Interview APPROVED!!

[justlove 24]

On 3/14/2019 at 9:42 AM, Jay Jones said:

Our interview appointment was at 7:10 am.  We arrived about 6 am and stood in the 7:10 line.  I forgot my watch at home so I’m not able to give the exact times of the step by step process.

 

We start the process about 6:30 outside when my fiancé was  are asked to put her passport in a ziploc bag.  Then she were asked for the DS-160 and they looked for my fiancé’s name and put a sticker on her DS-160.  My fiancé goes thru the foreigner door and my daughter and I go thru the US Citizens side.  We sat in the chairs outside for about 5 minutes before we all got in line to go inside the Embassy.

 

Once inside we did the bag check and went to our designated area.  When it was our turn we went to the 1st pre-screen window.  The lady at the pre-screen window even asked me some questions  and I seen from the packet in front of her she had everything I mailed in our I-129f packet.  After the pre-screen we sat down a bit then my fiancé  went to the finger scan window.

 

After the finger scan we sat and waited in the interview area.  People with odd numbers on their sticker went to one side and even numbers went to the other.  When it was our turn to be interviewed the Counsular asked if our daughter was my biological daughter and if she had her US passport then he politely instructed me to sit down and if he needed anything from me then he would send for me.  I gave my fiancé a HUGE folder with a lot of supporting documents.  I sat down maybe for 2 minutes and here comes my fiancé with a HUGE smile on her face.  APPROVED!!!!  He did not ask for one piece of paper.  My fiancé said he asked her 4 questions:  was she ever married, was I ever married, what is my work and do our daughter have US Citizenship..

 

When we left the Embassy it was 8:05 am.  So the interview process took about 1 hour and we was back in time at our hotel for the free breakfast buffet, lol.

Hello. Congratulations! We got approved also. Do you have updates on the 2go tracking yet? My traveldocs account is still empty and my passport cannot be tracked yet... 

[Jay Jones 261]

14 minutes ago, justlove said:

Hello. Congratulations! We got approved also. Do you have updates on the 2go tracking yet? My traveldocs account is still empty and my passport cannot be tracked yet... 

Did you check the CEAC website yet?  Our visa is undergoing Administrative Processing.  In a week or so it should change to "Issued". Then I should be able to pick it up from the 2go a few days after that

[Mark&Jean 62]

2 hours ago, Jay Jones said:

Did you check the CEAC website yet?  Our visa is undergoing Administrative Processing.  In a week or so it should change to "Issued". Then I should be able to pick it up from the 2go a few days after that

Same boat. Mine still hasn't changed to non-immigrant so assuming it can take awhile.

[justlove 24]

3 hours ago, Jay Jones said:

Did you check the CEAC website yet?  Our visa is undergoing Administrative Processing.  In a week or so it should change to "Issued". Then I should be able to pick it up from the 2go a few days after that

Still on AP too. Will keep you posted... 

[Jay Jones 261]

1 hour ago, Mark&Jean said:

Same boat. Mine still hasn't changed to non-immigrant so assuming it can take awhile.

It shouldn't take long

[Mark&Jean 62]

5 hours ago, Jay Jones said:

It shouldn't take long

Has yours changed to non-immigrant yet?

[EllisAndRenz 193]

1 minute ago, Mark&Jean said:

Has yours changed to non-immigrant yet?

I don't fully understand this.  Is it supposed to change to non-immigrant, when the K1 is an immigrant visa?  Why?  

 

and what is the complete process?   Ready --> Administrative Processing -->  ???  (I though the next step was "ready")

[Hank_ 9,172]

1 hour ago, EllisAndRenz said:

I don't fully understand this.  Is it supposed to change to non-immigrant, when the K1 is an immigrant visa?  Why?  

 

and what is the complete process?   Ready --> Administrative Processing -->  ???  (I though the next step was "ready")

K-1 is a non-immigrant visa .. thus the DS-160 and not the DS-260.  But the K-1 is processed as an immigrant visa as it has "immigration intent"  ...       And why once married you completed Adjustment of Status. 

[Jay Jones 261]

1 hour ago, Mark&Jean said:

Has yours changed to non-immigrant yet?

Yes, mine changed to non-immigrant on the same day, March 14 and went to Administrative Processing on the same day as well.

 

There's a group I'm a part of on FB and a lady status changed to "Issued" on March 15.  Her interview was on March 14.  She even showed a snapshot of her status.  She was very lucky

[Jay Jones 261]

1 hour ago, EllisAndRenz said:

I don't fully understand this.  Is it supposed to change to non-immigrant, when the K1 is an immigrant visa?  Why?  

 

and what is the complete process?   Ready --> Administrative Processing -->  ???  (I though the next step was "ready")

I don't completely understand the entire process but this is what happened to us so far.  When we got back to our hotel after the interview, I noticed the status changed to "Application Received" then when we got back home about 3pm the status changed to "Administrative Processing" and it was "non-immigrant".

 

I know some people will say "just wait, it's part of the process" but to be honest my anxiety rises more and more every step of this K-1 process, lol.  We still have our CFO on 3 April.  I guess I will relax when we ALL check in for our flight, lol

[Mark&Jean 62]

30 minutes ago, Jay Jones said:

Yes, mine changed to non-immigrant on the same day, March 14 and went to Administrative Processing on the same day as well.

 

There's a group I'm a part of on FB and a lady status changed to "Issued" on March 15.  Her interview was on March 14.  She even showed a snapshot of her status.  She was very lucky

Oh nice. Yea I don't know what determines when the change is made. We are still at immigrant and AP. Just a waiting game. We waiting this long so no harm in waiting some more.

[justlove 24]

3 hours ago, Mark&Jean said:

Oh nice. Yea I don't know what determines when the change is made. We are still at immigrant and AP. Just a waiting game. We waiting this long so no harm in waiting some more.

We are on the same boat. Immigrant, AP, at the moment. 

[Jay Jones 261]

My status just changed to "Issued".  Yipeeeee!!!!

[JonMark 44]

30 minutes ago, Jay Jones said:

My status just changed to "Issued".  Yipeeeee!!!!

Mine too, man! This is exciting!

[N.pie 45]

4 hours ago, JonMark said:

Mine too, man! This is exciting!

 

4 hours ago, Jay Jones said:

My status just changed to "Issued".  Yipeeeee!!!!

Me three 😆😆😆 so what's next? Do they deliver it at our doorstep, or do we wait for a message that it's ready for pick-up?