Joseph & Pari

I noticed a lot of you all are about to do your medical and consulate interviews so we just had ours Jan. 18th, 2008 and I figured I'd go ahead and let everyone know what it's like. We had ours in Naples Italy at the Istituto Varelli Via Cornelia dei Gracchi 51, which is close to the Soccavo stop on the Cumana (above ground train). Ask people where the Piazza Vitale is in order to find Via Cornelia. Also you guys might want to bring a lunch with you cause it took from 8 am till 2 pm. They do all these tests just to make sure you don't have some kind of serious contagious illness. I went with my fiance and was able to go with him for every test to help translate, ect. The first part is a verbal interview and they just check your passport, ask for two photos, check out your vaccine record, and take payment which was 180 euros plus payment if additional vaccines are needed. He had to have two and paid 50 euros more for them. Here's the list of costs we were given as of Dec 2007.
COST OF VACCINATIONS
Fee for administration of single or multiple vaccine €16.00
Supplemental fees for selected vaccines
Anatoxal = Tetanus
Diphtheria € 9.00
Energix = Hepatitis B €24.00
Morupar = Measles
Mumps €30.00
Rubella
Pneumo 23 = Antipneumococcal €21.00
Difteral = DTP Children €7.00
Hiberix = Hib €21.00
Varilrix = Varicella Unavailable
Imovax = Polio €10.00
Then we were sent to wait in line again. Then he was called for the blood test. Then in line again. Then called for the chest xray. Then called to take height and weight. Asked if he used contacts, then asked to read bottom letters on eye exam chart. Then listened to his heart. Then asked medical history if had been in serious accident or hospital before, if he ever had jaundice symptoms, if he smoke, drank, used drugs, or ever had a STD. Then the waiting again. In the process of waiting for the results they called one of the women applicants to come with them to look at her chest XRAY. She was a smoker and in the end it did not prevent her from getting her visa approved. So it seems if there is something wrong they will probably call you in to tell you about it. Then they give everyone a receipt for the exam and a new record if you had to have any additional vaccines and they even give you the original xray. The test results are not given to you. The clinic sends them to the consulate themselves. You do not need to bring the xray to the consulate interview just the receipts. So good luck to you all! Don't stress.

Hi, thank you for providing such detail information. This will help us anticipate any upcoming fees. Hope this will be all the fees, but if there are others would mind sharing with me. My fiance is from Milano and thank goodness I don't have to be present as his English is quite good. Out of curiosity, do you know if the US Embassy in Milano also conducts the interviews or is it all done in Napoli? We submitted our application in mid December and have since received the NOA1 on 12/18 (very fast). I'm hoping that he can finally move to the US sometime in July. Not sure how fast things are done in Italy, but I assume it's the same processing time as other countries. Anyhow, any thoughts and advice you can provide are much appreciated.

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VJ! I just got my approval email notification a few hours ago. I want to let you all know so you can expect yours soon.
It took 191 days from NOA1. Keep it up VJers, I hope yours will come through soon.

I received this email from USCIS.
"Thank you for your inquiry. This email address is intended only for follow up on inquiries submitted through the USCIS National Customer Service Center (NCSC) at 1-800-375-5283. All case related inquiries must be addressed to the NCSC first. A customer service representative should be able to assist you when you call the above toll-free number.
If you do not have an application or petition filed with USCIS and/or need general immigration and citizenship information, you may visit www.uscis.gov.
As a courtesy, we are currently processing I-130, Spouse of a USC filed the first week of July 2011.
Thank you,
Officer Shelley"

Which makes me look at feb or mar for NOA2... hay...

I ran a set of numbers on Dec 23 that went all the way up to WAC1190657999.
I can put together a report that would cover August, but in re-scanning the first 6k records we have had only 6 change status in the last 3 weeks.
Not worth scanning until more of June/July is complete my guess.