Consulate interview after leaving country

[tofulollipop 7]

Hi all, my wife (beneficiary) and I (petitioner) just got her CR-1 interview appointment at the Madrid consulate. However, we recently moved out of Spain at the beginning of this year (I got a new job in the US, she temporarily returned to her home country while we finished waiting for the interview, neither of us are Spanish but both had residence permits). We will return to Spain to do her interview as our residence permits are still valid, however, we no longer have a permanent address or phone number in Spain. Has anyone had a similar experience, and how did you get around issues such as visa delivery? Can the visa be picked up or will it only be mailed?

[Caro1 78]

I’m not sure about Madrid, but in Frankfurt I had the chance to pick up my passport with the visa in it. 

[Alexis Ball 1]

On 3/1/2023 at 1:30 AM, tofulollipop said:

Hi all, my wife (beneficiary) and I (petitioner) just got her CR-1 interview appointment at the Madrid consulate. However, we recently moved out of Spain at the beginning of this year (I got a new job in the US, she temporarily returned to her home country while we finished waiting for the interview, neither of us are Spanish but both had residence permits). We will return to Spain to do her interview as our residence permits are still valid, however, we no longer have a permanent address or phone number in Spain. Has anyone had a similar experience, and how did you get around issues such as visa delivery? Can the visa be picked up or will it only be mailed?

Hi- Congratulations on your interview date. Can you tell me when you were Documentarily Qualified? I was looking at your timeline and I noticed that you had a request for a document after everything was approved. I am waiting for my interview and was DQ'ed on 1/25 but then I saw that they were requesting another document which I submitted. It still says documentarily qualified. Was that what happened to you? 

Edited March 2, 2023 by Alexis Ball

[tofulollipop 7]

12 hours ago, Alexis Ball said:

Hi- Congratulations on your interview date. Can you tell me when you were Documentarily Qualified? I was looking at your timeline and I noticed that you had a request for a document after everything was approved. I am waiting for my interview and was DQ'ed on 1/25 but then I saw that they were requesting another document which I submitted. It still says documentarily qualified. Was that what happened to you? 

We were documentarily qualified in mid December, around the 15th I think. However, our request for an additional document was prior to being approved. We submitted all our NVC docs by early september, and in october heard back that we needed additional evidence. I was not documentarily qualified at that point. I resubmitted and in December they accepted everything. As far as I'm aware, if you see the words documentarily qualified, you are okay, maybe someone else can verify. You could try sending NVC a message to make sure? They're responding in ~a week at this point (i sent them an email just a couple weeks ago). Following being documentarily qualified, we got radio silence from the NVC until they scheduled our interview this week.

[Ryan H 3,812]

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