Safari Rick's US Immigration Timeline

Petitioner's Name: Ronald Beneficiary's Name: Milana VJ Member: Safari Rick Country: Ukraine Last Updated: 2014-01-25 Add Comment to Timeline Register or log in to follow this timeline

Immigration Checklist for Ronald & Milana:

USCIS I-129F Petition:       Dept of State K1 Visa:     USCIS I-485 Petition:   USCIS I-765 Petition:       USCIS I-131 Petition:       USCIS I-751 Petition:   USCIS N-400 Petition:

K1 Visa Event Date Service Center : California Service Center Transferred? No Consulate : Armenia I-129F Sent : 2013-07-30 I-129F NOA1 : 2013-08-01 I-129F RFE(s) : RFE Reply(s) : I-129F NOA2 : 2013-09-23 NVC Received : Date Case #, IIN, and BIN assigned : NVC Left : Consulate Received : Packet 3 Received : Packet 3 Sent : Packet 4 Received : Interview Date : 2013-12-19 Submit Review Interview Result : Approved Second Interview (If Required): Second Interview Result: Visa Received : 2014-01-08 US Entry : 2014-01-15 Marriage : Comments : Sorry I didn't put more information here. We got our application approved exactly 7 weeks after they received it. When we got notification to contact the embassy for the interview - because of the Christmas and New Years holidays the embassy was closed for both the US and the Ukraine holidays (nice job huh?). Mila got the interview scheduled for December 19th, so she went for her medical a week earlier - that went great although it's a crazy notion that you have to go to Kiev for the physical no matter where you live in Ukraine. She returned for the interview on the 19th and the embassy official was a jerk. Mila and her daughter were alone - I was in the US. She speaks great English but the official made sour faces at all her documents and said that it looked to him like she was the only one who wanted marriage - not me. I think if I was there it would not have happened like this - who knows. He required her chase her tail and get another document from the police - about her name change - just a stupid hoop to jump through. She got this done the next day - and then the jerk sat on it until exactly one day after her flight. (We booked a flight on January 9th - plenty of time for them to get it done from December 19th - to January 8th - but he delivered it the day after. She showed him her tickets - but again he was not helpful. We rescheduled the flight, fortunately the huge snowstorm in the US had the airlines letting us out of the change fees. Processing Estimates/Stats : Your I-129f was approved in 53 days from your NOA1 date. Your interview took 140 days from your I-129F NOA1 date.

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