Cory S.

22 minutes ago, HRQX said:

It'll be done at the interview: "the consular officer may revalidate the petition any number of times for additional periods of four months from the date of revalidation, provided the officer concludes that the petitioner and the beneficiary remain legally free to marry and continue to intend to marry each other within 90 days after the beneficiary's admission into the United States." https://fam.state.gov/fam/09FAM/09FAM050207.html

This is really helpful, thank you!  The link is great.

I just feels so strange to let it expire before the interview... but I guess that is how some consular offices handle it

3 minutes ago, Duke & Marie said:

The consulate will automatically extend once they restart processing... given the pandemic heaps, have been delayed and are being extended... 

 

keep an eye on your local consulate to see when they recommence processing of k1’s... then try schedule the interview, I would hold off on doing my medical until it’s been scheduled since the medical only lasts for 6 months

They are currently processing and they have interview dates available.  But our k-1 petition approval from USCIS will expire before we can get the medical exam and gathering all the paperwork.  The question is about how to extended the validity of the K-1 petition approval for another four months.

Hello, first time poster here.

My fiancé and I have an approved K1 petition and will be having our interview at AIT it Taipei, Taiwan.

However, the four month expiration date listed on our NOA2 is 1/27/21 and is approaching fast.  I heard that we can request for an extension for another for months, which we will need.  So I wrote an email to the consulate, following a format listed in some of the other posts on this website.  It explained we still intend to get married and that we are gathering the required documents and scheduling a medical exam.

However their response confuses me.  In their reply email, they stated:

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 However, a consular interviewing officer can extend the validity of the petition for additional periods of four month from the date of revalidation if it expires before visa processing is completed. As of that, the interviewing officer will determine whether to extend the validity of petition on your visa interview date.

We hope that you will find the above information of use.

  

Regards,

Immigrant Visa Unit

This looked like they were saying we should let it expire, and then schedule the interview for after it is expired, and the officer will determine whether or not to extend it at this time, during the interview.  I called to get clarification, and this is pretty much what they told me on the phone as well.

It scares the bejesus out of me to LET IT EXPIRE and then schedule an interview.  Does this seem correct to other people?

Has anyone specifically had to extended the petition expiration from AIT in Taipei before?  Do they extend it automatically?  Do we let it expire?

We are not sure what to do!

Thanks for your help!

Cory and HsinYa

On 10/2/2020 at 10:14 PM, LoveJonLovell said:

It's soon to be your favourite time of the week - "March Cases update time"

 

As you can see, The USCIS Case Tracker shows 209 March approved Cases - that's 100 new approvals since last weekend.

138 RFEs outstanding - which is 50 more than last week

193 Rejections, which is 5 less than last week (perhaps they were contested or corrected)

 

But there's definitely movement!

 

I started at 1:10am UK time (I re-set my body clock to live on eastern time) and it took just about 2 hours to update... I think I have a system in place to get it done in a little over an hour and 30 minutes next week!

 

Stay strong. Stay positive. Our time is coming!

 

I have a NOA-1 of March 9, 2020 - I recieved the online notice of my NOA-2 approval on September 29th.  I haven't gotten it in the mail yet, but I was checking online religiously every day for at least a week leading up to that.  Your time is coming everyone, on to the NVC!

Congrats on getting the Visa issued!

Me and my fiance are still waiting for our I-129F being processed in California.

I came here to see if there was any news about AIT doing visa interviews because I couldn't find any info on the website.  Like you said there is pretty much zero COVID in Taiwan right now.

I was happy to see that you guys had your interview and that it went well.

On 5/1/2020 at 5:12 AM, ol94 said:

Yep, I understand that, however here in Taiwan they're still doing interviews and non-routine visa issuances, there were other people that were being questioned as well. I'm not particularly sure what cancelled after March 20 means, as our interview was scheduled before that date. It could be the case that no new appointments are being made. However, I just saw that my wife's visa status on the status checker just changed to Issued !! Guess I got my own answer within a day, haha. Anyway, thanks all.

Perhaps it is true that no new interviews are being scheduled...  We are hoping for our case to come out of the NVC around July timeframe if everything goes well.  Who knows where the COVID situation will be by then.