Interviews in Amman Anyone??

[lion_lioness 0]

Flag this messageVisa interviewWednesday, February 28, 2007 3:25 AM

From: "IV, Amman (Amman)" <Amman-IV@state.gov>View contact details To: xxxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com

Dear: xxxxxxx was scheduled for a visa interview on May 10, 2007 at8:00am

The instruction package was mailed today to your address.

Thank you

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The above is the email I got just 14 days after NVC completed. Try it - won't hurt anything.

best,

[esmatsgirl 1]

I appreciate the suggestion but I have already emailed the embassy a few times. They said they still have not gotten the file from the NVC yet. When I talk with the NVC they tell me that we didn't make it into Amman's schedule for August which was completed the 2nd week of July so now we have to wait until the 2nd week of August to see if we get scheduled in for September. I think because what we filed is the I130 CR1 form the process is longer than going through an I129f. I don't know why..but they seem to put the I129f's first. Then again I have seen unstable timelines with them going up and down all over the place with no consistency at all. Thats why I still call. Anything can happen. And what else do I have to do, right? haha

Another email couldn't hurt either....

Thanks for the suggestions!

Deb

I would email the embassy directly. I don't remember the embassy email offhand that's what I did. We were approved on 2/14/07 and had the interview via email within a week or less not with NVC with embassy email.

[Nothing1234 2]

Hello Fellow VJ'ers

I am curious as to what some of the latest interviews that have been scheduled at the embassy in Amman, Jordan are. Our case was complete at the NVC on June 26th and we still don't have an interview date. I know they only schedule interviews during the 2nd week of the month for the following month...did any of you get in for August????

Since we did not get in for August...I can only hope for a September interview date but of course won't know a thing about that til the 2nd week of August when they do September interviews.

Please let me know where you stand in the process.

Best of luck to you....

Thanks...and have a wonderful day!!!

Deb

Hey Deb!!

Off the topic...I just viewed your photos of Jordan...I'm so "homesick".. My cousins live there and I used to spend all my summers there until meeting my husband (he's Egyptian) and now I'm in Egypt often...LOL. Egypt is amazing but Jordan will always have my heart. Missing all my family and friends so much...You took some amazing photos of the wild flowers and all. Thanks for sharing the link in your signature!!

[esmatsgirl 1]

You are so very welcome. I am glad you enjoyed the pictures.

It is a very unique place on Earth and I am so glad my husband is from such a beautiful country and village (with beautiful people).

The possibility of us going back there to live someday is very high...once we do all we want to do in the US first.

Have a wonderful Friday!

Deb

Hello Fellow VJ'ers

I am curious as to what some of the latest interviews that have been scheduled at the embassy in Amman, Jordan are. Our case was complete at the NVC on June 26th and we still don't have an interview date. I know they only schedule interviews during the 2nd week of the month for the following month...did any of you get in for August????

Since we did not get in for August...I can only hope for a September interview date but of course won't know a thing about that til the 2nd week of August when they do September interviews.

Please let me know where you stand in the process.

Best of luck to you....

Thanks...and have a wonderful day!!!

Deb

Hey Deb!!

Off the topic...I just viewed your photos of Jordan...I'm so "homesick".. My cousins live there and I used to spend all my summers there until meeting my husband (he's Egyptian) and now I'm in Egypt often...LOL. Egypt is amazing but Jordan will always have my heart. Missing all my family and friends so much...You took some amazing photos of the wild flowers and all. Thanks for sharing the link in your signature!!

[Nasturtium 500]

You are so very welcome. I am glad you enjoyed the pictures.

It is a very unique place on Earth and I am so glad my husband is from such a beautiful country and village (with beautiful people).

The possibility of us going back there to live someday is very high...once we do all we want to do in the US first.

Have a wonderful Friday!

Deb

Hello Fellow VJ'ers

I am curious as to what some of the latest interviews that have been scheduled at the embassy in Amman, Jordan are. Our case was complete at the NVC on June 26th and we still don't have an interview date. I know they only schedule interviews during the 2nd week of the month for the following month...did any of you get in for August????

Since we did not get in for August...I can only hope for a September interview date but of course won't know a thing about that til the 2nd week of August when they do September interviews.

Please let me know where you stand in the process.

Best of luck to you....

Thanks...and have a wonderful day!!!

Deb

Hey Deb!!

Off the topic...I just viewed your photos of Jordan...I'm so "homesick".. My cousins live there and I used to spend all my summers there until meeting my husband (he's Egyptian) and now I'm in Egypt often...LOL. Egypt is amazing but Jordan will always have my heart. Missing all my family and friends so much...You took some amazing photos of the wild flowers and all. Thanks for sharing the link in your signature!!

Hi Deb! Your cave photo is actually a tomb, can't really tell without seeing all the way inside but it looks like a single chambered tomb that still has some of the facing on it and is likely Byzantine or Early Roman (they reused anyway). Those large stone pieces, which are fractured, were part of the door. You can see a feature in the lower right which is either a bone pit, stone lined pit, or stone-cut grave (although could be an arcasoleum), or else it's a looter hole if the rock is soft enough... really can't tell without being there and excavating out the feature. Looks like they have been looting that thing pretty heavily!

[~Jackie~ 30]

Julianna I am so dang jealous of your flower pics.

Ibrahim planted this little rose thingy that we bought at Walmart. I never expected a real flower to come out of it.

Edited July 25, 2008 by just_Jackie

[Nasturtium 500]

Julianna I am so dang jealous of your flower pics. Since I have my first ever flower, I am going to put it on my signature for tonight. Ibrahim planted this little rose thingy that we bought at Walmart. I never expected a real flower to come out of it.

I'd trim back the dead part on your rose canes, BTW. Also be sure to give that rose a good mulch this fall and maybe even cover it... it's a hybrid tea, right? or is it a grandiflora? if it's a HT it's technically going to need to be burried a lot for winter in your area. Did he bury the graft when he planted it?

[~Jackie~ 30]

scratching head* puzzled...whats a cane and a graft and a grandiflora? Give me the kindergarten version. I called it a 'rose thingy'.... so go from there sista. LOL

jJ

[Nasturtium 500]

scratching head* puzzled...whats a cane and a graft and a grandiflora? Give me the kindergarten version. I called it a 'rose thingy'.... so go from there sista. LOL

jJ

OK, in the above it shows a graft which will look something like your graft (because I don't think he ordered an own-root rose from a catalog I am thinking your rose is grafted).

The above shows you where to cut on your canes, about 1/4 inch above a bud. Choose buds facing away from the inside of your rose so that the ranches (canes) will grow out.

Do you happen to have the tag for your rose? A name should be on it... it would have either come with a plastic tag, a plastic picture tag, or a metal engraved tag. If you can tell me its name, and I can tell you what kind of rose it is and what you need to do to prepare it for winter. For whatever reason, stores like to sell hybrid teas even though their scent is pretty bad compared to other roses and they don't usually survive below USDA zone 6-- which has a bunch of epople thinking they can't grow a rose when really it's like trying to plant a banana tree next to Lake Michigan and being told it's going to do fine when the winter is obviously too cold. You can winterize your HTs though, and so if we figure it is a HT, then we can figure out what you need to do come fall.

[~Jackie~ 30]

I have to cut it????? oh no

I am totally a poor plant owner. I now feel abusive. I do not know it's family history. And now when the dang snow is fallin in Chicagoland I will have one more thing to worry about. My poor rose thingy. Can I take it out and bring it in the house for the winter and put it in a big pot? I'm gonna. I can't let Ibrahim's first tree/bush/plant die.

jJ

[Nasturtium 500]

I have to cut it????? oh no

I am totally a poor plant owner. I now feel abusive. I do not know it's family history. And now when the dang snow is fallin in Chicagoland I will have one more thing to worry about. My poor rose thingy. Can I take it out and bring it in the house for the winter and put it in a big pot? I'm gonna. I can't let Ibrahim's first tree/bush/plant die.

jJ

You could do that, but a rose in a pot can be a difficult thing to keep. First of all, you'll need a very large pot-- this year a 5gallon will be OK, but eventually you'll need something about barrel sized. you'll either need a greenhouse or lights in order to get it enough light to live, or alternatively you're going to have to let it go through dormancy which would require you to put it in somehting like a garage. You'll need to keep the water just right during dormancy-- damp but not wet, and not dry either. Way easier to leave it out.

If you bury the graft union below the ground... I'd have to look it up but you may be in the 6" range to bury it below the surface, then you should be OK and then you just put some leaves on top of it and put a bag over that to keep them in place (or an overturned pot) and voila. If the canes die back to teh ground (which they likely can and will because of your crazycold) it's OK, they will sprout from below the ground. The more snow you get on it, the better though--snow acts as a blanket.

You should only cut those canes if something is dead on them-- otherwise, leave it alone and don't touch it until after your last frost this next spring.

ETA: get a photo of the flower as it opens from bud to partially open like they sell them in the store to fully open and i'll probably be able to tell you it's a HT like I think it is.

Edited July 25, 2008 by julianna

[Krissy! 0]

Hi all... oh, pretty flowers....

Sure that NVC schedules the interviews for Amman? Deb, what did you find out?

The reason I'm asking is because I was just speaking with a friendly person. They just received my case from USCIS, and I got the new case number. I'm not sure if it's just "standard phone procedures" but they told me that the embassy does the scheduling for "that kind of visa" (K1). Hmm... any thoughts?

[Nasturtium 500]

Hi all... oh, pretty flowers....

Sure that NVC schedules the interviews for Amman? Deb, what did you find out?

The reason I'm asking is because I was just speaking with a friendly person. They just received my case from USCIS, and I got the new case number. I'm not sure if it's just "standard phone procedures" but they told me that the embassy does the scheduling for "that kind of visa" (K1). Hmm... any thoughts?

I don't know about K-1s or *now* but as of a year ago for Cr-1s, it was the embassy which scheduled its own interviews. I don't see how the NVC would know the embassy's schedule of operation (every embassy operates on the standard US holidays but also observes local holidays and operation times), case loads including non-immigrant visas such as B1s, etc, etc. They could figure out hours of operation as well as we can. but to keep track of every embassy in every country and schedule for each one and also take into account visas which they never see... it seems a bit difficult and impractical to do at the NVC.. but... they could do it. So I don't know.

[LRA 0]

K1s I have NO idea about. Did you email AMM to ask? I promise they won't bite.

But CR1/IR1 are for sure scheduled by NVC. As a matter of fact I have a copy of a recent Packet 3 (February 18, 2008) sent to someone from AMM and it has the interview date on it. In fact, NVC is scheduling many interviews these days for many consulates.

[Mommy2ZaidnSalma 11]

I miss jordan I so hope we can go back soon...