Secrets to Scheduling Interview Online

[Mark and Melyn 0]

Ok, I learned a few secrets to scheduling the interview online, so I want to pass on these special keys to the magic kingdom:

First, location: http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ph/index.html

here is a nice tutorial:

There are going to be 2 challenges that are not obvious:

1. it will require that you enter a priority date; I used the approval date (NO02) of when we were approved.

2. it will ask for an MVR Receipt number; this is simply your Passport Number.

Edited May 13, 2012 by Mark and Melyn

[Mark and Melyn 0]

Ok, I learned a few secrets to scheduling the interview online, so I want to pass on these special keys to the magic kingdom:

First, location: http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ph/index.html

here is a nice tutorial:

There are going to be 2 challenges that are not obvious:

1. it will require that you enter a priority date; I used the approval date (NO02) of when we were approved.

2. it will ask for an MVR Receipt number; this is simply your Passport Number.

I found one other nice piece of info; if you are having troubles and would like to email the US embassy in Manila to work through the final stages, here is their email address: ConsManilaNIV@state.gov

Be sure to provide the names of the Applicant and Sponsor and any official numbers that you have been given to help them locate your records.

[Mark and Melyn 0]

If you schedule like I did, you can save 2 or 3 weeks of waiting but your Fiancee will be scheduled for a 6:30am appointment time; which is a non-priority, first come, first served, basis; so she must arrive at the embassy at 4am to get a good place in line.

Edited May 25, 2012 by Mark and Melyn

[Hank_ 9,173]

If you schedule like I did, you can save 2 or 3 weeks of waiting but your Fiancee will be scheduled for a 6:30am appointment time; which is a non-priority, first come, first served, basis; so she must arrive at the embassy at 4am to get a good place in line.

4AM???!!!!!!!!!! Good grief! We had a 6:30AM time, arrived at 5:30, there were maybe 20-30 in front of us which is nothing, once 6:30 arrived and they were checking people in we were inside the embassy before 7:00AM, approved and out the door by about 10AM.

Sleep a little later folks!

Edited May 26, 2012 by Hank_Amy

[M & M 0]

My iancee was there at 0530, and out by 0900....By doing the onlline schedule she was able to pass many people that were in line well ahead of her. Others still had to adjust paperwork. Have all papers in order and it will speed the process.

[Hank_ 9,173]

My iancee was there at 0530, and out by 0900....By doing the onlline schedule she was able to pass many people that were in line well ahead of her. Others still had to adjust paperwork. Have all papers in order and it will speed the process.

0900... that was very fast!!!

[Mark and Melyn 0]

We got approved!!! Melyn went in at 5am and she was #21 in line; by 6am there were over 300; she was approved by 10:30 am. We're so happy!

We scheduled her interview without waiting for the NVC package (I'm glad because she lives in the province and the delivery guy came to the town, realized where she lived and threw the letter away); so I did not wait for the letter, instead I called USCIS Customer Service at (800) 375-5283 and asked them what her "Case Number" was. This allowed me to schedule her interview online (see http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/312942-how-to-schedule-your-k1-visa-online/

I scheduled her interview date 16 days later to give her papers time to reach Manila and all worked out just great; I'm glad that I did not wait for her letter, because we'd still be waiting.

Also, I recently started my job and so Melyn only had my very first paystub--but this was accepted because I'd just started the new job; also, noteworthy to some who may be in my situation, my job ended just a couple days after sending in the I-129F form, and I was not able to find work until AFTER her I-129F was approved! I qualified with enough for my 1040, and I only had my first 2-week paystub, which only had 8 days of pay, but it was accepted.

Also noteworthy to some who may be in my situation, for job reasons, we had to delay filing for our I-129F for 11-months after I had visited her and gotten engaged; so now, after all of the filing time, we have been apart from each other for 17 months now. It appears that the magic limit is 12-months to file the I-129F, I've heard that "maybe" 13-months, but you really need to try to file that I-129F within 12-months of visiting her--I pushed it to 11-months and we got approved, just fine, it was not even questioned.

[Hank_ 9,173]

Also noteworthy to some who may be in my situation, for job reasons, we had to delay filing for our I-129F for 11-months after I had visited her and gotten engaged; so now, after all of the filing time, we have been apart from each other for 17 months now. It appears that the magic limit is 12-months to file the I-129F, I've heard that "maybe" 13-months, but you really need to try to file that I-129F within 12-months of visiting her--I pushed it to 11-months and we got approved, just fine, it was not even questioned.

You have just short of 2 years after meeting to get the I-129F petition started. In the instructions it states - you need to have met within the past two years.