CherandLeon

Damn it

Hi all I moved from the UK to Washington DC on my K1 visa in June 2023 and submitted the i485 and i765 in July 2023. I received my permission to work in December 2023. from July 2023 the status on the i485 application (according to my online account) has been perpetually sat at 3 months. when i checked yesterday (January 2024) the time line had moved to 3 weeks!! how exciting! there were 2 weeks to wait for the interview (if applicable) and then 3 weeks for the decision. I checked again today and the time status has moved back to 3 months. Very frustrating obviously but i just wanted to see if anyone else has had similar experiences with their timelines. can we take the processing times seriously at all? is there any kind of knack or give away signs that your case is actually progressing? I do not have a processing centre (neither on my paperwork or on my electronic account) and so have no way of checking the general estimated time line. my paperwork states i have been sent to an electronic processing centre which (upon checking) doesn't seem to have any processing time. Many thanks in advance for any responses. Kind regards CherandLeon

Hi VJ Thank you for your reply! yes I had the interview and it was surprisingly straight forward. I just received my visa vignette back today so paperwork wise I’m ready for the next step. tbh I haven’t thought about this part of it and I was wondering, seeing as you left the Uk late last year, you could give some insight into 1. shipping (I have an electric piano that I’d like to take as well as my regular things) 2. Next steps on paperwork (the practical things that you maybe weren’t aware of 3. how to stay busy while waiting for the right to work! 4. Any lessons learned from your journey so far post receiving your visa! many thanks Cher

Jorgedig thank you so much for the response. Do you have any advice about the I-134? Did you complete one? is it compulsory? is filing a tax return compulsory? Many thanks for the reassuring reply. Kind regards Cher

Hi All I do apologize if any of this has been covered already but for some reason, today, I'm starting to freak out about my interview. I met my fiancé July in 2019. We applied for the K1 visa in July 2021 and received a response that they were transferring the approved file to the embassy in London in December 2022. That's 18 months later. The first issue is that once the application was submitted we didn't want to disrupt anything by my travelling to the USA on my ESTA. I did do it once (after waiting for a year) and visited him in June 2022. He then came to visit me in December 2022. Prior to this we had visited each other SO MANY TIMES (around 32 times) between July 2019-July 2021. We lived together in London for over 6 months (but he didn't like England and moved back to the States, prompting the K1 application). I also lived in Colorado for 4 months (on my extended ESTA) during covid season. I feel that we have a provable well established relationship. we have travelled to 5 or 6 different countries together outside of visiting each others respective countries. The stress though is coming from the fact that only the last 2 years appears to be taken into consideration (can someone please correct me if I'm wrong). as the NVC part of the visa took 18 months to process and we were nervous about travelling too much during that time - so we don't have much evidence at all to support our relationship (in the last 2 years) outside of our 1 trip each. We talk/text every day on whatsapp mostly. My K1 interview is on Tuesday 21 February 2023. I have prepared photos, e-tickets etc from our time together (including the last 2 trips that fall inside the 2 year relevant period) but not much else. Please could someone advise on whether I should being putting together anything else? Also, I am alittle concerned about the I-134. Reading through some of the responses on this forum, some users state that they are asked for the I-134 on the interview day. On our embassy letter however, we are asked to confirm in a statement that he will be financially supporting me during my stay in the USA. It also states that the I-134 can be a useful template to use (ie its not compulsory). So we did complete the I-134 but only provided a letter from his current employers confirming his salary. we havent submitted his tax returns or anything like that. Can someone advise if I have understood this properly (ie that the employers letter is enough) or have I missed something here? I am in full time employment (all that info was provided in the application form) and I have provided bank statements confirming that 1. I have some small savings and 2. that he and I have a joint account in the UK that also has some small savings. I was pretty confident until this morning when I woke up with a horrible feeling of dread that Ive misunderstood something and majorly dropped the ball. Please help me if you can. Kind regards Cher