BryterMoon

Back home in Indiana with my other half. So happy beyond words, port of entry was Dublin yesterday and was all very simple.
Thanks to everyone who's given help, and those who have had kind words along the way.
Now time to prepare for wedding and AOS!

Back home in Indiana with my other half. So happy beyond words, port of entry was Dublin yesterday and was all very simple.
Thanks to everyone who's given help, and those who have had kind words along the way.
Now time to prepare for wedding and AOS!

Back home in Indiana with my other half. So happy beyond words, port of entry was Dublin yesterday and was all very simple.
Thanks to everyone who's given help, and those who have had kind words along the way.
Now time to prepare for wedding and AOS!

Back home in Indiana with my other half. So happy beyond words, port of entry was Dublin yesterday and was all very simple.
Thanks to everyone who's given help, and those who have had kind words along the way.
Now time to prepare for wedding and AOS!

Back home in Indiana with my other half. So happy beyond words, port of entry was Dublin yesterday and was all very simple.
Thanks to everyone who's given help, and those who have had kind words along the way.
Now time to prepare for wedding and AOS!

Passport just arrived via courier!
So flipping happy, going home tomorrow! Issued on the 26/06, arrived 01/07.

Passport just arrived via courier!
So flipping happy, going home tomorrow! Issued on the 26/06, arrived 01/07.

Congrats and safe travels!

Passport just arrived via courier!
So flipping happy, going home tomorrow! Issued on the 26/06, arrived 01/07.

Passport just arrived via courier!
So flipping happy, going home tomorrow! Issued on the 26/06, arrived 01/07.

Passport just arrived via courier!
So flipping happy, going home tomorrow! Issued on the 26/06, arrived 01/07.

Yay, Got my email with tracking number. Says it will be delivered tomorrow, but tempted to go to depot and pick it up tonight. That way I can fly tomorrow.
That is if the depot has it available for pick up, and it's not on a truck somewhere!
Happy to get email though.

Thanks guys. Just gotta sit tight. Very eager to get home to my love.

There is a photo booth inside the embassy near the toilets...kind of in a hallway. But if it's out of order, then you have to leave and deal with getting back in. Go to Gould's Pharmacy near the embassy. Or one of the places near the Bond Street tube station.

Thank you!
Its hard, but just think of the feeling of being on the plane. 4 weeks will go in no time, helps to keep a countdown app on my phone. Helped me when i had visits, and a countdown to them.
Best of luck to you!

If it you got issued yesterday I'd give it two working days, so if you minus the weekend you should get an email either on monday or tuesday Mine was a pick up so I randomly got an email.
Congratulations !! I know how you feel and I cant wait to be with my other half .. just counting the days as my job required 4 weeks notice. I feel like a lil school girl counting down her birthday haha

Updated 25 June 2015
London has begun printing nonimmigrant and immigrant visas. We are working as quickly as possible to clear the backlog of pending visa cases and hand your passport to the courier company for delivery. The approved courier will send a tracking message once it receives your passport. You should wait for that message. During this time, we cannot provide status updates by email or phone.
It says on the page they'll message you as soon as they have it hopefully that will be soon!

oh i don't blame you there! time can't go by fast enough!

The depot phone numbers used to be posted in the online selection/payment thing. They were later removed. However, I copied and pasted their entire list into the pinned K1 thread at the top of the forum prior to their removal of phone numbers. You can find them there.
But until the embassy packages up your entire immigration file into a sealed envelope and turns it and your passport over to the courier desk at the embassy, your depot won't be able to help. The use of "courier desk" is my made up term meaning there has to be a turnover place on site where the courier packages and addresses your things for delivery based on how you registered with the courier. Then the courier package is in the DX system and they email you to say it will be delivered next day hopefully.

Edit to above. That is kinda my guess on how it goes. I don't know for sure if the embassy fills the deliver plastic wrapper and prepares the address label or if DX onsite at the embassy is contracted to perform that task. But it is a step that has to happen after the embassy seals your immigration file in the "Do not open" envelope. So a couple of steps after the visa is printed.

Well said Yuna!!
Some of us have been at this process longer than others, but the simple truth is, we are ALL frustrated with being away from our loved ones.
We have ALL missed birthdays and holidays, days where you want nothing more than to crack open some bubbly and celebrate something great that happened to one of you, and days where it breaks your heart that you can't be there to hold their hand when something bad/sad has happened.
We ALL miss all the little things our friends, family, and co-workers take for granted: children's party's, 4th of July BBQ's, date night to see the newest movie out that everyone is raving about.
We ALL sit through the interrogations at family dinners and office party's of how much longer? Are you guys married yet? When will he/she be here?
That is the best thing about this site, we are ALL going through this roller coaster ride together. We find strength and hope in each other's progress, confirmation that there IS a light at the end of this long, dark tunnel. We also find comfort and support when it seems the tunnel is getting longer and darker. Nobody in our everyday lives can understand the wave of emotions this process puts us through, that's why we come here. To be with people that understand the struggle we are having, to answer the questions and concerns that keep us up at night and to hold our hands when we feel this journey will never end.
I personally would like to thank every person that has shared their knowledge, support and words of wisdom with James and myself. Some days it seems I have more questions than answers but at this site I have found people who are patient and more than willing to hold our hands and point us in the right direction because they too have been where we are now and know the frustration we are going through.
Special thank you to Nich-Nick for all the tutorials and assistance. You should write a book and call it the idiot's guide to K1.. Bet it would be a best seller.

Just to weigh in on the return flight - I booked a return flight and no one mentioned anything at the border inspection. I cancelled it a week or so after I landed and got refunded a grand total of £26 . I wasn't expecting anything so, hey, free money!

Thanks, my fiance and i are at the point of getting me home no matter the cost, asap. I'd even fly Air France! (Terrible experience with them in the past).
Just can't wait to be on the plane home. What a feeling that will be.

Thanks, my fiance and i are at the point of getting me home no matter the cost, asap. I'd even fly Air France! (Terrible experience with them in the past).
Just can't wait to be on the plane home. What a feeling that will be.

Went from approved to issued today, we are both very happy. Very lucky.
Looking forward to being home, hopefully for a fun 4th of July with family.
Starting to look at plane tickets now, find it strange that return is cheaper than one way in most cases.
They aren't funny about you getting a one way at the border are they?