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16 hours ago, Kristina0394 said:

After paying fees and getting receipt, on the ustraveldocs.com it shows Your request to schedule an appointment has been received and will be reviewed. You will receive an email once your request is approved.  Could you advise what to do?

As others have said, you must now wait for the calendar to open up. I recommend just checking every day to see if the calendar gets updated for you. 

1 hour ago, Kristina0394 said:

I am the petitioner trying to pay for my beneficiary with my credit card. Do I put in her birth date, her email, her phone and only use card holder name as mine? Because it is my card.

Yes, you should put your beneficiary’s information down and then use your name (petitioner’s) for the card holder.  

7 hours ago, Kristina0394 said:

Email address, phone number should be all beneficiary too? Not mine?

I thought you were the beneficiary? 🤔 So if you're the beneficiary - all of the information in your Embassy  profile should be yours (beneficiary's). The petitioner doesn't have an Embassy profile.  I hope this helps.

20 minutes ago, Kristina0394 said:

Can you tell why you need to put in beneficiary birth date? I cannot put mine, why? Where that date shows?

Because the beneficiary in this case is the 'applicant' - the person that is having the interview at the Embassy. And remember to write the birthdate: dd/mm/yyyy

18 minutes ago, Kristina0394 said:

You used Russian Standart Bank online to do it?

I used my VISA credit card but from a different bank - but I received a confirmation email from Russian Standard Bank (which is what the Embassy uses for their bank).

6 hours ago, Kristina0394 said:

Please tell how the petitioner can pay embassy fees for the beneficiary with credit card? Should I put in my beneficiary's birth date there instead of mine when it is the payment info, right after the card holder name? If there are any petitioners who did it, please share which way you did?

I am the petitioner and I paid for my beneficiary's Embassy fees with my credit card. I put the beneficiary's birthdate. It was confusing for me at first too.

1 hour ago, Kristina0394 said:

I thought you are from Russia. I was reffering to this, " The Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow uses a pre-appointment document screening system. To facilitate the processing of your immigrant visa, please e-mail in advance (at least three business days before the interview) scanned copies of the confirmation page of your completed DS-160 application form, your foreign passport (page with photo), birth certificate, police certificate, and if applicable, divorce certificate, certificate of name change, and military book (page with photo) to moscowivpre@state.gov. In the “Subject” line of the email, please put your case number and write “IV documents for pre-screen”.  That's info from the embassy website

Ah, ok, I haven’t seen this yet and it’s really good to know the ‘pre-appointment’ process because I didn’t know about it. I’m actually the petitioner and living with my beneficiary fiance in Moscow - and we’re both just trying to figure everything out a little each day even though our documents are still at the NVC. 

1 hour ago, Kristina0394 said:

What I heard is that the embassy wants every document scanned and emailed to them before going to the interview. Have you heard of that?

I think the beneficiary needs to bring all the scanned and/or original documents with them on the interview date (like the original i-129 form, i-134 (affidavit of support), birth certificate or divorce certificate, more evidence of your ongoing relationship, DS-160 confirmation page, police report(s), etc. But, I never heard that the Embassy wants everything before hand. Each Embassy is different though and I don’t know specifically what the one in Moscow requires. I think each Embassy at least needs your Medical  report and interview fee? But maybe they’ll need more??

3 hours ago, Kristina0394 said:

You know something about Packet 3? Is it necessary to wait for it before appointing the interview? What do you think?

Well, I heard that some people never even get the Packet 3. But, if you know your NVC packet has arrived at the Embassy already, I would say you can go ahead and submit the DS-160, pay the interview fee and then even try to book the actual interview (and do the medical a few days or couple of week in advance). I don't think it's necessary to wait for Packet 3 to start doing all of this stuff... you can get a head start.

14 hours ago, Kristina0394 said:

maybe you mean packet 3 that embassy is supposed to send to everybody by email? Our case shows ready for a week but yet no packet 3 yet. I do not understand when it is the time to schedule that interview because nobody explains anything.

We got our DS-160 and Interview fees submitted just the other day even thought the Embassy in Moscow hasn't received our documents; it's still at the NVC office but should be leaving any day now. We thought we could speed up the registration for the interview, but it looks like we must wait until the Embassy in Moscow receives our  NVC packet.

14 hours ago, Kristina0394 said:

You need to pay fees first

We paid the fee already. I think our problem is that our packet hasn't arrived at the Consulate in Moscow - therefore we're getting a message that they'll email us.

On 5/8/2019 at 8:27 PM, Helena_Siberia said:

My personal advice would be to do medical too, while you are waiting for the interview dates. It happened a few times in the end of March and April that the dates opened up literally for the following days, so whoever was able to grab it, got really lucky. 

Hello, I'm a little confused about how you sign up for the interview dates at the American Consulate in Moscow. Can you see the dates that are open? Because just recently, 2 days ago, we signed up for an interview on the U.S. Visa Moscow website and we got a message to wait for an email to be sent regarding the appointment date and time. I thought we could see a calendar and see what dates are open and closed. Can you please let me know how the interview system works?