How to request a change of interview venue for applicant through the NVC?

[TaskenLander 12]

10 hours ago, Chancy said:

*** Moved from IR1/CR1 Process & Procedures to US Embassy & Consulate Discussion, as the topic is about procedures at a specific consulate ***

 

 

Have your wife submit a request through the File Transfer Request Form -- https://japan2.usembassy.gov/e/visa/tvisa-form-iv-transfer.html

 

Please submit this online form if you wish to have your immigrant/fiancée visa file transferred under the following circumstances:

• You wish to have your visa file transferred from another Embassy/Consulate to Tokyo/Naha.
• You wish to have your visa file transferred between U.S. Embassy Tokyo and Consulate General Naha

So yes, Naha does process immigrant visa cases and they do accommodate transfer requests from Tokyo.  My understanding is that it's mainly for family members of US military members assigned in Okinawa, but it wouldn't hurt your wife's case to request for transfer anyway.  Please do update us on the outcome.

 

Thank you for the link / information! Very much appreciated!

Edited July 22, 2023 by TaskenLander

[pushbrk 12,859]

22 hours ago, TaskenLander said:

  

Further investigating yields that there *is a consulate in Naha, Okinawa. You're saying though that the interview can only be conducted at at an Immigrant Visa Unit? (Sorry if this may be a dumb question; am earnestly trying to make sense of everything) Thank you. 

That there IS a Consulate in Naha is not the issue  Yes, immigrant visa interviews are the purview of the Immigrant Visa Unit.  However, apparently the Unit in Tokyo can facilitate an interview in Naha, either by somebody assigned to the non-immigrant visa unit there or sending immigrant visa unit members to Naha from time to time.  This would be unique to Japan.  

 

For example, you cannot interview for a spouse visa in Beijing instead of Guangzhou or Vancouver instead of Montreal, etc.