Help with this last phase our long journey please!

[grifols 1]

Hey everybody...

I just received an E-mail from Embassy four days ago, after I e-mailed them requesting interview date for my fiancee, informing me that my fiancee is scheduled for interview on February 14, 2011. They wrote 2011 as opposed to 2012? Do you think this was a typo? My fiancee didn't receive an appointment letter in the mail yet. She is anxiously waiting. Should I just wait a while for the letter to arrive or just ask them if they meant to say 2012?

secondly, my fiancee and I had interview on April 5, 2011 for the same fiancee visa and got denied. The interviewing consular didnt give her original birth certificate back to her. I kept sending them e-mail to check if they have it in her old file. But they haven't responded on that. Should she start the process of issueing another one or what? please give me any input and I so appreciate it.

Sincerely

[GnBnL 50]

It must be a typo! I would get a new BC. prolly not gonna see that one again. I seem to remember reading something about not giving them your only photos if you want them back because they may keep them on file. Could be the same with the BC. I hope they get back to you about the interview, and pretty important considering that date will fall on a different day of the week than it did in 2011.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Hey everybody...

I just received an E-mail from Embassy four days ago, after I e-mailed them requesting interview date for my fiancee, informing me that my fiancee is scheduled for interview on February 14, 2011. They wrote 2011 as opposed to 2012? Do you think this was a typo? My fiancee didn't receive an appointment letter in the mail yet. She is anxiously waiting. Should I just wait a while for the letter to arrive or just ask them if they meant to say 2012?

secondly, my fiancee and I had interview on April 5, 2011 for the same fiancee visa and got denied. The interviewing consular didnt give her original birth certificate back to her. I kept sending them e-mail to check if they have it in her old file. But they haven't responded on that. Should she start the process of issueing another one or what? please give me any input and I so appreciate it.

Sincerely

Yes it is a typo. You will not get the BC back. Order another one from the official office that keeps such things.

[grifols 1]

Yes it is a typo. You will not get the BC back. Order another one from the official office that keeps such things.

Thanks very much for the input...

let's say I get another one from officials and they (embassy) happen to have the old one there in their file during interview, wouldn'be a problem to have two original BC? I have been hearing things like you cannot have two original BC at the same time...However, I am not sure if that was true.

Thanks in advance

[Dave&Roza 748]

There is one and only one original of anything--that is why you never give up the original. The others are either copies or certified copies of the ORIGINAL. I used certified copies of my birth certificate, and marriage certificate. I had the original marriage certificate with me, to show them at our AOS interview, but I gave them the certified copy. It is like filing a Deed to a house, the Clerk scanns in the original and sends it back to you. You have the ORIGINAL and they have a copy. Then then can issue you copies of that original. Please be careful not to give up your original documents to anybody as it is the one and only original. (this is especially true of Wills and Trusts as everyone will want a copy and will check to see if what you have is the original by checking the print or stamps or something tell-tale and if it is not the original, but only a copy then that is a can of worms)

Get another certified copy of the BC or two or three so you have them here in the USA for use later (and not just for immigration purposes). Please look at the instructions of any form you must fill out for the USCIS and look under the heading of 'Copies" to understand what they want in regards to originals verses copies and what happens if you give them an original.

Good luck (actually you are just beginning the journey not coming to the end, there are many phases to go yet),

Dave

Edited January 17, 2012 by Dave&Roza

[S&ET 2]

Hey everybody...

I just received an E-mail from Embassy four days ago, after I e-mailed them requesting interview date for my fiancee, informing me that my fiancee is scheduled for interview on February 14, 2011. They wrote 2011 as opposed to 2012? Do you think this was a typo? My fiancee didn't receive an appointment letter in the mail yet. She is anxiously waiting. Should I just wait a while for the letter to arrive or just ask them if they meant to say 2012?

secondly, my fiancee and I had interview on April 5, 2011 for the same fiancee visa and got denied. The interviewing consular didnt give her original birth certificate back to her. I kept sending them e-mail to check if they have it in her old file. But they haven't responded on that. Should she start the process of issueing another one or what? please give me any input and I so appreciate it.

Sincerely

Hello Congratulations on your interview date. Tell your fiancee to go to Embassy and to see the visa office to get her interview letter. she need to show her passport and her ADD######## they'll give to her. The embassy they'll not mail her but they'll call...