KeralianNY

I need some assistance regarding cruises. My wife and i are planning to do a western caribbean cruise From Miami, Florida visiting George Town, Grand Cayman; Cozumel, Mexico and back to Miami, florida

I am a US Citizen and my wife currently holds a US green card and she is a Indian citizen. I called up cruise company's and they are telling me they they are not responsible for visa related questions. I am not finding any good info even when i went to US gov travel site.

I am interested in knowing whether my wife has to get separate visa for:

George Town, Grand Cayman

Cozumel, Mexico

Appreciate if any one could provide me a good brief explanation....

I need some assistance regarding cruises. My wife and i are planning to do a western caribbean cruise From Miami, Florida visiting George Town, Grand Cayman; Cozumel, Mexico and back to Miami, florida

I am a US Citizen and my wife currently holds a US green card and she is a Indian citizen. I called up cruise company's and they are telling me they they are not responsible for visa related questions. I am not finding any good info even when i went to US gov travel site.

I am interested in knowing whether my wife has to get separate visa for:

George Town, Grand Cayman

Cozumel, Mexico

Appreciate if any one could provide me a good brief explanation....

SAMPLE DS230 Personal cover letter.

NVC Case No: YOUR CASE Petitioner's Name: FIRST MIDDLE LAST Preference Category: CR1 – SPOUSE OF UNITED STATES CITIZEN <<--???

National Visa Center

ATTN: CMR

32 Rochester Avenue

Portsmouth, NH 03801-2909

DATE

Re: Submitting Application for (CR-1) Immigrant Visa DS-230 for NVC Case Number: YOUR CASE #

To whom it may concern:

My name is Beneficiary Name [FIRST MIDDLE LAST] and I am the Beneficiary for NVC case number: YOUR CASE #. My spouse – [petitioner name], is the Petitioner of this case. Our I-130 application has been approved and is currently on file with the NVC.

Please find enclosed the following items comprising the DS-230 packet. I would kindly request that originals of pertinent documents be returned to me at the time of the interview in STATE, COUNTRY (I am providing photocopies for your official records, if needed):

 Bar Coded Covering letter <After you pay $400 via online and they accept your payment, you can print the cover sheet]

 Two (2) Passport Size Photographs of Beneficiary (NVC Case Number, beneficiary’s full name, and date of birth are written on back of both)

 DS-230 Part 1 completed and signed by beneficiary

 DS-230 Part 2 completed by beneficiary – unsigned, as of yet, per instructions

 Photocopy of the Biographic Data Page(s) of Beneficiary’s Passport

 Birth Certificate of beneficiary

 Original Marriage or Certified Marriage Certificate and photocopy of Marriage certificate [i send the original since I didn’t have a certified copy]

 Original & Photocopy of Police Certificate – Beneficiary

 Original & Photocopy of Passport office Police clearance certificate. [depends on your country]

Please do not hesitate to contact me if there are any concerns.

Thank you very much for your kind attention!

Hi all:

I see that James's shortcuts has one sample DS-230 Cover letter,but didn't like it that much.

I was wondering if there is another sample out there I might wanna use it.

Thnx

I don't think it needs a cover letter

Call or email NVC stating that you never received an email. Also, Confirm they got the correct email id.

Just wait for the mail they sent I guess, assuming so many things can be very stressful indeed.Relax

My wife checked her email but there is no mail from NVC as such, the message says they mailed it on 11th sep

The original documents that you didnt submit to NVC, check your interview letter. For us we had to submit the original birth certificate, 2 photos and pay the vfs courier fees.

hey, we have interview date July 17 for CR1 spouse visa

i sumitted I864 affidavit of support with tax return copy to NVC and got it approved.

then, i submitted ds 230 with all original requested documents and is approved.

what does my wife have to submit at VFS office in Ahmedabad 10 days before interview? Only the missing documetns listed on appointment letter.

or copies of all documents already submitted to NVC should be again sumitted to VFS, like sponsor, etc/

How does that work?

CR1 question. What type of forms does the immigrant need to fill in at POE? is it only the us custom declaration form that has to be filled out??

Thank you champi!!! this will help a lot.

Here is my husband's interview experience at Chennai, India

05:20am - Got up

06:10am - Left Hotel and took auto to Consulate

06:20am - Reached at consulate

They only allow starting the waiting queue after 6:30 so they were asked to go to nearby bus stand.

06:35am - Stood in line, couple of people already there. Regardless of what time you get there, they ask you to stand in line based on interview time. So, my husband repeatedly told me to mention that there is no need to go there early.

06:50am - Receptionist or some lady checked the interview letter and passport then proceeded security checkin. Again, no sealed envelop or battery related things allowed. My husband didn't notice anyone having hard time

07:00am - entry into consualte. For immigration visa, they were directly sent to 1st section, while other visa types (B1, Visitors, etc) had additional check to go through.

08:00am to 08:00am - wait

08:00am - Collected interview letter's first page from everyone and were slided under one of the intervidew window

08:30am - Indian officer interview (window 7) (called in any random order)

A. Reviewed all documents that she had from

NVC

B. Asked for following documents: 2 passport photos, passport, wedding invitation, wedding pictures (asked to pick 15-20 pics), 2008 tax extension, 2007 tax return (since we didn't file 2008 taxes).

C. Returned IBM paycheck

D. Asked following Question

- wife name?

- who is petitioner?

- Have you ever visited US?

- Your B1 visa will be canceled.

E. Asked to sign DS-230 (#28 in native language, and on 4th page in english)

F. Gave pink color token with number and was asked to write name, address(address is the one where you want passport to be received), phone # (mobile/land line), email addresses, on it

09:00am - Window # 11: Finger print (called based on token #) in any random order.

10:00am - American officer called, asked Hi, how are you, and reviewed documents

- when did you marry?

- where is your wife staying, north carolina?

- You're working in IT field?

- Do you plan to join same company in US?

- Photo joya

- Your visa approved!!!

- returned wedding photos, Birth Certificate, and Marriage Certificate

by 10:20am - out of consulate, as far as my husband can tell, no one was rejected as far as we know

My husband stayed at Oriental Inn - 15mins walk (2km) - Rs.2000, standard/AC/Clean

Thank you so much for this info...

Medica Exam at Chennai, India - Medical Exam at Lister Lab and Dr. Sanjay John

04/24/2009

Called Dr. Sanjay John and got the appointment for 5/9/08. When you take appointment from Dr John, he'll ask you to call you on the day of medical exam once you get done with lab test at Lister lab.

05/09/2009

If you need to get the report the same day, you don't have to get there by 6:30 or 7, you can go there by 9am and you will still have enough time to get the test done by 11am and get the report the same day by 4pm. Actual process time with Lister Lab is ~ 30mins after your token # gets called.

6:00am - Reached Chennai. Took auto from outside of Railway station to Lister lab - Rs. 70 (auto rikhsaw from inside the railway station is around 100Rs. to 120Rs.

6:30am - Arrived at Lister lab. Take token at the left side on the gate, before reception gate. Once you've token, you can go out and and have tea/breakfast, no need to follow any particular diet before the lab test since the blood drawn is for HIV test.

7:00am - Entered Lister lab. Once you enter the reception office, get the medical form to fill out from reception. Receptionist will ask for passport and interview letter for verification. This is the form you'll get back at the end of the test. Return the form to receptionist and pay the fee of Rs 920. Once form returned, asked to take seat Within 5minutes of submitting papers, asked to take blood draw and asked to take seat

Within 10mins, called again for X-rays. You've to take out t-shirt but you can keep the vest on. After getting done with X-rays, you'll be asked to take a seat.

Within 2 minutes, they will give you a receipt of 920rs.

7:30am - Done at Lister Lab, was asked to pick up report at 4:00pm.

9:30am - Called Dr John as instructed when taking appointment, and dr John asked for passport #, DOB, birht place, exact name as in passport.

3:55pm - Went to get lab report, they were ready. Got auto to go to dr. Sanjay's office, Rs. 50

4:05pm - Reached at dr Sanjay's office (Ask auto to take to Sri Methai, Chetpet, Dr. John's clinic is next to Sri Mithai), Receptionist asked for lab report, passport, and interview letter. Took height and weight measurement.

wait wait wait for 1 hour

5:10pm - Dr. John arrived. Asked for details of intervew date and interview appointment letter, and case #. Asked if you had chicken pox? Because my husband was 26 and not working in medical field, he was only required to take 3 shots? Tdap, MMR, and Influensa, fee was 3000Rs. His fee was Rs 600, total cost= Rs. 3600.

After shots, Dr. John will give you some medical report in an unselaed envelope with instructions of not to fold it, asked to take 1 xerox copy at your own time. Original medical report will collected by consulate. You odn't need to take xrays to ocnsulate at interview time. However, you'll have to take copy of the medical reprot and Xrays with you when you travel to US.

Done within 10mins. Then, auto to railway is Rs.50.

Accommodation: Sriram Guest House, AC Room: Rs. 600, Neat-and-clean rooms. It's far from lab, Rs. 50 by auto but there were not many good hotels nearby lab.

follow the guidelines from : http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/Email_DS-3032_form

Beneficiary needs to send the mail.

Thank you so much to all for helping. You make it so easy to do everything.

I got the DS-3032 and i dont have the email address or the snail mail address to send.

Can you please help me with the addresses.

Does my wife in philippines has to send one too?

thank you so much to you all. abby n sheryl

1st or 2nd week of July more than likely. Call NVC and ask them if they have a interview date for you!!

hey to all VJ members, thanks

My case completed May 19, 2009. When should I expect interview what week of July? Should it be early, mid, or late July?

Embassy is Bombay, India

Regards

I would guess early...

With my i-864 documents[petitioner] i didnt send them any proof of american citizenship [passport copy or naturalization copy]

I dont remember reading that it was requirement to sent it. Weird - that they give you a RFE for that.

My case got completed with out any issues.

Anyways when I-130 got filed, citizenship docs were sent USCIS at that time.

Interview scheduled for June also

It looks like you are doing K3? Anyways i guess you also applied for I-130

If both gets approved at the same time, i reccomend going with I-130.

For I-130, if you filed this from here in US - NVC here will be the one assigning the interview.

For K3 - NVC forwards everything to the embassy in India and the embassy will schedule the interview date.

Hi VJ

is there any way to find out which interview dates are available... Anyone whose consulate is delhi and whose application recently reached delhi which date have you got?

Thankyou

After the case completes with NVC, they will schedule a interview date with US consulate in India. If you need to find out whether you can get a earlier date, call NVC and ask them if its possible. " Only do this, after your case completes"

There is no way to pre check the date, only NVC and consulate have the information on whats available or not.

As atk mentioned, Consulate will post the monthly appointment list. They just posted one for June.

Hi VJ

is there any way to find out which interview dates are available... Anyone whose consulate is delhi and whose application recently reached delhi which date have you got?

Thankyou

Nope.....As far as I know we can't check what days are available.....

But I know that Chennai consulate puts their appointment on their website ,doesnt know if dehli does the same....

I actually waited till my nvc case to complete and we did recieve all my k3 instructions via email and by mail. We just ignored K3 - and after recieving the interview date for I-130 i emailed the embassy saying we are opting out but did not get any reply back from them.

Hi Keralian NY and others,

I got my I129f and I130 approved on march16th 2009 and my case was forwarded to mumbai consulate on Apr 8th2009.My IR1 is near completion at NVC and I dont want to continue with K3 so my question is should I email mumbai consulate to cancel K3 or wait for case completion here.

My husband did not get any packet 3 from mumbai so he emailed them on april 22nd 2009 ,they emailed him a letter with instructions to download packet 3 and send but as we decided not to pursue it ,we never send packet 3 back to the consulate .

So we dont have any Interview letter from mumbai consulate yet as we didnt send packet 3 back.Do we still have to write to them thet we would like to pursue IR1 or K3 would cancel by itself?

Anyhelp is greatly appreciated.

Thanks and all the best in your journey

Call the embassy - they should be able to correct that address issue. Also find out when they send the mail to your fiance..

OMG. I found out what was wrong. I called up the NVC and even the Washinton D.C. office to find out what's going on. They told me the consulate in Ho Chi Minh received the packet on April 20th. They were waiting for a response from my fiancee. My fiancee told me she didn't receive anything. Anyway, I think there is a bit of a mix up on the address part. A part of her address suppose to be F6.Q6, but instead it said P6.Q6. What am I suppose to do now? They told me I should contact the Ho Chi Minh consulate office. You think they can resend the packet to the correct address? However, isn't P6 and F6 the same? Someone in Vietnam experience please tell me. Would just someone like that mess things up?

For I-129, All of the communication will come from US embassy in India. In my case we received an appointment letter via email and beneficiary received the interview document by mail in India.

If you got both I-129 and I-130 approved at the same time and you have all the documents in your hands - i would go with CR-1 route. With CR-1, the person lands US as a permanent resident.

In my case both got approved on the same day and i waited till NVC case to complete for CR-1 and then i emailed Indian - US embassy saying that we are opting out from I-129.

Sample email to cancel i-129 : find out the email address from Mumbai US embassy website.

Case No K3:

Beneficiary's Name: (First Name, Middle Name, Last Name)

Beneficiary's Date of Birth:

Petitioner's Name: (Last Name, First Name, Middle Name)

Petitioner's Date of Birth:

SUBJECT: K3 Visa Interview Appointment.

To whom it may concern:

My name is beneificiary name; my K3 Visa Case Number is ****. I received a interview appointment letter for K3 Visa Interview that is scheduled for Date at 9:00 AM at the American Consulate General in Mumbai. Since my Permanent Resident Visa (CR-1) NVC processing is complete and i received a interview date for date of cr1, I would like to inform you that I will not be attending the K3 Interview as I have decided to forgo the K3 Visa Interview.

Thank you very much for your assistance in this matter.

Sincerely yours,

Beneficiary Name

Address in India

PHONE:

I HAVE ALSO POSTED THIS ON K3 FORUM (just FYI)

Dear Friends.........advice needed.........

I have received the letter from NVC stating I129 approved and packet will be forwarded to my wife in india

I am now planning to do the CR1, but timeline might be an issue if I don't get the paperwork through via NVC to get a CR1 interview date on time to cancel K3. Any advice?

At what stage can I call NVC and let know about my situation and what can I say to them that I would like to pursue the CRI...... is cancelling K3 to pursue CR1 an issue? Can I and should I cancel K3?

- NVC case number has been assigned for my i130 case. For what automated message on NVC phone can I email DS-3032 and start requesting the IIN. I hope the sending the Agent choiec via email works?

- Do I have to send originals of the documents with DS-230? I am little worried about sending originals, can I sent certified by the Indian government copies to th NVC? did anyone have success with sending the certified copies?

- Any experience with Mumbai embassy? average time to get CR1 interview once NVC receives NOA2?

Thanks

Best Wishes for you and all your loved ones

Thank you champi, i forgot to put that. You are correct, will need to take the vfs receipt also..

One thing I see missing in this list is VFS Receipt. I am not sure if they ask for it or not, but better be safe and carry it with you since you'll be carrying everything else anyway..

I prepared the following table of contents listings of documents that needs to be carried during the interview. Please let me know if i am missing something. All of our processing got completed through NVC.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1

Interview Appointment Letter

Approval Notice I-130

Passport

Photos

Medical Report

2

DS – 230 [Original 2nd copy]

I-864 Affidavit of support [Original 2nd copy]

I-130 Petition [Copy]

G325A – [Petitioner]

G325A – [beneficiary]

3

Marriage Certificate [Notarized Copy]

Joint Bank Account Copy

4

Beneficiary Documents

Birth Certificate

Passport Biographic page [Copy]

Police Certificate [Passport & District Police]

5

Petitioner Documents

Birth Certificate

Certificate of Naturalization Page [Copy]

US passport copy

Employment letter

Pay Stubs

Bank Statement

6

TAX related Documents

Tax payer identification number[iTIN] - Spouse [beneficiary]

2008 Joint Tax Return [Copy]

2008 W-2, 1099 Interest Income

2008 IRS Tax Transcript

2007 IRS Tax Transcript

2006 IRS Tax Transcript

7

Pictures

Emails

Phone Bill’s

Mails & Cards

Air Travel Ticket’s of visits[Petitioner]

Wedding Invitation Card

Wedding AD – New Paper

If NVC sent a mail to you, call them and find out if they have a case # for your K1 and also ask whether your info was forwarded to the embassy. For my K3, NVC sent me a mail saying that the case has been forwarded to the embassy and embassy will mail the details. I recieved a interview appointment email from the embassy with attachments and also embassy sent a mail to the beneficiary. After the approval;for us It took a month to recieve the email and another 1 more week beneficiary to recieve the instruction packet through mail from the embassy.

This was K3, not sure if there is a big difference for K1..

The NVC sent me their letter dated April 8th, 2009. It stated that my fiancee will soon receive information from the consulate. It's been more than a month now. She has yet to receive anything. I sent an email to the NVC, but haven't got a reply yet. When I received the letter from the NVC like I did, I shouldn't have to do anything right? I just wait? Is my wait about right? What does this all mean? I hope my fiancee will get some answer soon. If she still doesn't receive anything by end of June, I'm going to be very worried. Please shed some light on this for me. Thanks.

The requirement is to sent the beneficiary's passport biographic page along with the other ds230 documents. Is there a reason why you want to include the residency card?

I dont think you need to include that...

My husband was wondering if he needs to include a copy of his French residency card along with a copy of his Moroccan passport in the DS 230 packet?

Hope you read my reply to your other post. As i mentioned in your other post, same thing happened to me also. If the operator told you that your documents are currently under review and if everything is fine then they will close the case soon. Call them tomorrow morning and get a confirmation again that they are looking at your docs and it is a false RFE email message. I also got the email saying DS230 documents missing. AVR doesnt get updated regularly, and from now on it's a good idea to keep the communication with the live operator.

hey, please need help.

I mailed my I-864 and next day mailed DS230.

last week, it said Ds 230 received and under review, but AVR says missing documents

Today, in morning, operator said DS 230 received and under review, AV R still says missing documents. operator confirmd no missing documents.

Today in evening I recieved e-mail from NVC checklist stating DS 230 I missing. I submitted everything/ How's that possible.

What should I do

There is a possiblity that you may have paid IV[DS230] fee online early before you got the IV bill email from NVC. I checked your timeline and it appears that's what happened. I had the same issue and i had to call NVC a few times and they finally forwarded it to a supervisor for review and then my case got completed in a few days. It appears that one of their system shows paid and the other one's shows not paid.

I would advice you call and speak to an operator [bad annoying operator? call back again and speak to a different person] and they will need to forward it to supervisor review. Also, I doubt you will now get a june interview... We got a June end interview like 2 weeks back.

Hey Everyone<

I submitted everything April 28 and was expecting June interview. But it just got posted on Bombay consulate and our file number is not on it.

We submitted every DS230 with evidence document April 28. NVC AVR system said it received on May 5 and pending review. Then, NVC system says "NVC has reviewed documents and found information misssing. A checklist of missing documents was generated on May 12, 2009 and will arrive in net 4-6 weeks." When I called NVC, they say we have DS 230 but it's may not yet be reviewed by NVC.

SO does anyone know what's causing this delay as I submitted DS230 April 28 and still pending review. Still no case complete to this date. Please help.

Trushar

NWD = New Delhi --> http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/visa_interview_dates.html <check the may link> I don't think you will get the June interview, looks like a july -august

Agreed. I think your interview is in New Delhi.

But I'd call NVC to be sure. Speak to an agent.

Good luck.

^^ Agreed. Call NVC and they should be able to tell you. As far as a date goes, it is consulate specific. Some are busier than others so the wait varies. You may be looking at anything from June to July /August but again it depends on the case load at your particular consulate. Good luck

thanks a lot dear............................

If you currently reside in bangalore, get the following.

1. District Police

Get this from the district police [Office of the commissioner of Police - Bangalore city]

2. From Passport office. get the [Police clearance certificate]

They might need to see your approval letter... Carry a copy of completed DS230 , passport photos

hi guys

Is there any one here who has obtained PCC from bangalore police.

i need one and would appreciate if some one can guide me through steps so that i can obtain that asap..

thanks,