visa appointment website question

[ChadW 2]

     Ready to schedule visa interview/ biometrics/ medical. Primary applicant is my wife with her two children as secondary applicants. I'm having issues attaching them to her account on the visa scheduling website. I created separate accounts for each of them and receive error code PSE0600 with instructions to call for assistance when trying to attach them to her account. Its the weekend so I can't call right now. Do I need to schedule the appointments separately through their own individual accounts?   

[pushbrk 13,370]

15 hours ago, ChadW said:

     Ready to schedule visa interview/ biometrics/ medical. Primary applicant is my wife with her two children as secondary applicants. I'm having issues attaching them to her account on the visa scheduling website. I created separate accounts for each of them and receive error code PSE0600 with instructions to call for assistance when trying to attach them to her account. Its the weekend so I can't call right now. Do I need to schedule the appointments separately through their own individual accounts?   

Were three separate petitions filed?  If so, there are three MNL case numbers.  If not, and you are a US Citizen, you made a huge mistake over a year ago.  Step children of US citizens are no derivative beneficiaries.  They each need their own petition.

Edited March 30 by pushbrk

[ChadW 2]

Yes 3 petitions filed, 3 mnl case numbers. Im asking because there is an option to add dependents to her visa scheduling account (having issues adding that). The children are under 14 so they won't be scheduled for interview. So do I attach them to her account and schedule the biometrics/medical together then interview for her, or schedule each separately through their individual accounts without scheduling interviews for the kids? I dont know if you can schedule the biometrics/medical without selecting an interview date on the kids accounts.

[pushbrk 13,370]

On 3/31/2025 at 4:32 AM, ChadW said:

Yes 3 petitions filed, 3 mnl case numbers. Im asking because there is an option to add dependents to her visa scheduling account (having issues adding that). The children are under 14 so they won't be scheduled for interview. So do I attach them to her account and schedule the biometrics/medical together then interview for her, or schedule each separately through their individual accounts without scheduling interviews for the kids? I dont know if you can schedule the biometrics/medical without selecting an interview date on the kids accounts.

Just make three separate appointments, but if you went through NVC, it is NVC who schedules the interview appointments. What exactly are YOU trying to schedule?

[may5 2]

The Manila embassy requires an additional, separate "Biometrics" or VAC interview as of a few months ago. As far as I know and have experienced, NVC does not schedule the VAC interview for you.

 

I suspect the question pertains to scheduling the VAC interview with the children listed as dependents since, being under 14, they do not have to do the VAC interview at all.

[pushbrk 13,370]

20 hours ago, may5 said:

The Manila embassy requires an additional, separate "Biometrics" or VAC interview as of a few months ago. As far as I know and have experienced, NVC does not schedule the VAC interview for you.

 

I suspect the question pertains to scheduling the VAC interview with the children listed as dependents since, being under 14, they do not have to do the VAC interview at all.

If so, they are all "principal applicants" except perhaps the VAC interview.  This is why details are so important.