iluvmymac
Apr 25 2007, 06:51 PM
QUOTE(ribki @ Apr 25 2007, 10:31 PM)
We just received an email notification from the US Embassy in Kyiv that our I-130 petition was approved and we can now make a visa appointment through their new Call Center ($12 for an 8 minute call). It took about 14 days from DCF submission of the I-130 to their saying they had received all the security checks (the Adam Walsh checks, I guess).
You have to pay to make an appointment? Jeeeeeeez.
ribki
Apr 26 2007, 02:00 AM
You have to pay to make an appointment? Jeeeeeeez.
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Oh yeah we have to pay. In fact when I called to make an appointment and went through a maze of punching through the menu (finally was able to pay with the credit card for a pin code), after about 4 minutes of my 8 minute card I was told to call back today because they did not have my information on file yet.
So DO NOT TRY to set up your appointment the day they email you from the embassy. I am thinking now about waiting till tomorrow to give them some extra time and to send my docs from the embassy to the call center.
ribki
May 3 2007, 10:01 AM
To update our Kyiv DCF experience, after our I-130 petition was filed and playing phone tag with the Call Center and the embassy, we were finally able to make a visa interview appointment for June 11, the earliest date available--a 5 week wait for the interview.
They still seem to be having problems with the Call Center. Finally, someone at the embassy said to call again but to push 3 to talk to an operator, not the normal route for making the appointment, the route of not buying another $12 pin code for 8 minutes of talk time. Through that person we were finally able to make the appointment. Two other times we were told our info had not been sent to them by the embassy and we couldn't make the appointment. They then asked for our pin code. My wife gave her the old pin code and she took it. She thought there was no money left on it. Anyway, good luck to anyone who works with this Call Center. Hopefully, they will soon work out all the bugs.