Johnny & Yumi

Yeah, K-1 has to schedule the interview themselves through the website

Just wish we could get some kind of response. Why can't it be like all the other embassys where you make your appointment over the phone instead of a website submission...

Hey klester,

Thanks for the message! No we have not received ours yet. If others are having problems, then something is going on. I agree, I don't like the website format. Also, there is no way to contact anyone in case there is a problem.

Hey Japan Filers! I was wondering if I could get your input.

My fiancee and I applied for a K1 and everything has been going well. Since I was planning on coming to Tokyo in June, I was hoping to attend the interview with her. She applied for her interview time on the Embassy's website on May 8th. She then made her EasyPay on the 12th. She had no response since then, so she applied again on the 18th. She is getting a little worried about it, but I read on the site that it could take up to 14 working days to get a response. My question is to you all is, how long has it taken you to get a response from the Embassy about the interview date? Thanks!

When I requested my appointment for IR-1, I got a confirmation email the same day.

I am guessing their response is slow because the consular section is busy handling extra cases because of the Golden Week holiday.

Thanks for your reply, redglasses.

I hope that is the case and that she'll get a reply soon. Now that I think about it, she might have put the wrong data in the request (like the wrong case number or something), so I'll have to go over that with her to make sure that everything was correct.

Thanks again!

Hey Japan Filers! I was wondering if I could get your input.

My fiancee and I applied for a K1 and everything has been going well. Since I was planning on coming to Tokyo in June, I was hoping to attend the interview with her. She applied for her interview time on the Embassy's website on May 8th. She then made her EasyPay on the 12th. She had no response since then, so she applied again on the 18th. She is getting a little worried about it, but I read on the site that it could take up to 14 working days to get a response. My question is to you all is, how long has it taken you to get a response from the Embassy about the interview date? Thanks!

I was going to say, "Look under the couch" or something, but you found it. Good luck at the interview!

By the way...where did you find it? Was it under the couch?

We got our NOA2 in the mail yesterday (03/16/09), and it said it was approved on 03/11/09. I guess that it was mailed on the 12th, and took 4 days to get to Seattle. Hope that everyone else gets theirs soon too.

Those are demands not questions. Regardless its perhaps asking a bit much to expect much rational thought from a guy who thinks its somehow clever to compare a black American politician to a Saudi religious extremist because their first names happen to rhyme.

quit dodging the issues, sap. respont to my points that were stated in invitation to your reply.

also, quit calling a half white, 44% arab, 6% black guy who was born god knows where, raised in indonesia, and educated on grants from a saudi family a "black american". he's half white and half arab, whether you like it or not. his name is barak hussein obama. what part of that is african? none, dufus. it's all arab.

His Father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., is Kenyan. His father is African, and nothing else. People of Muslim faith are given Arabic names as part of the faith, like what Catholics sometimes do during Confirmation. Would you call Mohammed Ali, Arabic because of his name?

Careful...you're talking to a bonafide expert on ethnicity and ####### envy.

Yeah, you are right. By his logic, I am German, even though I was born and raised in Iowa, as well as my father, and his father, etc..

Those are demands not questions. Regardless its perhaps asking a bit much to expect much rational thought from a guy who thinks its somehow clever to compare a black American politician to a Saudi religious extremist because their first names happen to rhyme.

quit dodging the issues, sap. respont to my points that were stated in invitation to your reply.

also, quit calling a half white, 44% arab, 6% black guy who was born god knows where, raised in indonesia, and educated on grants from a saudi family a "black american". he's half white and half arab, whether you like it or not. his name is barak hussein obama. what part of that is african? none, dufus. it's all arab.

His Father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., is Kenyan. His father is African, and nothing else. People of Muslim faith are given Arabic names as part of the faith, like what Catholics sometimes do during Confirmation. Would you call Mohammed Ali, Arabic because of his name?

Funny, a year or so ago any soldier who disagreed with Bush and the Iraq War was called a traitor. Now, this guy is called a hero? Politics, politics, politics...

I have a couple of question for those Japan filers that have allready been through the process. The Department of State website says that Japanese Police certificates are in a sealed envelope and if opened is not valid. How do you then make the copies of it that the NVC and embassy want? Also, how do you translate it like the Tokyo embassy site says they want done to all documents not in English?

She just needs one. The NVC will forward their copy on to the Embassy.

The police certificate should come translated as a standard. Even the police department in my wife's backwater little prefecture in northern Honshu issued her a bilingual police certificate when she told them what it was for.

Wow, I just thought of the same question today and found it within minutes on this site! Thanks! I think I'll stick around here for awhile.