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Thank you! That would be great! I'll ask the embassy.

My family's Visa cases are very close to finishing and we even have an appointment at the embassy in a month. Now, I started to get the medical tests arranged and run into some things that I would like to confirm because I'm not sure if they are actually needed or just some arbitrary but the medical place (I could reach only one place that is listed for our country - Hungary). Here's what I was told: - My wife and kids (9 and 12) will need to get US approved Covid-19 vaccinations - The kids would need to get a TB test called Quantiferon which takes 3 weeks They asked all these to be done before they would make an appointment. As these would take minimum of 3 weeks in the best case, and the immigration medical exam results would take additional 2 weeks. Which means we wouldn't be able to make our appointment for the interview (again). So I would like to get some information whether these are really necessary for the medical test. If they are not, then we might just try to do the medical exam in a neighboring country.

The ceac.state.gov site shows them to be at NVC. They are all documentarily qualified, though.

Thank you, @JeanneAdil! Do you know HOW this can be done? I have tried a couple of times, but always seem to be not dealing with embassy directly but with US Travel Doc guys, and I don't know what information they do relay and what they do not.

I am a US/Hungarian citizen and I got married in Russia and started immigrant visas for my family which are now all documentarily qualified. Their cases were first were in Moscow and then they all got moved to Warsaw in December. Due to a couple factors we needed to leave Russia and got an immigrant visa to Hungary and moved to Hungary. We just got out of in the nick of time in February. Originally, we expected to spend only a few months in Hungary while the US visas would be ready. However, with the war in Ukraine, the process seemed to have stopped because the Embassies are prioritizing Ukrainian cases. So we decided that we settle in for a longer time in Hungary. Because of that I wanted to get their cases moved to Budapest. I have been trying to get this done for a few months now, but I can't seem to get an answer to a very simple question: what is needed exactly to get this transfer done. I keep ending up talking with not Embassy personnel but some guys from US Tracvel Docs who does not know the answers and act as only intermediaries - bad ones at that. I sent all information about our living in Hungary to them but I have no idea what they presented to the Embassy because I keep getting rejections based on not being residents. Also every single question and answer takes weeks and at the end I'm no wiser. So it's pretty frustrating. I'd like to cut through the ####### and ask somebody directly at the Embassy: "What do you need to get the transfer approved?". Does anybody have any suggestion how to get this done?

@slavaskii Thank you! No worries, you gave me good information to go on. 😁 @allu, it was not prominent in my post, but my family has the Hungarian visa already. It was not hard at all, but it was done before the war, so the situation might be different for people who are applying now. Most likely, it's still much easier than for most other EU countries.

I am a Hungarian-American dual citizen and I'm married to a Russian citizen with 2 kids. We have started the US immigration visa process a little bit over 2 years ago. At that time we indicated the Moscow embassy for the final interview. However, things have changed quite a bit since and their cases got automatically moved to Warsaw last December. We got the final approval on documents from NVC in March. But so far no word about scheduling their interviews. In the meanwhile, we moved to Hungary in February - just in the nick of time before the war started. They got immigrant visas to Hungary (only took 2.5 months) so we can stay here as long as we need, in safety. My question is whether it would make sense to request their cases to be moved from Warsaw to Budapest. - Would it make it faster, considering that the Warsaw embassy is probably overwhelmed with all the cases transferred there from Moscow? (my wife and kids do speak English, so if there's no Russian speaking staff that's not a problem) - Is there some way to find out what are the wait times in Warsaw and in Budapest? I tried to find out information about this calling the Budapest embassy and also submitting a query to NVC but so far no luck finding out anything. Any data or lead to getting information on this would be appreciated! 😀

Yes, your wife will need to have a Schengen visa to enter Poland. If Poland is not very friendly toward Russians then you can try Hungary. They are the most Russian friendly country in EU right now. They have consulates in many cities in Russia and our experience was always pleasant with their staff you can call them up and ask about visas. My wife is also Russian and we moved to Hungary. We have been here for over 2 months and so far have not experienced any kind of negativity toward Russians. People here seem to understand that Putin is the bad guy and the average Russian people are also suffering because of his craziness.