jayisis

Yes indeed God is good all the time! Can't wait to hear more good news from you.

Maniput, hope all is well!!

Happy 1 year anniversary to you both in advance!!

Awesome, congratulations on this wonderful news, mbalih! Cherish these moments leading up to the interview. It will be over before you know it.,.

Hey everyone!!! I had my interview today and I was APPROVED!! Yayyy I'm so happy and so relieved that this is over now!

Promise I will get back with details about the interview, tomorrow. I'm exhausted right now and just want to sleep lol.

Congratulations to both of you!! Have a happy & safe journey to the states!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

I just wanna wish everyone Merry Christmas and I hope Santa has for us all a visa, so that next Christmas we can celebrate it with our loved ones!

Merry Christmas my dear VJs! ????☃

Amen to this!

MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!!! Be safe if traveling...

Hubby picked up his passport last week and will be here next week. Can't believe we are officially finished. Thanks everyone for the help and well wishes during the process.

If you're not done yet, I'm praying for you. Good Luck to all.

Request an expedite- seems to be the only way to not wait 4 months. It can only help.

I've missed your company. How has it been after completing the journey?

Awesome, congrats to y'all! I've missed this group as well...been busy with work/traveling and time has been flying! Having my wife to share every moment is pretty sweet.

Merry Christmas!!!

Congratulations to all who were recently approved! God bless your families, including those who are patiently waiting.

I believe it is 6 weeks

Praise God. my wife is here now in the US with me. We Arrived at DFW at about 8:45 Am on 11/18/2015. The line was so long for non US residence travelers. When it was our turn to approach the Boarder Patrol agent. I told him I am a USC and my wife is migrating with me and this is her first time. The agent asked couple questions, how long we have known each other and how much money we had on us. The agent took my wife's finger prints, and took her photo and the the agent told us to follow him so they can process all these papers he said. We waited in the waiting room for almost 3 hours and my wife was finally called to the window. They did not ask her any question they just handed her the passports and said your Green card will arrive in the mail in 6 months. The waiting room was really crowded when we got in. Praise God our 9 month journey needed very successfully.

Congratulations buddy!!! Let the real journey begin and may God continue to bless all of us in this group!!! I've seen all the progress from members and I say thanks to God. To all waiting for good news, keep believing and it will happen in God's time!

APPROVED!!!!

Just got done with my interview in Islamabad. Everything went well by grace of God Asked very few simple questions:

1. Is it first marriage for both of you? I said yes

2. What does your husband do?

3. Was it arranged or love?

4. When did he visit last time?

Didn't ask for any additional documents whatsoever...very smooth and quick process it was for me and my husband Alhamdulillah

Congratulations!! have a safe journey to the states!

Sending up a prayer for all the folks with interviews today such as lbreal

Thank you, jayisis! Are you and your wife in the US already?

Yes we are here since last Friday, taking it one day at a time. Waiting for the SSN so we can search for job or classes.

Congratulations maniput!!! So glad to hear your good news.

Have a safe travel to states and the rest of the journey.

Congratulations on your approval!! Sure is something to celebrate

Thanks mbalih, I hope all will go well with your case!

For the interview, do you really need originals AND copies? I don't understand why it says to bring originals and photocopies...

Absolutely, yes. As MsJC explained, you need to show originals for proof and copies for them to keep if they wish at time of interview.

Thanks Jayisis.

Few questions for you:

How long it took you to get email from embassy? It will be 1 week tomorrow for me. I hope i get letter by this weekend. What you say ?

Do we have to get medical appointment ? or they will schedule for us ?

Same for biometrics, do we have to schedule biometrics appointment ? or they will schedule for us ?

Thanks again.

When you ask about email from embassy, are you asking regarding the interview letter? The only email I received from Mumbai consulate was when the visa was on the way to the pickup location and after when we picked up the visa.

1. NVC will be the one to send the interview letter. I got it on Sept 21 from AskNVC@state.gov ... I believe it was due to my request to the operator that I need to confirm my email is in file.

2. You will need the P4 interview letter from #1 to schedule the medical appointment on your own. No one will schedule the medical appointment on your behalf. There is a pdf of approved physicians that you can choose from. E.g. Amrita...hospital if you are in South India. http://www.aimshospital.org/

3. As with the medical appointment, you will have to choose the biometrics day on your own (VAC appointment at your convenience) at least a day before the visa interview. cgifederal.secure.force.com

Hi Jaysis.

Congrats for the visa.

I got CC yesterday and now waiting for medical and interview letter from Mumbai consulate. Is there any document to be submitted from US from this step onwards ? How long it took for the medical checkup ?

Hi jojo777,

After you get the interview letter in email, you should schedule the medical soon. NVC doesn't require any documents from you at this point. At the interview, you will bring originals and copies and the consulate will keep some copies of documents they may need. Medical checkup, once you schedule and attend, it will be about 6 hours to get the results on same day in hand.

Schedule biometrics at least 1 day before interview @

https://cgifederal.secure.force.com/

Thanks CallMeShams & MsJC! I will monitor the boards until eventually no one will be posting here and continue to pray for you all. I will miss checking on here all the time.

We now have the visa in hand, flying back to Texas in a few days. I'll write about the consulate experience and poe after we are home.

There was an Indian officer who asked questions about the petitioner address, whether beneficiary has been to US, about petitioners job, who is calling beneficiary to the US, simple questions. There was an American officer who asked about who is calling my wife to the US, husband's age, husband's birthday, husband's degree, husband's current job, current whereabouts, her degree, whether she is happy in the marriage, after which he said visa was approved.

Praise God!!!

He has been great throughout this visa journey. My wife was approved for immigrant visa today, while I waited outside the consulate in Mumbai. The consulate experience lasted less than one hour! It will be a few days for the visa to arrive at pickup location.

I hope that all of us Feb filers will be granted the mercy that God has bestowed upon us.

We put them in the IV package. We had 2 big envelopes: one for AOS package (written on it, included case number and beneficiary) and one for IV package. Then both of them were put in a bigger envelope with the cover sheet on top of them. I know i've done everything right, that's what's so frustrating, cause we checked, double checked and triple checked! Hubby was here in Romania when we were preparing all the documents and we both separately checked everything

Just explain to them that it is in the other bundle of documents with the case number written on each document. More than likely, they split the packages up and looked at them separately rather than together. Try Your best to have them track the 2 packages down and reexamine together.

So upset Our case is not completed yet. Apparently they are missing my police certificates and my birth certificate, which is just stupid!!! They were in the AOS package along with the marriage certifcate and 2 pictures of me!

We called NVC and asked to talk to a supervisor. The lady was nice and said that she will ask the people that reviewed our papers to re-open the file and see if the documents are completely missing or it's just something wrong with them.

I told her that i'm 110% sure that I sent those documents and that our case number is on every single paper, on the right top corner. She couldn't tell me though when to call back but i'm freaking calling tomorrow and will be bugging them.

Hubby is reading right now online that you can actually request for expedite if NVC are losing your papers. Any of you did that before? Did it work? I'm so disappointed right now

As maniput said, i think the problem might be because it was not with the IV package contents... Hope you can get them to resolve their carelessness quickly. By the way, did you sideload? I wonder if they split up the packages to have multiple officers review simultaneously..you have a very good argument for having them expedite, however over phone might be more convincing

A question for those that have submitted documents to the NVC:

DId you submit simple photocopies or did you get the copies certified or notarized? I know DOS website says photocopies and makes no mention of certified copies, but I have seen mixed opinions regarding what kind of copies to submit the the NVC.

Just want to make sure we don't get a checklist over something like this. Is certified copy same as notarized copy?

Thanks

For most of your copies of documents, you just need photocopy...

If you need translations or written affidavits of any kind, you will need to get it certified by notary and send that copy instead.

I'm so glad to see so much going on with everyone in the thread. Makes me hopeful that when our time comes, things will go smoothly and quickly as well! congratulations to everyone that's receiving their interview dates.... almost together forever!!!

Best wishes for your journey, you can reach out to us on thread or me personally if you need any assistance

Hey guys, an update, I was on my way to the airport going back to Seattle after visiting my wife in jakarta, it was already pretty late on the U.S. east coast so I thought to give a try and see if ceac updated or not. Amazingly the 3rd N/A showed up!! We were really hoping for some good news before I left so it was great to see that. Will be calling nvc on Monday to confirm a CC.

Received email from NVC last night...interview is on November 5th!!!!

I wasn't expecting it to be this soon but I'm really happy

Congratz to both of you!! Best wishes for the interview!

I just got an interview date!

It's November 6 at 9:20 am!

I have had such a difficult year, I really hope my interview will be okay and the beginning of a new and better life for my family.

I am hoping all of you who are still waiting will get good news soon.

Much love to all

Congratz BRlove!!! So nice to see the end of the journey, isn't it? Good Luck on the interview!

Yay Praise and glory to be God. I just got of the phone with NVC and yes my case is complete. Scan date 09/03 and cc date 10/02

Congrats bro!! Just shy of 30 day quote.. we hope your interview date is set as soon as ours was!