medasman

when filing form 400 is a medical by civil surgeon required

they will send it back had this happen to a friend last month

when my finance came on the visa it was Don and my name is James she had no problems

it usually takes 5 days to receive but is also electronic too the visa fee must be paid before the interview is booked

I have a friend who has been here 7 months has 2 kids in the Philippines both are minor she wants to bring her kids here now she just got her 2 year green card so what papers does she need they where listed as the k-2 but no visa was issued

it depends what happens at the interview you will probably have to pay and apply for a wavier

theyt could have appealed but they did not tell it was 9 days too late

i met a friend who was here and got married within the 90 days she was denied her 2 year green card because of finances only (funny this was not a problem during the interview ) so i am asking advice should she reapply with a co sponsor also found out they did not include all the assets and can do this not

my wife got here in may we married in July filed for aos may of next year no interview for aos

in the old days this is how it happened but I do not think this is true just waiting to see any news about this

my wife and i got married with in the 90 days but could not afford the aos until a year later . we had no interview and she has her 2 year green card

My sister in law finally got her visa on the 26 her updated papers was received by the Embassy on Oct 3rd

I might be able to help her

when you get the new Cenomar and they look at it they will approve your visa and notify you but the time varies you can not hurry this part of the process they say 2 weeks but I have seen 6 months but usually not that long

Hello Vjers,

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who has helped me giving ideas as to what is required in preparation of everything before my interview yesterday. And asking GOD to guide me always in every steps I take. PRAYERS are powerful and its only my weapon in this time of test. A very challenging test, I would say.

Here's what happened on my interview:

Since I live a bit farther to US Embassy, I rent hotel overnight (10 minutes walk) at Soriente Hotel (located at Bocobo St, UN Ave, near St. Luke's). I came to the area around 5am, with lines of people waiting, the line I followed was the 630am appointment schedule wise, as well as what type of visa are you applying for. So we waited til they started at 6am to get us in.

NOTE: Steps from start may vary to those who have had experience their interview:

1. Prepare your Passport, Appointment Letter & DS Forms. (Filipino staffs assisted to arrange these requirements) and return back to you and instructed to put your passport inside the ziploc plastic with your front page visible.

2. As you get inside the checking area, they will check everything of course you have (as advised from other Vjers, do NOT bring any gadgets, perfume, water, some other forms of liquid and food.)

3. Fall in line, they asked if your medical was in an envelope or in a CD(?) then giving you a queue number with the No. 1 stated above requirements and instructed you to drop the stapled (appointment letter, DS forms) to window assigned number. Please make sure you hold your passport, now in ziplock together with your queue number while waiting for your turn by monitoring the number flashed.

4. Pre-Screener: He asked for my BC, NBI, CENOMAR, Police Clearance abroad and Passport. Asked the following:

a. Who is my Petitioner?

b. What is my Name?

c. What is my Birthdate?

d. Have I been in abroad? How many countries? How long?

e. Was I married before? He also asked my divorce decree with the translation in it.

f. How and when did we meet?

g. When did we first met?

h. When did he last visit me?

*** Then he asked for Affidavit of Support, Form 40, W-2. Reviewed them. Again,asked that he needed to look at few pictures (if I have). Since my photos are in folder, with a captions, he took it and looked at them.

*** By the way, the pre-screener is a Filipino, friendly soft spoken male, which you do feel at ease with him

*** He instructed me to wait, again when the queue number flashes.

5. Biometrics - easy one. I was asked to say name and birthdate clearly. Put your Left to right four fingers and two thumbs :thumbs: infront of you.

6. Final Interview with Consul - She said hello and asked me to solemnly swear to tell truth and nothing but the truth (while my right hand raised). She looked all my papers infront of her and asked the following:

a. Who is my Petitioner?

b. How old I am? (which by the way, she said I look young with my age )

*** She looked at my CENOMAR (oh boy), and said "Your CENOMAR is a bit old, you need to get new one" and she crossed the white paper (oh boy, again)

c. How long my marriage was? Why? Where is my divorce decree? She crossed this out again in her white paper, and explained she needs/considers an annulment paper from Philippines, an annotated one. I explained that my marriage was solemnized outside the Philippines and divorce was obtained in the same country that I had been. While explaining, she asked my previous husband's name and trying to look at the divorce paper, she couldnt find it and I pointed where it was. She wrote my prev husband's name in the white paper. And then read/review again, she then, ERASED the supposed-to-be requirements, whew!

Here the comment I have read from one of our VJers that really enlightened me! No.1 applies on my case

d. How we met?

e. When did we first met in person?

f. When was the last time he visited me?

g. Does he have children? How many? How old?

h. How many countries I have been?

i. What is my marriage name? (this is a tricky question for me, , but I able to answer it, thank God!)

*** She then finalized her white form paper, making sure she erased the "divorce" issue. Again, she reminded me of my new CENOMAR. And then she said "Thank you for answering my questions"

She did not say if it was approved or not. And was instructed to wait for the final window.

7. Window 72 staff asked my whole name, birthdate, birthplace,father's name, mother name and printed a reverification form, he gave me and instructed to go to NSO at Pasay branch and said "once we received your CENOMAR, we will take care of it, you can leave now".

Note that, he have my passport attached on the rest of my documents in a folder. He only just gave me this form to present this to NSO. I dont want to waste time,after checking out from the hotel, I went directly to NSO, requested new CENOMAR and asked how many days it will take for them to have this CENOMAR processed, about 3-4 days. He explained that, every Friday, assigned USEM staff pick them.

DO YOU THINK I AM APPROVED? HOW LONG SHOULD I WAIT TO GET THE RESULT?

this is what happened to my sister in law she returned paper with passport Oct 3 embassy emailed her on the 7th they received and waiting for consul to review them

what papers was she required to send

my sister in law was in manila for her k - 1 interview but her future hubby forgot to send his pay checks and others things . so theu gave her a letter and she sent them back 10/05/2011 now the embassy has her papers and passport . how long will this take now to let her know her visa is approved

they was very rude to us and they told me i did not know what i was talking about even asked to see someone else and the lady told me i needed to go and come back with her green card even gave the number of the KC office

we did this as well as 3 other couples and they told us we had to wait until they get their green cards this was done before the 90 days wife got her green card on the 2 and went and they told her it would take 4 weeks

dont forget the cfo

you have to put it in this way EXP 01 SEP 2011A however there are none going to manila

I would call the nvc get your case number and see if it has been shipped

your original will be in the package to to the embassy

your approval date on noa 2

my sister in laws case took 28 days to get to the CSC to the NVC 3 days at the nvc 3 days to manila but arrived on saturday there she is on a k-1

yes alone if you have question ask them here