KK_Shanks

Did you complete the application and pay the fee?

Show me a screen grab of what stage you have got to. (cover any personal details)

How did you go with your first tax filing? I still don't know what I'm going to do with my assets over here in NZ. It sounds easier to just sell my house and send the money over to buy a house in the US. Shame I cannot just wind up my Kiwisaver and do the same.

So I'm a complete idiot. I just checked back on https://www.usvisascheduling.com/en-US/ and there was the option to schedule the appointment. I have no idea if that was always there and I just missed it or it has only appeared recently. I have not received any notification from the US Consulate that I should schedule the appointment which is what I was waiting on this past 3 weeks. So I'm scratching my head. Anyhow, if you are reading this and have been waiting for the go ahead from the consulate to schedule your appointment, go the website above and see if you too have the option to schedule. It was the easiest part of the process so far and I did it in 2 minutes. I was scared to press submit for half of that time because it seemed just a little too easy. First flight to Auckland and last flight home to Wellington is booked for the 5th April and I've just emailed the doctor to schedule my medical. I hope the rest of it is this easy.

Thanks mate, good to know, I'll give it 3 months. I just checked and I recieved my letter telling me I was qualified to schedule an interview on 16 Jan and I completed it within a day or two, so I am only a smidge over 3 weeks in. Patience is a virtue. The temptation to start packing up immediately and putting me house on the market ASAP, but they say don't do it, just in case. It would suck to do all that and be denied a visa.

I completed the request for an Auckland interview online about 4 weeks ago but haven't had a date sent to me yet. Should I have got a response by now or am I being impatient? All my paperwork has been approved up until now. It's a K1 visa if that changes anything

I mean DS160/260

If you read the Auckland Consulate reviews they often list the questions you will get. Also you shouldnt have to drop off any documents 2 weeks before. They should have all gone in with your 130/230. I'm taking a copy of everything I have sent them plus a copy of photos of me and my fiance together on our 3 visits to each other, some letters of support from our family and friends plus a snippet from the last 5 years of conversations we have had. We have over 125000 messages between us over that time so I can't print it all.. Also taking my passport and a large self addressed courier bag for them to return all my originals in when they have finished with them.

If anyone else runs into the same issue, the official answer from the consulate was just to use the DS160 confirmation number and it worked. Once I did that it correctly referenced the DS160 in all other places. So it must have been a glitch or a generic reference that needs to be corrected but they don't care enough to correct it. Also, I now have my appointment schedule completed, waiting for the Auckland Consulate to respond with a date.

Congrats

Hi everyone, long time reader, but not a long time member of the forum. My fiance and I have a K-1 visa appliation and after a year of waiting, we have made it through to the stage where today I have recieved my notification that I am now eligible to schedule a visa interview appointment. YAY for us. I log onto https://www.usvisascheduling.com and create an account and when I get to the visa options page, it gives me the option of Immigrant and non-immigrant as the visa type. When I select non-immigrant the post visa category does not have an option for a K visa, so instead I select immigrant as the visa type and I now have the option for a K visa. I select the K visa and the next screen asks for my DS confirmation number - but it asks for the DS 260 confirmation number. The problem here is I filled out the DS 160 as a non-immigrant visa application because I understand that a K-1 visa is a non-immigrant visa application with the intent to become an immigrant and that a DS 260 is NOT to be used for K-1 visa applications. So I am confused, I have 3 options but all of them seem wrong... - Do I start the visa interview appointment application again, select non-immigrant and select a different type of post visa category? (K-1 visa is not an option I can select under non-immigrant) - Do I enter my DS 160 confirmation number where it asks for the DS 260 confirmation number and hope for the best? (it says it cannot be modified after entry - which worries me that I might scrw up the process and rewind the process a year or more) - Do I fill out a DS 260 and use that confirmation number? (I have read multiple threads on here that says a DS 260 is NOT for K-1 visa applicants) I've included some screen grabs of the interview scheduling site (no personal details included) to hopefully help explain what I am seeing. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out. \