US Immigration from Portugal

How long does it usually take to get the passport back after approval at the K1 interview in Paris? Interview scheduled for April 1st, 2026 and selected the UPS option for its return.

Hey guys, creating this one for the February filers.

I'm filling within the 90 days prior to my 3 year GC, also I have a I-751 being processed since last year.

Filed 02/03 at night.

Received receipt notice same day.

Hope this one goes faster than all of the other processes...

Hello,

My wife attended her IR1 visa interview on April 16th at the Paris embassy. She was given a verbal approval at the end of the interview and her passport was collected, no 221(g), and was told it would be be returned with the visa within two weeks by mail.

We began emailing and calling the embassy at the 3 week point with no responses, and in mid May she wrote to them asking for the return of her passport for a work trip but never heard anything back. Since, we have been emailing the visa unit every few weeks for an update, but we have just received one generic response a month ago that her case will be looked into , but nothing more and her passport has not been returned.

I have reached out to both of my senators, one a month and a half ago, and the other two weeks ago, also with no responses beyond the basic we have received your inquiry email.

It has now been 11 weeks since the interview, are there any suggestions for what to do next? Should I reach out to my House representative as well and see if they will submit an inquiry? Given there was no DS-5535 or 221(g) or request for any other documents, does this delay seem usually long?

Thanks

Hey guys, so I just filed through my lawyer, but my GC expires on the 4th of April, I hope I dont get in trouble.

April 1st - Filed I-751

Hello everyone,

Me and my wife have filled this year a CR1/IR1 case which is already approved with no problems at all. We have the Visa interview already scheduled by the NVC, which will be this December 2024.

On travel state gov's website, it says specifically that portuguese citizens, should bring a 2kg chronopost envelope to the interview so that the embassy could mail the Visa to my home address. And on travel state gov's website, that information didn't change and it still says to bring the chronopost envelope.

Unknown to us, apparently the French US embassy now has this new website "AVITS" where you should insert your information and confirm yout interview date, we got an email from them asking me to do this process and we had no problems doing this.

But then there's the "Document Delivery" process on the AVITS website too, where supposedly we should choose the pick up method of my VISA once it gets approved by the embassy (i think), we tried to do it at first but it didn't let us choose the delivery adresss to "Portugal" which is my home country, it only allowed "France" and the option was greyed out.

A few days later, we got another email from them saying the website was updated and we should go there to choose the document delivery option, and to our surprise, now it let us choose the delivery to be sent to Portugal and my address. We filled out the forms, and paid the 28.5 for the Suxess Logistic Service, as instructed on the AVITS website.

My doubt is, since the travel stat gov's website still says that i should bring a 2kg chronopost envelope, should i still bring that envelope to the interview as instructed there? Or by filling the forms and paying for the courier on the AVITS website should be enough and i don't need to bring an envelop with me anymore?

These changes to the process are very recent, and they didn't do a great job updating this type of information for portuguese citizens on travel state gov's website.

Let me know what you guys think, should i still bring a 2kg chronopost envelope anyways just in case?

Thank you all in advance, and hope you all have a great week and happy holldays!