The 2008 United Kingdom Interview Thread!

[janaus 0]

looks like nothing til the 25th

[lostpup 0]

No more updates yet? What happened to the roll London was on?!?!

Hi Guys,

Congratulations to everyone who has been approved & good luck to those off to their interviews...

This is Bea, lostpup's fiance in London... I love this thread, it's so positive and encouraging! I've been hooked and read it all over the past couple of days

I'm not with pup at the moment so I have the time in the evenings! Ha ha...

Thank you for all the posts & support. This group is great, I've been procrastinating about an interview date, but haven't got one yet. Very anxious to add our names to the list, let alone get the big red APPROVED letters... Reading through has helped me though

I've had my medical and requested an interview for February last week (by letter, they should have received on Thursday). When do you think I'll hear from them? Just sent the consular an email & lost pup is calling the DOS line later. I wonder why there haven't been new interview dates to add? Strange....

If I do hear anything, I'll let you all know...

Cheers,

B x

[janaus 0]

No more updates yet? What happened to the roll London was on?!?!

Hi Guys,

Congratulations to everyone who has been approved & good luck to those off to their interviews...

This is Bea, lostpup's fiance in London... I love this thread, it's so positive and encouraging! I've been hooked and read it all over the past couple of days

I'm not with pup at the moment so I have the time in the evenings! Ha ha...

Thank you for all the posts & support. This group is great, I've been procrastinating about an interview date, but haven't got one yet. Very anxious to add our names to the list, let alone get the big red APPROVED letters... Reading through has helped me though

I've had my medical and requested an interview for February last week (by letter, they should have received on Thursday). When do you think I'll hear from them? Just sent the consular an email & lost pup is calling the DOS line later. I wonder why there haven't been new interview dates to add? Strange....

If I do hear anything, I'll let you all know...

Cheers,

B x

H

We are in the same boat as u...just sent in packet 3 and my fiance is emailing them regarding an interview date before March. Here's hoping that we all get a timely date

[mustang-sally 8]

Does London know our thread keeper Julez is on vacation?

Maybe they are waiting for her to get back before they release more dates!!!!!

[lostpup 0]

Does London know our thread keeper Julez is on vacation?

Maybe they are waiting for her to get back before they release more dates!!!!!

In that case maybe we had better call Julez & request they come back

[Jeraly 4]

Defo... she should be up North though and I'm from the good ol' west country...

[DD2004 0]

Hi all you UK VJ'ers just updating things here ,just getting ready to set off to catch a plane from Belfast to London for my interview at 10am tomorrow and its grey damp and miserable as usual LOL whats new there !!!

Last minute checks are all done and everything accounted for and marked present and correct though does not stop this Adult male from feeling like the proverbial shoolboy being sent to the headmasters office full of dread and anticipation even tho u know you've done nothing wrong LOL . Last minute jitters I suppose never was good at interviews nerves kick in and that childhood stammer i used to suffer so badly from kicks in and i become the jabbering idiot once more.

Funny how somethings never leave you no matter how old you are.

Well needless to say good thoughts and positive vibes from anybody will be appreciated very much LOL . I'll update how it all turns out after the event I dont post much here but this site has always been a great help over the last months and through reading the many posts I feel i've come to know a lot of you guys and shared the pain and the joy as it happened.

Well enough babble must go and get ready.

[mustang-sally 8]

Hi all you UK VJ'ers just updating things here ,just getting ready to set off to catch a plane from Belfast to London for my interview at 10am tomorrow and its grey damp and miserable as usual LOL whats new there !!!

Last minute checks are all done and everything accounted for and marked present and correct though does not stop this Adult male from feeling like the proverbial shoolboy being sent to the headmasters office full of dread and anticipation even tho u know you've done nothing wrong LOL . Last minute jitters I suppose never was good at interviews nerves kick in and that childhood stammer i used to suffer so badly from kicks in and i become the jabbering idiot once more.

Funny how somethings never leave you no matter how old you are.

Well needless to say good thoughts and positive vibes from anybody will be appreciated very much LOL . I'll update how it all turns out after the event I dont post much here but this site has always been a great help over the last months and through reading the many posts I feel i've come to know a lot of you guys and shared the pain and the joy as it happened.

Well enough babble must go and get ready.

Best of luck tomorrow

You will be fine, nothing to it, just be yourself.

Looking forward to another APPROVAL, seems a long time since the last one.

[DonnaB 0]

Hi

I am waiting for packet 3 to come through but just wanted to ask a few quick questions:

1. Do we only return Part 1 (pages 1&2) of the DS-230-1? What happens to part 2? Do we fill this out at the interview?

2. How do you email the embassy re. interview dates. I'm hoping to have one as quickly as possible so i'll email the embassy once we've returned packet 3 if that will help.

3. Vacinations - I have some of the original childhood records that i've had most of them. Can I take these 20+ year old records to my medical?

Thanks and good luck to those with interviews coming up!

[coatsy 0]

Hey congrats to everyone, looks like an awesome start to the year!!

what a bunch of belated Christmas pressies from the state department

[Jeraly 4]

Good luck DD!!! Am sending warm fuzzy thoughts and things for you!!

[gwenneh 7]

1. Do we only return Part 1 (pages 1&2) of the DS-230-1? What happens to part 2? Do we fill this out at the interview?

Yes. You only return part 1; part 2 is finished at the interview.

2. How do you email the embassy re. interview dates. I'm hoping to have one as quickly as possible so i'll email the embassy once we've returned packet 3 if that will help.

You need to ring up the premium rate number (the extortion or misinformation line) and get a code to put in the subject of your e-mail; otherwise, your e-mail gets deleted without being read (in theory - some people still get responses but if you actually want one, you need the code!)

3. Vacinations - I have some of the original childhood records that i've had most of them. Can I take these 20+ year old records to my medical?

Yep!

[Jeraly 4]

3. Vacinations - I have some of the original childhood records that i've had most of them. Can I take these 20+ year old records to my medical?

Yep!

Make sure they aren't ones like tetanus that have to be renewed every 10 years though!

[Courtney 1]

Hi

I am waiting for packet 3 to come through but just wanted to ask a few quick questions:

1. Do we only return Part 1 (pages 1&2) of the DS-230-1? What happens to part 2? Do we fill this out at the interview?

2. How do you email the embassy re. interview dates. I'm hoping to have one as quickly as possible so i'll email the embassy once we've returned packet 3 if that will help.

3. Vacinations - I have some of the original childhood records that i've had most of them. Can I take these 20+ year old records to my medical?

Thanks and good luck to those with interviews coming up!

My fiance just had his medical, and the doctor told him that he didn't need his vaccinations for the K1 visa, just for the AOS once he's in the US. (if you're applying for something other than the K1, you can probably disregard my advice)They told him that it would cost him about 60 pounds to have the vaccinations done at the medical, but that his own GP would probably do them for free (and they have). He also found out that unless his vaccinations were less than 10 years ago, he was going to have to have them done again. SO you can take your vaccination history with you to the medical, but I wouldn't expect you'll need them. My fiance practically knocked himself out finding his, and didn't need them in the end at the medical.

Good luck!

[Jeraly 4]

Thing is if you file for AOS you need them anyway so it is best to get them done here where it can be free if you go through your GP