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Thank you! That snippet makes it look like the we definitely do need both documents. I must have missed that before. I couldn't find anything online about a "Report of Clear and Expunged Records" so I guess we'll have to ask about it in person. Since the link says the police certificate is good for a year, I'll take that to mean we don't need to get a newer version of the one we already have. Also, I forgot to clarify that my wife has never changed her name, so we don't need to worry about that aspect.

Hello, everyone! With your kind help, we've finally gotten both the visa interview and medical examination scheduled. The visa interview is only a week away, but my wife just received the following email from the US embassy in Tbilisi: This is confusing to us because we followed all instructions carefully so of course we already submitted the police certificate. The wording does not explain what's inadequate about what we already submitted. When they say "this requirement is satisfied with two documents," do they mean we have two possible choices of document, or do they mean we need both? We had not been previously informed about needing a Report of Clear and Expunged Records in addition to the police record we submitted. We're also wondering if maybe they want us to get a newer police certificate since the one we already did is from over 6 months ago. If that's the case, it seems unfair that they'd make us wait so long and then impose additional hardships as a result of the wait as though it was our fault. We've been waiting so long after our case was supposedly documentarily complete, thinking we have all our documents ready, that it's distressing that they'd wait so long to inform us that we need to get another document that notably takes a long time to get when we have so little time remaining, when they surely could have told us sooner. Does anyone have experience with this type of email and this type of requirement? We are in urgent need of help, so we thank you kindly in advance. We already replied to the email since they said not to hesitate, but the matter is so urgent that we also want to see if we can get answers from faster channels. Please disregard the medical examination portion of the email, since that's already scheduled and we're not concerned about that. Thanks again!

Thank you everyone for your help. Our interview is finally scheduled! Now we need to schedule the medical examination. The email we received yesterday says Following the link, I see these instructions: I follow that link and get to the Tbilisi page: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Supplements/Supplements_by_Post/TBL-Tbilisi.html Now I've reached my first point of confusion. The page tells us that before we schedule the medical examination, we must "register" our appointment: Unfortunately, following that link takes us to another "Choose your location" page, maybe because it's an old link or something. https://www.ustraveldocs.com/ge redirects to https://www.ustraveldocs.com/, where I can follow a link to https://www.ustraveldocs.com/ge/en/. That page lets us choose between immigrant and non-immigrant visas, so I go to https://www.ustraveldocs.com/ge/en/immigrant-visa. That page contains a lot of generic information and doesn't seem to know anything about travel.state.gov's expectation that we're there to register our appointment. After scrolling past a lot of sections that don't apply to us, the very last section is "Select Document Delivery Address." Since travel.state.gov implied that registering our appointment is about giving them an address to deliver the passport to, could this be the right section? It does talk about registering: But is registering the document delivery return address the same as registering the appointment? They already have the address. It was included in the email they sent us. Is this registration even necessary? Following those links takes us to https://portal.ustraveldocs.com/?language=English&country=Georgia That portal doesn't include anything about registering an appointment or a document delivery address. It does let us create an account and update a profile which includes an address. Is that what we've been meant to do? Did registering our appointment actually mean registering for an account? Did registering our document delivery address actually just mean including the address in the profile? When researching these questions, I came across this topic: The first reply suggests that it's a silly website and I may not be able to rely on all the information. Should we perhaps disregard the instruction to register the appointment before scheduling the medical examination, and just skip straight to scheduling the medical examination? The links are full of seemingly irrelevant information about scheduling the appointment and providing the delivery address, but our appointment is already scheduled and they already have our delivery address. Thank you for the help

But why is it so impossible for them to estimate? The NVC knows how many people are ahead of me, and the embassy knows approximately the rate at which they make slots available. Why can't they give me that information so I can make my own guesses?

To be clear, the reason I was expecting the interview to be scheduled by now is because the Georgia-specific travel docs page says the next month: https://www.ustraveldocs.com/ge/en/immigrant-visa And the generic US visa page says three months: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-10-prepare-for-the-interview/appointment.html#int1

If the ball is in the NVC's court then what are they waiting for? Why haven't they scheduled it yet?

Okay but supposing it takes 1.5 years before the interview happens, when would the interview get scheduled? How far in advance do they schedule interviews? It's one thing to have to wait a long time, it's another thing to not know how long we'll be waiting

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My wife is trying to get a CR-1 marriage visa to come to the US. Our case has been documentarily complete for over 45 days. We had thought an interview is supposed to be scheduled for the month after all the documents are received, but that hasn't happened yet. We messaged the NVC to find out why, and they gave us the same generic information that we've received before. It starts like this: The language seems a little ambiguous, because it just says "the U.S. Embassy or Consulate provides the National Visa Center (NVC) with a list of available appointment dates and times" without saying whether the available appointment dates and times have already been provided or if they're still waiting for them to be provided. If the NVC contacts the embassy, isn't it a simple matter of the embassy just replying with a schedule? If that hasn't happened yet, could it be because the NVC hasn't even contacted the embassy, or would it be because the embassy hasn't responded, or could the NVC have already received the list and just hasn't picked the date and time yet? I've tried contacting the embassy thinking it must be in their hands, but their response made it seem like they're not willing to take responsibility and they think the ball is still in the NVC's court. Could the two sides actually be waiting on each other? Is there a way to get them unstuck?

Thank you! That helps so much. Did the blanket waiver include COVID?

I guess it was an ambiguous case because it was a transition period where she didn't have a permanent address. We're both travelers.

I guess I must've misremembered because of the country of nationality and country of current residence. In any case, 12 months is even longer so that makes it even stranger that a stay under three months would get flagged in their system as something that requires a police certificate. Thanks for reassuring me that I haven't misunderstood the rules.

We spent over two months there. Should we not have counted that as a place she lived?

No, but we included a plane ticket showing our date of entry and the marriage certificate from another country right after we left. Someone making a mistake seems strange, because this was part of an automated online system. It seemed to populate the list of police certificates we needed based on the countries she visited.

Thanks for the reply. She is not Malaysian. We just briefly visited Malaysia together