Waiver Approved. Consular wants 2nd Visa Fees.

[coniefl 28]

Is it normal that the Consulate is asking us to pay the K1/K2 visa fees for a second time, I can understand getting a new medical exam because its been over a year since the original K1 interview in which we were told to file a waiver.

The original interview was in May 2015, after hiring an attorney and getting the documentation ready for the waiver we finally filed it in October 2015, after 8 months to process the waiver we finally got approved. Now they want the fees again which we already paid at the original interview. They said because its been over a year, the case number hasn't changed and its not out fault that USCIS is slow to process.

Is there anything we can do about this?

[p-ana 933]

The fee you payed before was for that visa processing, which resulted in a refused visa. Therefore you need to pay again, have another interview, be processed again, etc.

[coniefl 28]

Thanks

[coniefl 28]

The fee you payed before was for that visa processing, which resulted in a refused visa. Therefore you need to pay again, have another interview, be processed again, etc.

It turns out that the information given in the quote a above is incorrect.

Upon receiving the information about having to pay the visa fee again I had asked the embassy if there was someone who i could talk to in the USA to see if we could get the fee waived because it was is beyond our control of the lengthy time it takes the USCIS to process the waiver. They took it upon themselves to check, took a few days, but they kindly replied that since the waiver was filed whithin a year of the original interview that they got clearing and we do NOT have to pay the visa fee again.

Edited July 19, 2016 by coniefl

[p-ana 933]

It turns out that the information given in the quote a above is incorrect.

Upon receiving the information about having to pay the visa fee again I had asked the embassy if there was someone who i could talk to in the USA to see if we could get the fee waived because it was is beyond our control of the lengthy time it takes the USCIS to process the waiver. They took it upon themselves to check, took a few days, but they kindly replied that since the waiver was filed whithin a year of the original interview that they got clearing and we do NOT have to pay the visa fee again.

Good for you.