DS-160 & MRV Fee Still Valid After K1 Case Transfer?

[HKtoUSA 30]

Quick summary of our situation: We intended to complete the K1 visa process in the Philippines, so our case was assigned to USEM Manila and my fiancé completed the DS-160 and paid the MRV fee there. He is a Hong Kong resident and relocated there from the Philippines due to the pandemic, so we requested to have our case transferred to the Hong Kong consulate. 

 

Our question is: Will the completed DS-160 and already-paid MRV fee be considered valid for completing our visa case in Hong Kong? Or will a new DS-160 and additional MRV fee be required?

 

Thanks in advance!

[HRQX 4,145]

2 hours ago, Michael & Tom said:

and already-paid MRV fee

"Visa applicants, including children, are required to pay a non-refundable, non-transferable visa application fee, sometimes referred to as the MRV fee, before applying for a nonimmigrant visa. The visa application fee must be paid whether a visa is issued or not. The type of visa for which you apply determines the fee amount." https://www.ustraveldocs.com/hk/hk-niv-visafeeinfo.asp

[Jeffrey & Anran 0]

On 8/31/2020 at 1:17 PM, Michael & Tom said:

Quick summary of our situation: We intended to complete the K1 visa process in the Philippines, so our case was assigned to USEM Manila and my fiancé completed the DS-160 and paid the MRV fee there. He is a Hong Kong resident and relocated there from the Philippines due to the pandemic, so we requested to have our case transferred to the Hong Kong consulate. 

 

Our question is: Will the completed DS-160 and already-paid MRV fee be considered valid for completing our visa case in Hong Kong? Or will a new DS-160 and additional MRV fee be required?

 

Thanks in advance!

Hi, i saw you already scheduled your interview on October in Hong Kong. May I please know if US consulate in Hong Kong now can process K-1 visa application? Since I check on their website, it doesnt seem that K type visa is on the list that they can process now. Thanks very much!

[HKtoUSA 30]

55 minutes ago, Jeffrey & Anran said:

Hi, i saw you already scheduled your interview on October in Hong Kong. May I please know if US consulate in Hong Kong now can process K-1 visa application? Since I check on their website, it doesnt seem that K type visa is on the list that they can process now. Thanks very much!

It seems they are now processing K visas at the consulate as they emailed us with our interview appointment details last week. 

[Greenbaum 12,259]

On 8/31/2020 at 1:17 AM, Michael & Tom said:

Quick summary of our situation: We intended to complete the K1 visa process in the Philippines, so our case was assigned to USEM Manila and my fiancé completed the DS-160 and paid the MRV fee there. He is a Hong Kong resident and relocated there from the Philippines due to the pandemic, so we requested to have our case transferred to the Hong Kong consulate. 

 

Our question is: Will the completed DS-160 and already-paid MRV fee be considered valid for completing our visa case in Hong Kong? Or will a new DS-160 and additional MRV fee be required?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

On 8/31/2020 at 3:19 AM, HRQX said:

"Visa applicants, including children, are required to pay a non-refundable, non-transferable visa application fee, sometimes referred to as the MRV fee, before applying for a nonimmigrant visa. The visa application fee must be paid whether a visa is issued or not. The type of visa for which you apply determines the fee amount." https://www.ustraveldocs.com/hk/hk-niv-visafeeinfo.asp  This information is true if you desire to transfer your fee to a friend or someone else, but not for inter-embassy transfer.

 

If you wish to have your immigrant/fiancée visa file transferred from one Embassy to another U.S. Embassy/Consulate, please contact the appropriate U.S. Embassy/Consulate directly in the country where you wish to apply and submit Form DS-3098 for case transfer. Please click here for the full list of all U.S. Embassies and Consulates overseas.

 

The old Embassy will need to receive a formal file transfer request from that U.S. Embassy/Consulate in the country where you wish to apply. Upon receipt of this request, they will immediately forward the file for the New Embassy to process. (Expect up to a 30 day delay)

 

Once you contact your New Embassy you then can discuss the transfer of your fee if you have paid it prior to the decision of transferring your case to your new embassy. Be sure to have your payment receipt available.

 

If your case goes from embassy to embassy then NO you don't get a new case number. The case number will began with original alpha nomenclature ie. AAAXXXXXXXXXX. If her case comes from NVC then you will have a case number starting with the embassy that you will interview in. To make your payment using your old embassy's case number you establish your profile with that case number then you link your payment to your profile.

 

Your fee when a file is transferred is transferable. It's when you want to transfer a fee to a friend that it is not allowed.

[Jeffrey & Anran 0]

10 hours ago, Michael & Tom said:

It seems they are now processing K visas at the consulate as they emailed us with our interview appointment details last week. 

So good! congrats! Hopefully everything can go smooth!! Good luck~~

[dkristof87 14]

Sorry to add to this post after so long but I had a related question. Our K1 case just got transferred to Moldova. In order to schedule our interview, we have to pay the ustraveldocs fee first. We're not in Moldova and ideally, we'd go for when our interview is but there's no way to know that yet. We have a contact in Moldova willing to take our payment to the Moldova Agroindbank for us and send us the receipt information but we were wondering if it's allowed for a third party to make this payment? I assumed yes initially but the instructions say to make sure to bring your ID, which has given me pause.