K1 Visa Foreign Criminal Record of beneficiary question.Travel Restrictions.

[JeanneAdil 6,275]

13 minutes ago, powerpuff said:

Do NOT reschedule. Just go to the one in February. You’re not rejected, you’ll be in Administrative processing until you bring in what they ask for. Just like @JeanneAdil said above. 

yeah,  don't reschedule

just attend and get the document and submit it later

the embassy will tell you how to submit

[Hung & Chi 1]

Thanks for all the advice! Will see how it goes

[Ryan H 3,796]

Moved from Progress Reports to Process & Procedures.

[Susiexu 0]

On 2/2/2021 at 11:33 PM, Hung & Chi said:

She haven't been to Macau since  2016...I hope they just look at the Vietnam report and just approve it.  Like, it's a lose, lose situation? they're asking for something we cannot provide due to Pandemic Travel restrictions.  

I don’t think they will just approve it, it is clearly listed on the required docs and they will also ask this question. I would like suggest you guys to reschedule your interview and get an agent in Macau for it, it will make your life much easier to have a agent to do it. I’m sure they will have a way to do it without mailing the passport. Good luck. 

[flicks1998 1,044]

On 2/3/2021 at 1:03 AM, Hung & Chi said:

How's it non-sense.  If passport number is tied to your I-129F, NOA1, NOA2, DS160...it's a big risk.   If you request for a new passport then the number changes and your case would have to go on to further review on why your passport is changed, etc....

 

My Fiance's passport was stolen during the process.  We got a new passport and everything was fine.

 

Also, she was able to obtain all the country police clearances she needed by the foreign embassies located in Manila. No traveling or mailing was required.  Just showing up in person. 

[Hung & Chi 1]

Her interview is Monday.  Macau received our application for the police report but has yet to complete the investigation as she no longer has her Non-residential Workers Exit slip after she left Macau in 2016.  Hopefully we'll have an answer by next week and our friend can just fax/mail it over asap.

 

We choose to go to the interview because rescheduling is always a bad impression and the US. Consulate might ask why and such.

 

I believe she'll go through the process and will get a non-completion slip.  Once we have the Macau police report then they'll grant her a visa.  

 

I also found out that she had this friend that is now a in Seattle (USA).  She did the K-1 Visa and the Vietnamese Agent who she hired told her to do a totally new passport to hide her travels/working entries to Macau.  She passed the initial interview but after they review her files further in the coming days, the US Consulate discovered she worked in Macau (she did the whole new passport to try and hide it).  So she was told to produce a police report from Macau.  I believe her husband went online and did it himself for her.   It took a long time to get it but at the end of the day, she got approved an is now in the states.

 

Will update sometime this week on her interview....

Edited February 20, 2021 by Hung & Chi

[Hung082281 1]

Update - She PASSED! But still need produce a Macau Police Report within 1 year, then they'll grant her a Visa.

 

The day started at 5am.  She got there at 7am because she had to wait in line to get a ticket.  Gates opened at the HCMC US Embassy around 7:30am.  They had to get her finger prints and security clearance.  No Cellphones or any type of electronic devices. No bookbag or such. Only allow to carry the documents you need once you enter the building. You can put your cellphone in a locker and they'll return it to you afterwards.

 

Due to Covid-19, they were only allow to interview behind a glass screen (no office room interview) in front of the counter with social distancing.  She could see other people interviewing beforehand.  

 

Questions they asked: 

1. How did you guys meet?

2. When was the last time you seen you fiancé, approximate date?

3. Who does your fiancé live with?

4. What's your fiancé mother's name?

5. Did you guys have an engagement party here in Vietnam? If so, was any of his family member there/attended?

 

She waited for about 1 hour and the interview took about 10 minutes.  

 

She said it's the luck of the draw with what counter or interviewer you have with.  She was lucky to have a nice Consulate interviewer.  The translator was nice too. 

 

She said she noticed one counter where a lot of individual failed.  You can tell  by the expression on their faces as they left the counter.

 

All we need to do now is wait for the Macau to finish investigating her police report and hopefully she can be here by April or May 2021.

 

 

[stringpuller 74]

21 minutes ago, Hung082281 said:

Update - She PASSED! But still need produce a Macau Police Report within 1 year, then they'll grant her a Visa.

 

The day started at 5am.  She got there at 7am because she had to wait in line to get a ticket.  Gates opened at the HCMC US Embassy around 7:30am.  They had to get her finger prints and security clearance.  No Cellphones or any type of electronic devices. No bookbag or such. Only allow to carry the documents you need once you enter the building. You can put your cellphone in a locker and they'll return it to you afterwards.

 

Due to Covid-19, they were only allow to interview behind a glass screen (no office room interview) in front of the counter with social distancing.  She could see other people interviewing beforehand.  

 

Questions they asked: 

1. How did you guys meet?

2. When was the last time you seen you fiancé, approximate date?

3. Who does your fiancé live with?

4. What's your fiancé mother's name?

5. Did you guys have an engagement party here in Vietnam? If so, was any of his family member there/attended?

 

She waited for about 1 hour and the interview took about 10 minutes.  

 

She said it's the luck of the draw with what counter or interviewer you have with.  She was lucky to have a nice Consulate interviewer.  The translator was nice too. 

 

She said she noticed one counter where a lot of individual failed.  You can tell  by the expression on their faces as they left the counter.

 

All we need to do now is wait for the Macau to finish investigating her police report and hopefully she can be here by April or May 2021.

 

 

Congratulations. 

Can you tell me she still had her interview without the police clearance? How did she tell them she could not have it at the interview? 

 

Thanks

[Hung & Chi 1]

She had the Vietnam Local police clearance report.  Once the Consulate saw that she worked in Macau for 3 years then they ask about that Macau report.   She explained that we are in the process of obtaining it but due to Covid19 travel restrictions, she had to mail everything in to Macau's government to obtain it.  We were showing them that we're trying with the case number from Macau's tracking portal.

 

They'll still interview you even if you don't have it.  The interview is just another process.  If you're missing certain items, they'll give you a blue slip to bring back what you're missing within 1 year.  The interview is a pass or fail.  She passed the interview but still need to produce whatever the blue slip said she's missing and will have to bring it back and drop it in their mailbox afterward she obtain it.