alcoy

Hello, all.

Has anyone participated in the DORA program in Dallas? How did it go? My wife has an appointment this Monday, and I wondering if anybody here has gone there to turn in their AOS paperwork. Thanks in advance for any information.

Mike

Hi Alcoy! First of all, good luck on your wife's AOS!

As far as the name change is concerned, just write down you wife's name on the AOS papers the way she wants it to be (I took my husband's last name too, and that's what I did), that way she'll receive her green card with the new name.

When she travels in the future, the flight tickets will have to MATCH the PASSPORT and not the green card, otherwise she might not be allowed on board. Your wife will simply have to take a copy of her marriage certificate to carry along her passport and green card to prove the name change upon arrival in the US, and that's it.

Or, she could try and have her passport amended with her new married name after she has the proper documentation.

I traveled out of the country twice since I got my green card and I always carried with me a copy of my marriage certificate to prove the name change. I was never asked to show it, but I always have it in case they want to see it. Good luck and best wishes!

So, does your passport have your maiden name and your green card have your married name? When you travel outside the US and return what does immigration look at so that you can reenter the US? We live in Fort Worth so my wife will be doing her AOS in the DORA program.

Mike

My wife is from Colombia and we are starting her AOS. She would like to drop her second last name and add my last name. Should we fill out all the paperwork with this name change so that it appears on her green card? This also brings up another question. If she has a green card with a last name different from her last name on her passport, how is this handled when she travels outside the US? Before she travels outside the US does her Colombian passport name have to match her green card name? Anyone from Colombia going through this process or completed the process?

Mike

ARe you in Miami? If so, I had a hard time finding a civil surgeon that would transfer teh accination supplement without doing the entire medical over again. So, we ended up just doing the whole darn thing over again and paying $175 for it. We wanted to send out the AOS ASAP so we bit it and paid the money. Hope this helps!

We live in Fort Worth, TX. There are four Civil Surgeons in Fort Worth. I'll call them and see if they'll accept the Colombian vaccination record.

My wife is a K1 visa holder and she is now applying for her AOS. I understand that since it has been less than a year since her medical exam for the K1 visa, she can submit a vaccination supplement with her application for AOS. However, when she had her medical exam in Bogota, Colombia, she was never given a copy of her DS-3025 showing what vaccinations she had. Now that she has to provide the vaccination supplement with a Civil Surgeon's signature, what does she provide the Civil Surgeon so that he can transfer the vaccination record to the supplement? All that she has is her Colombian vaccination record that was presented to the doctor during her physical for the K1 visa. Will this be sufficient for the Civil Surgeon here in the United States?

Mike

Thanks for the information.

Mike

Can I anybody tell me what exactly is the A number that is requested on these forms? Is it the number that is handwritten on the I-94 and also on the visa that is placed in the passport?

Thanks in advance,

Mike

Does anybody know if the petitioner's fiancé(e) can pick up the packet with the visa instructions directly from the U. S. Embassy? I fear that the packet has been lost in the mail. It has been more than two months since I received a letter from the National Visa Center stating that my petition was forwarded to the embassy and that my fiancée would soon receive a packet of instructions.

It's been 2 months for me also since i received a notice from the NVC saying that they will forward my petition to the Embasy. That was 5/4/2006 and still nothing.

Are you using an immigration service or did you file your petition yourself? I used an immigration service to help me prepare the I-129F petition, and they tell me that it usually takes 6 to 8 weeks for the embassy to send the packet of instructions. I don't believe them because all the timelines that I've seen here on VJ show receiving the packet of instructions within 1 to 2 weeks of the letter from the NVC. I think something's happened to my petition.

Does anybody know if the petitioner's fiancé(e) can pick up the packet with the visa instructions directly from the U. S. Embassy? I fear that the packet has been lost in the mail. It has been more than two months since I received a letter from the National Visa Center stating that my petition was forwarded to the embassy and that my fiancée would soon receive a packet of instructions.

There are many cases here where people have done just that. I do not know about your embassy in particular, I hope someone can confirm this for you.

Thanks for the information.

Does anybody know if the petitioner's fiancé(e) can pick up the packet with the visa instructions directly from the U. S. Embassy? I fear that the packet has been lost in the mail. It has been more than two months since I received a letter from the National Visa Center stating that my petition was forwarded to the embassy and that my fiancée would soon receive a packet of instructions.

There are many cases here where people have done just that. I do not know about your embassy in particular, I hope someone can confirm this for you.

Each embassy is different, you need to contact the embassy you are dealing with and find out if they even have your petition and then ask if they have attempted to mail it, and then if they have and you didnt get it you need to ask if you can pick up another one in person.

By the way the Colombian embassy website has a page for asking for appointments to discuss visa issues. If your Fiancee is local suggest she do that. here it the link

US Columbian Embassy

Thanks for the information.

Does anybody know if the petitioner's fiancé(e) can pick up the packet with the visa instructions directly from the U. S. Embassy? I fear that the packet has been lost in the mail. It has been more than two months since I received a letter from the National Visa Center stating that my petition was forwarded to the embassy and that my fiancée would soon receive a packet of instructions.

Hello, all.

I have a question regarding the time it takes to receive the packet of instructions from the U. S. Embassy to apply for a K1 visa once the approved petition arrives there.

My approved petition was sent to the U. S. Embassy on May 9, 2006. To date, my fiancée has not received the packet of instructions so that she can apply for the K1 visa. Is this normal? I've seen some of the dates for others receiving their packet of instructions within one to two weeks after their petition reached the U. S. Embassy. My fiancée has been waiting for two months. Has somenthing gone wrong? Lost in the mail? Never mailed? Sent to wrong address?

I called the embassy, but absolutely get nowhere. They keep telling me to refer to the their website for the interview date, however, she'll never get an interview date without completing the forms in the instruction packet. I can't find out if they even mailed her the packet.

Thanks in advance for any information.

Mike