mhoney16

Hi everyone - my husband had his CR1 interview on 08NOV and was asked to submit an additional police certificate document (state police document for Brasil, requested in addition to the federal police document). Today (09NOV), we couriered the requested document to the embassy + certified translations (following instructions) and have uploaded all docs to CEAC profile. 

Here are my questions:

1) does anyone have any recent experience with timelines to process + return passport after successfully couriering request documents? We are staying in London for this process but live in Mexico + I'm very pregnant so the window to travel home is closing in late November

2) in case the case does get 'stuck' for several weeks/months, what is the process to get back my partner's passport so we can return to Mexico for the birth? Is that even allowed? 

I also tried 3x joining the UK Spouses facebook group mentioned on this forum but no one has approved my request yet. Thanks for the help!

Closing this topic out. We emailed the LON embassy and they re-opened the DS-260 to update the address. Never even came up in the interview. 

Hi all! My spouse has his final interview at the London embassy on November 09 and we are trying to change our current address (address on original DS-260 form and current address are both in Mexico so  there is no change of country). We live in Mexico currently but transferred the case to London due to British citizenship.

My problem: We have not been able to have any success in emailing the London embassy to update the current address to match the police certificate(s). The response from the embassy is to contact NVC and NVC has an auto response time of over a month (which would be after our interview date). Should we just have policy certificates issued in the old address or issue in the new address (knowing the new address won't match original DS-260)? Thank you!

1 hour ago, Quarknase said:

I’m not sure if petition is the right wording - you simply request a change of post to the embassy in London.

Note that the request might be denied if you focus on proof of prior residence. They will be more interested in seeing that he’ll be residing there at the time of interview, to ensure you’re not requesting the change to go around the wait times in Mexico. Once you have his move date, you can request with the one way ticket and proof of UK citizenship. Or you wait until he actually moved and has a local ID to proof residency.

I understood that you are eligible to interview in a country where you have citizenship? Our situation is rapidly evolving so we can buy a one way ticket but will be back and forth until the world is a bit more normal (whatever that means). Do we need to show more than that? A one-way ticket + citizenship? 

Hello, my husband and I are living together in Mexico at the moment. He moved to Mexico during the pandemic, on a valid Mexico work visa, intending to start work in Mexico. Due to COVID, it is unlikely that his job job will work out and he will likely switch to a tourist visa for the remainder of my expat assignment. We have submitted and been approved for our I-I30 - and we when we submitted, we used Mexico at his current address. We are reviewing and have not yet submitted the DS-260 but have paid the fees. 

Since then, the world has changed and we would like to change his interview location to the United Kingdom. He is a citizen (but not born there) and lived there for over 10 years before with sufficient proof of ties to the country, including morgage and tax returns. I understand that I need to submit a 'request to adjust status - change interview location' to the NVC via their contact form but wonder if anyone has had success with this and any tips on how to craft the message. I have not been able to find any information online on this topic. 

This is my current draft for NVC Inquiry form: 

Hello, I would like to petition for an adjustment of status to change the interview location from Cuidad de Juarez (Mexico) to London (United Kingdom). XXX is a citizen of the United Kingdom (see attachment) and have lived in the U.K. for XX years. XXX owns a property, with a morgage, and have provided this proof of 2020 mortgage tax payments and 2019 tax return. XXX's wife was previously residing in the UK for the past 5 years (attached proof of tax returns).