nacampbell

I believe that it is necessary for countries where you lived for more than 12 months, not 6. I lived in Japan for 10 months and nothing was required from there. Not going to help the original poster any but i just wanted to clarify.

I got approved. Lots of worrying about nothing really. Slept terribly last night so going to bed now.

Thanks everyone for the advice.

Good luck to everybody.

Hi,

my interview is the 6th, not the 16th, so next time there is an edit can it be changed please? It is at 8am, thankfully I live in London.

Thanks

Hi,

We received my interview date yesterday, 6th Feb. They received my request on the 19th Dec so considering the holidays it was quite a speedy response.

Although I've not posted on here much the information here from other people has been invaluable. Many thanks.

Neil (& Annie)

We didn't get an NOA1 either. We filed our I-130 with the embassy in London on June 14th and they processed our credit card shortly after that. I waited patiently for the NOA1 to arrive but then the I-130 approval letter arrived out of the blue. It was approved on July 20th which was pretty speedy. I re-read and re-re-read the letter again to make sure it was indeed the petiton approval and not the NOA1. I'm still a little perturbed by the speed it was approved and it is a little ironic as we're not even in a particular hurry to get to the next stage. I have just started the 3 month wait to have a criminal background check come back from Japan which I know will hold everything up.

There just doesn't appear to be a set way of things happening with DCF.

P.S.

This is my first post but I'd like to thank everyone who posts on this site and makes this daunting process a little less foggy.