. That worked really well for us because as it turned out, he only had one day from when he came back from Spring classes to go to the medical and his appointment happened to be a week later. Having the medical after the interview is good because they can work your AP case (if necessary) while the medical results come back.

In our case, we paid the AMC to administer all the vaccines, but they didn't, only Polio. We filed the AOS paperwork as is and started working on getting the vaccines (which were free under the health insurance anyways!) but his medical apparently had a medical waiver. HIs conditional GC was issued without the I-693 for his vaccination records. So if your fiance doesn't get all the vaccines at the AMC, then you might be better off. You don't need to get them all if you are over a certain age.

At this point, make sure he has everything - his MRP, tazkira, passport photos, proof of relationship, Form I-134, tax forms and the print out from the DS-160. The instructions on the Kabul embassy site are confusing, contradictory and out of date. Go by their e-mails more than anything.

[KayDeeCee 4,891]

Hi there!

I was confused by this as well and the people in Kabul won't answer questions on the phone so while I'm waiting for a response to my email I called the NVC and asked them:

Basically what the person told me was that although a K1 Visa is a non-immigrant visa, some other countries consider it as an immigrant visa, this includes Afghanistan. For this reason, we have different paperwork/steps than some of the other countries on this website.

The K-1 visa interviews are conducted by the immigrant visa units of US consulates in all countries. It is a non-immigrant visa but it has immigrant intent, so it is a special visa type in that regard. Each consulate can have their own procedures and requirements, but they all go through the immigrant visa unit.

Don't follow the steps for applying for a non-immigrant visa as was suggested in an earlier reply in this thread.

Edited May 16, 2016 by KayDeeCee