Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
US Embassy and Consulate Discussion	Pre K1 visa interview packets!	Thank you for responding. My I134 and supporting documents as well as the intent marries should be there by friday. I did email the consulate friday so will give them another day or so to respond. Interview is next Thursday so I'm alittle concerned. Will accompany my next email with a scanned copy of Packet for interview info. If I don't here back of course .	zeke2507	Male	Ethiopia	2014-05-13 09:57:00
US Embassy and Consulate Discussion	Pre K1 visa interview packets!	I the petitioner received packet 4 in the mail in the US (May 6) it has pre interview/appointment instructions and interview date May 22nd. My fiancé never received anything from the embassy Ethiopia? It's my understanding that she should have received a preinterview packet 3. She and I have both called the US embassy...have been directed to email them, and they haven't responded (5 days). I sent my fiancé packet 4 and she was able to do her physical and get her police certificate. Does anyone know if there is something specific that I need in packet 3( additional forms etc.) or is it just instructions? Thanks	zeke2507	Male	Ethiopia	2014-05-13 09:14:00
US Embassy and Consulate Discussion	Expedite while waiting for interview? (split topic)	More or less 7 days Thanks for the answer. It's been 10 days since I submitted the request and 3 days since the NVC sent me an email requesting 2 foreign phone numbers so they can complete the expedite request. I guess I should be hearing something soon.	AbuAmina	Not Telling	Yemen	2014-08-19 08:37:00
US Embassy and Consulate Discussion	Expedite while waiting for interview? (split topic)	Do you at least know how long it takes to get the email notifying me weather they accepted or denied the expedite request?	AbuAmina	Not Telling	Yemen	2014-08-19 07:46:00
US Embassy and Consulate Discussion	Expedite while waiting for interview? (split topic)	I have the same issue except I have been waiting 8 months for an interview since the NVC finished processing my wife's case. It's because in Yemen they have a big backlog of cases. Any good reasons I can use as a expedite??	AbuAmina	Not Telling	Yemen	2014-08-15 13:00:00
US Embassy and Consulate Discussion	K1 visa-scheduling for medical exam?	welcome	dave&jane	Female	Philippines	2013-07-31 10:21:00
US Embassy and Consulate Discussion	K1 visa-scheduling for medical exam?	No. what would they tell u is get your medical done a week or 2 before your interview.	dave&jane	Female	Philippines	2013-07-31 10:02:00
US Embassy and Consulate Discussion	K1 visa-scheduling for medical exam?	U have to fill up a form from st. lukes website and bring it with u when ull have ur medical done. Its a first come first serve basis. I went there 4:30am and alot of people already there.	dave&jane	Female	Philippines	2013-07-31 09:52:00
Canada	CR-1 endless questions	Technically every-time one returns to Canada, the clock is re-set--BUT if they think your spending too much time in the USA--they can deny one entry into the USA. I've gotten mixed info on this, as to whether Canadians can spend up to six months at a time or six months out of a year as a maximum. Does anyone have a link to some sort of government page that would have this info?	aaronop	Not Telling	Canada	2013-01-04 18:10:00
Canada	CR-1 endless questions	Hey everyone, hoping to get some answers to the many, many questions I have. My Canadian wife and I got married in June 2011 and I filed the I-130 shortly after moving to the USA in September 2011. We haven't always been the fastest at returning the various requests for stuff along the way, but now we are, I think, in the last stages of the NVC stuff before the Montreal consulate gets her case. Basically I'm trying to figure out a way for my wife and I to be separated as little as possible while we wait for her visa application to finish. Currently we're waiting on her police report - local police said it would be about 10 to 20 days, and it's been about 10 business days now so we could have another 2 weeks to wait. From what I can gather, once we send this final information off to the NVC (police report, passport, birth certificate, etc), they will take a couple of weeks to review and then pass the case on to the Montreal consulate, who will then take 2 to 4 months to schedule an interview. So we're looking at at least another 3 to 5 months right now, correct? In retrospect I feel like we should have gotten my wife to the US and filed an I-485, but at the time it seemed like a better idea to process in Canada due to cost and other things. Is there any way, at this point in the process, to switch to an adjustment of status rather than consular processing so that my wife and I don't have to be separated for that much longer? Would that delay the process substantially? My wife visited and stayed in the US with me for a little less than 4 months on a tourist visa, which means that she can't visit again for more than 2 months or so and might have trouble at the border if the officers think she might be trying to stay - she was denied entry to the US back in March because the officers thought she was trying to illegally immigrate, though she tried again in August and was able to enter the US and stayed until we both came back to Canada in December. Is there a way to extend the tourist visa limitation so she can stay in the US until her interview in Montreal? Is she likely to get denied entry into the US again (even though she clearly has to return to Canada to finish her consular processing whatnot)? Would there be anything wrong with her visiting for another 2 months (as long as the total time spent in the US is less than 6 months)? I think that's all I have for now, I really appreciate anyone who's read this far and can help us out at all. I realize that there would be answers to some or all of these questions on these forums but whenever I try to do any research myself I end up with a lot more new questions and a headache. Many, many thanks!	aaronop	Not Telling	Canada	2013-01-04 13:54:00
USCIS Service Centers	VSC easily two months ahead of CSC at this point...	Not exaggerating. Check Igor's timeline. It's awesome for the VSC people getting approved in less than 6 months, but man, CSC is just killing us here....	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-03-18 15:38:00
USCIS Service Centers	CSC TIMING	Greenshoots, we're CSC filers from August 6th about to hit Day 226. I hope yours is approved quickly, but I personally have no faith in the process...7-8 months is my guess.	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-03-20 00:38:00
USCIS Service Centers	Is Csc even open?.....	If you check the timeline, VSC is now processing a lot of Late August/Early September filings, where CSC is still dilly-dalling around with people from July and August. They don't seem to have cracked into August much at all.	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-03-04 13:13:00
USCIS Service Centers	Is Csc even open?.....	Our wait is going to be 7 months as of this Wednesday. 6 months used to be a long time. Unfortunately, people at CSC are now waiting more like 7-8 months. Wish I had better news. We're dying over here...	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-03-04 12:23:00
USCIS Service Centers	CSC is it the Walking Dead?	We're CSC August 6th filers. No end seemingly in sight. Sucks.	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-03-21 18:11:00
USCIS Service Centers	Where are You All?	237 days for us. We are praying for April, but given that CSC has done nothing for K-1 visas in literally the last 3 months, we aren't holding our breath. This process should be 3-4 months max. Waiting 8 months is absolutely obscene. Yet we are going to hit 8 months next Saturday. We're past the point of frustration. We've entered a zone of utter despair. There's still a slew of people from the last half of July that haven't been approved yet. They've been sitting on them for months and months...	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-03-31 22:18:00
USCIS Service Centers	how long has csc operated at 5 months noa2 prior to the coma they are in	EegyptA, We're right there with you, my friend. We have your same NOA1 date at CSC (August 6th) and it's time to take some action. I wrote my congressman last week, and will follow up with a senator next week. Congressman wrote me back and regurgitated the same info. that CSC has been telling us for the past 4 months. He was friendly and said he would inquire again in two weeks, but CSC is simply not processing cases any any acceptable level of speed. We are going to hit 8 months this Saturday (the both of us) and there simply seems to be no end in sight. Let me know how it goes for you. I actually live in California, so no doubt, the states offices are likely being inundated with complaints, casework requests, etc. At the moment, it would help to be living in Montana or Wyoming or something. Good luck to you! As I'm sure you realize, even at 5 months processing time, we have now been delayed by essentially 3 months... Thanks!	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-03 22:07:00
USCIS Service Centers	Processing time changed again for CSC	WELCOME TO HELL.	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-03 22:10:00
USCIS Service Centers	12:00am on 4/6. It's our 8-month "anniversary"...	Bayareaguy, Yeah buddy, you're just a week behind me. But does it even matter? There are thousands of cases accumulating at the CSC with no processing progress in sight... We're all screwed.	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-06 20:37:00
USCIS Service Centers	12:00am on 4/6. It's our 8-month "anniversary"...	Azsara, Shocking, but all-too-common. I can't speak for VSC because I'm not tracking their data, but on Igor's timeline alone there are dozens of people still waiting from July and August, and it hasn't moved in the last 3-4 months. CSC simply isn't processing anything now, other than a few random ones that pop up on the VJ timelines a few times/week.	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-06 13:44:00
USCIS Service Centers	12:00am on 4/6. It's our 8-month "anniversary"...	....of waiting for NOA2 from CSC Sent out on 8/2. NOA1 was processed on 8/6. And here we are...8 months later...with no sign, trace, or inkling of evidence that this period of waiting is ever going to end. This will ruin any summer plans we have of traveling or doing anything. We'll be apart. If only we knew that filing in August was going to screw us for a year, we would have done it a bit earlier. Would've been impossible to know though. 8 months. How much longer will it be? + 2-3 months to the interview + the time my partner will need to quit her job and move her life to the US. I know that most people are right there with me, but this just royally sucks.	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-06 02:04:00
USCIS Service Centers	VSC to CSC NOA2 approval ratios, as per VJ...	Out of the last 50 couples that have been approved with NOA2s on VJ, just 8 of them have come from CSC 42:8 That's quite the ratio of slow, painful torture for all of us CSC folks.	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-08 18:46:00
USCIS Service Centers	Got through to Tier 2 ISO today at USCIS...	Yes, I realize that it's basically an exercise in futility, but I thought I'd take a stab anyway. Day 247 for us...	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-10 17:35:00
USCIS Service Centers	Got through to Tier 2 ISO today at USCIS...	Waited 10 minutes for Tier 1...asked to be transferred to a Tier 2...then waited for another 45 minutes. The second the ISO picked up the call, the first thing he said was, "I would like to inform you that during to high call volume, we will have to have an officer call you back in the next 48-72 hours." My mouth just dropped. 1. Will this ever actually happen? 2. Do you think that perhaps the Tier 2s could communicate with Tier 1s, so that they don't put people on hold for close to an hour, only to be told that they can't talk to you once the Tier 2s pick up?	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-10 17:06:00
USCIS Service Centers	CSC some sign of life	i'm happy for those approved (truly happy, as no one deserves to go through torturous process) but people approved from December, when there are hundreds from July CSC, 5 months earlier, waiting? Ummmm....	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-09 15:44:00
USCIS Service Centers	trying to understand the CSC	I highly doubt that all of the last 8-9 CSC approvals were all expedites..all from the same days and time periods? How? I'm happy for anyone that can escape the wrath of CSC as quickly as possible, but I can't say that it doesn't burn when I see people applying from the same applicant country that I am and are getting approved TODAY, with a NOA1 date of almost FOUR MONTHS after us. I mean, #######???	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-10 14:29:00
USCIS Service Centers	CSC K1's delayed at least two months	I called CSC yesterday and was told by an officer on the phone that CSC was now working on July 17th cases...this seems to have been at a bit at a standstill over the past month. All we can hope for is that they start processing the rest of July people here and move onto August, September, etc.	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-01-10 11:59:00
USCIS Service Centers	A rep for our congressman contacted USCIS on our behalf	Someone from 12/17 at CSC was just approved yesterday. Let me guess,...another "expedite?" Doubt it.	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-12 14:37:00
Mexico, Latin & South America	K1 para brasileiros: tempo entre NOA2 e Entrevista?	No dia 7 eu recebi um email com a data para o dia 28 de maio, mas como meu noivo nao podia vir no dia 28 pedimos para remarcar a data e consegui para o dia 25 de junho.	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-05-11 19:41:00
Mexico, Latin & South America	K1 para brasileiros: tempo entre NOA2 e Entrevista?	Fala para a gente quando voce receber a data da entrevista. Mandei email no domingo para o consulado (o pacote foi enviado do NVC dia 24 de abril) e eles nao diseram se receberem o caso electronico para nos, so que ainda nao te nosso caso... sera que eles sempre falam quando recebem electronicament tambem?   Eu mandei outro e-mail ontem, mas eles ainda não responderam vou esperar até o final do dia de segunda pra mandar outro e-mail. O chato é que eles não aceitam mais ligações para falar sobre os vistos de imigrantes.	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-05-03 17:43:00
Mexico, Latin & South America	K1 para brasileiros: tempo entre NOA2 e Entrevista?	Falei com o consulado hoje e eles informaram que receberam nosso caso eletronicamente porém ainda nao receberam o processo físico.. Espero receber as instruções pelo correio ASAP! Ja estou com tudo pronto, exames, certificados da policia, formulários, provas... Soh esperando a hora da entrevista e finalmente depois de quase 3 anos ficar perto do meu noivo todos os dias	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-29 12:56:00
Mexico, Latin & South America	K1 para brasileiros: tempo entre NOA2 e Entrevista?	Meu processo foi enviado ontem! Yeahhhhhh Acho que até Terça tá no consulado... Será que minha entrevista vai ser no mês de maio ainda?	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-25 21:44:00
Mexico, Latin & South America	K1 para brasileiros: tempo entre NOA2 e Entrevista?	Nossa que estranho.... Será que o NOA2 dela nao eh 21/03 nao? Pq hj eh dia 24 soh e ontem foi feriado aqui o Rio.... 21/04 foi domingo nao dava tempo de chegar tudo no consulado....	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-24 21:19:00
Mexico, Latin & South America	K1 para brasileiros: tempo entre NOA2 e Entrevista?	Eu vou ligar lá hoje para saber se enviram aqui pro Brasil... Já estou com todos is formulários prontos só aguardando o ok deles par saber se com o case number eu já posso faxed o exame.	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-24 04:36:00
Mexico, Latin & South America	K1 para brasileiros: tempo entre NOA2 e Entrevista?	Eu espero que até semana que vem chegue aqui no Rio. Ele vem sim para entrevista, nao precisa, mas achamos melhor ele ta junto...	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-23 04:46:00
Mexico, Latin & South America	K1 para brasileiros: tempo entre NOA2 e Entrevista?	Olá! Meu NOA2 foi dia 15/04 e hoje dia 22/04 já estou com meu case number.... Espero que o processo chegue no consulado até sexta ai é só esperar a data da entrevista	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-04-22 21:42:00
Mexico, Latin & South America	K1 Brazil : Rio	She need a lot of forms and documents to the interview. Pls find below the link with all instructions.   http://portuguese.br...t/fiancee2.html	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-08-01 12:00:00
Mexico, Latin & South America	K1 visa in Rio: Email is it Packet 3 & 4?	The embassy doesn't send letters in the mail for K1 visa. They just send e-mails. After the interview you need to pay for the courier fee and then they will mail to you the passport and the envelope. My visa arrived just over 1 week from the interview in my house.	Lovecouple	Female	Brazil	2013-11-08 15:19:00
USCIS Service Centers	Did k1 CSC PROCESSING TIME JUST CHANGE?	Sign the petition here: https://petitions.wh...months/rp6yP4Jw Worth a shot at least.	Daveykins	Male	China	2013-04-14 23:38:00
USCIS Service Centers	Did k1 CSC PROCESSING TIME JUST CHANGE?	Thanks! I'll be working on this over the weekend. Will report back if anything happens.	Daveykins	Male	China	2013-04-04 00:52:00