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My K1 visa processing

My medical and interview appointment with the US Embassy in Manila is already posted. We’ve been waiting this schedule for over a month and thank God, it’s already posted.

As I said in my previous posts, Carlo and I started our paperworks way back October of last year. We are on a K1 route since I am on fiancee visa. It took us 2 weeks (after we sent the papers to USCIS) to get our NOA1 (Notice of Action 1 -notice from USCIS that they receive the petition) and had known our receipt number. This receipt number serves as our tracking number, to track the progress of the petition (usually starts with WAC with a number combination).

It took us 3 months to get the approval of the petition; the NOA2. USCIS sent Carlo an email about the approval and after a week, he received the hard copy of the approval. Upon receiving the approval, USCIS at this time also sent the approved petition to the NVC (National Visa Center) for the issuance of Manila Case Number. We waited for 2 weeks before Carlo called the NVC for our case number. Manila Case number served as the guide to know our appointment dates (medical and interview).

And they gave him our case number. Since we already knew the website on where to check the posted schedules, we everyday check our status.

It took us a month again before our schedule was posted. I know, the wait is killing us both, but then what can we do.

In between the waiting period, we started gathering the documents needed for my upcoming medical and interview. 2 weeks before my medical and interview dates were posted, we’ve already completed and gathered the needed documents.

Hurrayyyy..we’re just waiting for my medical and interview dates to come and I have a month and a half to prepare myself.

Here’s my timeline:

16 Oct 06 - submitted the petition
05 Nov 06 - NOA1 (issued receipt number)
16 Jan 07 - NOA2 (Approval of the petition)
06 Feb 07 - Petition sent to Manila USE (issued case number)
15 March 07 - Medical/Interview dates posted on the website
last week of April 07 - Medical at St. Lukes
First week of May 07 - Interview at Manila USE

There is one important lesson I’ve learned with our visa processing time, “patience is really a virtue”.

It’s easy to say “yes i can wait” but as times go by, its so hard to hold on with that phrase. If you’re familiar with the line “HURRY UP AND WAIT”, that’s how it is when you’re doing the paperworks. One thing I can advise though, inorder to minimize delays during the visa processing, supply them (the USCIS) with a well arranged and complete papers, surely, RFE’s (Request For Evidence) will be avoided.

That is how Carlo and I did our visa paperworks. It’s not yet done but we’re almost there….

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