Ceac status changed to Issued

[AndrewChou 1]

Hello, everyone from Visajourney.

I have a F4, family-based immigration case. We had our interview in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, since July 16, 2019. Recently, the CEAC status just changed from AP to Issued. We are planning to pick up the visa by Friday of this week (In Phnom Penh, Visa is only allowed to be picked up on every Friday). So, my question here is just to know, besides passport with visa stamp, what else should I be receiving along with the passport? I heard there is a sealed package thing, and we have a family of five, should each of us receive one sealed package (Total of five packages)? And is there anything else that we should be receiving? What else should I be expecting?

Another question is, after receiving the visa, what is the next step? Is there anything else to do just before leaving to the US?

Please help and share your experience. Your help and assistance is greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!  

 

Edited October 17, 2019 by AndrewChou

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

Congratulations. 

You may be given a sealed envelope, or it may be in electronic form (some embassies do this). Yes, one per person if it is an actual envelope.

You will need to pay the immigrant fee (“green card fee”) for each person for your physical green cards to be issued. Ideally you should pay these before you enter the US, but it’s ok to pay afterwards if you have some kind of payment issue. See https://my.uscis.gov/uscis-immigrant-fee/

Given that it is 4 months since your interview, and presumably longer since your medicals, you may have a pretty short expiry date on the visas, be sure to check that and make arrangements to travel at least a few days before the expiry date in case of travel disruption etc that may delay you.

 

(one last piece of advice, if you have any derivatives who will be going to school or college, make sure you keep the copies of the vaccination worksheets the doctor prepared as you will need them.)

 

[AndrewChou 1]

10 hours ago, SusieQQQ said:

Congratulations. 

You may be given a sealed envelope, or it may be in electronic form (some embassies do this). Yes, one per person if it is an actual envelope.

You will need to pay the immigrant fee (“green card fee”) for each person for your physical green cards to be issued. Ideally you should pay these before you enter the US, but it’s ok to pay afterwards if you have some kind of payment issue. See https://my.uscis.gov/uscis-immigrant-fee/

Given that it is 4 months since your interview, and presumably longer since your medicals, you may have a pretty short expiry date on the visas, be sure to check that and make arrangements to travel at least a few days before the expiry date in case of travel disruption etc that may delay you.

 

(one last piece of advice, if you have any derivatives who will be going to school or college, make sure you keep the copies of the vaccination worksheets the doctor prepared as you will need them.)

 

Thank you very much for your response! That explained a lots. Are those the only required step that I must take? Nothing else other than that right?

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

20 minutes ago, AndrewChou said:

Thank you very much for your response! That explained a lots. Are those the only required step that I must take? Nothing else other than that right?

 

Other than booking your air ticket, no  

oh - remember if you get an actual envelope, to carry it with you on your person and not go in checked luggage, it has to be handed in at entry 

Edited October 17, 2019 by SusieQQQ

[AndrewChou 1]

On 10/17/2019 at 10:16 PM, SusieQQQ said:

 

Other than booking your air ticket, no  

oh - remember if you get an actual envelope, to carry it with you on your person and not go in checked luggage, it has to be handed in at entry 

Thanks for your advice. I have received the passport with visa stamped. And we don't receive any actual envelope; instead, we only have a note stapled on one page of the passport. And they advise us not to tear it.

And I have also paid for the green card fee. Now, I'm ready to travel to the US.

Again, Thank you for all of your advice. I really appreciate it.