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Thanks guys! If I make it through the interview, and I will of course, this will have taken a week over an entire year to process. I am so glad to be nearly through this and am so happy I found VJ with such cool members helping me!

and I got my interview date! 28th of April at 0830am! w00t!!!

Got mine this morning!

April 28th @ 0830am in London. Knowing that misscharlotte got NVC completed the day after me means they seemingly draw at random, rather than go by completion date just for everyone's information.

Congrats to all!

Liz, Pat probably won't need more than I did at my medical, which is:

• Tdap (10-64 years old)
• MMR (1-64 years old, if born after '57)
• Varicella/Chickenpox (1+ years unless you've had chickenpox, I believe)

The list I used is from the US Embassy in London, but the requirements should be the same.

http://www.usembassy.org.uk/cons_new/visa/...ccinechart.html

I'm here, but you know me already...

For everyone else, I am done with NVC, awaiting an interview date. Hoping for April, my case was completed march 4th.

Anywhere to find out how fully booked they are online?

I phoned today and got told to call back on the 18th of March to see if I got an interview date in April. Our case completed on the 4th of March.

Bummer, found out I might not even make an April interview, as I am at the tail end of the Feb-March cases that are completed. I'm crossing my fingers that it'll be earlier than May.

Congrats! Now the paperwork is in it'll fly by!

Thanks everyone. Is that list just for K visas though? As everything except the passport is already in the hands of the NVC and I was under the impression I would get them returned at the visa interview for my CR-1...

Can't say for sure, but if they aren't going to make it without then you have no choice. If there is no one else that you can also ask to be a co-sponsor, then I would do add it anyway and then see it it goes through. Kind of like, "if you don't try, you don't get". I hope it does work, but if you are really concerned, you should probably be asking the NVC themselves, as their advice is free. Don't bother with an immigration attorney, they screwed us out of 75 bucks for a ten minutes conversation at the start of all this, just because I was unsure of something.

Well good luck Marieke! Uhm, crab quesadillas sound good right now!

Does anyone have any info on what you HAVE to take to the interview? I'm looking in the wrong places, it seems, as I can't find an official list of anything, but hear a lot of people talking about proof of marriage, that sort of thing. Am approved at NVC awaiting interview date, so want to be prepared!

LOL@Peet!

BTW, my NVC case was approved on the 4th. Now awaiting an interview date. Woo-hoo!

Congrats!

The automated line told me our case completed on the 04th of March. We started NVC on Dec 22nd, but we had 2 RFEs along the way, just for other peoples info if they read this and our about to start and are looking at rough timelines. I used the LingChe guide throughout, the RFE set us back about 4 weeks in total.

Now on to the interview and then I might see my wife for just after Easter!

Wow, congratulations! Our CR-1 is now at 305 days, so 55 is indeed amazing!

I'm just under 29, so pretty young too. Kourtni is only 21....

Welcome to the forum, there are quite a few Dutchies here as you can see!

I like the photo and theme of your wordpress install btw.

It sure bloody is!

You know, I don't really know to be honest. I know the moment I set foot in the USA, I am officially a permanent resident and can apply for a driving license, can work, get insurance, basically everything. I can't find an average timeline anywhere official, but the one here is actually 72 days, so not 4 months...but I'm sure that was what I was told it would take before.Plus, 72 days has been and gone for us, we're up to about 80 and won't be getting an interview in March as they'll have been allocated on the 14th of February. So if I'm lucky, I can get one in early April and be home just after Easter.

I know the quickest a CR-1 has done it so far (from visajourney at least) is 21 days, but they were fully prepared and used the shortcut guide. I wasn't too prepared and we made 2 boo-boos, so add a month for the mistakes as a conservative guess and I reckon 4 months is where I'll be at when I get through.

I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I get a SSN from day one and am immediately a Permanent Resident, that they have more work to do because of that...

Oh and just let me know where you need help, I'm not exactly strapped for time so I can help as required.

Thanks!

Blogger is an easy way to run a blog for free, there are tonnes of free layouts available to use, also. If you need a hand, let me know.

Currently, we've been at the NVC since the 22nd of December, 2008. Not that long really, the average is 4 months I think.

LOL, not much happening on the visa front. Just awaiting completion of the NVC before I can get a bloody interview.

I did the website myself, I run as a freelance web developer on the side of my day job. well, I have been doing it full time for the last year as I am in between the USA, Holland and England! My main website is linked on that tag at the bottom of our personal site.

Ahh, ya twisted my arm hehe.

LOL, you can tell Kourtni named the galleries hehe.

We have 2 black cats and 2 black dogs. 1 is a male Labrador and the other a female Labrador/Bloodhound cross.

A few photos in our gallery.