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Hi everyone. First time posting but I have been reading other posts for a while. Don't want to get into a ton of details but my fiance and I had to file an I-601 waiver. We filed in April of this year and today the embassy called her and asked her to come in for fingerprints. Our status on the uscis website still says in review. What's the normal process for Visa approval? Has anyone experienced this?

Thanks for any information you might be able to give. Just curious, and maybe excited a little, if this is approval or not.

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Hi everyone. First time posting but I have been reading other posts for a while. Don't want to get into a ton of details but my fiance and I had to file an I-601 waiver. We filed in April of this year and today the embassy called her and asked her to come in for fingerprints. Our status on the uscis website still says in review. What's the normal process for Vida approval? Has anyone experienced this?

Thanks for any information you might be able to give. Just curious, and maybe excited a little, if this is approval or not.

why you guys filed I-601? What is that?

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I-601 waiver of inadmissibility. It's a long, long story, but an immigration officer in Detroit accused her of missrepresenting her visa when she came to the US on a tourist visa.

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Hi everyone. First time posting but I have been reading other posts for a while. Don't want to get into a ton of details but my fiance and I had to file an I-601 waiver. We filed in April of this year and today the embassy called her and asked her to come in for fingerprints. Our status on the uscis website still says in review. What's the normal process for Visa approval? Has anyone experienced this?

Thanks for any information you might be able to give. Just curious, and maybe excited a little, if this is approval or not.

The fact that a 601 was needed reveals this case isn't normal so the process is masked behind those details. Do they have her passport?

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No they did not take her passport from her. Just an immigration office on a power trip.she has legally been in and out of America on a couple of different types of visas, without trouble, in the past.

Just curious to find out if anyone who has gone through the I-601 knows what the process is.

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No they did not take her passport from her. Just an immigration office on a power trip.she has legally been in and out of America on a couple of different types of visas, without trouble, in the past.

Just curious to find out if anyone who has gone through the I-601 knows what the process is.

I was asking if the embassy officer took her passport.

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I was asking if the embassy officer took her passport.

No, they didn't take it from her. I know once the visa is approved they need to stamp it. So we aren't that far along I guess.

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No, they didn't take it from her. I know once the visa is approved they need to stamp it. So we aren't that far along I guess.

At some point if she is approved for the interview and passes that interview they will take her passport to insert the visa. That process takes about 3 days.

I think there is something very strange about this for the embassy to ask for finger prints at that stage. This must mean they see something in their records that causes concern so they are going to send the prints to the FBI . That is a guess only.

There are other members that know a lot more than I do about these waivers so hopefully they will respond soon.

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At some point if she is approved for the interview and passes that interview they will take her passport to insert the visa. That process takes about 3 days.

I think there is something very strange about this for the embassy to ask for finger prints at that stage. This must mean they see something in their records that causes concern so they are going to send the prints to the FBI . That is a guess only.

There are other members that know a lot more than I do about these waivers so hopefully they will respond soon.

I know that once the visa is approved they will have to take her passport for a few days. She has had other visas approved for admittance into the US. Which also means she has had her fingerprints taken before. I have read on other posts that they like to update the prints too. It all seems different than what others have said, which had brought me to this forum and to ask if anyone has done this before.

Thanks for the ideas though.

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No one has any experience to speak of? It's been almost 2 weeks and nothing has changed. Our status still says "in review". Just wanted to bump this topic up to see if anyone else would respond.

Thanks again.

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Ok, so I have an update. I contacted my senator here and asked them to contact the USCIS. my senator did this and a few days latter our status changed to approved. I'm so happy. our i-601 was filed at the nebraska service center on april 14 2014. We were approved October 7 2014. My question now is will my fiance have to do another interview at the embassy? I've read about others saying that they didn't have to do it, but i've also heard others say they did. I'm not sure if there is a difference between the 1-601 and the 601A?

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Ok, so I have an update. I contacted my senator here and asked them to contact the USCIS. my senator did this and a few days latter our status changed to approved. I'm so happy. our i-601 was filed at the nebraska service center on april 14 2014. We were approved October 7 2014. My question now is will my fiance have to do another interview at the embassy? I've read about others saying that they didn't have to do it, but i've also heard others say they did. I'm not sure if there is a difference between the 1-601 and the 601A?

thanks

I'm going to move this to the Waiver forum. I assume the process is the same for all approved waivers, regardless of the country.

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I suggest you visit immigrate2us.net if you want more info- that's the primary forum for waivers.

There's nothing strange at all about your case. The process is: fingerprints, waiver approval (yay, you're there!), then another visa interview at the US Consulate. If she's approved, then they take her passport to insert the visa. Congrats again on the waiver approval- that's the hard part!

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