DS-160 issue with K-1, do I want NIV or IV?

[uktousa13 0]

So I've gotten pretty far with the help of the amazing guides here but I think I've hit a brick wall. I'm the alien fiance and we're through the US petition side of it and I've received a letter from the consulate in London telling me to get my police certificate and so forth. The four month deadline before expiry takes me to the middle of Feb so I'm pretty eager to get an appointment for the interview sorted out in advance because we're halfway through it already. Anyway, the issue.

When I try to make my appointment on the https://ais.usvisa-info.com/ site (where it took me to fill in my DS-160) I first need to add an applicant and K-1 is not on the list of visas they do there. When I bring up the list of NIV visas on that site it gives me the following.

https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-GB/information/visa_categories

No K there. But it was reading this http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_2994.html and in particular this

• "Complete Form DS-160: Your fiancé(e) and his or her children must each complete Form DS-160 to apply for a K1/K2 visa. Go to ceac.state.gov to complete the DS-160. You must: 1) complete the online visa application and 2) print the application form confirmation page to bring to your interview."

that got me there. I went to that site, as instructed, and I filled out my DS-160 and I have the confirmation page to bring to my interview.

However I don't have an interview appointment, nor any way of making one as far as I can tell because the appointment system doesn't cater to K-1s.

I feel like perhaps I want a DS-260 or to use the immigrant visa form but the guide was pretty specific that K-1 was a NIV and I should fill out a DS-160.

Can anyone tell me where I've gone wrong?

[lost_at_sea 995]

You can't make your own appointment with London. They schedule it for you once you've returned your DS forms and had your medical.

K applicants do the DS-160

[uktousa13 0]

Okay, so in that case it's all done (completed the DS-160, have appointment for medical) and I just sit back and wait. I just didn't want to wait without checking and run out of the four month deadline.

Thanks for the quick response.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Okay, so in that case it's all done (completed the DS-160, have appointment for medical) and I just sit back and wait. I just didn't want to wait without checking and run out of the four month deadline.

Thanks for the quick response.

You aren't going crazy. They have changed things so many times lately, it's hard to find what to do. London still says on their website to complete the Readiness for Interview form when you have all your documents (birth certificate, police certificate, i-134, etc) in hand. They discuss it here and you will find the link to the form on this page. http://london.usembassy.gov/iv/notification_of_applicant_readiness.html

Then you sit back and wait to be assigned an interview.