Embassy chosen different than country of residence

[vincebu 45]

Hello everyone,

 

We're late October filers, and now that NOA2 is approaching (hopefully within a good month!), I'm starting to get a little insecure.

The situation is as follows: I'm a Belgian citizen, living in The Netherlands.

When we filed the I129-f we selected Brussels as embassy, because that's for me heck of a lot closer than Amsterdam. But I live in the Netherlands. Will this give any problems, and will our case still get sent to Brussels? 

I got confused because I read from someone here who had the Dutch nationality but was living in London at the time and they put London as their embassy but their case still got sent to Amsterdam...

Anyone have any experience with this?

 

thanks a lot!

[Naes 12,205]

19 minutes ago, vincebu said:

Hello everyone,

 

We're late October filers, and now that NOA2 is approaching (hopefully within a good month!), I'm starting to get a little insecure.

The situation is as follows: I'm a Belgian citizen, living in The Netherlands.

When we filed the I129-f we selected Brussels as embassy, because that's for me heck of a lot closer than Amsterdam. But I live in the Netherlands. Will this give any problems, and will our case still get sent to Brussels? 

I got confused because I read from someone here who had the Dutch nationality but was living in London at the time and they put London as their embassy but their case still got sent to Amsterdam...

Anyone have any experience with this?

 

thanks a lot!

Yes there are a few cases this happened.

 

they will send your case to your resident country. You can then ask for a transfer.

[vincebu 45]

5 minutes ago, Naes said:

Yes there are a few cases this happened.

 

they will send your case to your resident country. You can then ask for a transfer.

Oh, I see. Then what's the point of being able to select it on your I-129F...

We'll see where it goes! Once we get to the NVC stage, can you actually see where they sent your case to? I know about the NVC case tracker, but I didn't think they show where they sent it to...

[Naes 12,205]

9 minutes ago, vincebu said:

Oh, I see. Then what's the point of being able to select it on your I-129F...

We'll see where it goes! Once we get to the NVC stage, can you actually see where they sent your case to? I know about the NVC case tracker, but I didn't think they show where they sent it to...

At the NVC stage they will tell you which embassy I believe. It’s sad they don’t change it there.. if that happens just let the embassy you want to use know and request them to ask your case to be transferred from the embassy it has been sent. However this will add 2-3 weeks easily. So if just going to Amsterdam is easier than waiting than I would just do that.

 

and yes I’m asking the same question “why are they asking then!!!”

[vincebu 45]

1 minute ago, Naes said:

At the NVC stage they will tell you which embassy I believe. It’s sad they don’t change it there.. if that happens just let the embassy you want to use know and request them to ask your case to be transferred from the embassy it has been sent. However this will add 2-3 weeks easily. So if just going to Amsterdam is easier than waiting than I would just do that.

 

and yes I’m asking the same question “why are they asking then!!!”

Okay thank you! We'll see how it all goes.

Yeah if it goes to Amsterdam so be it, then I'll just go there. It'd just be sweet to go to Brussels, because it's hours closer to me, and the wait for an appointment in AMS is almost 3 weeks, in Brussels one day.

Anyway we'll see where it ends up going to and then just go with it.

Thank your for your clarification @Naes!!

[geowrian 22,338]

As a general rule, to interview for an immigrant (or K-class) visa you have to have legal residence in the country (or the embassy/consulate responsible for said country if there is none in your country). Just because one is closer (or faster, as some people have tried) isn't cause to use another consulate.

 

They'll either fix it at NVC, or you can do an embassy transfer (as described above).

[vincebu 45]

5 hours ago, geowrian said:

As a general rule, to interview for an immigrant (or K-class) visa you have to have legal residence in the country (or the embassy/consulate responsible for said country if there is none in your country). Just because one is closer (or faster, as some people have tried) isn't cause to use another consulate.

 

They'll either fix it at NVC, or you can do an embassy transfer (as described above).

Gotcha. It never states it anywhere though... But I believe y'all! It just made since to me since it's closer and I'm a belgian citizen. But it's cleared up now, thank you guys!