US Immigration from New Zealand

We have received notice from the NZ consulate informing us that:

"This office has received the approved I-129F petition filed by your U.S. citizen fianc from the USCIS. You are now entitled to apply for a K-1 visa. To complete the DS-260, you need the Invoice ID Number and each traveling applicant s Beneficiary ID Number from the Notice to Applicant page of your NVC appointment letter."

Would the NVC appointment letter have come via email or mail? We are unclear on the next steps and how to proceed to pay for the DS-260 as we don't have an Invoice ID Number nor Beneficiary ID number. What are we missing?

Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions/comments.

Hello,

My partner will be changing his citizenship from South Africa to New Zealand in the coming months. He will no longer have his SA citizenship. We started the K-1 process having listed him as a South African. Will the change from SA to NZ citizenship affect our application? We are now at the stage in which we are assembling our documents for the NVC to prepare for the interview.

Thanks in advance for any advice/recommendations.

Hi everyone, hoping someone can clarify something for me - for NZ K1 visa applicants, is the full police record provided by the Ministry of Justice acceptable? I thought it was but then I saw this police vetting check as well and now I'm second guessing myself. I'm so exhausted by this process! Thanks in advance.

Hello,

New to this page, happy to know one exists to seek advice. We started our K-1 process of submitting the 129-F in October 2021. The case was approved by USCIS in January 2023 and sent to NVC, however for some reason it has been sent back to USCIS with the message (returned to department of state). USCIS then approved it again in March 2023. We have heard nothing. When I sent an inquiry to NVC I got a message that it was sent back again but no explanation. Has anyone experienced this? What moved the process along?

Thanks in advance!

I had my interview at the consulate this morning (in Auckland, NZ), and was feeling quite good about everything. All the other people before me were told congratulations the visa has been approved and you will receive it in about 10 days at the end of their interviews.

Mine went well/normal but at the end the lady said they had to fix something on the medical that the medical staff had missed (which was apparently minor), and also:

we have everything we need

we ll let you know if we need anything else

And that was it. And I m just super unsure about the result of the interview cos obviously I wasn t told that it was approved, or even that it would be approved after they fixed the issue. The kept my passport but didn t tell me when I d get it back.

Everyone I ve told about this said it will probably be fine but I m definitely getting paranoid and am disheartened that I have no clarity on any of it. Does anyone know what might happen?