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Immigration Forum / USA Marriage Base / August 2005London Embassy
Is there anyone actually working there? Not to moan but my file was sent from NVC (CR-1 Visa married to USC) on the 27th July and so far London have failed to answer any emails in the last two weeks and I cant get a simple yes or no from the helpline. All I get told is "Its probably in the building". Is there any way you can actually check that London HAVE recieved the file without wasting money on an extortionate premium rate number? How do they send the file? Stick it on the back of a big fish and hope it finds it way up the Thames? > Is there anyone actually working there? Not to moan but my file was > sent [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > it > finds it way up the Thames? Traditionally, and there is no reason to think this year has not followed tradition, all US Consulates and that includes the one in London, slow down due to summer vacations and petitions will take 4 to 6 weeks longer to generate a response to the beneficiary then during other seasons of the year. Also the recent terrorist activities in London have more likely than not caused a bit of a slow down in production as well.  SignatureI'm not an attorney. This disclaimer is valid in NYS! > Is there anyone actually working there? Not to moan but my file was > sent [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > it > finds it way up the Thames? Hi My sons file was sent in Aug 2004 !!!!!!!!!!! As still waiting at Jan 2005 started to e-mail then, and sent certified letter- they still did not repond In April 2005 congressman wrote e-mail, consulate did reply saying they did not get approval !!!!!!!!! They requested more info from principal via congressman and last replied to him on 29th April 2005 saying they would check if son was a CSPA protected case July 11th sent request via congressman of any news, still waiting I would leave it at least 3 months , then get congressman to chase on your behalf. I feel they would be more likely to answer him than you Good luck I will up date if and when any news, please could you also update > Is there anyone actually working there? Not to moan but my file was > sent [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > it > finds it way up the Thames? I have also been waiting for my interview date my case was sent to London on aug 9th so you are a little ahead of me so once you get yours then I might be in luck. I have been emailing them as well but no response which is really irritating. It has been over 2 years since we have been doing this spouse visa process and I just want it all over and done with. Hopefully we will all get a interview date soon. Hey Rebellion, If I hear anything I'll let you know. Theres a guy over in visajourney.com that had his file sent 3rd August and according to DOS his file reached London on the 5th August but yet according to London Embassy is hasnt arrived neither lol. Maybe the time of year has got a lot to do with it, but not responding to an email sent over two weeks ago is beyond pathetic. Still makes us wish we were tourists.... we'd have a visa within a few weeks of applying and thats without them having any paperwork to start with. > Hey Rebellion, > If I hear anything I'll let you know. Theres a guy over in [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > weeks > of applying and thats without them having any paperwork to start with. ok thanks Utah Bound well hopefully summer vacations will be getting all done with soon so the processs can speed up if thats what there problems are. They could at least respond to emails so you know whats going on. Oh well I guess all we can do really is wait and hope for a interview date soon. Good Luck > ok thanks Utah Bound well hopefully summer vacations will be getting > all done with soon so the processs can speed up if thats what there > problems are. They could at least respond to emails so you know whats > going on. Oh well I guess all we can do really is wait and hope for a > interview date soon. Good Luck Hi Utah Bound I just wanted to let you know I got a email from the embassy and this is all it says The administrative processing of your application has been completed. Notifciation of the appointment will be sent to you within the next 8 weeks. Thank you for your e-mail correspondence. Consular Information Unit U.S. Embassy London Cons/CIU/LP This informal method of responding enables us to respond to you within a shorter time. No record is being made of this correspondence. If you need to e-mail us again, please return this e-mail. Thanks for that. Ive just sent them another email after reading your good news. Its just a pain waiting thats all. Id at least like to get a medical scheduled sometime soon so at least thats out of the way. Good luck to you and if I hear anything about an appointment date I'll let you know so hopefully you can get some kind of rough timeline yourself. > Thanks for that. > Ive just sent them another email after reading your good news. Its [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > you know so hopefully you can get some kind of rough timeline > yourself. ok thanks I have a medical booked for september 8th but might have to cancel it cause I think you need to take a letter or something like that that comes in your interview packet im not sure but will probably call them to find out and by that letter I wont have my interview packet in time. Reading around the forums on expats and visajourney, it seems a few have gone for the medical while waiting for the final packet to arrive, myself I'd call London Embassy just to clarify this is possible, like you Id love to get it done right now but its more a case if will they allow it? I cant see the problem but hey they love to give us problems right? lol > Reading around the forums on expats and visajourney, it seems a few > have [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > cant > see the problem but hey they love to give us problems right? lol lol yep they sure do love to give us problems way to many of them. I think I am going to just change my appointment to a later date by the letter it sounds like I have awhile to wait anyway I need to get some vaccinations done at my gp anyway before my medical. > Thanks for that. > Ive just sent them another email after reading your good news. Its [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > you know so hopefully you can get some kind of rough timeline > yourself. There have been people who scheduled their medical well in advance of their interview in London. Considering they require 4 days from medical to getting the results to London and will NOT give you the visa before they have medical results, you may want to do that now. > There have been people who scheduled their medical well in advance of > their interview in London. Considering they require 4 days from > medical to getting the results to London and will NOT give you the > visa before they have medical results, you may want to do that now. Sorry to resurrect this.. but... Does this mean that as soon as we hear that our application has been sent to London from Nebraska I can schedule my medical at MY convenience rather than trying to get it booked in between receiving notification of my interview and my interview date? Bee UK to USA > Sorry to resurrect this.. but... > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Bee > UK to USA Bee, It doesn't go to London from Nebraska-it goes from Nebraska to NVC then to London. The interview date is roughly a month from date of notification. If it were me, I'd book a medical as soon as I knew the file has left NVC for London then at least you might get a choice of location rather than have to take what might not be so convenient for you simply because it's available. > Bee, > It doesn't go to London from Nebraska-it goes from Nebraska to NVC [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > location rather than have to take what might not be so convenient for > you simply because it's available. Thanks for replying Cindy... and reminding me about the NVC.. I keep forgetting about that bit for some unknown reason... Its a great help knowing this because I'm way down in the South West of England and getting an interview "close to home" in London was worrying me a great deal... Thanks once again... Bee > Thanks for replying Cindy... and reminding me about the NVC.. I keep > forgetting about that bit for some unknown reason... [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Bee Just curious -- do you all check out visajourney also, or not bother? Sometimes feels like info/emotion overload, but has useful things tucked in there also. Eg the london interview dates thread. Seems like there are a few of us here on british expats -- rebellion34, utahbound, myself etc that had files transferred from NVC to London around July/Aug and are waiting for interview dates; on visajourney, everyone currently on the relevant forums had files transferred in June (and have Aug/Sept interviews). We'll see how much the summer has slowed things..... Would appreciate if people can update their news, even if it's all pretty random and other dates can't be safely deduced! Best wishes, pomola (CR1 sent from US Aug 16th) > Just curious -- > do you all check out visajourney also, or not bother? Sometimes feels [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > pretty random and other dates can't be safely deduced! Best wishes, > pomola (CR1 sent from US Aug 16th) I have been over there in visajourney for the past few months, although on here for almost 3 years. :) When we started the whole process visajourney didn't exist. Anyway we did IR1 instead of AOS here stateside (husband came here on K3 2 years ago). Our file was completed 31 May, sent out from NVC 9 June BUT DOS said nothing doing on scheduling an interview until London had the physical file, not just electronic. We got notification of interview from London dated 10 July for August 19th interview there. We were VERY concerned about the medical timing since we were having to make flight arrangements from here to UK for interview. We were lucky in that my husband is a Brummie and we wanted to schedule the medical for there since we were going to be visiting family and friends in between the immigration procedures. Seems alot of folks were having to make the trek from aways away to Brum for medical because of the timing and because they seemed to have more appointments open-that's why I suggested Dee go ahead and schedule as soon as she knows her file has left NVC. Hopefully that will get her a medical in London instead of Brum or heaven forbid Edinburgh. Aint that thr truth. I havent heard from a single person that has had an interview date yet and whose case was sent to London end July/August. One thing though... looks like the K3 has picked up in speed again. When I started to file the CR-1 was faster than getting the K3 (Or about the same time) but all of a sudden the K3 is faster again. Best of luck to those still waiting... Who knows as the summer comes to a close maybe we'll start to get a little closer to an interview date. My file finalised 19th July and sent 26th July to London Embassy. > Hi Utah Bound > I just wanted to let you know I got a email from the embassy and this [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > a shorter time. No record is being made of this correspondence. If > you need to e-mail us again, please return this e-mail. Hey there, I just wanted to add that after only a week they also responded to my email - not that they were much help, but they did respond. Good luck to you both. Just called London Embassy. They are still processing my file sent from NVC and according to the very helpful lady, she told me that they would send out a letter hopefully within the next few weeks (As soon as an interview date can be arranged). She also suggested I called back within a week or two just to confirm and that I would have between 3-4 weeks notice between the letter and my interview date. So it seems that it will be roughly 6-8 weeks from them recieving the file although there website does say about 12 weeks. Fingers crossed and good luck to all those in the same postition. Hey Rebellion and all others interested: I finally got a reply from London Embassy today at 4:50pm something along the lines of... "An appointment has been scheduled for October 17 at 10:30 a.m. Written confirmation of the date and time of the appointment has been sent to you. You are required to undergo a medical examination. The medical examination is conducted by Nuffield Hospitals Health Screening (NHHS) in either London, Birmingham or Edinburgh." etc etc etc So there is life in London after all. Hopefully your not waiting too long neither. Good luck to all those who have been a support and an inspiration to me while the waiting game was on. Thanks everyone. PS 17th October is also my birthday... coincidence? lol > Hey Rebellion and all others interested: > I finally got a reply from London Embassy today at 4:50pm something [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Thanks everyone. > PS 17th October is also my birthday... coincidence? lol congrats utah that is such good news finally something good. Even though it said wait 8 weeks i think I might email them again to see if I can get a date sooner then the 8 weeks. I can try at least. ps just wanted to let you know utah that I am over at visa journey as Mrs Reb. I am using Rebellion here which is my husbands chat name. lol Rebellion. Ive seen your posts on visajourney and never even thought it was the same person lol. I hope you get yours soon as well. Hopefully Nigel over on Visajourney does too. All the best and good luck. >> Hey Rebellion and all others interested: >> I finally got a reply from London Embassy today at 4:50pm something [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > ps just wanted to let you know utah that I am over at visa journey as > Mrs Reb. I am using Rebellion here which is my husbands chat name. |
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