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| Sydney, Australia |  Review on September 3, 2013: |
AshleyLCBaker
Rating:  | Review Topic: IR-1/CR-1 Visa
I won't add a lot, because I think most of it's been said before. We were quite early for my husband's appointment, but were taken in straightaway. I worried they wouldn't let my son and me accompany my husband past reception, but luckily they did. He was called to the first window very quickly and spent quite a while going through the documents with the first officer. Then we had to wait for about 45 minutes to be called up to the next window.
There the officer asked the standard questions: has my husband ever been arrested or had immigration trouble in the US, has he lived anywhere outside Oz for longer than a year, how many times has he been to the US and what was the longest visit, how did we meet, have we ever been married before, how long have I lived in Oz, etc. She asked a few questions about money and my tax returns, what my husband would be doing for work in the US and how much we've saved. Then she asked a bit about the joint sponsor (my dad) and said everything looked good, save for one thing: proof of my dad's US citizenship. Well, I sent a copy of my dad's passport to the NVC, but it was no where to be found. She kind of acted like she didn't believe me in the first place. So, she gave me a 221g form and asked me to email a copy of the passport ASAP and that the visa would be granted once that was processed. She kept my husband's passport and we've just emailed off the electronic copy we kept on file of my dad's passport, so hopefully all will be fine.
Moral of the story: don't put it past the NVC or the consulates to not lose some of the things you send. We have electronic copies of every piece of our application, so it really wasn't that big of a deal to just send it when we got home. It is, however, really frustrating when you work so hard to dot your i's and cross your t's and provide everything you can and the response you get is 'Oh, yeah, we just lost it. Whatever.' It adds time to an already lengthy process and makes you scramble to do something you've already done once. I know it's been said on here a million times before, but always make copies and always just kind of assume that some of the things you send might just disappear into the ether.
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Consulate / USCIS Member Review #12698