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Thank you so much @Liam2021! I was worried sick since my fiancee's semi-rural address rarely receives any mails, letters, or packages delivered to them. As for passport delivery (in the near future), there should be a way for her to pickup at the post office somehow? 

Should I send an inquiry to have them reach out to me through Email to receive Pkt 3? Since I don't have an address registered for them to deliver it to my Fiancee. Do you know if HCM Embassy sends Pkt3 by email or by physical letter? If it is a physical letter, then I would need to figure out a way to register my Fiancee's address without the need of the DS-160 confirmation code, unless the Embassy is just using her address that is on the I-129F application to mail it out. It's a semi-rural address and her house doesn't have a house number plaque.

Hi @Liam2021, yes but I was told to wait to receive Packet 3 before applying for the Visa. The instructions on USTravelDocs requires a DS-160 confirmation code (from the Visa application) in order to continue with registering a delivery address. 

Now am I being told to wait to receive Packet 3 first before applying for the Visa, DS-160, but USATravelDocs says I need to register an address first (which requires the DS-160 confirmation number).  😵‍💫 I am also going to try to ask this in the Vietnam forum to see if anyone else has figured out a workaround. 

https://www.ustraveldocs.com/vn/vn-iv-kvisa.asp

Under "Create USTravelDocs account"

Hi @MalloryCat, K1 is not an option on the Non-Immigrant Visas. Instructions seem to say to go through with the "K1 Visas Scheduling" option but upon trying to do that, it asks for a DS-160 Confirmation Code to be able to register address which I obviously have not applied for the Visa for my Financee  yet since we haven't received Packet 3 (but need to register an address for the embassy to deliver Packet 3). It's been a Catch 22 situation. 

Hi, 

I received my letter from the NVC and am trying to register my Fiancee's delivery address so that she can receive Packet 3 for the instructions on applying for the Visa, Pre-interview checklist, and appointment scheduling. I am currently stuck on the first page as it asks for the DS-160 Confirmation Code, but we have not received Package 3 yet so we can't apply? Have any recent Vietnam K-1 applicants figured out how to register the Fiance/Fiancee's home address for Package 3 delivery? Do we follow the instructions and complete the DS-160 before receiving Package 3? 

Thank you! 

 

Hi @MalloryCat, I saw on your timeline that you received your Packet 3. What was your solution to not having the "K1 Fiance" Visa Option on USATravelDocs to have the Packet 3 be delivered to Fiance/Fiancee? Thank you! 

Has anyone figured this out? There is no K1 option for us as well. 

https://www.ustraveldocs.com/vn/vn-iv-kvisa.asp 

Does anyone have an answer to this? I followed the instructions, and after selecting "Immigrant Visas - Address Registration Only" the K1 - Fiance Visa is not an option on their list of Immigrant Visas. 

 

No, because if your fiancee manage to get the K-1 Visa, the expiration date on it will be 6 months from the time medical examination is done. Try to get the medical exam done as close to the interview date as possible. 

Currently having the same issue. Any updates? 

Is there an option for the K-1 (Fiancee) Visa on the USTravelDocs website? 
This is for the Immigration (IV) Visa option. 

Thanks! 

@jetsetter21 Hi, so it's still at the discretion of the Consular Officer and not 100% guaranteed that they will renew? 

Hi, I have an NOA2/I-129F approval on April 18, 2024 but I plan to visit my Fiancee in September to show up for the K-1 Visa Interview at the Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Consulate in September. Because the NOA2 will have expired by then, how likely it is to get the NOA2 extended by the consulate officers there? Is it based on luck or do they periodically extend the notice if we send in a request before it expires? Also, how does one go about doing this?

Thank you! 

Sorry, NOA1 in December 2023, and NOA2 on April 18, 2024. 

Approval times are a lot shorter now @SalishSea, I received my NOA1 in December 2024, and received my NOA2 approval on April 18, 2025 this year. Just wondering how long it'll take for my case to reach NVC and how long it could be stuck there for. 

And how long can petitions usually get stuck at the NVC for.

@TD6886 Can this only be done at the 2 places listed on the Vietnam Embassy website. Since she lives in the south, she'll need to go to Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control and start from scratch and possibly titer like @Boiler mentioned, since she lost her immunization records? 

@TD6886 It's been almost 5 months now for you after the interview. Did you frontload your petition with Relationship Evidence and a Family Tree or at least brought it to the interview but they refused to look at it? I did not frontload my petition and I am currently at NVC stage and have been stressing out. 

Fiancee was born and grew up in a small town (Hau Giang) and can't find her immunization records and have not had any immunizations lately (besides Covid vaccines). Will she be required to take 10+ vaccinations before the upcoming scheduled interview date? 

Is the Polio vaccine still a thing for those who were never vaccinated against it (younger generations)? I would hate for my Fiancee to receive 7-8+ vaccines in a span of two days. Not sure of adverse effects. 

It's accurate! TMVN gave me an estimate of April 20, 2024 for I-129F Approval. Received NOA1 on December 7, 2023, and just received my NOA2 on April 18, 2023 which is just 2 days shy of their estimate. 

@KIMANI_666 TrackMyVisaNow also gave me an estimate of April 20, 2024 and I was like no way it can be that fast! (~5 months approval)

Congratulations! Any idea why it's so fast lol. I was told that it would be 8 months to a year until approval (NOA2)!