Hubby finally received IR-1 spouse visa

[silvermoondust 0]

I posted this on another forum, just thought I'd post my DH's experience here. GOod luck to all those going through the process.

Our visa interiew experience:

Some of you know how long this journey has been for us, and the problems we have encountered in the past so this is an especially joyous occasion for us.

I'll try to keep this as concise and to the point as possible, so I'll leave out the horror stories about our two trips to London, getting caught in the snow those two times, flight cancellations, sleeping on airport floors, taking every kind of transportation that exists out there, etc

Our new visa appointment was on the 12th at 10am. We actually got to the area at 8am but we didn't want to show up so early in case we would be turned away so we walked about, sat in the park, had coffee at the nearby Starbucks. Stupid thing to do, we should've gone in anyway because when we got in, there were ten immigrant visa applicants in the queue ahead of us.

We were called about 3 hours after arrival, and we had a pretty friendly guy. We gave in the documents one by one, and they all seemed fine. We had all originals and copies (will tell you specific docs at the end of this post). We paid the $400 at the other window. The he gave him his x-rays in the brown envelope. There was some discussion about the pasport situation because that night we were to fly out and obviously, the embassy needs to keep your passport. So, the guy told him he could just post his passport back to the embassy via their courier service.

An hour later we were called back and we had a very pleasant guy interviewing him. He just asked him when we met, how we met, minor questions about his last visit to the states and some stuff about our daughter. She was with us, so the guy started waving and talking to her lol Then he asked him his plans in the US. After all that, he got a "Congratulations" and a "Good luck" and he gave DH the blue form telling him that his visa is suspended because he did not have all the docs. Really it was just the passport.

The docs we gave in were:

his passport and copy

his birth cert and copy

marriage cert and copy

my i-864 and 2007 tax transcript with copies

my dad's i-864A with 2007 tax return and w2, with copies

my dad's passport biographic page (copy)

They did not ask for proof of domicile because I have been living in the states since June 2007. At least this is what I think is the reason. Plus they have seen us before, in November 2007 and they knew our situation then.

So all he has to do is phone the courier service, and give them the passport and just wait to receive it back with the visa in it.

[YuAndDan 153]

You may want to post this here: http://www.visajourney.com/consulates/dos_review.php

Congrats!

[Jasman0717 9]

Congratulations

[Mina76 0]

Congratulations on getting your visa approval!!!

[silvermoondust 0]

Thanks! DH shall be moving around end of may/early June.

You may want to post this here: http://www.visajourney.com/consulates/dos_review.php

Congrats!

Thanks, I'll be doing that in a bit.

[Mintchip 0]

Congratulations! My husband also lives in Glasgow, and I am here in the US. We have just begun the immigration process for him to move here with me. (I lived over there with him for the first 2 years of our marriage.) I received our NOA1 in mid-April and realize we have some months to wait yet. However, we are having a problem trying to get his police certificates. May I ask where your husband applied for his??? Mine wrote to the Strathclyde police, but has heard nothing from them and it has been several weeks already. If you can point us in the right direction, it would be so very much appreciated.

[redglasses 1]

Wow, congratulations!

BTW, your Skyler is so cute