Cd. Juarez packet 3?

[dstrausser83 14]

So I live in Mexico, work in San Diego and I have a private mail place for my mail. I just called to see if anything came today and they said a letter has arrived from the Department of State. I assume that would be Packet 3 right? They also said it was a regular sized envelope, is that the size that the Consulate uses to mail out packet 3? The NVC doesn't sent you any type of confirmation that it was sent to the consulate, right?

Can I make my appt now? Or am I better off to wait to pick it up and see? Lol I'm too anxious! I want this over with now!!! lol

And we all ready did the DS-260 that Juarez requires.

[KayDeeCee 4,902]

So I live in Mexico, work in San Diego and I have a private mail place for my mail. I just called to see if anything came today and they said a letter has arrived from the Department of State. I assume that would be Packet 3 right? They also said it was a regular sized envelope, is that the size that the Consulate uses to mail out packet 3? The NVC doesn't sent you any type of confirmation that it was sent to the consulate, right?

Can I make my appt now? Or am I better off to wait to pick it up and see? Lol I'm too anxious! I want this over with now!!! lol

And we all ready did the DS-260 that Juarez requires.

Yes. NVC sends a letter stating your petition was forwarded to the consulate. It will state which one it was sent to.

It takes Juarez about 2-4 weeks to get the 'packet 3' letter to you. It will also just be a single page letter. As long as you know for sure your case is at CDJ already, you can go ahead and make your appointments. Just make them for a date that will allow enough time for the letter from CDJ to reach you first. You need that letter for the ASC, medical and interview.

If you change your flag to the country where your fiancee currently lives and will be interviewing, you will be able to automatically see all the posts and information in the Mexico portal when clicking the Portals links at the top of the page. The posts and consulate information there can be helpful.

[dstrausser83 14]

I changed it, even though she'll probably get mad since she is Peruvian... lol

Anyways, yeah this is probably the confirmation letter from NVC but strange they would send it to me now considering it left NVC on the 27/28th of August and my stuff arrived on the 30/31 of August. Seemed more fitting to be the Packet 3 letter.

We are waiting for the letter as we are trying to do the ASC appt in Tijuana. We want to make sure we have that letter first Unless it is possible to schedule ASC/Interview in case the letter didn't arrive first.

Thanks.

[dstrausser83 14]

Also, how long out are the appointments usually in Juarez? Like are we talking a week or two, a few weeks? A few months? I got no idea what to expect with that.

[KayDeeCee 4,902]

If you are doing the ASC appointment before you go to Juarez, then you probably want to wait for the letter before making the appointment. I think the time it takes to schedule appointments varies and you would have to just check when the next available ones are. I believe it is usually a couple weeks for the first available dates, but I have seen someone post that it was 10 days till the first available date when they scheduled theirs. You can of course pick a date later than that, if you need to.

[dstrausser83 14]

See this is what is tough for us. To plan a wedding, move from Tijuana to San Diego, her being pregnant and trying to not lose anymore work than necessary. Imagine that many go through that, but the pregnancy and also the fact that I, the American Citizen am living with her in Mexico (she's Peruvian though!), we have to move everything across the border, me mostly by myself because she can only cross once. I have sentri, but I can't move my house while using sentri. Just trying to plan this is tough. Like we gotta get the utilities shut off because they are in both of our names (water and electric) so we may be a day without water or electric before we move. It's insane, plus since school has started its been taking me 45 minutes a day in the Sentri lane at Tijuana.

We are hoping to be able to move by Nov. 1st. Who knows though. Who knows.

The letter that arrived was one dated August 30th saying that the NVC will send my papers to Juarez within the next week. It was dated the 30th, but only arrived yesterday, post marked Sept. 5th. That's why I thought it was the packet 3.

Anyways thanks for your help so far man. I appreciate it.