Petitions K3 and CR1 at Embassy

[ninjarocket 1]

It's best to directly ask the consulate exactly what they will accept under these circumstances. i.e. will they allow you to have the k3 interview with photocopies of documents if the original documents are in transit from NVC? The answer might be different for different consulates. If you don't have copies of documents they would find acceptable at the time of the k3 interview, then it might be best to postpone the k3 interview date unless they can confirm with you that the IV paperwork is already at the consulate and they will allow you to follow that route.

In our case, we had thankfully obtained multiple copies of police clearances, birth certificates, marriage certificates, tax transcripts (both for I-134 and I-864), certified copies of divorce decree, etc.... our IV paperwork had not yet reached the consulate at the time of the k3 interview. The timing wasn't quite perfect! However, we were still able to follow the CR visa route because the k3 visa had not yet had final approval from the CO by the afternoon,

Thank you everyone!

It is good to hear from everyone!

So if I reading these right the worst that can happen is that you have to either call them before your K3 interview if the CR1 paperwork is not at the embassy yet, and tell them you want to persue the CR1 and perhaps have a delay, and you might have to wait longer for the interview. (That is what worries me.) This waiting this has gone too long!

I still don't know how they would expect you to have orginals for both K3 at the embassy and CR1 at the NVC. Has this happened to anyone else? Do they accept copies if you tell them that the orginals are at NVC?