People waiting for cr1 visa August interview in Philippines

[RickieAndEva 0]

I feel for you filiricans, I am 1 month behind you. We were married in October and my goal is to reunite before our first wedding anniversary. I havent seen Eva since I left her at the airport in Iloilo 2 weeks after our wedding.

[Filiricans 3]

I feel for you filiricans, I am 1 month behind you. We were married in October and my goal is to reunite before our first wedding anniversary. I havent seen Eva since I left her at the airport in Iloilo 2 weeks after our wedding.

My hubby called a while ago and told me he is going to come Phils on September on our wedding anniversary date but I am reluctant because of the expenses vice-versa I find it not practical at all considering the number of days he will stay.

I assumed your wife is an Ilongga, me too from Bacolod I can speak Ilongo as well though not fluent. Good luck to you both.

[onizuka 0]

My husband just got off from the NVC representative named Shelly; she was extra nice & very patient explaining to my husband queries. Per her, the jurisdictions of scheduling CR1/IR1's interview that NVC is totally dependent to the USEM-MNL consulate because basically the consulate will be the one to give NVC the go signal based on dates from them. I am trying to analyze and realized the situation between K1/K3's against CR1/IR2's at USEM-MNL & hope I am wrong with this!

K1/K3 visas - paid the Non-immigrant visa to BPI amounting $131 per applicant & mode of payments are directed to USEM-MNL BPI Account, while CR1/IR1 Immigrant visa $400 were paid ahead of time & payments directly went to NVC, while papers/petitions are still on process. Meaning, does the Philippine Embassy prioritize this K1/K3 applicants in terms of interview scheduling (no offensement to K1/K3) since they paid the non-immigrants direct to their BPI ACCOUNT? Retrieving & gathering of money somehow for the consulates properties??? while CR1/IR1s is for NVC??? The point of my realization is: USEM-MNL will only give interview schedules to NVC specifically for CR1/IR1 once the said consulate done with all the scheduling of K1/K3??? Is this kind of a joke? If it is oohhh my goodness! Give me a fu-cking break!

By the way, until now we don't have an interview date and most likely we will fall on the September lists.

Yea that makes alot of sense, if anything this is the way most people would go if there is fraud, you know just get a visa and not for real love,to come to USA becuse it is faster, and less questions etc...

If you notice in my signature I'm also a K3 petitioner and I don't believe the USEM in Manila is prioritizing K1/K3's in giving out interview schedules because they get paid locally. They schedule appointments before the applicants even pays for the visa application. Furthermore, where do you think the money the K1/K3's applicants pay goes? I'm sure they are transmitted back to the US.

And the fraud thing, I think it's not nice to say that. Me and my wife considered filing for a K1 before just for the benefit of getting her here quicker. So now if I actually filed for a K1 does that make our relationship a fraud? Of course not. I would say that they are people who wants to go to the US so bad that they will even consider marrying just for a green card. Fraud is everywhere, be it K1, K3, CR1 or even IR1.

Edited July 15, 2008 by onizuka

[Filiricans 3]

My husband just got off from the NVC representative named Shelly; she was extra nice & very patient explaining to my husband queries. Per her, the jurisdictions of scheduling CR1/IR1's interview that NVC is totally dependent to the USEM-MNL consulate because basically the consulate will be the one to give NVC the go signal based on dates from them. I am trying to analyze and realized the situation between K1/K3's against CR1/IR2's at USEM-MNL & hope I am wrong with this!

K1/K3 visas - paid the Non-immigrant visa to BPI amounting $131 per applicant & mode of payments are directed to USEM-MNL BPI Account, while CR1/IR1 Immigrant visa $400 were paid ahead of time & payments directly went to NVC, while papers/petitions are still on process. Meaning, does the Philippine Embassy prioritize this K1/K3 applicants in terms of interview scheduling (no offensement to K1/K3) since they paid the non-immigrants direct to their BPI ACCOUNT? Retrieving & gathering of money somehow for the consulates properties??? while CR1/IR1s is for NVC??? The point of my realization is: USEM-MNL will only give interview schedules to NVC specifically for CR1/IR1 once the said consulate done with all the scheduling of K1/K3??? Is this kind of a joke? If it is oohhh my goodness! Give me a fu-cking break!

By the way, until now we don't have an interview date and most likely we will fall on the September lists.

Yea that makes alot of sense, if anything this is the way most people would go if there is fraud, you know just get a visa and not for real love,to come to USA becuse it is faster, and less questions etc...

If you notice in my signature I'm also a K3 petitioner and I don't believe the USEM in Manila is prioritizing K1/K3's in giving out interview schedules because they get paid locally. They schedule appointments before the applicants even pays for the visa application. Furthermore, where do you think the money the K1/K3's applicants pay goes? I'm sure they are transmitted back to the US.

And the fraud thing, I think it's not nice to say that. Me and my wife considered filing for a K1 before just for the benefit of getting her here quicker. So now if I actually filed for a K1 does that make our relationship a fraud? Of course not. I would say that they are people who wants to go to the US so bad that they will even consider marrying just for a green card. Fraud is everywhere, be it K1, K3, CR1 or even IR1.

I did think that also, maybe all the consulates income goes to the USA, as I stated before; it is only my analysis. Wouldn’t u think that each consulate may indeed have their own income bracket / quota which may be prioritized according to profitability? I also have several Pinay friends who filed for k1 & k3 just recently and got approvals posted here in VJ. Seems that for them it is very easy to have gotten an August 2008 Interview. One of my very personal friends was able to schedule her interview just today. Her k1 interview is set for the 4th of August. She got a NOA2 2 weeks ago. This is the reason for my confusion in being able to understand why Cr1 / Ir1 seem to have been left behind. So please understand our feelings of frustration and disappointment. At least you have the option to go for either the K3 or the CR1, so I would have to say that it seems ur on the advantage side of the visa process. About the fraud thing I don’t know anything about it; I only care for our case. Though with my sincere feelings I am happy for you that soon u’ll be reunited with your special someone. Good luck to the upcoming interview. All the best.

[hunnyko 0]

My husband just got off from the NVC representative named Shelly; she was extra nice & very patient explaining to my husband queries. Per her, the jurisdictions of scheduling CR1/IR1's interview that NVC is totally dependent to the USEM-MNL consulate because basically the consulate will be the one to give NVC the go signal based on dates from them. I am trying to analyze and realized the situation between K1/K3's against CR1/IR2's at USEM-MNL & hope I am wrong with this!

K1/K3 visas - paid the Non-immigrant visa to BPI amounting $131 per applicant & mode of payments are directed to USEM-MNL BPI Account, while CR1/IR1 Immigrant visa $400 were paid ahead of time & payments directly went to NVC, while papers/petitions are still on process. Meaning, does the Philippine Embassy prioritize this K1/K3 applicants in terms of interview scheduling (no offensement to K1/K3) since they paid the non-immigrants direct to their BPI ACCOUNT? Retrieving & gathering of money somehow for the consulates properties??? while CR1/IR1s is for NVC??? The point of my realization is: USEM-MNL will only give interview schedules to NVC specifically for CR1/IR1 once the said consulate done with all the scheduling of K1/K3??? Is this kind of a joke? If it is oohhh my goodness! Give me a fu-cking break!

By the way, until now we don't have an interview date and most likely we will fall on the September lists.

Yea that makes alot of sense, if anything this is the way most people would go if there is fraud, you know just get a visa and not for real love,to come to USA becuse it is faster, and less questions etc...

If you notice in my signature I'm also a K3 petitioner and I don't believe the USEM in Manila is prioritizing K1/K3's in giving out interview schedules because they get paid locally. They schedule appointments before the applicants even pays for the visa application. Furthermore, where do you think the money the K1/K3's applicants pay goes? I'm sure they are transmitted back to the US.

And the fraud thing, I think it's not nice to say that. Me and my wife considered filing for a K1 before just for the benefit of getting her here quicker. So now if I actually filed for a K1 does that make our relationship a fraud? Of course not. I would say that they are people who wants to go to the US so bad that they will even consider marrying just for a green card. Fraud is everywhere, be it K1, K3, CR1 or even IR1.

I did think that also, maybe all the consulates income goes to the USA, as I stated before; it is only my analysis. Wouldn’t u think that each consulate may indeed have their own income bracket / quota which may be prioritized according to profitability? I also have several Pinay friends who filed for k1 & k3 just recently and got approvals posted here in VJ. Seems that for them it is very easy to have gotten an August 2008 Interview. One of my very personal friends was able to schedule her interview just today. Her k1 interview is set for the 4th of August. She got a NOA2 2 weeks ago. This is the reason for my confusion in being able to understand why Cr1 / Ir1 seem to have been left behind. So please understand our feelings of frustration and disappointment. At least you have the option to go for either the K3 or the CR1, so I would have to say that it seems ur on the advantage side of the visa process. About the fraud thing I don’t know anything about it; I only care for our case. Though with my sincere feelings I am happy for you that soon u’ll be reunited with your special someone. Good luck to the upcoming interview. All the best.

Sorry onizuka, I did not mean many people who go the finiance route is fraud I just thought there is more fraud and people just trying to get the visas with the k1 becuse it is faster, so I am confused why it is faster and easier to come here with a k1 and less questions I think to, seems like they really question people and the paper work with the cr1 more than the k1 but that is just from what I read of course there can be fraud in any case even if someone marry's just to come to USA and not because they really love that person. But im sure with your case my case and filiricans, and anyone else on VJ we all truely are in love. I just read and hear the Manila Embassy is always looking for fraud cases and I think some people get bad interviewers sometimes becuse of it and even the 221 slips to prove more relationship becuse you have interviewers thinking and looking for fraud to much. Even if someone tried Marijuana, if they admit it, once in there life 20 years ago they can get denied when some of our presidents have tried it.

[onizuka 0]

My husband just got off from the NVC representative named Shelly; she was extra nice & very patient explaining to my husband queries. Per her, the jurisdictions of scheduling CR1/IR1's interview that NVC is totally dependent to the USEM-MNL consulate because basically the consulate will be the one to give NVC the go signal based on dates from them. I am trying to analyze and realized the situation between K1/K3's against CR1/IR2's at USEM-MNL & hope I am wrong with this!

K1/K3 visas - paid the Non-immigrant visa to BPI amounting $131 per applicant & mode of payments are directed to USEM-MNL BPI Account, while CR1/IR1 Immigrant visa $400 were paid ahead of time & payments directly went to NVC, while papers/petitions are still on process. Meaning, does the Philippine Embassy prioritize this K1/K3 applicants in terms of interview scheduling (no offensement to K1/K3) since they paid the non-immigrants direct to their BPI ACCOUNT? Retrieving & gathering of money somehow for the consulates properties??? while CR1/IR1s is for NVC??? The point of my realization is: USEM-MNL will only give interview schedules to NVC specifically for CR1/IR1 once the said consulate done with all the scheduling of K1/K3??? Is this kind of a joke? If it is oohhh my goodness! Give me a fu-cking break!

By the way, until now we don't have an interview date and most likely we will fall on the September lists.

Yea that makes alot of sense, if anything this is the way most people would go if there is fraud, you know just get a visa and not for real love,to come to USA becuse it is faster, and less questions etc...

If you notice in my signature I'm also a K3 petitioner and I don't believe the USEM in Manila is prioritizing K1/K3's in giving out interview schedules because they get paid locally. They schedule appointments before the applicants even pays for the visa application. Furthermore, where do you think the money the K1/K3's applicants pay goes? I'm sure they are transmitted back to the US.

And the fraud thing, I think it's not nice to say that. Me and my wife considered filing for a K1 before just for the benefit of getting her here quicker. So now if I actually filed for a K1 does that make our relationship a fraud? Of course not. I would say that they are people who wants to go to the US so bad that they will even consider marrying just for a green card. Fraud is everywhere, be it K1, K3, CR1 or even IR1.

I did think that also, maybe all the consulates income goes to the USA, as I stated before; it is only my analysis. Wouldn’t u think that each consulate may indeed have their own income bracket / quota which may be prioritized according to profitability? I also have several Pinay friends who filed for k1 & k3 just recently and got approvals posted here in VJ. Seems that for them it is very easy to have gotten an August 2008 Interview. One of my very personal friends was able to schedule her interview just today. Her k1 interview is set for the 4th of August. She got a NOA2 2 weeks ago. This is the reason for my confusion in being able to understand why Cr1 / Ir1 seem to have been left behind. So please understand our feelings of frustration and disappointment. At least you have the option to go for either the K3 or the CR1, so I would have to say that it seems ur on the advantage side of the visa process. About the fraud thing I don’t know anything about it; I only care for our case. Though with my sincere feelings I am happy for you that soon u’ll be reunited with your special someone. Good luck to the upcoming interview. All the best.

I don't blame you or anyone here for being frustrated seeing other people get approved first even though you filled before them. I felt the same way back in May when we weren't approved yet but there was this couple who filed in April and got approved 2 weeks after! That was like so unfair! Then I learned to accept that the visa process is really broken and most of the time just doesn't make sense. Anyway, I'm glad that we are almost at the end of this visa journey, but at this point our K3 visa application is almost pointless. Even after being approved for a K3 visa, we still have to wait for the CR1 since we have no way of adjusting my wife's status using the K3 visa since the CR1 is complete already. I sometimes think that it would have been better to just stick with the CR1 in the first place. The only advantage that we have now is the chance of having a CR1 visa interview on Jul 28 if the NVC can forward our application by next week.

[onizuka 0]

I called yesterday and after 30 minutes of redialling and 5 minutes waiting for an operator and we're still without an interview date!! Any one here with more luck?

[RickieAndEva 0]

I called yesterday and after 30 minutes of redialling and 5 minutes waiting for an operator and we're still without an interview date!! Any one here with more luck?

It wont do any good to call until the second week of August. That is when the next set of interview dates will be issued. But I guess it doesnt hurt to try.

[Filiricans 3]

The same words from NVC try to call on the second week of July for an August interview sked. Then yesterday, they said try to call on the second week of August to get a September interview sked.

Im crossing my fingers now praying that there will be no more: 'try to call on the 2nd week of September for October interview sked'.

[SeiChii 1]

count me in im still waiting for my husband interview date.... case approved july 14th 2008... ill will try to call 2 weeks from now to update his interview godbless

[onizuka 0]

I still plan to keep on calling at least once a week. I'll call again tomorrow and next wednesday before I leave for my flight to Manila. Worst case scenario for us now is that I'll just bring my wife back with me on a K3 visa and have her fly back to manila for the CR1 interview whenever that may be.

[Filiricans 3]

I still plan to keep on calling at least once a week. I'll call again tomorrow and next wednesday before I leave for my flight to Manila. Worst case scenario for us now is that I'll just bring my wife back with me on a K3 visa and have her fly back to manila for the CR1 interview whenever that may be.

Let's hope for the best onizuka. Good luck to all of us here.

[marjorie 0]

while reading this forum. i am also wishing and praying for my approval. im still waitng for my case to be completed frm NVC. just good thing that our RFE reply faxed last july 18,2008. was on there system same day we faxed it to NVC. next week my husband will call nvc to follow my case. i hope by then we can have a great new. hopefully they can give my tentative sked. pls include me in your prayers. Good luck to us! may the lord our god guide us and make this journey to its end. and help the family reunited again. i know how hard to be away from our love ones. keep praying and always have faith to god! god bless..........

[LOSTGURL--SOPHIA 2]

while reading this forum. i am also wishing and praying for my approval. im still waitng for my case to be completed frm NVC. just good thing that our RFE reply faxed last july 18,2008. was on there system same day we faxed it to NVC. next week my husband will call nvc to follow my case. i hope by then we can have a great new. hopefully they can give my tentative sked. pls include me in your prayers. Good luck to us! may the lord our god guide us and make this journey to its end. and help the family reunited again. i know how hard to be away from our love ones. keep praying and always have faith to god! god bless..........

WHILE WAITING FOR THE INTERVIEW PACKETS YOU CAN INQUIRE AT NVC TO GET PROJECTED DATE OF INTERVIEW

i shared this to anyone who completed there case what i did is i emailed NVC using the email, thats where i got my interview date

nvc format:

example

To: NVCINQUIRY@state.gov

Subject: NVC CASE NO. - LASTNAME OF THE BENEFICIARY - VISA ROUTE (CR1)

HI, GOOD DAY, MY NAME IS (APPLICANTS' NAME, DATE OF BIRTH, PETITIONERS NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH). I WOULD LIKE TO INQUIRE ABOUT THE NEW STATUS OF OUR CASE.

OUR CASE WAS COMPLETED ON (DATE) VIA NVC AUTOMATED 24/7 VOICE SYSTEM.

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW IF WE GOT ANY SCHEDULE FOR ME( MEDICAL AND THE INTERVIEW).ANY HELP IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED. THANK YOU VERY MUCH

note:

* If you are an attorney, include the name of the law office requesting the information.

* If the petition is employment-based, include the company/organizational name.

* Reference only one case per e-mail.

NORMALLY THEY WILL ANSWER WITHIN 3-5 BUSINESS DAY UPON REQUEST.

(HOPE THIS HELPS)..GOODLUCK

[marjorie 0]

while reading this forum. i am also wishing and praying for my approval. im still waitng for my case to be completed frm NVC. just good thing that our RFE reply faxed last july 18,2008. was on there system same day we faxed it to NVC. next week my husband will call nvc to follow my case. i hope by then we can have a great new. hopefully they can give my tentative sked. pls include me in your prayers. Good luck to us! may the lord our god guide us and make this journey to its end. and help the family reunited again. i know how hard to be away from our love ones. keep praying and always have faith to god! god bless..........

WHILE WAITING FOR THE INTERVIEW PACKETS YOU CAN INQUIRE AT NVC TO GET PROJECTED DATE OF INTERVIEW

i shared this to anyone who completed there case what i did is i emailed NVC using the email, thats where i got my interview date

nvc format:

example

To: NVCINQUIRY@state.gov

Subject: NVC CASE NO. - LASTNAME OF THE BENEFICIARY - VISA ROUTE (CR1)

HI, GOOD DAY, MY NAME IS (APPLICANTS' NAME, DATE OF BIRTH, PETITIONERS NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH). I WOULD LIKE TO INQUIRE ABOUT THE NEW STATUS OF OUR CASE.

OUR CASE WAS COMPLETED ON (DATE) VIA NVC AUTOMATED 24/7 VOICE SYSTEM.

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW IF WE GOT ANY SCHEDULE FOR ME( MEDICAL AND THE INTERVIEW).ANY HELP IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED. THANK YOU VERY MUCH

note:

* If you are an attorney, include the name of the law office requesting the information.

* If the petition is employment-based, include the company/organizational name.

* Reference only one case per e-mail.

NORMALLY THEY WILL ANSWER WITHIN 3-5 BUSINESS DAY UPON REQUEST.

(HOPE THIS HELPS)..GOODLUCK

i sent email to nvc this morning. and how long i can get a reply from them? thank you! god bless