Edward and Jaycel

Good deal! Let us know how it goes!

Yes that's the actual visa application form and the confirmation page is what your fiancée will bring to the interview. The application is actually her application to the embassy. The confirmation number is what you will use when scheduling the interview.

I don't have experience specifically with the Paris Embassy, however in regards to your NOA2 expiry date, do not worry about that. It will not prevent your fiancée from going to the interview. If it is expired at the time of the interview, if the consular officer approves the visa, they will automatically extend the validity date of the NOA2. This happens quite often and it's written right into the Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM) that they extend an expired NOA2 upon approval of the K-1 Visa. The only thing I would counsel you to do is to write up new "Letters of Intent to Marry" and have your fiancée bring them to the interview. For yours, you can create it, sign it and scan & send to her to print out and bring.

Generally, historically, if the overseas panel physician doing you medical exam gives you a blanket waiver for a vaccine based on it "not being available in the country at that time", as he should have if it wasn't flu season, then the adjudicating officer won't override that waiver. As long as the vaccine assessment (DS-3025) is marked as "K-Visa applicant voluntarily completed all vaccine requirements" you should be good. The notable exception as of late has been the polio vaccine, but that is a different animal because the CDC changed the age requirements in May 2024. Many overseas medical clinics either didn't get the change notice or ignored it and incorrectly issued a blanket waiver for the vaccine "Not being age appropriate". USCIS, in those instances, has the authority to overrule the panel physician because what they did is an error in direct contravention to the CDC guidelines, and they have been issuing RFEs for applicants to get the vaccine. In the case of the flu vaccine, the blanket waiver given to you by the panel physician was correct and within guidelines at the time of your exam so I think the liklihood of it being required at the interview is extremely low.

There's no way to tell, even after you get your case number when it will be sent to the embassy. It depends on the workload of the embassy and how many cases they tell the NVC they are ready to receive. For us, it took two inquiries to get the case number. The first one, they responded after about 3 or 4 days and said that they had our case but had not entered it into the system yet. I inquired about a week later and they gave us the case number. We did not make the batch shipment the week after and did not get the K-1 FTP and status change to "In Transit" until 3 weeks after getting our case number.

Woo Hoo!! Congratulations!! 🎉🎉

When we were trying to get Jaycel's appointment, we were splitting "shifts" and logging in every hour to check for appointments (that seemed to be the most frequent interval allowed without getting blacklisted for 72 hours). We ended up getting what we believe was someone's cancelation because it was the only appointment showing available on the calendar after having seen none the previous hour's check. It definitely wasn't part of a batch of open appointments released. Anyway... long winded way of saying that you need to check frequently, every day. Let us know how you do!

Second this!

Congrats!!! NVC is currently scheduling interviews in Manila for applicants DQ'd in October so they are about 4 months behind. Keep us all posted 🎉🎉

Any place you lived for more than 6 months after the age 16, you will need a police report when it comes time for the embassy interview stage

The USCIS policy manual states that the interpreter should be a disinterested party: “An applicant may not be fluent in English and may require use of an interpreter for the adjustment interview. At the adjustment interview, the interpreter should: Present his or her valid government-issued identity document and complete an interpreter's oath and privacy release statement; and Translate what the officer and the applicant say word-for-word to the best of his or her ability without adding the interpreter's own opinion, commentary, or answer. In general, a disinterested party should be used as the interpreter. An officer may exercise discretion, however, to allow a friend or relative of the applicant to act as interpreter. If the officer is fluent in the applicant's preferred language, the officer may conduct the examination in that language without use of an interpreter. USCIS reserves the right to disqualify an interpreter provided by the applicant if the officer believes the integrity of the examination is compromised by the interpreter's participation or the officer determines the interpreter is not competent to translate.” You yourself cannot be one as you are a direct party to the application. A friend might be considered to interpret as the officer has discretion to allow it BUT if the officer does not allow it, you will then be forced to make a choice; hold the interview without an interpreter or reschedule the interview. Neither are great options. I would hire a truly disinterested party so that there is no chance you will be forced into one of those choices. Best of luck! Let us know what happens.

Try this… Select Immigrant Visa and put “NA” for the passport number and surname fields

I have seen many people in other forums who filed online around that time who are reporting the same issue. Please let us know if you get the receipt notice or if/when you contact USCIS

One piece of advice we got from an immigration attorney was to have me read the Yes/No Questions from the "General Eligibility & Inadmissibility" section out loud to Jaycel and have her answer them. He said that, especially to a non-native English speaker, it is one thing to read them to yourself and answer them in your head but it's very different to listen to them without the print in front of you, interpret them and then answer them correctly. Jaycel said this was one of the most helpful parts of the prep that we did. Especially since our IO asked like 20 or so of those questions You guys will do great... like @appleblossom said, don't overthink it.

Another big provision: Illegal entry - DHS proposes to exclude from (c)(8) EAD eligibility any alien who entered or attempted to enter the United States without inspection on or after the effective date of the final rule, unless the alien, without delay but no later than 48 hours after entry, expressed to an immigration officer an intention to apply for asylum or expressed to an immigration officer a fear of persecution or torture; or unless the alien establishes good cause for the illegal entry or attempted entry; or unless the alien meets the definition of, or at any time since their most recent entry was determined to be, a UAC as defined in 6 U.S.C. 279(g)(2).