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Australia and New ZealandNEW ZEALANDers heading to the US and their USC spouses - POST HERE!
Hi everyone

We Just got back from Auckland today. We drove 5 hours to get to Auckland and once we got to our hotel we realized nobody grabbed the folder of documents!! I thought she grabbed it and she thought I grabbed it, so after 3 hours of ringing around and trying to get a courier to bring it to us by 9am, we never found one that could guarantee it's arrival by 9am. Then we rang Napier airport and they said we could put the folder on a plane for $110 and we will receive it in an hour, so we did that and picked it up at the airport.

Next day we had our interview at 9:30am, we arrived at 9am and waited about 30 mintues until there was someone at the window, first we gave all our documents to the nice lady at window 3 after we had given her everything she said it looked very good for us to be approved. So after waiting about 45 minutes we were called to window 5 for our interview by Nicholas. He was very nice and made us not so nervous by telling some jokes. He asked us a couple easy questions like what we plan to do when we get there and what city we are gonna live in and with who, after some more jokes he said that we were approved and explained what we would need to do at poe, and that was it, altogether the whole process took about 2 hours but about 1:15 of that time was waiting.

When we arrived home today we saw the courier packet was already delivered to us, we weren't home so we are picking it up tomorrow.


We are leaving for Colorado December 5th so we got 3 weeks to get the rest of our stuff sold, which is quite a bit of stuff.
dlopez86MaleNew Zealand2008-11-14 01:14:00
Australia and New ZealandNEW ZEALANDers heading to the US and their USC spouses - POST HERE!
My wife said that they only did breast check and did an external check on the genital area. She made sure to get a Women Dr. cause there was no way she was gonna see a male for that kinda stuff.
dlopez86MaleNew Zealand2008-10-18 04:09:00
Australia and New ZealandNEW ZEALANDers heading to the US and their USC spouses - POST HERE!
Yep it's expensive, she needed the Cervical Cancer Shot and that costs $170 and the other two shots were $90 for both. We were there for about two hours maybe more because the Dr. was running late. We received the X-ray today which I thought was very fast.

Our interview is November 13th at 9:30am, we are very excited/nervous but we think everything will go ok and be approved.
dlopez86MaleNew Zealand2008-10-15 08:29:00
Australia and New ZealandNEW ZEALANDers heading to the US and their USC spouses - POST HERE!
We had our medical yesterday and when we gave the receptionists our form she told us what we should fill in, because we weren't sure either. We were also told we don't need the x-ray for the interview but we need to bring it with us to America.

Our medical ended up being $551 because my wife needed three shots. We are just glad that part is over though.
dlopez86MaleNew Zealand2008-10-14 05:29:00
Australia and New ZealandNEW ZEALANDers heading to the US and their USC spouses - POST HERE!
Yay we got our Interview date biggrin.gif November 13th. . We live in Hastings so we will be filing the I-130 and doing the Visa Application on the same day. We were hoping to get to US before Christmas since I haven't spent Christmas with my Brother and Sis in 6 years, and now it looks like it will happen
dlopez86MaleNew Zealand2008-09-23 20:25:00
Australia and New ZealandNEW ZEALANDers heading to the US and their USC spouses - POST HERE!
Thanks everyone for the welcome. smile.gif

I am doing dcf, although I am having a bit of trouble finding out what to send for the petition. My mom who has just done said I don't need to send very much at all, just the I-130 form, 1xg-325a form, ds-230 part 1, and they will ask for the rest of the stuff when we go for our interview. But because this site says I need alot more stuff it's confusing me. Does Auckland do it different than other countries?

I emailed the consulate but because it's an american holiday they didn't work today.
dlopez86MaleNew Zealand2008-08-31 21:33:00
Australia and New ZealandNEW ZEALANDers heading to the US and their USC spouses - POST HERE!
Hello everyone, just thought I would post in here since me and my new wife are living in New Zealand and plan to move to Colorado in the coming months. We are sending the I-130 off Monday and hopefully we will be moving around Thanksgiving or Christmas.
dlopez86MaleNew Zealand2008-08-28 06:13:00