The number I used was 1-800-375-5283. Calling today or tomorrow should will work out better. expect to be waiting for 20 minutes or so before you get someone.


now for an UPDATE!!! Tina has received a date for her interview, October 8th!! Just got off the phone with her, she has her medical on the 25th of this month so that will be out of the way. Things are moving now.

Congrats! things will move quickly now for you I'm sure! Thanks for that number!

CONGRATS! Our interview is on the 6th! I am flying out on the 3rd and just booked return flights yesterday for October 14th. I was going to wait for the visas to be in our hands before getting the flight, but when I checked yesterday, the flights I needed were going quickly. I gambled and booked the flights...now the Embassy had better not delay things!
GOOD LUCK!

Congrats to both of you guys on the scheduling of the upcoming interviews! It's about time, huh! ?! I hope that things go well for the interviews and that the visas are promptly issued and in your fiancees' hands!

THANKS! :-)

Hey guys...finally an update from my side. My Fiancee and I were both trying to call the embassy last night. I kept trying and trying but couldn't get through. I gave up after 30 mins. So 45 seconds I get a call from my fiancee telling me that her interview is on September 29th! I think she got her Packet 4 today as well.

So....almost there!

Thanks Don!

A delightful update! Dennis and I just got back to our hotel from our interview. We were at the embassy for almost four hours..and it was worth every minute. We were called up to hand in our paperwork and the lady who took it was VERY impressed with our organization (yay VJ!), then sat back down. Then Dennis was called up for his fingerprints and we were told to sit and wait for our interview. While waiting we heard the two couples in front of us have their interviews, one had been denied for a tourist visa last year because the officers didn't believe she would come back at that time. They were finally approved after a pretty in depth interview. The other couple asked specifically when they could pick up their visa and were told that it was impossible to do them same day, because the information has to go back to Washington and they were already closed there. Both couples were called up, told to sit back down, then called up for additional interviewing

They called Dennis up (I was allowed to go with him) and spent less than five minutes with the interviewer. She asked how we'd met, what type of wedding we were planning on having, and what we each did for work. Then she said those magical five words "I'm satisfied with your relationship." She sent us over to the first window to get instructions. The lady there said that the consulate will be closed tomorrow! Normally you can pick up your visa the next day at Vancouver...we were a bit panicking then because we have plane tickets to fly back home tomorrow night! The lady told us to sit down and she would try to print the visa right then and there for us. We sat for another hour or so and she called us up and gave us the sealed packet and returned Dennis' passport! Apparently we REALLY impressed her, since they had just told someone else it was impossible to do, but made an exception for us!

Thank you all for the well wishes and the support through this process, it's taken SO long, but finally we'll be heading home together! We leave Canada on Friday and are going to drive back to Salt Lake. I hope everyone who is still waiting gets their good news soon!

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations Andrea to you and Dennis!!!!!

CONGRATS Andrea!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It feels good knowing the this part of the journey is almost over. At least when we go through AOS we will be able to be with our SO's. We are leaving for America early tomorrow morning. My baby is nervous but excited too. I'll post all of our experiences in greater detail when I get back home and things calm down a little

Nailed on, girl!!!!!! Just a few more stragglers to get approved from the fine February batch now (talking of which, I must phone the Kiev embassy and badmouth cwaf! )

CONGRATS!! I am very happy for you both!


no no no! not that!! ;-)

How do I make new letter of intent for the interview? I tried doing a search and all I can find is how to do the one you send with the original petition.

Use the same, just change the date

Julia how did it go!?!?!?!

I passed, just got back 25 minutes ago, and already emailed the embassy. My Medical Report wasn't there yet, and I had it done over 4 weeks ago. They told me to call the doc and that they will get in touch with him as well. So I called the doc right after calling Craig, and they told me that they had send it out weeks ago. But the most important thing I passed!
Left at 3.45am, got there at 6.30am (after we turned wrong once), was 5th in my line, but first for a K Visa. Got out at 9am. On the way home we made a few more wrong turnes and got home at 12.30pm, 488.?? kilometers later. My Mom drove with me, since I was so nervous. They talked all the time in German with me, and they just looked at me a little bit weird because my hands were a little bit shaking when they took my fingerprints.
So now I will book my Moms flight for the wedding first, and check out some more flights for me (don't wanna book any before I get an answer from Frankfurt).

Interview confirmed: 20th October, 9am - you beat me to it, Gareth!!!!

Great news!! Tina goes for her medical on the 25th. Would they give her a copy of the report if she asked? Anything special she should look for in Frankfurt?

They won't be able to do that, since it takes a day or two to get the result I think, but she will get the xray and she should ask the Doc to give her the form DS 3025 (Vaccination Documentation Worksheet)!!! They mailed it to me, after I asked, you will need it for AOS. Nothing special in Frnakfurt, wait in the Non-Immigration line, sit in the yellow area (window 16-23). They were all so nice, and so helpful. Didn't ask for any proof of ongoing relationship, took copy of birth certific, copy and original of I-134+some of the W2 and the other papers to support it, and the original police certific. Stamps and a pen is good to have as well, and 1 more 5x5 passport pic. Like I said (I think I did) I was first, and was done and out at 9am. There were a total of 8 people going for K1 Interview that early.

Hello old friends February filers!


I had my K1 interview in the London consulate Thursday 18th Sept 2008.....and was APPROVED!!! Awesome.

Thanks to everyone who has been supporting us throughout this process. You are all amazing and we hope that knowing we are all in this together continues to give strength to those waiting for the interview.

John and Amy

Congrats Dennis and Andrea. You both have been such a great source of strength,comfort and good advice. Its so lovely to hear you were approved, and so nice in particular for me because I was approved for our K1 within 24 hours of yours....its so nice to have been on the journey with you!!!

Just want to let everyone know that Michelle is finally here with me in the U.S. now. She's still a little in shock, but her and the kids are already getting close. It feels SO GOOD to have all of this behind us now.POE was Detroit and we breezed right through in about 5 minutes with no problems. I can't remember the last time I was this happy Thanks everyone on VJ for all the supprot. I couldn't have done this without the knowledge and support from everyone here. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Congratulations to you both!!!



Congratulations Jon!! Glad to hear that, after all of these months and all of the frustration. you and Michelle are finally together again and here in the U.S.!!

Tania will be flying into Chicago on Wednesday, and I'll be there to meet her and accompany her to Kansas and her new home!!

Congratulations to everyone who had good news while I was gone! Dennis and I crossed the border at Emerson/Pembina (North Dakota). We got a guy who was doing his first K1 visa, but he was really friendly and we worked through it together. I'm glad that I had VJ because he tried to give us the original packet back! I was like "I don't think we're supposed to get that back..." he went to check with a more experienced officer then came back and told us we were right and he was supposed to keep it. Took about an hour, then they let us through. We drove the 23-ish hours back to Salt Lake, across North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, then Utah. Not much to see in ND or MT except cows and fields! We got home yesterday afternoon. It's so wonderful to finally have him at home. We'll get married on Thursday and then it's on to AOS/EAD/AP.

Nice work! Next up, we gotta get cwaf through on the 6th!

Congrats to all! hey, I am working on it! I fly to Ukraine on October 3rd, the interview is on the 6th, I have the return flights booked for October 14th, and just booked the wedding for November 25th at Key West on the beach. It will be a small, private, but hopefully romantic wedding just before sunset.

Just wondering if there are any other February filers out there that have not received their NOA2 yet?

I hope we get through on the 2nd.

You will be fine! :-) I just have to get myself through 4 1/2 work days and then I get to fly to my sweetheart!

Not sure about being fine.

3 days to go and I am as nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof.

I am officially a married woman! We had a teeny, tiny ceremony at my church on Thursday with just my mom, one of my good friends, my little brother, and my father there. Then Dennis and I took off for a mini honeymoon at a little B&B a couple hours north of here. It was wonderful and it feels so good to finally be married after all of that waiting! It was worth every minute of the wait to get to where we are now.

wow andrea best wishes and congrats to your husband.....i believe you're the 1st feb CSC filer in VJ to get married. God bless you and your husband!

CONGRATS! mine is scheduled, but not until November 25th. It will also be a small, intimate wedding on the beach at Key West.

Thank you for the thoughts everyone! Now we need to get the rest of February through the process! We'll be filing for AOS/EAD/AP as soon as we get the official certificate back from the state (they mail it to us...hopefully we'll get it in the next two weeks or so). It's so nice to finally have Dennis home. He's already itching to be able to work. He all but has a job waiting for him as soon as the EAD is approved (he ran into a former boss about a week before leaving Canada who was also in the immigration process, only he was moving for a job in LA...the former boss said "I work closely with a company who needs a guy like you in Salt Lake. Let me know as soon as you have your work permit.") Right now he's getting everything unpacked and moved...the relocube was delivered yesterday so now he has all of his stuff.

Firstly, congrats on the wedding. Secondly, you're right - we DO need to get the rest of us February stragglers through. I believe there's only three of us left now: Ray (tomorrow) cwaf (Monday) and me (20th). Then we can pretty much lay the February filers thread to rest!

Tina has her interview on October 8th. So that makes 4.

What time is her Interview?

It is 8:30am.

Nope you're wrong!!!

The ghost come back

I' will have my interview on the 15th!!!

So today the embassy called me to say. Hi, we just called you to tell you that the visa's fees changed. Now its 98,25 euros beside 89 euros before. If you've already paid don't take care... nope i don't have... grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Hugs and kisses to you all

Welcome back MissYoko. It's crazy how much this whole process costs! We'll be filing AOS/EAD/AP at the beginning of next week...bleh! Another $1015 off to the government so that we can...wait some more.

oooooooooh yes and for me visas fees are *2 for k2
AOS/EAD/AP will be more expensive too...
but we don't care, we just want to be together.

Richard will be there on the 14! He will stay there 'till we all fly to Chicago on the 30.

Right now i'm just so scary by the interview... 13 days to wait and see...

Don't worry too much. Just make sure you have everything you need and that you're confident. At our interview they clearly gave us an easier time because we were extremely organized and had everything they asked for within a few seconds. The other two couples were searching through various packages and didn't know what they had or where it was. Just follow all of the instructions and advice you've gotten on VJ and you'll be fine

Oh hello stranger!! What's the matter? Are we not good enough for you now you're nearly home and hosed, mmmmmmmmmm????? Only joking - nice to see you, Chantal. OK, so there's 5 of us that need to get through before we can sign this thread off. Actually, Ray's missus had her interview yesterday - Ray, where are ya???? Did it go through OK?

No did not get through it OK

I'm sorry
What happened?

What went wrong, Ray?

Hello old february mates. I feel like a stranger here. I got overwhelmed and depressed waiting to hear from the London Embassy, so I took some time off the forum - I found it was making me more stressed checking everyone else's progress all the time.

Anyway I managed to stay just the right side of a nervous breakdown and today DOS told me I have my interview on 29 October, giving me a plausible chance of making my November wedding date.

I hope you are all well and busy getting ready for the big moves. Some of you must be there and settled already.

I am sorry to read that Ray had problems at the interview. You are not the only one and I hope it can be resolved quickly.

Congratulations Andrea!


I am sorry. You are in my prayers. God bless you.

So we're discussing our big honeymoon after the big ceremony in May and are trying to figure out where to go. We don't want to plan outside of the US because it isn't worth the stress over whether we'll get the AP in time or not...but I was thinking...anyone know if Puerto Rico is ok? Technically it's part of the US...you don't need a passport to go (I've never been there, so I don't know all of the policies)...but I would really hate to get there and then not be able to come back home.