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One does NOT have to be on the mortgage, I wasn't when we bought our first place, BUT i was on the title (deed)

Yes, but if you do that then only one income can be used to qualify for the mortgage.

FYI the score you want to check is the FICO score www.myfico.com Anything else is not the real score.

This Saturday we got a letter for our interview, it is on September 9th. Everything was really fast, first AP and EAD and now the interview.

We had our Travel Document and EAD approved this week. I131 was approved on Monday and just got an Email from CRIS that Card production for EAD has been ordered. We had no touches at all. We are happy

Scott,

Good to hear that you got the interview scheduled. I have another question. How did you determine when the Embassy had your petition "logged" into thier system so you could schedule the interview?

I called NVC last night and they said the petition was sent out to Kiev yesterday. If in fact it did go out yesterday, it was hopefully on the DHL shipment that was sent yesterday. The packet weighed 3lbs, so hopefully our petition was in there. Based on transit, I would assume our petition would hit the embassy tomorrow, the 18th. How many days did you wait until you knew the petition arrived until you could schedule the interview?

Thanks, also, I am confused as to the comments about paying a $12 fee to be able to schedule the interview - can you explain how you set up your interview? Many thanks in advance.

John

The embassy gives themselves 10 days to go through the mail to put into the system... Once in the system the call center in Poland sees your file. The $12 fee (for up to an 8 minute phone call) is paid when you call the call center to make the appointment.

I was reading this post and thought I would mention something interesting about the Call center in Poland. It has been 9 days ( depending on who you believe) days since Embassy received package, so i would think it would be in system and I call EVERY day, so YES, I have pissed thru 3 Pin Numbers, as we wanted to get in for February appt and a recent post on another forum told me she got February 17th recently and she could have had earlier???Some interesting notes for those who call, all you have to say is ...CHECKING CASE STATUS, and when they say CASE #, give them KEV# and they will say YES or NO, and then hang up. Total Time...ONE minute. so you could get EIGHT calls on one 12 minute PIN card, but I was only getting THREE, because I hear the same story every day, i.e, let me check another file, etc, ect, and before you know it, the NEXT time you call, it says 3 minutes left. I think they are told to keep you asking questions to eat up the PIN?

Yesterday AFTER they said, SORRY, nothing on computer, I said..OK, call you tomorrow, and the girl told me, you know, we only get UPDATES from the Embassy every Friday, so you are wasting money if you call every day after we say NO!!!

I honestly can't say I belive this as IF they update the computer, Poland should be able to see it as they told me the KEV number is there, but no info attached, and of course, the usual story about until info is posted, they cannot schedule.

Just thought I'd mention this for those of you who hope and pray like I do, to finally get a Date in Kiev and get out of this Black Hole we've been in for so long...cheers

FYI, You can email the embassy and ask them if they sent out the packet and if it is in the system. When we did that, they emailed us the packet and told us we can call and schedule an interview. BTW, we called today and will have out interview February 4.

Thanks for that GREAT Post. February 4th is NICE and I always thought we would have to wait until March , at this point, as all summer long, it was a 3-4 week wait, so maybe something good will come of all of this waiting. Maybe our Valentines Day arrival can still be met??? I can't get too excited as every step of the way, something has dropped us BACK into the Black Hole, but I appreciate your post and help. BTW, I found a DECENT person at the Consular Email who sent me, ON THEIR OWN, a notice when our KEV file was finally in the system, as they had seen my PLEADING NOTES in 3-4 emails for the 5 weeks i was stuck in AP and thought it had been mailed (Thats what the letters said???) So he just emailed me again and said, NOT YET, so its nice to know that some people still do a little extra in their Gov't jobs too. Be well,& thanks..J

We called last week of January and they still had spots open for January 28/29. Today they told us we can have February 4th through 20th, so looks like no 3-4 week waiting! It also took only 5 days from when NVC sent out the packet to get into the system in Kiev for us. I would not wait for the packet to come in the mail as well, just download from the website. Good luck to all!

Scott,

Good to hear that you got the interview scheduled. I have another question. How did you determine when the Embassy had your petition "logged" into thier system so you could schedule the interview?

I called NVC last night and they said the petition was sent out to Kiev yesterday. If in fact it did go out yesterday, it was hopefully on the DHL shipment that was sent yesterday. The packet weighed 3lbs, so hopefully our petition was in there. Based on transit, I would assume our petition would hit the embassy tomorrow, the 18th. How many days did you wait until you knew the petition arrived until you could schedule the interview?

Thanks, also, I am confused as to the comments about paying a $12 fee to be able to schedule the interview - can you explain how you set up your interview? Many thanks in advance.

John

The embassy gives themselves 10 days to go through the mail to put into the system... Once in the system the call center in Poland sees your file. The $12 fee (for up to an 8 minute phone call) is paid when you call the call center to make the appointment.

I was reading this post and thought I would mention something interesting about the Call center in Poland. It has been 9 days ( depending on who you believe) days since Embassy received package, so i would think it would be in system and I call EVERY day, so YES, I have pissed thru 3 Pin Numbers, as we wanted to get in for February appt and a recent post on another forum told me she got February 17th recently and she could have had earlier???Some interesting notes for those who call, all you have to say is ...CHECKING CASE STATUS, and when they say CASE #, give them KEV# and they will say YES or NO, and then hang up. Total Time...ONE minute. so you could get EIGHT calls on one 12 minute PIN card, but I was only getting THREE, because I hear the same story every day, i.e, let me check another file, etc, ect, and before you know it, the NEXT time you call, it says 3 minutes left. I think they are told to keep you asking questions to eat up the PIN?

Yesterday AFTER they said, SORRY, nothing on computer, I said..OK, call you tomorrow, and the girl told me, you know, we only get UPDATES from the Embassy every Friday, so you are wasting money if you call every day after we say NO!!!

I honestly can't say I belive this as IF they update the computer, Poland should be able to see it as they told me the KEV number is there, but no info attached, and of course, the usual story about until info is posted, they cannot schedule.

Just thought I'd mention this for those of you who hope and pray like I do, to finally get a Date in Kiev and get out of this Black Hole we've been in for so long...cheers

FYI, You can email the embassy and ask them if they sent out the packet and if it is in the system. When we did that, they emailed us the packet and told us we can call and schedule an interview. BTW, we called today and will have out interview February 4.