Help! i129f approved!

[billybobob 0]

hello all. me and my fiancee are absolutley estatic because today we checked online and saw that our petition I129-f has been approved!!

I live in england and she lives in america. Right now she is visiting me in England.

We have used visa journey since the start of our petition to help us along the way and it has been unbelieveably helpful.

BUT now im a little worried. im not quite sure what i should be doing next. amie should have a mail sent to her adress back home.

What do i need to do now?

am i going to be receiving anything in the post?

do i need to start ringing the consulate in england?

how much Money do i need to pay the consulate?

Do i need to get a medical done?

how do i get my interview?

I have loooked though the guides and im just getting confused by aload of different form numbers Thankyou for your help everyone, just panicing a bit here i feel like a deer in headlights.

[GandK 168]

hello all. me and my fiancee are absolutley estatic because today we checked online and saw that our petition I129-f has been approved!!

I live in england and she lives in america. Right now she is visiting me in England.

We have used visa journey since the start of our petition to help us along the way and it has been unbelieveably helpful.

BUT now im a little worried. im not quite sure what i should be doing next. amie should have a mail sent to her adress back home.

What do i need to do now?

am i going to be receiving anything in the post?

do i need to start ringing the consulate in england?

how much Money do i need to pay the consulate?

Do i need to get a medical done?

how do i get my interview?

I have loooked though the guides and im just getting confused by aload of different form numbers Thankyou for your help everyone, just panicing a bit here i feel like a deer in headlights.

Congrats.

In short, your petition will be sent to NVC ( national visa center), then a case number will be assigned to your visa application and your application will be sent to the US Embassy in the UK.

You will receive the so-called packet 3 which tells you what documents you need to gather. You also have to go to medical exam. When you have gathered all the required documents, you call the US embassy and schedule an appointment for interview.

Right now it's a good time to start gathering documents, affidavit of support and financial documents etc

Someone has posted a very good guide for UK somewhere, I can't find it but maybe some other people from UK will help you with that.

p.s. please spend 5 minutes to create/update your timeline, it will help a lot of other people in the forum. Thanks

edited. Please take a look at post #7 in this topic

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/346402-noa2/page__p__5094964#entry5094964

Edited January 19, 2012 by GandK

[billybobob 0]

Congrats.

In short, your petition will be sent to NVC ( national visa center), then a case number will be assigned to your visa application and your application will be sent to the US Embassy in the UK.

You will receive the so-called packet 3 which tells you what documents you need to gather. You also have to go to medical exam. When you have gathered all the required documents, you call the US embassy and schedule an appointment for interview.

Right now it's a good time to start gathering documents, affidavit of support and financial documents etc

Someone has posted a very good guide for UK somewhere, I can't find it but maybe some other people from UK will help you with that.

p.s. please spend 5 minutes to create/update your timeline, it will help a lot of other people in the forum. Thanks

edited. Please take a look at post #7 in this topic

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/346402-noa2/page__p__5094964#entry5094964

Thankyou for your reply. So i cant Ring the us embassy right now?? i have to wait for my package to get to my home address?

[bigdog 376]

Yea, you can't get the cart before the horse, patience grasshopper.

[billybobob 0]

Yea, you can't get the cart before the horse, patience grasshopper.

how much money am i going to need for the interview??

[BisandYessy 4]

Can you take a moment and edit your timeline , the visa fee is $340, plus the medical examination fee which varies from country to country

[skiptex 225]

breathe..!

what do you mean.. I-129F was approved.. when was it sent?!

The American Consulate should be sending you information of what you will need..

[Dan & Jenni 457]

USCIS will send your approved petition to the NVC who will log it in to the system and then forward it to the US embassy in London (expect this to take a good few week right now). once London receives your case they will log it in to their system and mail you packet 3 which will refer you to this website... http://london.usembassy.gov/iv_15.html you then need to follow the instructions given... mainly: fill in and return the forms except DS-2001, book and take your medical... http://www.visamedicals.info/us.asp then once you have done that and gathered all the documents you need like police certificate and afidavit of support, send DS2001 to the embassy. they will then send you an interview appointment.

no point in calling the embassy at all... you do it the way they say.

$350 for the interview.

£210 for the medical. you may also need immunizations if you havent already had them at your GP

[Scafidi454 22]

I don't suppose it's smart to set up the medical interview immediately after receipt of NOA2?

[Dan & Jenni 457]

I don't suppose it's smart to set up the medical interview immediately after receipt of NOA2?

not for London its not. completing the medical before the embassy have logged you in to the system and sent out packet 3 means there is a chance that your medical results will get mislaid at the embassy. all embassies have a certain way that they like things done and trying to beat the system can lead to problems in my opinion... plus a medical can be scheduled within a matter of days in London anyway so it wouldnt really save any time.

[ahmad1966 3]

how much money am i going to need for the interview??

wen did you send ur 129f can u tell me plz

[Dan & Jenni 457]

how much Money do i need to pay the consulate?

besides the visa fee you also have to pay for delivery... about 15 pound i think

[Dan & Jenni 457]

Congrats.

In short, your petition will be sent to NVC ( national visa center), then a case number will be assigned to your visa application and your application will be sent to the US Embassy in the UK.

You will receive the so-called packet 3 which tells you what documents you need to gather. You also have to go to medical exam. When you have gathered all the required documents, you call the US embassy and schedule an appointment for interview.

Right now it's a good time to start gathering documents, affidavit of support and financial documents etc

Someone has posted a very good guide for UK somewhere, I can't find it but maybe some other people from UK will help you with that.

p.s. please spend 5 minutes to create/update your timeline, it will help a lot of other people in the forum. Thanks

edited. Please take a look at post #7 in this topic

http://www.visajourn...64#entry5094964

almost all correct... London will send out an interview appointment letter once they receive medical results and then form DS-2001.

[billybobob 0]

thankyou for the information bud very muchly appreciated we sent out our i129f on 18th august 2011.

Sorry if i sound dumb i just want to make sure.

$350 for the interview and £210 for the medical? do you mean the $350 = the check we sent to them when we first sent it back in august? or an addditional $350? just strange that one wants $$ the other wants ££? and if it is additional do i take the $$ to the us embassy when i go for my interview? feel so lost at the moment lol

Edited January 20, 2012 by billybobob

[Dan & Jenni 457]

thankyou for the information bud very muchly appreciated we sent out our i129f on 18th august 2011.

Sorry if i sound dumb i just want to make sure.

$350 for the interview and £210 for the medical? do you mean the $350 = the check we sent to them when we first sent it back in august? or an addditional $350? just strange that one wants $ the other wants ££? and if it is additional do i take the $ to the us embassy when i go for my interview? feel so lost at the moment lol

you sent your I-129F pretty much the same time as us

yes it is an additional fee. once the embassy give you your interview date you call a phone number in the US and pay the visa fee that way... that is why it is in dollars. the medical fee is paid on the day of your medical in London and that is why it is in pounds.

read the post here by Nich-Nick, it has a lot of good info on what you need to do...

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/346402-noa2/page__p__5112210__fromsearch__1#entry5112210