erika86

We both got residency in Spain, and waited there during our years-long spousal visa application. (My spouse cannot enter the US without a visa, and so we could not do AOS as suggested by some of our confused European friends.) Spain has great IVF clinics.

It's possible that your husband will be charged for his time in prison. If he has assets, the state may try to collect from him. I have no personal experience, just read this NPR article. FYI. https://www.npr.org/2022/03/04/1084452251/the-vast-majority-of-states-allow-people-to-be-charged-for-time-behind-bars

Some aspects of our situation are similar to yours, except we are many months ahead of your timeline. We stayed in Barcelona for two years. Sadly, the pandemic stopped our plans to travel all of Europe, but we saw a lot of Barcelona and the surrounding regions. Then, the US citizen spouse took employment back in the US. Subsequently, our case was expedited to the US Embassy in Spain. The expedite was approved within 30 days of the request, and the interview was scheduled within 3 weeks of the approval. Anyway, I expect to write more about our experience in late May, after our interview at the embassy. You can see more of our case details if you go to my timeline. Feel free to PM me.

Hello All, Our request to expedite our spousal visa process was approved, and the US Embassy in Spain has given us an interview appointment date in the next two weeks. However, there is also a requirement for a medical exam prior to the interview. The US Embassy gives a single medical provider, in Madrid, who is authorized to do the exams. We called them all day on Thursday (yesterday), and when we finally reached someone, they said the person who schedules medical exams for visas was unavailable. I have a couple of questions that I'll throw out in to the ether. 1. Is there really only one medical office in all of Spain for these exams? For people living outside of Madrid, this requires two trips to Madrid. (Or one very long stay, which is what we're considering for our situation.) 2. Can anyone share their recent experience with the medical exam process in Spain? Is it absolutely required to attend the medical exam 10 days prior to the interview? Will we really have to go in-person to the medical office to pick up the results? The second set of questions have been emailed to the folks at the Embassy who took over our case when the request to expedite was approved. Hopefully, I'll have an answer from them on Friday.