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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Canada
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So my fiancee is currently awaiting packet 3 from Montreal. She has already filled out form DS-160 online.

I was looking into Packet 3 which i came across on the consulate website.

http://photos.state.gov/libraries/canada/303578/montreal/Packet3-K1-MTL.pdf

Now I also came across this link... http://montreal.usconsulate.gov/visas/visas/visa_news/ds160-100813.html

I called DOS 2 weeks ago and they said packet 3 was already sent but when I called a few days ago they said they no longer handle Fiance Visa cases. Instead of waiting, my fiancee wanted to just go ahead and do packet 3. Now we wanted to know if she can just do the instructions that are on the packet 3 pdf which is emailing the 3 documents, OR does she need to mail DS 230, 156 and 156K along with the packet 3 checklist. On the link it says DS 160 replaces those forms. And on the pdf it says to email DS-160 confirmation along with copy of the checklist and biographic data page from her passport.

I tried calling DOS but they say they dont handle fiance visa cases anymore that the NVC does but when i call the NVC they say they don't go farther than letting us know when they sent it out to the consulate so I dont know what to do. We don't want to wait for packet 3 because our approval expires in march so we want to get this over with.

We were gonna just email but wanted to make sure first because from what I read in the forums everyone is still mailing the forms. Has anyone recently gotten packet 3 from Montreal or emailed the 3 documents like it says on the pdf?

Edited by omardagame123
Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Ecuador
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*** Thread moved from K-1 Process forum to the Embassy/Consulate forum -- topic involves that phase. ***

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

 
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