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Finally! AOS approved! Checked the status today to find that the residency card is being produced. Quite funny, all this while still visiting the UK! Praise God!

Thanks for the reply Otter (and others). I hope you all get your AP/EAD/GC soon!

I only got an email about my EAD/AP being approved, not text messages. Even though I have signed up for those. I got emails/texts about my address change last week tho. But no txt message when me EAD went to production.
btw, now my AP is also on post desicion activity. so, yay!
good luck everyone on waiting, i hope you will get your EAD/AP soon!!

Finally!!!!! Called DOS this morning, after seeing a CEAC status update, to find out that we finally have interview date scheduled for next Monday, November 25 at 8am!
So happy the wait is over

how long have you been waiting??? if she cannot wait some months then where is the love. I have not seen my fiance in a year and 3 months and we have a child that is 10 months and he has not seen. So if the love is strong then you pull thru it. if not then it's not worth it... think about it....

Wow, Im so Sorry u have to go through this. But be great full she broke it off now rather than going through the entire process and then she decides she aint with it. Honestly long distance relationships are really hard and if she really loved you she would stick by you no matter how long it took. Stay strong God bless

Sorry, but it sounds like she's just not that into you. I met my wife in early 2007. We weren't permanently together until early 2011.

I caved and called DOS and I have an interview date. SO EXCITED! Roll on 2nd of December!

I got a call from London Embassy this morning..... They received and logged my (held up) medical results at 10am then at 10.30 I got the call to say they had just had a couple of cancellations and could I make it to the embassy tomorrow morning at 08.30 for my interview?........... He'll yeah I can make it!!! ?.
I am still in shock!!!!!! Off to a hotel in Oxford for the night then bus journey at 5am tomorrow should give me time to get to goulds and drop off my bag of belongings....?

Just a FYI: You could have married in April. Then you would have returned to the UK and done the process for a spouse visa. It's cheaper and a better visa. But that is water under the bridge now. I am not new to this. I know London embassy procedures. What you need to understand is once your case gets to the embassy, each has their own method of doing things. You need to ask all your questions in the UK forum for the best answers. You don't want to be confused by procedures for Manila, Juarez, Paris, etc. Helpful K1s from other countries may think you do it just like they do. Nope. Your petition is approved. Get out of the K1 forum and learn the London procedures. UK forum: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/99-united-kingdom/
NVC is the file handoff place from USCIS to the Dept of State (called DOS in the forum). The embassy and NVC are under DOS. For a fiancé visa, NVC is a short pit stop to get assigned a new DOS case number and to have the full petition file sent off to London. Your new case number will start with LND (London). My case was in London 10 days after NOA2. It could be delayed by you service center not forwarding to NVC in a timely manner. It should leave NVC the third day after arriving. Some have hit a snag getting out of NVC, so a quick dispatch isn't 100%. It takes about four days to arrive in London.
Do you need to do anything with NVC? No. They will notify the petitioner that they have sent the file to London and provide the new case number. Why do people call them? Because they can. They can't wait to be notified. They try to track their case every inch of the way. They want to make their medical appointment in London early and need the LND number to do so. But the truth is, you can get a visa without calling NVC ever. So don't get yourself in a dither about NVC unless you want to.
The case will arrive in London, but they aren't going to jump on it the first day or week. When they have your file all set up and are ready for you (beneficiary) to apply for the visa, they will send you a letter inviting you to proceed. It will provide a link for their web based instructions. This is the link so you can read their exact desired procedures and get familiar in advance. The latest version of their forms in the right column. (don't use the mobile version of the page) http://london.usembassy.gov/iv_15.html
Don't read only that page. Explore the entire sight. Where it say gather these documents, click the link to see the list. When it say "click here for more information", click and read all the info. In the left column, click the links for medical exam, visa fees, etc. Read everything. You've got time to let it sink in while your case works it's way there.
Unlike what you may have heard for other consulates, you do NOT schedule an appointment with London. You (beneficiary) submit the application (DS-160), gather you documents for the interview, book a medical, then notify them when you have completed all that by submitting an online Readiness for Interview form. (It's on the instruction page link I just posted) Then when all that is done, wait 4-5 weeks (currently) for them to assign you an interview date. You are notified of your date by letter. They pick the date, not you. After you get a date, you pay for the visa online and make arrangements for the courier to get your passport and visa back after it is issued. The visa/passport is delivered usually 5-10 days after your interview. All of that info can be found on the website.
So now that you have a summary, calmly start reading and soaking it in. It's a lot to take in at once, so go over it several times reading all the links on the London website. Make bookmarks, print pages, highlight important things, and make lists or notes. It's like studying. If you want to stop being confused and stressing, then do your homework.

They want to see the letter when you are in line outside. Explain and show the email as a substitute. Even with nothing, the guy at the head of the line will have you name on the list and let you in.
Passport is a guess. I have known washed in the washing machine and with suntan lotion on it rejected. The thread you read, is it the one with the photo? If the edges are that worn, then probably so. If not that bad then probably okay. It depends on how much trouble and money to get a new one. If you will be due a new one soon, it is cheaper to get it while ther rather than order from the US.

Yes the date has some relevance. if I recall correctly, you have to have your interview scheduled before the expiration date. The CO at the embassy will extend the date if they need to. Our expired while in AP. I had emailed the embassy and called DOS a week later. DOS confirmed the date was extended. Some will say after the interview it has no bearing..... But if that was the case not sure why our date was extended after the interview.

Shut that puppy down lol. Those crazy liberals in Washington are destroying this beautiful land. As for the visas in the UK, they will not be affected. The London Embassy issued a press release on the matter: http://london.usembassy.gov/ukpapress139.html

That is good info to know Kay. So far London has not updated their instructions or provided a link to DS-260. And nobody has reported doing the form for London that supposedly went into effect nine days ago.