How do we register our immigrant visa appointment online after it's scheduled?

[American Husband 0]

Thank you everyone for your help. Our interview is finally scheduled! Now we need to schedule the medical examination.

 

The email we received yesterday says

 

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Please read and follow all Interview Preparation Instructions located on the Department of State's web site at: https://nvc.state.gov/prep

 

Important information regarding the required medical appointment is also listed on this site.

 

 

Following the link, I see these instructions:

 

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You must complete your medical examination, along with any required vaccinations, before your scheduled visa interview date. Please visit our List of U.S. Embassies and Consulates for country-specific medical examination instructions.

 

I follow that link and get to the Tbilisi page: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Supplements/Supplements_by_Post/TBL-Tbilisi.html

 

Now I've reached my first point of confusion. The page tells us that before we schedule the medical examination, we must "register" our appointment:

 

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Step 1: Register your appointment online

 

You need to register your appointment online. Registering your appointment provides us with the information we need to return your passport to you after your interview. Registration is free. Click the “Register” button below to register.

If you want to cancel or reschedule your appointment, you will be able to do so after you register your appointment.

 

Register >>

 

 

 

Unfortunately, following that link takes us to another "Choose your location" page, maybe because it's an old link or something. https://www.ustraveldocs.com/ge redirects to https://www.ustraveldocs.com/, where I can follow a link to https://www.ustraveldocs.com/ge/en/. That page lets us choose between immigrant and non-immigrant visas, so I go to https://www.ustraveldocs.com/ge/en/immigrant-visa. That page contains a lot of generic information and doesn't seem to know anything about travel.state.gov's expectation that we're there to register our appointment. After scrolling past a lot of sections that don't apply to us, the very last section is "Select Document Delivery Address." Since travel.state.gov implied that registering our appointment is about giving them an address to deliver the passport to, could this be the right section? It does talk about registering:

 

 

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Please note:

All IV applicants who register to select their pick up delivery location need to have a unique UID number in order to pick up their passport.

Please print out the Confirmation of IV Address Registration and bring it to the Embassy on the day of your interview.

In order to print out your Confirmation of IV Address Registration login  with your user name and password, select IV Address Registration, choose your visa type, fill your passport data, choose TNT delivery location and print PDF file with Confirmation of IV Address Registration.

To register your document delivery return address online, select here .

 

 

 

But is registering the document delivery return address the same as registering the appointment? They already have the address. It was included in the email they sent us. Is this registration even necessary?

 

Following those links takes us to https://portal.ustraveldocs.com/?language=English&country=Georgia

 

That portal doesn't include anything about registering an appointment or a document delivery address. It does let us create an account and update a profile which includes an address. Is that what we've been meant to do? Did registering our appointment actually mean registering for an account? Did registering our document delivery address actually just mean including the address in the profile?

 

When researching these questions, I came across this topic: 

 

 

The first reply suggests that it's a silly website and I may not be able to rely on all the information. Should we perhaps disregard the instruction to register the appointment before scheduling the medical examination, and just skip straight to scheduling the medical examination? The links are full of seemingly irrelevant information about scheduling the appointment and providing the delivery address, but our appointment is already scheduled and they already have our delivery address.

 

Thank you for the help

Edited 5 hours ago by American Husband