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Passport expiring in June 2025

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Hello,

 

My girlfriend applied for a tourist visa to come visit me here in the US. We submitted the application online; however, her passport expires in June next year. The wait time for an interview at the consulate where she lives is approximately 110 days. Will this pose a problem? 

 

Should we cancel the application and submit a new visa application after she gets a new passport? 

 

Thanks. 

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TBoneTX Grand Master

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Welcome to the forum.

 

One possible solution is for her to renew her passport now, so she'd have her fresh one in hand when the interview occurred.

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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1 hour ago, 2410J said:

she can just show up at the interview with the new passport?

Yes.

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16 hours ago, 2410J said:

My girlfriend applied for a tourist visa to come visit me here in the US. We submitted the application online; however, her passport expires in June next year. The wait time for an interview at the consulate where she lives is approximately 110 days. Will this pose a problem? 

 

Should we cancel the application and submit a new visa application after she gets a new passport? 

 

No issues, even if she got the visa in the old passport and later renewed her passport she could still travel to the US with the two passports together as long as the page with the still valid visa in the old passport is intact.

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52 minutes ago, NorthByNorthwest said:

 

No issues, even if she got the visa in the old passport and later renewed her passport she could still travel to the US with the two passports together as long as the page with the still valid visa in the old passport is intact.

True, but it's probably better to renew passport now. Many countries require 3 or 6 months validity on passport for it to be even considered for travel. It's not like OP's GF is gonna benefit from holding useless passport that's about to expire.

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