US Immigration from Belarus

Greetings,

I have a burning question regarding the type of translation we need for my wife and daughter's IR1/IR2 visa interview...

This is becoming VERY confusing, any help from people who went through this would be appreciated.

I have done translations for the USCIS and NVC stages myself, certifying at the bottom that i'm competent to translate from Russian/Belarusian into English.

This has worked just fine, both the USCIS and NVC accepted and approved all of my translations.

However on the Warsaw Embassy's website on the Family-based immigrant visa page it says:

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Translations
Documents in Polish, except for court records, do not have to be translated. All documents that are not written in English or Polish must be translated into English by a certified translator.

Here they're mentioning a certified translator, this means the translator has to have certification?! How would they even check this?

Has anyone had experience with this?

Why is it ok to submit own "certified" translations for USCIS and NVC, but not ok for the embassy?!

Please advise. Thank you!

Hi all - sorry for another question. A bit of a weird one here, but does each family member attending the interview require their own UID / TravelDocs account? Basically, when I scheduled the appointment for my wife's family, I made them each a TravelDocs account before scheduling them for a family appointment on one of those accounts (the "leader"). The problem, however, was that because they are citizens of Belarus and not Poland (where the TravelDocs accounts were made, as Belarus directs to Poland and they are Polish permanent residents anyway), the system thought they were Polish citizens. I called TravelDocs and they noted that somehow these family members had their accounts "duplicated" (unsure how this happened), and deleted the ones that erroneously listed citizenship as Poland. Out of curiosity, I just attempted to log into those family member's accounts today as their UIDs are still listed on the appointment confirmation under the leader's - but both of their accounts are deleted.

Provided (a) all applicable DS-160s were properly submitted and (b) the leader's TravelDocs account is accessible and has all the correct / updated information, is the fact the family members' accounts are deleted a problem? Or are they considered 'derivatives' or something like that for the appointment and never needed a separate account to begin with? TIA.

My wife and daughter got DQd on the 16th. Since yesterday morning I see the following on my wife's civil documents list. I noticed it accidentally when I logged on to check the messages.

So literally NVC page says missing on the home page for her civil docs. All docs were obviously included and accepted, otherwise they'd never be DQd.

The NVC page seems to have gone totally crazy as you can see from the above screenshot. Passport bio pics were included and are listed just below but are now called PASSPORT BIOGRAPHIC PAGE (1st MARRIAGE-FINAL DIVORCE DECREE), .

Anyone seen/seeing anything like it? I hope this doesn't affect anything for my wife.

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I checked in 3 browsers, same result, so it's not a local cache issue.

My wife's family has their tourist visa interviews coming up, I had helped prepare their application but am questioning a choice I made on the (submitted) DS-160s ... while they are coming just to visit us, I selected "B1/B2" as when my wife applied herself to visit me under a B2, they issued her a B1/B2. Since then, I've always assumed this was the proper designation, but now I am not entirely sure. My wife's family is obviously not coming for business, but will this be a problem? Should I tell them to expect a question about it, or is this pretty normal given what's ultimately issued?

There was only one analogous post on VJ, some users implied it was best to redo the DS-160 whereas others said it was completely fine. TIA.

EDIT: I just reviewed their TravelDocs page and it says the interview is for a B-1/B-2, so I guess in this particular case, what I put on the DS-160 was correct. I don't recall if TravelDocs actually made a distinction between the B-1/B-2 and B-2 when scheduling the appointment. In any event, these DS-160s seem to be proper per what was already scheduled at the Embassy.

Sent my IR1/IR2 docs to NVC on the 3rd of May, so figured I'd start a thread.