coloradaninperu

5 hours ago, afrocraft said:

Unfortunately you're not yet at oath scheduling -- he needs a decision on the N-400 first, then he'll be placed in line for the oath ceremony. By law, USCIS has up to 120 days after the interview to decide the N-400, and there is very little you can do until then. The reasons for the delay could be anything from the case officer going on leave to USCIS doing some further checks.

 

Sorry I don't have better news.

Yes, we know he hasn't been approved yet. I guess my question should've been phrased approval/scheduling of oath. 

There shouldn't be anything holding him back from approval, but of course it's always concerning! 

Hi All!

My husband finally was granted an interview, a year after applying, for naturalization. He interviewed in Baltimore on July 12. We were married in 2014 using a K-1 visa. He passed the civics and English test quickly and had a nice conversation with the employee interviewing him, but he was a little nervous and couldn't remember some exact travel dates, etc. He had all of the travel documents to show her (and never traveled for more than 21 days at a time), but she said she didn't need to see them. He also had all of our marriage info, tax returns, photos of our daughter and ultrasounds of our new baby, a copy of our mortgage, bank transcripts, school/work records, etc. etc. 

He received a "decision cannot be made at this time" letter, but the interviewer hinted that he should keep checking his mail for an oath notice. It's now been a month, and we haven't heard anything. The Baltimore office isn't taking infopass appointments, and the customer service line told us we have to wait 60 days before we can inquire with them. 

He has no criminal record, speeding tickets, etc. 

Did anyone experience something similar? How long did it take for the oath scheduling to come through? Thanks!!

You can obtain certified BCs from the county clerk in which a person is born. Usually they send you a form and you mail it in with the fee.

In Peru, you have to pick the birth certificate up from the county you're born in and then bring it to the capital to get it notarized (they take your fingerprints, etc.) so that's not an option for us at this point.

So my husband and I have found ourselves in a bit of an unfortunate situation.

He came from Peru on a K-1 Visa in December. I didn't know about visa journey when we first started the application process and was really sick with a parasite when he was actually going through the interview portion, so I just left that part up to him to take care of. It was really a challenge for him to get a birth certificate because he had to send someone up to his birth town (12 hours north of his city) to retrieve it and then bring it himself to Lima (15 hours south) so it could be made official. He didn't think to make another copy of it because he didn't know that he would need one further in the process.

He gave his birth certificate to immigration with his packet at his point of entry in Ft. Lauderdale in December.

When we were applying for adjustment of status last month, we realized we needed to send in his birth certificate and freaked out. So we called a few people in immigration, and just got a bunch of employees telling us "they couldn't give us any advice," but we finally found someone who told us we could retrieve the original birth certificate from the government by filing a G-884 form to get the original copy back. When we went to our field office in Denver to file the G-884 form in person, a field worker told us not to worry-- that immigration already had his original copy of the birth certificate in storage and would be able to see it when they re-opened his case (when they received our AOS application). He asked one of his co-workers to make sure, and the second field worker agreed that we didn't need to file the G-884 form as long as we added a letter explaining to immigration that the only copy of the original is already with immigration.

So we did just that-- filed our AOS papers and included a letter in lieu of the birth certificate explaining the situation and mentioning we had talked with a field officer who told us to write the letter. We even put a copy of our InfoPass appointment confirmation in there.

So I was shocked today when we got a letter from Immigration requesting initial evidence, saying that we will be denied if we do not provide it in 87 days. And that they're holding the processing of my husband's work permit/travel doc until they receive the evidence.

If we had filed the G-884 when we initially wanted to, we would have it in our hands right now and would be able to send it in right away. So now we're stuck trying to get it worked out within the time period. It will be nearly impossible for us to get another copy from Peru.

Has a similar situation happened to anyone else with an original birth certificate? Any advice?

We're planning on returning to talk to a field officer about it but can't get an appointment until Monday.

Thank you in advance!

My fiancee has his interview this week at the Lima Embassy (December 5th), and I'm trying to buy a flight for my fiancee in advance. Of course the embassy doesn't recommend buying anything in advance, but I found a killer deal on JetBlue and would like to try and take advantage of it for financial reasons.

For those of you who have received a visa from the Lima Embassy, how many business days did it take for your approved visa/passport to arrive via DHL (for pickup in Lima)?

Thanks in advance!

Our case just went to ready today, and I emailed the Embassy. Hopefully tomorrow we have a response with our Interview date, and information of packet 4.

More than likely December the Interview will be.

We already scheduled our Medical Exam, you should too because they are 4 weeks out right now.

We just told them we had an interview date in december, bc we wanted to make sure we got an appt set up!

So we have a medical all set up for December, the results will take 10 days to get they told us.. which doesnt make sense because I have heard it takes only 5.

We'll see!

Are you attending the Interview with your fiance?

I will not be attending because we just don't have the funds at all to do so unfortunately.

I wish I could share that moment with her.

Hoping to have her here by December 30th so we can start 2014 TOGETHER!

Ours has been ready for a bit now... still don't know why the embassy gave us a completely different process to go through.

I was going to wait until we heard from the embassy to schedule a date-- so bummed that they're four weeks out! when did you schedule your's? did you call both doctors?

I'd imagine that our interview dates are probably mid December or so... I know a couple who got their visa to Lima the week before ours, and their date was Dec. 2nd.

I am still not sure about going to the interview. I have connections to the flight industry and can fly roundtrip for under $300 if there are standby seats, but I also don't want to spend the extra money unless it's necessary. I'd love to be there with my fiancee, but I don't know how necessary it is. Are you worried about it not getting accepted if you're not there?

Email the embassy at limaiv@state.gov

You pay the fee there during your Interview, and we get packet 4 -nothing more.

You can use the CEAC website to track your package to ensure it says "ready" as well. That would mean it is at the embassy.

Thanks so much! It does say ready on the tracking site, so I know that ours is ready... I was just so confused when they told us about this whole other process today because I had heard what you told me as the process time and time again.

My fiancee just lives up in Cajamarca (northern Peru), so we don't want to wait for the packet to get up there before we know the interview date, etc. I have heard that they will e-mail you the packet electronically if you want, so that's why this whole paying beforehand thing was throwing me off so much!

Good luck with your interview! When are you expecting your date to be? Our timelines are pretty similar! Except our visa sat at the CSC for 6 weeks... but ours was just sent to the embassy a little over a week before your's, so our interviews might be around the same time!

I saw this page when trying to figure out how to pay, too. It says you can pay the $240 by just signing up and logging in, which we did. But every time we try to "schedule an appointment" (which is where it mentions receiving the printable bank stub to pay the fee), we never get to any portion that gives us the printable page or any information about how to pay the fee/schedule an appointment.

no.. we're going through the K-1 fiancee visa interview scheduling steps.

it just doesn't make sense to me because the consulate info on here says that the interview date is automatically scheduled when the packet is sent. and many people have commented that they paid at the consulate during their interviews.

but on the embassy website, it also mentions this website? not specifically for K-1 visas though...

My Fiancee's application was FINALLY shipped to the NVC and then to the Lima consulate on the 25th of Oct.

When he called today to see if he could find out his scheduled interview time (Peruvian mail is notoriously slow, and he hasn't received the packet yet), the consulate worker said that he just had to pay the MRV fee in cash to the bank and then could schedule the appointment after. He said to do so through this site: http://usvisa-info.com.

But as we signed him up for the site and went through the process described to get the printable bank slip, nothing works. We are never directed to the page to print off the PDF bank slip to pay.

Has anyone experienced this? Or know how to deal with this part of the process? I am kind of confused, because I have been reading that others pay the MRV fee AT the consulate during their interview, so I don't know why the process is different for us?

All of these different instructions and hold ups are starting to get SO frustrating. Any advice would be appreciated!

Also, does anyone have a good e-mail address to contact the consulate in Lima? We keep getting different e-mail addresses, and none of them seem to work well...

Thanks!

Do you think it's just a problem with the California Service center??

I filed through Texas and received my NOA2 on Sept 5th... after calling today to the NVC, they still do not have my case. I also haven't received an updated case status on the USCIS page or any e-mail about it being mailed.

Another woman I talked to on here who is also filing for a Peruvian fiancee through the Texas center was approved YESTERDAY with her NOA2 and received notification today that her case was sent to the NVC.

Should I be worried? Anything I can do?

Thanks!

I received my NOA2 on Sept 5, 2013. I'm currently visiting my fiancee in Peru, and we haven't heard anything from the NVC still (it's been over one month). We can't call because we're abroad, but we're starting to get worried that our papers have been lost or sent to the wrong place.

We called the Consulate today in Lima, but they just told us that they don't have our records yet.

Has anyone dealt with this? Is there a way to check online or via e-mail with the NVC? Any suggestions as to how we should proceed?

ALSO, has anyone else here gone through the Lima consulate? Can I get a time frame for how everything went with your case?

Thanks so much!

The same thing happened to me-- it's in a tricky spot, and I misread the question! My RFE specified how to respond, though. I don't remember exactly... I think I checked "no" and signed it?

Our application was approved about 2 weeks after I sent back in the RFE.

My petition was approved, and I didn't include any chat logs whatsoever in mine... I know it varies depending on the case, and it's definitely better to include some than none. But I'd echo those who say that travel documents and evidence of meeting in real life is more important. I did, however, include very sincere letters from both sides stating intent to marry, etc.

Good luck!!

I am in a similar situation!

My fiancee lives in Peru, and we received our NOA2 on Sept. 5th... still haven't heard anything from the NVC, and my fiancee called the embassy today, and they said they couldn't give him any more information on our case.

I'm actually visiting him right now in Peru so I can't call the US... but I'm starting to worry our papers got mailed to the wrong place or have been lost? Anyone who went through the Lima embassy want to shed a bit more light on this for us? Will we for sure receive a letter from the NVC, or could our packet have been sent to the Lima Consulate already without us knowing? Any way to track it?

Thanks!!

i received my NAO2 over a month ago and still haven't heard anything from the NVC or from the embassy. any advice??

Hi there!

For reference, here's a brief timeline of our case:

May 14, 2013: Applied for K-1 Visa

May 22, 2013: 1st notice // application received

August 15, 2013: RFE

September 5, 2013: Approval from TX Center

We received notification that our petition was approved nearly a month ago, but neither my fiancee or I have received any information from the consulate regarding progress or interviews, etc. I have read that the Lima, Peru consulate generally only takes 25-30 days to process, so I am getting a little worried. I thought for sure we at least would have received some notification of our case being opened there or he'd have any interview scheduled by now. I don't know who to contact exactly because we don't have a case number yet and all of the phone numbers/e-mail info specify needing to state your case number.

And now that the government is shut down, I'm worried it's just going to be delayed further.

Has anyone here dealt with this? Or the Lima consulate specifically?

Any light anyone can shed on this issue or advice would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks so much.