Case sent to wrong embassy

[volkditty 23]

(I'm posting this on behalf of a friend of my fiancee. Thank God we didn't have this problem ourselves!)

I have a friend who is a Filipina working in Kuwait. Her fiance is an American contractor who is also living in Kuwait. Their plan was to process through Kuwait, but they were just informed today that their paperwork had been forwarded from NVC to Manila due to either a misunderstanding or a mistake on her paperwork (they had a lawyer prepare the forms).

I know there is a process to request a case transfer, but does anyone know what the timeline for that is? Their lawyer supposedly told them it would take 5 months to get the case back, but he's proven to be pretty unreliable so far. They're also considering having her just fly back home and process through Manila now if that would be faster. Anyone with advice or experience care to weigh in?

[Tahoma 2,292]

There have been a few posters here who have had the same problem. It sticks in my mind that it took at least two months for their cases to be transferred to the correct Embassy.

If the beneficiary goes back to Manila, it could involve a significant amount of time. Her medical would normally have to be completed approximately one week before her interview. If St. Lukes found anything suspicious on her chest x-ray, she would have to undergo the eight-week TB culture. If her TB culture turned out negative, she then could proceed with her interview. If her TB culture turned out positive, she would have to undergo at least six months of treatment at St. Lukes.

After her interview, she potentially would have to wait a week or more to receive her visa packet...including her passport. Then she would need a day to complete the CFO seminar and to get the CFO sticker affixed to her passport.

[Hank_ 9,174]

I second that, last two I read about got their case files moved in a couple months, but I would never "take that to the bank".

It could be quicker to fly back to Manila and get things done. If you decide to go that route get the police certificate from Kuwait before you leave.

For more details if you do the process in Manila, follow the flashing arrow below.

[TBoneTX 45,469]

*** Thread moved from K-1 Process forum to the Embassy/Consulate forum -- topic involves that phase. ***

[Ray_Yessi 10]

(I'm posting this on behalf of a friend of my fiancee. Thank God we didn't have this problem ourselves!)

I have a friend who is a Filipina working in Kuwait. Her fiance is an American contractor who is also living in Kuwait. Their plan was to process through Kuwait, but they were just informed today that their paperwork had been forwarded from NVC to Manila due to either a misunderstanding or a mistake on her paperwork (they had a lawyer prepare the forms).

I know there is a process to request a case transfer, but does anyone know what the timeline for that is? Their lawyer supposedly told them it would take 5 months to get the case back, but he's proven to be pretty unreliable so far. They're also considering having her just fly back home and process through Manila now if that would be faster. Anyone with advice or experience care to weigh in?

Volkditty,

I too am one of those that had their case sent to the wrong embassy. I wrote about it here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/471357-nvc-sent-approved-k-1-petition-to-the-wrong-embassy/. I was frustrated, to say the least. I contacted the NVC directly. The representative transferred me to a supervisor, who put in the request. They explained that if it was my error they would charge a fee, to which I retorted, this was an administrative mistake on the part of NVC. I received another letter from the NVC detailing the transfer of documents. I ultimately had to contact my congressperson because I was told it could take up to 3 months to transfer documents. I thought that much time was ridiculous.

I called the embassy that had received the documents to make sure they had them, and confirmed the transfer order. Then, after several days, I called again to make sure that the wrong embassy had sent them to the correct embassy. I called about every three days to ascertain if the documents had actually arrived at the correct embassy. The DOS helped me by telling me when the documents had arrived. The embassy was not aware of the documents arriving until I told them that the documents were in their possession. It took about 1.5 months, but I had to stay on top of things.

[volkditty 23]

Thanks everyone who responded, I've passed the info on to our friend who has the issue. For better or worse, she has decided to go back to the Philippines and process there instead of trying to get the case transfered back to Kuwait.