jeffreyhy

Michi,

Thanks for the compliment, but I freely admit that I don't always know the right answer. But I try to keep my fingers off the keyboard when I don't know, in an attempt to hide my ignorance. Sometimes I am successfull.

I had exactly the same anxiety you do only a few weeks ago. I KNOW how long it takes plain old first-class mail to go from the USA to my wife's country - were was the file? Why didn't they have it? Why wasn't my wife getting her Packet #3?

Don't wait more than a month to inquire, but try to not panic quite yet!

Regards, JEff

Noorah101

I might add that the whole immigration process is akin to an IV Unit. Just a slow ***drip, drip, drip***

Michi

LOL
Now that's a good comparison!!!

Eric S.

I think the Madrid embassy generally handles things pretty quickly. One
tip, when you get your packet 3 and are ready to send everything in. Call
the embassy and see if they will let you schedule the interview on the
phone. My fiance had her K-1 interview in Madrid in December. She had
called with a question about something else and they told her she could
schedule on the phone. She never did send in the signed checklist. The
first interview they offered her was less than a week later! She knew that
was a little too soon, so she asked for a later date and got one about 2 1/2
weeks later.

Hypertweeky tried getting her interview on the phone and they wouldn't let
her. So it may not work.

By the way, it was only 2 or 3 weeks after I got the approval notice from
NVC that my fiance got her packet 3 from Madrid. Can't remember exactly,
sorry.

- Eric S.


"Michi" <member17230@british_expats.com> wrote in message
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    > Originally posted by jeffreyhy
    > > Michi,
    > >
    > > I think what
    > you want to know is not how long from the NVC to the embassy, but how
    > long from the NVC to the IV unit of the embassy's consular section.
    > There can be a difference, depending on how big and busy the embassy is
    > and how it's internal mail distribution is handled. The embassy may
    > have the file but it hasn't yet gotten to the people who will be working
    > it.
    > >
    > > In my case it took 3 weeks from the time the NVC sent the case
    > until the time the IV unit had it.
    > >
    > > I've heard of cases that have
    > taken well over a month in a certain country because shipments from the
    > NVC sat in the country's Customs house until the embassy could get them
    > cleared.
    > >
    > > Regards, JEff
    > Gosh Jeffrey, you always know the
    > right answer Thanks so much for answering
    > So then, maybe, just
    > maybe, Madrid's embassy may have it, it's just that they are real busy
    > and it hasn't reached the IV unit..... well, that makes me feel a
    > "little" better I'll hold on to that thought, instead of thinking
    > that it's lost in the mail. Thanks again,
    > Lily,
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Michi

Thanks Eric,

I just got done calling Madrid again, but they still haven't received our case!!! 2 weeks today since NVC sent it out to them. I'm just praying and hoping that they will get it next week.