A&C2020

I moved from the UK to NC Dec 2021. To apply to work in a childcare setting I need to provise proof of up to date criminal qualifying letter for the North Carolina Division of Child Development. 

It's also asking if you have lived out of state last 5 years to obtain a criminal history report and child abuse/neglect registey check. 

Does anyone know how to go about getting this from the UK please? On ACRO criminal records you can request one yourself for "criminal records" part but it does say for visa/immigration use. 

Slightly bit lost..any help would be great!

Hi all, can someone please help. If I completed my medical on 1st October 2020 and my I-485 is still being reviewed, if I don't get my interview by 1st October will I need to re-do my medical? Unsure if the medical is valid for 12months only or if they will still accept it after this mark? 

43 minutes ago, Wuozopo said:

@A&C2020

 

Turn in both to CBP when you arrive. Typically the medical report is in the white envelope. Yours isn’t. 

Will do thank you 

1 minute ago, AW1704 said:

Did you receive a CD-rom as well?

They gave me the cd back at the interview. The brown envelope came with the white envelope and passport via courier..

Hi, can anyone from London (k1) advise on the pictures? So nothing is written on the brown envelope apart from "medical copies" it is stamped on the seal with a signature over it so you can see if it has been opened. Not sure if to keep, hand in at POE, send in with I-485. Received zero response from the embassy/knightsbridge. Any thoughts? Thank you

2 hours ago, OverThePond said:

So I had my Visa Interview on Monday and it went well. They said they were still waiting on my medical and thought that was a little odd, but okay I'll wait a couple days to see if they change it.

I had to pay a fee to my GP on Friday to send some updated vaccination records to Visa Medicals and I called up my GP just now to ask about the status about that,
they said it could take 28 days for my GP to sign it and send it off to them!?

I'm baffled and stuck on what to do.

Ask to speak to the practice manager..I had issue's trying to get record's/letter from my doctors (they were just very very slow with returning information I needed). Had to call up numerous times. In the end went into the GP and waited to speak to the practice manager..it worked. Maybe try that? 

2 hours ago, OverThePond said:

How strict are they at enforcing the medical paperwork to be at the embassy for? I have my medical on the 4th but I needed to take my second Pfizer shot yesterday so they didn't have my full vaccination record on hand.
I had to hand in some paperwork from the Medical to my GP today (Because I took tetanus and flu shot at the medical) to fax over to the Visa Medicals office along with info about my non-suicidal or violent depression episode I had a couple years back
and my actual visa interview is Monday next week.

Heard that they're not denying people for not having their medical record at the embassy yet and just put them on a temporary waiting status but want to make 100% sure.

London won't deny over that, like you said they will put you in administrative processing and await the results from the Medical then approve once everything has been received (if they don't have the information on Monday) 

2 hours ago, charlie2020 said:

Guys any idea of the best time of day to get any appointment on the website? I keep login back in and nothing is available. Any help would be appreciated 

I got mine around 5pm. Dates for the whole of November where put up on the 1st October, around 4pm ish I noticed. Cancellations can pop up at anytime. But new appointments from the embassy are Mon to Fri working hour's (just what I noticed when searching)

On 11/8/2021 at 4:46 PM, frank80 said:

Hello,

I have just paid the fee and I'm looking at the appointment dates. There are only two available and nothing after Nov 26th? That is too soon, I understand new dates will populate. When does this happen? I am okay to log out and return later to book when new dates are available without paying the fee again? 

Appreciate any help, thanks. 

I checked about 10 times each day for appointments (cancellations appear all the time) also I would expect over the next week/two for December appointments if they have not already been populated already. Have you booked in your medical? 

28 minutes ago, OverThePond said:

How was it? x

It was ok, not as bad as I thought it was going to be. If you go prepared then that will help, hopefully in preventing any delay with having to get any info from GP or vaccinations ect

1 minute ago, OverThePond said:

Found out on CEAC website that my case is ready at London embassy 

What do I do first, Medical or Interview? Thank you.

Do the medical, I had mine today and booked interview for 4th Nov so a good 5 working days for medical to be sent over to the embassy. 

53 minutes ago, Wuozopo said:

Were you missing any shots? Which ones?
Did they suggest giving  them there at the clinic?

The reason I ask is that for years they have told K1s to just go get them at their GP.  K1s had to insist if they wanted to complete their jabs at the visa medical. It was bad  advice because if your vaccination form is not signed off as complete at the medical, then you end up having to pay a civil surgeon in the US prior to adjustment of status to sign off on shots. 
 

And thanks for having a timeline. 😄

 

 

Nope, wasn't missing any. Got them all prior to the medical as didn't want the hassle of getting them at medical or later on down the road. Did see a few people coming out the room though with a plaster on their arm ( suggesting they had shots done on the day)

Medical today took roughly 90 minutes and cost £350. At the fron desk they ask for police report, passport, letter confirming your case number from London, vaccination record, general GP record ( did not ask for previous minor problems or medicine list) and 4 passport pictures. They give you a clipboard with a questionnaire on (yes/no tick boxes), if you have any mental health issues no matter how small then I recommend getting a letter from the doctors to take with you. In the 1st room the doctor goes over the questionnaire, takes your weight, height, eye test, listens to your breathing, checked both arms, felt my stomach, took bloods and checked knees. 2nd room the chest xray is done, 3rd room any vaccinations are done. In-between you wait in the waiting room, after all 3 rooms have been completed they then call you back to reception, give you a form with vaccinations on to take home to use for adjustment of states in the states and you pay. Should take roughly 5 working days to send to embassy and the medical will contact you in anything is wrong.

4 minutes ago, Wuozopo said:

No the embassy in London quit assigning in interview dates to K1s a number of years ago. Dates are chosen through the ais immigrant visa site, the green one, not the blue non-immigrant ais page. 
 

These are the instructions provided in the embassy website

Select “I have received a letter from the consular section with instructions to register or schedule a K visa appointment”;

• Follow the onscreen instructions to register an account;
• If you have children applying under your case number, you may “add” applicants to your account after you have added your own details.
• You will be asked to select your delivery method for the return of your passport if your visa application is successful. Delivery to a courier depot is free. If you wish to upgrade to home/office delivery you can pay an additional fee through your account;
• Pay the MRV application fee;
• You will then be offered the first available interview date, but you may choose any available date. Note: You may schedule an appointment to take place after the petition expiration date, provided that you bring to your interview a signed letter from your petitioner confirming that you both remain legally free to marry and that you will marry within 90 days of your arrival in the United States.
• Please go to “Print Instructions” in order to print your courier confirmation page. You must bring this with you on the day of the visa interview.

For more tips and guidance on booking your visa interview, please see our instructional SlideShare presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/USAinUK/us-immigrant-visas-how-to-book-a-visa-interview-appointment

 

You can find that K1 information and instruction here https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/fiancee-2/applying-for-the-visa/

I’m not sure why they have that Step 1 in the list about registering for the courier because it happens in Step 4 when you go in to book the interview. That used to not be on the page. It’s confusing.

 

This is the order I suggest:

1. Complete the DS-160. Save as you work on it.
2. Gather/order everything you will need for the medical exam. Get you shots. See list of what to bring to exam. https://visamedicals.co.uk/united-states/
3. Gather all documents needed for interview. Read the details https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/fiancee-2/required-documents/
4. Call clinic and get an exam date. 020 7486 7822.  Allow a week between medical and interview for best results.
5. Book interview, pay fee, and arrange courier (as discussed above)

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Thank you so much for the response. I have registered as per step 1 already (followed that instruction page) but I'll hold off paying the fees/booking in interview (assuming this is ok to leave the account open as it is). Waiting on the rest of my shots to be done over the next few weeks (already booked in with the GP) so I'll call the medical place and book in an appointment once this has all be updated on medical files, then book an interview on that online portal for a week/two after the medical. Does that seem ok leaving the pay fee section open for a few weeks? Thanks once again for the advice! Greatly appreciated 🙏 

Hi All, 

Hoping someone can clarify. So I have submitted my DS-160 and created an account on ais.usvisa. So this is where I am now confused, it is asking me to pay visa fees but I thought this was done after selecting an interview date? Does this need to be paid now to move onto the next step? Also I have been reading different UK embassy pages it says the embassy will send you an interview date? And other pages it says interview dates will come up online through that ais.usvisa site which you then book. Can anyone clarify? Any help/guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Ready.. UK

3 hours ago, Kev & Lexi said:

I haven’t received any email from NVC. I’m a bit confused as to what we’re supposed to do now, seeing as you all are currently in transit. Me and my fiancé have not submitted our DS-160 on the CEAC. Is that what we’re supposed to do next? We just updated the NVC with our emails once we received our case file number (yesterday).

I haven't filled out my ds-160 and it is now in transit. I don't think it matters if you complete it now or in transit..as long as it is done before scheduling an interview?.. mmm

1 hour ago, vagabond1001110 said:

Happy to report that finally got an email from NVC that package is on its way to the embassy and similar status (in transit) also reflects on the ceac website.

I got mine to! (In transit). It also states "your interview date was provided to you by the nvc". I can't see any interview date anywhere and I thought with London you had to choose one?. Can anyone advise, am I missing something..so confused what to do now?? 🤯

1 hour ago, J&D1008 said:

April 2021 Cases. Look at the April 2021 thread and then query the WAC number in the case tracker app. There is also a petitioner from U.K  that filed in April 2021 and received there NOA-2. 

 

Saw one from 18th May approved also July 1st. 

19 minutes ago, Chloe99 said:

My fiancé sent our application on January 26th and they received it on the 28th of January, but we got our NOA1 in March. Does that mean our wait time is from January or March? When I check the status online it mentions the January date.

 January 28th will be your wait time.