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It seems the issuing times have gotten faster since the December approvals but as far as the visas being ready, it is still taking a while. I was approved on January 4th and status changed to "Issued" on January 13th. I don't know if it because of the holidays and maybe they're behind? I guess we just have to wait. I hope this doesn't go into February  

1 hour ago, MaryandMarquis said:

Alright dear.... I will wait then. Thanks for replying ?

 Has it been a long time since you were approved? If so maybe you could try to go to the embassy and inquire. I do believe we are supposed to pick it up from the embassy directly, at least that was what my fiance was told. 

It may not be ready just yet. My status also says issued but my fiance went to the embassy to try and get it and was told to wait for it to say "ready." I'm not sure if that's true or not but we plan to wait the 10 working days since it said issued for it to change to "ready" and try again. 

Did he get a blue form? If so he was approved. I think I have also read of some people getting the white slip but nothing checked off and doing a second interview but still getting approved after that....Was he asked to bring in anymore evidence? Or does it just seem like a second interview? 

on the timeline page you click submit review next to the interview date field, it then provides you a space to submit the review.

Neither I nor my cosponsor had affidavit of supports that were notarized if this helps.

4 hours ago, LoveislikeEgg said:

You need to show up your flight initials , your passport with your visa inside before you will be allowed to enter at ghana airport . I was asked for only those stuffs. Thou I had my yellow fever certificate and vaccination short record card given to me at Holiday trinity . My flight was klm transit to Amsterdam. I was not asked for any other thing at Amsterdam other than my passport with my visa inside and the packet giving to me at the embassy ..  I hand over the packet to the officer at Port of entery and I was not ask to show anything else . A very few interview was conducted at Port of entery thou..

Did you go into Amsterdam? I'm just wondering because my fiance is now booking looking at flights and may have to do a flight with transit, but I didn't want him to leave the airport and cause any confusion if they are going to look at his vaccination card. 

We were finally approved for fiance visa on 1/4/16! After 7 long months in this process with a very difficult embassy, we're finally able to be together! 

...I find it strange that people get pushed to March when there are January Interview appointments open. I really wonder what the method is to all this...

Congratulations! this is very encouraging.

I think it may have been due to the email. I think every time they have correspondence with the petitioner/beneficiary or senators it logs on the site or they document it because the file is "touched".... Others can chime in on this but from what I've seen it takes at minimum for 6 months for them to return the case. They sit on it for a long time for whatever reason.

I have just checked my calendar, the 28 fell on a Wednesday, recently, since October the consular section is not having interviews on Wednesday and is only accepting US citizens to access for DHS interviews or processes. Them also need previous confirmation and a consular to meet them at the gate to enter.

This makes no sense to me because why would the consulate schedule it in the first place? I wonder if it is CR1's that would have Wednesday reschedules or if it would be K1 as well

Wow this takes a lot of patience. I'm thinking of taking the case status to the embassy to try and pick up the letter. Do they give you the interview date when you pick it up or is it already preassigned?

They give you the interview date as well as information to take to do medicals and police report, this is what makes up packet 3&4

I believe it's out with the old and in with the new, consulars stay at an embassy from 6 months to 2 years, it may have to do with this, so let us that are going through this embassy pray the people coming in are kind! ??

This is really exciting to hear. Sounds like a clean slate from all the awful people I've read about in the past.

Sometimes at around or after the 4 year mark they wonder why you didn't marry after all that time and deny for whatever reason. I think only if you have overwhelming evidence for the K1 you should try it, like you should front load and try to do it that way. Use pictures, ring receipts, letters you have mailed to each other, address the overstay issue in a cover letter maybe and the whole nine. But since you haven't seen her in 3 years, it might be difficult to get because you may not have collected all this up until now. If not then I would suggest you guys marry and do CR-1, still address the overstay issue, get a good timeline of the relationship, all the concrete evidence that shows that you guys are married, possessions and such and hopefully more visits with more pictures. Even letters from family and friends vouching for the relationship couldn't hurt. Now is the time to evaluate the evidence you believe you can get including lots of face time and make the decision.

This sounds very strange. I noticed someone else stated that the case has to be returned before it can be overturned by USCIS. Does it matter that the case is still in Ghana? Have you gotten your Senator involved to inquire on the reason for not granting the visa?

A lot of people refer to KM as a mean black old lady, I don't know if it might be her? How did you find out that you were not denied? Were you instead approved or put into Administrative Processing?

Hi,

Finally waiting after 3,5 months for interview date, she approved today. let see how many days we will wait for passport to arrive :/

Congratulations, we are still waiting for an interview which is coming up in January. At least the wait is over for you!

This is an interesting report, I wonder how often files are declassified. But I doubt much progress has been really made anyhow from 2009. Seems like they deny left and right for honest relationships.

Hi everyone!

My fiancé and I are currently waiting to get an interview for our visa and I am in the process of trying to get all the documents to gather to send to him, however, I am having issues with my affidavit of support. I have 3 years of steady income-same employer that meets the financial requirement and I have the necessary employment letter, tax documents and tax transcripts. I currently live with my family and I am working part time while doing an accelerated program full time. My last paystub from my previous job was in the middle of September. With Ghana embassy I'm hoping to get an interview by December or January, but I was wondering should I only let my fiancé just take the income from January-September to the interview or should I do the whole co-sponsor route? I was also unsure of what the co-sponsor required documents would entail. Is it just the affidavit, tax transcripts, tax documents and employment letter just like myself? I would appreciate any help with this. Thanks in advance!

Hi, I just want to share our interview experience. (We are a same sex couple).

Interview date : September 21, 2016 at 7:40am

As the petitioner I decided to go to Ecuador to be at the interview with my fiance. I think that was the best decision I have ever made. the interview was so hard that I was losing my hope.

We got there around 7:00am (we wait until 8 am outside).

I guy came out and ask the beneficiaries name and then he asked (who are yo) I said the petitioner "we are a couple" then he said ok "go to security with this ticket.

The security lady did not say "Hi or Good morning" she goes like "do you have a cell phone) we said YES she said take them back home and come back. I was like ####### we are going to miss our interview if we do that. (before they used to put the cellphone in a lil box and when you finish the interview they return the phone to you). I called friends to see if they were close by. After all (we decide to ask an stranger who was offering his services for passport photos to hold our phones and we will pay him something. at that point I was like I prefer to lose 2 iPhones and not the interview. (so we thrust him - but he was nice he gave us the phones back and we paid him $20 bucks) thank God he was honest.

Inside they asked for the ticket and they let us in into a waiting area (green Chairs)again a security point. Another security lady asked us to take everything out from our pockets and I asked her "should I take the belt off too" and she said very rude "I said things from your pockets" and then she look at the other guy and she said in Spanish "IS MY SPANISH not understandable" she was mad Ecuadorian by the way. I was looking for her name to report her attitude but I completely forgot after all.

We sat and wait for like 45 minutes a very kind Latina Ecuadorian lady called us and she asked for PASSPORT, 1 PASSPORT PHOTO, THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE and MEDICAL EXAM and also a couple questions like ** Where and when we meet, how long we been together, how many times I went there to visit my fiance she asked me to tell the months and years. then she took my fiance's finger prints and she said Please have a seat somebody else will call you so we sat again.

After around 25 minutes a Man called us to a window and he said "I'm going to start with the interview. Note: I was married before(petitioner)and he start asking me question about my last marriage" I was like #######" I'm here to talk about my fiance and our relationship not about my last relationship. anyway I decide to answer.

Question for Petitioner:

How long have you been married

Where did you meet your ex "smh"

Do you have kids with your ex

Where are you from

Did you get your citizenship through your last marriage

why you get divorce

you and you ex used to live together

is your ex from Ecuador

why do you want to marry him

how long have you been together

when / where did you meet

when did you start your current relationship

how many times have you visit your fiance (explain dates)

why you want to bring him to the US if you can come en visit him

give me a copy of you divorce

where do you work

what do you do for living

why do you want to move to US you can't be with him here? "we said no because of the discrimination that exist".

what kind of discrimination are you talking about? can you explain

have you ever submit a petition for somebody else before

where is you fiance going to live?? "stupid question"

how many years do you have in the US

Question for Fiance

Where and when did you meet

have you ever been in the US

have you traveled to another countries

what do you do for living

where did you work before

how old are you

how old you fiance is

are you single

did you applied for a VISA before? he said YES

why did you put in that application that he was your friend and not your fiance.

why did you lie about it

so you signed the application and you put a lie about your relationship

how many times did you apply for a tourist VISA "3 times in less than a year"

why did you applied so many times for it

how many times your fiance came to visit you

and some more.

At that point I was so ###### tired of the question that I decide to tell him "listen we can not be here together" I want to marry him and live him in the USA.

He was like thinking and thinking looking at the pictures once twice

looking at the paper work "he had the originals that I sent to USCIS".

then he said YOUR VISA HAS BEEN APPROVED. HAVE A GOOD DAY

I was like OMG thank GOD this is over

we were so happy.

he gave us back all the original paper work that we send to USCIS.

on Friday September 23, 2016

my fiance received a phone call from the Consulate

they asked him to go back on Monday September 26, 2016

because the system did not save his finger prints and they need

to take the finger prints again in order to print the VISA

finally he went there and everything was OK

now we are waiting for the visa.

For me it was not a good experience starting from security and then brunch of question that he made some of them stupid.!!

but we got approved I hope this experience can help to others if you applied for a VISA before the interview GET READY they will pull out all the old applications to ask you WHY this and that. get ready with an accurate answer.

Good luck..!!!

Sorry about some typo I'm working and doing this at the same time

Congrats on the approval and thanks for sharing the actual questions. That's very helpful. I'm still waiting to get an interview but this is great practice!!

coincidentally, we have the same timeline. My only missing point is how to determine when the consulate received the package. If its the last case update, then it's same as your's. Someone needs to share the experience regarding the interview date, do we schedule it ourselves or is it part of their services to us. ?

the consulate schedule's the interview. You just need the call in letter to get the packets. Beneficiary has to pick up packets 3&4, packet 4 has the interview details. You can check when the consulate received the case by calling NVC and use your case number so that they can look you up.Using your ACC number you check your status on the CAEC site.

So did they schedule your interview or you had to do that yourself ?

I'm still waiting just like you. But from what I read it takes about 6-8 weeks to get it scheduled, I believe for Akua38 she was lucky and a little earlier. I'm just trying to be hopeful but patient. I told myself I would wait until after the first week of October to start with emails. What has your timeline been like?

Thank you very much for the prompt response, I will call the beneficiary to check if the letter is in her box yet.

Yea try that and maybe give it another 2 weeks or so? if not then maybe you can take the emails and CAEC case status report to the embassy and see if they will let you pick it up? That's all I can think of at the moment...

What sort of notification did you get, the last update on my case is 01-Sept.-2016 and I am yet to receive any form of notification whatsoever. The Accra embassy hasn't responded to my emails as of now. What do you suggest I do, please.

My case reached the embassy on 9/1/16 as well! I believe she said that her beneficiary fiance got the letter in his mail then used it to go to the embassy to pick up package 3 & 4.