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Congratulations @SAsal and @Jacqueline H!!! 🎉 It must feel like such a relief to cross the finish line. Thanks for sharing your experiences!

Congratulations @SAsal and @Jacqueline H!!! 🎉 It must feel like such a relief to cross the finish line. Thanks for sharing your experiences!

Yes! Heading back to Canada today and hoping I'll be back in 2-3 months max. It's been 6 years of long distance and leaving never got easier 🤷‍♀️
 
Them being an orange zone is definitely nerve wracking, especially since we're still 6-ish weeks out at the earliest, but I agree and I think they would need really bad numbers in order to justify shutting down more than just the areas where they're seeing spread because we now know how detrimental shutting everything down is.
 
Congratulations and happy anniversary! 

I can't believe my interview is in two days. It's just starting to hit me now lol. 

Thank you everyone! 
 
My interview process was painless.  It went much like others have stated in the past.  Don't arrive early, they won't let you into the building until your appointment time, possibly a minute or 2 ahead that is all.  The man who looks after the door isn't super friendly.   They scan you and your contents before sending you to the first floor immigration room.  As you would expect they are particular about masks and social distancing in the consulate.  They first time they called me up they just asked for the stated required documents, nothing else.  Passport, passport photo, birth certificate, marriage certificate, divorce if applicable, medical ( I gave them my old one even though they received a second one electronically) police certificate, I-864.  Then I was asked to sit back down and wait for my name to be called for the interview.  My interview was at 10:30, an hour after my documents were taken.  My interviewer, was friendly, said ,"you must be really happy to finally be here, we are too, it's been a long time!" .  He only asked me 3 questions, 1, how did I meet my husband. 2. when did I meet my husband 3. What was the longest time you have stayed in the USA.  (3 months during COVID)  He said everything looks great, he then got up and got me a "Welcome to the USA" letter and said that the Visa would take about a week.   He seemed on high speed, didn't seem to care about any details! 
 
Thank you all so very much for your help and support along this journey!  God Bless you all in your upcoming interviews and new lives in the United States.

I can’t stop reading “welcome to the united states of America” on the paper haha. IM DONE YALL! My appointment was at 8:30 and I was out before 9:30. Super simple and smooth. First security, then they told me which floor and window to go to. Then I went to window 5 and she took original documents: passport, birth certificate (only mine), marriage certificate, police check, 2019 tax return and 1 of my passport sized photos to scan.  And she had my medical already, as it was sent from Dr Randall Lee’s office. Did some finger prints then sat down for maybe like 25 minutes? Then got called up to window 1 where he asked me questions about the marriage, how we met, how often we saw each other. he asked about my husbands work, and since he started a new job this year I provided information and pay stubs for proof of income because it wasn’t on his 2019 tax return. Asked about my longest visit and if I’ve ever had trouble at the border. There was a lot of standing and waiting at this point lol. Then he said some new documents need to update in the system but should be done And approved by end of day. Then he handed me the welcome papers and explained next steps. That’s all! 😊😊😊 

Thinking of all the interviewees today and looking forward to hearing updates. Good luck!  We are counting down - medical in Montreal in one week! Interview the next Monday. Looking forward to this part of the process being done. 

🙏🏼 thank you. Cannot wait to update you all

Congratulations!! Thanks for sharing that it really helps hearing the different scenarios!

That's true. My goal with the FAQ is to be as helpful as possible to as many people as possible so I figured I'd do a check in to see if continued maintenance would be helpful or not. 

That being said, if anyone is interested in helping please let me know! I don't need any help yet (it really isn't time consuming keeping it up to date, just a few minutes here and there) but I will likely be taking a bit of a break from VJ after I move so I would love to have someone in place to maintain it when I can't. 

Mine expires November 6th too! I'm almost certainly going back to Canada on Monday (earlier than I would like due to needing to get a third police certificate) so I am also anxiously awaiting October to see if ILs are sent out. 
 
I have added that link to the FAQ. I'm personally still going to bring the DS-5540 with me though because I'm not taking any chances after waiting over 2 years for this visa 😂