Pumpita

What a great and thorough review. You can always click on the "Reviews: Embassy/POE" tab and add your review there so that others can use it as guidance.

Congrats on your family's visa approval, hope you get your visa/passports soon and wish you a safe journey to the US.

Thank you Chiquitabella! will post the review there now! Couldn't find it before

So! I finally got a minute to tell you VJer's about my interview, I don't know if it goes here, but if not please tell me and I move the post (i didn't find another place to do it).

First of all Good Luck and Quick journey to all of you who are still in the process. My husband and kids had their visas approved on Monday Feb. 29th, althoug we don't have them in hand yet.

The interview was very good and fast. We had our appointment set at 9am, we arrived at the Embassy at 8:30am (we have planned to arrive earlier but we have a hard time finding a place to park the car, finally we left it at the parking lot of "La Rural".) A girl who was at the entrance asked us about our case, when we said we where there for an immigrant visa she told us to go to Window 1, there they asked for a photo of each (only for the applicants, they didn't asked me anything as a USC), once we gave the photos we were asked to wait a for a moment, after 10 minutes they called us again, they gave us the famous green folder and said we could come in.

We went through Security and after that to get my husband fingerprints taken, we must said that, at every step they reminded us we didn't need to wait in any lines. In the waiting room we put our documents in the folder and when we were finishing an agent call us to Window 5. She asked for every document and after some doubt about my husband Birth Certificate (it was an original one, from 1977 and instead of saying Certificate it said Testimony) she told us the consul would evaluate if the document was valid. After she got all the documents she told us to go back to the waiting room and that the Consul will call us after a while.

After about 40 minutes, the Consul called us to the same Window 5, both the consul and the agent thank me for going to the interview with my family. The Consul was really friendly, she only asked us a few questions such as: When we met, If we got married in 2010, why we wanted to get back to the US, if my Husband was going to expand his business (from argentina) in the US. After that she said we were approved and gave us some papers with our A-numbers and information on the Immigrant Fee. All the interview was in Spanish, we were there for only 10 minutes (at the most). We were inside the Embassy for an hour and a half.

We are now waiting for the passports and envelopes, we have tickets to the US for April 2nd, our POE will be Miami.

Will get back to you with more info when we arrive.

Thanks a lot for all the information we were able to get from the forum members!

Congratulations. That's great news.

Thank you!!!

We have just left the Buenos Aires Embassy, visas Approved!!! Will write the Embassy Review as earlybas I can. The CO said we have to wait 5 to 7 business days. Soo relieved!

Wish you all a speedy process!!!

But the Paris embassy serves Portugal and many other small EU countries. That line doesn't seem to preclude medical being done in country of origin? Why shouldn't they have approved doctors in other countries who must attend interviews in Paris. Are you sure this is the case?

This link says they will tell where you can make your medical exam.

http://france.usembassy.gov/immigrant_fees.html

This immigrant visa unit will provide information on the clinics approved by the Health Service of the United States where you must undergo a medical examination.

I guess you should wait and see, but probably you can.

Be happy u at least have a date.... there are some people like us who are on the mercy of NVC to see when they give us a date.... I wish you all the best....

Hope you can get your date soon too.

Thanks!

Update, we got our Medicals yesterday since we are not from Buenos Aires we asked Dr. Kelly to do all the things in 1 day if possible. He said that would be OK. For my girls he only checked their vaccines and performed a short physical test. My husband had to do X Rays and Blood Test (DVLR) plus the Physical and also checked his vaccines.

I've been writing to the embassy to try to schedule the interview to an earlier date but no answer yet. I think we will have to wait to Feb. 29th then...

Hello guys! How soon are you all receiving interview letter via email after calling for interview date? After a few hours? A day after? When?

I received it a few hours later...

One more month! Good luck to everyone!

I am wondering how many of you does not lisn to this?...

The applicant should NOT make any travel arrangements, sell property, or give up employment

until the US Embassy or Consulate General has issued a visa.

Our case is a bit strange... Ja! We were planning a Disney Vacation with some friends so we got our tickets last june. We apply for the I130 on July and we estimated our journey was not going to be finish until July 2016 at most. But we have our interview on Feb 29th so I guess our vacation tickets now became our "moving" tickets.

My husband is keeping his company here so he doeasn't have to quit his job and last but not least our apartment, we are not going to sell it at all for now, we are going to rent it so we have an extra income...

If the situation were different I think I will wait after the visa is issued and then do all, but since I live with hil we are not in a hurry to do all. I understand that some of you may need to do things really quick so you can meet your loved ones! I would do it too!

Do i need to file married for my taxes? Will the NVC care that it is filed single ?

Married March 2015 overseas. I dont have a ITIIN numberfor spouse so i have to file seperate.

Question is in regards to AOS docs

I file as Married filing separately.

Great news!!!

Good luck at the interview with the CO.

You should be able to register, in my case I just need the case #, DS-260 AAxxxxxxxxx .

Thanks and yes, we are registered...

Oh yes, we have to register too, but they only let you enter the appointment date they give you and choose the delivery method, you can't do anything else.

I've sent the Embassy an email (they don't have a phone number where you can reach them), let's see what happens.

Thanks a lot Frankjavir!

Well status finally changed to Ready. Still no answer from the Embassy though.

Hope we can have the interview at a sooner date

Have you tried to register in Buenos Aires website for your passport yet? I suppose you can do it up to a point.

Every embassy has its own procedures, I have to register with the embassy by opening an online account to setup the bio metrics appointment and also they have another portal to register and select the DHL office in the country where to pick up the passport with the visa.

I did open the account but it would not let me continue with the other steps because obviously my case is not in Bogota yet.

My point is that if you try, perhaps you can go all the way and CEAC is just not up to date as usual.

Try this website:

https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-ar/iv

Oh yes, we have to register too, but they only let you enter the appointment date they give you and choose the delivery method, you can't do anything else.

I've sent the Embassy an email (they don't have a phone number where you can reach them), let's see what happens.

Thanks a lot Frankjavir!

Yes I finally found those and 2181517623 delivered on the 25th. I believe 3338398965 is your package.

Big gap between Jan 4 and the 22nd.

Good luck

Yes I believe the same... Thank you!

I am assuming that it will remain IN TRANSIT even if it arrived to Buenos Aires as long as no one has opened it and put it in their system so CEAC status changes to READY. I will inquire to the post in Buenos Aires.

What waybill number did you use? I can not find anything for Argentina

Thank you Frankjavir, will try to contact the Embassy (interview date is Feb 29th). I found two waybills:

3753418830 (Jan 04)

3338398965 (Jan 22) (most likely)

My status shows as In Transit since 01/18... I tried looking at dhl and the packages that were sent to Buenos Aires are all delivered. Is this normal? What do you think?

Thanks I didn't know either. Got to pin this in my notes.

Is this the same for people who come here to have babies and then go back to their country? I mean you have tgo have lived here a certain amount of time before 18 years old right to be considered a TRUE US citizen. Or am I wrong?

I don't think so, if you are born in the US then you are a full citizen, actually that's my case my parents lived in the States for two years before I was born (both Argentineans) a month after they came back to Argentina bringing me obviusly buy I'm a USC, that's why I know about crba (i now have two daughters of my own that are not USC because I don't meet the requirements.

Not always.

If the US parent is a man, then yes.

If its a woman and married then there is one set of rules, and if she´s not married another set of rules.

I just went through this with my wife before she left for US.

A U.S. citizen parent may transmit citizenship if s/he has been physically present in the United States for a certain amount of time prior to the childs birth. For children born on or after November 14, 1986, the citizen parent must prove that s/he was physically present in the U.S. for 5 years, 2 of which were after age 14. It is important to recognize that the burden of proof is on the applicant. Physical presence may be proven by presenting a combination of records such as school transcripts, social security statements, old and current passports, etc., to show that the physical presence requirement has been met.

If the mother is not married:

An unmarried U.S. citizen mother may transmit citizenship to a child born abroad if she has been physically present in the United States for a certain amount of time prior to the childs birth. For children born on or after November 14, 1986, the mother must prove that she was physically present in the U.S. for a minimum period of one continuous year. It is important to recognize that the burden of proof is on the applicant. Physical presence may be proven by presenting a combination of records such as school transcripts, old and current passports, vaccination records, etc., to show that the physical presence requirement has been met.

what? wait a mo - which address did you use for the DS-260?

that's the address the green card will be mailed to.

We didn't put any. Since we are living in Argentina we have no address in the US yet (not even family bc they all live here) so we put "unknown".

We are going to give the address to the cbp officer when we arrive.

what? wait a mo - which address did you use for the DS-260?

that's the address the green card will be mailed to.

We didn't put any. Since we are living in Argentina we have no address in the US yet (not even family bc they all live here) so we put "unknown".

We are going to give the address to the cbp officer when we arrive.

Oh, you are right about the signature. But I don't know if it's required... Thanks anyway!

Hi! I was just wondering, is it possible to get the greencard and SSN mailed to a POBox? We are going to stay in a hotel for the first weeks and after we are going to stay in a temporal apartment that doesn't allow us to receive mail. What do you think?

I tried searching the answer in the forum but the only info I got was from a few years ago.

Thanks!!

Papers in transit from NVC to Buenos Aires Embassy, interview date 2/29, wil try to move to an earlier date as soon as it arrives....

Medical Appointment 2/2

Amazing!!! Thanks a lot dwheels!!!

This is precisely why you have a reputation.

I'm gonna go through this thoroughly one more time, and check out the wiki one more time as well to make sure I don't miss anything. Even the lady that interviewed me told me that it isn't necessary for my wife to move there ahead of time, but that some people find it to be easier; we just need to show evidence that we're "taking concrete steps" to establishing ourselves in the U.S.

Cheers, and will get back with questions, if I have any, if you don't mind.

I'm in a similar situation. I live with my husband in Argentina, and we are trying to make the arrangements from here. I expect the steps we are taking satisfy the CO, the idea of moving to the US by myself before scares me jaja.