no K1 visa in the mail yet!!

[GA123 0]

We finally had our interview in Montreal for a K1 visa Nov, 21 2011. We are approved and they told us to expect the Passport and Visa in 5 working days. Well we are still waiting for it and don't know how to find out why it takes so long. I called DOS and they confirm the k1 visa has been issued. No waybill # yet. What should we do?

[Inky 1,110]

Try emailing Montreal, if DOS says it was issued, it could be sitting in the mail room at Montreal somewhere under a stack and didn't get sent out.

[tracy&david 2]

Did you call your local DHL? Do you remember if you registered at DHL to deliver your passport to your home or you pick it up yourself? I say this because if you asked they to deliver it to your home it takes longer time. Otherwise, call DHL and check if they got your package.

If they don't have it, you need to figure out what is going on as it really takes too long. We have our interview in Montreal on Nov 23rd,2011 and most of us got ours on 30th or Dec 1st.

[GA123 0]

Try emailing Montreal, if DOS says it was issued, it could be sitting in the mail room at Montreal somewhere under a stack and didn't get sent out.

I did and this is the answerd provided

"Dear Applicant,

The document status information only appears once your personal documents have been returned by the Embassy or Consulate for shipment to your designated DHL location. As the time it takes to adjudicate an applicant's case is at the sole discretion of the consular section we cannot provide you any information regarding when your personal documents will be turned over to DHL.

We would advise you to keep checking your applicant summary page.

The Contact Desk Support Team"

No help there from them, we can't talk to nobody in that Consulate.

[GA123 0]

Did you call your local DHL? Do you remember if you registered at DHL to deliver your passport to your home or you pick it up yourself? I say this because if you asked they to deliver it to your home it takes longer time. Otherwise, call DHL and check if they got your package.

If they don't have it, you need to figure out what is going on as it really takes too long. We have our interview in Montreal on Nov 23rd,2011 and most of us got ours on 30th or Dec 1st.

We are registred at DHL and not set-up for home delivery. I have called DHL/Loomis and without waybill# they can't help me. You can't call the local branch, it's only a call center who answerd the phone.

I have been a lurker on this web-site and i finally decided to post to see if anyone experiment this long waiting period...I wish i could go to the consulate and find out.

[Udella&Wiz 325]

We are registred at DHL and not set-up for home delivery. I have called DHL/Loomis and without waybill# they can't help me. You can't call the local branch, it's only a call center who answerd the phone.

I have been a lurker on this web-site and i finally decided to post to see if anyone experiment this long waiting period...I wish i could go to the consulate and find out.

Not to discourage you but it's only been 8-9 business days 'maybe' since your interview on Nov 21 - I'm sure the workers at the US consulate took US Thanksgiving off which means they started mid Weds of that same week and weren't back to work till Mon, Nov 28. If they are like most workers (and we know Montreal is notoriously slow) they were in vacation mode and probably understaffed during that initial week.

I am sorry though since the waiting just about kills us all.

[GA123 0]

Not to discourage you but it's only been 8-9 business days 'maybe' since your interview on Nov 21 - I'm sure the workers at the US consulate took US Thanksgiving off which means they started mid Weds of that same week and weren't back to work till Mon, Nov 28. If they are like most workers (and we know Montreal is notoriously slow) they were in vacation mode and probably understaffed during that initial week.

I am sorry though since the waiting just about kills us all.

Like some posters here comments "We have our interview in Montreal on Nov 23rd,2011 and most of us got ours on 30th or Dec 1st." That's the reason i'm getting suspicious, hope it's not lost behind a desk...

[S and P 9]

Is your DHL location close enough to stop in at?? You won't need a waybill number if you show up at the location, just your name and a valid ID.

[GA123 0]

Is your DHL location close enough to stop in at?? You won't need a waybill number if you show up at the location, just your name and a valid ID.

It's about 45 minutes, we stopped there last Friday. No counter, just a warehouse. A lady help us but nothing to pick-up.

[Rchi 1]

You could try using your reference id number (found on the applicant summary page online) and see if dhl can locate anything that way.

They had asked me to verify that number when they called me yesterday to arrange for delivery to my house. Hope that helps! Fingers crossed for you!

[GA123 0]

Well, well, well....

Just got an e-mail stating that they need a "fiance letter of intend" to proceed, wich we had at the interview but they didn't ask for it. I just scanned it now and it should be OK (if the gentleman is not in vacation)

This process is in the 16th months now and it's been one thing after another. God bless my fiancee, it's killing her.

[CDN2US 10]

OMG, that burns me up! What the hell?

[GA123 0]

OMG, that burns me up! What the hell?

Little background story,

I know her since i was 14 years old and dating for 5 years until we got seperated by life. We found each others 30 years later and still madly in love with each others. I'm in the USA and she is in Canada, both outstanding citizen, both financially secured. K1 was sent 08/26/10. I wish i could say we are responsible for the delay but we are not, the whole process has been terrible. We should have got married last year instead.

[CDN2US 10]

Man, who's to say what would've been better...check out my timeline...We got married earlier that we would've preferred in order to avoid the K1 route. My husband SHOULD BE on his way home in time for Christmas, and instead we've been shelved into the dreaded "administrative processing." My poor adorable man freezing in another Canadian winter as we spend our first year of marriage in a long-distance relationship...We are awesome citizens, too!

No matter where you are, no matter how well you've done, you're still at the whims and mercies of powers greater than yourself that ultimately just do not give a flying f&%^ about us or our families.

Sorry, but I'm feeling a bit screwed right now, and I'm upset for you as well. Ridiculousness...

Edited December 6, 2011 by Tercerero

[Udella&Wiz 325]

Whata bunch of buggers, why couldn;t they just tell you that over the phone, I mean seriously. You could have had it faxed long ago.

Well, well, well....

Just got an e-mail stating that they need a "fiance letter of intend" to proceed, wich we had at the interview but they didn't ask for it. I just scanned it now and it should be OK (if the gentleman is not in vacation)

This process is in the 16th months now and it's been one thing after another. God bless my fiancee, it's killing her.