Maury&I

*UPDATE...Guayaquil Immigration has her passport and her status has changed to "admin processing". DHL still doesn't even know its been delivered and has told us it's in a DHL Quito office. I pray they do a better job with delivery of her new visa and Venezuela passport, granted no more hurdles and mini strokes. LOL. Thanks for everyone's help.

Inquiring if anyone knows what the Ecuador protocol is if an applicant's passport is lost by the contracted document carrier? Wife requested her passport back during our admin processing so she could visit family, and a sick parent, after not seeing them for 5 years, and while she was out of the country, Immigration requested her passport to be returned. Once she returned to Ecuador and pickuped the package from Immigration, they had returned all of our documents, evidence and photos with a form solely asking her to return her passport to them. A lawyer advised us that she had probably been finally approved and just needed her passport back to complete the visa application since they consider this a missing document. So, she shipped it by the contracted carrier, DHL, and she actually had to show the DHL employee it was her passport she was including in the package and that was July 4th. As of today, July 11, it is officially lost, via DHL and they are "searching" for it. SMH. Were originally told it was delivered to the wrong city but who knows if that's the truth. So, anyone know what USA Ecuador Immigration's protocol for this situation might be or ever heard of a similar situation in another country? Unfortunately, we probably aren't the first passport document delivery that has been lost by the shipper. Thanks for any and all feedback!

Thank you

And as Murphy's Law would have it, she's Venezuelan, so getting a new passport, if it comes to that, is not an easy task x10 since she lives in Ecuador. Trying to inquire if anyone has any experience, and or know, what the Ecuador USA Embassy protocol is for a passport lost by their contracted courier. In Ecuador, the have a special DHL Express division that handles exclusively immigrations document deliveries.

She's in Ecuador, my friend. No USPS. The Ecuador USA embassy contracted carrier is DHL.

Inquiring if anyone knows what the Ecuador protocol is if an applicant's passport is lost by the contracted document carrier? Wife requested her passport back during our admin processing so she could visit family, and a sick parent, after not seeing them for 5 years, and while she was out of the country, Immigration requested her passport to be returned. Once she returned to Ecuador and pickuped the package from Immigration, they had returned all of our documents, evidence and photos with a form solely asking her to return her passport to them. A lawyer advised us that she had probably been finally approved and just needed her passport back to complete the visa application since they consider this a missing document. So, she shipped it by the contracted carrier, DHL, and she actually had to show the DHL employee it was her passport she was including in the package and that was July 4th. As of today, July 11, it is officially lost, via DHL and they are "searching" for it. SMH. Were originally told it was delivered to the wrong city but who knows if that's the truth. So, anyone know what Ecuador Immigration's protocol for this situation might be or ever heard of a similar situation in another country? Unfortunately, we probably aren't the first passport document delivery that has been lost by the shipper. Thanks for any and all feedback!

Thanks again for your help. You are correct and we are misunderstanding about the interview. 1q On the 221(g), they have the I-864 new guarantor section checked and also requesting a Cert de movimiento migratorio for me.

Thanks for the suggestion but as I mentioned in original post, that's not as easy as everyone thinks it is for our situation. I asked the people that I thought might help and they showed no interest so i'm not going to twist their arm into it or bribe someone. It really irks me because she is Venezuelan and could have got her into the country by other means if we had known that the USA was going to give all of them free 2 year working visas. She knows of many other Venezuelans that were living here in Ecuador that are now in the USA, living and working and it only took 3 months and a lot less of an investment to get there. Anyways, that's another whole post. LOL

Hello Group, Seeking advice for our 2nd interview, our situation and their request for a co-sponsor which I can't get but also think we don't need one but want to ask Visa Journeys opinion because we don't want to have to wait until a 3rd interview. So first interview we were told that we need to get a co-sponsor but I believe that was because of 3 mistakes that were made. 1)First mistake was our household # was 3 instead of just 2 and my affidavit of support income is for two people, not 3. I'm a small business owner and my net income reported was $24,500 + a new job in 2022 which leads into mistake 2. 2) Forgot to provide evidence/copies of new, job paychecks. Annual income for new job is $32,000. 3) IRS did an adjustment on my 2021 taxes and increased my net income to $26,500 due to an error by my accountant. So my affidavit of support numbers for 2021 is $26,500(business income) + new job of $32,000 for 2022 + business income. They also want 2020 taxes but I lived in Ecuador for 10-12 months of this year due to Covid, so didn't meet minimum requirements that year. Hopefully they will understand and know that Covid slowed thousands of businesses. All of our marriage evidence seemed to be approved. They said my income was to low and on the blue form, checked off we needing a co-sponsor and few other easy, fixable tasks. I'm from a very small family and waited an half year to submit my affidavit of support to have enough business profit and also got a w-2 job. Before waiting the 6 months, I researched the co-sponsor possibility amongst my family and friends and no one was warm to the idea. Million dollar question for 2nd interview. With the mistakes corrected, additional income evidence which was in our online profile but the Ecuador embassy doesn't appear to have access too, new tax increase and my wife now having the experience to possible better explain affidavit of support concerns, would you recommend trying the 2nd interview again without a co-sponsor? Also my wife said her first interviewer was a lady and was very catty with her. Even made a couple sarcastic comments. So hopefully next interview, she gets someone that's more professional in their job. One more thing about our relationship, we do have an age difference but as I mentioned, they seemed to be good with our bona-fide marriage evidence, just not the income. Thanks for all and any advice.

Hello VisaJourney Members, Seeking some advice from others that might have had a similar experience. Received an email from NVC about documents rejections that were submitted online for her CR1, spouse visa. My wife, Venezuelan but living in Ecuador, had to submit 3 different Police reports from the 3 different Latin American countries she has lived in. For whatever reason, they rejected her Colombia Police Report and in our NVC account email, there wasn't an explanation to why it was rejected. It's an official police report she acquired from the Colombia government website. All of the documents were translated by an official Spanish translator and none of the other documents, police reports were rejected. Will they mail out a letter telling us why it was rejected. I, US American, had a rejected financial document but they explained why my document was rejected in our NVC email and thankfully, it was an easy correction. Obviously we don't want anything to slow down the process anymore than it already is and i believe now this is the only issue preventing us from moving forward. All other submitted documents have been approved. Here's a copy of what we submitted if this my help anyone recognize an issue. Thanks for anyone's advice and knowledge.