London 2012- K1s from NOA2 to interview thread

[Joon 2]

Too late to worry about the medical arriving before the case file. Get the forms filled out and the minute you know London has logged the case, mail them.

Don't forget there is a cover letter that goes with the DS-2001 asking for certain information from him. That's a good place to mention you are in a hurry because of pregnancy and he would like to travel as soon as possible.

You can call DOS in the US and find out when the case is logged. The letter contains nothing important. Dan posted a copy of it in this thread. All you need to know is on the embassy website.

Paying does not in any way speed up the interview.

As an update and an FYI for anyone who falls into the same situation - the embassy did receive our medical results well before our packet from the NVC - by a couple of weeks. When we got confirmation they had received our docs from the NVC (but hadn't loaded them all into the system yet) the embassy said they weren't showing our medical results in the system. However, when we called today all of our paperwork from the NVC was loaded into the system, and so was the medical. I'm thinking maybe they won't load the medical in until they have an I129F application to go with it. Not an ideal way to approach, I'm thinking (we're lucky the embassy didn't lose the results in the shuffled and set us back a week or more having to have them re-sent from Knightsbridge), but we seem to have fared okay.

We sent our Packet 3 info (it arrived Monday per the signature received), along with the cover letter with mention of the pregnancy as you suggested. Hopefully we'll have luck with that. We'll see! Thank you again for your help!

[TamsynE 0]

Approved yay!

[LeftCoastLady 441]

Approved yay!

Congrats!!

[photomile 101]

I have a couple of quick questions about the DS forms.

The other half is planning to move in to an apartment for my pending arrival (Had to move back in with parents thanks to job a long time ago, yay economy). But she won't be signing on the dotted line until I'm approved for my visa.

I'm reading on all the DS forms that I need to put down the address that I intend to stay in the USA. I'm not entirely certain that I want to put down her parents address.

What's the best thing to do here? Should we go ahead and get the dotted line signed in time for me to fill out the DS forms? Or put her parents address down and inform someone that I've moved once I get to the USA? (Also who would I inform and will this cause any complications?)

Thanks!

[photomile 101]

Sorry forgot to add, if we end up specifying her parents address, does this mean the income requirements change to include her entire household? Thats five people if you include me

[Richy C 0]

Hi All,

Interview in London on Tuesday, very last minute! Just realised the date on my 797 notice of action and the accompanying letter give my K-1 petition a validity until June 8th, 2012 instead of June 24th (the date on the letter itself). Does this mean my fiancee needs a new and NOTARISED letter of intent? The interview is on Tuesday morning so we'd only have tomorrow to sort it out...and London does not have a lot of notaries (it's also really expensive).

Has anyone done their K1 interview recently, and been/not been asked for this if their petition had just passed the validity?? Please help!

[Sherri+Dave 0]

Approved yay!

Yeah!!! Congrats!! So glad for you!

Dave's gotten his interview date for July 12. Nervous and excited!

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

What's the best thing to do here? Should we go ahead and get the dotted line signed in time for me to fill out the DS forms? Or put her parents address down and inform someone that I've moved once I get to the USA? (Also who would I inform and will this cause any complications?)

Thanks!

Use the parents address. You can fill out an AR-11 to inform USCIS. Or just wait until you file for AOS using the new address if you will be doing that pretty quickly.

Sorry forgot to add, if we end up specifying her parents address, does this mean the income requirements change to include her entire household? Thats five people if you include me

No, you are still a household of 2. Her parents are not her dependents.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Hi All,

Interview in London on Tuesday, very last minute! Just realised the date on my 797 notice of action and the accompanying letter give my K-1 petition a validity until June 8th, 2012 instead of June 24th (the date on the letter itself). Does this mean my fiancee needs a new and NOTARISED letter of intent? The interview is on Tuesday morning so we'd only have tomorrow to sort it out...and London does not have a lot of notaries (it's also really expensive).

Has anyone done their K1 interview recently, and been/not been asked for this if their petition had just passed the validity?? Please help!

Wish you had a timeline...

Are you asking if the UK person (the one going to the intervieew) needs a new letter of intent? No. Read the end of the DS-156k. Thats an oath signed in front of the officer stating the same thing a letter of intent would. Also there's nothing that needs to be notarized in the whole process all the way to US citizenship that I can think of except permission from the other parent if a child is being taken from the UK.

[Richy C 0]

Wish you had a timeline...

Are you asking if the UK person (the one going to the intervieew) needs a new letter of intent? No. Read the end of the DS-156k. Thats an oath signed in front of the officer stating the same thing a letter of intent would. Also there's nothing that needs to be notarized in the whole process all the way to US citizenship that I can think of except permission from the other parent if a child is being taken from the UK.

Thank you! Sorry I do need to make a timeline. The Packet 3 letter came February 24th, and said I had 4 months validity to go through to completion as of the 'priority date' of Feb 8th--so, til June 8th. If I need this extended, to get my US fiancee to send a new, updated, and notarised letter of intent. My interview is tomorrow morning, and we've just noticed the 'notarised' part!

If we can't get this notarised, as I've never heard of anything getting notarised in the UK, should she come with me to the embassy? She is in London with me. Or will an original, un-notarised letter be okay? It is just over the validity date by a week.

[photomile 101]

Use the parents address. You can fill out an AR-11 to inform USCIS. Or just wait until you file for AOS using the new address if you will be doing that pretty quickly.

No, you are still a household of 2. Her parents are not her dependents.

Thanks Nich, we'll use the parents address and then inform the USCIS using the AR-11 within a week or two rather than when we do the AOS filing. I've just noticed you can do it on-line too. Neat!

Edited June 18, 2012 by photomile

[GrappleApple 10]

Hi All!!

I have been trying to push and pre-empt every step to move things along as quick as possible. I called NVC to get my LND number allowing me to book my medical before I got my packet 3 letter.

I paid my visa fees last week when I was informed that they had my documents and medical reports. I also got told it would take 2-4 weeks processing and then I would get an interview letter for an interview date of another 4 weeks.

I wrote on my covering letter that I have a wedding date of August 21st and that I am available for last minute interviews.

I truly hope that I make my wedding date!!! talk about cutting it fine

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Thank you! Sorry I do need to make a timeline. The Packet 3 letter came February 24th, and said I had 4 months validity to go through to completion as of the 'priority date' of Feb 8th--so, til June 8th. If I need this extended, to get my US fiancee to send a new, updated, and notarised letter of intent. My interview is tomorrow morning, and we've just noticed the 'notarised' part!

If we can't get this notarised, as I've never heard of anything getting notarised in the UK, should she come with me to the embassy? She is in London with me. Or will an original, un-notarised letter be okay? It is just over the validity date by a week.

She got an approval of her petition from USCIS--the NOA2 in VJ terms. There is an expiration date printed on it. If you sent your forms to London in a timely manner and didn't just ignore it all past the expiration, then there is not usually a problem. The reason a timeline helps is it would tell me the NOA2 approval date. Is that Feb 8? What date did you send the DS- forms in?

I would take a new un-notarized letter from the USC since she's right there with you and can easily do it in time. Most people don't need them but I don't know your dates so hard to comment on the unknown factors. Curious why she wouldn't want to go with you to the big day in London if she is currently in the UK.

Edited June 18, 2012 by Nich-Nick

[Richy C 0]

She got an approval of her petition from USCIS--the NOA2 in VJ terms. There is an expiration date printed on it. If you sent your forms to London in a timely manner and didn't just ignore it all past the expiration, then there is not usually a problem. The reason a timeline helps is it would tell me the NOA2 approval date. Is that Feb 8? What date did you send the DS- forms in?

I would take a new un-notarized letter from the USC since she's right there with you and can easily do it in time. Most people don't need them but I don't know your dates so hard to comment on the unknown factors. Curious why she wouldn't want to go with you to the big day in London if she is currently in the UK.

Yes the NOA2 was approved Feb 8th, so June 8th was the expiration. Thank you, will definitely do an un-notarised letter...and bring her along hopefully if it'll help and she can get the day off!

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Yes the NOA2 was approved Feb 8th, so June 8th was the expiration. Thank you, will definitely do an un-notarised letter...and bring her along hopefully if it'll help and she can get the day off!

The expiration is automatically extended if you did your part and it took them awhile to do their part and assign you an interview. You have nothing to worry about. They won't ask for a new letter. I was thinking you might have had a much earlier NOA2 date and stalled around and didn't get your part in.