DCF - I-130 Filing in London. Join In Here!
Dec 19th 2011, 6:09 pm
#1021
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Well my super efficient wife did all the paperwork, put it in individual folders with post it notes on (I must admit this helped lots when dealing with the admin person at the 1st window)..
So here goes...
Got to London at around 7am, got a taxi from Euston to the embassy, put phone in Goulds, got back to embassy at 7:10, small queue had emerged, showed security my papers waved on through at 7:30am.
Got my number which was I902 (Lots of "N" visa applications!) sat near window 1 as instructed, was called to window 14 which was around the corner! (So much for near window 1, i had to paratically run!)
Had a pleasant elderly gent possibly European, who asked for all the documents, (As previously mentioned, post it notes in folders were great, as wife did not come into embassy), originals and photocopies were taken of everything, birth cert, marriage cert, affadavit, co sponsors details, police cert. Gent then asked for finger prints, was told to pay 2 windows down and asked to wait as the 1st part was over!
Waited all of 30 minutes max and was called to window 17 was greeted by a young blonde American lass who seemed to have a very serious cold/flu! Was told all paperwork seemed in order, was asked where we met, our marriage date, where we would be stopping and what i'd be doing for a job when we got over there. Simple questions, so i gave simple answers. Gave an oath and was told the visa had been granted. Joy oh joy!
Managed to leave the embassy by 9:15am! Very uneventfull!
I think so long as you have all the paperwork, i do not think "you" will have any issues, the staff are pleasant and efficient.
So all in all a very good day, may i thank all the regular posters on here who gave out help and advice during our journey, the support has been great and all of you who are going through the same process, time really does fly and a little preparation saves a lot of time!
Last edited by little-evo; Dec 19th 2011 at 6:11 pm. Reason: Poor speeling!
Dec 19th 2011, 9:49 pm
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Well our timeline from start to finish was 22nd July-19th December, so just short of 5 months!
Well my super efficient wife did all the paperwork, put it in individual folders with post it notes on (I must admit this helped lots when dealing with the admin person at the 1st window)..
So here goes...
Got to London at around 7am, got a taxi from Euston to the embassy, put phone in Goulds, got back to embassy at 7:10, small queue had emerged, showed security my papers waved on through at 7:30am.
Got my number which was I902 (Lots of "N" visa applications!) sat near window 1 as instructed, was called to window 14 which was around the corner! (So much for near window 1, i had to paratically run!)
Had a pleasant elderly gent possibly European, who asked for all the documents, (As previously mentioned, post it notes in folders were great, as wife did not come into embassy), originals and photocopies were taken of everything, birth cert, marriage cert, affadavit, co sponsors details, police cert. Gent then asked for finger prints, was told to pay 2 windows down and asked to wait as the 1st part was over!
Waited all of 30 minutes max and was called to window 17 was greeted by a young blonde American lass who seemed to have a very serious cold/flu! Was told all paperwork seemed in order, was asked where we met, our marriage date, where we would be stopping and what i'd be doing for a job when we got over there. Simple questions, so i gave simple answers. Gave an oath and was told the visa had been granted. Joy oh joy!
Managed to leave the embassy by 9:15am! Very uneventfull!
I think so long as you have all the paperwork, i do not think "you" will have any issues, the staff are pleasant and efficient.
So all in all a very good day, may i thank all the regular posters on here who gave out help and advice during our journey, the support has been great and all of you who are going through the same process, time really does fly and a little preparation saves a lot of time!
Well my super efficient wife did all the paperwork, put it in individual folders with post it notes on (I must admit this helped lots when dealing with the admin person at the 1st window)..
So here goes...
Got to London at around 7am, got a taxi from Euston to the embassy, put phone in Goulds, got back to embassy at 7:10, small queue had emerged, showed security my papers waved on through at 7:30am.
Got my number which was I902 (Lots of "N" visa applications!) sat near window 1 as instructed, was called to window 14 which was around the corner! (So much for near window 1, i had to paratically run!)
Had a pleasant elderly gent possibly European, who asked for all the documents, (As previously mentioned, post it notes in folders were great, as wife did not come into embassy), originals and photocopies were taken of everything, birth cert, marriage cert, affadavit, co sponsors details, police cert. Gent then asked for finger prints, was told to pay 2 windows down and asked to wait as the 1st part was over!
Waited all of 30 minutes max and was called to window 17 was greeted by a young blonde American lass who seemed to have a very serious cold/flu! Was told all paperwork seemed in order, was asked where we met, our marriage date, where we would be stopping and what i'd be doing for a job when we got over there. Simple questions, so i gave simple answers. Gave an oath and was told the visa had been granted. Joy oh joy!
Managed to leave the embassy by 9:15am! Very uneventfull!
I think so long as you have all the paperwork, i do not think "you" will have any issues, the staff are pleasant and efficient.
So all in all a very good day, may i thank all the regular posters on here who gave out help and advice during our journey, the support has been great and all of you who are going through the same process, time really does fly and a little preparation saves a lot of time!
We were there today too! We got there at 8.45am and were number I913. We also went to no. 14 and had older European guy take all paperwork! Then after about another hour we were called to no. 15 and my husband was interviewed by nice youngish American guy with a beard. He asked my husband why he wants to live in America, what work he plans on doing. Asked me how long if ever i'd lived in USA to check my children definitely were not automatically entitled to citizenship and did indeed have to go via this immigrant visa process. He said hello to my children and asked my 8 year old where in USA we are moving to, he replied correctly North Carolina. He asked them if they'd been there, they said no, actually we were there in April! He said he had checked my intent to domicile evidence which was fine. This consisted of emails enquiring about rental homes, schools and shipping quotes.He asked if they liked flying and talked about movies on plane.He asked where my eldest sons dad lives and I swiftly gave him the notarized letter from his dad giving consent for me to take his son to live in US. He said our visas are granted and asked my kids to do funny arm wave thing to get visa, he was fun and friendly to my kids.
You can purchase drinks and snacks in the waitimg area.
We finished at 12pm?
Dec 20th 2011, 6:58 am
#1023
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Congratulations to the both of you 
Dec 20th 2011, 10:55 am
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Hi,
We were there today too! We got there at 8.45am and were number I913. We also went to no. 14 and had older European guy take all paperwork! Then after about another hour we were called to no. 15 and my husband was interviewed by nice youngish American guy with a beard. He asked my husband why he wants to live in America, what work he plans on doing. Asked me how long if ever i'd lived in USA to check my children definitely were not automatically entitled to citizenship and did indeed have to go via this immigrant visa process. He said hello to my children and asked my 8 year old where in USA we are moving to, he replied correctly North Carolina. He asked them if they'd been there, they said no, actually we were there in April! He said he had checked my intent to domicile evidence which was fine. This consisted of emails enquiring about rental homes, schools and shipping quotes.He asked if they liked flying and talked about movies on plane.He asked where my eldest sons dad lives and I swiftly gave him the notarized letter from his dad giving consent for me to take his son to live in US. He said our visas are granted and asked my kids to do funny arm wave thing to get visa, he was fun and friendly to my kids.
You can purchase drinks and snacks in the waitimg area.
We finished at 12pm?
We were there today too! We got there at 8.45am and were number I913. We also went to no. 14 and had older European guy take all paperwork! Then after about another hour we were called to no. 15 and my husband was interviewed by nice youngish American guy with a beard. He asked my husband why he wants to live in America, what work he plans on doing. Asked me how long if ever i'd lived in USA to check my children definitely were not automatically entitled to citizenship and did indeed have to go via this immigrant visa process. He said hello to my children and asked my 8 year old where in USA we are moving to, he replied correctly North Carolina. He asked them if they'd been there, they said no, actually we were there in April! He said he had checked my intent to domicile evidence which was fine. This consisted of emails enquiring about rental homes, schools and shipping quotes.He asked if they liked flying and talked about movies on plane.He asked where my eldest sons dad lives and I swiftly gave him the notarized letter from his dad giving consent for me to take his son to live in US. He said our visas are granted and asked my kids to do funny arm wave thing to get visa, he was fun and friendly to my kids.
You can purchase drinks and snacks in the waitimg area.
We finished at 12pm?
Dec 20th 2011, 10:56 am
#1025
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Congratulations to both of you, what a nice early Christmas present! 
Just hope my interview on the 5th goes as well as yours
Just hope my interview on the 5th goes as well as yours
Dec 20th 2011, 11:05 am
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Thanks!
I emailed asking if I could attend with husband, they emailed back saying yes and to bring my passport. They never asked for proof that I had requested this, just wanted the interview date letter sent to my husband and kids once at embassy.
We had all paperwork in order and that seemed to do the job, no horrible shocks! It was not as bad as I'd imagined.
I emailed asking if I could attend with husband, they emailed back saying yes and to bring my passport. They never asked for proof that I had requested this, just wanted the interview date letter sent to my husband and kids once at embassy.
We had all paperwork in order and that seemed to do the job, no horrible shocks! It was not as bad as I'd imagined.
Dec 21st 2011, 12:02 pm
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Dec 22nd 2011, 3:34 pm
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Well received a text explaining that the visa would be delivered yesterday between 8-6pm!
Stayed in all day waiting, waiting, turned up last night at 8:45pm!
Now the hard part begins, choosing a suitable date and ridding everything that we own as we are not taking much with us apart from photographs, DVD's and a few pictures!!!
Stayed in all day waiting, waiting, turned up last night at 8:45pm!
Now the hard part begins, choosing a suitable date and ridding everything that we own as we are not taking much with us apart from photographs, DVD's and a few pictures!!!
Dec 22nd 2011, 4:18 pm
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Well received a text explaining that the visa would be delivered yesterday between 8-6pm!
Stayed in all day waiting, waiting, turned up last night at 8:45pm!
Now the hard part begins, choosing a suitable date and ridding everything that we own as we are not taking much with us apart from photographs, DVD's and a few pictures!!!
Stayed in all day waiting, waiting, turned up last night at 8:45pm!
Now the hard part begins, choosing a suitable date and ridding everything that we own as we are not taking much with us apart from photographs, DVD's and a few pictures!!!
Dec 28th 2011, 3:06 pm
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A good news update my wife received the petition approval letter on Dec 23rd having filed on Sep 28th.
Then on the 24th my SIL joint sponsor received the tax return transcripts my wife requested using the IRS form 4506T method which allows you to have them mailed to a nominated U.S. address. Until now we didn't have proof of her filing for 08/09/10.
I also just booked an MMR shot with my GP and the nurse said she'll enter all my vaccination records on to the system to be printed out
Got to fill out the police check application - am one of those people that opts to do everything electronically and am struggling to find 2 proofs of current address from the past 6 months....
Then on the 24th my SIL joint sponsor received the tax return transcripts my wife requested using the IRS form 4506T method which allows you to have them mailed to a nominated U.S. address. Until now we didn't have proof of her filing for 08/09/10.
I also just booked an MMR shot with my GP and the nurse said she'll enter all my vaccination records on to the system to be printed out
Got to fill out the police check application - am one of those people that opts to do everything electronically and am struggling to find 2 proofs of current address from the past 6 months....
Dec 28th 2011, 4:35 pm
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Evening Folks. Just an update! Hubby is now in possession of his IR-1 Visa YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. It came today in the large white plastic bag. Inside was the all important do not open/tamper/destroy large white envelope and his passport with the Visa inside dated Dec 22, 2011 and is valid until June 21, 2012. Also a letter to all new immigrants stating what needs to be done, now, and upon arrival in the USA. We can now set the ball in motion for our journey to Florida 
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It came today in the large white plastic bag. Inside was the all important do not open/tamper/destroy large white envelope and his passport with the Visa inside dated Dec 22, 2011 and is valid until June 21, 2012. Also a letter to all new immigrants stating what needs to be done, now, and upon arrival in the USA. We can now set the ball in motion for our journey to Florida .
Dec 29th 2011, 7:01 am
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Evening Folks. Just an update! Hubby is now in possession of his IR-1 Visa YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. It came today in the large white plastic bag. Inside was the all important do not open/tamper/destroy large white envelope and his passport with the Visa inside dated Dec 22, 2011 and is valid until June 21, 2012. Also a letter to all new immigrants stating what needs to be done, now, and upon arrival in the USA. We can now set the ball in motion for our journey to Florida .
It came today in the large white plastic bag. Inside was the all important do not open/tamper/destroy large white envelope and his passport with the Visa inside dated Dec 22, 2011 and is valid until June 21, 2012. Also a letter to all new immigrants stating what needs to be done, now, and upon arrival in the USA. We can now set the ball in motion for our journey to Florida .
Dec 29th 2011, 11:42 am
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Hi all
Thought I would join in as I am applying in London and wondered if anyone might be able to help.
I don't want to have any vaccinations and it appears that I can apply for a waiver to this requirement on religious or moral grounds using form I-601. Does anyone have any idea if I can apply for this waiver now before my medical and interview or do I have to wait to be denied before applying for the waiver?
Also any ideas on how long it will take for waiver to be processed?
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IR1 DCF London
Sent I-130 3/11/2011
Notice of receipt and payment taken 18/11/2011
Thought I would join in as I am applying in London and wondered if anyone might be able to help.
I don't want to have any vaccinations and it appears that I can apply for a waiver to this requirement on religious or moral grounds using form I-601. Does anyone have any idea if I can apply for this waiver now before my medical and interview or do I have to wait to be denied before applying for the waiver?
Also any ideas on how long it will take for waiver to be processed?
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IR1 DCF London
Sent I-130 3/11/2011
Notice of receipt and payment taken 18/11/2011
Dec 29th 2011, 12:16 pm
#1034
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Also any ideas on how long it will take for waiver to be processed?
Here's something to keep in mind... you might not want any vaccinations, but the US is also not required to give you a visa unless you have them... with or without a waiver.
Ian
Dec 29th 2011, 12:36 pm
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Thanks for your reply
I do understand that the US doesn't have to give me a visa but I also think that I have enough grounds to apply for a waiver and will be doing so, whether we are successful or not we shall see, but if you don't ask you don't get.
Why would they give you the option to apply for a waiver if it didn't stand any chance of success?
I do understand that the US doesn't have to give me a visa but I also think that I have enough grounds to apply for a waiver and will be doing so, whether we are successful or not we shall see, but if you don't ask you don't get.
Why would they give you the option to apply for a waiver if it didn't stand any chance of success?