ericsami

Hello all.

my wife is about to go to Abu Dhabi for an interview for Immigrant Visa via Citizen Spouse.

do you know if she needs to schedule an Empost or any other courier location for passport pickup?

or is she still able to do drop off the passport at the embassy and pick it up in a few days.

The embassy posts on their FAQ site that they will only accept passports for visa stamping at 1:30 PM on Sundays. They also indicate that you should show up on thursday to pick it up.

wednesday:is citizen's service day.

two questions?

1.is it possible to submit your passport for visa issuance on day other than sunday? if so what times?

2.Is it possible to get your pick you passport up from them on a day other than thursday @ 2:30 PM

vadood,

I was in abu dhabi in November.

you are correct I too was only able to fill the form DS-156 online with barcode.

the form DS-157 was only available online without the barcode.

lol

nope guys i am sending my family on Sudany the December 27th to get her visa. I am completely prepared to hear from them oh no it is not ready comeback three days later.

You sent your Dad with Fiance's passport to the embassy?!!!

I thought your fiance has to be present at the time of handing over the blue paper with passport...

its clearly wrote it on the Ankara's website that for K-1, K3/CR-1 fiance(e) has to be present at the time of handing the blue paper, maybe abu dhabi is different, who knows!!!! let us know if she gets her visa

some times it takes 3-5 days.

KGH no on AbuDhabi site there is no such thing. and actually the embassy prefered me to mail her passport so they can mail it back. unfortunately iranian prevents us to mail in the passport so that's why i sent my dad in person

http://abudhabi.usembassy.gov/iv/faq.html

but embassy is clearly aware that folks have limited stay in UAE because of visa limitations so therefore they allow other to bring your passport for stamping visa.

This was even the case in 1998 with my dad's green card processing.

You might face only one problem, SSN office may not issue a SSN number if she is married to you, until you are done with AOS process.

becareful of name change, I was considering the same thing for my fiancee, but I end up giving up becasue then she has to change her name on her iranian passport/ birth certificate and etc. and is pain in the..... dealing with interest section of iran in DC.

if she doen't change it on iranian password, what if she decide to travel to iran, when with which name should she reserver the ticket?! correct me if I'm incorrect.

about name changes, I have had my brother change his first during his citizenship process. he even went so far as to remove his middle name completely as well.

yet when he travels to iran he just puts all the names the ticket and he has no problem. so for instance he puts an aggregate names on all his passports (iranian and american)

thus far he has travled twice he has not had a problem (The arilines seem to be familar with the problem.)

her case number appeared on the site four days ago.

I sent my dad with my Fiance's passport and Blue sheet to Abu dhabi embassy this sunday (December 20th).

so after 28 days of administrative procesing the embassy tells my dad the visa should be the next sunday (december 27th).

I was under the impression that the visa will be stamped by maximum a couple of days delay but apprantly not. I guess thursday being christmass holidays adds to delays.

my fingers are still crossed.

Hi folks,

with the thanks to all the info I have read on this site and it's lovely Contributors we are finally out of woods.

my fiancee is finally out of Administrative processing of U.S Embassy in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). That process fortunately only took 25 days which is three days short of 2-4 weeks estimate the embassy staff had provided at the time of the interview.

I have already acquired marriage license from state of Maryland.

The county administering the marriage does not require her to have social security number.

does any one see any problem with me first having the marriage (getting that out of way since I have an appointment for it).

and then heading to social security office to get her a social security number.

I actually think this might save me some time because the name change occurs on the marriage license so i can apply for her social security card with her married name.

any insight?