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5 minutes ago, TomEn said:

MMR - the first three are only given for children. I was told that I was too old to contract it so they did not need to do MMR. Tetanus is good for 10 years. So if you had taken a Tetanus shot within the past few ears, you are still good. One of the Hepatitis vac is done over a three year period (not sure which one sorry)  so that always poses a problem if you had not already started it.

Mumps has been making a come back due to the poor vaccination quality from about 10 years ago and age does not matter in getting the disease we had an outbreak here but you can go based on what the doctor says. And no hep shot is done over a 3 year period. They are usually given in 3 sets 0 6 and 12 up to 18 months you can go for twinrix shot a combined A and B vaccine. I would recommend anyone who eats seafood to get the hepA as there has been mini outbreaks of that too

https://www.cdc.gov/mumps/outbreaks.html

45 minutes ago, Mara0899 said:

thanks for your clarify, but I dont have any vaccinations record. if not, what vaccination I need to get ?

As much as possible try to get your records cause these vaccinations cant be easily just taken it can take up to half a year such as HepB

• Mumps
• Measles
• Rubella
• Polio
• Tetanus and diphtheria
• Pertussis
• Haemophilus influenzae (Flu shot)
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Rotavirus
• Meningococcal disease
• Varicella (chicken pox...not needed if you got it before)
• Pneumococcal disease

Certain ones they will let you clear without getting the full cycle such as diptheria you can just show you got the first shot with booster shot. 

10 hours ago, Mara0899 said:

So how many and what diseases will doctor test applicant ? I'm consider going to none recommended hospital or clinic from embassy to test first before the official comes.  

you will need all your medical records showing you have completed your vaccinations. The exam will be a skin check of your genitals as well as your physical appearance making sure you are not a drug addict or other self physical harm. you will also need a TB test if you test positive for skin test you will be forced to take a x-ray if you are positive here you maybe rejected you will have STD tests urine and blood required. They will do a general check of your internal organs check for swelling. If you had been tested positive for STDs in the past make sure you got records for your treatment. Most people probably don't have to worry unless you know you have some obvious symptom that you know yourself that something is wrong.  

9 hours ago, Scandi said:

I asked for a copy of the medical report during the exam, the doctor sent it to my home address the same day he sent the original medical report to the embassy.

 

It has all the info including the x-ray results, apparently they even did a chlamydia test, had no idea about that until I received the medical results (I thought they only did gonorrhea and syphilis). They were quite thorough. 👍

 

They generally run a GC test (chlamydia and gonorrhea) side by side there is a machine probably similar to what we use at my place one urine sample can test for both in a matter of minutes. 

56 minutes ago, TonyK said:

Not really. The rules are set by CDC I guess. 

 

Gonorrhea is a communicable disease of public health significance and applicants with gonorrhea are ineligible for a visa to the United States under Section 212(a)(1)(A)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

The list of communicable diseases that bar people from entering the United States, which is  kept by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), continues to grow. The list includes a number of quarantinable diseases (such as cholera, plague, smallpox, and yellow fever), as well as leprosy, tuberculosis, and pandemic flu. Recently HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (such as chancroid and gonorrhea) were removed from this list

as i have stated earlier as long as your GC can be cured by standard antibiotics you can go for a second medical checkup as long as your STD is not the mutated type of course you got to write in and get an approval for it and be harder to get your visa but it is still possible. 

Just letting you know I work for a branch of CDC and see this on a daily basis 

If you are positive for an STD its more for a statistical purpose not for stopping you from coming into USA. most STDs can be treated with antibiotics on a 2 week or longer cycle unless you are having one of the newer resistant strains of GC or syphilis. But if you were to go to any doctor in America your STD results are given to the CDC even if its negative. I cant say exactly what the results are used for as I could get into trouble but i wouldnt worry too much about having a positive.

13 hours ago, mrmvkjts said:

why do you think it was not worth it?!

The reason why I think its not worth it i came back to America from living in Singapore. I havent lived in America for a while and i realized that after coming back to America it has become so poor. Homeless everywhere and people are crazy. Taxes are crazy although on paper it seems like I earn a lot more but after taxes I only earn about 100 more a month i paid only about 5000 dollars a year in taxes in singapore but here I paid that amount in just a few months. As for my wife she went from earning a high 6 figure salary in her country to earning a quarter of that so we are thinking to jump back over to where is better for us. I may just keep this green card thing as a way to retire in America when we get older but for now its not our best choice to live here. 

17 hours ago, redvines said:

Ok, so not that you were unable to open an account as stated in the first post, just that you are unable to open an account and make income from it (i.e obtain interest) without a SSN. 

Getting my SSN quickly is something I worry about, so I have this saved in a note from the USCIS website:

And I also have this saved from a post here on VisaJourney:

 

i never stated i was unable to open a account i said it was difficult. 

24 minutes ago, redvines said:

I would query that I have no SSN and I have an Bank of America account which is a joint account with my wife and Citibank was willing to open an account if I could show proof of residence in my wife's state. 

no its not that as being the problem we could open the account but they began a list of questions about wire transferring and where and how much will the account be doing wire transfers and for the purpose etc. basically the banker which is someone i deal with regularly says IRS will monitor her account and cant exceed what we state in the questions or it will raise a red flag to her until she gets a social number they took all the information of her country's residence as well as scanned her passport and filed it and said her account is unable to obtain interest until the social comes. 

Just an update to people here. We completed our case and my wife came in at the end of September. And the answer is Yes if you arrive after the marriage date you can get a 10-year visa. cause our case was completed prior to our 2nd year anniversary and the people at the interviewing office was saying we would need to file for removal of conditions and that is not true you can get a 10-year visa just as long as your arrival date is after your 2nd year anniversary. and my wife got her green card 8 days after arrival we paid the fees prior to her arrival. We have no social security card yet and with no social security card, it was difficult to make a bank account as they suspect you of money laundering. Basically for us the whole process took 13 months but honestly i am not sure if it was worth it. If anyone got questions about the application process or any other advice I will be willing to help. I did my case on my own no lawyer and I spent a lot of time doing research to counter any issues they had with our case.

14 hours ago, PhoenixBlaque said:

Yeah, they didn't take into account that my new position is well over the limit.  I guess NVC thought it was fine because we didn't receive any checklists or anything.

Its also good advice to everyone here. Never trust the US government even if your documents clear doesnt mean anything to them you have to always approach each case as though you are a guilty party and prove you are right.  And i believe nvc doesnt give a checklist anymore during my interview they didnt have any checklist and my spouse had a double interview once in her language and once in english. They went through things not even listed nor scanned in the nvc page. But we were approved on the spot. I saw other cases get rejected for much worse than your case while i was waiting. They did interviews in the open so i wouldnt worry too much most cases clear and if you dont pass you can always contest any rejection within a time limit so dont worry it will just cost you more time and some letter writing to get things cleared 

11 hours ago, PhoenixBlaque said:

Hi everyone!

 

So, we received a temporary denial today at the interview.  The consular officer stated that I need a joint sponsor.  The thing is, I make twice what the minimum is for my family size.  I don't understand it.  Apparently, I efficiently front loaded our information and the officer didn't ask for much except to see our pictures. 

 

Has anyone else gone through this?

Why isn't my income sufficient?

After I submit the joint sponsor, how long will it take for them to review (I'm planning to submit the sponsor information tomorrow at the latest)?

The officer kept the passports- is that a good sign?

 

I'm slightly devastated.  I sent my current job salary information back to them and asked additional questions.  I don't know if they'll respond though.

My visa was approved and i also had a low income for 2017 due to me moving back to usa and working less than quarter of the year i did not meet the poverty level. I did not use a joint sponser but was approved. I used my bank account which was more than the 5x requirement of the poverty level. I also showed all my pay stubs for 2018 and scanned them to the nvc website to show i was well above the poverty limit for 2018 and during the interview i stated that and no problems also stated my job and that i also work for the special area of the government they also requested to see my work ID so maybe that helped a bit not sure. 

My spouse had an interview last friday and case was approved instantly. For people who are curious about the interview they did go through the evidence we showed photos and financial documents to show that there was enough funds i had no joint sponser they asked about our wedding and living situation. Took copies of original documents and compared with whats online took medical records police records. This was all done in the hong kong embassay and i was unable to enter they were quite strict 

But now we got a new problem we will make our 2 year anniversary in september. I have heard people saying you can get a 10 year green card as long as she travels into the US after the 2 year anniversary date can anyone confirm that.

2 hours ago, Mohd.i said:

Yea, but since ceac back up i have no access to my application, i emailed KCC and they r said "the site is still under maintenance". Worried 😦

Did you try from another computer? If not you can try that first if not try to reset your browser see if that helps

5 hours ago, Nikmyshkin said:

I faced the same issue and have posted in this thread a few times about it. I had our interview this morning at the consulate in montréal. They did not ask for the ds-260 confirmation and we were approved to receive the visa.

 

it may be different at your consulate but hopefully you wont have any problems. Good luck!!

For people who need the confirmation page printed if you got a pivot case there is a chance you may not need it i contacted the local embassy through a email cause calling them didnt help they were able to pull the data up and said its all in the system and we wont need such documents. Dont bother calling nvc they are useless. Email the local embassy by searching the site for the contact infomation its much faster 

38 minutes ago, Carwenoblueboots said:

who did you end up speaking to? was it someone over the phone at the NVC? x

I called nvc twice first was a kinder guy who sounded indian. Second guy was an ahole guy who i knew didnt want me to speak to a supervisor cause i told him off. But anyways both are just common 1st tier employees but doing more research i found for pivot people may have a chance to call the embassay location. The guy i called at the embassay hk was going to help me but they asked for my spouse passport number which i didnt have on hand at the moment. So i am going to try that on monday and see what they can do.For non pivot i am not sure what can be done. 

But for me i needed the confirmation completed ds260 printed page. Which i think its a joke cause you cant get to the interview stage without completing the ds260. 

American immigration system sucks i lived in other countries and this has to be the slowest process and dumbest. Now i can see why illegal immigrants do it the way they do cause that way is much faster than doing it the legal way.

On 7/25/2018 at 4:28 AM, Nikmyshkin said:

It is definitely possible for a site like this to remain down for extended periods, assuming the contractors who built it are a smaller team. If there's only 5-10 people working on it, then only 1-2 of them are going to be senior or experts. There could be a problem that nobody can figure out how to fix for a few weeks. It has happened at my global, industry leading company a couple times. In software development, there's no way to cover all your bases in terms of subject knowledge so occasionally something will happen that nobody on your team has ever seen before and it can take a long time to sort out. I think another factor is probably funding. I doubt their team is authorized for overtime because of trump, so there are only so many hours in the day they can work on this

The guy i spoke to claims they have been working on it 24 hours a day and i was so pissed with the second guy i spoke with. i already bought a ticket to join my wife for the interview and now the money is going to the shithole of a country i live in cause they cant get things working right. I was told if the system doesnt work most interviews will be rescheduled cause the interviewer needs to see what is online to ask questions to confirm

1 hour ago, CO_Tonya said:

Hi all, I am looking for some feed back.  USCIS transferred my case to NVC on May 1st.  I started calling NVC 2 weeks later.  I chose option 7 and every week for last 8 weeks I have been told the same thing, "Your case was recieved on as May 7, please wait at least 8 weeks for processing.  After the waiting of 8 weeks last week they advised that my case was over due and sent to a supervisor.  I called everyday last week (week 9) and it was being escalated.  Yesterday I called and was told to choose option 5 as my case was electronic - finallt a bit of hope, so i thought.  The lady at option 5 said my case was recieved on July 6th and allow for 8 week... immediatly I got upset, naturally... i advised i had been calling and my recieve date as 5/7. She argued with me for a while and then said she would send to supervisor.  Today i called and again was told my case was recieved on 7/6..  i asked to talk to a supeevisor, which told me she would escalate.  Do I have any further course of action to take, or am i stuck waiting agaib for another 6-8 weeks? Feeling desperate and defeated....

If you are calling option 5 means you are a pivot case and pivot cases takes longer to get a case number than non pivot case but the later steps are faster. It took 2 weeks for me to get a case number after they got the case. But the call center just follows a set protocol that they follow and they tell people it takes up to such and such week they dont know cause the call center is in USA and not in your embassy country. To be honest you are sort of wasting your time calling the call center. but if you want i would say call 14 working days from the 6th if you dont get a login letter. Honestly USA immigration is probably one of the slowest in the world and for myself and my spouse we did it cause it just gives us an option to live here as an alternative plan but probably wont do it because of other opportunities we have in other places. 

Good luck 

46 minutes ago, judy karim said:

That’s what I thought also but there is a slot in the check list for petitioners civil documents... weird?

The only reason i can guess they would ask you for the petitioner civil documents is if you missed anything during the uscis stage. You can call nvc with a case number to clarify on the documents. They sometimes will ask for passport photos in pivot cases to be uploaded and its not necessary they will say just upload a word file saying it will be supplied later as well as police certificates a reciept you paid for it could be given to nvc if you cant get a physical copy. 

19 minutes ago, judy karim said:

I’m in the process of assembling our NVC packet. Does anyone know what documents they are looking for under the “Petitioners Civil Documents” tab? 

Depends on the country you are from. Certified true marriage certificate or original. Police certificates some countries only allow with visa letter. Passport biographic page. Passport size photo. These are the general ones the rest will depend on your country. For the petitioner there is no civil documents.petitioner just needs to do the i864 form and supply proof of income. And again it depends on what you are declaring on your i864 form if its savings then provide your bank statements and current savings if its salary supply a pay stub etc

3 minutes ago, judy karim said:

Thanks 😊 I was still able to get in and complete DS 261.. just waiting the email and for the fees to be invoiced now. How long should I expect to wait those to open up?

3 minutes ago, judy karim said:

Thanks 😊 I was still able to get in and complete DS 261.. just waiting the email and for the fees to be invoiced now. How long should I expect to wait those to open up?

I am not sure how you were able to do the ds261 without paying the fees. After i paid the fees it took about 3 days later i was able to start uploading the AOS documents and do the ds261 and the civil documents. There will be no email notification that says payments cleared you will have to check on your own. After your documents are submitted it takes about 7 days to get accepted and for interview it can be 1-2 months. All depends on your country and also country policy on police background checks 

1 hour ago, judy karim said:

Does anyone know how long it takes to get the email from NVC with the instructions after you receive case number? They said it could take up to 4 weeks!! That’s bs after waiting 8+ weeks for a case number!!

For mine a pivot case the email came about 2 days after getting a case number.

Having problems with the i864 i am sponsering my wife and following the instructions on the form i have no joint sponser but it keeps calculating my household size as 3. 1 for myself and 2 for my spouse should i leave one of them blank or at zero on the form? Or is this how it is supposed to be. 

On 4/1/2018 at 7:03 AM, ajw&bmw said:

Hi everyone--I have a question:

 

My joint sponsor & I prepared our I-864 forms at the end of February just to be prepared for when NVC was ready for those forms...and I just discovered they released a newer I-864 now that says expires 3/31/2020.

 

So, I'm redoing those forms.

My question is, am I allowed to fill out my joint sponsors I-864 and just have him sign it?

I just feel bad asking him to fill it out all over again, and he's a truck driver so he's rarely home/has limited free time...if he has to do it himself again we'll make it work, I just hate that they released a new form right after we filled out the previous one.

 

Thanks for any help

 

Found on the webpage 

03/06/18. Starting 05/16/2018, we will only accept the 03/06/18 edition. Until then, you can use previous editions. You can find the edition date at the bottom of the page on the form and instructions

1 hour ago, reem said:

hi really thanks 

but in the official site it shows may 12 2017

sorry am lil confusdd

so actually fr nebraska may approvals goin on or october

sorry am nt getting the logic

 

I am not 100% sure on this but from what i have observed and understand from the webpage is that it takes the first date as 50 percent complete of all applicants and almost 100 percent for all applicants of the second date on the processing time. so it means that all applications should be done within that time frame but it also means that 49 percent of applicants will be done before the first date.If you are into statistics it basically is the bell curve calculation and also from my research it seems that country for the applicant also matters. so if you are from a higher risk place you will have to wait longer. but a good way to reference it is looking at the first date on the processing time and if your application is about 3 months from that date then there is a higher chance of approval for nebraska not sure about others. anyways hopefully this helps. no point in calling them because they will just read what can be read online and waste your time.