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1 - you should be find with 3:45hrs
2 - people do changes flights from time to time, so plan does changed. they will not question you on that
3 - CR1/IR1 visa has stipulation of temporary green card. so you are okay to travel after 2 weeks of stay
TAKE NOTE tho : I came here on March this year, stayed 1 month in US then went to Philippines for 1 month then came back. Then I was sent to secondary at the POE. officer asked me where's my green card, told him I ddnt have it with me, we just it in mail 2 days ago. he asked me if I have any special document to travel, told him I dont have. told him as well that I called USCIS to re confirm that I can travel and come back without my green card. He then told me I should have waited for my green card. Then, I was sent to secondary, after maybe 30 minutes of sitting there and wondering what's gonna happened. I was called and was told I am good to go and welcome back to the US. they never asked me anything.
Our visa is good as temporary green card. but in my experience, it is still safer to wait for the green card to be in hand. Guess it was just my luck.
4 - yes you are okay with that. just don't fly 2 or 1 day before the expiry date.

You can put it in a ziplock bag.
Make sure to put case # at the back of each picture.

Yes you can .
In our case we only wrote Case Number on the upper right corner of each document.

Thanks Dod
Yes ours went fast. then only hold up was at NVC stage as I have to wait for my police clearance from Qatar for more than a month and we were scheduled for interview at embassy 71 days from case complete. But I cant complain, all in all, our process was still fast
Below are the question asked
First consul
- My Family Name
- Fathers Full Name
- She then ask why my father is not in my Birth Certificate (Told her I'm an illegitimate child)
- Mothers Full Name
- How long I've been married
American consul
- Full Name
- Name of husband
- Have you been to the US
- How many times
- Was it before or after the wedding
- How long was the trip
- Which date
- How did you met your husband
- Which Website
- Tell me about the website
- When did you first met in person
- Which place
- From which state is your husband
- What is your husband's occupation
- He then asked me to tell him about my husband's job
- How long have you been in UAE
- What is your job
- What is the name of the company
- where is your office located
- What does your company do
- Have you met your husband's family
- Have you met your husband again after the first meeting?
- Where did you get married
- Which date
- was he married before
- what about you
- does he have kid
-You?
- Can I see pictures of you together
consul did many questions but it was pretty easy. just wanting to know how much you know your spouse.
Good luck on your journey

Thanks DC12345
God bless you too

It’s the case with mine. But our journey is not finished yet. I hope it wont happen to us on the green card and visa later.
Did your wife change her passport into her married name? cause what I understand, they will always go with passport details. If she has a maiden name on her passport during interview then visa and green card will be in maiden name.
We called NVC too on this matter when our I-130 was approved with my married name in all the documents and USCIS correspondence on married name, until NVC changed it into maiden name.
They told us that during interview, if I have the married name on my passport already, then they will issue the visa and green card on Married name.

Hi dwheels76 , surely you have many notifications received but if you are able to get this one, kindly update my Interview date for January 29, 2015 in Abu Dhabi embassy . We received our P4 on Dec 3.
The webpage to update always turns into Arabic that's why I cant update.
Thanks a lot

that's Good for your. As much as I want to do the same, I cant take that risk here cause i'm working overseas. My company will cancel my visa once I resign from the last working day. And there's only 30 days grace period that I can stay legally in the country. So I prefer wait for the visa before resigning.
Looking at the excel file, it can be. I hope we will hear about the interview schedule this week...

Hello
We got case complete on Nov 13 too. Hoping to get earlier interview date as well. I still need to give my company 45 days notice on my resignation. As much as possible, I don’t want to put in my resignation without the visa on hand.
Good luck to us and to everyone in this journey.

I want to share some experience with everyone going through the grinder at NVC which might help some,
As background, I was granted an expedite (through NVC) by my consulate which required only that I pay my fees and submit the DS260. Things bogged down. I was told 60 days... blah, blah, blah. My case went to a supervisors review. They did finally find the missing form, and as a result I was calling back to thank my supervisor (and the rep) for her hard work and we chatted for 20 min or so (it was an enlightening conversation). It was eye-opening to connect with someone on the other side and it prompted me to share.
Here are my two cents worth of advice and observation:
NVC processing:
- To begin with, for crying out loud, read and reread Saylin's wiki on the process. She is the patron saint of the NVC process and continues to help us out of the goodness of her heart. She is up to date and often chimes in on this forum. She is a goddess.
- Once you understand the process and are complying, you will have to wait. Yes, sixty days... It stinks, I understand. But calling again and again hoping for some other information will do you little good. The reps and the supervisors will NOT tell you anything else, even when they are attempting to look into or fix your issue. They simply aren't allowed. For instance, the supervisor would still only give me the '60 days' spiel, even though she was able to get back to me an hour later with a case complete.
- If you are following the wiki, you will know when something doesn't seem right and it is time to call and verify. If a deadline has passed, call.... If they tell you documents are missing that you KNOW were included, call....
- NVC presently appears to be a little short of qualified supervisors, and the caseload on them is tremendous. But if something is amiss in your case. Ask for a supervisor's review if you can't speak directly to one. It will take a few days, and they don't always contact you. Follow up with a call to see if the review was completed.
- I cannot stress this enough: I know how strung out we all are during this and how rude some of the reps are, but stay calm and polite (and persistent). They are human too and are actually more sympathetic than it appears on our end. But, they are overwhelmed and hamstrung by a broken immigration system, consulate bullying and a plethora of rules and regulations. Nevertheless, don't let a rep bully you. Call back for a different rep if you are being handled rudely.
A word on 'expediting'
- If you feel your situation qualifies for an expedite (and not just because you are you and a wonderful human being, which you are of course ). I suggest you take your time composing your request. You should briefly, yet factually, lay out your case without embellishing it with too much emotional overtone. I cannot stress how important it is to then back the request up with paperwork (in PDF format). A good paper-trail is a bureaucrat's friend. You want the consulate to have every shred of evidence when it considers your request.
- If you are granted an expedite, you now enter a grey area (for NVC as well sometimes) and there is no wiki! Pay attention to what your response letter/email states you need to do next. Don't hesitate to call NVC to get direction (though each rep may have a different story). It was only once I read my expedite email word for word to the rep that she put my case up for a supervisor review. Remember: polite and persistent!!
- Please, if you get an expedite, don't brag here. So many deserving people have been waiting and suffering for ages at NVC. On the flip-side, please don't pester someone as to why they got an expedite, or begrudge them if they get one. It can be incredibly personal.
I know this is a long-winded post, but I hope my experience and advice can help some of you now being ground up by the slow gears of NVC. Eventually we will all be spit out. I hope everyone has a smooth exit.

The marriage seminar will be at the Municipal or City hall. You can do that within the 10 days period from the registration. most people do it the same day.

Hi everyone. Sorry I have not chimed in sooner. Too stressful to put into writing but all is good now. My AOS changed to N/A last night so I called NVC and sure enough case complete with no checklist...thank goodness. My AOS scan date was September 12th and I completed my DS260 on October the 6th. I also emailed my supporting docs at the same time and actually got a scan date for October 6th as well.
8.15.2014 - NAO2 approved
9.6.2014 - NVC received my documents from USCIS and case number assigned
9.9.2104 - Paid AOS fee
9.10.2014 - DS-261 and AOS (I-864W) completed and emailed supporting docs for AOS
9.12.2014 - AOS scanned in with 60 day email
10.4.2014 - DS-260 fee (IV fee) available and payed
10.6.2014 - Completed DS-260 and emailed all required docs
10.20.2014 - Received 60 day email with scan date of October 6th.
11.5.2014 - Case complete
In my case it would appear that the NVC went off of the first scan date even though I was part of the group that were instructed to send in docs separately. So they thusly reviewed all of my docs at the same time. I sent all of my supporting docs through email and no checklists....Yeah!!!!
Good luck to everyone and hang in there.