Guera30

i just wanted to send in my numbers to get added to the CSC xfer list for everyone's info...

GUERA30

NOA 1 10/17/06

Biometrics Appt 10/31/06

xferred to CSC 11/1/06

Thanks everyone for the advice. I just didn't want to send my fiance to Juarez without being absolutely sure that he doesn't need the packet first. Of course, now i feel pretty annoyed and stupid for not realizing this sooner, as he probably could have gone to the Consulate 2 months ago!

Thanks again. Visajourney is great. I'm not sure what i would do without this website.

"Unless the policy has changed recently, you do not have to wait for Packet 3 to go for a K-1 interview!!!! "

-- I had this same question, as this was what I had heard. When I called the consulate, they told me you do have to wait to receive Packet 3 before you go for an interview. They say that they are "processing" the paperwork and that you have to have the letter from the consulate to go for an interview. THey were very clear about this. Of course, they do often give incorrect information too.

What have other people heard recently from teh consulate?

I'm feeling pretty annoyed today. I called the Ciudad Juarez consulate 2 weeks ago, and they told me that the average wait time for them to send out Packet 3 (after having the approved I-129F) was 2-3 months.

I called them today and the guy who I spoke with said the wait time is now 5-8 months?!? I made him read it off the computer screen because I was convinced he was wrong. He had no explanation for why this would be so.

I'm really desperate for any real information about what's going on there? Has anyone else heard this? Every timeline I've seen listed here for K1s in Mexico gives a much shorter timeline for sending out Packet 3.

I need some hope.

thanks!

But, I do think you have to wait for Packet 3 to be sent out before you can go to the interview, you have to be "notified" that it's okay to show up. I think what they are doing is holding on "certifying" my fiance's paperwork (so they said).

Do I have this wrong? If he could just show up, he'll go tomorrow. I don't know why there's a wait. I can't imagine it's IMBRA-related, as they should still be processing all pre-IMBRA applications.

Thanks for the thread.

I was wondering why my fiance hadn't yet received Packet 3. They received the file from NVC on May 16. They told me that they are currently having waits of 2-3 months to send out packet 3 for K1 visas.

She told me to expect it in July or August. She didn't know any reason why it is suddenly taking 3 months instead of 3 weeks to send out the packet.

Has anyone else heard anything about this?

Thanks!

Hey all,

don't make the same mistake I did. On the fiance visa page of the website, there is a wrong number listed (the wrong # is 1-900-329-5520). don't call this number, it's wrong and costs a lot of money to call.

the correct number is listed on the "contact us" page. i called 1-900-476-1212 from the US.

just wanted to say good luck with the waiting. i wouldn't worry too much about the lack of "touch." mine was approved on april 26- i had a receipt date of feb. 2, and there wasn't a single touch between those times. (well, one to cash the check, but that hardly counts.) it seems like this is pretty common as well.

good luck!

i'm happy to say that CSC was strangely predictable (after so much anticipation of impending huge mistakes) and approved my I-129F almost exactly 90 days after the NOA1.

I got the email yesterday. Good luck to all of you out there waiting!

Hi all,

I'm putting documents ahead-of-time for the interview at the consulate. I was born abroad to USC parents and so used the FS-240 as my proof of citizenship (not the birth certificate). Do I have to send the original with my fiance to the interview? (Unlike birth certificates, you cannot get another original copy from the State dept. unless your original has been lost or destroyed.)

Or can I send "certified" copies? Or can they just be "notarized"?

Has anyone else encountered this?

Thanks all!

oops, my apologies. i should have searched for this topic first. I just noticed a series of postings that others are having the same problems. has anyone contacted uscis to check status on this? 3 days seems like a long time for the system not to be working.

For the past 3 days, whenever I click on "check case status online" and then select "log in to existing account" at the USCIS website, it takes me to an error page. Is this happening to anyone else?

thanks!

I live in Alabama- so I submitted my I129F to the Texas Service Center. My NOA1 came back from the California Service Center.

Is that normal? if not, any idea why this happened?

Thanks!