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Thank you!!

Well Peaksy (you already know) and everybody else - my wonderful husband was APPROVED!!

Lots of crazy questions, more than he expected, but it was quick. In and out in about an hour.

It dawned on me the other day, how much responsibility this interview is for the applicant. I didn't share this with my husband because I didn't want to make him more nervous! LOL But he was thinking the same thing. It all comes down the interview regardless of how your paperwork was and everything else you did up to that point. Luckily I have a great husband who is quick on his feet!!

Thanks to everybody here and good luck!

Now we just wait for the courier to arrive and then.....POE!!

YIPPEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

I want to add to the good news, my husband was also APPROVED yesterday!!!! We are so happy!!!! We will be enjoying our last summer in Barcelona and heading to the US in September!!!

Congratulations to all the recent approvals, I feel extremely happy to be able to share the joy with you!!

Best of luck to the rest of the interviews.

Hi People how r u? My interview is tomorrow....

Rujby, I wish you all the best tomorrow, I'm looking forward to reading your experience. I'm sure it will be a positive one. You're almost finished!!! :-)))))

Congratulations to all of you!!! Glad to know everything went so smoothly!! yeyyyyyy!!!!!

Good luck to those with interviews today!!! Looking forward to reading your experiences, you're almost there!!!

:-)))))

Help!!! I made my father-in-law an appointment to interview for a tourist visa and I lost the paper with the confirmation number. I am able to get to page that says "you have an appointment on xx date at xx time", but still unable to get the confirmation number. Do they need that confirmation number when you show up at the embassy? Will they give it to him over the phone?

Please help!

Thanks

Chris

You can write or call them and explain the situation just as you described it here, I'm sure they'll have no inconvenience in resending the confirmation number if he's required to take it with him.

The embassy in Madrid does answer email inquiries quite promptly.

All the best. :-)

APPROVED!!!!! We way over-thought the process, depending on where you are having your interview, if it is anything like Spain, be calm and relaxed, it's a piece of cake. Basically my husband went in, overflowing with pictures and documents. They only care about the tax reports (i sent originally the 2010 because it was before April 17th) if you did the same, make sure that you bring updated tax transcripts. I would bring them anyway, since it seems that is all they care about. They asked him what he will do, he said study, when he told them that we are studying in two different cities until i receive my MBA the guy could care less, he just said that's great, good luck, APPROVED! My husband was in shock, he asked if the guy wanted photos, letters anything, and the guy said no. They did leave him a room for about an hour while they went to get lunch, so that was nerve-wrecking.

Just know this, make sure your file is absolutely complete before it is sent to the embassy and you will have nothing to worry about!!!!

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!! I'm so glad everything worked out for you guys!!! Best of luck with everything else!!!

Congrats to you! My hubby also has a June 14th interview date and his POE is Washington DC. I hope it is a good combination!

Thank you all!! I hope everything goes well for him!!!

Hi all,

Just wanted to join in on the fun! My husband's interview is scheduled for June 13th at 1:00 pm.

He will have his medical this week.

Good Luck to everyone!

Congratulations!! Best of luck in his interview!!!

muchisimas gracias! suerte a vosotros.

De nada! No te preocupes, seguro que os va a ir muy bien!! Mucha suerte y ánimos que ya estáis en la recta final!!!

Hello everybody,

Congratulations to all of you for your June interviews!!

I'm joining this thread with you, my husband has his interview on June 14th.

The best of luck to all!!

posted this before to no avail...hopefully someone can help

"hello everyone, we are not in the step yet, but i hear they ask the beneficiary where they will live once arriving in the us. i am currently a graduate student and will finish school next may. my husband got into a very prestigious graduate program, but it is not in my city, his program begins this fall. once i graduate i will move there to be with him and look for a job. when they ask in the interview, 'where will you live' initially he will stay with me for the rest of the summer, but then he will go to school, just like i'm in school. Do you think this will pose a problem? should he just explain that he will live with me in my city and go to school? does it have to be so detailed? and going to school in the same city is not possible since we both have full scholarships to our universities that will not transfer to another :-/ we are trying to build a successful future so i'm hoping we can convey that in the interview. any thoughts? "

how intricate are the questions they ask at the interview...i heard its through a plate glass window and lasts 5 minutes. he's bringing wedding album and other proof of our long relationship and bonafide marriage.

Lizka,

With all due respect, the question of where will you live is just that, providing in initial domicile. Keep your answers simple.

I really don't think they care about your intention of building a successful future but of staying together as a married couple. You can just say that you will be living together as soon as you arrive, as this is the truth. If they ask about jobs or studies, then he can just explain the career he's pursuing and the graduate program he will be doing. If they inquire about residence during his graduate program, then explain to them what you described here.

My husband and I will be finishing our PhDs in the US, but I will only provide information about what is being specifically asked, as they advice you to answer the question and not provide unnecessary details.

You should be fine. Keep in mind that some wedding albums do not fit through the slot of the glass windows, eventhough you may show the album pages through the glass.

Good luck.

Congratulations!! Good luck with the next step of your journey at NVC! :-)

Can the USC overseas and joint sponsor mail the AOS in to NVC seperatley or does the joint sponsor need to mail the originals to the USC overseas first and then I add them to my AOS and mail them together to the NVC?

Thank you in advance for your help!

A&J

I am in the same situation as you and we mailed both mine and joint sponsor's AOS together to NVC.

Hope this helps and good luck.

Hola a tod@s, soy nueva aquí. Con todo lo que está cayendo, mi marido e yo estamos pensando en ir a los EEUU. Soy estadounidense (de New Hampshire) y el es de aquí. Estamos en "the beginning stages" de todo este proceso y estoy investigando opciones.

Aproximadamente cuanto tiempo ha durado el proceso, de empiezo al final, para todos uds.?

Suerte a todos, y gracias por sus consejos

Un saludo.

Hola Elenetxu bienvenida.

Yo soy también soy estadounidense y mi marido es de aquí. De momento, llevamos 5 meses. Estamos en el NVC stage esperando para el "case complete" y que nos asignen ya una fecha de entrevista. Tuvimos un par de atrasos, uno intencionado y el otro por un checklist que recibimos del NVC. Ante cualquier duda, no repares en preguntar, asi nos ayudamos entre todos!

Un saludo y mucha suerte.

I saw two option

Acctoun

Return

and I picked return one.

Yes, you selected the correct option. They just require the Return Transcript, this one also takes a shorter time to arrive, the Account Transcript can take upto a month to be received.

Good luck

Hola Daniela,

Hoy por la mañana la embajada envio un email y dijo que nos ha enviado hoy "The appointment letter" gracias a Dios!

Muchas Gracias por las informaciones!!

Saludos,

Andressa

Que bien!! Me alegro que se haya podido aclarar esa duda. Ahora yo también sabré que esperar cuando llegue el momento (espero que no tarden mucho, ya que no me esperaba ese checklist que nos enviaron)

Un saludo guapa y mucha suerte!!

I woke up this morning to some good news. I had an email from SantiagoImmigration@state.gov in reply to an email I sent them last week about divorce certificates in Chile. I sent them a scanned copy of the divorce decree I sent to the NVC to confirm that it was the correct document. The NVC rejected the document last week and issued a checklist for the IV packet. Here is what the email said:

Mr. Rogers:

Thank you for your email. You are right. The divorce decree you are sending is ok. This is how divorce decrees looks like in Chile. It is very strange as the NVC is familiar with the certificates.

We will contact the NVC to confirm that the certificate you are sending is correct.

Sincerely,

Immigrant visa unit

Santiago, Chile

Hoping to get case closed for my wife today so she and my step-daughter can get their interviews scheduled in the next few days.

That is great news. I can imagine that it's also a relief to know they will be contacting NVC directly to confirm the validity of the certificate.

Hopefully, upon receiving this confirmation you'll have your case complete in no time!!

I just called NVC, and was informed our case closed today!

03.12.2012-NVC received file

03.23.2012 -get case number and IIN, give email addresses over

03.26.2012 -email the DS-3032

03.26.2012- pay the AOS bill, once it's invoiced (In Process)

03.26.2012-Documents delivered to attorney

03.28.2012-DS3032 Accepted by NVC

03.28.2012- the bill appears as PAID,

03.29.2012- pay the IV bill, once it's invoiced

03.30.2012- once the bill appears as PAID

04.03.2012- mailed the IV package and the AOS package

04.05.2012-IV and AOS Package received by NVC

04.09.2012- get case complete

- get interview date scheduled

Yeyyyy!!! Congratulations!!!!

It's so nice to see your cases getting complete and interviews being assigned!

Yes I sent 2009, 10, 11

Dimples,

I sent the transcripts for the same years to the NVC, still I ordered online a set of new transcripts (for the same years) that I will be taking to the interview with me just in case. In theory, it shouldn't be necessary, but as I have seen these docs requested again as part of financial evidence in some interviews, it won't hurt to take them with me again. Maybe I won't even need them, but it doesn't cost me anything to take them (except the space of the paper bulge).

Regards!

Hola Andressa,

Por lo que has puesto, yo entiendo que ese es un primer aviso de la entrevista. Por prevenir y quedarte tranquila, tienes dos opciones:

Tal y cómo tu dices, esperarte unos días a ver si recibes una carta oficial por correo postal (es cierto que estos días el correo portal va más lento por las fiestas).

Si deseas salir de dudas y quedarte más tranquila, también tienes la opción de llamar directamente a la embajada (o escribirles un email), pidiendo que te confirmen si te envían una carta por correo postal o si es suficiente con imprimir el email.

Estoy segura que esto lo podrás saber pronto sin ningún tipo de inconveniente, ya que es el procedimiento habitual para todos.

Disfruta de estos días de fiesta y mucha suerte.

Un saludo,

Daniela.

Entonces Madrid no mandara una lista de la documentacion? Yo pensaba que llegaria un paquete como en las entrevistas de outros paises, donde la embajada envia un sobre con lo que tienes que aportar en la entrevista...

Si, en función de lo que vi de otros países, yo también pensaba que la embajada enviaría un paquete. De cualquier manera, tal y cómo te aconsejaron, no viene de más llevar la documentación aportada al USCIS y al NVC, es lo que haremos nosotros. En este aspecto, prefiero prevenir e ir sobrepreparada y no necesitarlo, que no viceversa.

Ánimo Andressa que dentro de poco ya habréis acabado!!

Algunas partes de este proceso han costado un poco, otras no, lo bueno es que siga adelante y se mantenga en movimiento.

Un saludo.

Ryan and Pamela,

Muchas felicidades por superar la entrevista y por haber finalizado este proceso.

Agradezco que pongas tu experiencia, ya que nos ayuda a tener una idea de lo que podemos llegar a esperar de la experiencia. También va bien para apoyarnos y darnos ánimos!!

Enhorabuena y mucha suerte con el resto de vuestra trayectoria!!!

Im afraid i cannot help, since i filed in the emabssy in london. however, why don't you just get as many documents prepared as possible. Fe de vida is for free.

Also, if you are missing some documents, they will tell you the day of the interview, and then you only have to post them to them, dnt need to interview again...

Perdona, no había visto tu pregunta!!! Es por el pueblo en la Costa Brava

Approved!! It was FAST. My appointment was at 1PM and we were out of there by 2PM.

Everything was smooth except they had difficulties taking my fingerprints.

The consular officer asked me the ONE question I didn't know the answer to: how much does your husband make? I gave a guesstimate and it wasn't too wrong.

Besides that, some simple questions which didn't always make sense (like how's your husband's brother's girlfriend?, after I mentioned she came to our wedding... what do you mean how is she?? Who cares right now??)

I'll make a full review when I get back home tomorrow!

Yeyyyyyy Laure, congratulations!!!! I'm glad this stage has concluded for you in a smooth and positive way!!!

i am refering to the bold requirement above, we got married in Miami so we have an american certificate. my husband is freaking out because it still says single for the empadromiento and he says he cannot get the fe de vida without my being there with him to swear in the marriage. but he hasn't checked. i assume our marriage certificate is enough proof no?

I repeat what I told you in another thread, you do not need this document, only the marriage certificate. The other one is for couples who are not married yet, and are following another procedure.

Good luck.