London processing times....

[Yoms 0]

Hello all,

thanks for your response to my scare last week, my fiance and i are now going to use the London Embassy. She will be going back this weekend on her new valid 3 year visiting visa (remember when we started filing, she was on her student visa still studying in London, and visa just expired in January) to mail in packet 3 details, medical and police cert.( she already has the police cert for Nigeria now and will be taking it with her to london also)

I was wondering:

1. Do you need to have the police cert with you to do the medical? or you can do the medical before the police cert arrives?

2. when you select the expedited service, how long before you get the police cert? like a week? cause it says 2 business days.

3. After the embassy gets the DS-2001 and medical results, how long before you get your appointment letter? more importantly your appointment date....i checked the site and it said the processing time to get an interview is 4days! most posts i read did not share this result.

4. anything else i should be concerned with? i have gone over all documents and information and still a bit nervous for some reason, i guess because of the horror stories i have read.

thanks,

[JoannaV 174]

1) You do now need to take to police certificate to the medical.

2) I can only give you my own experience: I mailed off the police certificate application on a Thursday and received it on the following Tuesday, with the date on the certificate being one of the weekend days. My feeling is that they do try to honour the fact that you pay extra for expedited service, so delays are more likely to be due to postal strikes lol.

3) Should have the interview within two months. Kind of up in the air: some people recently have been given only a couple days notice of their interview so it could be much much quicker than that.

[Yoms 0]

2 months?! damn! wow, i was hoping like 2 weeks or 3 at the most.....but really glad to hear the police cert will not take like 3 weeks or something ridiculous like that...wow, 2 months is a long time!

[TracyTN 237]

Moving thread from K1 process forum to the UK forum - should get some more targeted answers there.

[MWrinkles 0]

1. Do you need to have the police cert with you to do the medical? or you can do the medical before the police cert arrives?

2. when you select the expedited service, how long before you get the police cert? like a week? cause it says 2 business days.

3. After the embassy gets the DS-2001 and medical results, how long before you get your appointment letter? more importantly your appointment date....i checked the site and it said the processing time to get an interview is 4days! most posts i read did not share this result.

4. anything else i should be concerned with? i have gone over all documents and information and still a bit nervous for some reason, i guess because of the horror stories i have read.

thanks,

2. It says 2 business days, which means 2 business days plus the day they receive your application and the day they send it off. So 4 business days at most. Also, I highly suggest sending your application to them either regular mail or certified next day delivery. I say this as I sent my application registered and it got there a month later! Good thing, I wasn't in a rush. But I did a second certificate and sent that certified next day and it got there when it was supposed to.