MalloryCat

for a different visa but my fiances interview appointment was at 8:30am and he got there at 8:10am and there was already a huge line. realistically you probably aren't going to "make" your appointment time. 15-20 minutes before is plenty.

there are some visa types were you do upload documents to the CEAC, the K-1 is just not one of them no problem, good luck on your interview!

for the K-1 visa you don't upload any documents, everything is brought with you to the interview. so printing what the government sent you and bringing it with you to the interview should be fine. I would print at least 2 copies of each. i would also print out a copy of the email that said the pdf would be fine, so you have some kind of written proof that you were told it was fine.

most of this site would 100% agree with you the K-1 visa is one of the few visas left that you cant submit online, so its just much slower. unfortunately the government doesnt really care 😂

according to the state.gov site they just want the last 5 years of international travel history "Dates of your last five visits or trips to the United States, if you have previously travelled to the United States. You may also be asked for your international travel history for the past five years. " https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/forms/ds-160-online-nonimmigrant-visa-application/ds-160-faqs.html if the topic comes up (which honestly it probably wont, the frankfurt embassy didn't ask anything about previous travel to the US other than any previously issued visas), i don't see an issue with you explaining the DS-160 only let you do so many entries. but if they dont ask, no need to tell lol

it all depends on how many cases they are receiving. And with this year being an election year, USCIS is probably getting quite a few more cases. We got our NOA1 only a week after we shipped it, so it could only take that long for you to get your NOA1 at the very least. according to the USCIS processing times for the Texas service center, most cases get approved within 16 months https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ unfortunately the I-129f is not a quick process, so you have quite a few months of waiting. if you don't get an NOA1 within the next 30 days, you could try inquiring with USCIS. but from my experience they are usually quicker with at least the NOA1

have you received your NOA1 yet? this is the letter you'd receive when USCIS acknowledges that they have gotten your petition. it usually takes about a month or so to receive that. time frames vary drastically people have been getting an NOA2 (notice of approval) in as little as 3 months. but it would be anywhere up to a year. you should fill out your timeline https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/intro.php?cfl= and you can compare your process with others

like others have said dont purchase a ticket until she has her passport in hand and everything is correct. but the K-1 visa goes into her Philippines passport. she would have given it to the officer at the embassy at the time of her interview. she wont be receiving a US passport at this stage as she is not a US citizen

correct. for the K-1 visa you submit nothing to the NVC in terms of those documents. the NVC just processes the case for the embassy. There are some visa types where you upload documents to the NVC, but the K-1 visa is not one of them.

Its not that you only have 10 days to book the interview. Your medical exam should be 5-10 days before your interview at the very least. This gives the doctors office enough time to send your medical exam report to the embassy. But you don't want to schedule your interview much later than that because the k-1 visa validity (6 months) is based off the medical exam date not the interview approval date

You'll schedule the medical exam once the embassy has your petition and they have contacted you. you don't want to do the medical exam too early as the validity of the actual k-1 visa(6 months) is based off the date of the medical exam, not the interview approval date. The embassy typically sends the foreign fiance "packet 3" which has all the instructions and the next steps of the process. At this point there are no documents you submit online to anyone. The foreign fiance will bring whatever documents that are listed in the instructions sent by the embassy with them to their interview. This incudes police certificates, birth certificates, form i-134, etc.

With how unpredictable the timeline of the K-1 visa process is, embassies will extend petitions that are still being pursued. Since you have an interview scheduled, they will see it as still being pursued. I believe that you have nothing to worry about. I would suggest looking through posts in the Colombia thread on this site to see if anyone has been in a similar situation, cause there's a good chance people have. https://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/96-mexico-latin-south-america/ I'm not sure which email you tried but there is one listed here https://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=Colombia&cty=Bogota

Which embassy is your interview with? Most embassies automatically extend a petition 4 months at a time for up to 1 year. They usually don't tell you it's being extended. You should be fine if they recognize that you have scheduled an interview and will extend. For example our petition expired on July 4th, but the interview wasn't until July 9th. They didn't even mention it at the interview. Granted that's a much shorter time than yours. My only other suggestion would be to wait and try contacting them closer to when your petition is set to expire, like 2 weeks maybe. It's hard to say where to contact them without knowing what embassy you are going through. Someone who also went through that embassy might have better information.

Both mine and my fiances letter of intent were physically signed, scanned and printed. So you should be good doing number 1

EAD is the work authorization form. it is form I-765 most people file it along side the I-485 form.

since you're using a mac is it possible that the password is whatever password you use to unlock you computer? thats the only thing I can think of

The only "time frame" you have is the validity date on your NOA2. that is technically when your petition expires. However, most embassies will automatically extend petitions 4 months at a time for up to one year. if your son is coming with you to the United States, you could schedule your interviews for when he is back in september. You could also contact the embassy when your validity date is coming up and just double check with them that your petition validity will be extended. When you do end up scheduling your medicals and interviews, you want to make sure your medical is first and 5-10 days before the interview. That way it has time to make it to the embassy in time for your interview. Also because the 6 months that the K-1 visa is valid (the amount of time you have to move to the US) starts from the date of the medical, not the date the visa is issued. The only thing I would suggest for before you get married is getting a social security number. it makes things like getting a bank account, drivers license, etc. much easier without having to wait for the AOS. Other than filing the actual AOS form, I-485, you would file form I-765 at the same time. I-765 is the work authorization form. But unfortunately theres not much you can do to speed anything up.

while the officer at the embassy may ask questions regarding the timeline if you were to get engaged while waiting for the divorce to be finalized, there is no law that says you cant be engaged. being engaged is not legally binding thing like marriage is. However, you must be legally free to marry at the time the petition is filed. Meaning, if your state requires 6 months after the divorce is finalized before you can re-marry, that means that you can't file the I-129f petition until that 6 months is up. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/family-immigration/nonimmigrant-visa-for-a-fiance-k-1.html "Under U.S. immigration law, a foreign-citizen fiancé(e) of a U.S. citizen is the recipient of an approved Petition for Alien Fiancé(e), Form I-129F, who has been issued a nonimmigrant K-1 visa for travel to the United States in order to marry his or her U.S. citizen fiancé(e). Both the U.S. citizen and the K-1 visa applicant must have been legally free to marry at the time the petition was filed and must have remained so thereafter. The marriage must be legally possible according to laws of the U.S. state in which the marriage will take place."

I believe i checked it next day (so wednesday 7/10) at about 8AM EST, and it said Approved and then the Issued status update showed as the 11th. Since your interview was on a friday, id guess it would update either tuesday or wednesday.

Our case updated to approval next day. And then to issued a day or 2 after that. And my fiance got emailed a tracking number either same day or the day after, and according to tracking should get it Monday. So that's only a week from interview. Frankfurt seems to be pretty quick with the processing lol I know what you mean, I still feel like we were missing something 😅

Did you submit an inquiry to the NVC? if not chances are you won't get an email from them. From my experience they do not use the information on the e-notification form, only USCIS uses that to notify people of approved cases. (I assume this is what you're referring to regarding your email) The NVC will/should send a physical letter to the foreign fiance. If you only just got the approval notice from USCIS, it is taking a while for the NVC to process cases. So it will more than likely be sitting with them for at the very least a month. Unfortunately, despite getting your NOA2 you still a few months of waiting. And that doesn't include the waiting for the embassy, which varies a lot between countries. Also should not plan on scheduling the medical until your case is at the embassy and the foreign fiance has received notice from the embassy that they have your petition and are ready for you to proceed with the next steps. You can submit an inquiry to the NVC after 30 days/4 weeks to see if they have processed your case and get your case number. But another user here did that and were told to contact the NVC again after 60 days if they had not heard anything yet. The NVC is more than likely very backed up with cases since USCIS has been processing cases much faster.

i believe the 60 day quote came from an email response to an inquiry someone made to the NVC. with USCIS processing cases much faster, the NVC is probably experiencing more delays, that is probably why it is taking longer to get a case number. regardless of their timeframes they list.

Despite the K-1 visa being a non-immigrant visa, all of processing of it is handled by the immigrant visas section of the embassy. It is confusing and doesn't make a ton of sense. So for your next steps, proceed under the immigrant visa section. I would disregard any info you got about doing the ds-260 and the i-864. As those are not for the K-1 visa

NVC will only contact the beneficiary (foreign fiance) not the petitioner (USC) through the mail. There is nothing you upload to the NVC. uploading things to the NVC does not apply for the K-1 visa. NVC will process your petition and assign it a case number and then send it to the embassy you listed on your petition. You can contact the NVC after 30days/4 weeks from when USCIS sent your petition to the NVC, if the foreign fiance hasnt received a letter from them with the case number yet you can check the NVC timeframes here https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/nvc-timeframes.html yes, once the embassy receives your petition they will send information to the foreign fiance (sometimes referred to as packet 3) with the next steps of the process.

Have you followed the information here? https://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=Canada&cty=Montreal It shows an actually inquiry form for immigrant visas. Or maybe have your fiance try contacting them. Maybe they can get more information