Embassy Interviews

[8bithearts 104]

3 minutes ago, Stein said:

No, they don't HAVE to.  We will all just wait until it clears up and they start doing interviews again.  We are at their convenience, not the other way around.  I'm in the same boat as many here, waiting for NVC to start scheduling interviews again.  It will happen when it happens.  Meantime, I'm living here with my wife and when we can go home we will go home.  No rush.

Well maybe no rush for you as you're living with your wife, there are many like myself that are not in that fortunate position and believe me I would be saying the same if I was living with my wife, i just want to be with my wife. ..so no you are clearly NOT in the same boat.

We may be at their convenience, but we are paying customers nevertheless.

[Stein 276]

2 minutes ago, 8bithearts said:

Well maybe no rush for you as you're living with your wife, there are many like myself that are not in that fortunate position and believe me I would be saying the same if I was living with my wife, i just want to be with my wife. ..so no you are clearly NOT in the same boat.

We may be at their convenience, but we are paying customers nevertheless.

LOL paying customer.  Good luck to you sir.  I'm out of this conversation.  Anyone could have made the same decision I did if they really wanted to.

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[8bithearts 104]

42 minutes ago, Stein said:

LOL paying customer.  Good luck to you sir.  I'm out of this conversation.  Anyone could have made the same decision I did if they really wanted to.

Actually no they couldn't at all, I'm not just allowed to go the US and wait until my visa is approved unless I have missed a huge loophole I'm unaware of, I could go for a few months on an ETSA but I'm not allowed to stay.  Please tell me if I'm wrong because I will happily go and wait it out with my wife.

[Stein 276]

2 minutes ago, 8bithearts said:

Actually no they couldn't at all, I'm not just allowed to go the US and wait until my visa is approved unless I have missed a huge loophole I'm unaware of, I could go for a few months on an ETSA but I'm not allowed to stay.  Please tell me if I'm wrong because I will happily go and wait it out with my wife.

No loophole.  The USC has to come to the petitioner. That is what did.  Life is full of choices.  Everyone has to make their own.

[8bithearts 104]

12 minutes ago, Stein said:

No loophole.  The USC has to come to the petitioner. That is what did.  Life is full of choices.  Everyone has to make their own.

Its true, they do and unfortunately in our position it was not a choice we could make, plus UK immigration laws as stringent as the USA anyway, a USC cannot come to the UK indefinitely just as I cannot go there,  so its not possible in every country by a long shot.

 

Good for you though I am happy you can make the choice I couldn't. 

[os306 103]

We're also eagerly awaiting the reopening of the London US Embassy. We were hoping that following Sunday's announcement by Boris Johnson (i.e., people who cannot work from home should return to work) that the Embassy would be in the process of reopening, but we aren't getting our hopes up. For what it's worth,  USCIS offices are planning on reopening on the 4th of June, so I am guessing the London Embassy itself is gearing up to reopen around that time (https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/uscis-offices-preparing-reopen-june-4). As mentioned earlier in this thread, people have been able to book embassy appointments for July.

 

Hang in there, it's an ordeal being away from the person you love, especially during these unprecedented times, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

[8bithearts 104]

1 minute ago, os306 said:

We're also eagerly awaiting the reopening of the London US Embassy. We were hoping that following Sunday's announcement by Boris Johnson (i.e., people who cannot work from home should return to work) that the Embassy would be in the process of reopening, but we aren't getting our hopes up. For what it's worth,  USCIS offices are planning on reopening on the 4th of June, so I am guessing the London Embassy itself is gearing up to reopen around that time (https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/uscis-offices-preparing-reopen-june-4). As mentioned earlier in this thread, people have been able to book embassy appointments for July.

 

Hang in there, it's an ordeal being away from the person you love, especially during these unprecedented times, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Thanks for that I was giving up hope of getting an actual nice response, rather than most of the dismissive stuff I have been seeing.

 

Both me and my wife have been working the whole time in our prospective countries at the moment we are in key worker jobs, me the NHS and her the Sheriffs dept. so its nice to see everyone else start to return to work but no so much from a traffic stance lol.

 

My documents are still with NVC at the moment (hopefully not for too long) so fingers crossed it wont be too much longer.  I can see from other response on here that they seem pretty well set up already with screens and microphones etc.

 

Good

[os306 103]

6 minutes ago, 8bithearts said:

Thanks for that I was giving up hope of getting an actual nice response, rather than most of the dismissive stuff I have been seeing.

 

Both me and my wife have been working the whole time in our prospective countries at the moment we are in key worker jobs, me the NHS and her the Sheriffs dept. so its nice to see everyone else start to return to work but no so much from a traffic stance lol.

 

My documents are still with NVC at the moment (hopefully not for too long) so fingers crossed it wont be too much longer.  I can see from other response on here that they seem pretty well set up already with screens and microphones etc.

 

Good

I work in the NHS too, and it has been reassuring to see the decline in COVID cases that have been admitting,. I'm keeping optimistic that we're on the right side of the curve, but we are definitely not in the clear yet. 

 

I feel fortunate because my wife lives with me here in the UK, so we were able to file our I-130 petition directly with the London USCIS Field Office. However, we filed just before the lockdown started, so there's been no progress to date.

[8bithearts 104]

21 minutes ago, os306 said:

I work in the NHS too, and it has been reassuring to see the decline in COVID cases that have been admitting,. I'm keeping optimistic that we're on the right side of the curve, but we are definitely not in the clear yet. 

 

Far from the clear, now is the time to be extra vigilant but I have confidence we will get through the other side.

21 minutes ago, os306 said:

I feel fortunate because my wife lives with me here in the UK, so we were able to file our I-130 petition directly with the London USCIS Field Office. However, we filed just before the lockdown started, so there's been no progress to date.

I know it actually sped up by I-130 when the lockdown started as I think its something they could work on from home and other service stopped... took about 250 days I think or so I submitted it last August .  Good luck though and fingers crossed for speedy processing and your work in this pandemic is definitely appreciated by me