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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...

I am 57. I will be 59 by the time I get my visa. I am a self employed illustrator and clinical hypnotherapist. Not seeking for employers. I am not entirely sure but I think that they cannot stop me working for my clients on Zoom as usual. I know about the travel limitations but I think that after all those months of stress and worry I will need some time to stay in the USA and not go back abroad. I will be fine....

we had extensive talks about what it would require and we preferred the K1 for many many reasons. The wait will help me prepare my belongings for sale and my house and workshop cleared and put on sale. He will come here for holidays in summer. We will be patient....

Oh dear. So we have 545 days to wait for...nice...We've been together already 3.5 years ... ha ha ha...

Thank you, I will forward this to him and see what he says! I wonder if he can request to move it now?

I am 100% sure my boyfriend read and understood the instructions correctly, checked everything and saw nothing saying to send his Petition anywhere else but to Nebraska. He is conversant with understanding complex instructions and has taken 3 weeks to read, understand, find documentations, check and then re check everything. He is thorough. This is why he is surprised that despite being told to only send to Nebraska, his petition has been moved to California.

The form he was filling did not leave him any other option but to send it to Nebraska. I am no catching up on the reading - just joined this forum. Sad to hear that the petition will stay in the busiest processing centre! Thanks!

We have sent the petition 3 weeks ago, and we just found this forum. We read about both experiences. For many reasons, we could not get married in the UK and use the other method. He must stay in his country where he teaches. He cannot come here. If his family doesn't attend the wedding, I will just be landing there as a total stranger. So we chose K1. This is not what I am debating.

My boyfriend in his online form did not see any other option.