Hollyday

Got my passport back ...with the visa in it!

You have every reason to be happy. Congratulations. Have you finished packing yet...

Thanks! Well, a lot of my stuff is already there (like books and my favourite 31x31in painting). My husband is coming over this weekend to help me move.

Молодец!

And it sounds like the interview went really well, which is a relief. Hopefully we will be there soon.

Yeah, it was much better than i expected actually. The consul was very nice.

You should be there soon, yes. We had a month delay with tax paperwork, but you should have it all done now anyway since it's May. Good luck with yours!

Congratulations!!!!

Congratulations!!!! i hope I get mine soon!!

WoW Congratulations

Thanks and hope you do too!

Assuming that the poster above me and the OP's fiance are in the same age group, and he does have a vaccination document of a kind....you guys could take a gamble and get the age appropriate shots done in advance at a reasonably priced clinic that accepts his insurance (if have insurances in Russia).

He'd need:

1. АДС-м (= Анатоксин дифтерийно-столбнячный с уменьшенным содержанием дифтерийного анатоксина). Vaccination against diphtheria and tetanus.

2. Priorix = Приорикс вакцина против кори, краснухи, паротита (свинки). Vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella.

There is also a seasonal flu shot, but you won't know if he'd need it so far in advance.

That's exactly what i said, yes. Flu season is not till autumn, i believe.

This is what we were going to do but he said doing so would be really expensive and it would probably be cheaper to just either try to get vaccines before or wait until the medical exam. But, that's really expensive to. So I don't know :/

Thank you so much.

No prob. Yes, he can do them in advance, just make sure that he gets the description and doctor and clinic stamp in this special vaccinations certificate (it's one little booklet for all of them). Also if he didn't have something at all and it requires a set of vaccines being administered at intervals he doesn't have to take full course before the interview, as far as i know, just show he's started getting it and is on schedule with revaccinations. Like tetanus for the first time is 1, then 1 in a month, then 1 in 6-9 months from the first vaccination.

Congrats!

Thank you!

Yee-HAAAAA! (That's Texan for "congratulations.")

Yeee-HAAA backatcha

Congratulations! That's so great! (:

Thanks!

Congratulations !

Whatcha cooking, to celebrate?

Thanks! Interestingly enough, he's the one that cooks. And also he's not here till Saturday so nuttin.

Thank you! He's 33 so those are the only ones we need to be worried about? I don't want to just wait until the medical exam where they'll charge an arm & a leg for them in the case they can't locate them on his documents. I want to see if we can find them in his documents & if not, try to get them at his doctor beforehand & he says he needs the Russian translation for his doctor anyway.

These differ from what Hollyday wrote. Are these the individual vaccines & the ones she wrote are the ones where its one injection with multiple vaccines?

I think the safe option would be to call IOM and confirm but generally yes, i think those are it. I did them in advance before my medical (full round of 3 for tetanus and one for measles and mumps).

There's no contradiction, that's exactly the 2 i said. ADSm is for tetanus and something else and Priorix is for mumps and measles and something else. Those are the names of the vaccines.

Congratulations !!!!

Thanks!

Congratulations!

Thanks!

Поздравляю!!!

Спасибо! )))

Congrats !!!

Thank you!

I called them before mine, they said АДС-м and Приорикс were the ones required for my age group (18+). Those are rubella-measles-something and tetanus-something.

See, bursting now? I had my interview today aaand it was approved in under ten minutes with the consul.

Just wanted to share with fellow VJers to be interviewed in Moscow: it was very easy and everyone was nice.

That is awesome Hollyday. Now breathe (after you dance that is :dance: ). hehe

Thanks! Btw they didn't ask me for a new pic but i submitted it anyway because i had such a good one taken. Lol.

Hi Hollyday. VJ was having a few hiccups, earlier, so it may have been that. We'll take care of it.

Could also be me going back in pages to edit. Thanks!

I was trying to edit the review i submitted and by accident a second entry was created. Could the mods please remove the first one? The id is #14494. Thanks!

CONGRATULATIONS

Thanks!

VERY happy for you! Excellent news!

Thank you!

Interview was yesterday, visa approved! CEAC status today is showing ISSUED

Congratulations!!!

Thanks and to you too!

Congratulations!!!

Thanks!

Guess who got the visa! (that's my happy face btw)

My interview's on Tuesday, i'm getting nervous. (O.O)

My fiancé is going to his doctor on Monday. Can y'all confirm for me that he will be okay just getting his doctor to create a letter stating he's had those vaccinations since he doesn't have one document that shows all of them? The doctor doing the medical exam for the embassy will accept this?

There are two ways: either get a certificate stating which vaccinations he had (apparently not an option) or have a blood test to show immunity to diseases you were supposed to be vaccinated against. You can't just have a 'statement of a doctor'. It has to be official. As in, with date of vaccination and series # of the vaccine it was, etc.

Now this may be different for each country however I would advise you to take it, last thing you would want if for them to delay your visa for something that would take you 5 minutes to obtain.

Oh, naturally. I'd kill myself if that happened. Lol.

Now photos you do bring to iinterview. Remember every step you submit pics is for that offices use. I believe 2 or 3 is required.

Hmm. Then why would they mark them as having been sent to the consulate by NVC?..

Silly and random question: if in the list of documents in the IL photograph is marked Y (The NVC sent this form or document to the U.S. Embassy or Consulate) - it means i don't have to bring it, right? I used my stock of remaining 5x5 photos for the medical.

Preferably, the outbound flight should be one day after her 90-day expires. Once that is set, she can find someone else, if possible, with the remaining time.

Why should she leave exactly after she becomes out of status?? She should leave before the 90 days expire, as far as i know.

That's good that you are able to get your medical exam results the same day. And good to know that there was no drama about that TB test.

To get the results on the same day you have to schedule the starting point of this whole thing till 10 am (between 8:30 and 10). If one's scheduled between 10 and 1pm, then the results are available next day. I think it's probably because of the blood test.

Thanks for sharing. Good to know this is possible to do))

By the way my wife wanted me to ask you what you saw in regards to the Tuberculosos exams. She read in some blog that a lot of people are gettimg false positives. did you see snyone with that and how was that?

thanks and good luck in interview!

Thanks!

I didn't see anything about this unfortunately: they told me to come for results after 2 pm, i came at quarter to, and almost everyone else had got their results by that time so i didn't see what was happening to anyone else. People who were still there seemed to be okay.