June 2017 I-129F Filers, Part III

[Pasa 59]

On 31/01/2018 at 10:10 PM, Bandt said:

You have to track it as immigrant visa on ceac for some reason.

Thank you so much @Bandt

[RobDean 127]

56 minutes ago, Hadassah123 said:

Our case was in transit Thursday end of day EST (I guess, because I saw it my Friday morning), as became ready Friday morning EST (just after my lunch break). Could've easily missed it, if I hadn't checked the case tracker on my Friday morning.

 

As for interview etc, seems like the embassy in Casablanca sends a packet 3 with instructions. You need to wait for that. See VJ embassy info here: http://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=Morocco&cty=Casablanca

 

For other Casablanca info see here: https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/iv-dv-supplemental/CSB_Casablanca.pdf

 

Edit to add: I'm still not entirely sure whether all cases are electronic (so forwarded from NVC to embassy digitally). I know ours was based on the speed. However, if they do still send hard copies to other embassies, the transit time will of course be longer.

 

Thank you very much. Mine has been in transit since February 2. 

[Kari & Atti 411]

1 hour ago, Naes said:

Possible, they also sometimes just say they're waiting on backgrounds (I saw some people got that one and next day they learnt they were already approved. However if your file was already in backgrounds for real, that's when they were waiting for it to return to make the update. (Just guesses obviously)

 

the birthdate thing is interesting though, when did you ask them to change?

12/29/17.

[George & Roth 1,485]

This is the week for all remaining June filers. 

 

[vocaledge 3,340]

3 hours ago, RobDean said:

Hey. How long does it take from transit to ready ? Did you book your interview before you got ready ? Can I do that too or does it depend on the country. Thank you and hope everything goes well. 

About 24 hours and you can't book interview before it says Ready, but you can book medical. (UK)

 

2 hours ago, Hadassah123 said:

Our case was in transit Thursday end of day EST (I guess, because I saw it my Friday morning), as became ready Friday morning EST (just after my lunch break). Could've easily missed it, if I hadn't checked the case tracker on my Friday morning.

 

As for interview etc, seems like the embassy in Casablanca sends a packet 3 with instructions. You need to wait for that. See VJ embassy info here: http://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=Morocco&cty=Casablanca

 

For other Casablanca info see here: https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/iv-dv-supplemental/CSB_Casablanca.pdf

 

Edit to add: I'm still not entirely sure whether all cases are electronic (so forwarded from NVC to embassy digitally). I know ours was based on the speed. However, if they do still send hard copies to other embassies, the transit time will of course be longer.

 

They actually told me that they (NVC) send both electronic and regular for ALL cases me it is up to the embassy if they accept electronic or wait for the snail mail.

 

This, surprisingly, made sense to me.

[Naes 12,205]

2 minutes ago, vocaledge said:

About 24 hours and you can't book interview before it says Ready, but you can book medical. (UK)

 

They actually told me that they (NVC) send both electronic and regular for ALL cases me it is up to the embassy if they accept electronic or wait for the snail mail.

 

This, surprisingly, made sense to me.

Oh god... japan will definitely wait for snail mail... we just look technologically advanced, they like everything paper here....

[RobDean 127]

6 minutes ago, Naes said:

Oh god... japan will definitely wait for snail mail... we just look technologically advanced, they like everything paper here....

I'm guessing it's the same for Morocco. My case has been in transit since February 1. 

[Hadassah123 523]

41 minutes ago, vocaledge said:

About 24 hours and you can't book interview before it says Ready, but you can book medical. (UK)

 

They actually told me that they (NVC) send both electronic and regular for ALL cases me it is up to the embassy if they accept electronic or wait for the snail mail.

 

This, surprisingly, made sense to me.

Aha! 

 

Makes sense to me too. 

 

That explains why cases can go to "ready" so quickly, but then reading about people seeing their original application pack with the officer when at interview  

[vocaledge 3,340]

Not gonna lie, crapping my pants for my medical tomorrow....... No idea why - I know there is nothing to worry about!

I think its just suddenly becoming more real.

Anyway, About 18 hours from now, I'll be in there, so please keep some thoughts for me!

[Little_Vixen 1,869]

1 minute ago, vocaledge said:

Not gonna lie, crapping my pants for my medical tomorrow....... No idea why - I know there is nothing to worry about!

I think its just suddenly becoming more real.

Anyway, About 18 hours from now, I'll be in there, so please keep some thoughts for me!

You'll do great my friend. I got no worries. Just relax and enjoy the experience. 

[mysticdolphin95 431]

Hoping at least one person is coming in to work at the Auckland consulate today - though my hopes aren't high, with Waitangi Day tomorrow I'm sure it was hard to resist the 4-day weekend!  If the visa isn't issued this week I think we'll try to wheedle a bit more information out of them, but when you're in AP I think they sort of disregard your questions in lieu of telling you to just wait.  In any case: fingers crossed...

[vocaledge 3,340]

38 minutes ago, Little_Vixen said:

You'll do great my friend. I got no worries. Just relax and enjoy the experience. 

From what I hear I have to get naked - how can I not enjoy that experience? 

Just now, mysticdolphin95 said:

Hoping at least one person is coming in to work at the Auckland consulate today - though my hopes aren't high, with Waitangi Day tomorrow I'm sure it was hard to resist the 4-day weekend!  If the visa isn't issued this week I think we'll try to wheedle a bit more information out of them, but when you're in AP I think they sort of disregard your questions in lieu of telling you to just wait.  In any case: fingers crossed...

Do you have plans for POE yet?

[useful89 692]

42 minutes ago, vocaledge said:

Not gonna lie, crapping my pants for my medical tomorrow....... No idea why - I know there is nothing to worry about!

I think its just suddenly becoming more real.

Anyway, About 18 hours from now, I'll be in there, so please keep some thoughts for me!

Crapping your pants may actually come in handy for the medical, who knows what kinda tests they wanna run! 🤣🤣

[mysticdolphin95 431]

1 minute ago, vocaledge said:

Do you have plans for POE yet?

No plane tickets bought, no.  Our original plan was for him to come this Thursday, but clearly that won't be happening.  I was hoping he'd make it by next weekend as we'd planned a trip with my parents, but no tickets for that yet either and our hotel room was free anyway, so no monetary consequences.  He can basically come whenever he's got the visa!  

[vocaledge 3,340]

9 minutes ago, mysticdolphin95 said:

No plane tickets bought, no.  Our original plan was for him to come this Thursday, but clearly that won't be happening.  I was hoping he'd make it by next weekend as we'd planned a trip with my parents, but no tickets for that yet either and our hotel room was free anyway, so no monetary consequences.  He can basically come whenever he's got the visa!  

A nice quick POE once they get it sorted though - thats cool.  Glad to hear a success story.