SENDING PACKET3

[ridgid 0]

In sending the requirements do we need to send everything at once? We are concerned about the medical thingy.

[marriedtomrg 141]

Again...the Philippines doesn't use Packet 3 and Packet 4 anymore...they are collectively referred to as the K1 interview preparation instructions.

You can download them directly from the US Embassy Manila website:

English version: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/manila/301443/pdf-files/Revised%20K1%20Instruction%20Packet_001.pdf

Tagalog version: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/manila/301443/pdf-files/K1instructionTag_rtf3_001.pdf

The items listed there are to be handcarried to the Embassy interview...not mailed in. Has your fiancee gone for her medical examination at St. Luke's?

In sending the requirements do we need to send everything at once? We are concerned about the medical thingy.

Edited September 28, 2010 by marriedtomrg

[ridgid 0]

no not yet... we have not recieved the NOA2 yet... so there will be no requirements to be send then? they will just schedule the interview and she should carry all the requirements there?

[marriedtomrg 141]

Nope, nada.

After you receive the NOA2, USCIS will forward your I-129F petition to NVC to be assigned a case number. From there it will be forwarded to the U.S. Embassy Manila. She can either wait for the Embassy to contact her via snail mail, or you can help her do the proactive thing by tracking the movement of the package from NVC to U.S. Embassy Manila and start calling their agents within a week after the petition has been delivered.

How? Do a search here for a VJ member named thepizzadude and in his posts he describes how you can get the NVC case number in advance and how to get an Embassy interview date without waiting for snail mail.

K1 petitioners or applicants set the interview schedules themselves through calling the US Embassy toll-free line. Once you or your fiancee schedules the interview date, she has to get all the supporting documents compiled, the visa fee paid and the medical done well before her interview. Again, all the documents on the list are handcarried to the Embassy on her interview date.

no not yet... we have not recieved the NOA2 yet... so there will be no requirements to be send then? they will just schedule the interview and she should carry all the requirements there?

[ridgid 0]

okey, thanks you. we decided to prepare everything we could before her vacation for three months and when we know that the application are in manila we will then schedule the interview and the only thing to do by then is the medical.. thank you so much for your help.

[marriedtomrg 141]

Some of the documents, like the NBI clearance and the CENOMAR, would be best applied for if closer to the interview date and not earlier...they both have to be current so you don't wind up requesting for them again.

[Tahoma 2,292]

Do a search here for a VJ member named thepizzadude and in his posts he describes how you can get the NVC case number in advance and how to get an Embassy interview date without waiting for snail mail.

Or you can ask thepizzadude's teacher...me!

[marriedtomrg 141]

Oh cool! I used those shortcuts from his posts They saved me 4 weeks of waiting.

Or you can ask thepizzadude's teacher...me!