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I filed I130 for my step son, and it got approved a couple of weeks ago. So the paperwork was forwarded to NVC, but since then I did not get any correspondence from them, and am trying just to get a general idea of how long it takes from this point to an interview. I tried examining the timelines but they are spread so widely, that I feel a bit lost.

Any help, please?

Good day all and happy upcoming 4th of July!

I applied for my stepson's visa in February and received an RFE yesterday. Originally we submitted a copy of his birth certificate notarized by local agency in Moldova, along with a translation. Possibly the copy wasn't that great of quality, I do not recall. In this letter USCIS is requesting a legible copy of the birth certificate. I have a few questions in regard, hopefully someone will be able to answer:

1. The letter says "The certificate(s) must have been registered near the time of birth(s)." Registration and issuance are different things, but I am concerned since the certificate in my hands was issued just recently, the original is lost. It mentions, however when the birth was registered.
   
2. Do I need to submit the transalation again? In the top it, as always, says "All foreign language documents must be submitted with complete word-for-word English transaltions." USCIS already has a translation, should I do it again?
   
3. Since the certificate I have is an official copy issued by civil registry, maybe I should send it to USCIS, or is it safer to stick with photo copy?
   

Thanks, guys!

Ah! Perfect! Thanks, guys, you are brilliant!

I do not think I can file for him (he's 12 BTW). I am technically not related to him, he is not adapted by me, but he is my wife's son. Shouldn't she file?

Thanks for your answer, Daniel!

My wife is about to file a petition for her under-aged son to get an immigrant visa, and I am looking at this page: http://www.visajourney.com/content/childpet

There it says the following:

If you are a lawful permanent resident applying to bring an unmarried, minor child or an unmarried son or daughter to the United States to live and you are the mother of the child, you must file the following with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services:

• Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative
  

• A copy of your alien registration card

• A copy of the child's birth certificate showing your name and the child's name

• If anyone's name has been legally changed (if it differs from the name on his or her birth certificate), evidence of the name change must be submitted.

After going through K-1 process, this seems too easy. Did I understand everything correctly?

As always, enormous thanks for all your help, VJ friends.

Does it have to be certified?

PS I love you guys, you are such a great help!

But I sent them the W-2 copy. . . And I had no 1099s. . .

So is it 1040 they are expecting?

I guess I can send 4506-T to IRS, but now I don't know whether they already processed my 2009 return and have all the necessary data. Should I request 2008 and 2009 in that case?

I got an RFE, and can't figure out what's expected from me.

I filed a certified copy of my W-2, so what is expected, a copy of my 1040, or do I need to file 4506-T with IRS and forward to USCIS whatever I get back from them?

As always any help is greatly appreciated.

Bio-medica is a a walkable distance.

They gave us the results the same day.

I was satisfied with it.

Good luck!

Sweet! Even better.

Did you have to bring some sort of letter from your doctor regarding your general health, besides the vaccinations? I was surprised when they asked for it, the paper describing the medical didn't mention it.

Thanks, olesea! We'll be getting around in cabs most likely too, but I am planning to get a hotel near the embassy, so wouldn't want to ride across half of the city to get somewhere.

Thanks again!

Not exactly fitting here, mods, please move at your discretion.

My fiancee has an interview scheduled in Bucharest and she will have to go through medical there as well. Could anyone recommend a clinic closest to the consulate/city centre, please?

We have these three:

I. COLENTINA HOSPITAL Tel. 021-316-7320 or 021-317-3245 ext. 5357

II. BIO-MEDIKA INTERNATIONAL Tel. 021-311-7793 or 021-311-7794 or 021-311-7795

III. CENTRUL MEDIKAL UNIREA Tel. 021-402-5084 or 021-402-5087 Cell Pfone: 0724-299331 or 0743-439612

TIA

My wife (a Ukrainian) travelled to Chisinau to get a police report... She went to University there in the early 90's and lived in Tiraspol... so they will do it.

Excellent! Great information. Could you be so kind to ask where she had to go in Chisinau to get the certificate?

TIA!

Dagestan is part of Russia, and that cop was talking out of his a$$ just waiting for a bribe. In Caucasus you pay for anything. Well, in Russia pretty much too, but especially in the Caucasus.

Dagestan is not a separatist region, it's an autonomous entity within Russia, and in that case there's nothing a benjamin wouldn't solve. It's Caucasus, nothing is done for free.

Good time of the day, all.

My fiance resides in Transnistria, territory which seceded from Moldova in 1990. She currently has a Russian passport, since travel documents issued by the Transnistrian authorities are not valid pretty much anywhere.

We are preparing the documents requested by the consulate for the interview, and just to be on a safe side, I wrote to the consulate asking if they will consider the documents provided by the Transnistrian authorities acceptable. The answer was no in regard to the police certificate, only certificate issued Moldovan Ministry of Interior will be accepted.

Of course Moldovan authorities are not likely to issue a certificate to a person who for eighteen years was out of their jurisdiction.

Has anyone been in any situation similar to this? Any ideas, any things to try?

TIA

PS I am panicking.

Apologies for raising this from the dead, but could anyone else chime in regarding this question?

If fiancee is divorced, do I need to put her ex-husband info in question 14?

TIA

I dug through the entire site of both consulates, Chisinau and Bucharest, I cannot find packet 3. Any guidance, please? Where should I look?

Thanks, Biscuit! Question 2 was whether the consulate the case is assigned to is mentioned in the letter I am about to receive from NVC.

There's packet4?! What happened to 1 & 2? Oh, my poor head. . .

Bare with me, please, I tried searching, I swear (and read the guides).

Received NOA2 in the mail today.

Questions:

1. How do I find out when NVC received the paperwork? They mail me a letter?
2. My fincee is in Moldova, so I requested the interview in Chisinau. Now it appears they do not process K-1's in that consulate, but send them to Bucharest, Romania. Will letter from NVC show which one we are assigned to?
3. Packet #3, where in the world do I find the list?
4. When do we find out about the date of the interview? From which piece of correspondence?

Many thanks for any help!

Why should it? It's usually a mutual thing, like in a marriage

. . .they don't want to be a part of Russia.

Yep, and that's why most of the population holds Russian passports, eh?

Excellent article, Pat! Always liked the guy, so brutally honest.

Chechnya was given a very wide autonomy in 1996, troops were withdrawn, they were left to rule themselves. What did they do? They started incursion into neighbouring territories in 1999. Look where they are today.

Hey 412, looks like we have something in common, only it was I who had to provide my Divorce Decree, not my fiancee. At the Vermont Center, a very good color copy of it was sufficient, but the US Consulate in Bucharest is asking her to bring the "original" with her to the visa interview. Hope this helps.

Yes and no. My girl lives in Transdnestria, which is a a breakaway region of Moldova. Yeah, I know. And I had to provide a copy of my own decree as well, but I had that one for awhile

I got a very nice color scan from her, and just printed it on a laser printer, and did the translation myself.

Why Bucharest? There's an embassy in Chisinau, no?

And thanks for your advise.

Are you saying the survey is wrong? Why, because it seems wrong to you?

Because we do not know how it was performed. I am certain that the same survey performed in Moscow and St. Petersburg, performed similarly, would return results which would vary widely.

so you think it's better diving a region undefinitely? what if there's 2 groups inside ossetia, divid them in new and old ossetia?

I think that when Putin said that dissolution of the Soviet Union was the greatest geo-political catastrophe of the XXth sentury, that's exactly what he meant.