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Ahhh ok cool , will do, thankyou for the advice

Hey there does anyone know roughly how long it takes to get the visa after approval from the Embassy courier service.

I had my medical 16th January , interview 17th January, however still no visa delivered.

Any ideas if its coming tomorrow ? heres hoping

Sorry just would like to order some plane tickets asap.

Thanks for any advice

Good luck Chelsea & Ed, it really is just a matter of going through the motions now at the interview.

Approvals abound Im sure......!!!

CONGRATS Wellywench.

I also had number 5009 - I became quite attached to my number.

Gillian

I was 5011 today and Yeah was APPROVED !!!!!!! hurrah drinks allround on me !!! well virtual drinks anyways lol.

I had a nightmare time with some crazy lady who denied the guy before me and was mad her bus had broken down for four hours the night before. She gave me a hard time but when I had to point out that she was giving me the wrong persons X rays and putting the wrong persons medical and photo on my file, she calmed down and thanked me for helping her.

All in all though APPROVED is a god send !! yeah to visa journey and the great people for the support !!! thanks everyone. I just got back so Im gonna snuggle up and get some rest . night night will write a full report later.

"U'll be fine!!! London is pretty easy to navigate...." qoute janaus

Thankyou janaus, i hope so, I am so nervous....... I just can't wait to come home. I am heading off tonight straight from work and have my medical tomorrow morning and interview Thursday morning then back home.

wish i could tell the future and not be so nervous.

Best of luck to ALL those who are going for the interview this week ! I hope we are ALL approved.

Thanks for the support everyone, it really does feel so much better being part of a community instead of doing this all alone. Thankyou

the way to print the scanned packet three is to first view it before saving it. Don't save the small versions first as once you view it after saving it distorts. Hope this helps, and im sure someone can explain it better than me. It took about two weeks to get packet three for me.

Good luck

Awesome news thankyou, yeah I was told £180 on the phone, dunno why. Im staying in the Dover hotel because there was no room in the Marble Arch one. Hope its okay.

I was trying to read the map and figured Bond street was the place to be to get to both. Went and got my train tickets to London tonight and had to have the lady explain which tickets were tickets and which were just seat allocations lol.

Hope things go okay, fingers crossed. thankyou for all the information it all helps, believe me thankyou

£14 for courier

$131 dollars application fee- i realise I can use a credit card but if I use cash does it have to be dollars ?

£180 for the medical.

Is this all the money I need and also another question

You need $131 for the visa and at least £14 for the courier, if you want to specify a particular delivery time it will cost more.

You don't pay for the medical at your interview you pay for that at the doctor's office and mine cost £200.

Don't worry about the G325A, you would have got an RFE for that if it had mattered.

Good luck.

Gillian

Thankyou very much for the info.....I will go get $131 dollars in US currency just incase the card machine is broken.

Also thankyou for the well wishes to both yourself and babblesgirl, im so nervous I could hurl and its three days away hahhahaha.

Don't know London at all and I am no good in large crowds ......hope I don't throw up on the interviewer

Sorry if its been asked before but I have a question.

At the US embassy in London/ medical do I need the following monies ?

£14 for courier

$131 dollars application fee- i realise I can use a credit card but if I use cash does it have to be dollars ?

£180 for the medical.

Is this all the money I need and also another question

You know the geographic info for the G-325A at the bottom of the form it says put the your name in the bold box.

I haven't done that, or was my petitioner suppose to ? I realise we already sent them off and they were forwarded to London without problem, I'm just wondering.

I am getting so nervous yikes!!

lol thanks for any help

me tooo

Had a brainwave guys!!!

On my website I am going to collate a list of questions that UKers are asked at interview as a point of reference for myself and potentially anyone else who is interested Just thought it would be a nice idea

If anyone has any questions they were asked at interview could you please PM them to me?!

That sounds good, which one is the link to this and many thanks ahead of time

Thanks for adding us Julez and congrats - slight error though please could you change ours to january 17th and our real names are Andrew & Robin.

Many thanks and good luck to Chris and Amy --

Finally got our date to add to the list, 17th January 2008, wish us luck

wow, okay well at least it puts my mind at rest that it hasn't just been lost, thankyou for replying

Just thought I'd ask here as Im guessing everyone here has an answer to this question.

I sent my Packet 3 forms etc off by UK post office special delivery a few days ago and it was suppose to be guaranteed next day delivery and signed for at the visa branch of the embassy. Thing is that when I track it , it basically says that it is sat in a PO Box at the embassy. I phoned the post office to complain and they said that the US Embassy doens't actually receive mail, they simply have a PO Box which they put a note in saying that the package is waiting for them at the local sorting office and every evening someone goes from the US Embassy and signs for all the mail that they were suppose to receive.

Is this total rubbish ? , or has everyone else who sent there packet 3 back tracked had this sort of thing??

Hi,

I received my interview fairly quick by calling the embassy and explainign my situation and desired date of travel and wedding etc, she gave me a code to e-mail and to explain this in an e-mail. I did all this and when i got home from work a few days later i had a message on the phone telling me my interview was on the 2nd of January

thats awesome !! CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations Dazzler, btw I would definately give them a call and explain that you may not have your interview letter and what they think about it, but other than that if you can't get them on the phone etc I would definately turn up and bring a copy of the email with you that you sent as a reference.

With your LND number they must have a list of appointments for that day before entry into the embassy.

Good luck !!! and thankyou for the information

Yeah we can do that, however as is probably the case in most people's circumstances, I do not have a job in the US until I get there and can look for one.

And unfortunately my savings are finite, we have budgeted for about two months without any income being available as my fiance does not work. Therefore we must be in the apartment in order to be looking for work while our savings are dwindling.

If I don't have a job by April, then we don't eat, simple as that really, now while I could pay for february and at least have a place to stay like you say, this is cutting down on the 'looking for work ' time.

But it is a valid point thankyou. Don't suppose anyone reading this is an accountant in Tampa FLA who could offer a poor guy a job ?? ? anyone ?

Wait in line like the rest of us buddy!

Ha ha ha your a card !! First of all I have been waiting long enough to justify asking a simple question about how to do things as quick as possible! This is not about 'jumping the queue' as I have already been waiting since April 2007.

The point of these forums and the people on it is to give advice on how to this the quickest way possible and correctly.

There is no need to be rude.

To the others who offered helpful advice, many thanks and the reason I am asking is because we have been put back sooooo long that unfortunately, due to our personal circumstances we enetered into an apartment agreement which starts on February 6th 2008 and will cost us $2790 (don't ask why) on that date, so it would be nice to actually be there to use it. If we pull out now we would have no where to live.

Thanks again for all the good advice.

Merry Christmas to you,

Hey I was just wondering how to do this the best way I can.

We have now received our Packet 3 from london, and I believe we have everything we need execpt one thing ;

A marriage certificate from a previous marriage to a woman in texas. I have the divorce certificate but no marriage one. (will this cause problems do you think?)

We are ready to send back the packet three however I need to get the interview before February as we have an apartment booked for then already.

How do you word your statement saying you wanted it early, do you send it to any special department or address, and is there any special number you can call to talk to someone about an early appointment?

I called the £1-25 per minute number but they wouldn't give me any help really.

Any thing you could tell us would be much appreciated.

Merry Christmas

Andrew & Robin

Many thanks for all your congratulations. We waited so long to be able to type the words approved on here, it feels so good now that we did.

To all of you who haven't been approved, believe me it will happen, just keep waiting and it will.

All the best to everyone here. Many thanks

Many many thanks yeah we struggled to make it here with so long waiting and all, it does get very stressful,

Oh well good things come to those who wait I guess. Thanks for the hugs and congrats :energetic:

Finally got approved after 214 days of shear hell !!!! Yeah

Everyone here will get there people, keep the faith !!!

Thanks for that, it does make things clearer for us, we sent our response back yesterday , so fingers crossed.

I will post as soon as we know so that hopefully it may avoid anyone else getting a similar thing happen to them.

Once again many many thanks and good luck to all of us for a speedy result to our petitions