Unexpected Document Requests at the Interview

[Bogota Rocks 8]

Hey everyone,

My wife's interview is coming up at the Bogota embassy next week, and we want to make sure we are covering all our bases.

We are bringing copies, and where possible originals, of all documents we sent to USCIS and the NVC. This includes all AOS docs, all IV docs, everything related to our joint sponsor, our child's birth cert and citizenship papers, all docs related to reestablishing domicile, my tax returns, you name it. We are bringing all the pictures we sent to USCIS of our relationship as well as other evidence that we are bona fide, and bringing some more pics along and our wedding album too just in case they ask. We are also bringing Facebook chats. Her medical exam is coming up and we will have those papers too, along with all receipts from the CEAC website for the visa fees and forms we filled out, the full prinout of our DS260, the interview letter, and all the papers they requested in the interview letter. I am checking and rechecking everything twice and thrice.

Nevertheless, I saw a fellow Colombia-based petitioner on the forum say that they got asked for a copy of the joint sponsor's birth certificate. I sent a copy of the joint sponsor's passport to the NVC, but I am going to bring the birth certificate copy too in case they ask for it. And that got me thinking. What other documents have people been asked for at the interview that they didn't think to bring with them? I mean docs that are not to be found anywhere in the instructions for which docs to send or bring at any point in the process. I am just trying to see what they might ask for, anything at all, and make sure I have it just in case. I have everything they asked for, but I want to see if there are any other docs I should bring that they may ask for. Anything to avoid a 221g.

Let me know your stories, and thanks in advance. You guys at Visa Journey have been invaluable in this arduous process!

[TBoneTX 46,304]

*** Country-specific thread moved from CR-1 Process forum to the Mexico/Latin/South America regional subforum. ***

[Bogota Rocks 8]

I have been reading the embassy interview reviews from around the world as they come in on Visa Journey, and I have noticed that more than a few people have gotten 221g letters in response to documents that are nowhere to be found in any instructions from USCIS, the NVC or the embassies themselves.

In response, I am trying to be proactive and bring some docs to my wife's interview even if they have never been asked for at any point in the immigration visa process, just to make sure I have it and avoid delaying this process any further. DId anyone here get a 221g for a particular document that they didn't bring to the interview even though it was never listed as something you had to bring or send?

[Frankjavir 57]

US Embassies have a lot of autonomy and their requirements vary a lot.

The US Embassy in Bogota is pretty consistent according to what I have heard from friends and relatives as well from the reviews in VJ.

Best sources of information for Bogota are:

http://bogota.usembassy.gov/stepbstep.html

http://photos.state.gov/libraries/colombia/1232657/Packets/IVPkt34ENGInst.pdf

http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/fees/reciprocity-by-country/CO.html

[TBoneTX 46,304]

Essentially duplicate thread moved from CR-1 Process forum to the Mexico/Latin/South American regional subforum and merged with existing thread. Please post just once on a topic.

[Bogota Rocks 8]

Sorry TBone, I was trying to anticipate any request that might come along, and didn't think my question was only applicable to the Bogota embassy.

Frank, a petitioner on another thread from Colombia was asked for the joint sponsor's birth certificate at the interview and they didn't have it. I sent in the joint sponsor's passport copy to the NVC, but not the birth certificate. As far as I can tell, that document was not requested anywhere, not by the NVC nor by the embassy. I am bringing a copy of each to my wife's interview just in case, but I wanted to see if anyone who has already been interviewed got any other non-listed requests for documents so I can bring those as well just in case.

[TBoneTX 46,304]

If you haven't done so, read the recent reviews about Bogota ("Reviews: Embassy") and check out "Embassy Info" -- links are atop any VJ page.