Interview: Jan 18th. 2008

[edchels 5]

Hi,

I know there are lists around here and the whole internet which tells you what you need for the interview, but i'm just going to list everything i have for my interview, and maybe someone can tell me if i need more, less, or everything i have is ok?

It's for a CR-1 Visa, I have known my wife for 7 1/2 years, married for 1 & 1/2 years.

She works in Los Angeles, I have been apart from her, waiting here for, what will be at the time of interview, 7 months!

Heres what i have:-

-Copies of passports (mine and wife's) and Original - OF COURSE!

-Copy of Birth Cert. - Sent original to NVC (now should be at Embassy)

-Copy of Police Cert - Sent original to NVC (now at Embassy)

-Copy of Marriage Cert - Sent Original to NVC (now at Embassy)

-U.S. Visa Size Photos (4 of them) (2 / 2 inches)

-Letter from NVC stating interview date, with instructions etc...

Proof of relationship

-Many photos printed onto a couple of sheets of paper of my wife and I spanning the last 7 years, plus a couple of original photos from a few years ago.

-A few emails from a a couple of years ago, and emails from 3 months ago.

-Couple of letters from my wife, and one i wrote to her a year or two ago.

Proof of having lived together, before she went to U.S.

-Bank statement, with both our names on it, and old address.

-Water Bill, both names on it, and our old address.

Proof of my address now

-Utiility Bills

Financial Proof. - She has no tax return from previous years, so i'm taking another affidavit to interview with me so we can add a joint sponsor! (Joint Sponsor is her mother, who has a job, makes more than enough, and has set me all tax returns from last 3 years, including pay stubs to prove she still works there.

-Letter from wifes employer

-Pay stubs from wifes employer

-W-2's from a few years ago (no that that should really help, but im being careful)

Thats it as far as all the documents im taking. The one thing im worried about is the financial stuff, or that maybe at the interview, they won't except a late affidavit of support from a joint sponsor.

Any advice? more documents needed? am i taking too many?

Thank You, and good luck to anyone who has an interview coming up soon!

-Ed & Chelsea

[Lansbury 19]

You have well cover it, but in reality the answer to your question is contain in the check list of documents the Embassy sent you as being what they required.

That isn't a flippant answer it is what must be taken to the interview. No doubt on the day most of what you have listed above if it isn't on the checklist will not see the light of day. We all take extra documents and proof just in case and it is very rarely needed.

Your previous posts suggest the joint sponsor to be a good idea.

[edchels 5]

You have well cover it, but in reality the answer to your question is contain in the check list of documents the Embassy sent you as being what they required.

That isn't a flippant answer it is what must be taken to the interview. No doubt on the day most of what you have listed above if it isn't on the checklist will not see the light of day. We all take extra documents and proof just in case and it is very rarely needed.

Your previous posts suggest the joint sponsor to be a good idea.

Cheers Lansbury,

You have been very helpful during this annoyingly long and painful process we are all going through!

Really appreciate it, Thank You!

[edchels 5]

You have well cover it, but in reality the answer to your question is contain in the check list of documents the Embassy sent you as being what they required.

That isn't a flippant answer it is what must be taken to the interview. No doubt on the day most of what you have listed above if it isn't on the checklist will not see the light of day. We all take extra documents and proof just in case and it is very rarely needed.

Your previous posts suggest the joint sponsor to be a good idea.

So, Do you think the Embassy in London will accept a joint sponsor this late? My wife sent her affidavit ages ago back in the NVC days! Will the Embassy accept a joint sponsor affidavit at my interview, review it right then and there, and (if all is good) approve my visa?

[Lansbury 19]

You have well cover it, but in reality the answer to your question is contain in the check list of documents the Embassy sent you as being what they required.

That isn't a flippant answer it is what must be taken to the interview. No doubt on the day most of what you have listed above if it isn't on the checklist will not see the light of day. We all take extra documents and proof just in case and it is very rarely needed.

Your previous posts suggest the joint sponsor to be a good idea.

So, Do you think the Embassy in London will accept a joint sponsor this late? My wife sent her affidavit ages ago back in the NVC days! Will the Embassy accept a joint sponsor affidavit at my interview, review it right then and there, and (if all is good) approve my visa?

When you go for the interview you will be called to a window to hand over all your documents. When I had done that I was told they would be reviewed by a Consular Officer and I'd be called for the actual interview when they had done so. That was the first time they had seen any documents which supported our claim to meet the financial requirements for the visa. The time between handing over the documents and being called for the interview was 5 minutes. Those documents only got the briefest of examinations just about long enough to make sure we had filled in all the boxes. We used the assets from our house and all they could have done was look to see if the paperwork matched the numbers required. We did direct consular filing and so no documents in support of my financial sponsorship

claimed on the visa application were seen by the Embassy before the day of the interview.

So based on that I think they will. When you go to hand over your documents they will ask for them in the order they are on the check list. Hand over the ones for the joint sponsor when that part is reached and explain you have included them in case they are needed. On my experience if the figures show your support reaches the required amount that is all they want.

It just may well be the interview is a bit longer and more detailed about your sponsors, and obviously you will not know until you get there, but I think the odds are in your favour of it being OK on the day.