South African K1 Visa applicants

[vistawateraz 28]

18 hours ago, gkz123 said:

Hi everyone! K1 Visa applicant couple here. 

 

My fiancé has to update his police clearance certificate with the US Consulate in Johannesburg as the one he previously submitted has expired. We emailed the consulate and they have said that we need to courier the document via DHL but gave us no further information about how to ensure that the updated document is added to his case file. 

 

Has anyone had any experience with mailing documents to the consulate?

 

We were going to send to the address they have listed online with an "Attn" line added

 

Attn: US Immigrant Visa Department

1 Sandton Dr

Sandhurst, Johannesburg, 2146

South Africa

 

 

We were also going to include a cover sheet inside the envelope with the police certificate that states our case number and my fiancé's name and passport number

 

Do you guys think this is sufficient? We're probably overthinking this, but we just want to make sure the new police certificate ends up in the right hands as it took several weeks to receive!! Appreciate any help

My wife (fiance' at the time), also had to send her Police Certificate after her interview to the consulate.  Include your cover letter and you'll be fine. 

[LuFlolady 881]

I am just stopping in to say HI! hope the process is going as smooth as it can for everyone and stay STRONG!!!!! We have started the AOS journey a little less painful because we are together during this process.

[vistawateraz 28]

How are all the SA applicants doing?  This board was going crazy for a while and everything seemed to cool down. Hope everyone is doing well!!

 

[LuFlolady 881]

17 hours ago, vistawateraz said:

How are all the SA applicants doing?  This board was going crazy for a while and everything seemed to cool down. Hope everyone is doing well!!

 

We are doing well all married NOW! and we have completed the biometrics for AOS.... how are you guys doing?

[Mozam 147]

18 hours ago, vistawateraz said:

How are all the SA applicants doing?  This board was going crazy for a while and everything seemed to cool down. Hope everyone is doing well!!

 

We are doing well. Married back at the beginning of March. Sent our AOS back in April and had it shot back to us to re-send again May. Also had an RFIE. 🙄 Was not on our game as much compared to the first part of the process. All is well now and we are preparing info to try and expedite our EAD card. Hindsight, I would have done the K2/CR1 process, but not the end of the world. We are making it and so happy to be together. 

[LuFlolady 881]

4 minutes ago, Mozam said:

We are doing well. Married back at the beginning of March. Sent our AOS back in April and had it shot back to us to re-send again May. Also had an RFIE. 🙄 Was not on our game as much compared to the first part of the process. All is well now and we are preparing info to try and expedite our EAD card. Hindsight, I would have done the K2/CR1 process, but not the end of the world. We are making it and so happy to be together. 

Glad to hear things are going well for the both of you! what is your reasoning for EAD expedite..... I have seen several people trying to expedite the EAD......

[Hunter & Robyn 10]

8 minutes ago, Mozam said:

We are doing well. Married back at the beginning of March. Sent our AOS back in April and had it shot back to us to re-send again May. Also had an RFIE. 🙄 Was not on our game as much compared to the first part of the process. All is well now and we are preparing info to try and expedite our EAD card. Hindsight, I would have done the K2/CR1 process, but not the end of the world. We are making it and so happy to be together. 

Happy to hear you're moving along swiftly! What did you get an RFE for if I may ask? I'm about to send my AOS off and am worried I don't have everything together, despite doing a bunch of research. Hope you get your EAD expedited! 

[Mozam 147]

7 minutes ago, LuFlolady said:

Glad to hear things are going well for the both of you! what is your reasoning for EAD expedite..... I have seen several people trying to expedite the EAD......

We are doing it on the basis of financial loss with the subreasoning that he has received a job offer. I’m not hinging on getting it, but right now I see no harm in trying since we are pass the 100 day mark. 

[Mozam 147]

5 minutes ago, Hunter & Robyn said:

Happy to hear you're moving along swiftly! What did you get an RFE for if I may ask? I'm about to send my AOS off and am worried I don't have everything together, despite doing a bunch of research. Hope you get your EAD expedited! 

I didn’t show enough proof of my income. Which to me was valid. However, I was under the understanding that since I had a co-sponsor I didn’t need to do the whole 9-yard of proving my income. Not true. 🤷🏻‍♀️

 

Also for his (the beneficiary) birth certificate. Didn’t understand this one. We just sent another copy. A lot of people in my month’s AOS thread got this RFIE and did the same. 

[LuFlolady 881]

14 minutes ago, Mozam said:

We are doing it on the basis of financial loss with the subreasoning that he has received a job offer. I’m not hinging on getting it, but right now I see no harm in trying since we are pass the 100 day mark. 

Gotcha! good luck with that....... and pls keep us posted on the outcome because I may try as well my husband has gotten several job offers that we have had to turn down

[Mozam 147]

Just now, LuFlolady said:

Gotcha! good luck with that....... and pls keep us posted on the outcome because I may try as well my husband has gotten several job offers that we have had to turn down

Will do! We were on the phone for an hour last night starting the expedite process. Just waiting for them to contact us with info of where to send our evidence. Trying to see what additional information I can provide in addition to the job offer. 

[LuFlolady 881]

4 minutes ago, Mozam said:

Will do! We were on the phone for an hour last night starting the expedite process. Just waiting for them to contact us with info of where to send our evidence. Trying to see what additional information I can provide in addition to the job offer. 

ok great Good luck with the expedite!

[vistawateraz 28]

49 minutes ago, LuFlolady said:

We are doing well all married NOW! and we have completed the biometrics for AOS.... how are you guys doing?

We're doing great as well.  We were married May 4th and also completed biometrics for AOS.  Our EAD and AP estimates are late December!  I've read that some folks don't have to do an interview for their AOS, have you heard of that happening?

[Kyle_274 2]

Hi all. 

 

We sent out our petition on the 9th August 2019 

We recieved the letter 797c on the the 19th August 2019. 

Is this the NOA1? 

 

I looked up the receipt number and it showed form g-28 was rejected (we are using a lawyer) 

The lawyer has since redone the g-28. 

But now if I check the receipt number it doesn't show anything? What would that mean? 

 

Is this the only way to keep track of what's happening? 

We now need to wait 5+ months for the NOA2? 

[LuFlolady 881]

2 hours ago, vistawateraz said:

We're doing great as well.  We were married May 4th and also completed biometrics for AOS.  Our EAD and AP estimates are late December!  I've read that some folks don't have to do an interview for their AOS, have you heard of that happening?

glad to know all is well and I havent really heard much about the interview or no interview for AOS..... Hoping you will get the EAD card sooner