London DCF Packet 4 Question and Advice for Others

[ALondon1 1]

I applied via DCF for my husband in July of this year. We are finally at the interview stage (hooray) and I just have one last question and a little advice from our experience.

We have been having problems receiving mail from the embassy, and never received the letter with our case number stating that we could book the medical. We eventually found out our case number by emailing the embassy once 8 weeks had passed from approval of our petition.

Having learned from this, we emailed the embassy a few weeks after my husband attended his medical, and they responded today that we have been given an interview date of Dec 2. We have not received packet 4, and the email response said not to worry if we don't receive it. They provided the following link to the documents required:

http://london.usembassy.gov/mobile/iv/application_documents.html

My questions are as follows:

1) Does my husband need to bring MY original birth certificate to the interview, or just his own? I am not clear from how this is worded in the link.

2) From other posts about the DCF interview, I see some people are bringing copies of all other applications/ all other documents that were submitted in this process. Is this necessary?

My advice is to send an email to the embassy asking about your interview once 5 days has passed from the date of your medical. I have noticed that a few people received their letter after the date of their interview, and that may have been our case had we not sent this email.

Timeline for DCF London (IR1): (I will add this to my signature for future posts, but wanted to make sure it was included here)

Petition posted~ July 7 2015
NOA1 received ~ July 9 2015
Petition approved ~ Aug 20 2015
NOA2 received ~ Sept 20 2015
Packet 3 - Never arrived, emailed embassy after 8 weeks had passed, was given a case number and informed that a letter was sent on Sept 23rd which we never received. We confirmed our mailing address, which was correct. Unclear what the issue was.

Medical completed ~Nov 20 2015 All clear pending blood results.
Packet 4 - Not received, emailed embassy and was given interview date and link to documents required.
Interview ~ Scheduled for Dec 2, 2015!