Scandinavians

[jaycali 415]

Next day I get a phone call from the embassy. The guy on the line says, "you forgot to sign part 2 of the application". So I had to come back yesterday, stand in line again, wait for a long time to get to see the same woman from the day before and have her witness me signing the paper.Good news is that I got my visa right away (well, 15 minutes later) and I have it in hand right now.So anybody going for the interview, if they don't ask you to sign the document, remind them.

Wow.

Exact same thing happened to me. I'm glad I'm not the only one "who forgot."

Since I don't live in Sweden, they actually transferred everything over to the embassy in Oslo. Took them 3 weeks to do since all internal embassy mail has to be routed through DOS in Washington DC first. Was a complete nightmare, and I wasted two and a half weeks of my life worrying myself halfway to death since they wouldn't tell me anything at all until the visa package arrived in Oslo exactly 4 weeks after the interview.

Folks.. REMEMBER TO SIGN! Don't rely on the COs to remember.

Congrats on your visa!!

Edited January 10, 2013 by Jay Jay

[turion2 2]

Got approved today!

Just sit and wait for the passport to come back in the mail now

Edited January 10, 2013 by turion2

[turion2 2]

Wow.

Exact same thing happened to me. I'm glad I'm not the only one "who forgot."

Since I don't live in Sweden, they actually transferred everything over to the embassy in Oslo. Took them 3 weeks to do since all internal embassy mail has to be routed through DOS in Washington DC first. Was a complete nightmare, and I wasted two and a half weeks of my life worrying myself halfway to death since they wouldn't tell me anything at all until the visa package arrived in Oslo exactly 4 weeks after the interview.

Folks.. REMEMBER TO SIGN! Don't rely on the COs to remember.

Congrats on your visa!!

coming to think of it I only got to sign one document, what I remember it was the DS-156K... I did ask though if I needed to sign anything else and the lady said no. Do I need to be worried?

Edited January 11, 2013 by turion2

[jaycali 415]

coming to think of it I only got to sign one document, what I remember it was the DS-156K... I did ask though if I needed to sign anything else and the lady said no. Do I need to be worried?

Congrats on your approval!

Since you're a K-1 applicant and not CR-1, I honestly don't know. I'm not sure that DS-230 part 2 is required for K-1s.

Actually, from what I know, K-1 applicants don't even fill out DS-230 at all. DS-230 is the immigrant visa application. Since K-1 is technically a non-immigrant visa, I think DS-230 is irrelevant to you. But the truth is, I simply don't know anything about the K-1 process between NOA2 and POE. GandK, MissK and robhaa are recent Scandinavian K-1 approvals if you want someone to PM.

I'm sure someone will come along and enlighten us.

Edited January 11, 2013 by Jay Jay

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

It is good to know I can tag along to the interview, whenever that decides to happen. Anyone know if you can also bring a squirmy 4 year old USC along too?

I'm starting to get a little stressed about what he'll do for work in America because his current job being a varmemester doesn't pay nearly as well in America. I'm glad to see him throwing himself into his Calculus course at the same university I go to, but it'll be a long time before he finishes a degree. I'm sure we'll find something but it is going to be really tight if he is making under $15/hr.

[Mr. Borkström 63]

Question: I arrived on December 23. Still no green card. I am fairly sure I checked the box that asked if I automatically wanted to have a green card made, or whatever the form said.

Who can I get in touch with to find out about the green card. I live in Pittsburgh, PA. Is there an office I can go to, or do I e-mail/call someone?

[Alaska2012 462]

Question: I arrived on December 23. Still no green card. I am fairly sure I checked the box that asked if I automatically wanted to have a green card made, or whatever the form said.

Who can I get in touch with to find out about the green card. I live in Pittsburgh, PA. Is there an office I can go to, or do I e-mail/call someone?

The green card will show up automatically, it took a month for mine and 2 months for my son for some strange reason.

What you checked on the form was most likely your ssn#, which you most likely will have to go to your local ss office to get, I've been reading here on VJ that checking that box don't do much for you....

[Mr. Borkström 63]

Oh I see. I did get my ssn # though.

[izola 1]

We're here!!! YAY!! I guess I don't need to mention to anyone here that the flight was way too long. It took me about 45 minutes to get through immigration. All they asked was how long we've been married and then why we hadnt moved here sooner. Since he spent 20 minutes looking through my paperwork before calling me up you'd think he had noticed that I had a greencard previously, but oh well.

It's 21 degrees celsius and sunny. I'm happy Second interview or whatever it is coming up tomorrow morning, so time to get nervous about that!

[rarasantiago 3]

We're here!!! YAY!! I guess I don't need to mention to anyone here that the flight was way too long. It took me about 45 minutes to get through immigration. All they asked was how long we've been married and then why we hadnt moved here sooner. Since he spent 20 minutes looking through my paperwork before calling me up you'd think he had noticed that I had a greencard previously, but oh well.

It's 21 degrees celsius and sunny. I'm happy Second interview or whatever it is coming up tomorrow morning, so time to get nervous about that!

Congratulations

[Mr. Borkström 63]

We're here!!! YAY!! I guess I don't need to mention to anyone here that the flight was way too long. It took me about 45 minutes to get through immigration. All they asked was how long we've been married and then why we hadnt moved here sooner. Since he spent 20 minutes looking through my paperwork before calling me up you'd think he had noticed that I had a greencard previously, but oh well.

It's 21 degrees celsius and sunny. I'm happy Second interview or whatever it is coming up tomorrow morning, so time to get nervous about that!

Nice. Fingers crossed for you for your interview.

[jaycali 415]

We're here!!! YAY!! I guess I don't need to mention to anyone here that the flight was way too long. It took me about 45 minutes to get through immigration. All they asked was how long we've been married and then why we hadnt moved here sooner. Since he spent 20 minutes looking through my paperwork before calling me up you'd think he had noticed that I had a greencard previously, but oh well. It's 21 degrees celsius and sunny. I'm happy Second interview or whatever it is coming up tomorrow morning, so time to get nervous about that!

Wait, what interview? Didn't you POE yesterday?

[EmigratingSwede 16]

Question: I arrived on December 23. Still no green card. I am fairly sure I checked the box that asked if I automatically wanted to have a green card made, or whatever the form said.

For whatever reason it actually took three months before I got mine. I got my SSN in a week though. Since I hadn't received my green card (only had my CR1 stamped with I-551) when I got my driver's license I got a license which was only valid for one year. I am moving in a few weeks though, so I have to get a new license anyway since I'll have a new address.

[izola 1]

I had my first interview for the position while in Sweden and had my second one yesterday. It went well, so going back for the salary talk. I'm fairly happy with that! I've been with the same company for almost 7 years now so that makes it easier to move around.

SSN took me awhile last time I moved here, very happy I have it still now so I don't have to go through it again. As I recalled then eventhough I ticked the box I didnt get it, and I couldn't go in and get it until I had the greencard so I had to wait for that to show up and then wait for the SSN. Think about 2 months total.

[izola 1]

A question for you guys. I really want to be able to watch the Swedish tv channels play versions on the internet. I keep getting a message that I'm in the wrong region (like I got in Sweden for American stuff) but a friend of mine who lives in Minnesota does not have that problem and doesn't think she has changed any setting anywhere or anything like that.

Any of you have a solution for me?