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K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

Yes, we will pay the visa fee regardless of how we register him on ustraveldocs.com. We communicated with him and he will pay this on Monday, China time. I tried using the feedback portal at ustraveldocs.com to ask them about registration, but I'm not getting timely responses. Time is running short, so we need to push forward. I will call a real human at ustraveldocs.com and ask them directly.

Thanks, Darnell! I don't know what we all would do without all your help. You're a real jewel! :thumbs:

i think we need to find a K-1/K-2 member that did both at the same time -

as they can tell us what they did for CGI/Stanley stuff.

As I've been trying to point out - if you pay the VISA fee - you can do other stuff with getting the appointment scheduled. If you not pay the VISA fee - then you are stalled until you do.

rawlsca

Male

China

2014-06-15 07:56:00

K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

Things are moving along now. We have the email from Guangzhou embassey telling us we can pay the visa fee and schedule an appointment. But I suddenly feel confused about something.

Since we are requesting the K2 visa for her son, should we list her son's information on the "PASSPORT DETAILS" page of the CGI Stanley website? The case number is the same as her K1 visa issued last September and the passport information is still showing her information. Should we change it to show her son's passport details? Or should we create a completely new profile for him along with a separate visa process and case #? I don't want to pay the visa fee only to find out we needed a separate profile registration and process. Thank you!

sure - I'll comment -

if'n GUZ IV has given you instructions via email, on what to do, you should follow them, nowish.

rawlsca

Male

China

2014-06-13 16:52:00

K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

Nice. Hey, I just found some information that is scaring us to death, because we did not list her son on the K1 documents as "follow to join"! Can you comment on this for us?

If the U.S. Citizen and K-1 Parent Marry after the Child Turns 18 ? If the U.S. Citizen and K-1 parent do not marry until after the K-2 child turns 18 and the U.S. citizen did not petition for an immigration petition, then the K-2 child will not be able to file for an adjustment of status. The K-2 child will have to return their home country and wait for the K-1 parent to obtain permanent resident status, and then the parent can apply for an immigration petition to bring the child to the United States. - See more at: http://www.hooyou.co...h.d7VpISt2.dpuf

no - it's my understanding that K-2 visa chasers interview solely in Guangzhou.

rawlsca

Male

China

2014-05-22 18:26:00

K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

I sent GUZ the email and they replied with all the information I need except for one thing. Even though the K1 interview can only occur in Guangzhou, can her K2 son interview in another city closer to his home? Shenyang would be perfect. Thanks!

iirc, those are not used any more - and it's the ds-160 that is used for K-1 visas, K-2 visas. I dunno anymore on this one sticky bit - things have changed since ustraveldocs.com/cn got involved.

for clarity, sling out an email via the guangzhou IV webform thingie, stating:

1. K1 GUZ Casefile # and

2. bio data on the K1 visa holder and

3. bio data on the K-2 applicant and

4. your biodata and

5. request a K-2 interview and ask what steps you need to do to start the process at Guangzhou IV and /or ustraveldocs.com/cn

rawlsca

Male

China

2014-05-21 11:34:00

K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

I sent GUZ the email and they replied with all the information I need except for one thing. Even though the K1 interview can only occur in Guangzhou, can her K2 son interview in another city closer to his home. Shenyang would be perfect. Thanks!

iirc, those are not used any more - and it's the ds-160 that is used for K-1 visas, K-2 visas. I dunno anymore on this one sticky bit - things have changed since ustraveldocs.com/cn got involved.

for clarity, sling out an email via the guangzhou IV webform thingie, stating:

1. K1 GUZ Casefile # and

2. bio data on the K1 visa holder and

3. bio data on the K-2 applicant and

4. your biodata and

5. request a K-2 interview and ask what steps you need to do to start the process at Guangzhou IV and /or ustraveldocs.com/cn

rawlsca

Male

China

2014-05-21 07:14:00

K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

Great! Do I send the original D-156 and D-157 that we submitted, or do we fill out new ones specifically for her son?

before ustraveldocs.com/cn got involved - this was dead easy - just send out the DS-156 and DS-157 to GUZ IV with a letter that the K-2 is ready for interview.

NOW? Follow what I've written, morph it a bit to suit yer purposes, and hurry.

rawlsca

Male

China

2014-05-20 18:22:00

Hi Darnell,

My wife and I have a very similar problem with her son (my stepson). When she applied for her K1 visa, her son did not want to come to America, but has since changed his mind. Her K1 visa was issued on 9/2/2013. Though we listed him as being her son on all her K1 application paperwork, we did not list him as "follow to join". Also, he turned 18 last July, 3 months before we married, so he's not elligible for CSPA protection. What do we need to do to "jump start" his K2? Time is running out for us! Thanks for your help!

yup - you can jumpstart this , this weekend:

1. pay another visa fee at citic bank, get new receipt #

2. email GUZ IV via their webform thingie, tell them you want to redo the K-2, giving over the GUZ #.

they SHOULD clear the flag at ustraveldocs.com/cn within a week, then you'll be able to set up the account again there, then note the receipt #, then self-schedule for another visa interview.

caveats:

1. medical exam must have been within 6 months of future interview date or he needs a new one

2. police clearance certificate has a 1 year validity on it from issue date - so if it's expired, need a new one.

what you need to do is not trivial, but is do-able, contacting GUZ IV and telling them you want a do-over on the K-2 . I think they'll play along, grant this stuff easily, if it's less than 11 months from the visa issuance date on Mom to the new interview date on the son.

Go Get Em, and Good Luck !

[ps - it may be you can set up a totally new account at ustraveldocs.com/cn and put in the new receipt # there, after paying at CITIC. If that's the case, you'll save 4 to 6 weeks of administrative kerfluffle at GUZ IV]

rawlsca

Male

China

2014-05-20 18:05:00

Certified Police Report(s) required by Guangzhou US Consulate

Hi Darnell!

Thanks for the post! You're the second knowledgeable person to tell me that only one police report is needed. I think I can finally rest assured that everything should be smooth from here on out. At the rate things are going, we're expecting her K1 visa to be issued in July!

Questions: What is a "white book" and "pcc"? Thanks again!

Clint

rawlsca

Male

China

2013-05-31 16:59:00

Certified Police Report(s) required by Guangzhou US Consulate

My fiancee (beneficiary) is currently living in Shenyang and has for several years. Her hometown is Hulan near Harbin. This is where she will obtain her certified police report of "no criminal record". Even though she will present her certified police report she obtained from Harbin, will the interviewer ask her for her Shenyang police report too? She believes and has been told that she only needs one police report, the one nearest her home town, because all the police centers in China are linked to the same criminal record computer system. Is this true? If not, will they require a separate police report for every China city she has lived in?

Thanks for your help!

rawlsca

Male

China

2013-05-31 12:07:00

Consulate fee vs Visa fee

FYI, on March 16th, they changed the process. They no longer choose an interview date for you. I'm not sure how they used to receive the visa fee, but now they require it to be paid before the interview date can be scheduled. the petitioner and beneficiary must use their website and step through several steps to schedule the interview. They send an email notification announcing they are ready for you to do this and provide the link and instructions. it's seems fairly straight forward until you get to the payment of the visa fee. this fee can only be paid within China. In other words, the fiance must pay it on her end, by either using a special "Union Pay" debit card or going directly to the China CITIC bank. My finance does not have this kind of debit card, so when she tried to pay online, it was refused with this message...

??????????????

????????????????????(5700000)

?????????? ????

? ??????

which translates into...

Sorry, you did not order payment success!

Failure Reason: The bank card is not opened CUP online payment services (5700000)

Bank debit card to be first in the Personal Internet Banking

Or bank branches

CUP = "China Union Pay"

This evening (morning, her time), she's going to her bank for help. Hopefully we can get this taken care of this evening. I want to get her interview scheduled well before the Guangzhou US Consulate closes on July 15th. They're moving into a new building complex and won't reopen until July 24th,

rawlsca

Male

China

2013-06-19 17:35:00

Should K2 child create separate profile than K1 Mom on ustraveldocs.com?

Interesting. We used this process last July to pay the visa fee for my finance (now my wife). At the time, her son was not interested in coming to America, so we did not fill out anything on a "Step 6" screen. I don't even remember seeing a "Step 6" screen (but that doesn't mean there wasn't one). Only recently has he changed his mind, so we have until Sept 2, 2014 to get his visa approved, so we've now attempted to use the same profile, her profile, to accomplish this. We navigated down the K2 path only to find all her information that we entered last June (2013) still there. The passport number field was grayed out and not editable. It still contained her passport number and we could not change it. Based on what you've shown me, since we have already paid her visa fee, we can't add her son to her profile. There is no "Step 6" screen for us. When we click the "Continue" button on the "Step 5" screen, it goes directly to the fee payment screen, skipping "Step 6".

Question, if you back out of each information screen and navigate into each path, K1 and then K2, can you still see both passport numbers and information? In other words, when you choose K1 path, it then shows the K1 passport number and details, and when you choose K2 path, it then shows the K2 passport number and details? If so, then I'd say you're onto something. Now when you navigate to the visa fee page for each path, naturally it will show the visa fee for only one family member. This is because you are looking specifically at the K1 fee OR the K2 fee. I'd venture to say that if you pay the visa fee for the K1, enter the receipt number provided by the bank, schedule an appointment, then navigate back to the K2 path, you will not see any evidence that you paid the fee and scheduled an appointment. This would prove that the K2 path is a separate visa fee and schedule required, even though it is technically the same profile. Unfortunately, in our case, we no longer have that option, but I think you do. If you see still the details for both passports, it seems logical that all you need to do is pay both visa fees and schedule both appointments (on the same day), using the separate K1 and K2 paths on the profile. I'd be interested in knowing if that works for you.

Since we could not add her son's passport number to her profile, we created a separate profile for him, paid the visa fee and scheduled his appointment for July 10th. So far, that seems to working fine for us. The same case number is on his DS-160 application, so that links them together on the same K1/K2 case. I think we'll be fine, though I think the CGI Stanley (ustraveldocs.com) website is very confusing at times.

Good luck! And let me know what you see, ok?

Notice the previous screen shows the K2 family member and associated fee. The following screen shows the K1 family member and associated fee.

Now, for the life of me I have no idea whether I've entered the K1 and K2 correctly, but it seems as though this is how it works.

rawlsca

Male

China

2014-06-22 14:22:00

Should K2 child create separate profile than K1 Mom on ustraveldocs.com?

Hi Darnell,

Thanks for all your advice. Since we weren't getting any straight answers from ustraveldocs.com, we decided to push forward by creating a new profile for her son (my stepson). So far, that seems to be working just fine. We paid the visa fee and scheduled his visa appointment for July 10th. The appointment confirmation page contains all his profile information that we entered, so that worked out. My main concern was whether or not his case would be linked to his mother's K1 visa case on the site. But I see now that it doesn;t work that way. The DS-160 is how they are linked together on the same visa case number, so my concerns are satisfied.

Now we just need to follow all the K visa instructions. I used the "email thingy" on the Guangzhou embassy website to ask them if we really need to send another G-134 (affidavit of Support) and evidence of relationship documents. I would think those things are only needed for the primary applicant's K1 visa. What do you think? Anyway, we'll see what they say.

Thanks again!

paying the visa fee is not tied to 1 or 2 accounts at CGI/Stanley.

If I were in your shoes - I'd pay the fee then suss out that stuff by trial and error [using the english language version of that portal].

Sorry your having problem with the helpdesk (since it was my question to you in the first place) but keep at it ! Call until you get an answer !

rawlsca

Male

China

2014-06-20 09:38:00

Should K2 child create separate profile than K1 Mom on ustraveldocs.com?

Calling all K1/K2 visa recipients that have already received both their K1 and K2 visas and maybe have arrived in America! On the CGI Stanley website (ustraveldocs.com), we created a profile for my wife (K1 visa recipient) last year, scheduled an appointment etc. She subsequently received her visa. Now, her son wants to come to America, so we are requesting the K2 visa for him. Should we create a separate profile on ustraveldocs.com for her son or should we change the "PASSPORT DETAILS" page of his mother's profile (which we used last year to schedule her appointment) to show the K2 son's information? The case number is the same as the K1 visa issued last September and the passport information is still showing the K1 mother's information. Should we change it to show her son's passport details? Or should we create a completely new profile for him along with a separate visa process? I don't want to pay the visa fee only to find out we needed a separate profile registration and process.

We tried contacting ustraveldocs.com using both their email system and their phone contact numbers, but they will not give me a straight answer! The email attempts are currently in "round robin" mode. They keep asking for more information and then ignoring my answers, asking for the same information again. I called them this morning....twice. The first time, after nearly an hour on the phone, they "accidentally" dropped the call. I called back and the second person asked all kinds of irrelavent questions only to finally say "we've escalated your request to the next level. They will contact you." It's a simple question!!!! Surely, they've had other K1/K2 applicants! What did they do? Did they create separate profiles? Or use the same profile?

If anyone here can tell us what they did to SUCCESSFULLY schedule an interview for their K2 child who followed them to America, we would be very grateful!

Thanks to anyone who is able to guide us!

rawlsca

Male

China

2014-06-16 13:03:00

National Visa Center (Dept of State)

NVC Case Received

That's awesome! Ours was shipped to NVC on the 14th and I really want to call and see if we have a case number. What info do they need to look up the case number?

mechanicalshasta

Male

Peru

2013-08-21 23:51:00

Preparation for interview, phone records etc...

Thank you all for the tips, I'll definitely prepare the best I can with photos and other forms of proof...and on a side note, our package left NVC today so hopefully soon we will know when our interview is!!

mechanicalshasta

Male

Peru

2013-08-26 17:20:00

Preparation for interview, phone records etc...

We used apps in iphone to make calls too. What i did is i screenshot the call history. We used viber and line app btw. So i screenshot all the calls and messages then print it.

I wish I would of thought of that a long time ago, ha! Well, I'll start taking screenshots of our facetime history from now until the interview. How much of a problem do you think it'll be to not have a solid phone record history that starts from when we started talking? I will have printouts of texts from whatsapp/viber/imessage that covers our entire relationship.

mechanicalshasta

Male

Peru

2013-08-25 00:32:00

Preparation for interview, phone records etc...

I'm getting worried about the phone record part as showing proof of on-going relationship. The majority of our conversations happen using facetime on our iphones, which uses wi-fi and subsequently my bill detail does not track. The bill detail does show data transfer amount but no phone number associated with it. Anyone else run into this problem? Any suggestions on how to provide proof?

mechanicalshasta

Male

Peru

2013-08-24 23:51:00

CEAC Ready but says don't have case

Yes I was referring to the CEAC website status saying Ready for the interview

READY for what????????????/

R u talking about interview or after interview its ready? please clear this one

if u want to ask for an interview then u must wait at least 4 weeks after NVC left ur case.

Thank you for this info! We'll def check back in a few days

Your file is delivered electronically and also via hard copy which is going in a diplomatic pouch. until they also receive the hard copy they won't be able to do anything even though CEAC website says ready. I would wait a few more days

mechanicalshasta

Male

Peru

2013-09-05 19:37:00