Next steps after receiving letter from NVC

[blessedbyhim 4]

Good Morning,

I am new to this site and had a couple of questions I was hoping to get help with. My fiance is from Haiti and so far our process seems to be going well, Praise the Lord.

We sent our packet in, received our first notice saying it was received, then our second notice stating that it was approved and last week I received a notice from the National Visa Center stating that our packet had been forwarded on to the consulate in Port-au-Prince. My fiance went online and completed his DS-160 and submitted it. We then went online and scheduled him an appointment.

Question #1: His interview is scheduled for April 2nd, but our notice of approval expires on Feb 25th, is that going to be a problem?

Question #2: I have already paid the $340 fee for the fiance visa application, is there another fee that is supposed to be paid before his appointment? When I went online to schedule his appointment it asked for a receipt # and I wasn't sure what they were asking for so I just put the barcode # from the confirmation page, but I was reading somewhere after I submitted the appointment that it is supposed to be an actual receipt # that they get from the bank after submitting payment. How do I correct this? Where do I find the receipt #? and is there an additional fee we have to pay at the bank before his interview? Will this hold up our interview process?

Question #3: When should he be receiving his packet from the embassy?

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[2018JourneyDone 77]

There is a lot of confusion about the DS-160 and Fiance Visa applications. Although the DS-160 is a non-immigrant application, the Fiance Visa is for immigrant status. That being said, the interview date you've scheduled online is not the appointment needed for the Fiance Visa - it is for a tourist visa or other visa types but not the K-1. That appointment date for K-1 is specifically scheduled only after packet 3 is returned to the embassy via Haiti Messenger. You will know your interview date once packet 4 is received (shortly after you send packet 3). This is according to the person I spoke with at the Embassy in PAP as well as when my fiance dropped off our packet 3. I was confused with this as well. The good news is that your interview date should be MUCH earlier than April! So yay for that!

Submitting the DS-160 prior to receiving packet 3 is fine. Once the packet is received (ours took almost a month to receive after the packet left the NVC), there is fee your fiance will need to pay at SogeBank in Haiti of $240. The receipt provided needs to be included with all the other required content for packet 3. You can start gathering all info needed for packet 3 now to help expedite the return of the packet after the medical is complete. I'm not sure exactly what the medical exam fee is as my fiance paid for both his daughter and himself and it was around $520 for the two of them. A week after the medical is complete, your fiance will go back to the dr's office and pick up a sealed envelope that must be returned along with the bank receipt from SogeBank and the rest of the required info in packet 3. Packet 3 will be dropped to Haiti Messenger. They will forward to the embassy and advise you of a return date for your fiance to go back to Haiti Messenger to pick up packet 4 - the interview letter.

Whew! Hope I wasn't too confusing with all of this. We are still waiting for our packet 4 and hope to hear something next week.