Dublin, ireland interview

[familybasedvisa12 23]

20 hours ago, neca said:

Yes, nerves are starting to build! I'm trying to account for so many variables, I wish I was going in to the interview too. I'll report back tomorrow or Wednesday, depending on how the day goes lol.

 

I recently described to a friend: this process is like going through your whole schooling and not knowing if you're going to pass until the day of graduation.

That sounds highly accurate.

 

Best of luck today! 

[familybasedvisa12 23]

23 hours ago, IrishMosquito84 said:

Oh no its not easy for people doing it the legal way.   They make it easy for illegals but people who want to do the right thing are almost punished for having to use their trash 1995 website. 

It's sad, but true. Did you hear back yet regarding your uploaded documents? 

[IrishMosquito84 25]

19 minutes ago, familybasedvisa12 said:

It's sad, but true. Did you hear back yet regarding your uploaded documents? 

Nope not a peep. I literally emailed them the second they sent me the message about not receiving them and they couldn't even respond.  

[familybasedvisa12 23]

On 5/10/2021 at 12:46 PM, neca said:

Yes, nerves are starting to build! I'm trying to account for so many variables, I wish I was going in to the interview too. I'll report back tomorrow or Wednesday, depending on how the day goes lol.

 

I recently described to a friend: this process is like going through your whole schooling and not knowing if you're going to pass until the day of graduation.

Good news I hope? How did it go?

[neca 166]

Hey all, I just finished spouse's detailed account of the interview, you can read it on our timeline here.

 

The relevant takeaway is that we got an all good, but got the passport back, as he needs it for the medical exam. There was a miscommunication between us and he didn't realize that I had uploaded the new tax stuff into CEAC before the interview, so the 221g was for the JS's 1099/W2s to go to CEAC and the passport to be sent via courier after the medical. We sent off an email as soon as we got home from the interview, address of which was not provided on the 221g, but we used the one that we had gotten the interview info from (DublinIV@state.gov), and attached the docs to that as well. Got an email returned this morning confirming their reception of the documents.

 

More importantly, Kenya's embassy is right across from America's, so while spouse was interviewing I popped over to Kenya and got the perfect flag to commemorate the special day. There's also a church nearby, closed because of COVID but the garden area was nice to wait in.

 

Edited May 12, 2021 by neca
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[neca 166]

Another update, we just got a follow up email...

 

 

I'm taking this as an approval! 🥳 Thanks for all of your help and support over this time, friends; here's hoping you all get similar news as well.

[familybasedvisa12 23]

5 hours ago, neca said:

Another update, we just got a follow up email...

 

 

I'm taking this as an approval! 🥳 Thanks for all of your help and support over this time, friends; here's hoping you all get similar news as well.

Congrats! 

 

[JolieBR19 1]

On 5/11/2021 at 6:34 PM, IrishMosquito84 said:

Nope not a peep. I literally emailed them the second they sent me the message about not receiving them and they couldn't even respond.  

Anything yet? We also had to submit an extra document. They kept my husband's passport though. Status still says refused for us

[IrishMosquito84 25]

23 hours ago, neca said:

Another update, we just got a follow up email...

 

 

I'm taking this as an approval! 🥳 Thanks for all of your help and support over this time, friends; here's hoping you all get similar news as well.

Hey Congrats!!!

[IrishMosquito84 25]

23 minutes ago, JolieBR19 said:

Anything yet? We also had to submit an extra document. They kept my husband's passport though. Status still says refused for us

I got a email today that said they got our documents and they were waiting to be reviewed.  Good news I guess. 

[JolieBR19 1]

Just now, IrishMosquito84 said:

I got a email today that said they got our documents and they were waiting to be reviewed.  Good news I guess. 

Sounds like we're at the same stage then. We got the same yesterday. I'll let you know if our status changes on CEAC in the coming days. 

 

We're almost there!!

[IrishMosquito84 25]

13 minutes ago, JolieBR19 said:

Sounds like we're at the same stage then. We got the same yesterday. I'll let you know if our status changes on CEAC in the coming days. 

 

We're almost there!!

They didn't say anything about sending the paperwork to the Embassy though which was odd. So hopefully they'll just review it on their end and approve us. 

[familybasedvisa12 23]

Hey everyone, wanted to update that we had our interview and were approved! I don't think we would have been approved had we not known about the CEAC upload requirement, which they checked when we were there, so thanks everyone for that information. They mentioned that it would take up to 10 working days to get the passport back. 

 

It sounds like you're all near the end which is super exciting!

 

 

Edited May 13, 2021 by familybasedvisa12

[Thewander 25]

2 minutes ago, familybasedvisa12 said:

Hey everyone, wanted to update that we had our interview and were approved! I don't think we would have been approved had we not known about the CEAC upload requirement, which they checked when we were there, so thanks everyone for that information. It sounds like you're all near the end which is super exciting!

 

 

Congrats! Do you mean the uploading of 2020 taxes?

[familybasedvisa12 23]

9 minutes ago, Thewander said:

Congrats! Do you mean the uploading of 2020 taxes?

I uploaded EVERYTHING after seeing posts on this thread. The officer simply rejected documents that weren't needed within CEAC (I checked right after the interview). Didn't want to take chances.

 

To your question: yes, that includes 2020 taxes which we brought to the interview as well. 

Edited May 13, 2021 by familybasedvisa12