Medical Exam Clinica Anglo Americana, Lima, Peru - November 2019 review

[Cristina280390 60]

30 minutes ago, Evajandra said:

@Christina280390

 

Presidente Vizcarra is implementing travel restrictions today, so please read all the news about the Corona Virus for your travel plans.

I don't know all the details, but please take a look for your sake.

Yes I've been keeping track and so far the quarentine period is for people travelling from some Italy, Spain, France and  China, nothing about the US fortunately. I know some states are being severly affected here, but luckily Tennessee is not one of those... but indeed a lot can happen withint the next weeks... lets hope changes occur for the best.

[emosewayma 13]

@Evajandra  You should be able to set the appointment whenever it allows you to do so, right? Would it even let you set the appointment if they weren't ready for you? I couldn't do anything but wait for whatever processing had to be completed by them first, before finally getting an email saying that my case was ready for scheduling appointment in https://ais.usvisa-info.com/ . Maybe it is different for non-DCF? First, CEAC must say "Ready" when you check your case status here: https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx . For me, then I went to the scheduling website (link: https://ais.usvisa-info.com/ ). Perhaps for non-DCF though, they will schedule your appointment for you and just give you a date. Try checking these websites I gave you.

[emosewayma 13]

@Cristina280390  I think we are all awkwardly stuck between countries and lives, as you say.  Every day I am stuck in my MIL's house in Nuevo Chimbote with nothing to do, and I cannot work here until I pick up my Carnet Extranjeria in Lima (so basically, it's not going to happen, since we will go to the U.S.) I'm sure thing will be just fine, it's just a tedious, long process. As for the public charge thing, as long as the joint sponsor (or co-sponsor) has a very high income, it won't affect my visa right? Right now I make nothing here, and I haven't been able to for almost 2 years (in order to keep our little family together in one location, in Peru, for our 1.5 year old).

 

Hope I can enjoy a victory gelato/helado (since you need a victory visa to do it)!  

[emosewayma 13]

@amymariko One important question... did you actually need photo evidence to prove your bonafide relationship? Or did they not accept it in the end. I try to take as much as possible, but I kind of don't want to dig out and print tons of pages of photos, only to have them not accept any. Thanks!

[Evajandra 65]

1 hour ago, emosewayma said:

@Evajandra  You should be able to set the appointment whenever it allows you to do so, right? Would it even let you set the appointment if they weren't ready for you? I couldn't do anything but wait for whatever processing had to be completed by them first, before finally getting an email saying that my case was ready for scheduling appointment in https://ais.usvisa-info.com/ . Maybe it is different for non-DCF? First, CEAC must say "Ready" when you check your case status here: https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx . For me, then I went to the scheduling website (link: https://ais.usvisa-info.com/ ). Perhaps for non-DCF though, they will schedule your appointment for you and just give you a date. Try checking these websites I gave you.

Thanks! I emailed LimaIV and they gave me the instructions to set our appointment ourselves. They responded in 1 day. 
 

We are all set to go for an interview in late March! I can't believe it. It's finally happening. Now we get to put this review to good use.

Edited March 12, 2020 by Evajandra

[emosewayma 13]

1 hour ago, Evajandra said:

Thanks! I emailed LimaIV and they gave me the instructions to set our appointment ourselves. They responded in 1 day. 
 

We are all set to go for an interview in late March! I can't believe it. It's finally happening. Now we get to put this review to good use.

That's good; set as early as possible, because I really worry about the Embassy closing, or not functioning in full capacity... in Rome, Italy, the U.S. Embassy there only deals with emergency situations now. Good luck. Hope everything goes well!

[Evajandra 65]

3 hours ago, emosewayma said:

@Cristina280390  I think we are all awkwardly stuck between countries and lives, as you say.  Every day I am stuck in my MIL's house in Nuevo Chimbote with nothing to do, and I cannot work here until I pick up my Carnet Extranjeria in Lima (so basically, it's not going to happen, since we will go to the U.S.) I'm sure thing will be just fine, it's just a tedious, long process. As for the public charge thing, as long as the joint sponsor (or co-sponsor) has a very high income, it won't affect my visa right? Right now I make nothing here, and I haven't been able to for almost 2 years (in order to keep our little family together in one location, in Peru, for our 1.5 year old).

 

Hope I can enjoy a victory gelato/helado (since you need a victory visa to do it)!  

As someone who has been through this...

 

Have you already had your Interpol/FBI background check done? The Police were actively keeping the website down to trim down on the available appointments because of all the Venezuelans. It's at the Police Station near El Jockey Mall. It's a pain in the ###. Full day at least.

 

Also, don't plan on Migraciones to have your Carnet ready, even if they say it is ready. You may show up for 4 hours and wait for them to tell you to come back the next day. My Carnet is all f'd up with the photo off center from where it should be. However, if you don't show up the first time maybe they will never make it. It's a ####### shoot.

I'd plan to stay in Lima a while for all this.

 

[emosewayma 13]

17 hours ago, Evajandra said:

As someone who has been through this...

 

Have you already had your Interpol/FBI background check done? The Police were actively keeping the website down to trim down on the available appointments because of all the Venezuelans. It's at the Police Station near El Jockey Mall. It's a pain in the ###. Full day at least.

 

Also, don't plan on Migraciones to have your Carnet ready, even if they say it is ready. You may show up for 4 hours and wait for them to tell you to come back the next day. My Carnet is all f'd up with the photo off center from where it should be. However, if you don't show up the first time maybe they will never make it. It's a ####### shoot.

I'd plan to stay in Lima a while for all this.

 

So I did all of this in November... they are actually SO SLOW. I completed everything but the "picking up my C.E." part. The government here... nah, pretty much everyone here in general will say one thing, but then never make that one thing happen. What can we do? Haha. I only worry because when I finished paying for it online and put in the final code, it generated a date for me to pick up the C.E.... and the date was February 19th. I plan on picking it up way later, so I'm not sure how this will go down. Probably not-so-smoothly.  I will call them right now though, since you reminded me. Thanks!

[amymariko 13]

On 3/12/2020 at 2:40 PM, emosewayma said:

@amymariko One important question... did you actually need photo evidence to prove your bonafide relationship? Or did they not accept it in the end. I try to take as much as possible, but I kind of don't want to dig out and print tons of pages of photos, only to have them not accept any. Thanks!

They did not ask me for my lovely 10 pages of photos documenting our 8 year relationship 😅but I always say better safe than sorry! I would take maybe 1-2 pages? Not sure of others' experiences but they did not ask me and I did not hear them ask any other immigrant visa interviewees for any while we were there waiting.

[amymariko 13]

On 3/12/2020 at 3:55 PM, Evajandra said:

Thanks! I emailed LimaIV and they gave me the instructions to set our appointment ourselves. They responded in 1 day. 
 

We are all set to go for an interview in late March! I can't believe it. It's finally happening. Now we get to put this review to good use.

Yay! Praying it all goes well for you! Glad this thread could be helpful in any way 😁

[Evajandra 65]

 Review+1

 

We went today. All went well exactly as your review stated, @amymariko
 

We used Dr. Claudia Lozada. 

It’s first come first serve and you gotta know your place in line and enforce it or you will get passed up. 
 

The exam itself was easy.
 

The vaccine area was horribly managed. They didn’t answer telephones and left them ringing nonstop. The vaccine doctor was 1hr and 1/2 late. The women behind the counter stopped helping customers to go fix their makeup. They were just plain rude and unorganized. 
 

If you have any vaccination records go ahead and BRING THEM. No matter what condition  they are in. There was a lady that needed  six vaccines and had to pay around 1000 Soles additional. My wife only needed one vaccine and it was 150 Soles additional. 
 

Timeline: We arrives at 6:45 and left at 12:00 Noon.

[Evajandra 65]

Condolences to the others in this thread. 
 

Im so pissed with Peru right now. I wanted to be gone by the time this closure was over. 

[Cristina280390 60]

13 hours ago, Evajandra said:

Condolences to the others in this thread. 
 

Im so pissed with Peru right now. I wanted to be gone by the time this closure was over. 

I am sorry, I can imagine...

Did your interview appointment got pushed to April already? or you haven't gotten any communication from them? I am wondering if an email I sent last week will be answered sometime this week or if all their activities are suspended until the lockdown is over. I've read about so many US consulates around the world closing but haven't found anything regarding the one in Lima... I am in the US and had my trip to Lima for April 1st but I am thinking of pushing it further to May/June until things calm down and since I am still weeks away from a DQ most likely...

[emosewayma 13]

24 minutes ago, Cristina280390 said:

I am sorry, I can imagine...

Did your interview appointment got pushed to April already? or you haven't gotten any communication from them? I am wondering if an email I sent last week will be answered sometime this week or if all their activities are suspended until the lockdown is over. I've read about so many US consulates around the world closing but haven't found anything regarding the one in Lima... I am in the US and had my trip to Lima for April 1st but I am thinking of pushing it further to May/June until things calm down and since I am still weeks away from a DQ most likely...

@Evajandra @Cristina280390  For now the Embassy as a whole is definitely not closed, but I don't know any more past this:

 

 

  I know for a fact that it is open right now, because I just called,  and they said that the immigrant visa part will close for 2 days for NOW (matching what is on aisvisa), but as for other dates, they said that I should email limaIV. My appointment probably won't happen? It's just this Friday in the morning, how can this happen?? SO CLOSE!  For NOW, they haven't emailed me or called me, and they haven't changed my scheduled interview date either on the scheduling website. We'll see. 😧 

Edited March 16, 2020 by emosewayma
Forgot to include if appointment changed or not.

[Evajandra 65]

4 hours ago, emosewayma said:

@Evajandra @Cristina280390  For now the Embassy as a whole is definitely not closed, but I don't know any more past this:

 

 

  I know for a fact that it is open right now, because I just called,  and they said that the immigrant visa part will close for 2 days for NOW (matching what is on aisvisa), but as for other dates, they said that I should email limaIV. My appointment probably won't happen? It's just this Friday in the morning, how can this happen?? SO CLOSE!  For NOW, they haven't emailed me or called me, and they haven't changed my scheduled interview date either on the scheduling website. We'll see. 😧 

 

Prayers for you in this situation. This is just the worst possible and weirdest thing. Personally, this makes me hate social media (and all internet connectivity) for propagating the fear associated with this flu. 

 

Our interview is on the 23rd and we are supposed to pick up our packet this Friday on the 20th from Anglo American Clinic. 

The Clinic isn't answering the phone. I emailed LimaIV about the interview, but I haven't received any word just yet. 

As of now, we're just gonna go to the hospital on Friday and find out if the packet is done or not. Quarantine or No. 

 

If it isn't done, we will reschedule ourselves unless we hear word from the US Embassy. 

Edited March 16, 2020 by Evajandra