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Filed: Citizen (pnd) Country: India
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Hei everyone so I had my K-1 visa interview at the Mumbai Consulate yesterday and I will write a detailed consulate review/interview experience in some days when I know more and have more time to write but right now I need inputs here.

So the interview happened yesterday was fine, the CO kept my passport and all my documents said "so your interview was fine, you will hear from us soon through an SMS and you will have your passport mailed to you in a few days" and then sent me off and I was on my way back when they called me back to the consulate for a re-interview; reason, the CO suspected we were married already by looking at our engagement pictures (the pictures that he had looked at already while interviewing me the first time and back then was like "cool!"). I explained to him what an India engagement ceremony is and how it is different from a marriage he saw the entire photo album (which he did not in my first interview).

Then while submitting the original petition to the USCIS we did not pay so much attention towards the hubby/wifey words in our texts and those words accidentally crept into the texts we had submitted with the original petition to the USCIS. So at the re-interview he asked me if we were married, I said no, and then the engagement photo album thing happened. He seemed convinced and then said "thank you I just wanted to clarify these facts" and kept my documents and passport again.

My question to you is, did I screw it up? And does keeping passport means a visa? I do know it could mean AP as well but they did not deny me the visa on my straight face. Now I am just afraid about AP or them mailing me a denied visa application with no visa on it. Do they do that? Keep all documents the end of the interview and then mail a denied application to you? I have read over other forums here how if a visa application is denied they give you back your visa right there and tell you it has been denied. I did not get a 221g thing either. So what do you think?

Also the weirdest part; the CO did not ask for any sort of financial documents from me, no affidavit of support, no tax returns from my fiance's job, no pay stubs no nothing. It that weird or do they do that sometimes?

And where do I track my visa application, over the ceac website? Do they show the result of the interview in approved/denied form there?

Thank for your help.

March 24, 2015: K1 petition mailed to Lewisville, TX via UPS

March 27, 2015: UPS tracking shows USCIS has received the petition

March 31, 2015: NOA1 notification received in email and text with USCIS receipt number (7 days after submitting the petition)

April 24, 2015: Case approved by USCIS (24 days after receiving NOA1)

May 1, 2015: NOA2 received in mail

May 14, 2015: Case getting processed at NVC

May 19, 2015: NVC processing done

May 24, 2015: Letter from NVC received (31 days after receiving NOA2) (case forwarded to consulate, interview location allotted)

May 25, 2015: I receive Packet 3 from United States Consulate General, Mumbai

May 28, 2015: Filled DS-160 form online, confirmation received and printed

June 1, 2015: Visa fees paid. Consular interview and OFC scheduled for 10 July, 2015

June 15, 2015: Medical examination

July 10, 2015: Visa interview at Mumbai Consulate. Visa approved!!

July 11, 13, 15, 2015: Case status on caec changed to 'Ready' on each mentioned date and case creation dates updated on each mentioned date
July 16, 2015: Case creation date updated, case status changed to 'Administrative Processing'
July 17, 2015: Case status updated to 'Issued' passport dispatched through BlueDart, DHL

July 20, 2015: Received passport with my visa on it and a sealed yellow envelope

September 2, 2015: POE Orlando, Florida

September 17, 2015: Courthouse marriage. We're married!

October 8, 2015: AOS, EAD and AP application submitted via UPS

October 19, 2015: NOA1 for AOS, EAD and AP received in mail

October 24, 2015: Civil marriage with families present. We're married, again!

October 27, 2015: Biometric notice received in mail

November 2, 2015: Biometrics done (walk-in at Orlando center) and RFE received in email for GC appliaction

January 7, 2016: EAD, AP approved (91 days after submitting the AOS application)

March 11, 2016: GC approved

May 6, 2020: Filed N400 online

May 7, 2020: Online receipt confirming USCIS received my case for N400 online (hard copy received in mail)

August 7, 2020: Online notification of biometrics reuse (hard copy received in mail)

August 14, 2020: Online notification for interview appointment (hard copy received in mail)

September 23, 2020: Naturalization interview, case approved, took oath, and just like that I am now a citizen of the United States!

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Ecuador
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*** Thread moved from K-1 Process forum to the K-1 Case Progress subforum. ***

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: China
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ya, can track visa status at ceac web portal.

unsure about tracking passport and visa packet shipment for india, though, sorry.

Sometimes my language usage seems confusing - please feel free to 'read it twice', just in case !
Ya know, you can find the answer to your question with the advanced search tool, when using a PC? Ditch the handphone, come back later on a PC, and try again.

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Ghana
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My attorney said my husband will get the packet mailed to him

Before the appointment interview and it will be sealed and not open cause the customs and immigration status officer will open the passports in the packet, you are fine normal

My attorney said my husband will get the packet mailed to him

Before the appointment interview and it will be sealed and not open cause the customs and immigration status officer will open the passports in the packet, you are fine normal

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