PickleNCheese

9 hours ago, Aaron&Clari said:

We are hoping it’s an admin issue about the CEAC expiration status, and that it materially doesn’t affect things and that our petitions can be reinstated and resumed when normality returns.

We're hoping the same thing.  Based on the information that the London embassy gave us when we reached out to them in response to seeing our application had "expired" and our materials have been "destroyed", they are telling us that we will still be able to apply for the K1 once K1 services resume, we will just need to provide an updated letter of intent to marry at the time of the interview.

Our plan is to wait until the Embassy opens back up and London is no longer in lock down so we can travel for the medical, and then fill out the DS-160 and pay our fees and get everything started back up.  I don't think that the fact that application expired means that you are no longer eligible to apply for the K1.

I hope.

58 minutes ago, Letspaintcookies said:

This might come a bit too late but for a K1 you don't need an invoice # for ceac. Ceac is only used to check the status of your visa the rest is handled via ustraveldocs.

I don't understand.  When I go to https://ceac.state.gov/IV/Login.aspx, it asks for my Case# and then asks me to "Enter the Invoice ID Number that the National Visa Center sent you".

When I go to the UK Embassy Appointment site (https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-gb/iv/information/iv_services) it has a bunch of options that don't look right for us.  The closest one says "I have received a letter/email from the consular section with instructions to register or schedule a K (Fiancé(e)/Spouse/Child) visa appointment." but the above letter is all we got.  Is that letter that I posted above supposed to be the instructions to register?

We've been waiting all this time for instructions that say something like "Okay, go to the website and register now."  Are we complete idiots for waiting??

Hi folks,

We've been in the K1 visa process waiting for contact from the NVC and/or the UK Embassy in London for over a year now.  Today I checked on our NVC Status to find out that our visa application has expired after a year(?!?).  We've been waiting for an Invoice # so we could sign up with CEAC, but we've never gotten one so I'm going crazy right now.

I'm pouring over our old contacts from the NVC and UK Embassy, to see if there might have been something that we missed or overlooked on our end and I noticed this {REL1} marking at the bottom of the letter we received from the London Embassy.  Maybe it could have been a bad mail merge that was supposed to contain more information for us? 

The attached letter was sent to us in January of 2020.  We really don't know what has happened, or what to do now.

Please, any help that anyone can give would be very much appreciated.  I'm just hoping somebody on this website has received the same letter and can confirm that this {REL1} mark is on theirs as well.

Thank you.