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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Ecuador
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Can you guys please let me know after approved NOA2 how long more I have to wait to have my fiance in USA? The question is because I want to know when I have to start to check for her travel ticket.

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Filed: AOS (apr) Country: Philippines
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Your application will have to go to NVC then to the Ecuadorian embassy. Then depending on how booked up the embassy is for visa interviews it could take several weeks. Don't plan on booking tickets until she gets her approval.

From my NOA2 to her visa approval was 3 weeks. It was very fast.

Sent I-129 Application to VSC 2/1/12
NOA1 2/8/12
RFE 8/2/12
RFE reply 8/3/12
NOA2 8/16/12
NVC received 8/27/12
NVC left 8/29/12
Manila Embassy received 9/5/12
Visa appointment & approval 9/7/12
Arrived in US 10/5/2012
Married 11/24/2012
AOS application sent 12/19/12

AOS approved 8/24/13

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After the NOA2, it's different for everyone. It depends on how busy your consulate is.

Do not make any travel arrangements until your fiance has her visa in hand.

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Argentina
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After the NOA2, it's different for everyone. It depends on how busy your consulate is.

Do not make any travel arrangements until your fiance has her visa in hand.

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Argentina
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Later she should receive an email or letter informing her that they sent your case to the US embassy in her country. Then she should be contacted by that embassy requesting her to gather some documents, proof (again), medical, etc etc. When she sends back to that embassy all this information, then they will schedule the interview and if everything goes well ... She will be approved. All this process can take 1 or 2 months.

It was like that in my case, in Argentina they keep your passport and they issue the k1 visa and then they send it to you by mail (that took me 2 more weeks waiting.Do not buy any ticket until you know she was approved!!! She did not even have an interview yet so you really dont know how long this could take.

All the good luck your you guys! :thumbs:

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Ecuador
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Amigo,

Read this thread in its entirety:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/110313-us-consulate-in-guayaquil-ecuador/

The only ticket that you should think about buying is the one that gets YOU into Guayaquil at least a day before her visa interview, whenever that will be.

If you're not there at the interview, she may not stand a prayer of being granted a visa.

Meanwhile, collect copious evidence of your bona fide relationship, and hope that it will be accepted when you BOTH appear at the consulate.

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: K-1 Visa Country: Philippines
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Your application will have to go to NVC then to the Ecuadorian embassy. Then depending on how booked up the embassy is for visa interviews it could take several weeks. Don't plan on booking tickets until she gets her approval.

From my NOA2 to her visa approval was 3 weeks. It was very fast.

Wow! That was FAST!

I can only hope ours goes as quickly! :thumbs:

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