eilten

Thanks for all the reassurances, I got an email this morning and my card is now being "produced"

7 minutes ago, Morgan5698 said:

You're good with this. Mine was the same after entering the country last September for about 6 weeks then one day just changed to 'Card Being Printed' or something like that. 

 

Great, thank you for the reassurance! 

5 minutes ago, The4Sands said:

@eilten My husband had the same. It only showed us having paid the fee till it showed that his card was being printed. 
 

He entered at the end of October 2020 and he only got his green card a few weeks ago. I think it’s just a really slow process right now. When I inquired about it being outside the processing time, they told me it wasn’t currently. 
 

I know it’s hard, but try to not stress. It will come!!!!

Thanks so much, that's such a relief to know I'm not the only one it is dragging on for.

Hi Everyone, I have a question about the USCIS online system my.uscis.gov that hopefully someone can help me with.

I arrived in the US on Feb 19th and I still don't have my green card, it's almost 90 days now so I'm getting nervous that I've slipped through the cracks somewhere. I've send a few messages through the online portal to bug the USCIS team but they just keep sending me the generic "wait" message and not actually answering my question.

One thing that has me specifically concerned is that when I log into my.uscis.gov and check my case status and history, the latest information they have recorded for me is that I paid my immigrant fee on Jan 22. No mention of me entering the country on Feb 19th. Does anyone remember (or can anyone check for me please?) if their status/history updated at all after they had entered the US but before they had their green card arrive?

Thanks!

I agree with Dags, just hold in there. It's super disheartening to keep getting that message but they do release dates in batches so keep checking everyday. 

I arrived in the US Feb 19th and still waiting for my green card (I already have an SSN). 

Has anyone else been asked to submit additional documents via the CEAC website? I needed a translation of a police cert and since they've seen the original they said a digital copy of the translation would be fine. However, the instructions they gave me shows a screenshot of the CEAC site that includes a "documents" tab in the top menu and when I log in there is no such tab. I'm assuming it's because my case is DCF and so I didn't upload any documents to the NVC via the CEAC site. 

I've emailed the embassy on LNDIVSubmissions@state.gov with my translation attached. I hope this is the right email address, anyone else have experience with this?

Thanks!

14 minutes ago, Andytheant said:

Hi all! 

 

I couldn't find this information anywhere and was hoping someone could give a breakout of the total costs I should expect for the whole DCF process filing for a spouse here in London. We've already paid the initial application fee of $535 - but what kind of costs should I expect for the medical, interview, other visa fees, etc? Thanks so much 🙂

Hi Andy,

The Visa Medical is 350GBP (adults - 140GBP for children) and has to be done by the approved office in London (https://visamedicals.co.uk/united-states/) note: you can only book this once you have an LND number.

The Visa itself is then $325 the day you do your interview at the embassy.

I think that's all the official costs, obviously there is travel, accommodation etc if you don't live in London. I also had to get official translations of documents so if you have anything that's not in English you'll need to pay for that too.

Have you gotten special permission to file DCF in London? They're not accepting routine applications anymore without a reason to expedite through the embassy.

5 hours ago, The4Sands said:

Husband's visa was approved!!!  I will get him to write a review of the experience, but his appointment was at 10:00am and he was approved by 10:35am!!  He did tell me they let him in early and that it was very quiet.

 

I only have one concern: they didn't give him a packet to hand over at POE.  Is that normal these days?  Should I be worried? 😖

 

 

 

 

They are processing some of them digitally now.

Check on the visa on his passport to see if it is says "IV DOCS in CCD.

These are screenshots from within the Visa Appointment service website. 

16 hours ago, Stuwoolf said:

Yes. I had my medical on Monday and I too had to get a shot😔. Had the choice to get it done at my GP or at the medical. For the sake of £40 thought it was best to get it done there and then.

 

Hired a car. Drove down on Sunday, 7 hours, Medical at 10.10 Monday. Drove home at around 12.30PM, 7 hours again. Stayed at the Mandeville Hotel (lovely) which was 2 minutes walk (around the corner, literally) from VisaMedical in Bentinck Mansions. NCP car park, Portman Square, was 10-15 minutes walk from hotel. Prebooked 6PM to 2.30PM - £13, which for London I thought was a bargain.

 

Now need to try and get an interview slot, hopefully the tailend of October, after 21st or early November🤞

 

Good luck everyone🙂

Appointments at the end of October are now available on the site!

4 hours ago, Stuwoolf said:

Although we have now decided (reluctantly) on a Joint Sponsor, I am still searching for a definitive answer to my query. I approached a UK Immigration Lawyer. They propose an hours consultation at £750 + vat to answer my query. How do they get away with this????

 

By all means levy a charge but at least be reasonable.

I can't help with your exact situation but I have some experience with the Joint Sponsor. Last time I applied we used my Father-in-law as a joint sponsor. My husband had just finished a phd program and had only started his post-doc position. We didn't have the full history of enough funds at the time. This process was pretty seamless and we didn't get any questions on it at the visa interview (in Paris). I hope that helps, it's really not a big pain. 

For context: Long story short I held a green card from 2015-2017 then left the US to move to the UK (I'm an Irish citizen) because of my husbands job (US citizen). We applied through NVC and had my interview in Paris as we were living in France at the time. Because we were leaving for longer than 1 year with no (at the time) intention to return I officially abandoned my green card through the US embassy in London. We're moving back now because of hubbies job again. This time I will stay long enough to get my fricken' citizenship, I was 8 months shy when we moved last time!

If anyone is looking there are two dates open for next week. My medical isn't until the 14th of Oct (for other reasons) so I can't grab one, argh so frustrating! Good luck to those looking!

Anyone looking for an interview appointment at London? This is all I see on their page for now:

There are no available appointments at the selected location. Please try again later

Do we know how often they release them on the ais site? I saw in this thread there were some available last Monday for the week of Oct 7th. Do they do batches every week? My medical is Oct 14th so I'm looking for one hopefully the week after. Am I crazy thinking this would be possible?