sent I-130 to Nebraska 9th January by Royal Mail super dooper fast recorded service (airsure) - letter cost 8 quid..

just got confirmation from royal mail that it arrived on the 19th !

10 days for the very fastest service !

Does anyone know a better service as we will have lots of back and forth with new hampshire later as we are doing it all from the UK...

thanks alan

DHL/UPS/FEDEX.. may cost you more but you'll be able to track your package on thier website.. I think they may also have some sort of grantuee that it'll reach there by a give day or your money back.

I sent a package to India from the US by Fedex.. it was a grantueed 3 day delivery.. cost me about $40 but it got there on the 3rd day.

Good luck.

aahh thanks i tried fedex site but it looks as if its just for parcels

i put in 1 pound weight and it quoted 60 quid or something

I will try again but royal mail are useless

I think Fedex or DHL are both reputable... but Fedex quoted me $146 for 1-3 day service to Poland! So I used a different smaller company and then worried if it would get there on time.

do fedex /dhl etc do letters or is it just parcels ?

still messing around on their sites but it looks as if they are really business parcels service...

as our letters are 500 grams or so max I wondered whether there is a reliable letter service for say 10 or 20 pounds sterling....

I will email em..

When I send a normal letter to the usa it's about £1 gbp and arrives in 5 days - when I use 'airsure' it costs 10 pounds and takes 10 days - seems the more you pay the less reliable it is - but you can track royal mail 'airsure' two weeks later (after their tea break ?)

If there was a way to contact USCIS and make sure they received stuff I would do that but I cant call the 1-800 number from outside the USA so that wont work

i will report back if i find a way to do this...

Fedex must do letters as well as parcels. Check to see if there is a local Fedex store where you live. When I sent my letter to india it was weighted.. and there were a number of options for delivery 3 day 5-7 day etc..

just got a quote for a parcel from fedex (they don't distinguish parcel/letter)

8 inches by 11 inches by 1 inch weighing 1 pound max is £56 cheapest and £75 quick

I don't want to pay more than £20 for a letter so i guess I am stuck with 'airsure' from royal mail which drifts across on a large red balloon with a label which says 'if found, please send to USCIS Nebraska' as far as I can tell


oh well back to my book on defeating defeatism and how to think more positively

Do you have any family or friends here in the USA? If so, perhaps you can send the documents ahead of time to the USA, and then when the time comes for the paper work to be sent to NVC your family/friend can send it from here. It costs me $14 to send my paperwork to NVC by the US postal services for next day delivery... just a thought..

Thats good thinking - we have sent the I-130 and expecting the NOA1 in the next week or two - then I guess the next paperwork will be from new hampshire..

I reckon we could send the visa forms and payments to Carolyn's mother but she would have to date them etc when the time comes and she isnt that young any more and might do some stuff wrongly... and when it comes to barcodes etc.... nope she couldn't handle that stuff...

I will definitely have a look at what could be done with no input from her mother - its worth thinking about - especially in the absence of a reliable mail service from the UK to USA for less than £50
Perhaps we should set up a delivery service for US letters ! Stick em all in 1 parcel and fedex it and separate them and mail them at the other end ? hum ???? We could do it for about £3 a letter and guarantee 5 days I bet. If only...