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Sorry, forgot to come back and update. Had our interview in April, interview was fine, very simple. Mostly just asked me about my finances and if i had filed taxes correctly. For my immigrating spouse, they just asked her how we met and what she plans to do in the US. Instant approval on the spot, got our visa 3 days later.

We had our interview yesterday April 18th, and as of today Wednesday, April 19th, our status on CEAC has changed to "issued". I need to return to the US for work this weekend, and am hoping my spouse can return with me this trip, but we're cutting it close time wise. Anyone have any recent experience with how long from "issued" to ready for pick-up at the Madrid embassy?

Thanks! Also btw, thanks for all your help - received tons of advice from you in tons of my posts over the last few years, greatly appreciate it.

We had our interview yesterday, April 18th. There were no issues and we were told my spouse's visa was approved. However, I logged onto CEAC today out of curiosity, and noticed that I had received a message 2 weeks ago saying that my joint sponsor is missing a W2 that we need to upload (she doesn't have one as she's self-employed). Is it important that I respond to this with a letter stating we don't have this W2 (i.e., will the return of my spouse's passport be delayed due to this), or can I ignore it since our visa was already approved?

Would you be willing to send me a link to that whatsapp group as well? My wife and I just received our interview date in April for Madrid.

We were documentarily qualified in mid December, around the 15th I think. However, our request for an additional document was prior to being approved. We submitted all our NVC docs by early september, and in october heard back that we needed additional evidence. I was not documentarily qualified at that point. I resubmitted and in December they accepted everything. As far as I'm aware, if you see the words documentarily qualified, you are okay, maybe someone else can verify. You could try sending NVC a message to make sure? They're responding in ~a week at this point (i sent them an email just a couple weeks ago). Following being documentarily qualified, we got radio silence from the NVC until they scheduled our interview this week.

Hi all, my wife (beneficiary) and I (petitioner) just got her CR-1 interview appointment at the Madrid consulate. However, we recently moved out of Spain at the beginning of this year (I got a new job in the US, she temporarily returned to her home country while we finished waiting for the interview, neither of us are Spanish but both had residence permits). We will return to Spain to do her interview as our residence permits are still valid, however, we no longer have a permanent address or phone number in Spain. Has anyone had a similar experience, and how did you get around issues such as visa delivery? Can the visa be picked up or will it only be mailed?

Yes, the document was accepted by NVC without issue. We're still awaiting the interview so I'll try to check back in after. So, I had some documents apostilled and others that weren't. However, I didn't apostille them for US immigration purposes. As far as I'm aware, an apostille isn't required unless they explicitly ask you for it. We had a bunch of paperwork for our Spain visas while we were living in Spain, so already had some documents apostilled. For US immigration purposes, I turned in any documents that hadn't yet expired or that don't have expiration dates that we had already apostilled, and didn't bother getting any new documents apostilled. I only apostilled the original documents, and then I translated the document and the apostille to english myself. I'm not sure if we're technically allowed to or supposed to translate documents ourselves, but I haven't run into any issues thus far..

Hey, sorry I didn't reply sooner. We got the federal one a couple months ago which turned out to be pretty easy. There's a new online form to get it done. Not sure what is sufficient or not, but this one was simple enough to do and my spouse's original one was older than 1 year and we're still awaiting our interview so we went ahead and grabbed this one too. https://www.gob.mx/prevencionyreadaptacion/articulos/tramita-tu-constancia-de-antecedentes-penales