London CR1 / IR1 Appointment Updates

[Sm4598 37]

Excited to see some October dates! We DQ’d October 21 and assumed we’d get our date in February, but looks like it could even be the next batch! ❤️ 

 

Congrats to everyone who has their date so far!

[willingtowait4it 49]

Yay congrats to everyone who got their dates today!!

 

I finally managed to have a full FaceTime conversation with my husband, between a hectic day for me at work and him traveling back from London. He told me a little bit about the interview process and I wanted to share that here.

 

He was at the embassy for a total of 40 minutes. He arrived 30 minutes early and waited for a while. There were two stages, first was biometrics. The woman taking his biometrics asked when he was planning to travel to the states, and he said hopefully before Christmas. She said visa processing is taking about three days after approval.

 

The second stage was the actual “interview” but it was more like a conversation. The woman asked three questions:

 

How did you meet your wife?

Why did you decide to propose?

How and where did you propose?

 

Apparently it was all very easy and casual, and she approved him after about three minutes! She told him to expect the visa in 1-2 weeks, but I think that they are just required to say that - it clearly hasn’t been taking that long lately.

 

All in all a pretty easy experience (except for the 18 months of waiting of course lol). The only documents he was asked for were passport, courier letter, and embassy appointment letter. It still doesn’t feel real that he could be here by Christmas! 

 

Congrats again to those who got interviews today! And I will be thinking good thoughts for those waiting to hear in January 🤞🏻

[Zeppeli 31]

I've been silently lurking here for months but today (15th of December) I received my interview date. Our case was DQ'd 22nd of September and it has been scheduled for 21st of January at 1130!

 

I'm so unbelievably excited. It feels so long since I last saw my husband (February) and I cannot wait to see him again. I'm hoping to move out for our second wedding anniversary in May! 

[ergreenwell10 11]

Hi All,

 

First time posting here, We DQ'd 2nd October, Interview date 26th January!

 

Confirmation email came through today December 15th.

 

I have a question, the first step the NVC email tells us to do is 

 

"Step 1: Register online

Before your interview, you must register a delivery address for your passport’s return with the embassy’s online service. Registration is free. Click the “Register” button below to register."

 

On following the link and filling in the page to register a visa appointment we are getting the following error:

 

"The Immigrant Visa case number provided is not ready to schedule an appointment. If you have not received an appointment letter/email from the National Visa Center (NVC), you can check the status of your IV case at http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/nvc.html.

If you have received an appointment letter/email from the NVC or an instruction letter/email from the Consular Section directing you to this website to schedule an appointment, please make sure to correctly enter your IV case number."

 

We may be being a bit dense in our excitement/nerves- has anyone done this stage yet have any advice on this? 

 

It may take a day for it to update on their system or should we start querying it immediately?

 

[Caresse33 87]

6 minutes ago, ergreenwell10 said:

Hi All,

 

First time posting here, We DQ'd 2nd October, Interview date 26th January!

 

Confirmation email came through today December 15th.

 

I have a question, the first step the NVC email tells us to do is 

 

"Step 1: Register online

Before your interview, you must register a delivery address for your passport’s return with the embassy’s online service. Registration is free. Click the “Register” button below to register."

 

On following the link and filling in the page to register a visa appointment we are getting the following error:

 

"The Immigrant Visa case number provided is not ready to schedule an appointment. If you have not received an appointment letter/email from the National Visa Center (NVC), you can check the status of your IV case at http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/nvc.html.

If you have received an appointment letter/email from the NVC or an instruction letter/email from the Consular Section directing you to this website to schedule an appointment, please make sure to correctly enter your IV case number."

 

We may be being a bit dense in our excitement/nerves- has anyone done this stage yet have any advice on this? 

 

It may take a day for it to update on their system or should we start querying it immediately?

 

It takes a day or two before it update , try again later. It should be fine nothing to worry

[Mexistani 11]

1 hour ago, ergreenwell10 said:

Hi All,

 

First time posting here, We DQ'd 2nd October, Interview date 26th January!

 

Confirmation email came through today December 15th.

 

I have a question, the first step the NVC email tells us to do is 

 

"Step 1: Register online

Before your interview, you must register a delivery address for your passport’s return with the embassy’s online service. Registration is free. Click the “Register” button below to register."

 

On following the link and filling in the page to register a visa appointment we are getting the following error:

 

"The Immigrant Visa case number provided is not ready to schedule an appointment. If you have not received an appointment letter/email from the National Visa Center (NVC), you can check the status of your IV case at http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/nvc.html.

If you have received an appointment letter/email from the NVC or an instruction letter/email from the Consular Section directing you to this website to schedule an appointment, please make sure to correctly enter your IV case number."

 

We may be being a bit dense in our excitement/nerves- has anyone done this stage yet have any advice on this? 

 

It may take a day for it to update on their system or should we start querying it immediately?

 

We had the same problem, but then our attorney told us thats for them to make and we don't have to worry about it. If u don't have an attorney then I'm sorry good luck. But if you do then do not worry!

[willingtowait4it 49]

1 hour ago, ergreenwell10 said:

Hi All,

 

First time posting here, We DQ'd 2nd October, Interview date 26th January!

 

Confirmation email came through today December 15th.

 

I have a question, the first step the NVC email tells us to do is 

 

"Step 1: Register online

Before your interview, you must register a delivery address for your passport’s return with the embassy’s online service. Registration is free. Click the “Register” button below to register."

 

On following the link and filling in the page to register a visa appointment we are getting the following error:

 

"The Immigrant Visa case number provided is not ready to schedule an appointment. If you have not received an appointment letter/email from the National Visa Center (NVC), you can check the status of your IV case at http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/nvc.html.

If you have received an appointment letter/email from the NVC or an instruction letter/email from the Consular Section directing you to this website to schedule an appointment, please make sure to correctly enter your IV case number."

 

We may be being a bit dense in our excitement/nerves- has anyone done this stage yet have any advice on this? 

 

It may take a day for it to update on their system or should we start querying it immediately?

 

Ours took a day or so. Don’t panic, just give it a couple days.

[johebert9 34]

Congrats everyone!!! So amazing to see these come through! I quickly summarised everyone's dates here - looks like if you were DQ'd late Oct (like my husband!) you'll be getting an early Feb appt

 

DQ	Email	Interview
17-Aug	15-Dec	4-Jan
18-Aug	15-Dec	4-Jan
20-Aug	15-Dec	5-Jan
4-Sept	15-Dec	12-Jan
9-Sept	15-Dec	13-Jan
21-Sept	15-Dec	21-Jan
22-Sept	15-Dec	21-Jan
2-Oct	15-Dec	26-Jan
2-Oct	15-Dec	26-Jan

[MzA 75]

On 12/14/2020 at 1:11 PM, MzA said:

Hey guys,

This is a Joyous Day.... APPROVED!

July 12th - Submitted documents to NVC.

July 27th - Document Qualified.

November 13th - Email of December 14 appointment.

Checked in at Embassy 30 minutes before my 11:30 appointment time this morning and spent 40 minutes in total there. Most of the time spent waiting. Interview itself was 10 minutes.

3 questions:

Where did you meet your husband?Where does he live?

When are you hoping to go to the USA?

 

They were all super friendly and helped me feel relaxed.

After he said, "I will approve you today""

I heard nothing else he said lol!

I was just relieved the process was over!

 

This has been quite a journey but it's all worth it.

 

Good luck to everyone with your interviews and for those waiting on interview dates, hang in there.

Email came yesterday to inform me the document has been collected by courier.

Tracking today said, " Ready for collection"

[Andy&Jamie 110]

Just wanted to say a quick congrats to everyone having just gotten their dates! Confusing process I know but I'm glad y'all can finally start planning. Best damn feeling. Good luck Everyone. ❤️

[Mexistani 11]

How do I get the medical questionnaire? Will they give it me or?

[johebert9 34]

16 minutes ago, Mexistani said:

How do I get the medical questionnaire? Will they give it me or?

Hey! Here's the where you can get the questionnaire: (click 'Required Documents')

 

https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/family-immigration/medical-examination/

[Mexistani 11]

@johebert9 Thank you so much I was looking for it everywhere 

[willingtowait4it 49]

On 12/15/2020 at 1:24 PM, willingtowait4it said:

Yay congrats to everyone who got their dates today!!

 

I finally managed to have a full FaceTime conversation with my husband, between a hectic day for me at work and him traveling back from London. He told me a little bit about the interview process and I wanted to share that here.

 

He was at the embassy for a total of 40 minutes. He arrived 30 minutes early and waited for a while. There were two stages, first was biometrics. The woman taking his biometrics asked when he was planning to travel to the states, and he said hopefully before Christmas. She said visa processing is taking about three days after approval.

 

The second stage was the actual “interview” but it was more like a conversation. The woman asked three questions:

 

How did you meet your wife?

Why did you decide to propose?

How and where did you propose?

 

Apparently it was all very easy and casual, and she approved him after about three minutes! She told him to expect the visa in 1-2 weeks, but I think that they are just required to say that - it clearly hasn’t been taking that long lately.

 

All in all a pretty easy experience (except for the 18 months of waiting of course lol). The only documents he was asked for were passport, courier letter, and embassy appointment letter. It still doesn’t feel real that he could be here by Christmas! 

 

Congrats again to those who got interviews today! And I will be thinking good thoughts for those waiting to hear in January 🤞🏻

The email came yesterday that his courier would be delivered soon, and the courier came today with the passport and visa!! He's flying out Saturday  Very impressed with the quick turnaround!

[MzA 75]

20 hours ago, MzA said:

Email came yesterday to inform me the document has been collected by courier.

Tracking today said, " Ready for collection"

A quick 15 minutes trip to DX Collection Office in London & passport was given. I checked it thoroughly & all was good. USA here i come! 

We shld have a VJ member reunion in the USA lol! This was quite the journey.

 

Good luck to everyone else waiting to complete this journey. It'll be all worth it.