I've scanned through the forum and don't see anyone that's asked the same thing as my question. It seems there should be a simple answer, but I'm not sure where to find it or how to search for it. I was poking around my embassy site and the NVC site and didn't see anything that looked relevant.

ok, so we have a K3 that's at the embassy. as of yesterday, it didn't have an interview date. By the time next month rolls around, it just might. However, I'm also hoping that next month we'll make it out of the NVC. When that happens and our CR1 is shipped out, it will knock our K3 out of the interview list. Hooray for progress. Now, apparently for *some* embassies a new date is scheduled. This sucks. I guess for others, the interview for the IR1/CR1 replaces the K3 interview timeslot. This would be a good thing.

But alas! How do I know which is which? Is there a list somewhere? Is there a term for this that I could have used in a search? Thanks for whatever pointers you might have. ttyl,

mich

Hi mich

I remember this situation being mentioned in the CR-1 forum on the old site. Im just having a look now and will let you know if I find it.

thanks aussie. i know i've seen it floating back and forth in mentions, but don't even remember a real answer as to who does what... but then again, i didn't get to read every post in the old forums if anyone can find it, i'm sure you can ttyl,

mich

what happens is if you have date for k-3 visa and the Cr1 make it to the embassy- the embassy
can interview you for the CR1. if you already interviewed for the k-3 and the CR1
happens to make it in the nick of time. then the k-3 will still cancell even if you interviewed on it.

I can understand how this would happen and why it would make sense, but you can't just go there and say "you'll interview me for my CR1, not my K3", right? Doesn't the CO have forms and paperwork (such as your petitions) there to examine during the interview? If you're scheduled for a K3, that's the paperwork that the CO will have sitting there, correct? When you go there, you just need to make sure that the CO has the right paperwork and if not, send that person to fetch the right documents? And how would this work with your medical and such? Apparently, in Manila, you submit the passport with the medical, but these are tagged with the case number, correct? So again, these wouldn't be with the other paperwork.

I emailed the NVC to ask for clarification on this process, if Manila was an embassy where this happens, and if this information (ie a list) was somewhere available on their website and it was completely ignored. Instead the person answered my other question about the status of my I-864 (since the NVC number kept dropping me), four days later. So I shall have to reply with my wording phrased a little more aggressively. When I talked to an operator on the phone, she didn't have any idea what I was talking about either. She was telling me that they don't have information from the embassy regarding my other interview... so it seems that she was trying to indicate to me that it's never substituted.

This seems to be getting even more confusing than clear ttyl,

mich

Good luck, mich!! I hope you get a positive answer soon.

Mich,

It is possible that you may get your K-3 interview sooner than IR1/CR1 interview. But, if both paperwork happen to arrive at the embassy around at the same time, the Embassy may schedule the IR1/CR1 interview only. You can email the Embassy and they can hopefully answer how they would handle the situation.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the K3 will be first. Other case numbers right near our K3 number are already getting dates around Sept 21. I'm pretty confident that ours should be about then too - maybe even our packet 3 has been sent, if we'll see results similar to those listed in the manila interview thread. So our interview should be published in the next couple weeks (in the midJuly list). We were going to call to find out if we already had an interview, but decided that it wasn't worth the $18 fee to find out something we'll know for free in two more weeks.

Since we're still in the NVC, I'm not expecting our CR1 paperwork to be case complete until the end of July, or even August, based on delivery times and case complete estimates. At which time our K3 interview date will have long been set and published. So it looks like they will be sequential, as I suspected before. How these affect each other (if at all) is still the huge question here.

I guess I may need to figure out how to contact the embassy since the NVC doesn't seem to know. They ignored that question in my email, haven't replied to my follow up, and the human operator didn't seem to really know. I'm a bit hesitant to try emailing the embassy again, though, since they've ignored the last two emails I sent (20 May 2006 and 15 June 2006). kainis sobra! ttyl,

mich