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Yes, when you enter on Advanced Parole, you go through CBP secondary processing in a separate room and a paper I-94 is stapled in your passport and the Advanced Parole is good for one year from date of entry. The stamp actually shows the date you entered and the CBP agent hand writes in the the "until" date (i.e. the date one year from the date of entry). In our case, the CBP agent wrote the wrong year down.

My wife and I entered the USA on 06/04/2013 using her Combo card (EAD/AP). However, the CBP agent put the handwritten "until" date as 06/03/2013 inside her stamp on the I-94. This is supposed to be for one year for AP and should have been 06/03/2014. He even made the same mistake on the stamp in her passport. This is an obvious mistake as the printed stamp in the passport reads that we entered on 06/04/2013. Does anyone have experience with this kind of a mistake and how to get it corrected?

within about two weeks your packet will be at Rio office. You can call NVC and they will tell you your packet has been sent. Then you can send an email to the Rio office and they will inform you of an interview date. We waited a several weeks and when we got anxious I sent the email to Rio and they responded immediately with an interview date. You will not send anything to Rio. You will bring everything to the Rio office on the day of your interview. Rio will send an email that informs you of your interview date and in the email is the list of things to bring to the interview. It does take a about a month to get everything ready...certified police certificates from state and federal police, medical examinations, etc.

What is the best way for my fiancee to bring money to the USA. My Fiancee is coming to the USA on a K1 Visa and we want to transfer funds in order to buy furniture, household items, etc. What is the best method to do this? All options seem rather complicated.

The appointment packet online lists the poverty guidelines link, which is the I864P. Do we bring the I-864 in addition to the I-134? Also, does the I-134 need to be notorized? It appears that the only documents requiring notary are the Federal and Civil Police Certificates and the Sworn Statement. Is this correct?

Does anyone know anything about this "delay of Visa delivery" and whether this affects K1 visas? Our interview is coming up in December and we have airline tickets to leave for the USA 12 days after our interview.

The following is posted on the US Consulate Website in Brazil

A preliminary injunction granted by a Federal Court in São Paulo determined the suspension of passport deliveries by DHL Brazil

Brasilia, October 26, 2012 — The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Brazil inform that passport deliveries to visa applicants may be delayed due to a preliminary injunction granted on Thursday, October 25, by the Federal Court of the 8th Circuit in São Paulo (8ª Vara da Justiça Federal), in response to a request by the Brazilian Postal Service (Empresa Brasileira de Correios) that DHL Brazil interrupt passport delivery.

See the following URL:

https://brazil.cms.getusinfo.com/delay.html

Thank you, this is so helpful.

After NVC sends the approved petition packet to Rio, how long does it take before the email is sent that informs us of our interview date?

We got our NOA2 today. We are relieved and looking forward to the interview in Rio.

Wow it is so not fair seeing the California NOA2s show up in 2 months when at Vermont Service Center it takes at least 6 months. How can they justify this kind of treatment to those of us that had our packet sent to Vermont. They are showing on their website that they are processing petitions on Feb 27, which is totally not true if you look at Igor's list. This makes me lose even more confidence in the system. Does anyone have any suggestions of effectively expediting the process at VSC?