Need to Re-Schedule the Interview?

[Doug B 0]

Thank you all in advance for your help!

My fiancée in London has her interview scheduled for Wednesday Feb 16 at 0800 -- and here is the situation with her birth certificate:

She is still waiting for the certified translation of a new copy of it to arrive from Spain.

She does have an older untranslated birth certificate.

By this wednesday, she could probably have a fax of the certified translation, but not the original of that.

Should we re-schedule the interview, or go ahead with what we have?

Thank you!!

Doug B

[Mrs O. 29]

Thank you all in advance for your help!

My fiancée in London has her interview scheduled for Wednesday Feb 16 at 0800 -- and here is the situation with her birth certificate:

She is still waiting for the certified translation of a new copy of it to arrive from Spain.

She does have an older untranslated birth certificate.

By this wednesday, she could probably have a fax of the certified translation, but not the original of that.

Should we re-schedule the interview, or go ahead with what we have?

Thank you!!

Doug B

Maybe go ahead and if need be they will make sure all the other things are ok and ask her to bring the translation in when ready and then they will issue the visa.

[John and Camie 39]

Thank you all in advance for your help!

My fiancée in London has her interview scheduled for Wednesday Feb 16 at 0800 -- and here is the situation with her birth certificate:

She is still waiting for the certified translation of a new copy of it to arrive from Spain.

She does have an older untranslated birth certificate.

By this wednesday, she could probably have a fax of the certified translation, but not the original of that.

Should we re-schedule the interview, or go ahead with what we have?

Thank you!!

Doug B

I'm with Mrs. O—she should attend the interview w/the fax in hand, then let the IO know that the original is on its way, if asked. At the very worst, she could be approved pending receipt of the original. No worries!

Edited February 11, 2011 by John and Camie

[Nich-Nick 3,353]

If she can find anybody in England that is fluent in Spanish, they can do the translation. It doesn't have to be a paid professional or from Spain. They just sign it with a "certification" that they are fluent in both languages and it is a true and correct translation. The USCIS website has somewhere the exact suggested wording a translator would write and what elso to include.

Going to the interview without everything needed sounds easy....just send them back what they need and get the visa. But having followed London about 3 years now, it doesn't happen that way. People waited weeks and weeks and weeks after sending in missing docs for London to contact them to courier their passport to the embassy for visa issuance. It's a black hole where you have no clue when it's going to happen. Very frustrating for those it happened to.

And London has gotten much stricter the last half of 2010, probably because people sent back the readiness for interview form, when indeed they weren't and showed up without things. New stricter things are they want medical results before they will interview, show police certificate at the medical probably just to prove you really got it, and paying for the visa before the interview. They say on the website if you don't have your docs, they won't interview you....will send you away. I don't know if they really would, but maybe.