Juarez Consulate

[GabachaYucateca 0]

Sounds great, elguevon. That'll give you a chance to pick up all your bachelor ####### and make your place smell nice and look pretty!

[kitkat1 5]

APPROVED!! It only took 7 long hours!!

I'll provide all the details later, but the good news is she got the K-1 Visa which is all that really matters.

Congrats - what a relief! Glad to hear it all worked out - sometimes it's a LONG day there!

[GabachaYucateca 0]

Just don't like to see this thread all the way down on page 6. Sorry I don't have anything useful to post!

[elguevon 16]

Has anyone entered via a POE on a weekend with a K-1? Since I don't have the vanilla approval envelope in front of me that Juarez provided, I can't type word-for-word what it says however I do seem to remember that it mentions you can enter Monday through Friday 9am-5pm.

We are planning on entering on a Saturday afternoon, hence the question.

Any issues/experiences along these lines?

[kitkat1 5]

Has anyone entered via a POE on a weekend with a K-1? Since I don't have the vanilla approval envelope in front of me that Juarez provided, I can't type word-for-word what it says however I do seem to remember that it mentions you can enter Monday through Friday 9am-5pm.

We are planning on entering on a Saturday afternoon, hence the question.

Any issues/experiences along these lines?

POEs are 24 hours. If you are going to the bridge from CDJ to El Paso and the consulate specified which one you need to go to, there maybe specific hours written there. I don't imagine you'll have any trouble on a Saturday afternoon, aside from possibly a long wait.

[Gaby&Talbert 1]

We crossed the bridge last month and they DID NOT put a specific time you had to go. We went at 1:00AM and there were over 50 people there. Right now the average time to cross is over 2 hours most of the time, then you have to go inside. You will wait in line for however long it takes, it is always busy because B1/B2 visa holders are always trying to get I-94s so they can travel in the US.

[elguevon 16]

I know I'm beyond the Juarez Consulate stage but since its where she got the visa and you all have been so helpful, I hope you don't mind me posting our experience here through the POE and AOS stages.

Well...change of plans Her family wants to come with her to visit so this has made things a little more interesting and, unexpectedly, more expensive. We have scrapped the plan to cross via the San Diego POE.

The date for our entry is now August 18th. Here is how it happened...So Frontier Airlines had an AWESOME price on RT tickets from Mazatlan to Minneapolis with a stop in Denver..which makes Denver the lucky winner as our POE. I checked all the prices for 2 roundtrips (for her family) and 1 one-way(for her). PLUS, I decided to fly down to Mazatlan and return with them....on the same day. So yeah...I leave Minneapolis on a 6:30am flight...connect in Denver at 9:10am....arrive in Mazatlan at noon. She, her family, and I board the same plane I just got off of and we depart at 12:50pm...then arrive in Denver at 3:45pm and pass through immigration and hope all goes well...we then catch a 7:05pm flight to Minneapolis and hopefully arrive at 9:55pm. WHEW!

The joke of all this is AFTER I purchased the 2 RT tickets for her family online, the damn price went up $100 for her OW ticket...and after I bought her OW ticket, the damn price went up again!!!! So MY flight to Mazatlan ended up being $160 MORE simply because I bought their tickets first. LOL I love airline prices and their logic.

So there it is....all scheduled and now lets see what happens on August 18th.

Edited August 10, 2007 by elguevon

[GabachaYucateca 0]

I hope that more people continue to come back and post their AOS experiences...I especially liked seeing people like Allie&Leo and JessiPooh come back to talk about how their fellows are adjusting!

Good luck with your trip, Elguevon!

[GabachaYucateca 0]

I hope that more people continue to come back and post their AOS experiences...I especially liked seeing people like Allie&Leo and JessiPooh come back to talk about how their fellows are adjusting!

Good luck with your trip, Elguevon!

[GabachaYucateca 0]

I hope that more people continue to come back and post their AOS experiences...I especially liked seeing people like Allie&Leo and JessiPooh come back to talk about how their fellows are adjusting!

Good luck with your trip, Elguevon!

sorry about that

[Allie&Leo 0]

what a long day you will have. Wow that is a lot of different flights in one day.

Can't wait to hear about it when you get back.

No touches since June on our AOS. But thankfully he is working and enjoying his first week at work.

Allie

[the.ronin 0]

Hi All ... sorry for duplicate post. My fiance is pretty sure she will be on her period during the week we had planned to be in Ciudad Juarez. Is this going to be an issue with respect to the medical exam?

Any advice GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.

[kitkat1 5]

Hi All ... sorry for duplicate post. My fiance is pretty sure she will be on her period during the week we had planned to be in Ciudad Juarez. Is this going to be an issue with respect to the medical exam?

Any advice GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.

I wouldn't worry about it - I don't even think they normally do anything gynocological but even if they do, they had to have encountered this before. Good luck.

[chicurious 0]

Between the NOA1 and the NOA2 I want to prepare as much as possible (since I don't want to be rushing around last minute and b-c I won't be able to dedicate as much concentrated time to it like I did with my trying-to-beat-the-deadline I-129F package). Does anyone have a relatively comprehensive list of what my fiance will need to take to the interview?

I've tried my best to read as much of this thread as possible, but am still only about half way. I did read that many who received those forms in the mail mentioned them being elegible photo copies. Can I just download these forms (whichever ones they are) off-line and start getting them filled out?

Also, can someone please explain to me what the different Packages are and what they mean?

Thanks sooo much, folks.

[kitkat1 5]

Between the NOA1 and the NOA2 I want to prepare as much as possible (since I don't want to be rushing around last minute and b-c I won't be able to dedicate as much concentrated time to it like I did with my trying-to-beat-the-deadline I-129F package). Does anyone have a relatively comprehensive list of what my fiance will need to take to the interview?

I've tried my best to read as much of this thread as possible, but am still only about half way. I did read that many who received those forms in the mail mentioned them being elegible photo copies. Can I just download these forms (whichever ones they are) off-line and start getting them filled out?

Also, can someone please explain to me what the different Packages are and what they mean?

Thanks sooo much, folks.

You should get all the forms online from the CDJ website under "Fiance Packet" - a couple create the barcodes which is now necessary. There is only one package from CDJ - it's the same as the website. If you get everything online, everything that comes in the package will be garbage -- but you need the "open appointment" letter from the package to get into the consulate so that's that one think you'll be waiting to receive. Everything else you can prepare in advance, as well as gather all your financial and employment paperwork.