FrancesTaber

I can confirm its not needed. I lived in the U.S. with a student visa for one year. After I handed over my Canadian police check at the interview the lady asked if I had ever lived in any other countries. I said for one year in the U.S. as a student and she said that was fine and did not require a police check.

Perhaps I am missing something on the website, but can anyone let me know if the fee is $300 CAD or $300 USD?

Thanks!

Hi Everyone,

I'm wondering if anyone can enlighten me on official rules regarding having the medical and interview after the NOA2 Expiry date. I have read that the consulate will automatically extend this validity period as long as you are actively pursuing your visa. Due to the quicker than expected processing times at CSC and a work obligation, I have now scheduled my visa interview in Montreal for about 2 months after the expiry date on my NOA2. I attempted to contact the Montreal consulate to see if this would pose a problem, and their response was:

"We advise applicants to schedule their interviews as soon as possible. You will have to explain your circumstance to the consular officer on the day of the interview."

I found this response a bit vague, I understand that I will need to explain the delay to the consular officer. However I guess I was hoping for a yes or no type answer regarding whether or not it is ALLOWED (rather than whether or not recommended) to have the medical and interview a few months after the NOA2 expiry date. Thoughts or experiences anyone?

Thank you so much for your time!

This question is specifically for those who have gone through the Montreal consulate...

I have received an NOA2 with an expiry date of 07/16/2015. I am wondering if this means you must interview before 07/16/2015 (given there are interview slots available of course)? Is it possible to have an interview past this date as long as I send in Packet 3 and perhaps book the interview by 07/16/2015? I would like to push the interview closer to when I will be able to POE (~Oct?) so that I can continue to cross at the nearest land border for weekend visits in the meantime.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Thanks

me and my fiancé we tried many times to call but we never reached the line.. so I thought "alright, I will just wait to receive the packet 3 and that's it. "

but some days later my fiancé got a mail from

the NVC where there was our case number! so once we found it I tracked our case on the CEAC website, and once U see it's written "ready" it means ur embassy has received it...

the benefit of knowing in advance he case number is that U can check it out where it is, if it's already leaving the NVC, or just arrived at the embassy. Usually after some

days it's showing up

on the website that it's "ready" the embassy will contact U... if that doesn't happen, U can call

them, and with U case number U can ask further informations about it!

No you don't have to call at all. People do because they are anxious just to see that the process is in motion and to get their case number. Mostly its people just stressing themselves out calling everyday like an addiction.

Thank you for the feedback everyone! Our NOA2 date was March 18th so I was planning to call tomorrow as it will have been two weeks. However I think since its not necessary I will save myself the time and stress and just wait to hear from the consulate. Thanks again!

A little late seeing this topic but I'm wondering if it is required to call NVC at all?

If I don't call them, I will still receive packet 3 eventually (when it is ready) and it will contain my Montreal case number, correct? Is there any specific benefit to finding out when they received and sent the petition to the consulate?

Thanks!

I am not at this stage yet but was just browsing for information on the Montreal consulate. Do you pick your own interview date from a list available or are you assigned a random day?

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You guys are wonderful! Thank you so much for the assistance!

Pheebs1201, thank you so much for your reply! Would you mind answering one more question?

For each of us, do we need to send the second page of the G-325a form which appears to be instructions, or just the page with the information we filled out? Thank you!

Hi Everyone,

I am new to visa journey, so please forgive me if either of these questions have been answered elsewhere. Here goes,

1) On the G-325a form, my USC fiancé and I are having a bit of difficulty filling out the "applicants residence last five years".

Here is a little background information: I am a Canadian citizen, and my fiancé is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada (born in Canada, moved to the U.S. when he was 2). He lived in my hometown in Ontario for two years after high school to play junior hockey and afterwards we attended university together in Canada from 2010-2014. Now that he is living in the U.S. and I am in Canada, we have started to gather the documents for the I-129F petition so that I can join him in the U.S.

Basically, throughout university we both used our parents addresses as our permanent address (mine in Ontario, and his in Minnesota). At first we thought it would be easiest to put what we consider our "permanent" address only (used for tax purposes, drivers licence, etc) on the G-325a form. Throughout university we moved around a lot in different student apartments, as well as in the summers for internships and therefore if we list all of those places in chronological order we will have 10+ addresses each. However, if we do not include all of these addresses, our residence history will not align with our employment history since we moved around for internships. I also lived in Michigan for 8 months as a international student so I figure I should include that since I had a F-1 student visa at the time.

My main concern is that if we do not list all the addresses, it won't be clear to whoever reads our petition that we spent several years living in the same city before he moved back to the United States. Has anyone gone through a situation similar to this and listed several addresses on the G-325a? Any advice would be appreciated.

2) This question is much more straightforward. The current G-325a form available for download says it expires on 02/28/2015. Does anyone know when/where we could find a newer version? Or is this alright as long as you mail the completed package before 02/28/2015?

Thank you in advance for any help, and I'm sorry this was such a rambling story!