TwoCats

That sounds lovely!! We are going for a "retro / country / garden" wedding, or at least that's what we have in mind.

Do you guys have a date for it yet?

Not yet.

Probably sometime in September, or early October, it's looking like right now.

I may have to plan around my parents going on some trips around that time, but we'll see.

Kata wants to invite in his parents and brother, so we'll have to see what we can do with that, too.

Well.

We're just waiting on our interview date coming around.

Some people have had success moving it up, but we've already made our plans around our date so...

Just a waiting game.

I ordered my dress, and a kilt/midieval shirt combo for Kata.

We're going to do the midieval/semi-fantasy thing.

You should be able to get the TDaP booster on the NHS if it's 10 years since your last one - UK guidelines state that you can have it every 10 years until you've had 5 shots, at which point you are immune.

This should be free, just ask for an appointment.

Having just been to this medical - I can say you require a TDaP in the last 10 years - and you need to have had 2*MMR - I got caught here as I'd had a measles shot, and 1*MMR, so had to get the extra MMR at the medical. (£35 charge)

You also need to have had chicken pox - they'll accept an oral history on this, but do tell the truth, adult chicken pox is bad stuff.

Congrats on getting an interview date! Can't wait till we get ours. Hopefully it will fall in July. Do you guys have a wedding date set or did you put one on your DS-2001 cover letter if I may ask?

We don't actually have a date set.

However, I believe Kata put a date in the end of July on the DS-2001.

I don't know that it had any real effect.

Hey congrats! We're interview buddies, mine is on July 21 too

Hopefully we'll both have good news on the same day.

Congratulations! That must make you so happy.... its so close!

I sent of my packet 3 this week and they should have received my medical results at the same time as the packet.

How long did it take you to get an interview date?

We sent in Packet 3 on 06/01, and it was logged in 06/15. (About two weeks).

The medical was 06/07 and logged in 06/10 (about three days).

We got an interview date by calling DOS on 06/17.

For those of you who have sent off packet 3.... do we need to call up and pay that interview fee before they issue you with an interview date or can it be done after?

Thanks =)

You can pay after you get the interview date.

We haven't paid yet, because Kata hasn't gotten his paycheck for the month yet.

Got our interview date.

July 21st.

Got our interview date.

July 21st.

Now to just wait until then.

I called DOS yesterday and the guy I spoke to said the interview has not been scheduled yet, thought everything has been logged in ok. I wonder how long this will take. Anyone in the same shoes? I might have to call them everyday...lol

In the same boat, ourselves.

Everything logged in, just waiting...

Supposedly our packet 3 was checked in yesterday.

I'm going to have Kata call and double check that again today, though.

The woman he talked to yesterday was apparently a bit snide to him about the whole thing.

I am in dallas until the 30th, and although i have all the forms with me and could mail them from here to London, i intend to wait until i am home as Ashley and I are in no real rush for me to move over here.

Getting packet-3 checked in seems to be what is taking the longest time right now (vs. the medical) in the UK. So even if you aren't in a rush, you might want to send it in early. We sent ours in almost two weeks ago and still no sign of it getting checked in. I think someone mentioned 'up to four weeks' wait in the UK forum. So...

Hi everyone!

Sorry if this seems obvious. My fiance is ready to send his packet 3 documents to the London Embassy. Does he need to attach a photo on the DS-156 in the box for a photo or is that something they do later?

Thanks!

They do it later.

You don't need to attach or send a photo with.

This is covered by the photos you bring to the embassy for your interview.

hi,

i keep reading about people renewing their letter of intent...

I have packet 3 and i have read the interview prep but i dont see anywhere that i need a new letter of intent.

x

As far as I'm aware, for the UK, you won't need it.

Check out the reviews of the embassy.

They are pretty straitforward and don't generally look at relationship evidence.

In a word, no! I had the (pardon the expression) older swedish(?) female Doctor see me and she just did a quick "DC" down below and that was it.

I (the U.S. Fiancee) thought it was quite a weird thing, myself.

It made me a bit uncomfortable hearing about.

Oh, where can I read reviews?

On the menu at the top, there is a link: Reviews: Embassy/USCIS.

Click that.

Then select United Kingdom from the list.

And there you go.

If you read through the reviews of the UK London Embassy, they have never asked for proof of relationship.

It's actually one of the easier embassies to get through.

Check out the reviews and see for yourself.

Of course, you can still /bring/ whatever proof you want, but... 500 or so reviews can't be completely wrong about the process and what they ask for.

So. Packet 3 sent in on June 1st.

Medical was June 7th.

They said the results should be at the embassy by Friday.

Waiting on an interview date...

I went ahead and updated the spreadsheet again.

Lots of people had interview dates they hadn't posted.

We'll be living around Chicago, as of later this year (hopefully).

Copied here from Kata's experiences:

Had the medical today - getting there from nearby Surrey was easy. Had a little troublef inding the building, since the address doesn't point out that the '4' is referring to a room number within a bigger building, so I was looking for a building with a '4' on it. Handed over the paperwork, filled out another form, waited for a bit. They have water int he room - but it's warm.

Immunizations - turns out they didn't have the MMR when I was getting my first vaccinations so I had to get an MMR even though my GP thought I was up to date ( I actually had 1x MMR, 1x Measles). Oww needles. Oww money, too.

XRay - They have you stand in the most odd position to do this, arms by waist, shoulders rolled back to thrust your chest forward against the plate - oh, and as if doing all that at once isn't confusing enough, hold this heavy leather thing with only your thumbs.

Examination - They ask you a lot more questions than I was expecting, and so many of them are completely unrelated to the immigration requirements. I got dietary advice, fitness advise, an eye exam, heart and lung exam, and even a physical check for testicular cancer. (Has anyone else had the doctor offer this?) There was also a height and weight check and a blood test. The doctor made conversation about where I was going and made a few polite inquires about my fiancee, too.

All in all, it was a pleasant enough experience. The staff is all quite friendly and eager to help.

I am well above the poverty line, actually. I had read somewhere previously that I would need to fill in 2 of the sections related to finances so I wasn't sure which 2 I should concern myself with.

You can fill in as many as you need to in order to prove that you have enough income/funds.

It's my understanding that in the UK (London Embassy) they only ask you to provide two proofs of income/funds.

So, any two of the following would be fine:

- **2010 Tax transcript OR 2010 1040 + W2 and supporting documents/forms

- **Employment letter

- **Pay stubs

- **Bank letter

- Insurance information (if using life insurance trade-in value)

- Bond/stock information (if using that)

- (insert any other proofs to back up things you claimed)

The ones marked with ** are the ones I think are the important things. But that's just my personal view, not anything official.

Hey everyone,

January filer here who just got our NOA2 email notification today! I just have a quick question about form I-134. When filling this in, in the section where it asks for the amount of stocks and bonds that you currently hold, should I list funds that are held through my 401k plan or would they be exempt from this?

Thanks!

How close are you to the poverty line?

Will this make an actual difference?

With mine, I had enough that I didn't need to list any of these kind of assets.

If you can cover enough with your salary / other funds, I'd say you probably don't need to worry about it.

Will it matter that ive booked my medical for June 30th? I know they should have logged my petition by then at the embassy, but if they havnt, will it matter??

As long as you have your LND# you should be fine scheduling it.

I think you should be fine on the timing.

That has not been my experience in the UK, but hey - to each their own.

I'm just going off of what I've read on this site, on the UK forums, etc.

Everything says you can send in Packet 3 after the embassy has logged in your forms and sent out the instructions. You don't have to have received them, but they have to have sent it. I think the reason for that is that they need to have the information actually in their system. If you send it before they actually have the case logged in, then it could get set aside/lost/etc more easily.

In any case, my point was -

The OP had said that the embassy had not logged in their case yet, and were wondering if they could send in what they 'think' goes in packet 3. I advised against that, since they didn't sound sure of what they needed. Not all embassies work the same way, and they all require different things. UK is one of the strait-forward ones where you can find everything on the web. It isn't that way for a lot of other places.

Okay thank you. in our case the embassy DID sign for it on May 31st (It was May 30th in the states that was the Memorial Day, not the 31st - it is always the last Monday of May) AND still no packet 3 and we cant get through when we call! Arg! If we send what we think goes in packet 3 how do we know what address to send it to at the embassy?

I wouldn't pre-send anything, even if you know what goes in the packet.

Even in the UK, where packet 3 is on the web, you still have to wait until they issue the packet 3 instructions before sending in the reply mail, and different embassies ask for different things.

At this point, I'm not going to worry much about the vaccinations.

Kata found some form to fill out about the MMR, so I'm leaving it in his hands.

At this point, I've pretty much done everything I can do except wait.