HELP! Do photos need to be sent back with Packet 3?

[psho 0]

I'm about ready to go to work, and I need to know in the next 90 minutes -- do the photos for DS 156 etc get attached to the forms going back to the embassy in packet 3, or do they get carried to the interview and get attached there?

I think it's the latter, but I need to know so I can tell my guy.

THANKS!!!

[MaydayDas 1]

i do not have that form in my case but I think that the photo you give it on the interview day

[Otto 83]

Most bring with to the interview - but check the instructions/check-list sent with the packet 3. =)

[YuAndDan 153]

Check the instructions in packet 3. Most consulates just want DS-2001, or OF-169, and DS-230 part 1 sent back to them.

Step

1. Mail the DS-230 Part I Form for each applicant to the Immigrant Visa Unit, 5 Upper Grosvenor Street, London W1A 2JB.
   
2. Assemble all of the documents required in support of your application and mail the Form DS 2001 and checklist to the Immigrant Visa Unit.
   
3. The Embassy will complete all necessary administrative processing of your immigrant visa application. You may be requested to provide additional information if you have incomplete or are missing documents.
   
4. Approximately one month before your scheduled interview appointment with a consular officer, you will receive an appointment letter containing the date and time of your visa interview along with instructions for obtaining a medical examination.
   

Bring your documents

Do not send any documents to the Embassy. You will need to bring all your original documents, or certified copies, plus one photocopy to the immigrant visa interview.

http://london.usembassy.gov/cons_new/visa/iv/ds2001.html

[psho 0]

Check the instructions in packet 3. Most consulates just want DS-2001, or OF-169, and DS-230 part 1 sent back to them.

Step

1. Mail the DS-230 Part I Form for each applicant to the Immigrant Visa Unit, 5 Upper Grosvenor Street, London W1A 2JB.
   
2. Assemble all of the documents required in support of your application and mail the Form DS 2001 and checklist to the Immigrant Visa Unit.
   
3. The Embassy will complete all necessary administrative processing of your immigrant visa application. You may be requested to provide additional information if you have incomplete or are missing documents.
   
4. Approximately one month before your scheduled interview appointment with a consular officer, you will receive an appointment letter containing the date and time of your visa interview along with instructions for obtaining a medical examination.
   

Bring your documents

Do not send any documents to the Embassy. You will need to bring all your original documents, or certified copies, plus one photocopy to the immigrant visa interview.

http://london.usembassy.gov/cons_new/visa/iv/ds2001.html

Hmm -- those instructions are for I-130. We're K-1.

[JaEnglishGirl 34]

No, no photos needed.

If you look in the consulate section, I've uploaded a complete set of packet 3 forms....

[psho 0]

OK -- I think we're sorted out.

Thanks, everyone!

No, no photos needed.

If you look in the consulate section, I've uploaded a complete set of packet 3 forms....

HEH!! I've been searching for that, since I saw it the other day, and thought "that's most helpful..."

[no name 1]

Check the instructions in packet 3. Most consulates just want DS-2001, or OF-169, and DS-230 part 1 sent back to them.

Step

1. Mail the DS-230 Part I Form for each applicant to the Immigrant Visa Unit, 5 Upper Grosvenor Street, London W1A 2JB.
   
2. Assemble all of the documents required in support of your application and mail the Form DS 2001 and checklist to the Immigrant Visa Unit.
   
3. The Embassy will complete all necessary administrative processing of your immigrant visa application. You may be requested to provide additional information if you have incomplete or are missing documents.
   
4. Approximately one month before your scheduled interview appointment with a consular officer, you will receive an appointment letter containing the date and time of your visa interview along with instructions for obtaining a medical examination.
   

Bring your documents

Do not send any documents to the Embassy. You will need to bring all your original documents, or certified copies, plus one photocopy to the immigrant visa interview.

http://london.usembassy.gov/cons_new/visa/iv/ds2001.html

Hmm -- those instructions are for I-130. We're K-1.

Um, NO, those were DS-230 instructions...read more closely.

[YuAndDan 153]

Check the instructions in packet 3. Most consulates just want DS-2001, or OF-169, and DS-230 part 1 sent back to them.

Step

1. Mail the DS-230 Part I Form for each applicant to the Immigrant Visa Unit, 5 Upper Grosvenor Street, London W1A 2JB.
   
2. Assemble all of the documents required in support of your application and mail the Form DS 2001 and checklist to the Immigrant Visa Unit.
   
3. The Embassy will complete all necessary administrative processing of your immigrant visa application. You may be requested to provide additional information if you have incomplete or are missing documents.
   
4. Approximately one month before your scheduled interview appointment with a consular officer, you will receive an appointment letter containing the date and time of your visa interview along with instructions for obtaining a medical examination.
   

Bring your documents

Do not send any documents to the Embassy. You will need to bring all your original documents, or certified copies, plus one photocopy to the immigrant visa interview.

http://london.usembassy.gov/cons_new/visa/iv/ds2001.html

Hmm -- those instructions are for I-130. We're K-1.

Um, NO, those were DS-230 instructions...read more closely.

Correct, I go to the trouble of looking it up only to get that for a thanks.

Please note: the K-Visas are handled by immigrant section of the consulate or embassy, and both CR-1, and K-Visas are treated the same with regards to what is sent back to the consulate from Packet 3, and what is brought to the interview.

[featherB 1]

I think when this has been discussed before, the consensus has been that you can send them with the forms, or take them to the interview, and it will be fine either way. People here have done both. The Embassy's own instructions tell you to bring everything on the day of the interview, but I think the forms themselves contradict that (if I remember right...). I went with what the Embassy's specific instructions said, but other people have said they sent in the photos with the forms, and I've not seen anyone say that they had a problem either way!

[TimsDaisy 0]

No, no photos needed.

If you look in the consulate section, I've uploaded a complete set of packet 3 forms....

And I heart you for doing so!

Wouldn't it be great if an Organizer could move it back to this forum where it belongs?!?!?!?! Hint hint!!!!!

(per that thread that got ugly yesterday, but to address it in face-value terms: this is the kind of question that, as a UK/US filer, I would love to have answered primarily by UKers who've been through the process. Most non-UKers on this thread are definitely educated and know their stuff, of course, but by way of an example, this is one of those situations . . . . . )

[psho 0]

Check the instructions in packet 3. Most consulates just want DS-2001, or OF-169, and DS-230 part 1 sent back to them.

Step

1. Mail the DS-230 Part I Form for each applicant to the Immigrant Visa Unit, 5 Upper Grosvenor Street, London W1A 2JB.
   
2. Assemble all of the documents required in support of your application and mail the Form DS 2001 and checklist to the Immigrant Visa Unit.
   
3. The Embassy will complete all necessary administrative processing of your immigrant visa application. You may be requested to provide additional information if you have incomplete or are missing documents.
   
4. Approximately one month before your scheduled interview appointment with a consular officer, you will receive an appointment letter containing the date and time of your visa interview along with instructions for obtaining a medical examination.
   

Bring your documents

Do not send any documents to the Embassy. You will need to bring all your original documents, or certified copies, plus one photocopy to the immigrant visa interview.

http://london.usembassy.gov/cons_new/visa/iv/ds2001.html

Hmm -- those instructions are for I-130. We're K-1.

Um, NO, those were DS-230 instructions...read more closely.

From: http://london.usembassy.gov/cons_new/visa/iv/ds2001.html

Applying for an immigrant visa

The first step in applying for an immigrant visa is for the U.S. citizen (petitioner) to file an immigrant visa petition, Form I-130, with the office of the Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). A separate petition must be filed for each person immigrating....

[then]

What Happens Next? [with the table of steps]

So you can see my confusion. The page specifically mention I-130, and further up on the page mentions Form I-864. Not K-1 related forms.

Here's the page I wanted:

http://london.usembassy.gov/cons_new/visa/...processing.html (note lack of table, and only mention of I-864 is to say you don't need it.)

I have to say that the visa pages of the London consulate are poorly put together -- typos abound, and the navigation isn't natural.

[psho 0]

No, no photos needed.

If you look in the consulate section, I've uploaded a complete set of packet 3 forms....

And I heart you for doing so!

Wouldn't it be great if an Organizer could move it back to this forum where it belongs?!?!?!?! Hint hint!!!!!

(per that thread that got ugly yesterday, but to address it in face-value terms: this is the kind of question that, as a UK/US filer, I would love to have answered primarily by UKers who've been through the process. Most non-UKers on this thread are definitely educated and know their stuff, of course, but by way of an example, this is one of those situations . . . . . )

Yeah, that's why I put it in the UK forum. I really wanted recent-UK-specific responses (not to slam other folks' experiences, but they may not be applicable to my situation -- applying for a k-1 visa through the London consulate).

After all the fooferall, it turns out my guy didn't have the postage!!! ARRRRGH. So it's getting mailed tomorrow anyway.

Thanks to everyone for their advice (even the snarky ones)!

[no name 1]

http://www.usembassy.org.uk/cons_new/visa/...processing.html

Seems rather clear.

[TimsDaisy 0]

http://www.usembassy.org.uk/cons_new/visa/...processing.html

Seems rather clear.

Actually, it's not. At least, not about the OP's question. Nor about other questions. There are statements in there that contradict VJer experience and the forms and the checklist that gets mailed out (esp re the medical exam, for example).