WyoDusty

My husband will be here to attend to my interview, he thinks it will be easier this way.

Regarding your wish on getting an interview for July I don't think it will happen cause if your timeline reflects your actual status your case is still at USCIS and haven't gotten an approval yet so you might still have to wait for about 5 months from now I suppose. My case is now at NVC and it is being submited to a paperwork revewing and it might take another 4 to 9 weeks to be completed and sent to my local Consulate where I would add another 30 days, so I'm trying to be positive and if no RFE (request of further evidence) is asked I believe I might get an interview by the end of July, I'm not expecting to have an interview before this time.

Anyway I believe that with the new NVC system of online payments will help everyone's process to be faster and I hope that you get your interview faster than expected.

Good Luck!

I need to update my timeline tonight when I get home. We have had the NOA 2 approval and i have paid all the Fees. I submitted the DS-230 document a week ago but I was missing some of the requested civil documents. They were submitted today so the NVC should have everything no later then Friday. Then i just need to wait for them to notify the Embassy in Bogota. So I am still hoping for the July Interview but I will not be surprised if something else comes up.

Thanks for the advice.

Dennis

Some consulates allow you to go, some don't. It does not have much impact in theory, but I personally think it is a great idea to go with her. If Bren had not been with me for support, I would have panicked more than I did.

Buena suerte, L.

Thanks, I will wait for her date for the Interview and see what she thinks. If she wants me there then I will fly down and be with her. It might be interesting to see how the embassy people treat her and the other people that are getting interviews.

I have been reading several of the Posts where the spouse is going to the interview with their respective wife or husband. I saw where this caused some delays in a couple of Posts. Does it help if you go to the interview with your Spouse? We don't have a date yet because I messed up some documents but I am hoping we get an interview date in July.

Thanks.

Thanks everyone for the information. My wife has been busy getting all the documents together and I should have them by Wednesday night. She has a second set of originals that she can take to the interview, but the Police Report she only has the one original, she is going to get a copy certified by a Notary in Bogota to take to the interview because she says she can't get a second original. I don't know how that works there but I am hoping everything will be okay and she will not need any of the documents when she goes for the Interview. The NVC stated in my phone call that they send everything to the embassy so she wouldn't need any of the documents but when I read the Embassy website it sounds like she does.

I will keep my finger crossed. Again, thank you for all the information.

Dennis

For Colombia is the Certicado Judicial the same as the Police Report that is requested by the the NVC for the DS-230?

Well, I messed up when I submitted the DS-230 form and now I am trying to fix it. I didn't submit all the supplemental documentation they asked for out of stupidity on my part. But I am having my wife gather everything now. The question I have is, "Do they need an original Police Report from Colombia or can she just send me a certified copy of the original? Does she need the Police Report for the Interview too?

Please help me if you know.

HI WYODUSTY! WHEN WAS YOUR CASE COMPLETE? DO U HAVE ALREADY SCHEDULE FOR JUNE INTERVIEW? CUZ OUR CASE COMPLETE LAST APR, 10 WERE HOPING TO HAVE SCHEDULE IN JUNE.

Hi Stewart, We just submitted our DS-230 documents, they were received on April 30th so I am hoping that they schedule her Interview in June. We don't have anything from the Visa Center or the Embassy yet. I will post the date when we receive it. I am praying for June though because we have been waiting since last July when we started the process.

There's also a list of questions that are posted in the Colombian Club thread that you can go over. They're a list of sample questions that people gathered that might be very helpful. I can't really tell you on which page they are but try to check all pages from about May to September.

Diana

Thanks, I will do some searching tonight.

Dennis

Can anyone tell me what questions the Interviewers at the Embassy ask the Visa Applicants? My wife will hopefully have her Interview for the CR-1 visa in June. We have submitted all the papers and now are just waiting for the Embassy to contact her. I was married previously to a woman from Colombia but we divorced shortly after she arrived in the U.S. The first marriage didn't go well because she had other plans once she arrived and they didn't include me. My present wife is a little worried that this may have some bearing on her Interview. I don't think it will but I have never had any dealings with the embassy.

Can anyone help me with some information?

I think you are lucky. My case was approved 12/21/07 and sent to the NVC. They finally gave me a case number on 01/14/08. My DS3032 and AOS were sent on Feb. 4th and I just received them today Feb. 14th.

This process seems to take forever.

When should a person start calling the NVC, we were approved by the California Service Center on 12/21/2007 and I called and the machine at the NVC gave us our Case number but we haven't received any papers from the NVC yet.

Does anyone know if the NVC is back Logged, similar to what USCIS has been? We received are NOA2 on 12/21/07 but haven't received anything from the NVC.

Just curious, I am tired of waiting already.

Thanks for the responses I will call first thing tomorrow. We were married in July and are anxious to be together. We are hoping we can get through the interview process in April or May and be together this summer here in the United States.

I hope everyone will have the same luck and that the system gets quicker for those of us wanting to be with our loved ones.

I was with my Wife in Colombia over the holidays and when I returned we had been approved by the California Service Center on 12/21. The letter states, "The above petition has been approved. We have sent the original visa petition to the Department of State National Visa Center (NVC) ....."

Do they send me a Case Number or a way to track the progress at this point?

mine got approved on nov 7th

My I130 was filed in June with csc, NOA1 date is June 21. No NOA2 received till date.

I filed the I-130 in July and received my NOA 1 on July 27th. I have not had any movement in my papers since that time. This is a sahame after reading the article yesterday that the USCIS was more then a year behind on applications.