interview question re: fiance's child

[Susan53011 14]

Scheduling the interview appointment tonight YAY!!!

I have a question regarding the process at the time of interview for my fiance who has a child living back home in the Philippines. We planned on him coming at a later date so we listed him on the application as we should. My question is this: Do we need his passport now if he is not going to be coming to the US within the next year or so? We have his birth certificate. I am just concerned because his name is listed on the bottom of packet 4 and I am afraid of delays if they want his passport. He is 6 years old and does have a passport, however it is with his grandmother who is taking care of him at the moment. Is it ok to tell the interviewer that we didn't intend on bringing him to the US yet?

sorry, one more question...Do I need to pay for his visa to schedule the interview appointment as well?

Anyone with similar experience I would appreciate your feed back. thanks

Edited October 24, 2013 by Susan53011

[babygirl28 4]

Scheduling the interview appointment tonight YAY!!!

I have a question regarding the process at the time of interview for my fiance who has a child living back home in the Philippines. We planned on him coming

at a later date so we listed him on the application as we should. My question is this: Do we need his

passport now if he is not going to be coming to the US

within the next year or so? We have his birth

certificate. I am just concerned because his name is

listed on the bottom of packet 4 and I am afraid of

delays if they want his passport. He is 6 years old and

does have a passport, however it is with his grandmother who is taking care of him at the moment. Is it ok to tell the interviewer that we didn't intend on bringing him to the US yet?

sorry, one more question...Do I need to pay for his visa to schedule the interview appointment as well?

Anyone with similar experience I would appreciate your feed back. thanks

I am in a similar situation. Same age of my son too. Have the same questions that you do. My son will follow-to-join later. I hope other members will shed some light to this cause i dont know what to do either?Thank you for opening this topic. Best of luck to our journey!

[djv-tco 29]

I have a question regarding the process at the time of interview for my fiance who has a child living back home in the Philippines. We planned on him coming at a later date so we listed him on the application as we should. My question is this: Do we need his passport now if he is not going to be coming to the US within the next year or so? We have his birth certificate. I am just concerned because his name is listed on the bottom of packet 4 and I am afraid of delays if they want his passport. He is 6 years old and does have a passport, however it is with his grandmother who is taking care of him at the moment. Is it ok to tell the interviewer that we didn't intend on bringing him to the US yet?

I am in a similar situation. Same age of my son too. Have the same questions that you do. My son will follow-to-join later. I hope other members will shed some light to this cause i dont know what to do either?Thank you for opening this topic. Best of luck to our journey!

This may be a long shot but check out this member's Embassy review:

Hooray we were approved our visa today at the interview. Thank god. Ithe visa will be sent In about 10 days I was told. Got up really early around 5.00 to get ready. It was rainy today and silly me left my umbrella behind. Luckily when I got to the que there was a girl in front of me that was going for a visitors visa who was kind enough to share her umbrella with me.

The embassy was packed full of people all going for diffent visas. It's funny the k1 visa didn't move as quick as the other visas. AnY way after 40 mins of waiting I finally got called up to counter number 1. The lady was a nice Asian lady. She asked me for my interview letter and my number. Then asked me for my police cert and my 2 passport pics. Then my birth certificate. I gave her all of the stuff she asked. She then said where is your daughter. I had to explain again that she didn't come cos she won't be joining me till summer. So she said ok but make sure she joined you in the summer cos the K2 visa has a 1 year limit after that they won't allow her to join again. She said can I fill out the forms for her now so she can make a folder for her for when she comes to interview in June. Luckily I carried all the info of her school etc with me so was able to fill out the ds157 and 156. I handed it back to her and she then told m to put my finger on the screen for finger prints. After that was done she took my passport. And asked for my visa receipt of payment and the courier recipt. She took my passport of me then put it in somekind of plasticky see through folder then gave me my x-Ray film from my medical said I can keep that. She told me o go sit down and wait and someone will call me in for the interview. I sat down for another 15 minutes then my number flashed up on the screen I front again. I went to counter 16 and saw a lovely African American lady who proceeded to tell me to swear that everything was the truth. After I swore she asked me a few questions.

Maybe get in touch with that member and see how she went about their application/forms?

Good luck to both of you!

[Hank_ 9,174]

Scheduling the interview appointment tonight YAY!!!

I have a question regarding the process at the time of interview for my fiance who has a child living back home in the Philippines. We planned on him coming at a later date so we listed him on the application as we should. My question is this: Do we need his passport now if he is not going to be coming to the US within the next year or so? We have his birth certificate. I am just concerned because his name is listed on the bottom of packet 4 and I am afraid of delays if they want his passport. He is 6 years old and does have a passport, however it is with his grandmother who is taking care of him at the moment. Is it ok to tell the interviewer that we didn't intend on bringing him to the US yet?

sorry, one more question...Do I need to pay for his visa to schedule the interview appointment as well?

Anyone with similar experience I would appreciate your feed back. thanks

You do not need the child's passport for your fiancee's interview.

Yes you will have to pay the visa fee before scheduling the interview for the child.

Process for the K-2 child is the same as the K-1 ... for the Philippines follow the flashing arrow below.