Renegade

When you enter the US Embassy, you're not in your (homophobic) country anymore. You're on United States (de facto) territory. You can feel safe inside there and protected.

Just try to relax and understand that thousands of other people around the world who are in your exact situation (including same sex couples). If you're feeling really nervous, try to do a "mock interview" with your spouse, think about the hardest/most difficult questions that may come up in the interview.

Thank you very much for your answer.

YEah I know that embassy is considered a US territory, however most of the workers there are still locals...

We are going to practice interview questions for sure, as soon as I get it scheduled.

My CR1 interview is getting closer, and I am more and more afraid of it, and just don't know why... Maybe I am afraid of being denied, or maybe that I will not be treated well, cause we are a gay couple living in a quite homophobic country.

On the other hand I have nothing to hide , our relationship is 100% genuine, and we are together for 7 years...

Any idea how to calm down, and get that bad feelings go away?

That's strange. How did you get your CC at NVC with that Police Certificate?

Well for us they did a good job, cause we triple checked our petition before sending it out to them, being sure that everything is OK, but they have found 3-4 obvious mistakes, that could get us an RFE. So that's aroung 2 months of saved time. Now we are on NVC stage, and again they found couple of mistakes in our package.

And of course the most convenient feature is that they are offering payment plan, so anyone on tight budget can use it. We make 6 payments of 190$ during 6 months for USCIS Fee and their fee.

You will need to pay NVC fees later during the process.

But once again, majority of the petitioners did everything on their on, it's up to you to decide.

Guys a quick question. My husband never served in military, but he have a military booklet (Everyone in his country have, even if you're not servied for any reason). So do I need to submit it to NVC, or can he take it to interview?

Hello and welcome to the forums!

I'm using Rapidvisa, and pretty happy with it, their site is very convenient, and they are quite helpful, but of course you can do it yourself.

You can read the CR1 Guide here on VJ, it covers pretty much every step.

You must've done your DS-260 already and their looking at your case and don't see the documents. Lol, but it is funny and crazy how they sent you and email about it already ?????.

Well of course I've done DS-260, but that's strange, or just a technical mistake. My package is finally delivered to NVC an hour ago. I will call them soon to find out what was wrong with that email.

Okay I am totally confused. My AOS and IV packages are now in USPS postal office in Portsmouth, and they will be at NVC tomorrow, however Ive just got a mail from NVC titled "NVC Notice of Missing Item for XXX".

They are telling that they got my documents but AOS and civil documents are missing. Hows that possible?

Guys maybe a silly question, but how can I find out my exact scan date? My package is on its way to NVC.

Hello guys, finally recieved my Welcome Letter.

Quick question, do my spouse recieve welcome letter as a hard copy in his home country or not?

I am confused here...

my case got approved at Sep 12th

I got snail mail about NOA2 and it says they did send my case to NVC, however when I checked app, it still stay in the status "case was approved"

so what is the situation? our case is still in Nebraska Service Center or is on they way to NVC??

also, I can't check my case on the USCIS' website!!why???!!

If the app says that Case was approved, then it's still at the Service Center. You will get an update when they sent it to NVC.

It took 25 days for my case to be sent to the NVC after the approval.

Thank God our case was sent as well... 25 days exactly.

We approved on August 29 and still waiting... Soon it will be one month :/

Our case was approved on August 24th but still no word from NVC..how long does it typically take? Maybe I'm posting this on the wrong thread..can someone post the NVC thread link..I think I read something about it here..

My approval is 5 days after yours, and the case is still at USCIS. Thats crazy

I'm not sure to be honest. I don't really know what to think. I was told this morning by another VJ member, that he called USCIS NSC and they said they're working on cases from February. My PD is April 7... I was really thinking that I'd be approved by now or hear something on my case.... but I just need to relax and be patient. Hopefully we will be approved soon within this month.

I'm praying for your quick approval!

JFH

Thank you very much.

Anyone?

Our NOA 2 dates 29/08, I hope that it will get sooner to NVC from Texas rather than Nebraska.

Praying for all those who are still waiting.

We are starting our NVC journey.

At this time my income in the US is 0 , so we're going to use joint sponsor, and my sister is agree to sponsor us.


However we are using Rapidvisa, and they told us if I live with my sister (And I do), she can be a co-sponsor instead of a joint.
So whats the difference for us in this case?

Finally we are approved today! Thank God! 132 days exactly

Finally we are approved today! Thank God!

How is everyone? Any updates? None for me yet, but staying optimistic. My PD is April 7.

Yes I hope so too.

Mine is April 19, waiting eagerly. Funny thing is that my astrologist told me that we will hear good news in September.

There's so much April approvals every day now! Hope we will get approved too in these couple of days.

They must have given you a date to call by, if you haven't received the notice. I know it says that on my case status on the website.

Yeah, it says September 3-rd on my notice, so there's still 20 days, so I guess I need to wait... L/

I still didn't get the transfer notice, so I have no idea where's my case now