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My father's US tourist visa got expired last month so I filled in the DS160 form and did the payment. When I was in US Travel Docs website filling the questionnaires before paying the fees I received this below email.

"Congratulations! You qualify for the Interview Waiver. You will need to schedule an appointment to visit a document drop-off location to submit your documents, but you do not need to schedule a visa interview at the U.S. Embassy/Consulate.
Click Drop-Off to proceed with your Interview Waiver application.
To proceed with your interview waiver application
Step 1. Schedule an appointment to submit your documents.
Step 2. Print your appointment letter and follow the instructions on it.
Step 3. You should arrive at the time of your appointment. You will not be permitted to enter the facility before the time listed on your appointment letter.

Step 4. Drop off your listed documents at locations mentioned on the appointment letter."

My questions are:

1) Just after the payment, I see the option of Schedule Appointment showing now and I see many available dates at Kolkata OFC to take appointments. My question is, should I go ahead and book a date? I am confused, is this appointment for Biometrics or is this for Document Drop Off? Will there be an option to select as "Drop Off" if I proceed?

Can anyone please guide me please. Thank you.

I received an RFE for my K-1 petition asking for legal proof of marriage termination. I already submitted my full divorce decree. In my state, uncontested divorces can be signed by a judicially-appointed Special Referee rather than a judge, and the courthouse confirmed that my divorce is fully valid and final under state law.

The RFE says the decree is not sufficient because it was not signed by a judge. The clerk told me that having a Special Referee sign it is standard procedure where I live and that it carries the same legal authority.

Has anyone dealt with this before? What should I send back to USCIS to clear this up? Should I request a certified explanation, an affidavit, or some kind of court documentation to prove the decree is valid?

I want to respond correctly so the case doesn t get delayed any further.

Hey all, we've received our interview letter, but it requests some stuff we don't have-- and don't even know how to get.

Mainly, it asks for an "Aramex (courier) document delivery confirmation page", which we don't have. We've filled out the DS-160 and have the confirmation page, and we have everything filled out in usvisascheduling (we've been waiting at the "No Slots Available" for a couple weeks now).

That being said, we only just realized that we don't have the 'courier confirmation page', whatever that is. In the videos and guides we've looked up for K-1 visas, no one has ever mentioned them.

What is the courier confirmation page for? Do we even need it?

Any advice would be great, thank you.

It is time to start a new thread for the more recent J1 Hardship Waiver applications. My USCIS receipt date was Dec 2024. No updates after that so far.

My wife and I are currently separated and in the process of finalizing the divorce.

I filed for separation a while ago, but we ended up trying to reconcile during the mandatory waiting period. This included counseling. Because of that, we did not notify USCIS of the separation at the advice of a lawyer.

But now we decided to proceed with the divorce and I sent a letter to USCIS requesting my name be removed from the petition. But her lawyer is now very concerned. He said that once they process that, they ll send a RFE for the divorce decree. But being in California, she likely won t have it in time. So he said her petition will be denied and she could go into removal proceedings.

This is a nightmare. I don t want her to get deported. I just wanted use to go our separate ways.

What are her options at this point? How can she avoid potentially be put in removal proceedings?