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I just pulled up the I-130 PDF and there's no question anywhere on there about a social security card. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Can someone direct me to the page it would be? Or would it have been after the I-130, during the NVC portion of the process?

It was a year and a half ago so I wouldn't swear to it, but I'm sure we did tick the box to have it issued. I guess I can pull up the PDF and look?

So my wife rang the SS office today, and they told her that there's no record of her having applied for a SSN. Where did we go wrong? 😭

The $220? Yes, we paid that about a month before we entered the US. We don't remember getting any information about it when her passport was returned to her. Do you know if it's information that we can find online? Mostly I'm just worried that something is wrong. If it's in process and it just takes a while that's fair enough, but we like to panic 😂 Is the same true of the SSN? That it can take 90 days?

My wife landed here in the States on March 20th and so far no green card has been sent. Does anyone know how long it's taking? And is there a way we can check on the status of it? Better yet, does anyone know who we can call to speak to someone about it? Thanks!

Whatever civil documents you uploaded to the system during the NVC submission, take those. And make sure it's the exact documents. For example. When we were uploading the information for my wife, we could only find her short form birth certificate, so that's the one we uploaded. In the meantime we located her long form certificate, so when it came time for the interview we took it instead, thinking since it has more detail that it would be better. No. They needed to see the one we uploaded, so she had to submit it after the fact. So yeah any civil documents you uploaded is what they're looking to see. Good luck!

You can do the medical after. But yeah it is much easier and less stressful to have everything in place and then the interview is the last thing. You get approval then you're good to go, no more needing to wait and worry.

Been in this forum for 18 months and this is the first time I've ever seen the term "pre-interview" mentioned. Who told you that a pre-interview would be performed, the unhelpful lawyer?

My wife had her medical in December and she had to provide hers.

Just an update to this. Had the interview on Monday and the only paperwork they wanted to see were the civil documents that were uploaded (marriage cert, passport, divorce stuff, birth cert, etc). No financial paperwork nor anything pertaining to the affidavit of support was mentioned. Individual results may vary.

About 4 weeks, but that was a few months ago now and included a slight delay when we had to correct a mistake.

You're welcome! And yes, hopefully soon and no holiday delays. Good luck

You're referring to the DS-260 and affidavit of support documents? And you've already had your i-130 approved? If so, I believe I received my wife's DQ 3 weeks after we submitted documentation for DS-260 and the affidavit of support. That took a little longer than it would have because we had to resubmit a couple of things that we did wrong initially. After that, it took 2 weeks to get the interview date. So if your timeline parallels ours, you should get your DQ later this month, and you'll probably have a February interview. But that's of course just speculation and assuming everything checks out with your documents that you submitted.

Thanks for sharing! Sounds pretty straightforward and painless. So were those all the documents you took, the passport, birth certificate, marriage certificate, police record, and biometrics? What exactly were the biometrics? I read on the US gov site that you don't need to bring any financial papers to the interview, and that you just need to bring the civil documents that were uploaded during the NVC portion of the process. I'm guessing that's accurate since you didn't mention those? Thanks in advance for the feedback!

Thanks for the feedback. My wife picked up the paperwork from her GP on Monday, and it's 5 pages (front & back) with her whole medical history. Medications, information about previous visits, vaccination records, stuff about a couple of procedures she's had done, etc. Is this not what the doctor will want to see? You say that the doctor told you there wasn't the correct info that he wanted to see about you. Is there something specific he was wondering about that you didn't provide?

10-4. Thanks again so much for the information. I'll tell her to get searching for an American to marry 🤣

Gotcha, thank you for that. Are there paths for students? She got her Masters last year - if she were to pursue a doctorate or something in a different field, would that be an option? Or is she too old?

She had turned 18 earlier in the month that we got married (September 2017). So that's not good, lol. What happens if we get to the US, my wife petitions for her, and during that 8-9 year wait she gets married? Would she then be ineligible? Or would it not be applicable since she was unmarried at the time of the filing?

I am the US Citizen, and my UK citizen wife and I are close to the end of the IR1 process (my wife's interview is January 8th). Once the process is over and we move from the UK to the US, is there a path for my wife's daughter to come live with us? She is unmarried, 24 years old, and has lived in the UK her whole life. What would the possible path(s) be for her to join us down the line? I know if there's a way it likely will take a long time. Thanks for any guidance!

Just an update, that after about 10 days of checking almost constantly, we were able to get a date secured. I didn't check at all yesterday, and thought I would check just for fun, and there were several dates in January with availability. We're all set for January 8th. So it's progress

On November 6th, my wife was given an interview date (also December 20th) that is no good for our schedule. We went online and registered it with the website per the e-mail instructions, and once it was registered we were able to cancel it. Only then can you reschedule it. We checked for the past 10 days and finally this morning we were able to get a new one scheduled, for January 8th. I'm pretty sure that you won't be able to get it rescheduled any earlier than your given date, but you can check into that to see.

So while we wait to get a new interview appointment, we went ahead and scheduled my wife's medical appointment just so that's in the books and out of the way. Plus we live in the northeast of England so it's a long journey down to London, and don't really want to do them too close together. Anyway, what are some of the pitfalls that have been encountered when getting everything ready for the medical? My wife went into her GP yesterday and when she told the receptionist that she would need a summary care record, the woman didn't seem to know what that was. She gave my wife a form to fill out, which is called Subject Access Request. It's 3 pages, and asks basic questions, it seems as if it's to give them permission to access/release her records. Once this is submitted, I'm guessing the GP office will figure out what's needed and be able to accommodate? Just want to make sure everything is in order before we get down there -- would hate to go all that way and not have everything we need. Plus my wife is a bit of a worrier and likes to plan for every possible contingency, and even some that aren't possible lol Thanks!

So like I mentioned in a different topic, we finally got the email with the interview date last week. It is for December 20th, which doesn't work for us unfortunately (I'm out of the country and my wife can't get the time off work anyway). So I've gone into the system, registered the appointment, and gone to reschedule it. You can't do that until you cancel the existing appointment, which I've done, and when I click to search for a new date there aren't any available. I'm not surprised, I was expecting that. Does anyone have any indication when slots are added into the system? Like, is it completely and totally random? Is it once a day? Once a week? Once a month? I don't really want to keep having to search every 47 seconds unless there's a chance of it being fruitful. Thanks for any insight!

So we just got DQ'd earlier in the week and I'm thinking ahead to the interview. I have been trying to work out exactly what documents we will need to take to the actual interview, and what they need to be. I think I know what we need to bring, but can anyone lay it out just so I'm clear? Don't want to travel all the way down to London and make a mistake by forgetting something. Thank you!