Sending forgotten information from Cover Letter

[Jonny Marr 0]

Hi, this is my first post and I am a bit panicky.

My fiancee and I spent ages photocopying copies of the evidence we were sending and had it all written out in the cover letter.

However, after a few days of waiting, my fiance has realised I had not included the boarding passes we had photocopied, even though they were mentioned in the cover letter.

What should we do? Simply wait for the RFE (if it comes) or sent it asap? We have sent copies of immigration stamps from the UK and US, the e-tickets from all visits and other trips we made, photos and receipts from trips.

Thanks for your help!

[mjkj 14]

Hi, this is my first post and I am a bit panicky.

My fiancee and I spent ages photocopying copies of the evidence we were sending and had it all written out in the cover letter.

However, after a few days of waiting, my fiance has realised I had not included the boarding passes we had photocopied, even though they were mentioned in the cover letter.

What should we do? Simply wait for the RFE (if it comes) or sent it asap? We have sent copies of immigration stamps from the UK and US, the e-tickets from all visits and other trips we made, photos and receipts from trips.

Thanks for your help!

Don't worry about it, you will be ok, if they need something more than what you send, they will send you an RFE. and you send an e- ticket anyway.

Goodluck!

[Pitaya 2,576]

Hi, this is my first post and I am a bit panicky.

My fiancee and I spent ages photocopying copies of the evidence we were sending and had it all written out in the cover letter.

However, after a few days of waiting, my fiance has realised I had not included the boarding passes we had photocopied, even though they were mentioned in the cover letter.

What should we do? Simply wait for the RFE (if it comes) or sent it asap? We have sent copies of immigration stamps from the UK and US, the e-tickets from all visits and other trips we made, photos and receipts from trips.

Thanks for your help!

Sit and wait. Sending in supplemental information at this stage of your visa process is like trying to find and match up two needles in the USCIS "haystack."

[Xanax 349]

It is fine, sounds like you sent a heap of evidence anyway. If you send more items it might not even get matched with your petition, it might slow it down.

If they want more they will asked for it and you can send it then!

Good luck.

[Jonny Marr 0]

Thanks for your advice guys, I appreciate it. My only concern is that we have already set the wedding date (I know it might not be the best idea but we needed something to look forward to!) for October this year but we only filed it on the 21st Feb. I don't know how important the boarding passes are but I fear the delays from not sending them.

[Pitaya 2,576]

Thanks for your advice guys, I appreciate it. My only concern is that we have already set the wedding date (I know it might not be the best idea but we needed something to look forward to!) for October this year but we only filed it on the 21st Feb. I don't know how important the boarding passes are but I fear the delays from not sending them.

Here is a Very recent thread speaking about the making of specific plans prior to having the K-1 visa in your personal possession.

Good luck on your journey.

[Andie 147]

My fiancee and I spent ages photocopying copies of the evidence we were sending and had it all written out in the cover letter.

However, after a few days of waiting, my fiance has realised I had not included the boarding passes we had photocopied, even though they were mentioned in the cover letter.

What should we do? Simply wait for the RFE (if it comes) or sent it asap? We have sent copies of immigration stamps from the UK and US, the e-tickets from all visits and other trips we made, photos and receipts from trips.

Sounds like you supplied some good evidence.

I wouldn't worry about sending the boarding passes ... It's highly unlikely they will ever match it up to your petition.

All the best with your journey.

[Xanax 349]

Thanks for your advice guys, I appreciate it. My only concern is that we have already set the wedding date (I know it might not be the best idea but we needed something to look forward to!) for October this year but we only filed it on the 21st Feb. I don't know how important the boarding passes are but I fear the delays from not sending them.

In all honesty, I am not sure how realistic it is to expect to be together by October.

Processing time from NOA1 to NOA2 is around the 5 month mark now, which makes the NOA2 date around July 28th (implying NOA1 took 1 week to be received).

Then you have: Case Forwarded by your Service Center to the National Visa Center (NVC) (allow 2 weeks); Case Forwarded by NVC to U.S. Embassy in your fiance(e)'s country (allow 1-4 weeks); Case received by Embassy from NVC (allow 1 week); Forms and Checklist sent to Beneficiary (allow 1 week); Foreign Beneficiary compiles required forms and completed Forms sent to Consulate (this time varies, conservatively I would say 4-6 weeks); Fiance(e) must attend medical interview prior to interview -Some embassies require the medical the same day as the interview. Most require the interview to be done ahead of time and have the results sent to the embassy directly from the doctor. This may occur after an interview date is given. (most places you can get a medical done within 1 week, results will take about 1 week to be sent out on top of that); U.S. Embassy issues Beneficiary with Interview date (1 week to issue date once all forms are received); Beneficiary has Interview at U.S. Embassy (1 month to interview); then you beneficiary travels to the US.

This is the basic guideline, copied and simplified from the VJ forums.

Based on this timeline, you are looking at approval in ...

So from your filing date 21st of Feb , 5 months for NOA2 + around 3-5 months until visa in hand. That is around October – November and that isn’t accounting for any RFE’s extended waiting time for documents, mix ups, posting delays (my partner lives in Minnesota and it takes a week for his mail to get to CSC unless we send it express- 1 week!!) or anything else that could slow the process.

From my country (Australia) most people’s timelines state around 9 months until visa in hand. We filed early Feb and we are hoping but not expecting to be together by Christmas.

I do not want to upset you or worry you but I would strongly advise against making wedding plans this early.

You will read fantastic stories about people who got their NOA2 in 3 months and you will hear horror stories of people who are still waiting after 7- 8 months.

At the very least, do not make plans/ arrangements you cannot change or cancel, this process is expensive, works out to be around $2000 excluding travel and if you add cancelled wedding plans to that, I hate to think about the money you could be losing.

I hope this has been helpful.

Edited February 26, 2012 by BrittandDan