robbert000's US Immigration Timeline
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Petitioner's Name: Robbert
Beneficiary's Name: Cortney
VJ Member: robbert000
Country: Netherlands
Last Updated: 2015-02-10
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Immigration Checklist for Robbert & Cortney:
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USCIS I-129F Petition:
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Dept of State K1 Visa:
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USCIS I-485 Petition:
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USCIS I-765 Petition:
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USCIS I-131 Petition:
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USCIS I-751 Petition:
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USCIS N-400 Petition:
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K1 Visa
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| Event |
Date |
| Service Center : |
California Service Center |
| Transferred? |
No |
| Consulate : |
London, United Kingdom |
| I-129F Sent : |
2014-06-25 |
| I-129F NOA1 : |
2014-07-07 |
| I-129F RFE(s) : |
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| RFE Reply(s) : |
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| I-129F NOA2 : |
2014-09-23 |
| NVC Received : |
2014-10-01 |
| Date Case #, IIN, and BIN assigned : |
2014-10-15 |
| NVC Left : |
2014-10-17 |
| Consulate Received : |
2014-10-24 |
| Packet 3 Received : |
2014-12-15 |
| Packet 3 Sent : |
2014-12-15 |
| Packet 4 Received : |
2015-01-22 |
| Interview Date : |
2015-02-03 |
| Interview Result : |
Approved
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Second Interview
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| Second Interview Result: |
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| Visa Received : |
2015-02-10 |
| US Entry : |
2015-02-14 |
| Marriage : |
2015-02-27 |
| Comments : |
Point of entry will be detroit. |
Processing
Estimates/Stats : |
Your I-129f was approved in 78 days from your NOA1 date.
Your interview took 211 days from your I-129F NOA1 date. |
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Port of Entry Review
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Date |
| Port of Entry : |
Detroit |
| POE Date : |
2015-02-14 |
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Member Reviews:
Consulate Review: London, United Kingdom
Review Topic: K1 Visa
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| Event |
Description |
| Review Date : |
February 3, 2015 |
| Embassy Review : |
Hi all,
Figured I'd leave a quick review of London embassy.
I arrived yesterday (2nd of February 2015) and stayed in the hilton Hyde park. This is about a 20 minute walk to the embassy through Hyde park. I decided to wake up at around 6am, take a shower and have a quick breakfast before going to walk to the embassy. However it was snowing pretty bad this morning, so decided to take a taxi. The taxi was about 7GBP.
I arrived at the embassy at 7.10am and there were about 20 others already in the line front of me,
At 7.45 the embassy employees started setting up some quick desks and a tent because if the weather and then divided us into 2 separate lines, one for immigrant visa (YES your K-1 is classified as an immigrant visa at this point.) and one for non-immigrant (which was a significant longer queue). That said, I was the 2nd person through.
The kind girl checked my appointment letter and passport and sent me to the security booth entrance on the right.
Security here is similar to the airport. You take your belt and watch off, you can keep your coat on. Ipad can remain in your bag. Although I have seen them checking some iPads etc, if they had power.
All in all, I was inside the embassy just at 8am.
At around 8.40 I got my number called, walked to the booth where the person asked me for my birth certificate, police reports, passport pictures, passport, DS-160 confirmation and the I-134. I must have been at his desk for maybe 2 minutes.
He kindly asked me to sit down again and wait for my number to be called a 2nd time.
At this point I thought it might be a while with the amount of people now inside the embassy so I got myself a coffee. Which is actually not expensive (1.80 GBP) and pretty tasteful.
However, I have been sitting for maybe 15 minutes when my number was up again,
I walked back to the booth (I happen to got the same number twice, but I don't think that is always the case). Where instead of having the same man, I got a lovely lady sitting there. She asked me how I met my fiancé, to which I replied that I met her at my first business trip to the U.S.
She told me, "that was one lucky business trip" and smiled.
I laughed, she browsed through the paperwork and told me I was approved.
In short I had a great experience at the embassy and I have been inside a bit over a hour, |
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Very Good |
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POE Review: Detroit
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Description |
| Entry Date : |
2015-02-14 |
| Embassy Review : |
Hi all,
Figured I'd leave a short review for my arrival yesterday in the US. I'll keep it short because there is only so much you can about this.
After landing, made my way to the passport / visa checkpoint.
Detroit has no separate lines for people that come for a new visa so I had to step in the long queue. Which I was a bit annoyed about, since even though we as EU can travel with an ESTA, we're not allowed to use that queue since we're entering the country in a visa.
The waiting time wasn't ridiculous though, maybe 30 minutes, could have been a lot shorter if they would have more than 5 people actually working 
When it was my turn, I told the lady that I was entering the country using my k-1 visa and handed her over my passport, the big envelope from the embassy and my i94.
She tore up the i94 since apparently I didn't need it for entering on a k-1 visa.
Then only thing she asked was how I met my fiancé, browsed through the paperwork. Then smiled, congratulated me and stamped my passport.
No additional interviews, no going into the homeland security office nothing
So not experience was good, only thing they could improve on is having more people working when it's quite busy.
Obviously things are hard to judge for a POE because it just depends on who is helping you and if they are in a good mood or not. But I can recommend detroit. |
| Harassment Level : |
Low |
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