Pandajuice

I wouldn't mind that at all. Waiting a few extra days to save an extra trip to London sounds good to me. Thanks guys!

BritishGuy36

Yeah this is what I am planning.

I plan to have the medical on the same day of or on the afternoon before the visa interview. Travel to London morning of day 1, have medical, stay over, interview morning of day 2, then travel back.

Targaff

Got my passport back today (it was actually issued a week back, but I had them send it to my parents'), so I can now give this with a definitive answer: "No". You're assigned a new "Registration number", which on the visa itself isn't preceded by an A, meaning I had to compare it to the Packet to work out which was the right number. There is then an annotation at the bottom of the visa reading:
So there is a record of your old number, but it's not used for the new visa.

(Which Act is that section from, incidentally? Wouldn't mind seeing what it says...)

ian-mstm

That would be the INA - Immigration and Naturalization Act.

Ian

Ray

Light reading for a sunday
http://www.uscis.gov/propub/ProPubVA...b0686648558dbe

Targaff

No kidding.

Anyhow, that particular point relates to vaccination waivers. On the vaccination worksheet they ticked "vaccination history incomplete" and "may be entitled to a waiver", and when I asked about it they said that's standard; which fits somewhat to my last experience. I imagine it crops up a lot on these visas, then.

So nothing of much interest.

meauxna

well, a night of extensive research shows that it's for either (1) Class A mental waiver (2) Tuberculosis or (3) Leprosy.

Notice any funny itching?

allstar

Great original post Targaff, esp I-864 points (echoing others above)!

Targaff

Well some would say I'm mental for doing this not once but twice...

Anyhow, a quick story relating to the different A numbers mentioned above: we flew into ATL on 28 May, primary processing was fine - I went through the residents' line as I was with my USC family - and then after picking up the luggage we went through to secondary. ATL's secondary, incidentally, is currently in need of some serious TLC; it's just an area near the agricultural inspection area that's cordoned off solely by the seats you sit on, and the structural pillars have been stripped bare. I asked about the secondary processing area that was there last time I went through and they told me it was "being used for other purposes".

I handed over my passport and packet and sat down to wait. It took perhaps 20-30 minutes before I was called up, and after saying hi the first thing the immigration officer said was "So I've looked through your documents and I can't see anything about your divorce..." Once I explained our background it took less than 5 minutes to get the rest done, but the officer explained to me that what had thrown her was the fact that they'd assigned a new A number this time around - she said London Embassy could've just used my original A number and it would've helped her understand the situation better.

So there you go; apparently there's no proper consensus about the use of A numbers in situations like this, and what you get may well depend on the Embassy.