CR1 rescheduled to K3 and interview passed.

[A_I_S 0]

Finally the wait is over. Lena had her interview on Oct 29th, got the tickets in hand now for Nov 15th flight.

No catch questions, no extra docs needed, in at 8am, out before 11.

Since we were originally a K3 visa filer, we were able to take advantage of K3 interview date that was scheduled for Oct 29th and CR1 interview that was scheduled for Nov 18th. As long as the embassy has the actual case at the embassy you can contact them (email actually works best, not the phones) and expedite the CR1 interview to K3 date (I rescheduled ours 5 days before the interview)

[Mononoke28 135]

Awesome! You're all done after that. Congratulations!

Diana

[trinket 30]

Congratulations :dance:

Wishing you a happy life ahead

[yeye 0]

Congratulation A_I_S and Good Luck!

Did you submit any forms related to K-3 to the embassy?

[WaitingforRakesh 0]

Congradulations!

That is what I am hoping to due too. My husband's K3 interview date should be sometime end of NOV. Should get his letter tomorrow and just waiting on the NVC to complete the case and send paperwork to embassey. Good to see that it can work.

[Ling Ling 22]

Congratulations!!!

[A_I_S 0]

Congratulation A_I_S and Good Luck!

Did you submit any forms related to K-3 to the embassy?

No, we completely put K3 on hold. The embassy sent us the Packet 3 and an interview date, but we ignored it, primarily because we had no document originals left (all was in NVC).

[A_I_S 0]

Congradulations!

That is what I am hoping to due too. My husband's K3 interview date should be sometime end of NOV. Should get his letter tomorrow and just waiting on the NVC to complete the case and send paperwork to embassey. Good to see that it can work.

The way the embassy works is that as soon as the case is scheduled for interview by NVC they get an electronic case file.

However, the embassy can not reschedule the interview until they have the actual paper file on hand. So you need to wait for interview to be scheduled, case mailed out and case received.

1. Dont trust the AVR. We passed the interview already, and our AVR still gives "NVC has reviewed your packet of forms and found information missing" false RFE message. Talk to operators directly and ask them when case was sent to India.

2. As soon as the case is mailed out, write the email to your embassy requesting change from K3 to CR1 on the K3 date.

3. It will take the embassy about a week to look at it By the time they do the embassy should have the case received.

4. Once the embassy looks at the email you get assigned a liason officer. You'll see that because the reply to your email will come not from consulXX@state, but from consulXXN@state where N is a number. At that point they will reply every day.

5. Avoid the embassy phone operators. Those guys are reading off of a screen and can not actually assist you in converting the interview (and in Moscow they dont know the difference between K3 and CR1, but they think they know what they're talking about). Avoid the "expedite" word, as soon as they hear it the conversation effectively ends because they'll tell you that they only expedite for medical reasons, and you will not be able to explain that it's not expedite. Better call back and try to get a different operator.

6. All the operator will be able to do is "send a request to the consular division" which has the same effect as sending email, but it's a lot cheaper. Our "request" was supposed to be replied by the next day (or by closing of the same day), and it took 3 days. So it cost us around $40, at which point I was already talking to the liason over the email.

That's basically it.

[WaitingforRakesh 0]

Congradulations!

That is what I am hoping to due too. My husband's K3 interview date should be sometime end of NOV. Should get his letter tomorrow and just waiting on the NVC to complete the case and send paperwork to embassey. Good to see that it can work.

The way the embassy works is that as soon as the case is scheduled for interview by NVC they get an electronic case file.

However, the embassy can not reschedule the interview until they have the actual paper file on hand. So you need to wait for interview to be scheduled, case mailed out and case received.

1. Dont trust the AVR. We passed the interview already, and our AVR still gives "NVC has reviewed your packet of forms and found information missing" false RFE message. Talk to operators directly and ask them when case was sent to India.

2. As soon as the case is mailed out, write the email to your embassy requesting change from K3 to CR1 on the K3 date.

3. It will take the embassy about a week to look at it By the time they do the embassy should have the case received.

4. Once the embassy looks at the email you get assigned a liason officer. You'll see that because the reply to your email will come not from consulXX@state, but from consulXXN@state where N is a number. At that point they will reply every day.

5. Avoid the embassy phone operators. Those guys are reading off of a screen and can not actually assist you in converting the interview (and in Moscow they dont know the difference between K3 and CR1, but they think they know what they're talking about). Avoid the "expedite" word, as soon as they hear it the conversation effectively ends because they'll tell you that they only expedite for medical reasons, and you will not be able to explain that it's not expedite. Better call back and try to get a different operator.

6. All the operator will be able to do is "send a request to the consular division" which has the same effect as sending email, but it's a lot cheaper. Our "request" was supposed to be replied by the next day (or by closing of the same day), and it took 3 days. So it cost us around $40, at which point I was already talking to the liason over the email.

That's basically it.

Did you use your K3 to do your medical?

[frali 2]

Congradulations!

That is what I am hoping to due too. My husband's K3 interview date should be sometime end of NOV. Should get his letter tomorrow and just waiting on the NVC to complete the case and send paperwork to embassey. Good to see that it can work.

The way the embassy works is that as soon as the case is scheduled for interview by NVC they get an electronic case file.

However, the embassy can not reschedule the interview until they have the actual paper file on hand. So you need to wait for interview to be scheduled, case mailed out and case received.

1. Dont trust the AVR. We passed the interview already, and our AVR still gives "NVC has reviewed your packet of forms and found information missing" false RFE message. Talk to operators directly and ask them when case was sent to India.

2. As soon as the case is mailed out, write the email to your embassy requesting change from K3 to CR1 on the K3 date.

3. It will take the embassy about a week to look at it By the time they do the embassy should have the case received.

4. Once the embassy looks at the email you get assigned a liason officer. You'll see that because the reply to your email will come not from consulXX@state, but from consulXXN@state where N is a number. At that point they will reply every day.

5. Avoid the embassy phone operators. Those guys are reading off of a screen and can not actually assist you in converting the interview (and in Moscow they dont know the difference between K3 and CR1, but they think they know what they're talking about). Avoid the "expedite" word, as soon as they hear it the conversation effectively ends because they'll tell you that they only expedite for medical reasons, and you will not be able to explain that it's not expedite. Better call back and try to get a different operator.

6. All the operator will be able to do is "send a request to the consular division" which has the same effect as sending email, but it's a lot cheaper. Our "request" was supposed to be replied by the next day (or by closing of the same day), and it took 3 days. So it cost us around $40, at which point I was already talking to the liason over the email.

That's basically it.

Thanks for the information and Congrats