American Husband

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

Tbilisi

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

When preparing to help my wife apply for a US visa, I read that she would need a police certificate from every country she had been in for 6 months or more. When we did the DS-260 we listed Malaysia as a country my wife had been in, but she had been there for less than three months so we were very surprised when we are asked to submit a Malaysian police certificate as one of her civil documents. We think it would be enormously difficult to get a Malaysian police certificate so we submitted a typed explanation that my wife had been there for less than three months instead. Will the explanation be enough? Why were we asked for the police certificate to begin with?

My wife is awaiting the scheduling of a visa interview in Tbilisi and once that interview is scheduled we understand she will need to have a medical examination before the interview. Georgia has a vaccine scarcity problem and so she was not able to obtain all the vaccines on the list. Most of the sources that we read say not to worry because vaccines will be administered at the medical examination. However, this assumes the vaccines are available, so what happens if they aren't? We are particularly worried about the covid vaccine because we saw a case on this site where a medical examination was cancelled in Morocco because the applicant hadn't obtain the covid vaccine on their own. If the physician in Tbilisi isn't able to administer the vaccines, will they take responsibility for this by waiving the requirements or will they make it our problem? We understand that waivers are hard to come by and that vaccines scarcity isn't included on the list of reasons for waivers, but might they give us a pass by having her get vaccinated in the US instead? if not, what we can do about this problem?

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Thanks everyone

Do you happen to know if that's still true when direct filing petition I-130 at a US embassy in a country we're visiting temporarily?

Based on the information you gave me, K3s are superior if you want to apply for the visa in the country where you got married and don't want to be made to return to the country where you legally reside just to apply for a visa

Thanks! I was really confused by the information on the travel.state.gov page but I think I'm achieving some clarity thanks to your comment. So is petition I-130 associated with a CR-1 visa while petition I-129F is associated with a K-3 visa? Would that mean it's possible to obtain a K-3 visa by filing petition I-129F before filing petition I-130?

The "native language" section in the online application

Thank you kindly

I'm trying to get a K-3 visa for my spouse, and I understand that the K-3 visa needs to be applied for in the country where we were married according to this webpage: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/family-immigration/nonimmigrant-visa-for-a-spouse-k-3.html However, I also understand that K-3 visas are seldom granted because usually petition I-130 is approved first, which would mean we'd get a CR-1 visa instead. But I can't find any information about where we'd end up applying for the CR-1 visa. Would it be the country we were married in, my spouse's home country, a country of our choosing, a country of someone else's choosing, or what?

It looks like the requirements for the native language document in the online I-130 application have changed in the last year or so. It is now asking for an English translation along with a translator's certification. If the document I'm providing with the name and address is a passport that already has both English and Arabic, would that satisfy the need for a translation or do I actually need to pay for a certified translator to translate an already-translated document?