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52 minutes ago, Z and N said:

Sorry what do you mean by that? He was under DS-5535 then they called and asked him to submit his passprt. Does it mean he could possibly be denied? Or are we waiting on the visa? Or we just don't know lol

The decision on the DS160 application is what is required for visa issance.  A K1 is interviewed by the immigrant visa unit but is issued by the non immigrant visa unit.  Typically the only reason for the file to transfer from immigrant to non immigrant is for visa issance 

13 minutes ago, Z and N said:

It hasn't it's just at application received now, it's been there for 3 or 4 days. It's been a week in total since they asked for his passport praying he gets it soon

Since it has changed to nonimmigrant status means the interviewing consular officer has made his/her decision and it should only be pending administrative process of assembling the file and printing the visa.  

12 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

you should also do this to cover all your bases

 

• the request must have the case number,  both names and both DOB / i would include copy not original of  the I 129 and/or ds160 to show u put the correct Casablanca embassy

 

How to change U.S. Embassy interview location for immigrant visa?

 

 

You may submit your request to change the location of your immigrant visa interview to the National Visa Center if you wish to process at the requested U.S. Embassy or Consulate General. At the time of this writing, such requests are submitted via the NVC public inquiry form: https://nvc.state.gov/inquiry.

BTW, the above pertains to immigrant visas not K1 and regardless even if it did pertain to K1 it is to late as the petition has already been sent by NVC.

Just now, Anthomoun said:

They make a mistake 

They ignore that field and send it to the country of current residence.

What is the eligibility for Casablanca?  Nationality?

Just now, mole said:

 years

 

 

That's not gonna happen 

21 minutes ago, Anthomoun said:

Hello everyone,

The NVC send our case to the worng embassy, what I need to do. 

Thanks

Why do you think they sent it incorrectly?

58 minutes ago, mole said:

hi everyone we just got approved an months ago and my case just create at NVC stage now, for personal reason i am wondering if is possible to delay the k1 nvc stage? and if so how should we do? do i need contact embassy?

By delay do you mean by weeks? months? or years?

1 hour ago, Petrisaint Mpaka said:

Yes this was actually his proposition to us but there was a slight difference on the waiting time by a few month between the k1 and a marriage based visa. Which is why we asked him to give us more information about the fiancé visa 

There are pros and cons to either visa type and speed to visa is only one and in my opinion not a very important one.  If speed to being able to work, drive, gaining permanent residency ( by sometimes several years) are important, then the visa choice is obvious.

1 hour ago, pro_chef_88 said:

Thank you, that's me mis-typing in an absolute panic getting myself worked up. I am guessing it's the D-160 I should be more aware of? 
 

The name was never a legal change (I just went by it in school and on school documents for a couple of years, but it was never changed by deed poll or on my birth certificate) so I'm not sure whether to even include it?

If you put it on then you incur an obligation to provide some sort of civil document confirming said change.  With that i think you understand the proper course of action.

12 minutes ago, pro_chef_88 said:

Hi all

I am currently filling in my application for my police certificate and it asked for all names I've ever used. I remembered suddenly that as a child in primary school (ages 4-11) I went by a different last name, it was my stepdad's. It was never officially changed by deed poll and I went back to my original last name as a teenager onwards and it hasn't changed since.

Looking on the I-192F form we submitted where it asks for any other names used, we put N/A initially because I honestly had completely forgotten this short period of my time as it was never a formal change by deed poll.

Am I royally effed here because of this oversight on the petition? It has already been approved back in November and I am yet to fill out the D-160 which I will of course include this but I am terrified that this may cause a major issue.

TIA.

Firstly it is the I129f not 192f and no you are not royally effed.  

42 minutes ago, Petrisaint Mpaka said:

Dv for Diversity. We thought about, pour first idea was to actually get married first and file for the spousal visa from abroad but unfortunately his job doesn’t allow him to move from the US currently so I am the one who is going to move. We spoke with an immigration attorney who told us that told us we could file for the k1 visa and also spoke to us about the expenses and everything. 

You can also get married now and he can file a petition for you to emigrate to the US as spouse.

If the immigration attorney did not suggest this as an option then they are not much of an immigration attorney 

15 minutes ago, scaredCat said:

is not living in the usa (temporarily) while i130 is pending reason for denial or a problem? i heard something like "domicile". 

do i have to have an apartment lease etc otherwise pending i130 is denied? 

 

@pushbrk 

 

No.  Domicile question only needs to be addressed for the visa to issued and has nothing to do with the i130 petition process or approval 

29 minutes ago, Petrisaint Mpaka said:

Hi. 
I applied for the DV lottery 2025 and hope to be selected this year. My fiancé and I discovered that there is a fiancé visa for the USA. Do you think that if we apply for the K1 visa and that I am selected can I stop the fiancé visa process ? Will I have to stick with the K1 visa process or can I continue with the DV process ? If I can choose, is it going to cause us problem in my process? For those on the K1 visa process what the processing time for that ? And for the lottery after how much time can you expect to have an interview after being selected ? Thank you for the help ! 

You can have multiple petitions/applications going on simultaneously.  You can choose in the future which path you want to take without a problem.  K1 are taking more than a year but is also dependent on Consulate where the interview will be.  The backlog at some Consulates can be quite significant.

25 minutes ago, j26 said:

Thank you! Should I wait to book both until I receive my ACRO certificate or shall I book them both now in advance when I know I'll have my ACRO cert back?

I think it's a personal choice. 

You may find it very helpful to go visa the UK regional forum for London specific information and ask London specific questions 

8 minutes ago, j26 said:

Hello!

 

I received my package 3 through the post and I am applying for my ACRO today. I have a question - as the form could take 30 days, should I wait until I have my ACRO in hand to book my medical and interview, or can I book in advance (For example, beginning of March?) What have people done in the past and what would everyone suggest? Thank you!

 

I am going to sort the DS-160 ASAP too!

Personally i would book the interview first and then once that date is known, book the medical. You don't want the medical done so far in advance that it severely impacts the expiration date of the visa when issued 

4 hours ago, Z and N said:

Hey guys so my fiance submitted the Ds-5535. He then received a call from the embassy to submit his passport for the visa. On the CEACStatTracker website his status changed from refused to application received then to approved and back to Application received. The top status did change from immigrant to non-immigrant. Is this normal?

Yes.  It could even flip temporarily to refused during the issuance process 

1 hour ago, Nabi28 said:

Is there a chance that they will decline my application if ever? Cause i've been reading some comments that its not applicable since there's no divorce in philippines. 

This is not an uncommon situation and Manila deals with it all the time.  The US is not bound by Philippines law in this regard.

If you will still residing in UAE at the time of the interview then you can have the interview done in Abu Dhabi instead.

2 hours ago, Nabi28 said:

 

Hello! I need some advice. 
i am filipino citizen married to a filipino citizen as well back in philippines. We're currently residing here in UAE but we got seperated way back 2020. We both have partners already and decided to get a divorce here. My current partner now is a US citizen and he's planning to file a k-1 visa. My question is, will the US embassy recognize my divorce here in UAE if ever he file and petition me in the philippines?

Thank you in advance🙏

Petitions are filed in the US not in a foreign country.  The US WILL recognize your UAE divorce for immigration purposes even if you plan on applying for a visa in Manila 

PS.  This is the second thread you have started with the same question. 

44 minutes ago, Nabi28 said:

Hello! I need some advice. 
i am filipino citizen married to a filipino citizen as well back in philippines. We're currently residing here in UAE but we got seperated way back 2020. We both have partners already and decided to get a divorce here. My current partner now is a US citizen and he's planning to file a k-1 visa. My question is, will the US embassy recognize my divorce here in UAE if ever he file and petition me in the philippines?

Thank you in advance🙏

U.S. embassy follows U.S. law and will recognize your UAE divorce for immigration purposes.  

3 minutes ago, Muha said:

Asking the question because we only filed one time evidence visit and now we have met two times after the first visit, making it three times and have more evidence. I am afraid we might not have enough altought there are no red flags for the Moroccan U.S embassy.

 

We have an age gap of 9 yrs, I am well educated and been professionally working for 5 years now, and my passport has multiple european countries and other trips, I am just wondering if they take these things in consideration in the DS-160 too before refusing us as I heard they sometimes don't give chance to people to show proof.

NVC doesn't open the file other than to assign to a Consulate.  No ability to side load additional evidence.

1 hour ago, SPHETE said:

Hi! I had a couple questions about the i-134 form that I'm currently gathering evidence for. We are waiting on my fiancee's interview at the end of this month and I'm just going back through everything to make sure it all looks good. However, I'm a little confused as to what to include for evidence for my i-134 support form. Everything I've read makes clear that my IRS tax return transcripts are the most important piece of evidence for the 134, but my most recent transcript (for 2022) does not reflect my current salary of my new job. I started a new full time job in October of 2023, and with this new job I make well enough over 125% of the poverty line. I did not, however, make enough for even 100% of the poverty line with the job that I had in 2022, since it was part time and I was a student. I have a letter from my current employer stating my rate of pay and hours I work per week, as well as multiple paystubs proving this information. So I was wondering if I still should include my tax return transcript, since it does not add any proof that I fit well over the 125% poverty guideline. Any help would be appreciated, thank you!!

Safer bet would be to read the Consulate instructions for guidance on the type of evidence they want.  A tax return does not show current income and current income is key.  Your best bet is to gather your current paystubs which should show your current pay rate and use that to document an annualized amount higher than the required threshold 

5 minutes ago, Dooom said:

Okay, Thank you so . So, better I will come back canada and wait for a year to get green card Interview.

Visa interview but that is the proper way 

14 minutes ago, Bri and Carlos said:

Do you have an update on this? I am in the same situation. AOS was delivered to Chicago lockbox via USPS on 12/18. It’s 2 weeks later and still nothing - check hasn’t been deposited and no NOA. It appears that other applications are being processed much more quickly.

Its called the holiday season 

30 minutes ago, WW33 said:

My dad is a US citizen and would be willing to sponsor me but I don’t know how that would satisfy the lease/bank account requirements? I’m living with my dad right now and she stays here when she’s not on campus too, but the lease is in my dads name

Lease/bank account requirement?  Not aware of such....

1 hour ago, vivster said:

We are closely coming to our visa interview date. I am freaking out making sure that we have everything. I would love to see how everyone organized their interview files. 

Only organization needed is that you know where it is in your "system" when asked.