SEPTEMBER 2023 K1 to NOA2 to NVC to EMBASSY

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On 11/1/2023 at 7:28 AM, AndiB said:

I don't think it went straight to embassy. They have to go through nvc

 

our case number was given to me and the nvc has recieved our application,"Due to your petition type, you will not receive a request for fee payment or document submission." that means i dont have to pay a fee for the visa no longer🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

what is the next step?

 

they have said we will be informed when they send our case to the embassy, can we create a profile now with the case number?

 

 

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[Erik and Glydyl 26]

Well we got the MRV fee paid and now we are in the hell of checking every 30 mins for open interview slots. This has to be the worst system I've ever seen. Hopefully its easier than this to schedule the medical and CFO

[Erik and Glydyl 26]

Finally got medical and interview slots for Nov 14, and Nov 21. If it helps anyone, we found our open slot around 3pm Philippine time. Monday

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1 hour ago, Erik and Glydyl said:

Finally got medical and interview slots for Nov 14, and Nov 21. If it helps anyone, we found our open slot around 3pm Philippine time. Monday

slot now in Dec or Jan and you got this for November. Lucky you

[Erik and Glydyl 26]

ya, I spent friday, saturday and sunday checking every 20 mins during the US daytime hours and she clicked every 20 mins during the Philippines daytime hours until we found something, lol. Thank goodness thats over. Anyone had to schedule with CFO yet? Is it any easier? We are going to deal with the CFO in Cebu.

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4 minutes ago, Erik and Glydyl said:

ya, I spent friday, saturday and sunday checking every 20 mins during the US daytime hours and she clicked every 20 mins during the Philippines daytime hours until we found something, lol. Thank goodness thats over. Anyone had to schedule with CFO yet? Is it any easier? We are going to deal with the CFO in Cebu.

I thought we can only limit to 3-times a day , So if you both checked don't the systems lock you out?

[Erik and Glydyl 26]

only time we got locked out was if I just did it very close together. It would only lock us out for a few minutes at a time. There was a few times I got a warning, but if I waited half an hour or so, the warning went away.

 

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Has anyone else had trouble with the DS-160? I saved the form at the Work History bit and returned to it just now and it will not let me add anymore of my work experience.

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On 11/3/2023 at 3:51 PM, Play said:

our case number was given to me and the nvc has recieved our application,"Due to your petition type, you will not receive a request for fee payment or document submission." that means i dont have to pay a fee for the visa no longer🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

what is the next step?

 

they have said we will be informed when they send our case to the embassy, can we create a profile now with the case number?

 

 

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you have to pay a fee to embassy, just not to nvc.  Check status on CEAC and it should go in transit on a shipping day then to ready when embassy has it. Steps are embassy dependent so can't tell you

[Erik and Glydyl 26]

Well heres the latest update for Gly and me. She had her medical scheduled yesterday and has fallen victim to the infamous SLEC sputum testing so her interview slot should be available for the 21st if anyone wants to try and grab it. She was very upset as were the other girls in her group who also got flagged. I was able to make her feel better but I am also frustrated and annoyed at this point. She is in perfect health, She passed other TB tests in the past, she has no respiratory problems of any kind and they didn't even show her the chest x-rays where they, supposedly, saw something unusual. On top of that, they also are making her see a psychiatrist before her interview in 2 months because of a hairline scar on the inside of one of her arms from years ago when she was in her first year of highschool. We had to cancel her interview, rebook her flight home and pay for another airbnb because of the sputum testing going ONE day past the original date of her flight home. Now in 2 months we will have to do this all over again with flights and airbnbs and scheduling....sigh....so annoying. Looking back through previous threads, I see that SLEC has been falsely flagging people for sputum testing for YEARS now, I am amazed that noone has done anything to address this issue yet at the embassy.

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4 minutes ago, AndiB said:

you have to pay a fee to embassy, just not to nvc.  Check status on CEAC and it should go in transit on a shipping day then to ready when embassy has it. Steps are embassy dependent so can't tell you

Yea, understood

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7 minutes ago, Erik and Glydyl said:

Well heres the latest update for Gly and me. She had her medical scheduled yesterday and has fallen victim to the infamous SLEC sputum testing so her interview slot should be available for the 21st if anyone wants to try and grab it. She was very upset as were the other girls in her group who also got flagged. I was able to make her feel better but I am also frustrated and annoyed at this point. She is in perfect health, She passed other TB tests in the past, she has no respiratory problems of any kind and they didn't even show her the chest x-rays where they, supposedly, saw something unusual. On top of that, they also are making her see a psychiatrist before her interview in 2 months because of a hairline scar on the inside of one of her arms from years ago when she was in her first year of highschool. We had to cancel her interview, rebook her flight home and pay for another airbnb because of the sputum testing going ONE day past the original date of her flight home. Now in 2 months we will have to do this all over again with flights and airbnbs and scheduling....sigh....so annoying. Looking back through previous threads, I see that SLEC has been falsely flagging people for sputum testing for YEARS now, I am amazed that noone has done anything to address this issue yet at the embassy.

I am sorry to hear those news

[Erik and Glydyl 26]

Thank you. Apparently there are ALOT of people who have had these bad experiences with SLEC

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Finally landed an appointment at Ho Chi Minh City for January 16th.  

 

NOA1 9/23/2022

NOA2 9/13/2023

NVC Received 09/29/2023

NVC Case number 10/05/2023

NVC In transit 10/11/2023

Consulate Case ready 10/16/2023

Pkt3 received 11/04/2023

Interview scheduled 11/15/2023

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Interview booked for January 23rd!