waiting and worrying

[sarah&rob 1]

Oh gosh I know there are people with far worse issues here than what this is and people who've been waiting WAY longer than me and I really hope everything works out for everyone the way it should, no matter what the issue.

Do you know if England has a sort of "return receipt" for their postal service...where you get a signed post card or something back when they receive the package at the destination?

Edited May 16, 2008 by sarahs

[Lansbury 19]

Oh gosh I know there are people with far worse issues here than what this is and people who've been waiting WAY longer than me and I really hope everything works out for everyone the way it should, no matter what the issue.

Do you know if England has a sort of "return receipt" for their postal service...where you get a signed post card or something back when they receive the package at the destination?

Recorded or Special Delivery you can then go online and see if it has been delivered. However that delays things at the Embassy a few days as that sort of mail goes into the main Embassy mailbox to await collection, and then has to get sorted at the Embassy and passed to the Consular section.

[sarah&rob 1]

Oh gosh I know there are people with far worse issues here than what this is and people who've been waiting WAY longer than me and I really hope everything works out for everyone the way it should, no matter what the issue.

Do you know if England has a sort of "return receipt" for their postal service...where you get a signed post card or something back when they receive the package at the destination?

Recorded or Special Delivery you can then go online and see if it has been delivered. However that delays things at the Embassy a few days as that sort of mail goes into the main Embassy mailbox to await collection, and then has to get sorted at the Embassy and passed to the Consular section.

Thank you for informing me of that

A few days delay is fine with me as long as I can know for sure that they have gotten it.

My fiance should be getting a response email back from them early next week and if they confirm that they never received his Packet 3, I told him to request that they send him another (if they will do that).

For certain reasons he was unable to make copies of the forms so he would need another checklist and whatnot.

*I* have copies I filled out by hand because I was helping him with them so it would be easy to redo them, but he'll still need an additional copy of the checklist with his Case #.

Edited May 17, 2008 by sarahs

[Lansbury 19]

For certain reasons he was unable to make copies of the forms so he would need another checklist and whatnot.

He can download copies of forms from here.

http://www.usembassy.org.uk/cons_new/visa/.../visaforms.html

The online checklist doesn't have the box to put the check mark in but that can be put alongside the item, and he would have to known his case number to write that on. It might save you a fews days if the forms you need are online.

[sarah&rob 1]

For certain reasons he was unable to make copies of the forms so he would need another checklist and whatnot.

He can download copies of forms from here.

http://www.usembassy.org.uk/cons_new/visa/.../visaforms.html

The online checklist doesn't have the box to put the check mark in but that can be put alongside the item, and he would have to known his case number to write that on. It might save you a fews days if the forms you need are online.

Thanks, he's got the forms needed which I think were only DS-156, DS-156K, DS-157, and DS-230 Part 1 only.

Would you happen to know off-hand if on the DS-156, UK citizens need to put their National Insurance Number in the spot where it says "National Identification Number (if applicable)"?

[Lansbury 19]

Would you happen to know off-hand if on the DS-156, UK citizens need to put their National Insurance Number in the spot where it says "National Identification Number (if applicable)"?

I put "not applicable" because the National Insurance Number is not an identification number

[sarah&rob 1]

Would you happen to know off-hand if on the DS-156, UK citizens need to put their National Insurance Number in the spot where it says "National Identification Number (if applicable)"?

I put "not applicable" because the National Insurance Number is not an identification number

Ok thank you again, that was what I thought, I just wanted to be completely sure before he filled the thing out again

[Saffyre 0]

Would you happen to know off-hand if on the DS-156, UK citizens need to put their National Insurance Number in the spot where it says "National Identification Number (if applicable)"?

I put "not applicable" because the National Insurance Number is not an identification number

Ok thank you again, that was what I thought, I just wanted to be completely sure before he filled the thing out again

Yeah I also put N/A

I don't think our NI number would mean anything to them

[sarah&rob 1]

Thanks

and Saffyre GOOD LUCK on your interview tomorrow!

i'll be keeping fingers crossed

[sarah&rob 1]

In case anyone was wondering - Rob finally got an email back from the Embassy yesterday saying that all forms were received, they are just waiting on the IV-15 Document Checklist in order to schedule the interview.

I find this VERY strange considering the checklist was at the top of the pile of papers he sent, so I told him to call them and tell them that.

He did and the woman he spoke with also found it very odd, she said he better email them again and so gave him another code. So now we're waiting till next week due to holiday to get a response back.

At least now we know the papers weren't lost in the post, thats a monkey off my back for sure. Hopefully they can find that checklist, but if not I've already got him to print out another one and fill it out so he's ready to pop that in the mail.

[Lansbury 19]

I send that check list anyway, no harm to do so with a covering letter. Why wait while they look for it. It has obviously got separated from the other papers and could be anywhere.