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seablock   23

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My wife and I went to the embassy in Bogota yesterday and she had had her CR-1  visa application approved.  Whopee?  but hold on....The interview packet for the embassy says 2-3 days (not guaranteed) and the embassy helpers said that it would be 8 days to get the approved visa.  Then the next day my wife gets a call from the Embassy.  Apparently there was a mistake and the CO did not collect the birth cert or marriage cert.  They sent instructions by email on how to send in the documents.  We dropped the documents at the ASC office and they said that they would send the docs to the embassy and we would get an update on Monday.  They said it would be 2-3 weeks before the passport with visa would be delivered. 

 

Anyone have this experience after approval and green card number for payment to USCIS issued?    How long does it take them to review the documents and issue a visa?

 

 

Ryan H Grand Master

Ryan H   3,834

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Moved from Process & Procedures to Progress Reports.

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Jhonny Proficient

Jhonny   472

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13 hours ago, seablock said:

My wife and I went to the embassy in Bogota yesterday and she had had her CR-1  visa application approved.  Whopee?  but hold on....The interview packet for the embassy says 2-3 days (not guaranteed) and the embassy helpers said that it would be 8 days to get the approved visa.  Then the next day my wife gets a call from the Embassy.  Apparently there was a mistake and the CO did not collect the birth cert or marriage cert.  They sent instructions by email on how to send in the documents.  We dropped the documents at the ASC office and they said that they would send the docs to the embassy and we would get an update on Monday.  They said it would be 2-3 weeks before the passport with visa would be delivered. 

 

Anyone have this experience after approval and green card number for payment to USCIS issued?    How long does it take them to review the documents and issue a visa?

 

 

WOW that serves me because my interview is going to be at Bogota Embassy too...

Please, let us know about all the details of this, and I´m going to be following this post, and if is not too much, can you please post your experience at the Embassy and interview in the Bogota thread:

 

http://www.visajourney.com/reviews/index.php?cnty=Colombia

 

It his a BIG help to others taht can avoid mistakes and all that stuff! Fortunatelly, yesterday was a nice weather day here in Bogota!

Thank you in advance.

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seablock Contributor

seablock   23

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While we followed the steps, exactly as requested, the wrong documents were given to the CO.  my thoughts to you is not to depend on the Colombians who are helping organize the documents as you enter the Embassy.  The Originals and copies were together (as requested) and were legal sized.  I suppose that they confused the documents and put the copies with the documents to be submitted. 

 

Just make sure before you hand in the documents to the CO, to confirm that you are handing in the notarized birth cert and marriage cert.  

 

If not, you end in Administrative Processing.   Just checked with the consular email status service and they gave a standard response that they will contact us about our case when they need to. 

 

 

 

 

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Candyb2017 Newbie

Candyb2017   0

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Hi we have our interview next month, hopping to get more information can you please tell me: 

how Many hours the  process take at the embassy ( hopping to fly out that same evening)

what documents you was asked for 

any relevant information to keep in mind. 

 

Regards, thanks very much 

 

Candy 

seablock Contributor

seablock   23

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You should be fine as we got there at 6:45am and were on the road by 9 am. But, if you are approved, you don't get your passport back for a "while."   Ours was a week.  

 

Make sure you have the requested docs and confirm when you pass the birth and wedding cert to the cousular officer that they are the originals docs

 

Nitas_man Experienced

Nitas_man   3,100

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On September 16, 2017 at 3:07 AM, seablock said:

My wife and I went to the embassy in Bogota yesterday and she had had her CR-1  visa application approved.  Whopee?  but hold on....The interview packet for the embassy says 2-3 days (not guaranteed) and the embassy helpers said that it would be 8 days to get the approved visa.  Then the next day my wife gets a call from the Embassy.  Apparently there was a mistake and the CO did not collect the birth cert or marriage cert.  They sent instructions by email on how to send in the documents.  We dropped the documents at the ASC office and they said that they would send the docs to the embassy and we would get an update on Monday.  They said it would be 2-3 weeks before the passport with visa would be delivered. 

 

Anyone have this experience after approval and green card number for payment to USCIS issued?    How long does it take them to review the documents and issue a visa?

 

 

They're just completing their case file for uploading.  You're going to be fine.  It's their mistake not yours.  

 
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