Guatemala Appointment Time?

[Jrenoj 18]

I think I responded twice

Edited October 2, 2017 by Jrenoj

[Jrenoj 18]

On 9/10/2017 at 1:32 PM, JessicaMQ said:

Good luck!!! Please let us all know once you get approved and any other details (interview questions) would be helpful, our date is on October 4th

Good luck and positive vibes to you and your husband ! 

[JessicaMQ 7]

15 minutes ago, Jrenoj said:

Good luck and positive vibes to you and your husband ! 

Thanks so much!!! I've been a ball of nerves for a while now and now it's hours away. Thanks for the support and I will update once approved!

[Jrenoj 18]

On 10/3/2017 at 10:41 PM, JessicaMQ said:

Thanks so much!!! I've been a ball of nerves for a while now and now it's hours away. Thanks for the support and I will update once approved!

Hi there ! Thinking about you hoping all went well !!

[JessicaMQ 7]

2 hours ago, Jrenoj said:

Hi there ! Thinking about you hoping all went well !!

Hi! 

 

Sorry I didn't post yesterday I was on a high all day. HE GOT APPROVED!!!! I am beside myself with happiness and gratitude, despite the many helpful posts and success stories I have a deeply ingrained mentality that "it could happen for anyone else but not for me", and glad I was wrong. I will post details on the other thread later. Thanks for your support and positive vibes!!!

[Jrenoj 18]

18 minutes ago, JessicaMQ said:

Hi! 

 

Sorry I didn't post yesterday I was on a high all day. HE GOT APPROVED!!!! I am beside myself with happiness and gratitude, despite the many helpful posts and success stories I have a deeply ingrained mentality that "it could happen for anyone else but not for me", and glad I was wrong. I will post details on the other thread later. Thanks for your support and positive vibes!!!

Congratulations!! So awesome !!!! 

[SarahNRolando 34]

2 hours ago, JessicaMQ said:

Hi! 

 

Sorry I didn't post yesterday I was on a high all day. HE GOT APPROVED!!!! I am beside myself with happiness and gratitude, despite the many helpful posts and success stories I have a deeply ingrained mentality that "it could happen for anyone else but not for me", and glad I was wrong. I will post details on the other thread later. Thanks for your support and positive vibes!!!

LOVE THIS!!! So happy for you! 

[Y&V6416 51]

Still waiting for my interview date..

 

But I have a couple questions.. first one is can anyone recommend a good hotel that is near the office for the medical exam and also near the embassy that is at a good price?? I will be going with my husband to the interview and we will be staying in Guate city for 3 nights and want to budget as much as possible as we still have to go visit family in the south for 2 weeks or so so we need to budget ..

 

Anyway the best one I could find was for $93 a night breakfast included...

 

Can anyone recommend something a bit better?? 

[SarahNRolando 34]

12 minutes ago, Y&V6416 said:

Still waiting for my interview date..

 

But I have a couple questions.. first one is can anyone recommend a good hotel that is near the office for the medical exam and also near the embassy that is at a good price?? I will be going with my husband to the interview and we will be staying in Guate city for 3 nights and want to budget as much as possible as we still have to go visit family in the south for 2 weeks or so so we need to budget ..

 

Anyway the best one I could find was for $93 a night breakfast included...

 

Can anyone recommend something a bit better?? 

Hope it arrives soon!! 

Wish I could answer this one, however my husband stayed with family in the city and was there for almost three weeks. Hopefully someone else will have a better answer than mine  

[Jrenoj 18]

26 minutes ago, Y&V6416 said:

Still waiting for my interview date..

 

But I have a couple questions.. first one is can anyone recommend a good hotel that is near the office for the medical exam and also near the embassy that is at a good price?? I will be going with my husband to the interview and we will be staying in Guate city for 3 nights and want to budget as much as possible as we still have to go visit family in the south for 2 weeks or so so we need to budget ..

 

Anyway the best one I could find was for $93 a night breakfast included...

 

Can anyone recommend something a bit better?? 

So my husband went alone , he stayed in a hostal . It was a dorm room type of hotel EuroHostal and he gave good praises the breakfast was included and the food was at a reasonableness price . He had stayed at a different one for three days and that was almost $200 EuroHostal he paid $140 for 6-7 nights (estimating I can’t remeber) the price was $15 per day for one person again it was a dorm room style but he didn’t share rooms other than a couple of hours with two people who left during the night (layover) 

i booked using booking.com I highly recommend using the app 

 

also so the hotel has free wifi and airport shuttle . He paid for cab which was 50 quetzales one way. The hotel also has bikes for free use and it’s in a gated community they require you provide address of where your going in order to enter the community which I liked. 

Edited October 6, 2017 by Jrenoj

[JessicaMQ 7]

1 hour ago, Y&V6416 said:

Still waiting for my interview date..

 

But I have a couple questions.. first one is can anyone recommend a good hotel that is near the office for the medical exam and also near the embassy that is at a good price?? I will be going with my husband to the interview and we will be staying in Guate city for 3 nights and want to budget as much as possible as we still have to go visit family in the south for 2 weeks or so so we need to budget ..

 

Anyway the best one I could find was for $93 a night breakfast included...

 

Can anyone recommend something a bit better?? 

We stayed at the Holiday Inn. It's near both medical exam and embassy, walking distance. We paid about $80 a night plus tax but it's worth it it's really nice. 

[JessicaMQ 7]

Hey everyone , 

 

Wanted to share my experience from start to finish and was going to post in other forum (Guatemala Consulate Reviews I think it's called) but don't know how. So I'm just gonna post it here so here goes...

 

My husband and I started the process in March of 2016 with I-130 application. We applied for an I-601 waiver based on psychological hardship and submitted our case in August of 2016 and were approved  in January of 2017. I had thought that was the hard part as collecting evidence for the 601 was a full time job, but there was lots of hard work after that.

 

The hardest part of next phase of process was collecting police certificates for every place my husband lives for more than 6 months. Some of the police departments were not helpful and told us it would take weeks (even though it takes 5 mins to write). Anyways, we eventually got everything we needed and submitted to NVC March.

 

In May we got notice that my hubby needed an updated birth certificate so that delayed everything even longer. We finally got case complete in early September and an interview date on October 4th.

 

We left for Guatemala on 9/19 to give us enough time to get police reports, medical exam etc. We ended up getting everything done in 2 days so we didn't need that much time at all and I kind of regret going that early but I guess it's better to be safe.

 

Now onto the interview... my hubbys appointment was at 7:15. We stayed at a hotel near the embassy bc traffic in Guatemala is HORRIBLE and unpredictable, roads are at a standstill for sometimes 30 mins so we didn't want to take a chance. He left hotel at 6:30 and was back and approved at 10:30. He said he had a few problems getting into the embassy bc his watch had gps and bc he had the cd with him with x-rays which isn't allowed in bc it's technology so luckily a stranger outside held it for him. He said after collecting documents (be sure for Guatemala you have BOTH police certificates, there are 2) he waited for a while until he was called. They asked him when he entered US, if he ever left since then, how we met, if I had a big family and how big our wedding was. My husband did such a great job of saying "I actually have a picture of that" to support answers to questions which the interviewer really liked. He saw many ppl get denied but only for missing documents. She told him he was approved and we had the visa in less than 48 hours!

 

One piece of advice I have for any spouses  considering accompanying their spouse to Guatemala I would suggest DON'T!!! I wanted to go bc I have abandonment issues and didn't want to be away from my husband but I had a really hard time adjusting to the culture and I definitely made my husband more stressed worrying about me. It's really really dangerous here so that's an issue and other than that we tried to stay at his mothers but got no sleep bc she has 15 roosters ####### a doodle doing all night long. Most ppl have them here and even if your immediate family doesn't you will hear the neighbors. There's lots of bugs, the food creates stomach issues if you're not used to it, it's really difficult to get around bc the road system is very disorganized so if you're not from here you definitely won't be able to drive and it's just rough. I thought I spoke Spanish well but not well enough I learned which led to a lot of time in my head worrying about the outcome.

 

But thankfully it all worked out and I'm happy to pay it forward and help anyone in any way I can. This is the biggest nightmare I've ever been through but there is a light at the end of the tunnel!!!

[Jrenoj 18]

1 hour ago, JessicaMQ said:

Hey everyone , 

 

Wanted to share my experience from start to finish and was going to post in other forum (Guatemala Consulate Reviews I think it's called) but don't know how. So I'm just gonna post it here so here goes...

 

My husband and I started the process in March of 2016 with I-130 application. We applied for an I-601 waiver based on psychological hardship and submitted our case in August of 2016 and were approved  in January of 2017. I had thought that was the hard part as collecting evidence for the 601 was a full time job, but there was lots of hard work after that.

 

The hardest part of next phase of process was collecting police certificates for every place my husband lives for more than 6 months. Some of the police departments were not helpful and told us it would take weeks (even though it takes 5 mins to write). Anyways, we eventually got everything we needed and submitted to NVC March.

 

In May we got notice that my hubby needed an updated birth certificate so that delayed everything even longer. We finally got case complete in early September and an interview date on October 4th.

 

We left for Guatemala on 9/19 to give us enough time to get police reports, medical exam etc. We ended up getting everything done in 2 days so we didn't need that much time at all and I kind of regret going that early but I guess it's better to be safe.

 

Now onto the interview... my hubbys appointment was at 7:15. We stayed at a hotel near the embassy bc traffic in Guatemala is HORRIBLE and unpredictable, roads are at a standstill for sometimes 30 mins so we didn't want to take a chance. He left hotel at 6:30 and was back and approved at 10:30. He said he had a few problems getting into the embassy bc his watch had gps and bc he had the cd with him with x-rays which isn't allowed in bc it's technology so luckily a stranger outside held it for him. He said after collecting documents (be sure for Guatemala you have BOTH police certificates, there are 2) he waited for a while until he was called. They asked him when he entered US, if he ever left since then, how we met, if I had a big family and how big our wedding was. My husband did such a great job of saying "I actually have a picture of that" to support answers to questions which the interviewer really liked. He saw many ppl get denied but only for missing documents. She told him he was approved and we had the visa in less than 48 hours!

 

One piece of advice I have for any spouses  considering accompanying their spouse to Guatemala I would suggest DON'T!!! I wanted to go bc I have abandonment issues and didn't want to be away from my husband but I had a really hard time adjusting to the culture and I definitely made my husband more stressed worrying about me. It's really really dangerous here so that's an issue and other than that we tried to stay at his mothers but got no sleep bc she has 15 roosters ####### a doodle doing all night long. Most ppl have them here and even if your immediate family doesn't you will hear the neighbors. There's lots of bugs, the food creates stomach issues if you're not used to it, it's really difficult to get around bc the road system is very disorganized so if you're not from here you definitely won't be able to drive and it's just rough. I thought I spoke Spanish well but not well enough I learned which led to a lot of time in my head worrying about the outcome.

 

But thankfully it all worked out and I'm happy to pay it forward and help anyone in any way I can. This is the biggest nightmare I've ever been through but there is a light at the end of the tunnel!!!

Lol that’s awesome 48 hrs ! So happy for y’all !!!

[JessicaMQ 7]

16 minutes ago, Jrenoj said:

Lol that’s awesome 48 hrs ! So happy for y’all !!!

Thanks we're coming home Tuesday I can't wait!!!

[Y&V6416 51]

Case was closed on Sept. 25th and I received the CC Email on Oct. 2nd... I was hoping that within a week I would receive the interview date just like I have seen with everyone else.... But it's already the 12th and no email... Getting a bit anxious.. I know everyone here understands... Does anyone know how long it usually takes to get interview date after CC??