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thanks for the link! The medical came as a pdf called 'IV018a-IV-medical-letter-Aug-2016.pdf' where you read ' which I attach underneath for your attention. What to Expect at the Medical Examination The medical examination consists of a physical examination (eyes, ears, nose, throat, extremities, heart, lungs, abdomen, lymph nodes, skin and *external genitalia*) chest X-ray,'.... IV018a-IV-medical-letter-Aug-2016.pdf

Is there an official source where I can find out how selling our own house abroad impacts our income in the USA? I looked long and hard and found nothing. I am moving to WY and the state laws do not mention anything similar. Anyway I will sell the house earlier to avoid it as in the UK this would be tax free.

thank you. It's from the official source that they say they will check the external genitalia. Will put house on sale earlier!

Good point, I will ask my boyfriend, he is conversant with property laws….it will be interesting to see how the American tax office would calculate my capital gain. If I pay rent in my area that will be over £1,250 per month, so if I multiply that for eight months, that’s a lot of money wasted away.

thanks, I can't find that forum, and that's why I posted randomly, where is it please? I am totally lost. sorry.

Hi there, despite a long search I cannot work out where to post my questions, so please bear with me, this is confusing. So, we filed for K1 In October 2022 and on the 16th October 2023 the petition was approved and is now somewhere between California and some other American office, before it gets to London. Initially we thought we would finally get a Visa by mid May but things are going faster now. I know that at least 6 members of this forum are going through the same process and some had their medical already. I am trying to organise things now so I don't have to rush in the end. I do have some things to clear with you experts! Where do I post these questions please? House sale. I have a house to sell. It won't be easy. It's opposite a van dealer, on a busy road, but it has a massive back garden. It might take some time to see people visiting. An estate agent told me last month that right now from the offer to completion is taking 12 to 18 weeks. That is a long time. Assuming that I will be flying away in mid June 2024, (as my daughter must finish College and pass her GCSE) does it make sense to put the house on sale as early as February? And did anyone here manage to sell privately without estate agents? Did you have to move to an air b&B in the end? It sounds all very complicated as buyers can pull out at the very last minute without losing a deposit, (We are in Norfolk, England) and I dread what would happen then, as house prices are going down. Belongings reaching the USA. I saw some good notes about them, from this amazing forum, so how early is it possible to send them as part of the immigration process? is it possible to send some boxes earlier and some later or would that cost a lot more? I am not sure I can survive without my things for months while waiting. The place I am moving to is a rather remote WY town. Which company did you choose and how did it go? 😊 Electrical items. This is so confusing. OK - so I get it, the USA use 120 V and the UK 220 V. There are transformers on sale but I read that appliances do not work well when using a transformer, especially if they use a lot of KW (say, a Vitamix blender, a powerful hair dryer). I have a digital piano that would cost me £2,000 to replace and it will be cheaper to move it to the US, but I am very concerned that it won't work properly after all. It's an old Technics and it's hard to find anything well built, with the same acoustic piano feel in the keys in new pianos. I looked and looked and I talked to many experts before coming to my conclusions. What is your experience? I also have a brilliant ice-cream- making machine worth £300 and it uses (I think) 230W so I am looking at possibilities before I undersell them. Items exchange. Is there anyone out there that is moving here and would like to acquire British good and exchange? It seems so silly that every time people move, they lose out and must rebuy everything at a much higher price. Is there a website for this? Medical examination. My daughter is coming with me. She will be 16 then. Will she need a medical, too? Is it true that they assess your private parts? Scary. Also, in May (where we are more likely having the interview, according to timelines) there won't be any updated flu or Covid vaccine available, is a waiver going to be given? To my great surprise, a lot of the links from the embassy and links given here re. the medical etc are broken or take you to a document form 2017 so it's hard to tell which information is accurate and up to date. Document translation. I still use my married name as it's my family name and my business/website name. It's in all my documents and I had changed it legally from my original one to the married one over 15 years ago via Interior minister in Italy. So my birth certificates show both surnames. Do I need to show a translated version of the Italian legal document of name change? Thanks a lot for directing me to the correct forum for this.

thank you, I might repost somewhere else!

May I ask, as you guys are more expert, what would happen if I change my existing K1 VISA (sent petition in October 2022, papers will arrive approved in Nov 2023, looks like I will get all approved by June 2024) into a CR1? My concern is that then my K1 will stop and we have to wait another 2 years? Or maybe if I change it now, when the papers will arrive in London the process will go faster as it's now a CR1? Confused...

Also, the CDC has just made a slight change to the Covid19 vaccination. One dose is now accepted so that the candidate is not delayed, and he can get the second dose later. Source

It’s difficult to document the many phone calls I made to doctors and vaccination centres. I tried to get NOvavax but I was told every time that it’s not possible. The important fact is that the principles behind the lifting of the jab should apply to everyone and not just to non migrant arrivals.

Hi, for now they are lifting the visitors requirements. However nothing is mentioned about the immigration jabs. However today I found this ‘ Blanket waivers for the COVID vaccination will be applied in countries where the vaccine is not routinely available or when the vaccine is not age appropriate.  The Department of State encourages all immigrant visa applicants to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible to not experience delays in their visa processing.’ at the moment in the uk the jab is now restricted to over 75 or immune suppressed individuals if I understand well. I would love to hear by those who have interviews after the 11 may what medical they are getting! Because of the jab us not available then could I assume that it won’t be required? I have a year before my papers will even be seen as I applied in October 2022. Why the jab is required only for immigrants when all other categories don’t? It’s not logical. Link is

Wow i didn’t know that a private GP can provide any vaccine. At the moment, India and other countries offer nasal spray vaccines and also Sinovac, none of them MRNA, but unless one travels to the foreign country he cannot get them, and must be resident too. I called the vaccination centre and I was told that I can never choose which vaccine and it will be MRNA. I would not count on immigration vaccines being lifted soon. There is a difference between tourist visas and immigration of K1 visas. To live in the USA one must take all their jabs including flu. It’s safer to refer to CDC website ètc to ensure we understand what is lifted, as many journalists are copying from one another but not investigating nor understanding the different laws and procedures needed to amend them. Good luck!

hi there, there is much talk that Biden might sign the paper to stop the requirement but ONLY for tourists. However it is very complex. There are different laws set by different bodies. Here is an article by an attorney about them. I am in the situation of not wanting an MRNA vax, I could do any other but in the UK you can't choose the jab. https://brownstone.org/articles/visit-the-us-by-sea-or-land-if-not-by-air/

yes, we just found out all this afterwards...oh well, we are in for a long wait...

Thanks for explaining. We are not interested in being separated while married, so we got on with K1. My boyfriend did not look in a random website last updated in 2008 to find out his destination. I will post here his exact text so you see how he worked it out. I now realised that he did not send anything to Nebraska but to Texas. (memory!) Here is his message..... 'I received a letter from the USCIS California Service Center confirming receipt of my petition. That's terrible news, because as you found, the California average processing time is 14 months, whereas Nebraska's is only 3.5 months. I have searched in vain for an explanation of why my petition went to California. The instructions told me to send the petition to Dallas, Texas, which I did. So for some reason they then decided it was to be sent to California. But why, when processing times are so much slower there than in Nebraska right next to Wyoming? I have the impression that perhaps the process has recently changed, because one official page refers to a page that is supposed to tell you where to file based on your location, but that page doesn't ask your location (or ask to be allowed to access location through the browser), it just says to mail to Dallas. So it seems that they are just telling everyone now to mail to Dallas, then they forward to various service centers. If it is based on location, it sure is strange and disappointing that Wyoming is in California's region rather than Nebraska's next door. I read through the details about inquiries and I can't talk to a live person because I don't have a qualified inquiry. So I just simply get no answer why my petition was sent to California rather than Nebraska.' OKAY so now that it is clarified that he sent the stuff to Texas, and I forgot that, and thought it was Nebraska, we can rest in peace knowing that in 545 days or so we will have a VISA. There is no point now in discussing which other VISA we could have used, as I repeated over and over that we have no interest in being married and separated right away. No interest - at all. It's easier to live as singles until we marry and do all the necessary changes in one go, also because being dual national and having a minor at home I have to change and officially translate multiple documents and inform my consulate of everything, so I'd rather not do it all twice. (Italian bureaucracy is a nightmare). Thanks for your help!

hi again. I refer to this sentence under the link quoted, 'At the time you apply for the visa and/or travel to the United States you will be required to show that you have a residence outside the United States that you do not intend to abandon. ' This means I am declaring I will no abandon my UK residence and that would be a huge lie. I AM abandoning my residence. If it had been that easy to just go and get married on a tourist VISA and quickly and easily adjust, we could have done that. However, we looked at all the possibilities, timings etc and in many other forums where the same topic was debated. From the understanding my boyfriend got, the CR visa was going to be good if I were okay with what I mentioned above - and I am not okay with it. I read all the papers and possibilities and became super confused about all the options. So complex and made difficult on purpose. So I asked him to read, understand and summarise as I just could not make any sense of it all. By job he is a law professor so he is way more conversant than me with reading legal writing and interpreting it. And when he explained all this to me, it was clear to both that the K1 would be a longer option but more fitting to our particular needs. Our only issue is that his petition from Wyoming ended up in California for unknown reasons. This is the only reason why I joined the forum. My daughter is almost 15....and I have a 20 y.o. son but he is living abroad.

As I have previously noted in other comments, we have already discussed the option of getting married here and even staying here, but a) I do not like the idea of getting married and then my husband leaves for who knows how long before I can join him b) if we get married in the UK, his family will only meet me for the first time as his wife and I don't think this is going to feel good. I'd rather have the ceremony together where my boyfriend lives. I have no living family in the UK. c) My boyfriend cannot become employed in the UK. He will have to return to the USA within weeks after the wedding so we will still have separation issues. He teaches at university and his subject is of no use in the UK, plus at age 56 is not easy to change career just as you prepare for retirement and his pay would be way lower. d) Getting married here, adjust to live as a married couple (buy a double bed etc) and THEN restart the process of settling in a new place, selling all etc is not going to simply my life at all. Tax wise, it would extremely complicate my boyfriend's life.

They really, really don't like it when people arrive as tourists with the intention of getting married and they don't declare it. I am planning to play by the rules...I will go when I can go. I also have a teen daughter attending college, so the timing will be just fine for her to finisher her GCSEs in the UK before moving.

I am only chasing this part: 'Why the processing centre is not the one we assumed and the petition was sent to California while it originated in Wyoming'. The rest will be shared...sorry I was not clear.

I see! Can you imagine a real terrorist actually writing down all those qualifications for them? That would be so smart. I hope they will like my titles... I have dual citizenship, Italian and British.

He is on a journey to see family at the moment so he is not able to join forums. I shall ask if he wants to join so he can follow the conversation - however he is extremely busy with work and hardly has time to be online, so I am the one chasing up this part of the process.

Oh dear. This is bad news for me. It takes a lot of time for marketing etc to gain traction after stalling for many months! Very sad to hear this...

hello! a quick question about the DS-160 for my K1 Visa. I am confused. I had a look at the form a month ago and I can't find it anymore but it seemed to ask my complete work history. I was wondering why to get married, I need to show my curriculum, name of employers etc? Or did I get this wrong? thanks! I am new to this...so plenty of stuff to learn.

thanks all! it seems strange that I should have to stop working with my UK clients on Zoom just because I am abroad. However I could not find any information about it in any website. I will ask my boyfriend to find out next week - there is time! For example, if a person owns a print on demand store such as Zazzle, surely they are not required to close it until they get a green card? Interesting topic...much to learn for me.

sorry but what is EAD? I am not so good with acronyms...