AnnaJane

Thank you for all the replies but I think y'all are missing the point. I am even reading i751 experiences in this same community and MOSTLY (not to say all) of them had the same pattern. Between 5 to 7 weeks after the first NOA people received the Appointment Notice for Biometrics and the actual appointment was something between 6 to 9 weeks . I am certainly not asking about the whole processing time because I know it takes forever and I just have to wait, sit back and relax. I am expressing the idea that with the new extension period (18 months), times for NOA are gonna get longer.
 
I wish someone who had applied after June 28th 2018 would reply this topic to compare.

Why America, why? Your bread tastes like cake and lasts a ridiculously long time in my cupboard without going green. Lots of my food time is spent dreaming of white bread cheese sandwiches or white bread bacon butties with butter and HP sauce. Warburtons blue packet usually. I spend wasteful dollars on all these different kinds hoping one will taste normal. I don't fall for your 12/8/6 grain, wholewheat, bran nonsense anymore because I know they all taste of sugar and ruin my toast and sandwich experience. The list of ingredients are enough to send the health board into a spin.
It's not normal and it hurts.
JoJo - a bread lover from the UK.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/saudi-court-sentences-poet-to-death-for-renouncing-islam
A Saudi court on Tuesday ordered the execution of Ashraf Fayadh, who has curated art shows in Jeddah and at the Venice Biennale. The poet, who said he did not have legal representation, was given 30 days to appeal against the ruling.
Fayadh, 35, a key member of the British-Saudi art organisation Edge of Arabia, was originally sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes by the general court in Abha, a city in the south-west of the ultraconservative kingdom, in May 2014.
But after his appeal was dismissed he was retried last month and a new panel of judges ruled that his repentance did not prevent his execution.

The story you were told makes no sense so first you need to find out what actually happened.

Hopefully this is my last panicked question I have to post to VisaJourney for a while! My fiancee has his interview a week from today. (Yay!) But I have a cosponsor and their HR department took FOREVER to get the letter together so I kept waiting to send him his copy of everything (i-129 copy, new letters of intent, photographs, plane receipts etc.) because its all in one folder so I was just waiting for the affidavit information to send everything away... Now we are a week away from the interview and it won't be ready until Tuesday. (4 business days from the day he flies to Sydney for his interview). Obviously, I am going to send the documents the most expensive, quickest possible way... but it could still arrive too late. In the mean time, I am going to fax him all the documents so he will at least have copies to bring to his interview if the originals have not yet arrived. His police prints may not be ready yet either. They gave us the interview date literally 2 weeks after he submitted his D-160 and we were just not expecting it to be so quick. We asked to reschedule for a later date and they said no. We just weren't prepared for our interview to come up so quickly. Do you think this will be a problem that he will have no original documents? Thanks in advance!
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Maybe tell them you spoke to the criminal records dept Actually, you could call them and confirm what happens, like I said mine came to my house but I was under the impression it was supposed to go straight to the consulate in Sydney.
http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/about_us/structure/specialist_operations/forensic_services/criminal_records_section
Another problem I had was the police kept assuming I needed an FBI police check, which requires different steps. I had to keep correcting them on this point that it was a local police check that went straight to the consulate, nothing to do with the FBI.

Hi KPea,
I got the AFP police check done, I downloaded the form off the AFP website, http://www.afp.gov.au/what-we-do/police-checks/national-police-checks.aspx, if you are getting a fingerprint check done you have to print the form out and it has to be sent in the mail along with the fingerprints. I went to the AFP Perth office to get my fingerprints done (my impression was that the fingerprints had to be done at an AFP office instead of a local police office, I may be mistaken though) , the fingerprints and form were sent to Canberra and then the police certificate was mailed to the address that I had specified, took less than a month for it to get to me .
Hope this helps!

Hi KPea.
This can be a bit confusing because the police will always tell you a different story, they aren't consistent.
Here's what I did and it worked fine.
Start here. https://npcoapr.police.nsw.gov.au/aspx/dataentry/Introduction.aspx Fill out the form and make sure you get the fingerprint check, it costs more but there's so many discrepancies with this process that you don't want anything to stuff it up. There's posts on here of people only getting a name check and being sent away to get a fingerprint check. Take a print out of the invoice, the only thing you really need is the document ID which is a 6 digit number but always good to take everything. They use your document id to look up your record and process payment etc Call your local police station to see if it's ok to come up and have your prints taken. Every police station can do ink prints but only some of them have capacity for digital prints. If you are having digital prints done then you need to call before you go to make sure there's no prisoners in the holding cells, otherwise you have to go at another time or you have ink prints done. I had digital prints taken first but the criminal records department rejected them because the scanner didn't pick them up correctly, even though I had the green light during the scanning process. So I had to get ink prints re-done. This is where it gets messy. What happen's is that the police are supposed to send these via their normal secure delivery method out to the Criminal Records department in Parramatta. Apparently Criminal Records are then meant to send this straight to the Sydney consulate. I had all kinds of problems with the coppers over this, I'll try and find the post I made that goes into detail about it. At the end of the day, the police send your prints to Criminal Records and then my certificate was sent to my home address. I then forwarded this with my packet 3 info and everything was fine. I hope this helps. My whole process took about 6-7 weeks IIRC but that was because I needed the second copy of ink prints.
Cheers
Jim

Being out of the country is not a valid reason for an Amercian to skip filing a tax return. That is a forever obligation no matter where you live in the world unless you revoke your US citizenship. If an American earns money in a foreign country, from a foreign employer, paid in foreign currency, he is obligated to file. That doesn't mean pay taxes because there is a foreign income exclusion. But filing is different than paying.
But just like if working in America, if you have very low income there is an income threshold before you have to file. It changes each year and also depends on filing status...joint, single, married, etc. For the tax year 2014 if he did not earn at least $10,150 (converted to US$ equivalent) then the IRS does not require him to file.
For AOS, the instructions for the I-864 affidavit of support say if you were not required to file then included a signed statement saying why not required in lieu of the tax return. It should be specific in nature, not just "I didn't make enough".
"In tax year 2014, I lived and worked in Shanghai and my total earnings were $5432.98. The IRS filing threshold for a Single person was $10,150. Therefore I was not required to file a tax return because my earnings fell below that level.
In tax year 2013 my total earnings were.........."
If his earnings were more than that, he needs to do a return.

I have shipped both to and from Belgium and to and from Japan when gettting transferred
not really much of a problem
and my neighbors just shipped all house back to Germany
ship in the name of your financee / sometimes makes it easier

My then fiancé now hubby shipped everything when he received his interview date. That gave him about a month to send me all his personal belongings. So when he got her I already had it looking like home for him

can you ship your own personal possessions to the U.S., before you actually arrive yourself on a K1, anybody got any esperiences and tips, thanks

Can any of you guys help me out.. I kinda have the same question and you are the only ones I have seen from Australia discussing this, so woo thanks! My fiance applied for a police certificate and I am not sure if he is getting the correct one.. He ordered #35, and I think that isnt the correct one...How do you know what form is a complete disclosure or not? Can I get some help? haha thanks

I'm also in Victoria and would love to work out whether we need a fingerprint check or not.
http://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/K1/SYD%20-%20Sydney.pdf
This document above says that a name check is acceptable, but there have been previous forum posts (from three years ago) where the consulate has specified that all Australian police certs need fingerprints.
Successful K-1 applicants out there, what did you do?
Edit: Sorry, just saw the other thread with the info.

Just thought I would add a note in here for future readers.
I was surpised to find that Grace Removals will ship 2 cubic metres of stuff for $1450 plus 3.5% of value for insurance. this includes them coming out here and packing all the gear, creating an inventory, shipping and then delivering to my NY home and unpacking and removing packing debris. WOW! I was so happy with that price and it's amazing what you can fit into 2 cubic metres. It will take 3-4 months to arrive but at that price I can wait.