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Hedi&Colleen   11

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Hello, this is specific to those having applied for a K-1 visa through U.S. Embassy Tunis (I'm sorry, I don't know how to post directly on the Tunisia portal).



My fiancé and I need your help knowing what is the next step. We filed the DS-160 online, we paid the visa application fee, and we went to this website (http://www.ustraveld...visafeeinfo.asp) to try to schedule the appointment for the visa. We go through all the steps and it says "There are currently no appointments available." Hedi has not received any emails or letters with instructions of what documents to gather together (granted, our status was only changed to "ready" on Feb. 21). When should we receive the checklist ("packet 3")? Does anyone have a recent copy for Tunisia? What are we doing wrong, and what else do we need to do, in order to schedule the interview/move on to the next step? Is there another document we need to fill out? Also, should we be calling the embassy to try to schedule an interview over the phone?



Also, Hedi will need to wait a week or two more before he has his renewed passport and police certificates - do we need to wait to have all these documents together before moving on to the next step (i.e. scheduling an interview)? We already filed for the DS-160 (even though he needs his passport renewed, long story), as our lawyer said it wouldn't matter since we have to list the expiration dates anyways.



Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated! This whole process has taken us 10 months now! At least everything is in Tunis now.



-Colleen&Hedi

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faten jabbari   0

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Hello, this is specific to those having applied for a K-1 visa through U.S. Embassy Tunis (I'm sorry, I don't know how to post directly on the Tunisia portal).

My fiancé and I need your help knowing what is the next step. We filed the DS-160 online, we paid the visa application fee, and we went to this website (http://www.ustraveld...visafeeinfo.asp) to try to schedule the appointment for the visa. We go through all the steps and it says "There are currently no appointments available." Hedi has not received any emails or letters with instructions of what documents to gather together (granted, our status was only changed to "ready" on Feb. 21). When should we receive the checklist ("packet 3")? Does anyone have a recent copy for Tunisia? What are we doing wrong, and what else do we need to do, in order to schedule the interview/move on to the next step? Is there another document we need to fill out? Also, should we be calling the embassy to try to schedule an interview over the phone?

Also, Hedi will need to wait a week or two more before he has his renewed passport and police certificates - do we need to wait to have all these documents together before moving on to the next step (i.e. scheduling an interview)? We already filed for the DS-160 (even though he needs his passport renewed, long story), as our lawyer said it wouldn't matter since we have to list the expiration dates anyways.

Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated! This whole process has taken us 10 months now! At least everything is in Tunis now.

-Colleen&Hedi

yes call them we just got an interview for ki visa

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We emailed them a week after i knew they received his packet and they responded back right away.This was last May im sure everything is still the same... I think i might still have the email address if you need it..

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*** Country-specific thread moved from K-1 Process forum to the Middle East/North Africa regional subforum. ***

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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