Packet 3 notification

[Haran??1933 2]

Does anyone have an idea of how long it will take for the consulate to send my fiancé the Packet 3 email. Specifically, the NVC sent our petition to the Jerusalem consulate on July 22. We haven't received any communication from them yet. I understand that they will send an email, not a letter. Any insight would be helpful. Thanks.

[mollenne 11]

In my experience, they only emailed it to me when I proactively emailed them first. They will not email it to you until they have received your packet from the NVC, sometimes customs can delay things a bit with your packet coming from the US to Jerusalem. Just so you know, they will also have a digital version (all of your packet is scanned and sent digitally as a backup) sent to the Jerusalem Consulate.

My then-fiance (now my husband) had his interview in early November 2015, and the packet 3 PDF on the Jerusalem Consulate page here on VJ is the same one that was sent to him for us to prepare for the interview. I do not know if it has changed much (or at all), but I recommend trying to assemble the documentation, photographs, etc. as early as you can and use it as a guideline.

Funny enough, physical packet 3 (the actual paper version) arrived by Israel Post to his mailing address the day after he had his interview. Be proactive and email the consulate. We had some confusion: while technically a K-visa is classified as a non-immigrant visa, it was the immigrant visa email address for the Jerusalem consulate that we needed to reach out to (they have an email address for both types of visas).

Good luck!