MalloryCat

you shouldn't have too difficult of a time honestly, especially if you don't have a complicated case. that does make sense. but not sure if you're aware or not but you do have to be in the US within 6 months of your medical exam. So hopefully you can schedule your interview not too long after you have your medical exam. youre welcome. good luck!

Yes, even when status updates to "ready" you have to wait for the packet. From my understanding most embassies will always send packet 3 through the mail. Like with the packet 3 my fiance received, it including a copy of our approved I-129f, which would have been a lot to send over email. But some people do receive packet 3 through email. (i.e someone on this forum also going through the Frankfurt embassy got theirs in their email because their packet 3 never made it to them in the mail). Like the USTravelDocs site said, if you haven't received the instruction letter within 2 months of the NVC forwarding your case to the embassy in Helsinki, then you can submit an inquiry to them (the embassy) and they will more than likely email you the packet 3 instructions/letter. unfortunately the transferring between the NVC and the embassy is just more waiting lol. But it's a good time to start gathering those documents

most embassies use ustraveldocs for all of their visa processes https://www.ustraveldocs.com/fi/fi-iv-typek.asp here is the site for Finland. this is a direct link for the K-1 visa. under where it says "Scheduling the interview date" "Once the U.S. Embassy Helsinki receives the approved petition from NVC, the Immigrant Visa Section will send a letter with the instructions on preparing for the visa interview to the applicant. Note: Do not schedule your interview date until you receive these instructions. If you do not receive the instructions from the US Embassy within two months after the notification from NVC about the transferring of your case to Helsinki, you have to send an inquiry about the status of your case directly to the Consular Section of the US Embassy Helsinki . Please be advised that you might have submit a new petition if you do not schedule an interview within four months of petition approval."

1. Pay stubs just need to be whatever is the most recent at the time. I believe I sent 3 months worth of pay stubs (when I sent them to my fiance was back in march/april, his interview isn't until july) 2. It depends on the embassy. Some embassy's want you to wait until you receive packet 3 from them before scheduling your interview (i.e. with Frankfurt we had to wait until we received packet 3) 3. This information will be included in packet 3. Which will come from the embassy. But as you said the CEAC site still shows as it is in transit. Once the embassy receives it and the status changes to "Ready" that is when they will more than likely mail you packet 3. But more than likely you will need police certificates (original + 1 copy) from all places lived since 16, birth certificate (original + 1 copy), any divorce papers from previous marriages (if any/original + 1 copy), evidence of relationship (ive heard some officers dont really ask for this, but better to have it and not need it), 2 US standard passport photos, passport, printed out DS-160 confirmation page, I-134 (including supporting evidence for USC financials) and sealed medical examination (most of the time this just gets sent directly to the embassy from the doctor, but depends on the doctor.) 4. Not sure if it will be the same as for us, but we received a copy of our original I-129f in the packet 3 we received from the embassy. But you shouldn't need the NOA1 as that was just a notification that USCIS received the petition in the first place. the NOA2 is the actual approval notification. But you shouldn't really need that either as the embassy already knows that your I-129f was approved because they have it. 5. No you shouldn't need to bring that letter. as that was just a notice that the NVC received the petition from USCIS and will be forwarding it to your selected embassy. That letter is just for your records so you know where your petition was in the process. 6. The evidence (or standard to show income) that the I-134 prefers is, 3 years worth of tax return transcripts (which the USC can get for free from the IRS website https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript)), W-2s from current employer, pay stubs, signed letter from employer (letter should include start date, job title, salary (or hourly wage if paid that way), employment status (temporary or permanent, full time or part time)), and/or a signed letter from the USC's bank for all existing accounts (checking and savings) (letter should include date account opened, total amount deposited for the last year, and current balance) *personally I think the letter from the bank isn't as good of evidence since the amount in a bank account is always changing and theres no guarantee that it will always have that amount. Most people do fine with the letter from the employer and the tax return transcripts. But the tax returns transcripts are by far the most important evidence. hopefully that helps and makes sense!

Oh... Sorry I missed that. That is very odd. It sounds like they want you to complete the DS-160 without the packet 3 letter. Which you technically can do. Once the DS-160 is submitted it stays valid for a year. Was the only thing stopping you from doing the DS-160 the fact that you haven't gotten packet 3 yet? There shouldn't be anything in packet 3 that you need in order to do the DS-160 anyway The fact that embassies do this process all differently is very confusing lol

Where did you read that you have to register an address to get packet 3? That's usually something the embassy sends automatically or at the very least the foreign fiance has to contact the embassy to get the packet 3 instructions I've never heard of anyone having to register their address on USTravelDocs to get the packet 3 instructions.

I was just told by my fiance (who likes to read what I post here 😂) that he did in fact do this. Which I was not aware. I know that embassies process K-1 visas through the Immigrant unit, but did you try registering your address by selecting the "Nonimmigrant" category instead? it might be there cause technically K-1 is a nonimmigrant visa. It's been awhile since he did it, and you can't go back through the process once the interview has been scheduled so he can't actually go look. But I would try going through the nonimmigrant category to register your address and see if the K-1 category is there.

I'll respond to you here. You may have to contact the embassy you are going though, but in regards to the Frankfurt embassy that our case is going through, we did not have to register an address for the visa delivery. For us it is something that is done on the day of the interview. The registering the address on USTravelDocs is for the actual delivery of the passport with the visa in it after the interview is completed. The embassy should just send you packet 3 once they receive your case from the NVC. But this varies between embassies I'm pretty sure

have you received your case number from NVC? If not you should submit an inquiry to them and get that case number or find out the status of your case If your case hasn't been sent to the embassy yet that you are aware of, you would need to contact the NVC to get any updates.

it can 100% be filled out on the computer, printed, and mailed in. but the actual signature of the person filing the petition has to be hand written. it can't be typed with like a cursive font to pass off as handwritten is what that statement from USCIS is saying

we had good luck with trackmyvisa now. When we first looked at it (back in march) it told us there was a 50% chance we'd hear something within 2 weeks. and if i remember correctly we got our approval within a few days after looking (very weird coincidence that we happened to look right at that time, but he had just left from visiting and we were anxious for hear back at that point lol)

we reached out to the NVC after a month to get our case number. Our case arrived at the embassy about a week later. My Fiance get a letter from the NVC saying our case was sent to the embassy over a month and a half after it was already at the embassy. so I wouldn't rely on receiving a letter from the NVC in a timely matter. You're much better off submitting an inquiry to them, they are usually pretty responsive.

the NOA1 just confirms that they have received the petition. it probably wont get scanned into the system until they begin the review process. which will probably take a few months to get to yours based on the current processing time

while on the US side the K-1 visa is a non-immigrant visa, embassies process K-1 visas (including the interview) as immigrant visas (meaning the immigrant visa side of the embassy is the part that processes it). it is weird and doesnt make a lot of sense. that is probably why they canceled the interview, because it was with the non-immigrant visa department and not the immigrant visa department like it should have been.

looks like they have a google form (not one to fill out, but to get you the right information on who to contact) that you can go through https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1_BFhuTI_OkX3XsyHASgla9yQzYKb7bMOkNdGBFE_u5psJw/viewform but it looks like this is the email they use: support-thailand@ustraveldocs.com or this local phone number: 02-105-4110 you could try either way to contact them. most embassies from what ive read prefer email though

it is up to the consular discretion to extend the petition. some embassies do this automatically. some want you to contact them to request to have it extended. you would need to contact the embassy that has your petition to confirm with them that they will/can extend it. the 4 month expiration is a little strange, but they are usually pretty good about extending it without issue. I haven't heard of anyone having the issue where they wont.

You're welcome! Good luck!

Oh good. Maybe the letter got returned to sender so they just emailed it lol My fiance just emailed the confirmation page of the submitted DS-160, not the visa fee itself.

It is a pretty long list of things honestly lol Once you receive the packet 3 from the embassy, it should list everything that will need to be brought to the interview. The information here would help more since we are going through the Frankfurt embassy https://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=United Kingdom&cty=London

i would suggest reaching out to the NVC to confirm with them where your case currently is. im not sure why the USCIS site would say that if the NVC still has your case.

if the case numbers are the same it could be for the reason that SneakyPete had said. if you're still concerned, you may want to reach out to the NVC and explain to them whats happening. or contact USCIS and ask them why they sent you two noa2s with different dates

are the case numbers the same? or did those change as well? you may want to contact USCIS since they are the ones who send out the NOAs

that form doesn't have any personal information pre-filled out at all. but it isn't like... a "government form" so to speak. it doesn't have any form number associated with it. looks like it is just something that someone typed up themselves. looks like this basically: Please also complete this page and submit it on the day of your visa interview: Family Name First Name Middle Name ALL other Names used or Aliases (if married women, please give maiden name) Full Name in Native Alphabet (if Roman letters not used) List below all places you have lived for at least six months since reaching the age of 16, including places in your country of nationality. Being with you present residence: City or Town Province Country From/To (mm-yyyy)

the packet my fiance got was pretty big and had a lot of stuff. but this is the portion that you're referring to. the subject for the email is I22. has something to do with what department to email is routed to, not the year itself. There is a form included to list your addresses since 16. there is not a form to fill out and mail to request an interview appointment. that is all done online and you get that information once you email them the DS-160 confirmation. some of the information on the frankfurt consulate page on this site is not up to date from what I can tell. It says to mail to documents to the office, you no longer do that. everything is brought with you to the interview.

since your ex-fiance is the one who filed the petition, they would have to be the one to write a letter to USCIS to withdraw the petition. the burden of canceling the petition falls on the USC not the foreign fiance. there shouldn't be an issue if you are sponsored by a different USC who hasn't filed an I-129f before.