Graziumphry

Hello all,

I really hope your visa journies are going well, and all that are still awaiting to be approved at any stage are!

I have a couple of questions if anyone can answer them:

I am a K1er and I have just applied for my EAD (when I say just I mean when I got married I did it straight away) I got my NOA from that saying they would be in touch to send me an appointment for biometrics.

Weirdly I checked online and on the 6th July the USCIS said they sent me a letter saying that they approved my I765 APPLICATION FOR EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZATION. However I haven't received the letter yet and have as of yet not been able to talk to a human rep about this.

From people's experience, does this mean I can start looking for jobs? of course I can't work until I have my EAD in hand but would it harm things at this stage to start sending my resume to interested parties (I have a few people chomping at the bits for me to send my resume).

Also what happened to the biometrics interview? can these be waived?

thanks muchly in advance and good luck to all those foriegn job hunters out there! and for that matter any US job hunters out there!

Yay, congrats on the 2 May approvals so far!

Bet it feels amazing!

It certainly does! and I have every faith that you will also be approved on May 5th. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you!

Hey all just a quick one to tell you that at about 11am yesterday I got approved! thanks so much to all for your help and support. I'll be stateside on the 13th May .

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I've got to dash to work but I just wanted to let anybody who might be interested know that my visa's been approved @ 9:40 this morning!!! . It was by far the easiest part of this whole visa journey. Got all my originals back including the letter of employment.

I'll write the review a bit later.

Now the countdown to the wedding can start - 13 days to go...

wow 9:40am! when was your appointment time? what time did you turn up?

sorry for the questions just about to do this on friday and want to know what time I should turn up. The letter says my appointment is at 9:00am!

congratulations!!!

I am so happy all of you are getting close to your 'leap' date

I will be making the leap on the 13th or 14th May depending on how my interview on Friday goes!

so.... 16 days for me!

wow! so we are still the only VJers to have an interview on may 1st? our interview time is 9:00am so going to get there around 8:30am (as the letter said).

Good luck to everyone else who has their interviews this week! if I had it in my power I would give approvals all round!

Oh my god! I am soooo happy for you! Congrats!!!!

Thanks laura819. Did you hear about your interview date yet?

Oh no..he hasn't sent packet 3 back yet. I think he is doing it tomorrow. So I am sure we won't hear atleast for a few weeks if not longer.

Strangely, I had to resubmit my packet 3 as I did it wrong and missed out two forms (the important ones!)

I sent packet 3 off again with a next day delivery. The next day they told me my interview date was the 1st May. That was on the 20th April! I will keep my fingers crossed that you will get your interview date very soon! also that it is as quick as mine was!

What forms were those? Now I am scared! How did they inform you of your interview?

It was the DS156, 157 and 156k that I missed (silly really as they are right at the top of the page!)

I actually got informed of my interview when I rang them up. I called them as soon as I sent the packet and then the day after to see if they got it. I suggest you do the same every day until they have your date :-)

good luck!

Its just DS-230 Part 1, DS 156, DS156K, and DS 157, and the IV -15 checklist that we send, right?

Did you call the embassy, or DOS? I'm the USC so I am tempted to start calling DOS everyday lol but I might wait a bit first?

That is exactly what I sent the second time round and I got my interview

and call DOS at least once in the next couple of days, they will at the very least, be able to confirm they have received packet 3

Oh my god! I am soooo happy for you! Congrats!!!!

Thanks laura819. Did you hear about your interview date yet?

Oh no..he hasn't sent packet 3 back yet. I think he is doing it tomorrow. So I am sure we won't hear atleast for a few weeks if not longer.

Strangely, I had to resubmit my packet 3 as I did it wrong and missed out two forms (the important ones!)

I sent packet 3 off again with a next day delivery. The next day they told me my interview date was the 1st May. That was on the 20th April! I will keep my fingers crossed that you will get your interview date very soon! also that it is as quick as mine was!

What forms were those? Now I am scared! How did they inform you of your interview?

It was the DS156, 157 and 156k that I missed (silly really as they are right at the top of the page!)

I actually got informed of my interview when I rang them up. I called them as soon as I sent the packet and then the day after to see if they got it. I suggest you do the same every day until they have your date :-)

good luck!

Oh my god! I am soooo happy for you! Congrats!!!!

Thanks laura819. Did you hear about your interview date yet?

Oh no..he hasn't sent packet 3 back yet. I think he is doing it tomorrow. So I am sure we won't hear atleast for a few weeks if not longer.

Strangely, I had to resubmit my packet 3 as I did it wrong and missed out two forms (the important ones!)

I sent packet 3 off again with a next day delivery. The next day they told me my interview date was the 1st May. That was on the 20th April! I will keep my fingers crossed that you will get your interview date very soon! also that it is as quick as mine was!

I sent the I-129F last Thursday by FedEx. According to their site and using the tracking number it was delivered next day at 10:30 AM. Today I wanted to print the receipt where it shows the signature of the one who got my package, somebody called A.Stanley. All ok until that part. By checking the printout I notice that the package was delivered to a place called St. Jebans instead of St. Albans. I wrote the delivery address correctly so I don't know how this happened. And after a search I didn't find a place called St. Jebans in Vermont.

Probably I'm being mighty ignorant here but I sure am worried. Did Fedex probably sent the package to the wrong address or is it maybe a typo on their website? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

PEACE.....

@@@ Its misprint... STANLEY also signed for my documnets, I am now waiting for wife flight here to US. Shes done!

Mr A Stanley is a celebrity on here it seems! I wonder if he knows! we should start an A Stanley appreciation thread!

and as others have said you may wanna call fedex as there is no such thing as being too careful with these things...

ms. marm,

we could see SIX. late addition to the slate:

mr and mrs...................K1........................................20th April 2009

Kirsten UK.....................K1.......................................23th April 2009

Stinkerpotsam..............K1........................................24th April 2009

Marty J..........................K1........................................24th April 2009

prima and jay................K1.......................................24th April 2009

Helen&Dougie...........CR-1/IR-1................................24th April 2009

this is a big week for you too. we all have our fingers crossed for you both.

Yaay! More interviewees for this week!

Can't wait to see 6 BIG FAT APPROVALS!!!

And thanks Lisabette! Yeah it is a big week for us too...passport has 3 days to show up...and if not, Wed is decision time and medical on the 24th...regardless of interview date!

I cannot wait to see all of these with approved next to them! almost as much as I can't wait for mine to have the same! Good luck everybody!

Great news to start the week...and suddenly ours seems so close and I've now developed nerves that I didn't have yesterday!!!

and great news from us too. We have a visa interview date set for the 1st May - although they have only given us 10 days to sort our stuff out! Most of it is sorted so all I need to do is go for my medical on friday

good luck to the rest of you waiting for interviews! it will be all be over soon!

Hello All, I sent of my DS-230 part 1 form and my IV-15 to the london embassy and am awaiting my confirmation and interview date.

I have a couple of questions about the final hurdles:

1) I sent the forms a little before the 17th March - I have been patiently waiting just over a month now. How long before I should start pestering the embassy?

2) Are there any more charges for the visa? I have paid the £180 for my medical which I will be untertaking soon. Of course money is not an object if it means we will be together, but it would be nice to be able to prepare for the next set of charges.

thanks for you help in advance :-)

See the link below, takes you to the UK interview thread so people waiting for interview in London.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=168968

or this thread: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...=177012&hl= people between NOA2 & Interview at London Embassy.

I started pestering as soon as i knew my documents had been received, you can call DOS to see if the information has been loaded as this is what normally takes the time before an interview date is set...did you only send the DS-230 & IV-15?? What about the DS-156, DS-157??

You do have to pay about £90 at the embassy for the visa and also pay about £24 for the courier to deliver your passport back to you.

Thanks muchly for the help and advice. It seems I have not sent the DS-156/DS-157 forms and that is why they have been waiting. I'd best get them sent next day delivery pronto!

Hello All, I sent of my DS-230 part 1 form and my IV-15 to the london embassy and am awaiting my confirmation and interview date.

I have a couple of questions about the final hurdles:

1) I sent the forms a little before the 17th March - I have been patiently waiting just over a month now. How long before I should start pestering the embassy?

2) Are there any more charges for the visa? I have paid the £180 for my medical which I will be untertaking soon. Of course money is not an object if it means we will be together, but it would be nice to be able to prepare for the next set of charges.

thanks for you help in advance :-)

Congrats!

Hey all,

I am not sure if this is in the correct area. Apologies if it is not.

I have the possibility to work for my current company remotely from the united states. My K1 visa has been approved and we are waiting on an interview date at the moment in time.

My question is, once I move to the states and get married, am I legally still allowed to work for a UK company? (i.e keep my UK bank account and pay UK taxes).

Many thanks for your help

HELLO EVERYONE, I HAVE I QUESTION THAT IS BOTHERING ME, THE NEW I-134 Affidavit of Support FORM FOR my fiance has to be notarized???He tried yesterday and 3 differents Notary Public and they didn't wanna do it because there is no where in the paper for them to put the Stamp on it,Our lawyer said it will be ok if we could not notazied the I-134,because this new form doesn't says that has to be notarized but now this is bothering me.

Please there is any of you that took the I-134 not notarized for the interview?How did everything turned out????Thank you every one!!!

Hey we had a request for further information on our K1 visa and one of the stipulations was that another affidavit of support needs to be notarized. At first I was surprised as notarys can be expensive.

I am in two minds about your case. We almost didn't get it notarized but becuase the USCIS said it had to be, we did what they wanted. Our lawyer said it did matter when we asked so we went with our lawyer.

My advise to you would be to get it done, and at least you have satisfied all the requirements.

Hey y'all,

Just thought I would pop in and said we get out NOA2 yesterday (1 day before friday the 13th )

I am so happy that I will be able to marry my love soon.

Good luck to all people waiting for your NOA2... may you all get them soon!

We have been waiting for more than a year now, which is fairly annoying. But not sure if it is the USCIS or our lawyer's fault.

Either way after the cheque cash and two touches, we have had a request for further information (see the thread I started).

So I will join you poor people in the hope that together with our half visa's we can make a full one

That is weird.

Are your sure your lawyer sent it all the first time?

Exactly what we were thinking. But difficult to prove.

Thanks for all your help, it may have been easier to do this ourselves!

I guess that it would be very difficult to prove that you entered with no intent to marry.

I mean it must be extremely hard to go on holiday to the states for a bit, meet someone and decide to marry them while you are there

Did you actually see the RFE from USCIS or is this what your lawyer is telling you that you need?

She is telling us what we need. We haven't seen the RFE, however I think based on what you have said it is probably worth asking our lawyer to forward it to us. Thanks for your help and speedy response

much congratulations to you my friend

Hi all,

First time poster but have been following this site for a long time. Apologies if this has been posted in the wrong place.

My fiancee and I have been going through the process of our K1 visa for a long time now (we have a lawyer working on it for us and originally sent information to her in 2007).

Finally in August 2008 our cheque was cashed and by November we had a case number so we could check our case online at the USCIS.

Interestingly, in December 2008, we received an email saying our case was on hold pending further information. We finally got hold of our laywer on the 6th January and she explained that they needed the following information:

Our passports cover to cover (which we orignally submitted)

More photos (the ones we sent with the date and time on the back were rejected - this may have been because they were all digital print outs)

More evidence of our ongoing relationship from 2006-2008 (in the form of what we had been doing in that time, any times we met and who was with us, their address and details too)

Ticket stubs for plane journeys and train tickets etc.

More receipts for gifts

interestingly, all of our emails we sent were rejected and our lawyer said that the USCIS say they are no good anymore.

Our lawyer is then going to write another affidavit for me to sign in the uk, get signed by a noter and send back to be delivered to the USCIS.

We are a little confused as I am positive this is the kind of information the embassy in the UK would ask for during the interview.

Has anyone heard of anything like this happening before?

Regardless of it seeming a little strange to us, we have submitted all this information that has been requested, as it seems the sensible thing to do.

Like others we are naturally getting a little frustrated with the whole process and just want to be together finally.