okcchris

Just have your relatives email a copy to you. Print it out and take it with you. You do not need the original. This worked fine for me in December of 2013.

The same thing happened to us in Cambodia, except we had to get a new police certificate and a new translation. As soon as we took the corrected paper in, we had visa in hand the following Friday.

Yes I think they passed the interview.

1. After receiving your case number contact the embassy by email. As soon as they receive your packet from NVC they will then contact you by email. Once the embassy has the packet you may mail all the required documents. Download packet 3 instructions from the embassy website.

2. I used the post office near Wat Phnom. It cost $1.40 to send certified mail and the embassy had it the next day.

3. Your appointment date will be posted on the embassy website. You will receive a letter in the US with the date as well (bring a copy of this letter with you to the interview if you plan to attend with your fiance).

December 19, 2013

We arrived at the Embassy at 6:15 am and were number fourteen and fifteen in line. The guards started letting everyone in at about 7:10. The US citizen is allowed to be at the interview. You are allowed to bring a cell phone with you, however it will be held at the guards station until after your interview. The guards will also take your ID card and hold it until you are finished.

At 7:30 an announcement was made to line up at window number 1 to receive your queue number. There was no order to the line, just a mad rush to get to the front of the line. Within five minutes they started calling numbers to go to the appropriate window.

The first window we went to took in all the documents that we had brought. In the appointment letter that you will receive is a list of the documents to bring and what order to have them in. As long as you have all the documents this process takes about five minutes. I had two issues: one, my I-134 from my co-sponsor was a copy (not an original), was told I would have to have the original mailed from the US, two, my fiancé’s police certificate listed me as her spouse, I was told I would need to get it corrected. Even with these two mistakes I was told that she could continue with her interview.

Approximately twenty minutes later we were called to the next window for fingerprinting. One minute and it was complete.

After about an hour wait we were called to window ten. This is the only window that is located in another room and shielded from the other people waiting. The interview began. He first asked me about where I lived in the US, how long had I been in Cambodia (I have been here nine months and actually filed my petition from here), what I did for a living in the US, and if I voted in the last presidential election. He then said that he would ask my fiancé some questions in Khmer. He asked her how we met, how long she had known me and was she ready to move to the US. He then turned to his computer and started typing. A couple of minutes later he turned back to face us and said that he saw no problems at all with approving the visa, however we needed to have her police certificate redone and bring it back to the embassy. If we could do this by Tuesday of next week her visa would be ready on Friday. I asked him about the I-134 that the first lady did not like. He said that he saw no problem with it and that he was the one that made the final decision so just get the police certificate fixed and we would be on our way.

One thing I would like to add is that in our proof of relationship, of the eight pictures I included, two were pictures of our ‘engagement ceremony’ with my fiancé wearing a traditional wedding dress and me wearing traditional wedding clothes. To quote some here on VJ, ‘it looked like a duck and sounded like a duck’ but in this case it wasn't a duck, it was just the way things are done in this country.

209 days from filing the initial petition (17 pages total), no RFE’s, and an easy successful interview. I’m 51 by the way, my fiancé is 29.

Thanks everyone for the information!

Yes, your fiance' should have a 'National ID Card' issued by the government.

Am I just missing it somewhere? I clicked on the link earlier and it only said 'file not found'.

My fiance is from Cambodia and I am currently in 'The Kingdom of Wonder' with her. Our interview is next week with hopes of leaving for the US the first week of January. Unfortunately in Cambodia it is extremely hard to buy luggage, clothes, movies, etc. that are not 'knock offs'. For example, today I bought her a North Face jacket, upon bringing it home I realized it has a Nike zipper (obviously a fake), do I need to worry that they will take it from her at the border? I also bought a box set of John Wayne movies only to learn later that there are no 'original' movies sold in Cambodia, are they going to take these from me? I am concerned now that all my luggage and all my fiance's clothing will be confiscated at the border, yet I don't have any other opinions.

I was really hoping to read some more on the subject today but the thread seems to have disappeared. Can we please re-visit this issue or is against the TOS of the site. Moderators?