miller_Kay's US Immigration Timeline

Petitioner's Name: s
Beneficiary's Name: n
VJ Member: miller_Kay
Country: Russia
Last Updated: 2023-05-28

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Immigration Checklist for s & n:

USCIS I-129F Petition:
Dept of State K1 Visa:
USCIS I-485 Petition:
USCIS I-765 Petition:
USCIS I-131 Petition:
USCIS I-751 Petition:
USCIS N-400 Petition:

K1 Visa
Event	Date
Service Center :	California Service Center
Transferred?	No
Consulate :	Israel
I-129F Sent :
I-129F NOA1 :	2021-05-19
I-129F RFE(s) :
RFE Reply(s) :
I-129F NOA2 :	2022-06-24
NVC Received :	2022-08-04
Date Case #, IIN, and BIN assigned :	2022-08-30
NVC Left :	2022-08-30
Consulate Received :	2022-08-31
Packet 3 Received :
Packet 3 Sent :
Packet 4 Received :
Interview Date :	2022-11-15 Submit Review
Interview Result :
Second Interview (If Required):
Second Interview Result:
Visa Received :	2022-12-01
US Entry :
Marriage :
Comments :
Processing Estimates/Stats :	Your I-129f was approved in 401 days from your NOA1 date. Your interview took 545 days from your I-129F NOA1 date.

Adjustment of Status
Event	Date
CIS Office :
Date Filed :	2022-12-05
NOA Date :	2022-12-10
RFE(s) :
Bio. Appt. :	2023-01-04
AOS Transfer :**
Interview Date :
Approval / Denial Date :
Approved :
Got I551 Stamp :
Greencard Received:
Comments :

Employment Authorization Document
Event	Date
CIS Office :
Filing Method :
Filing Instance :
Date Filed :	2022-12-05
NOA Date :	2022-12-10
RFE(s) :
Bio. Appt. :	2023-01-04
Approved Date :	2023-05-26
Date Card Received :
Comments :
Processing Estimates/Stats :	Your EAD was approved in 172 days.

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Timeline Comments: 21

Champole on 2022-08-09 said:

Hello. I am in a similar situation to you. I expect to get my NOA2 soon (Russian fiance) and K1 processed through California service. However, as the US Embassy servicing Russians is in Warsaw Poland, and Poland is not issuing Schengen visas to Russian citizens, what is your plan to go to another embassy? Thank you.

Miller_Kay on 2022-08-09 said:

I've emailed 20+ embassies. No one has accepted to transfer cases. You must obtain a visa to another schengen zone country. Enter there, then travel to warsaw. Italy and Greece seem to have the highest success rate to obtain schengen visas from. There are many schengen zone countries, beyond poland, that are not accepting russian applicants. Please be sure to double check and make sure they accept before apply. There are VERY few cases where people have been accepted to other embassies. I have only seen success with people who have residency permits in other countries transfer. Otherwise you can try Israel, it's the only country I saw someone of non residency get transferred. If you speak Russian, I can direct you to a telegram channel with similar stories.

Champole on 2022-08-09 said:

Thank you for the info. If she gets a Greek Schengen visa, for example, does that grant her ability to fly from Greece to Poland? I was under the impression that in order to enter Poland she needs a Shengen Visa issued from Poland, no? If that's the case, then we will look into trying Tu get a Greek Schengen visa. We are working with an immigration attorney. She identified Turkey, Dubai and Serbia as our three most likely candidates to switch to. Anecdotally, my fiance says she knows Russians recently who have gotten visas to enter Greece for tourism. Out of curiosity, what is your plan going forward?

Miller_Kay on 2022-08-09 said:

Yup. If she has a schengen visa for any country she can fly to poland from there. Basically once you get inside the schengen zone, you can go wherever within the schengen zone. However, I will say some countries are weird about it and have a requirement that you stay X days in greece for example if you get a greece visa. I'm not 100% sure which countries do this, but it is a thing in some. So be aware of that and do more research. Turkey denied us. Told us that we had to be resident permit holders of turkey, or have our case be anywhere besides in warsaw already. ie case in germany, need to transfer to turkey. Our plan is to hopefully obtain a visa from italy. we are still waiting on nvc# to schedule an interview in poland. But we have already scheduled our medical exam for the end of september. As we expect to have *some* kind of response by then, and the MOscow medicals are filling up quickly. ie, i went yesterday to schedule a medical and the next available date was september 28th. So i recommend you to sign up for medical soon, if your timeline is similar to mine. the results are valid for 6 months, so it is better to do it when u can.

Champole on 2022-08-09 said:

Understand and appreciate it. Did you already go ahead and apply for a Italian Schengen multi entry Visa (as long as possible)?

Miller_Kay on 2022-08-09 said:

No, we are waiting until we get notification that our case is in transit to the embassy. As italy may only grant x amount of days. It would suck to have applied for italy visa too early, just to find out it expires before the actual day we need it.

TorresJ on 2022-09-12 said:

How did you get the interview appointment so soon? Our interview options were at the earliest until March since he is not a resident of Poland