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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Mexico
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My fiance and I had an interview date of April 2, at the Ciudad Juarez consulate in Mexico. However, before we received official notification that they were suspending visa services, the MEDICAL CENTER actually contacted us days before claiming that the consulate had told them what was going to happen, before there was any official notice yet. So, seeing that my fiance just got an email saying that they are available to schedule a medical appointment with her again, tells me that this a good news and they are probably opening back up the Consulate again!!!! I'm trying to stay calmed and grounded but I am getting very excited! 

 

Please let me know, for anyone else applying for a K1 visa in Mexico that had an Interview and Medical Exam date, if you have received this email as well.

Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Honduras
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14 minutes ago, abrahambueno said:

My fiance and I had an interview date of April 2, at the Ciudad Juarez consulate in Mexico. However, before we received official notification that they were suspending visa services, the MEDICAL CENTER actually contacted us days before claiming that the consulate had told them what was going to happen, before there was any official notice yet. So, seeing that my fiance just got an email saying that they are available to schedule a medical appointment with her again, tells me that this a good news and they are probably opening back up the Consulate again!!!! I'm trying to stay calmed and grounded but I am getting very excited! 

 

Please let me know, for anyone else applying for a K1 visa in Mexico that had an Interview and Medical Exam date, if you have received this email as well.

They are saying if everything goes good they plan to try to start opening june 4

Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Taiwan
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5 minutes ago, kmk813 said:

They are saying if everything goes good they plan to try to start opening june 4

Do you have a link for that?

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7 hours ago, abrahambueno said:

My fiance and I had an interview date of April 2, at the Ciudad Juarez consulate in Mexico. However, before we received official notification that they were suspending visa services, the MEDICAL CENTER actually contacted us days before claiming that the consulate had told them what was going to happen, before there was any official notice yet. So, seeing that my fiance just got an email saying that they are available to schedule a medical appointment with her again, tells me that this a good news and they are probably opening back up the Consulate again!!!! I'm trying to stay calmed and grounded but I am getting very excited! 

 

Please let me know, for anyone else applying for a K1 visa in Mexico that had an Interview and Medical Exam date, if you have received this email as well.

When is she scheduled for?? Omg this is great news!

Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Ecuador
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Thread is shifted from the K-1 Process forum to the K-1 Case Progress 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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13 hours ago, abrahambueno said:

Well they only said they plan on opening back up the USCIS back on June 4 technically. 

 

9 hours ago, kmk813 said:

Correct on the uscis are thinking of opening on June 4

 

 

These are USCIS office that have had one on one contact in the past. So an application center for biometrics in the US would now be opening June 4 BUT USCIS for I-129f, Petition for Alien Fiancé(e) processing has been open and is processing cases all along. This does not change anything for K-1's. Its certainty does not give the Green light for embassies to start one on one interviews as they are under DOS control and not USCIS. 

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Adjustment of Status

AOS March 5, 2014 Submitted AOS with EAD/AP package to Chicago USICS

Delivered March 8, 2014 AOS packaged delivered to USCIS drop box

Accepted March 19, 2014 Text message with receipt numbers

Biometrics April 16, 2014 Biometrics completed

EAD May 23, 2014 Employment Authorization Document approved and went to card production

TD May 23, 2014 Travel Document approved and went for card production

Receipt EAD/AP May 30, 2014 Received combo card EAD/AP

Green Card Approved July 11, 2014 Approved, no interview. Went to card production.

Green Card received July 17, 2014 GC received without interview

Removal of Conditions

Mailed I-751 Dec 16, 2015 Submitted ROC (removal of conditions)

Received Dec 18, 2015 USPS notification of successful delivery

Check Cashed Dec 21, 2015 Check was cashed

NOA-1 Issued Dec 21, 2015 NOA-1 for ROC issued

NOA-1 Issued Dec 26, 2015 NOA-1 Received

Biometrics Appt. Jan 29, 2016 Biometrics Appointment Scheduled [Completed]

 

Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Mexico
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4 hours ago, Greenbaum said:

 

These are USCIS office that have had one on one contact in the past. So an application center for biometrics in the US would now be opening June 4 BUT USCIS for I-129f, Petition for Alien Fiancé(e) processing has been open and is processing cases all along. This does not change anything for K-1's. Its certainty does not give the Green light for embassies to start one on one interviews as they are under DOS control and not USCIS. 

This is correct. I was just posting that the medical center in Mexico contacted my fiance to schedule her medical appointment again, which just has me excited because they let us know that our K1 visa interview was canceled before the consulate did. So, hopefully that means that they are opening K1 visa medical appointments again because they have an idea that embassies/consulates will be opening back up soon. Especially since they wouldn't conduct her medical appointment last time until at least 2 weeks prior to her K1 interview. But at then end of the day, yes I am just being hopeful and optimistic. 

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I appreciate the update and I get that its an optimistic view and not an official statement. Still something positive is better then nothing as many people like us have been in limbo since March. We had our interview setup and my fiance had her biometric medical exam done just before they canceled 5 days before the interview. We have not heard anything and the only reply we have received is to look for something on the AIT website. Thank you and wishing you the best for you and your fiance. 

 
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