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Congrats on your expedite. Once an expedite is granted by the US consulate it means the NVC stops handling your case and forwards it to the US Consulate in your country, DR. So the consulate will set an interview date for you once they receive your case. You said it is still in transit so keep checking ceac everyday until it shows your case is Ready for an interview at the consulate.

Then I suggest you send an email or telephone the US Consulate asking them on the way to go forward and they will get back to you with an interview date.

While you wait go over to the DR Embassy info page here on VJ to see all what you'll be needing for an interview and get the list of Doctors for your medical and get that done so that you don't waste anytime. Be proactive while you wait to get an interview date so that you don't lose any time especially with medicals, police certificate etc

Good luck.

Oh great news from Paris! Congratulations, enjoy this happy moment and good luck to both of you.

What a beautiful story. Congratulations and I very much like the way your interview ended with the Consular Officer thanking your fiancé for his service, oh so sweet.

Good luck on the rest of your journey and time to pop the champagne.

Dwightcharles: it is commendable of you to care about your mom and sisters as you've come on here for some support on how to handle things. Well if that isn't the definition of a caring young man... However, remember that if you do nothing, things remain same at the best or get worse, so pull yourself up by your bootstraps and start acting one step at a time.

1) don't look back. Start acting now

2) find a place to start with even though small.

3) come get your sisters or take them with you if your mom agrees to this.

4) your mom may get a wake up call and speak frankly to your step father or he may spontaneously change for the better. If not, chances are that she may in fact come join you guys, but that's her call to make.

5) grab the numerous opportunities in the US, no one can kick you out if you abide by the laws of the land and commit no crime that makes you deportable. You are in the USofA where there are laws and people respect the law of the land.

To the OP: Have you had a heart felt conversation with your wife on the reasons she choose you as her husband and decided to start a life with you in the US? You haven't mentioned anything about your feelings over this issue, step back and think for yourself: "what about me, where do I stand in this whole thing"?

Your DIL didn't initially want to come and your wife knew this. She probably felt sad leaving her daughter behind like most mothers would feel, and still decided to emigrate to be with you (that was the time she could have called off your relationship if she couldn't live without her daughter, too late now!!). Now change of plans... Well your DIL should own up to her erratic behavior and either stay home or ask you and her mother in a polite manner to petition for her so she can get into college and hopefully get a part time job while she studies that will enable her to travel home and visit her bf as much as she herself can afford it. When she becomes a USC and can afford it (maybe with some help from your wife) she can petition her BF assuming they are still together (if they are soulmates).

Give me a break it is not like your wife's country is some super power rich country with as many opportunities compared to the US that will make her give you such an ultimatum. Trust me both your wife and DIL know this!!

There is no love in true clear cut cases of blackmail. No one blackmails the other (when the love is still going strong) never! But if your wife was just bluffing to test you and make her daughter "eat her cake and have it" then time to straighten things out with both your wife and DIL.

People talk to your fiancé(e)s and spouses, there is a lot involved in this long gruesome journey and one doesn't just arrive in America and start changing every plan or making ultimatums overnight (on both sides: Petitioner's and Beneficiary's alike) and if things should change they can be asked for with kindness and empathy which are both lacking in the case of the OP.

You filed for K-1 fiancé visa right? So won't it be I-134 form with supporting documents that you and your USC fiancée need to show and not I-94? I-94 is just arrival and departure records which used to be given by the immigration officer at the POE but now doesn't come anymore in paper form but can be retrieved on the cbp.dhs website.

Either way, if you are sure of getting your document in 1-2 weeks, I would go ahead and send your DS-2001 readiness form to the embassy in Paris while you wait to receive the documents. And even if anything happens and you don't receive it (unforeseen circumstances) you can always call or email the embassy to reschedule your interview.

So be proactive like most people here will tell you to be on top of your game/file and plan ahead which is what you intend doing, so go ahead. Good luck!

Please read the link Hypnos posted and you will see steps you need to take to go to the French Consulate in Washington D.C to renew your French passport.

As you have been doing you need your French passport to visit France (and the. E.U) while your Green card is valid to allow you go back to your home/residence to the US. By presenting it alongside with your valid unexpired French passport until you file for Naturalization and get approved to become a USC.

Good luck

(response to removed quoted comment also removed - VJ Moderation) Seriously wasn't it this OP who filed a petition for his wife and came here on VJ barely a few days/weeks later (I don't know how to search for posts here) asking people to sign a petition or asking how can we sue the Govt or how can we protest and everyone here calmed him down asking him to take a chill pill and to take things easy. He has had other posts too about various things often times it makes me shake my head in astonishment (personal).

VJ is a lovely site and everyone here is willing to help and give their own point of view. Some have said "report her" giving reasons for that while others have said "let her be if you don't have any claim/proof" giving reasons for that too. Everyone here has made a point from their own angle yet the OP keeps this dramatics on and on.

Word of advice to the OP, you have had ample answers from both sides on this issue for almost 48hrs. So please do what you need to do and let's move on in helping people who love their families and spouses and miss them badly reunite legally at the right/their own time. Peace and Happy New Year and miss my baby.

Sorry, read all the posts. It is common sense that's all. Obnoxious not! I do have half a brain.

Seriously people this is more likely a joker starting a thread on something and taking off. Just like Tradewind, I think common sense makes us doubt the OP who takes off when concrete help is being offered to her by a VJ member. Any of us hearing our spouse or fiancé is in danger and being so far away then having a member offer help to reassure us, all for free, wouldn't we seize that opportunity?

I don't know Nigerians, but nothing stops me or anyone to post a thread saying "help my Nigerian spouse is dying or whatever and she/he needs help" and you all would scream run for your life to me. We are on a public forum so not everyone here is genuine irrespective of their country of origin. My two cents

I think this is a joke being played by you on this group by you. My opinion and not funny.

I thought the same thing too, glad to see someone else thinks that the OP is playing a joke on us all. If so, then she is far from a genuine lady everyone is worrying about and giving their time and advice to.

When one of the members offered to check out her info she should have accepted with joy their kind offer for worst case scenario someone will see her husband and tell her how he is doing at the hospital and what help he needs or best case scenario (better of the two since his life isn't at stake) he is a fraudster and she wasted her time and love on him but at least the game and pain will not continue indefinitely saving her from further of his lies. My two cents.

Hey Mlle, I agree to some extent on what lucybelle said about the current backlog in the approval of petitions.

However, I stand to be corrected, you are far better off filing with your foreign address i.e. in Mali because no matter how back logged things get it should be quicker for a USC petitioner living abroad than if he/she resides in the USA because the aim is to get the USC (and off course with their spouse) back to the USA that is why the processing times are faster for USC living abroad ( as preference is given to the USC for now since the foreign spouse isn't a USC yet)

Also when you file the I-130, you would get an NOA1 in your email (and sometimes as a text message too) plus a hard copy in the snail mail. Where your concern comes in is when the petition gets approved, what we call NOA2 and you receiving some form of knowledge about it. You will be notified of that via email when the time comes and you can check your status online from time to time to see when you get approved so don't worry too much about the snail mail notification as an email will be sent to you.

For the next stage called NVC everything can be done online as lucybelle stated and you'll fill out a form stating your choice of agent (anyone you trust to receive documents on your behalf) at that time, you can put in parent's address in the States since you say that is a surer way of getting things to you.

So my 2 cents file from Mali and when you get to the NVC stage use your parent's US address to receive documents for the embassy stage.

Good luck :-)

Ours is being sent to NBC too. Though I am dreading it being sent to our local office in Maryland..last time I checked Baltimore was very slow at processing petitions..

Maybe your petition will be the lucky exception if it is sent to your local office (winks ;-))No one knows if all petitions are sent to the local offices. It seems some are while some aren't.

woohoo! receipt number starting with MSC, guess i am going to NBC now! woohoo, that is until it gets sent local...

Date sent 8/10/2013 ....... noa1 8/15/2013

Hi Quitepainful we have the same timeline :-).

We sent ours to the Chicago Lockbox on the same day as yours 8/15/2013 and because my USC spouse lives in Delaware we were expecting it to be sent to the Vermont VSC but our NOA1 says MSC=NBC.

I hope that is a good thing meaning hoping MSC is a quick processing center, I know we all have to wait months but hoping it will be in less than 5 months for us to get our noa2.

Good luck to you all Aug filers ;-)

Great to see someone else for the month of Aug.

I just set up my timeline. But I don't know ant my local office will be since my USC spouse is in Delaware and our Lock box was in Chicago (where we sent the application to today)

My USC spouse sent out my petition today via USPS post to the Chicago Lockbox. So hopefully next week I should be getting NOA1.

Any other Aug filers for I-130? It will be nice to join in this thread.