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how soon after u have the visa in ur hands can you actually travel? also, i was told that there is something in the visa package...some envelope...that u cannot open and you have to keep it sealed until the immigratin officer at the airport unseals it....does anyone know what it is?

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As far as I understand it, you can travel the very hour you have the visa in your hands. I don't know very much about the sealed envelope, but I hear it contains the medical results?

April, 2009 - We met

May, 2009 - We wooed

June, 2010 - We got engaged, looking forward to a small August 2010 wedding

** Reality Check: K-1 Process**

July 22, 2010 - NOA1

**5 months of patient waiting**

December 29, 2011 - call around for information about delay

January 5, 2011 - RFE notice (first online status update yet!)

January 10, 2011 - RFE Hardcopy

January 13, 2011 - RFE Response acknowledged

January 24, 2011 - NOA2 (at last!!)

February 3, 2011 - application sent from NVC to Montreal (aka. the Abyss?)

March 7, 2011 - Packet 3 sent to me

March 10, 2011 - Packet 3 delivered to Montreal

March 21, 2011 - Packet 4 sent to me

April 5, 2011 - Medical

April 13, 2011 - Interview - approved!

April 20, 2011 - visa in hand

May 9, 2011 - POE (Buffalo, NY)

May 10, 2011 - wedding :)

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The sealed envelope contains every paper USCIS added to your case, contains every paper you added to your case, all your background checks and interview information as well as your medical and anything else that was put into your case.

It basically IS your case. Do not open that large envelope. If you do it has to be taken back to the embassy and has to be investigated and resealed before you can leave for the USA.

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Your interview took 67 days from your I-129F NOA1 date.

AOS was approved in 2 months and 8 days without interview.

ROC was approved in 3 months and 2 days without interview.

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The envelope will accompany your passport when you receive the visa. Carry the envelope with you and hand it to the US Customs and Border Patrol officer as you enter the US.

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how soon after u have the visa in ur hands can you actually travel? also, i was told that there is something in the visa package...some envelope...that u cannot open and you have to keep it sealed until the immigratin officer at the airport unseals it....does anyone know what it is?

I think As soon as you ready to buy the ticket. me too my fiancee is going to pick up her passport next Saturday the 12. and yea they asked us the same sexual questions too. terrible man i thought that would of be personal stuffs.

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how soon after u have the visa in ur hands can you actually travel? also, i was told that there is something in the visa package...some envelope...that u cannot open and you have to keep it sealed until the immigratin officer at the airport unseals it....does anyone know what it is?

He can fly as soon as he has his passport with visa on hand! By the way, did you pick-up the visa at the Domex office or did you choose the home delivery option? How long did it take for the visa to be ready?

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August 23, 2010 - I-129 F package sent via USPS priority mail with delivery confirmation.

August 30, 2010 - Per Department of Homeland Security (DHS) e-mail, petition received and routed to California Service Center for processing. Check cashed. I-797C Notice of Action by mail (NOA 1) - Received date 08/25/2010. Notice date 08/27/2010.

After 150 days of imposed anxious patience...

January 24, 2011 - Per USCIS website, petition approved and notice mailed.

January 31, 2011 - Approval receipt notice (NOA 2) received by mail. Called NVC, given Santo Domingo case number, and informed that petition was sent same day to consulate.

Called Visa Specialist at the Department of State every day for a case update. Informed of interview date on February, 16 2011. Informed that packet was mailed to fiance on February, 15 2011.

February 21, 2011 - Fiance has not yet received packet. Called 1-877-804-5402 (Visa Information Center of the United States Embassy) to request a duplicate packet in person pick-up at the US consulate in Santo Domingo. Packet can be picked-up by fiance on 02/28.

March 1, 2011 - Medical exam completed at Consultorios de Visa in Santo Domingo.

March 9, 2011 at 6 AM - Interview, approved!

March 18, 2011 - POE together. JFK and O'Hare airports. Legal wedding: May 16, 2011.

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-Henry David Thoreau

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baron555   934

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how soon after u have the visa in ur hands can you actually travel?

Within 1 second. If you can have the visa deliverd to you as you enter the plane door, that is best....or have the airline hold that plane from departure as a courier delivers the visa to you as you sit in your seat on the plane. That is about the quickest you can use it.

also, i was told that there is something in the visa package...some envelope...that u cannot open and you have to keep it sealed until the immigratin officer at the airport unseals it....does anyone know what it is?

It's the sealed medical results and maybe other forms. One gives that to the CBP officer at POE>

Phil (Lockport, near Chicago) and Alla (Lobnya, near Moscow)

As of Dec 7, 2009, now Zero miles apart (literally)!

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