Wife's CR2 visa was approved on Aug. 31st in Bogota.

USCIS received the I 130 on June 15th 2020

Documentarily Qualified by NVC on Feb 9 2021

Interview in Bogota on Aug 31st. They kept her passport and told her to expect the visa within a week.

Notice from DHL giving the tracking number of the visa. Sept 2nd 2021. 

My wife arrived for her medical exam in Bogota at noon yesterday ....her appoint was at 1PM.....they only let patients in 30 minutes before the appointment time so she had to wait in the street for about 30 minutes. So don't come early.  Especially since she didn't get out of the doctor's office until after 5pm. 

She had to go for her urine test as 7am this morning and she is still waiting for then to take it at almost 9 am. I'm waiting for her to finish before a buy a ticket for her to fly back to Medellin. 

The doctor's office says her exam results will be available for her to pick up at 5pm this Friday and her biometrics  will be on the following Monday with her interview on Tuesday. I'm Thinking about having her just stay in Bogota over the weekend instead of flying back and forth again. 

My wife's case was DQ'd the 9th of Feb. 2021 and her interview in Bogota is on the 31st.

She is going to Bogota for her physical on the the 23rd of August and she was just informed today that she needs to stay in Bogota at least two day. Because the day after the physical she has to go to a separate lab to do the piss test. So I had to change her flight and pay for a hotel. 

There is a list of documents to bring to the doctors office.....one being the "visa interview letter" which I imagine is the email they sent us stating the time and date of the embassy appointment. ....and the other thing is  a DS 260 confirmation page which I think this the paper you print out after you complete the DS 260 that has a couple of bar codes and your case in invoice numbers. 

If anyone has gone through this process recently....tips would be appreciated to make things as soon as possible. 

1 hour ago, majm said:

Just a heads up: there are several posts today on a Facebook group for CR-1/IR-1 in Bogota from people who are receiving interview appointments in March and April 2021!

What is the facebook group link?

What is the facebook group link?

When the NVC sends the email notifying the petitioner and applicant that they have an interview. Does the email come with a specific date and time for the interview or does the applicant have to setup an appointment with the embassy using using the case and DS - 260 number from the NVC or KCC email. 

45 minutes ago, majm said:

  

 

You can assume there is at least 1 year of backlogged interviews for Bogota considering they stopped routine scheduling in early 2020 and haven't scheduled since. We have been DQ since July 2020 and our file is still sitting at NVC with everyone else waiting for interview scheduling 😞 I would prepare for a long wait, especially considering they will likely re-schedule based on your "priority date" and/or DQ date at NVC.

 

 

I just wrote the NVC to see if I can get confirmation on how long it will take to get an interview at the Bogota embassy.

If it really is going to be another year before she gets a visa interview....I will rent my house out in the states and just stay in Colombia for another year. 

I thought about coming back to the USA and getting a job....but I can't be away from my daughter that long. 

On 2/13/2021 at 5:06 AM, Marthaeu said:

You cannot say that it is false because they themselves leave on the page that they are assigning only emergency appointments so there are delays of 14 months. It is a fact.  My DQ is Oct 7/2020 and I should be getting an appointment this month but now I am on a 14 month waiting line. Thank you for your comment.

I DQ'd a week ago and thought I would be notified of my wife's visa interview date some time next month for her interview in Bogota. And if I understand your post.....you were DQ'd in October 2020 and haven't even been given an appointment date..... Or did you actually get assigned an appointment date 14 months into the future?

Submitted the documents last night....and wrote up to an email saying that my wife is now.....DOCUMENTARILY QUALIFIED!

I'll let you guys know how long it takes to get an interview in Bogota these days.

One other thing that I over looked with the translations.

My wife's marriage certificate is blank on the back side of the document. There is nothing there to translate. 

But the NVC requires that you scan and send both sides of the document....so they can see that there is nothing on the other side.

Well I sent the document with the blank side as well to the translation service.....but when I get the translation back they didn't attach the blank page to the translation. 

I did my best to try and get them to attach the blank page to the official translation....but I was unsuccessful in that attempt. So I finally ended up sending both sides of the marriage certificate with the blank page in one file and sending the front page of the marriage certificate along with the certified translation in another file. 

We will see how that goes over. If it isn't approved I guess I can pay $20 to have the translation service add the blank page to the translation file......they like to charge $20 bucks per page even if there are no words on the page. 

My wife was previously married and divorced at the same notary that we were married at. So all the documents come from this one notary office....the marriage certificate from her previous marriage, the divorce decree from her pervious marriage and our marriage certificate. How having the same notary put an annotation of my wife's divorce on our marriage certificate makes the divorce now registered is beyond me. 

Which is why I'm including my wife's birth certificate with the divorce decree as well....because at least the birth certificate comes from the La Oficina de Registro Civil ....which is a completely different place than the notary's office that all of the other documents came from.  In my case the birth certificate might lend some credibility to the divorce decree.....but according to the NVC guide lines either the marriage certificate with the annotation of divorce OR the birth certificate with the annotation are acceptable....both are not required. But since the having the same notary that produced the divorce decree...put the annotation of the divorce on the marriage certificate that the same notary also produced.....I thought I would also include my wife's birth certificate with the annotation as well....just to add a third party into the mix. hahaha

2 hours ago, Troy B said:

Have you looked at the state department's Civil Documents list?  That spells out what the US is expecting.

Yeah I looked at the requirements....it still is ambiguous in that it doesn't say which marriage certificate should have the divorce annotation.

Probably not a problem for most guys to figure out....but we were married in Medellin and my wife was married to her former husband in Medellin as well. So it is anyone's guess which marriage certificate that NVC wants the divorce annotation on. Maybe it doesn't matter. 

I'm assuming the NVC wants our marriage certificate  with the annotation of her divorce.

I mean what if my wife was married to her ex husband in another country (her ex was chilean). Then it would be impossible for her have the divorce annotation added to her marriage certificate.

At any rate I'll have the translations back tomorrow and we'll see what NVC has to say this time. 

But it does beg the question.....why aren't divorce decrees acceptable proof of a divorce?

It now appears that NVC wants an annotation of my wife's previous divorce on the marriage certificate....unclear which marriage certificate that it is that they want the annotation put on.....the marriage certificate of her previous marriage or our marriage certificate.....not sure it even matters.

Or they say they will take a copy of her birth certificate with an annotation of her divorce on it. 

I plan on giving them both....in an attempt to stop the run around. 

Keep in mind these requirements are specific to Colombia. 

Called NVC.....believe it or not the lady I spoke to claimed that I had the marriage certificate where the my wife's divorce decree was supposed to be 

So I changed the locate of the document.....how I was supposed to know that based on the form response of "unacceptable document" is beyond me.....but such is life when dealing government agencies. 

1 minute ago, payxibka said:

Really?

 

Divorce
 

Available

Fees: There may be a fee for this service.  Consult with the applicable civil registry office.

Document Name:

• Divorce Decree are processed:
  • by the Notary Publics (mutual consent divorces), and
  • by the "Juzgados de Familia" (divorces by cause).
     
• Annulments are issued by the “Tribunal Eclesiastico” of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Birth certificate (Registro de Nacimiento) or Marriage Certificate (Registro Civil de Matrimonio), with the appropriate divorce amendment.

Special Seal(s) / Color / Format:

• Both types of divorce decrees are  issued on plain white paper.
• Annulments are issued on letterhead paper.

Issuing Authority Personnel Title:

• Divorce decrees are issued by Notary Public or judges in the Family Court.
• Annulments are issued by the "Tribunal Eclesiástico" of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Birth or marriage certificates, with divorce annotation are issued by the Civil Registry.

Registration Criteria: There are no registration criteria.

Procedure for Obtaining:

• Catholics who do not want to process a divorce can get an annulment of their marriage (“cesación de efectos civiles”). The embassy will accept an annulment issued by the "Tribunal Eclesiástico" as proof of an official annulment of the marriage.
• All divorces, whether civil or religious, must be registered with the civil authorities (“La Oficina de Registro Civil”) to be legal.  Proof that the divorce was registered with civil authorities (either an annotated birth certificate or marriage certificate) is required in addition to the civil divorce decree or religious annulment decree.  

Certified Copies Available: Yes.  By default, all Colombian divorce certificates are certified/notarized copies of the original.  The original version is kept in the Civil Registry office of the city/municipality where the divorce was registered.  The marriage or birth certificate with the required divorce annotation is also a certified copy, issued by the Civil Registry in the city/municipality where the birth or marriage was registered.

Alternate Documents: There are no alternate documents.

Exceptions: None

Yeah I already read that.....the divorce decree was issued by the same notary where the marriage took place. All the signatures and seals are visible. 

The issuing country is Colombia. 

And I only got this vague message.

Please replace this with an acceptable marriage termination document from a correct issuing authority. Please use our Document Finder at https://nvc.state.gov/find for acceptable documents guidelines.

And I see nothing on the website that would give me a clue as to what is unacceptable about the document.

It will be interesting to see how long it takes before the DS 260 is approved and sent to the US Embassy in Bogota.

This is the website I used to compress the documents so that they were all smaller than 2mb.

https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/compress-pdf.html

On 1/7/2021 at 7:45 PM, Troy B said:

As noted above, you don't really attach anything to the DS-260.  Your options you choose on the DS-260 cause the system to suggest what documents it expects to see to support that DS-260.  Regardless of whether it suggests uploading your divorce decrees,  you should upload all past divorce decrees to proof you were single and eligible to marry your wife and thus able to sponsor you wife to join you in the USA.

It's pretty easy to upload my unsolicited divorce decrees along with the requested forms for my wife that support my wife's DS 260.

But if I'm going to start sending unsolicited documents to support my wife's ds 260....why not send documents to prove the marriage is bona fide....like the house we bought and the US passport of our child and photos showing us together. 

Do you think there is a draw back to sending all kinds of documents to prove our case? 

I mean I sent all that and more with the I - 130 application and it was approved in 6 weeks. 

On 1/6/2021 at 4:49 PM, Troy B said:

The 1st marriage certificate would only come in play if it was needed to track a name change.

I all ready upload my wife's marriage certificate from her former marriage and my wife (applicant's) divorce decree......what I'm not sure about is whether or not I (the petitioner) need to upload my past divorce decrees with my wife's (applicant's) DS 260

2 hours ago, Babu Frik said:

You don't upload the DS-260 because it's an online form.

 

They asked for mine after I submitted my documents.

You can submit additional documents below the ones they specifically ask for.

So are you saying you uploaded your divorce decrees even though they weren't specifically asked initially by NVC?

I could be wrong but I thought I read on this forum that guys were uploading their divorce decrees along with their wife's DS 260.

But I see no option for me to upload my divorce decrees to the NVC with my wife's DS 260....the only option is for here divorce decree and marriage certificate. 

On 12/28/2020 at 12:00 AM, angeljolie said:

Hope you sorted this out already. But if not, call NVC and quote your case number and the error received. The agent will probably connect you to their IT support team.

I figure it out.....I was using Chrome to upload the documents and it wasn't working so I tried internet explorer and it worked

The files are less then 2MB and in PDF format.

but I keep getting this message. 

Server Error in '/IV' Application.

Security Exception

Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy.  To grant this application the required permission please contact your system administrator or change the application's trust level in the configuration file.

Exception Details: System.Security.SecurityException: The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched.  Inaccessible logs: Security.

My wife is filling out the DS 260 for her immigrant visa and it asks if she will be immigrating with her daughter. I told her to check "NO" because our daughter is a dual Colombian....US citizen. 

But it does feel weird to put down that she won't be immigrating with her now or at a latter date. 

OK sounds good , Thanks for the response