Visa in-hand!

[Churches91 3]

Hey everyone, very happy to say my Fiancee received her visa today!

I know a number of you recently had their K1 approved as well so I wanted to leave a little information to put your minds at ease.

May 8th:Our interview was on the 8th of may

May 9th:Our case creation status changed to the 9th of may, but is still 'Ready'

May 12th: Our case status changed to 'Administrative Processing', this lasted 6 hours and was changed to 'Issued'

May 15th: The DX courier sent us an e-mail with a tracking number AFTER it had already been delivered. Be careful everyone, the DX Courier allowed her father (with no identification) to accept the visa on her behalf with no questioning. A bit scary knowing it could have been the wrong person!

So to those anxiously waiting for a tracking number, just know it's actually not that useful! Visa can show up at any moment after being 'Issued'

Thanks for the help everyone, her flight is tomorrow!

(On a side note, I booked a one-way flight through United, but on the check in it's showing a return flight for some reason. Is this going to be an issue? I have a receipt from the travel agency I used [Opodo.co.uk] and it clearly states one-way flight)

Edited May 15, 2014 by Churches91

[VJnew 8]

Congrats guys.Wish u the best

[Marco&Bettina 502]

Congrats!

[G Walters 136]

Congrats

We are waiting for our packet 4 letter right now for London. Have you done a review of the interview. If not please do. Fiancee is worrying.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

(On a side note, I booked a one-way flight through United, but on the check in it's showing a return flight for some reason. Is this going to be an issue? I have a receipt from the travel agency I used [Opodo.co.uk] and it clearly states one-way flight)

Immigration doesn't care anything about your flight if that is the worry....one way, round trip...they don't care or ask.

If it is indeed a round trip, then cancel the return after she arrives. Might check with the airlines to confirm there is no return date.

[Churches91 3]

Congrats

We are waiting for our packet 4 letter right now for London. Have you done a review of the interview. If not please do. Fiancee is worrying.

I just submitted a review for you! I'll go ahead and paste it here as well just to save you the time.

"My appointment was scheduled for 8am, but I arrived at 7am. There was already a huge line, and we all had to queue in the rain with no cover (bring umbrella!), the security men were really nasty didn't allow anyone to take cover near their security buildings from the rain. I had to take out all my documents in the rain, so they got wet (remember, umbrella is good). When we were allowed to go through security, everything is very obvious as to where to go next (don't worry about navigation).

Once I was in the waiting area I waited about half an hour until I had my first part of the interview. She was a hard to understand Asian lady. She took the following:

-Birth Certificate

-Police Certificate

-i-134 support form (We brought tons of evidence because we were using mainly assets, they accepted NOTHING, she only wanted employee letter [we didn't have it, so she took the form by itself] a bit scary, we thought this would be a denial for sure)

-Passport

I was then told to sit back down and wait until I am called again. I had waited for an hour and a half and heard nothing so I went to the desk to receive some assistance. The help desk just told me to go to one of the booths, they assumed I was there for a work visa, so I went to the booth and was told they needed my passport (but they had taken it already!) She directed me back to the first lady to interview me to receive my passport. For K1's they keep your passport the entire time after you first hand it off, so the help desk ended up inducing more panic than actually helping me! The Asian woman responded "it's slow nothing I can do", so I assumed I had to sit and wait more, I wish people would listen to you when you say which visa you're applying for!

After 30 more minutes of waiting, I was finally called, 2 hours of waiting total.

It was a tall American man, very nice.

His questions were:

How did you first meet?

Have you met in person before?

What do you plan to do in the USA after you've been married?

Have you ever been married before or lived anywhere besides the UK?

(He then pulled out photos we included in the original 129F) Who are these people in the picture? (It was me and my fiance's family)

He then accepted me, less than 10 minutes later! They didn't even bring up the fact that I didn't give any evidence for the I134 support form (Please don't take this as you don't need evidence, I consider myself VERY lucky that there were no complications."

Let me know if I need to clear anything up, all in all the process was a cakewalk. Do NOT stress! Be prepared and just go in confidently, everything will be just fine!

[G Walters 136]

Thank you very much that will help.

[pivery 10]

That's great to hear that everything went well. My wife just had her interview Tuesday in Colombia and passed quite easily without 1500 questions either. We're waiting for her visa to be delivered and I have to say I was a little startled to see her CEAC status yesterday change from 'Ready' to 'Administrative Processing'. I realize that there are some people in AP for months but I think our situation is more like your fiancee's (just wrapping up/finalizing her visa).

Again, congrats!

Pivery

[Novembro 1,763]

Congrats!

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

Congratulations and best of luck for your new life in the States!

[Jacque67 7,328]

Congratulations and best of luck!

[Pooky 3,782]

Congratulations!