MetalCarrot

Hello everyone, Me and my wife have filled this year a CR1/IR1 case which is already approved with no problems at all. We have the Visa interview already scheduled by the NVC, which will be this December 2024. On travel state gov's website, it says specifically that portuguese citizens, should bring a 2kg chronopost envelope to the interview so that the embassy could mail the Visa to my home address. And on travel state gov's website, that information didn't change and it still says to bring the chronopost envelope. Unknown to us, apparently the French US embassy now has this new website "AVITS" where you should insert your information and confirm yout interview date, we got an email from them asking me to do this process and we had no problems doing this. But then there's the "Document Delivery" process on the AVITS website too, where supposedly we should choose the pick up method of my VISA once it gets approved by the embassy (i think), we tried to do it at first but it didn't let us choose the delivery adresss to "Portugal" which is my home country, it only allowed "France" and the option was greyed out. A few days later, we got another email from them saying the website was updated and we should go there to choose the document delivery option, and to our surprise, now it let us choose the delivery to be sent to Portugal and my address. We filled out the forms, and paid the 28.5€ for the Suxess Logistic Service, as instructed on the AVITS website. My doubt is, since the travel stat gov's website still says that i should bring a 2kg chronopost envelope, should i still bring that envelope to the interview as instructed there? Or by filling the forms and paying for the courier on the AVITS website should be enough and i don't need to bring an envelop with me anymore? These changes to the process are very recent, and they didn't do a great job updating this type of information for portuguese citizens on travel state gov's website. Let me know what you guys think, should i still bring a 2kg chronopost envelope anyways just in case? Thank you all in advance, and hope you all have a great week and happy holldays!

Hello everyone, I am from Portugal and my wife is a US citizen. I got my I-130 recently approved by the USCIS, case was closed and moved to the National Visa Center. A few days later, me and my wife got an email from the National Visa Center with our login information, so we logged in and activated our account. Our next steps are to pay the fees, upload the required documents and schedule the embassy interview which will be held in Paris, France. I've got some questions about the medical exams and the embassy interview that hopefully someone will clarify: > Should i schedule my medical exams (that will be held in Lisbon, Portugal) before schedueling the embassy interview or after schedueling the embassy interview? > Will the medical clinic in Lisbon send the medical exams directly to the embassy? Or am i required to go get them afterwards? > If i'm missing required vaccinations, will the clinic let me know? Or should i take them before the medical exams? > The embassy in France requires that we buy and bring a "Chronopost envelope, 2 Kg format 25x36cm for Union Europeen international delivery" that should be bought from the frech post office "La Poste", but i can't find the envelope with the exact "25x36cm", but they do have one with "29x38 cm". Will it be a problem if i buy this one instead? Thank you in advance to everyone that might clarify my questions! Hope you all have an excellent day!

Good to know and it is a relief for me to know that! I always do the international flight to the US at Lisbon's airport, they do small preclearence before the flight, but i always go through customs when arriving in the US where they always do a couple of normal questions and never had a problem and hopefully it won't be a problem this time either just because we're in the process of a CR1-spouse! Thank you!

I always do short visits like 2 weeks, and this one will be 10 days only! The only things im planing to bring is a gift to my wife and some t shirts and shorts to go to the beach! Thank you!

From what i read and what i know, it's advisable not to be on vacations for more than two or three weeks. Two months is way to close to the ESTA VISA limit, and that is why you probably got stopped and delayed! I intend to be honest (as i always was) if they ask for anything though since i've got nothing to hide about our process and etc! Thank you for the reply!

Hello everyone, This is my first post on the forum but i´ve been visiting it for quite some time now to get information. It's a really helpful community and i'm really glad this forum exists so thank you all! I need some advice on how to proceed to visit my wife in the US. I've been visiting my now wife in the US for some time now, i have an ESTA visa (I'm from Europe, Portugal) and my visits have always been on my work vacations, never more than 15 days each, with a couple of months in between them (3 or 4 months). We got married in March 2024, and i'm planning to go visit her in July, and i know that the customs officers know everything about the traveller, including if he has a pending CR1-spouse visa in process. I've always been honest with my intentions of visiting my girlfriend (now wife) in the US, i had a return plane ticket, never overstayed, always told it was to visit my girlfriend at her house, i even had an official work document proving that i was to return to work in my country at the end of my vacations, and never had any problem with the customs in the airport. But since this is my first visit since we got married, and since they can see that i'm waiting for a CR1 spouse visa, i'm worried they might think i want to stay permanently, which i don't, me and my wife are following the rules and want to do everything according to law and the visa process. I'm planning to go bring with me as proof the following documents: - Printed flight itinerary (with the return dates, and even the email of the purchase) - Work document signed and stamped by the company i work at - My work wage receits (with the latest payments from my company) - A bank statement/document proving i have a bank account in my name in my country I don't own a house, i live in a rented house and the rent is under my mother's name, any more advice on what kind of proof i might be able to show at the customs so that i don't have any kind of issue? Thank you all in advance!