Rukavetchka
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Update - tried to email the consulate to at least confirm the receipt of the documents (after seeing how the ‘FedEx’ office in Tbilisi is operated, believe me you would want to check also 😅) just received a generic response about administrative processing and nothing else. now the actually start date for the job is quickly approaching (September 15) and it looks like I’ll have to ask my new boss to delay my start - I’m definitely not going to travel without my wife. Not ideal; and very frustrating considering that the consulate seems to know very well that this is a common issue with police certificate in Georgia, but make no special mention that 2 different types are actually needed from police here, either on the local consulate website or in the interview preparation email.. so, we have no choice but to wait and hope that we move quickly from AP to issued.
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Hi! Did everything turn out well with your DCF? We have the same situation - almost 2 weeks since final interview. Consulate has my wife’s passport and visa status remains “ready for interview”.
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Update: still haven’t heard anything from the consulate since delivering the passport to them. With DCF process will the visa status usually still be updated on the CEAC website? Ours still just says “ready for interview” even though we already had the interview. today is the 7th business day since they received it.
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Update! My spouse attended the interview today. She was in the consulate a total of about 3 hours. seems everything has gone well, except that they asked us for one more documents. apparently, Georgia is peculiar in that there is more than one police certification that needs to be requested - this information isn’t listed on the embassy website. They gave us back my wife’s passport (because we would need it to get a copy of the second police cert), and instructed us to send the police certificate along with her passport by courier. we managed the certificate within a couple hours and sent everything to the consulate. Only one thing was strange: I sent my wife with enough cash to cover all the fees plus some extra. But they only charged her for the i130 and the family-based visa app. So only around 1000. Is that normal?
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Update: we received a case number and the invitation to schedule an interview! now, I have some questions. I’m confused by the order of operations here. what do I do first? Complete ds-260? Schedule the interview? Schedule the medical exam? the email I received tells me to email to schedule a visa appointment once I’ve “reviewed” the requirements - I guess that will probably be the first step?
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Quick question: Has anyone had experience like ours where they were asked to mail the i-130 and other docs instead of deliver them? If so, how long was it before you receieved the next contact? I would expect it should take them at least some days to review the i-130 and make sure everything is clearly approvable, and it seems like with the people who hand-delivered documents that was about a week.
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Update! The consulate sent me a request to submit the i-130 and all documents to the consulate (by mail). I assume this means unless there is some major problem, we will be allowed to file locally. It's a bit nerve-wracking to send the original copy of my wife's birth certificate by post! Aside from that, I think I have most things in order. Only one thing, they wanted a notarized translation of the birth certificate, not just a translation. So we made that and sent the packet today. We've been together less than a year, so we don't have a lot of shared assets and things like that for the evidence of bona-fide - just a joint bank account and a lot of photos with friends and family, wedding photos, etc. I don't think the legitimacy of the marriage will be in question, especially since we got married in the US! my wife had an easier path to residency if she just stayed there Now we move on to checking over all the documents we will need before the interview.
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The job starts on Sept 15. I hope they will view my status favorably! My bank accounts, business, car, everything is here. Georgia is pretty unique with the 365day visa-free policy.
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Update! I managed to secure a really amazing job offer, and requested DCF based on the offer! It's kinda funny, realizing that my current situation probably wouldn't qualify for DCF put me on the job hunt and I actually got lucky and got offered my dream job! I sent the request to the embassy and within a few days they replied asking me to send copies of my passport stamps for Georgia, as well as my residence card. I'm a bit worried, as I don't have a residence card, since georgia allows US citizens to live and work for 365 days without any kind of documents (and to renenw just need to leave country and reenter). I sent the passport stamps to them on friday and I'll be hoping to hear from them again this week with a positive answer, fingers crossed. I have a business here and I've spent the majority of my time over the last 5 years though, and I've been here continuosly for the last 6 months, so hopefully that will be enough! I've prepared all the documents, and I had one question. Since I was actually offered the job (during the interview) before I received the formal offer letter, some of the documents like I-130 have an earlier date than the offer letter, by a few days. Does anyone think that will be an issue?
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That’s what I think too, probably no harm in just letting my mother write the i864 either way I guess
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Yes, I do, as well as for filing taxes. however, I clearly live abroad as I’ve spent about 75% of my time here over past 5 years.
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Hi, I'm currently completing form I-864 as the petitioner for my wife. We plan DCF in Tbilisi, Georgia. I've been living abroad on a shoestring for many years, so I don't meet income requirements based on assets or foreign income (which will naturally not continue when I return to US anyway) I'm including evidence of my intent to reestablish domicile in the US, in the form of my job offer, bank statements from the US, up-to-date driver's license, and already purchased airline tickets, as well as a letter from my mother that shes inviting us to live at her home. QUESTION: Since we plan to reestablish domicile at my mother's house, should I consider as my principal residence that resience where we plan to reside in the US, already? In this case, my mother should be listed as household member and file form I-864a instead of form I-864. Our current residence abroad is just a monthly airbnb we are staying in until we get an answer.
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Thanks, we will follow up with my senator in the US. Until then, formulating plans b-z.
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We assumed that it was because we were applying a second time. Perhaps you are right, and we should contact our senator. there was one other issue with that U4U which I should mention. Since we got married in the US, we already changed my wife’s name on her social security card. But all her foreign documents are still with her old name. We used her new legal name (my last name) on the U4U application, and included her maiden name on the “other names” part of the form. But I wouldn’t think that would be a problem..
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Additionally, there is a lot of conflicting information about filing immigrant visas for Ukrainians. for a long time, Kyiv was not processing immigrant visas and the embassies of Poland, Georgia, etc were recommending all filings for Ukrainians i130 to file in person in Frankfurt. now the Kyiv embassy has resumed processing, but this policy is still stated on websites of Georgian and Polish embassies.
