Case Complete to Interview April 2017

[Renegade 11]

Yes I will share my experience later today, thank you guys so much!

[Tantygold 7]

Best wishes

7 hours ago, Diana94 said:

Wishing you the best of luck! Hope everything goes your way! Keep us updated! 

Best wishes to you

[Renegade 11]

So let me start by telling that we are a gay couple living in a quite homophobic country, so we are married in Denmark instead of our country, because it's illegal here.

My appointment was at 2pm, I've arrived around 1:30, and immediately entered the building. There was no applicants waiting to enter. Inside, I've showed passport, got a security check, and gave 2 photos.

There was around 10 people waiting. I've waited for around 15-20 minutes , and got called to submit all my paperwork. Lady took almost everything, including my 500 pages worth evidence of relationship. There where no remarks of us being gay. The next wait was for the actual interview, there was only one consul working, and majority of people where DV Lottery winners. So I've waited for approx 1,5-2 hours.

So the consular officer was very polite and smiley person, that immediately put me on ease. First he read the oath, and I've said yes I swear, then he showed me my marriage certificate, and asked me with a smile, why do you got married in Denmark. I've said that we are a gay couple, and its impossible to marry here. 
Then he started to look at our paperwork, and it was really a MASSIVE looking folder, I've said Im sorry for that, but we wanted to prepare as much as we can, and he said, that's completely OK!
He asked a few questions about my husband, like how do we meet, where he was working, when he immigrated and so on. He was joking all the time and the questions were simple  really! 
He looked very briefly at our photos (100+ photos with lots of trips together), looked at our chat logs, and he was typing something all the time. 
And that's pretty much it, he handed over a pink paper, and told me to get visa in 5-10 days. I've got very lucky, because this was a very nice and kind officer. 
Actual interview lasted around 10 minutes, after that I've asked him are there any more fees to pay from here, he said that only Green Card fee left to be paid, then I've told him that we want to leave the country in mid July, will that be a problem? He said that visa is valid for 6 months, and medical is valid until early September.

Good luck to all!
 

[marco_polo 0]

23 hours ago, AlexUA said:

Sure, exactly! It's current for April. But what the embassy told me (and what NVC doesn't confirm if they understood what I was talking about).. They told me that to schedule interview for May NVC needs to see May Visa Bulletin and NVC can not schedule May interview for me before they see this May Bulletin to confirm date will still be current.

 

That's why I was shocked.. As May Bulletin will be available only closer to mid-April. But may be the embassy is not right. NVC representative told me it's not a problem and my case is current. Don't know who is right.

Similar situation here. EB3 with current priority date and have been waiting since 02/02 for an interview appointment.

[AlexUA 15]

5 minutes ago, marco_polo said:

Similar situation here. EB3 with current priority date and have been waiting since 02/02 for an interview appointment.

What country is your embassy in?

[marco_polo 0]

Greece

[AlexUA 15]

45 minutes ago, marco_polo said:

Greece

No recent stats for Greece here;( have NVC or Embassy told you to wait for May Visa Bulletin or just to wait?

 

we should get appointments either in about a week OR only after Visa Bulletin and that's +2 weeks approx.

[marco_polo 0]

11 minutes ago, AlexUA said:

No recent stats for Greece here;( have NVC or Embassy told you to wait for May Visa Bulletin or just to wait?

 

we should get appointments either in about a week OR only after Visa Bulletin and that's +2 weeks approx.

The embassy keeps telling me that it's up to the NVC since they have the case and the NVC that there is no available appointment currently.

I dont think it has anything to do with the PD. Mine is over a year ago.

[Ahmed & Amy 291]

Congratulations to everyone who got their Visa approved today. 

[dwheels76 5,463]

On ‎2‎/‎28‎/‎2017 at 11:29 PM, Ezy_and_Oghene said:

I just want to share with you all that my husband attended his interview this morning at USEM Abu Dhabi, and he was approved. He was actually the first person to be interviewed for IV. If you were there this morning you probably saw a fine young man in blue suit. ??

 

Thank you everyone for your support and assistance through this journey. It's been a rough and painful one year but I'm glad it has come to an end. I'm hoping he joins me this weekend in the US. ? Thank you all! 

 

Case completed Sept 15, 2016. Interview scheduled on February 3, 2017. 

Interview date March 1, 2017 

WOW 164 days waiting. This is assume and congratulations. Sorry so late. I missed this post.

[Saheed 15]

7 minutes ago, dwheels76 said:

WOW 164 days waiting. This is assume and congratulations. Sorry so late. I missed this post.

Congrats

[dwheels76 5,463]

On ‎3‎/‎1‎/‎2017 at 1:16 AM, parsha said:

check in!!

2017/02/16: CASE COMPLETED

2017/03/21: Interview Date

 

nervous la~~~

Congratulations on the Visa. That's great news.

[dwheels76 5,463]

On ‎3‎/‎1‎/‎2017 at 2:16 AM, VeVe said:

Our interview date is March 21 also. My husband went for his medical yesterday.

Sorry I missed this. I have added you to the spreadsheet. And Congratulations on the Visa approval.

[AlexUA 15]

On 3/27/2017 at 8:12 PM, SteveOlga said:

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Hi! As we both are waiting for Kiev Embassy interview, please post here when you get your date  Do you plan calling NVC later this or the next week?

[SteveOlga 29]

1 hour ago, AlexUA said:

Hi! As we both are waiting for Kiev Embassy interview, please post here when you get your date  Do you plan calling NVC later this or the next week?

I will definitely do so.  I actually called this morning just to see if anything had happened yet and they said no, still waiting for interview date to be assigned.  I hope we hear something soon,  I imagine you are as anxious to get to the interview as my wife is.