United Kingdom Interview Thread 2007

[Lansbury 19]

haha ! guess who has an interview date ! my NVC date was before everyone else's but they gave me the last interview date !

MY INTERVIEW DATE IS OCTOBER 19 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you reckon if I go Sunday 4th November then I am due a 10 year card or has it to be after midnight -ie the 5th - come on you techies and train spotters and experts !

alan

Alan,

Hi many congratulations mate very glad they have relieved your agony. Good luck on the day.

I believe they will issue you a CR-1 visa, and that you need to arrive the day after your wedding anniversary. Be sure to tactfully point out at POE that you have passed the 2 year date as they might not notice otherwise, it being a CR-1 visa they often don't look passed that.

[~*Maria*~ 1]

MY INTERVIEW DATE IS OCTOBER 19 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats Alan

[MargotDarko 0]

Yes Chicago is the airport we'll be arriving at!

Hooray ! piece of cake - lovely people - I always join the line with a male officer - you just smile pleasantly and its no prob.

Scowling chicks with badges and guns make me uneasy..

Then you will be up those potholed Illinois toll roads until you get to that lovely smooth tool-free road in Wisconsin...

Done it VERY many times

alan

Congrats on the interview!!

Also, you MUST mean "toll-free" - there is no such thing as a "tool-free" highway!!

(Does that joke come across okay? "Tool" is more an an Americanism, isn't it?)

[Captain Oates 911]

haha ! guess who has an interview date ! my NVC date was before everyone else's but they gave me the last interview date !

MY INTERVIEW DATE IS OCTOBER 19 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you reckon if I go Sunday 4th November then I am due a 10 year card or has it to be after midnight -ie the 5th - come on you techies and train spotters and experts !

alan

Alan,

Hi many congratulations mate very glad they have relieved your agony. Good luck on the day.

I believe they will issue you a CR-1 visa, and that you need to arrive the day after your wedding anniversary. Be sure to tactfully point out at POE that you have passed the 2 year date as they might not notice otherwise, it being a CR-1 visa they often don't look passed that.

Thanks folks - yes 5th is a Monday which is really busy on the roads so I think I will treat us and we will go to Manchester airport Sunday afternoon 4th -our anniversary- and we will stay at the airport hotel which is a nice one - candle lit dinner - and then its a 2 minute free shuttle to the terminal on Monday morning the 5th..

Yes I will have to ask the POE officer to see if he can mark a comment on the file to the effect that we are past our 2nd anniversary...

I am really stunned about this quick interview - I really thought it was shaping up to be November 12 - and these other guys - 2 weeks notice ! Embassy are so unpredictable.

Well I know its not over til its over but it feels over. I look back on all this stuff and I hope I never have a year like this again. Also we had to suffer it in the worst 'summer' weather since the ice age in a rented house in the rat/drug/drunk capital of europe...

Phew well Carolyn is going to hand in her notice and we will hang out in the canary islands for a week and try and wind down some..

being retired I will no doubt return to visa journey once I get to Florida to help others with what I have learned and remind myself how nice it is to be past this torture... ok no booze till Thursday medical then I am going to celebrate with that special bottle of wine we have been keeping since last christmas...

I have all the medical/innoculation forms stamped up from K1 medical in Edinburgh so medical should be ok -

Bought train ticket for interview and I am taking an umbrella this time as you stand in the open in front of the embassy for up to an hour..... Also folks - my interview is 10.30 but that just means you are the 10.30 batch through the gates - I was 10.30 last time and my interview was 4.30pm ! so book a late train back...

The embassy link for left luggage doesnt work so i will stay at a hotel the night before and ask em to hang onto my sweaty underwear and mobile phone (cheapo prepay 10 quid credit !) until after the interview... think I will wrap the phone in my underwear that should make sure its safe haha ! Even the thieves in London draw the line at a gimmers kecks !

alan

Edited September 18, 2007 by saywhat

[Captain Oates 911]

Yes Chicago is the airport we'll be arriving at!

Hooray ! piece of cake - lovely people - I always join the line with a male officer - you just smile pleasantly and its no prob.

Scowling chicks with badges and guns make me uneasy..

Then you will be up those potholed Illinois toll roads until you get to that lovely smooth tool-free road in Wisconsin...

Done it VERY many times

alan

Congrats on the interview!!

Also, you MUST mean "toll-free" - there is no such thing as a "tool-free" highway!!

(Does that joke come across okay? "Tool" is more an an Americanism, isn't it?)

Nope 'tool' works here too. I used to work in a Jewish family firm and tell em the one about the two carpenters who were working in a synagogue and fell asleep at lunchtime.

When they woke up they had both had their tools nicked !

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

If you dont get it then you need this link...

http://www.circumcisioncentre.co.uk/?gclid...CFQbmlAodDkrh8A

Edited September 18, 2007 by saywhat

[milwaukeegirl 0]

Congratulations to everyone who's gotten interview dates!! I haven't been checking the postings lately (busy packing and shipping!) and I missed all the good news.

Thanks for all the Chicago airport advice. Looks like we have nothing to worry about.

I will definitely check this site often while living in America, to help people out with their visa stuff. Without everyone on visa journey, I would have been lost! Hopefully removing the conditions on my husband's green card will be easy, and I won't need help with that. But we'll see!

[khanshahid 0]

MARGOTDARKO IS A STAR AND THE FIRST ONE TO SAY THERE IS NO PACKET 3 FOR CR1 via service centers and nvc to a standard embassy !!!

MARGOT I SALUTE YOU AND AWARD YOU THE VIRTUAL BOX OF CHOCOLATES !!!!!!

THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME HOPE IN THE DARK DAYS ---alan

CONGRATULATION ALAN, BEST OF LUCK FOR YOUR MEDICAL AND INTERVIEW,

I AM COMING BEHIND YOU I GOT MY CASE COMPLETED ON 11TH OF SEP WAITING TO CASE FORWARDED TO LONDON.

LET SEE WHCIH DATE I GET FOR MY INTERVIEW MAY BE LATE OCT OR EARLY NOV IS'NT?

06/13/07 - NVC receives petition and case # assigned.

06/25/07 - Form DS-3032 (Choice of Agent) & AoS bill generated.

06/27/07 - E-mailed choice of agent using James' shortcut.

07/03/07 - Mailed AOS bill via overnight mail using James' shortcut.

07/11/07 - NVC e-mails back accepting Choice of Agent

07/13/07 - IV bill generated.

07/16/07 - Received IV bill via snail mail

07/18/07 - Mailed IV bill back via overnight mail.

07/20/07 - I-864 received via snail mail

07/23/07 - Mailed I-864 via overnight mail.

07/28/07 - Payment for IV bill entered into the system

08/06/07 - DS-230 generated.

08/15/07 - Received DS-230 coversheet via snail mail.

08/24/07 - Mailed DS-230 packet to NVC via overnight mail (didn't use James' shortcuts).

08/29/07 - DS-230 info entered in NVC's system.

09/11/07 - CASE COMPLETED!!! THANK GOD

[Captain Oates 911]

MARGOTDARKO IS A STAR AND THE FIRST ONE TO SAY THERE IS NO PACKET 3 FOR CR1 via service centers and nvc to a standard embassy !!!

MARGOT I SALUTE YOU AND AWARD YOU THE VIRTUAL BOX OF CHOCOLATES !!!!!!

THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME HOPE IN THE DARK DAYS ---alan

CONGRATULATION ALAN, BEST OF LUCK FOR YOUR MEDICAL AND INTERVIEW,

I AM COMING BEHIND YOU I GOT MY CASE COMPLETED ON 11TH OF SEP WAITING TO CASE FORWARDED TO LONDON.

LET SEE WHCIH DATE I GET FOR MY INTERVIEW MAY BE LATE OCT OR EARLY NOV IS'NT?

06/13/07 - NVC receives petition and case # assigned.

06/25/07 - Form DS-3032 (Choice of Agent) & AoS bill generated.

06/27/07 - E-mailed choice of agent using James' shortcut.

07/03/07 - Mailed AOS bill via overnight mail using James' shortcut.

07/11/07 - NVC e-mails back accepting Choice of Agent

07/13/07 - IV bill generated.

07/16/07 - Received IV bill via snail mail

07/18/07 - Mailed IV bill back via overnight mail.

07/20/07 - I-864 received via snail mail

07/23/07 - Mailed I-864 via overnight mail.

07/28/07 - Payment for IV bill entered into the system

08/06/07 - DS-230 generated.

08/15/07 - Received DS-230 coversheet via snail mail.

08/24/07 - Mailed DS-230 packet to NVC via overnight mail (didn't use James' shortcuts).

08/29/07 - DS-230 info entered in NVC's system.

09/11/07 - CASE COMPLETED!!! THANK GOD

thank you it feels good !

your dates ? well the embassy has proved it can surprise everyone - the early nvc people get the last interview dates and 6 to 8 weeks becomes two !

Proof enough that it is most unpredictable..

I trade foreign currencies movements 8 hours a day in between VJ posts but I wouldnt try and predict the embassy....

jeez

booking flights tomorrow dont care if embassy says dont - need a morale boooster after all this

phew

[Rubycon 0]

Congratulations on the good news! As I said in another post, my POE at Chicago was very quick and easy. In fact it was the shortest time I've ever spent in immigration (including queing) at O'Hare. As a precaution I carried photocopies of all my documents as hand luggage - there was a brief moment when the immigration officer thought he couldn't find something in the "do not open" file..

..best of luck!

[TracyTN 237]

I am late to the party, but I just wanted to duck in and congratulate Alan on getting his interview date!

[Lansbury 19]

I am late to the party, but I just wanted to duck in and congratulate Alan on getting his interview date!

Notice how quiet he has gone since he got it

[Captain Oates 911]

I am late to the party, but I just wanted to duck in and congratulate Alan on getting his interview date!

Notice how quiet he has gone since he got it

QUIET ! MOI !

I have been in London for the medical...

making a separate post to reassure others... right now...

[samwatts 0]

Quick update!!

After nearly 10 mins arguing and in the end begging and pleading with the lady at the embassy to give me the code for the emails this week she finally caved in and gave it to me!! Now I see how they get all there money

She repeatedly told me I would not get a reply and even asked her manager who said as well that I would not recieve a reply

BUT I DID

1 hour after emailing I got an email telling me that we were in the final stages of processing and visas should be printed today!!!

so to the lady answering the extortion line!!!

sam xxx

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Quick update!!

After nearly 10 mins arguing and in the end begging and pleading with the lady at the embassy to give me the code for the emails this week she finally caved in and gave it to me!! Now I see how they get all there money

She repeatedly told me I would not get a reply and even asked her manager who said as well that I would not recieve a reply

BUT I DID

1 hour after emailing I got an email telling me that we were in the final stages of processing and visas should be printed today!!!

so to the lady answering the extortion line!!!

sam xxx

Fantastic!!! Congrats. The embassy should be embarrassed that their contractors give such poor customer service. You're right -- to them all!

[samwatts 0]

Great news I got a text from couriers today saying they delivering visas 2moro!!!!!