US Immigration from Australia

Just wondering if anyone has recently changed their originally designated consulate to London recently for CR-1/IR-1 processing?

I'm a British citizen, but currently reside in Australia. The projected DQ to interview timeframe at the Sydney Consulate is 8-10 months, so if there's an opportunity to shorten this timeframe I'd be interested in reducing it.

I ran into a problem today when I was trying to certify my income for IDR again... because I marked down I was married (since I'm married now, even though I wasn't in 2021), it told me it needed spousal info. Specifically it said :

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Your electronic Income-Driven Repayment Plan Request is awaiting completion by your spouse.

To complete this request, your spouse must log in to StudentAid.gov using their FSA ID.

Your spouse will need:

The reference number listed below and
YOUR social security number (SSN) to access and cosign the request.
The reference number will also be included in an email we will send to you.

Your spouse must enter the requested information, sign and submit to complete this request. Your spouse is not obligated to repay your loan by cosigning the IDR application.

But he can't make an FSA ID because there's no way to do it without an SSN, and he doesn't have an SSN yet because we'd checked the "Get us an SSN with this filing" when doing the 485/etc.

Has anyone run into this before and do they have suggestions? I will try directly calling my servicer MOHELA about this, but the problem is that MOHELA seems to want the info direct from the studentaid.gov DOE site and that's the one blocking it.

Hi Team,

I have seen a lot of previous posts and posts from other countries talking about filling in the cover sheet for the visa interview. What are people talking about?

I emailed Sydney Embassy and asked if my documents are meant to go in a particular order and this is what they sent me:

You may use the following as guidance:

But they didn't send me any cover sheet I am meant to use. I am very confused!

Thank you,

Anushka

** CR1/IR1s who have HAD a interview **

Were you required to update your 1864 and reupload it to CEAC after the interview with your most recent tax return (2021) and police check??

The i864 I uploaded in Oct 2021 did not include the 2021 tax return, only 2018, 2019 & 2020 and police checks have expired as well.

Thank you!

Hi Everyone,

As my correct digital Australian federal police (AFP) report with code#33 common wealth check purpose has been rejected by nvc ,, saying invalid document please replace the one with correct issuing authority even though it was issued by AFP.

Now I have ordered the hard copy and requested AFP to delivered that in my brother s address in Melbourne Australia.

As I am currently living in Nepal it will take more than a month to received the hard copy ,not sure though coz here in Nepal there is no proper postal address documents might lost,

But in the certificate I can see there is the address address of Australia in which In requested AFP to deliver my hard copy ,,I have filled out all the address of Nepal in Ds 260 form of Nvc ,

I am wondering will the different address matter ??

does the certificate also need to have the address of Nepal or what ??

Please let me know ,,, I can see here many people have submitted the international police certificate too in nvc ,,

Does your ds260 or other form address matched with your police report ??

thank you