K-1 Timeline

[geowrian 22,337]

6 hours ago, ChinBer said:

@geowrian hi. Do you remember the email address of the US embassy that you sent in the letter of embassy transfer? Thank you! 

Sure. We actually sent it to both support-philippines@ustraveldocs.com and IVManilaReplies@state.gov

[ChinBer 4]

@geowrian Thank you. I was thinking before that they might send it to riyadh instead of manila. And yes they did! Haha. We contacted the NVC about it to so many times when we had our case number. Told them to transfer it to manila instead of Saudi they said yes they will change it. And now we are the ones to have it transfer. So sad.😕 hope it will not take much time transferring. We are going to a a year processing this k1 next month 😕

[geowrian 22,337]

2 minutes ago, ChinBer said:

@geowrian Thank you. I was thinking before that they might send it to riyadh instead of manila. And yes they did! Haha. We contacted the NVC about it to so many times when we had our case number. Told them to transfer it to manila instead of Saudi they said yes they will change it. And now we are the ones to have it transfer. So sad.😕 hope it will not take much time transferring. We are going to a a year processing this k1 next month 😕

Best of luck! the transfer between those consulates, at least in 2017, was not that long luckily. I hope it's the same still.

[ChinBer 4]

@geowrian thank you! Hoping ours too. how many weeks for you guys? 

[geowrian 22,337]

Just now, ChinBer said:

@geowrian thank you! Hoping ours too. how many weeks for you guys? 

It was 2 weeks from when Manila acknowledged my request, and about 1 week from when the request was approved.

[ChinBer 4]

@geowrian that was not too long. Anyway, did you wait for the riyadh to receive your case before you sent in the transfer request? How many weeks did it take? 

[geowrian 22,337]

7 minutes ago, ChinBer said:

@geowrian that was not too long. Anyway, did you wait for the riyadh to receive your case before you sent in the transfer request? How many weeks did it take? 

Yes, I did. It took a couple tries to get the request to the right address where they actually responded to my email in a non-generic manner.

[ChinBer 4]

@geowrian do you have any idea if it is okay if we pass the validity date of our NOA2 approval? Cause its only up until august 24 and now we have to have this case transfer which will still take time. The USCIS to NVC timeline took us like 10 weeks. I had it requested from the NVC when it was like 9 weeks cause it is taking long. 

[geowrian 22,337]

8 hours ago, ChinBer said:

@geowrian do you have any idea if it is okay if we pass the validity date of our NOA2 approval? Cause its only up until august 24 and now we have to have this case transfer which will still take time. The USCIS to NVC timeline took us like 10 weeks. I had it requested from the NVC when it was like 9 weeks cause it is taking long. 

As long as you are still taking action on the case, they should renew the petiton's approval. Manila typically does this for up to a year.

[ChinBer 4]

@geowrian 

Hi there. I would like to ask how many weeks all in all did it take you for transfering your case from riyadh to manila including the time you requested it. Its been more than a week since US embassy manila acknowledge our request. 

[geowrian 22,337]

13 hours ago, ChinBer said:

@geowrian 

Hi there. I would like to ask how many weeks all in all did it take you for transfering your case from riyadh to manila including the time you requested it. Its been more than a week since US embassy manila acknowledge our request. 

4/16/2017: Case received at Riyadh embassy

4/21/2017: Requested case transfer to Manila, approved 4/24/2017

5/1/2017: Case received by Manila. Email received with and documents information to obtain before the interview. She was free to schedule the interview online as of this date, too.

[Lucy&Jason 807]

Hello good day @geowrian I want only to ask if there’s a way to know if CSC approved our embassy transfer from hk to manila. We just recently mailed CSC and told us they already received the mail and that they will respond to us after 30days. Is that possible for them to change our embassy i mean in the USCIS stage? We are still waiting now for our NOA2.

 

Your response is highly appreciated. Thabk you very much. 

[geowrian 22,337]

5 hours ago, S&JW said:

Hello good day @geowrian I want only to ask if there’s a way to know if CSC approved our embassy transfer from hk to manila. We just recently mailed CSC and told us they already received the mail and that they will respond to us after 30days. Is that possible for them to change our embassy i mean in the USCIS stage? We are still waiting now for our NOA2.

 

Your response is highly appreciated. Thabk you very much. 

Unfortunately, I had no luck in doing so. I sent a letter to request the change, they acknowledged receipt of it (received over 30 days prior to approval), but they did not change the embassy. When I spoke with them on the phone, they said it could be changed once the I-129F as approved and it was received by NVC. While this is technically possible, getting NVC to actually do so in the couple days they have it is quite difficult.

 

This doesn't mean they won't do so in your case...just that I had no luck in doing so. Please let me know how it goes.

[ChinBer 4]

11 hours ago, geowrian said:

4/16/2017: Case received at Riyadh embassy

4/21/2017: Requested case transfer to Manila, approved 4/24/2017

5/1/2017: Case received by Manila. Email received with and documents information to obtain before the interview. She was free to schedule the interview online as of this date, too.

Thank you so much for this.😊 Hope mine will not take long too. Cross fingers! 

[ChinBer 4]

5 hours ago, S&JW said:

Hello good day @geowrian I want only to ask if there’s a way to know if CSC approved our embassy transfer from hk to manila. We just recently mailed CSC and told us they already received the mail and that they will respond to us after 30days. Is that possible for them to change our embassy i mean in the USCIS stage? We are still waiting now for our NOA2.

 

Your response is highly appreciated. Thabk you very much. 

Hi. Just want to share mine. Well we told the USCIS before we got approved to change the embassy but told us just say so when it is in the NVC. We called the NVC 6x to say that we wanted to transfer it to manila embassy. From the time they got it we called already. They said yes. But for some reason it was still sent to saudi instead of manila. didn’t get luck too just as @geowrian but you can try it maybe it will work for you. Keep contacting them. 😊