Jas1305

Personally, with your I94 expiring in less than two weeks, I would not waste my time going to the SSA.  You most likely will need to wait until you get either your EAD or GC.
 
Good Luck!

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You are getting a SSN because you will be a legal alien allowed to work....

Yes you can do ofc first then next day interview too and fee it will get update for sure its just a patience game 

When you reschedule the interview dates you have to select the ofc first and then interview date once reschedule is updated with new date take the printout of new appointment letter . While going for reschedule first off appear and you can clearly see the slots for the ofc what time for which date but you have to keep a gap betweeb ofc and interview you can keep 3 days gap . I did my ofc on 5th nov delhi and 9 th nov 2018 mumbai interview . If you think the ofc slots are not available while reschedule dont do it stick to the same date .
 
i made the fee payment at axis bank and 8hrs to 12hrs time to update the fee payment with their system

Sorry to hear that but dont worry they are not asking about the wedding pics , as you said you have done engagement right you have pictures of your engagement ceremony where your family and your fiance and your friends are there . They want to just check whether your relationship is true or not if you have exchange money show them money receipts , gifts , card exchanged , letters pics togther , call logs screen shot even for  chats screen shot they want proof where it shows that your relationship is genuine .
In my case i took all the proofs cards exchanged money receipts chat shots call log shots her intenary copies boarding passes  courier receipts where senders address and receiver address is there even if you have received gifts  from fiance from US the front page of courier packet will work as proof bcz that will have your and fiance in us both address so if you have these things go get it and took my engagement album for interview which they saw it as well .
 
note: this 221g is given for
spouse visa too thats why they have mention wedding before and after pics dont get confused , just collect these proofs and submit it .

You said your noa2 got approved on 30th dec did you called nvc whether they have created case number and whats the status at ceac its in transit or ready ? For medical make sure you call them and ask about they require appointment letter too , sometimes they ask , oncd you case is ready within 10 days you will get a packet from local embassy with i129 f and imbra paper too which will tell you about your right and make a decent gap between medical ofc and interview , i did medical in delhi On 31 oct , 05 th nov ofc , 9th interview , 16 th nov i picked my passport from delhi ofc centre where i have given fingerprints 
 

K1 ftp you will get once your noa 2 approved and uscis will transfer your case to nvc and nvc will send to the local
embassy (mumbai )so in that ftp mail all
the details of beneficiary name case number uscis receipt number petitioner name and address of embassy where your interview will be done , you can ask your fiance bcz medical team need that with 4 photographs passport front and last page appointment letter copy and nvc case number that you can show k1 ftp 

Yes its real bcz every friday mumbai consulate gives the appointment for k1 So it means max 4 appointments in a month and they give dates for just 2 months so it means till  march dates are available  , as you said 22 feb is available ill say book
it atleast you will reserve the appointment and there is one plus point as well that once your date is fixed for eg 22 feb you can reschedule it  if you get any early date but for that you have to be pro active and refreshing the page once the early date is there just reschedule it one date for ofc and one for interview .
 
in my case it worked i was getting the date of 22nd dec 2018 i was refreshing the website after every hour luckly i was able to see the 9th nov 2018 , lot of people reschedule but you have to be patient and active .

Hi @ujones whenever you got the Noa2 ill suggest you fill the ds 160 and pay the fees bcz 8 to 24 hrs for fee update . Once you get your noa2 after that your case will be transferred to NVC they will keep your case at aleast 2 week in which they will assign your case starting with BMB once your case is ready and transferred to local consulate ie your mumbai bandra you will get the packet4 from mumbai consulate which will have your i129 copy packet4 check list within 10 days , fiance who is in states will get the k1 ftp as well once your noa2 is approved which will state your info your info and further process . 
 
Now the struggle part for interview appointments for k1 is only on fridays by mumbai consulate , 2 months ie 60 days of window they have in which you have to select any friday and 2 or 3 days prior to your interview go for vac( biometrics and photograph )  7 to 10 days before interview medical with vaccination . Dont get delay in terms of scheduling appointment in my case i was delayed for my case first date was 22th dec but later on 9 th nov was available so ill suggest you go the cgi website make your account pay the fees once fee is updated book
your appointment and carefully submit the ds 160 once its updated you cannot do any change .
 
For interview 
it will be 10 mins of interview for
on going relationship you guys can show your pictures , chat screen shot , call logs screen shot , gifts exchanged slips , her / his tickets copy and boarding pass copy whichever pics you have together you can show , if you have done engagement you can show those pics where your family and his / her family is there . 
 
For further info about timelines you can go through mine and for whole interview experience go thorough with @A_R timeline bcz we both had interview on same day and even 90% question were same . 
 
One imp thing tell your fiance to go for pcc that is imp pcc should be latest from regional passport office incase your fiance resided any other country apart from india more than year they require pcc from others country too

At the time of medical doc will ask you any previous surgery or any problem then your fiance can tell if he or she has any medical docs for that you can take along with you and no need to worry about there is no negative affect .

My pleasure , account creation will take 10 mins and before going for ds 160 on youtube lots of tutorials are there for ds 160 even for how to book an appointment for k1 , once you start your ds 160 you have complete it in 30 days dont forget to take a screenshot of ds 160 where the unique ds 160 number is there and print out the confirmation page of ds 160 once you are done medical can be done before 10 days or week before your interview they will ask your passport and front and last copy of your passport ,4 photographs passport size and case number from nvc so you can take k1 ftp copy along with you or other papers which have your nvc and uscis receipt number , rest go through with my timeline you will get idea .
 
Make sure once you get nao2 after week you can call to nvc to check whether they have received your case from uscis , on which date , whether they have created case number for your case because they will provide  casenumber and invoice id  . You have to be active on internet at ceac website where you can put your casenumber and check whats the status but you can check only once your casenumber is created atleast 2 to 4 weeks they keep case with them be proactive call them once noa2 is approved after week as for case number , keep checking the status and meanwhile ready your documents and other things

My pleasure , account creation will take 10 mins and before going for ds 160 on youtube lots of tutorials are there for ds 160 even for how to book an appointment for k1 , once you start your ds 160 you have complete it in 30 days dont forget to take a screenshot of ds 160 where the unique ds 160 number is there and print out the confirmation page of ds 160 once you are done medical can be done before 10 days or week before your interview they will ask your passport and front and last copy of your passport ,4 photographs passport size and case number from nvc so you can take k1 ftp copy along with you or other papers which have your nvc and uscis receipt number , rest go through with my timeline you will get idea .
 
Make sure once you get nao2 after week you can call to nvc to check whether they have received your case from uscis , on which date , whether they have created case number for your case because they will provide  casenumber and invoice id  . You have to be active on internet at ceac website where you can put your casenumber and check whats the status but you can check only once your casenumber is created atleast 2 to 4 weeks they keep case with them be proactive call them once noa2 is approved after week as for case number , keep checking the status and meanwhile ready your documents and other things

Hi @ujones whenever you got the Noa2 ill suggest you fill the ds 160 and pay the fees bcz 8 to 24 hrs for fee update . Once you get your noa2 after that your case will be transferred to NVC they will keep your case at aleast 2 week in which they will assign your case starting with BMB once your case is ready and transferred to local consulate ie your mumbai bandra you will get the packet4 from mumbai consulate which will have your i129 copy packet4 check list within 10 days , fiance who is in states will get the k1 ftp as well once your noa2 is approved which will state your info your info and further process . 
 
Now the struggle part for interview appointments for k1 is only on fridays by mumbai consulate , 2 months ie 60 days of window they have in which you have to select any friday and 2 or 3 days prior to your interview go for vac( biometrics and photograph )  7 to 10 days before interview medical with vaccination . Dont get delay in terms of scheduling appointment in my case i was delayed for my case first date was 22th dec but later on 9 th nov was available so ill suggest you go the cgi website make your account pay the fees once fee is updated book
your appointment and carefully submit the ds 160 once its updated you cannot do any change .
 
For interview 
it will be 10 mins of interview for
on going relationship you guys can show your pictures , chat screen shot , call logs screen shot , gifts exchanged slips , her / his tickets copy and boarding pass copy whichever pics you have together you can show , if you have done engagement you can show those pics where your family and his / her family is there . 
 
For further info about timelines you can go through mine and for whole interview experience go thorough with @A_R timeline bcz we both had interview on same day and even 90% question were same . 
 
One imp thing tell your fiance to go for pcc that is imp pcc should be latest from regional passport office incase your fiance resided any other country apart from india more than year they require pcc from others country too

Thank you so much for clearing my doubts 

Thanks to you i hope soon status gets change to Ready and ill see for appointment too .

Yes since the physical P4 takes about 10 days to come wait at lest a week after case status is ready to email or else they might write ask again.

A big thanks to you ill discuss with my fiance and lets see i hope i will get early dates if its there . Incase if i want p4 by email on which email i have to sent the details and what i have to write ?

@TonyK & @A2isha it means they want to know who is the petitioner like in k1 your fiance name and for your spouse case your spouse name  . 

Happy for you buddy 😀, all the best in advance for your interview i hope soon we get our case ready with consulate 😊😀

Your NOA2 is from the same date as ours and we also got out NVC number around that day. Our cases are going to be AT NVC for at least about two weeks because NVC sends petitons to embassies in batches every OTHER WEEK. We have just missed this weeks batch, it was send on Tuesday. So if your case got a number assigned later that day, you will have to wait for the next batch, which should happen some time around Tuesday 16th or Wednesday 17th. You will very likely get no update email from NVC unless you asked them to email you updates. Also, those six steps are for immigrant visa and even though they have k1 under that section, it is a non-immigrant visa and you don't have to do anything but sit tight and wait until your CAEC trackers says "ready" = at your embassy 🤗

Thank you again , for sure ill try this  and will wait till my case doesnt get ready .