US Immigration from Senegal

Afternoon,

Looking for some general advice, or if someone experienced this and how they proceeded. After receiving instructions on how to schedule the visa appointment and the letter with approved doctors we proceeded to try to schedule the medical exam. The beneficiary called to schedule and was told to bring one price (124,000 CFA). The letter from the embassy has the fee schedule for the medical, radiology, blood work and show it will be approximately 67,000 CFA. The additional cost would possibly be for vaccinations. Usually we would have accepted that the difference between the verbal price and the price with additional would be the final cost, but in this case we have gone through this process with this doctor once for my spouse and again for two stepchildren. The additional did not exceed 30,000 CFA in total. Still no where near the price. Just so happens my spouse is in Senegal and I asked him to call the doctor to ask why they are so far above the price the embassy has shown, he calls and the receptionist went even higher on him and said it will be 144,000 CFA. You might already know my question, do i just need to get with the embassy to sort this out? Yes I can select another doctor on the list, but that does not stop the process of abuse that seems to be happening to people just trying to navigate this process. Any advice?

Does anyone have any idea (rough estimate if known) when the appointments slots will open for the next month in the AVITS Dashboard? I was able to pay the $265 visa fee online and immediately redirected to the appointment calendar. Currently September have no more availability and the next three months are greyed out and not allowing me to select them. I am assuming this means that the calendar opens on some date in the future and then I would be able to go in to help schedule a Consulate Appointment. Is this date usually that last few days of the prior month, the first/first week of the next month. Or is this unknown and just have to keep checking back until you get lucky?

And I would assume I need to have that appointment scheduled prior to the actual MD honoring and medical appointment scheduling right?

We finally received word via the Public Inquiry request that our case has been sent for interview and that we don't need to put anything online in the NVC portal. As of today the status reads "Ready" but we have not received any letter from NVC. Based on that status I went into the AVITS website to create and appointment but I am unable to do so. Is that because the Consular does not have the case yet, or no appointment is available? Just wondering for planning purposes.

I am a US citizen. Married 4 yrs ago . Has a daughter and wife living outside united . Filed i130 for my wife and daughter . USCIS says the application is approved for both. My daughter is still minor. I am having another child in a month's time outside united states who's was not included in the already i130 that just got approved

Question 1. What next as the application has been approved? What do I have to do ?

Question 2. Is my unborn baby a US citizen or do I have to file another i130 for the baby?

3. How long before USCIS send an approved application to NVC in the designated country where the beneficiary resides?

Thanks for your help

I noticed today the case status with USCIS changed to Case Was Sent To The Department of State as of this week. Does anyone know the approximate processing for Dakar for K-1 at this time?