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Good to hear your safe arrival. Delay may create inconvenience but the most important is you are already Home#2. By the way if the delay at custom has to do with some kind of Ethiopian Food you took with you, please give us a tip after you are done with the jet-lag. Enjoy

Bon Voyage!!

:-) :-) Seems you already collected your passport from DHL? Am I right?

Of course, there are countless options in life. We should accept what ever the outcome is. In fact, if you did all the necessary preparations prescribed in this forum, there is no reason to doubt. By the way, the interview is so simple, here are the common dialogues you may have with the CO...

@Fikir12, my prayers for your wish come true!!

OK, thank you @ZGREAT for sharing and thank you @Sm1smom also for sharing what the reality could be. I have one scenario that makes both of you correct. When the officer tries to enter ZGreat's application in to a system, s/he found that it is already applied for by USCIS and the SSN is...

Dear @ZGREAT that is wonderful news!! Congratulations and Good Luck. Qn: "Applying for SSN on arrival" Sounds great strategy! My understanding here is to go and apply at the nearest SSA or is it something we can do at the PoE?

10+2?? The name 10+2 refers to a vocational study and is different from the preparatory (11th and 12th grade) which qualifies for university. In any case tell her to prepare all her educational documents including school and university transcript, certificates and the degree.

Looks perfect. Don't also forget authentication of documents. Just minor things more: - Authenticated "Higher Education Entrance Qualification certificate" i.e. the new 12 Grade matrix certificate. - DHL registration (Internet Cafes around Shiro Meda can do this in 3 minutes or read the...

Hi @great2meetu, on top of all the advises above, I really would like that you concentrate on how your spouse can successfully pass the interview here in Addis. As I don't know much about AOS, I can't comment on that but "file to join" sounds good. For now, your spouse needs to hurry up and...

Expect it by tomorrow!!

Thank you. Very informative.

Congratulations and welcome to the forum. Take sometime and go through the pages in this forum. You will get everything you need. Below is the guideline for DV interview at US embassy in Addis: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/ethiopia/956093/PDF%20Files/DV%202015%20Info%20Handout.pdf

Thank you Susie. Glad to hear about possibilities of negotiations with the agents. The two options you mentioned are within my reach. I can even prepay for some months. Do you think of any disadvantage if I prepay, for example, a six month rent.

Absolutely Correct! @SusieQQQ kindly please share your experience on how you managed this problem of "Credit Score" as a new comer. (See below for details)

That is really good. My plan is also similar. Though the rent depends on the situation of the house, the price you quoted seems a little expensive (1000$ per month for a studio?, I was talking about the same price for 3 bed-room). May be good to begin with but you will see in to it after you...

Housing in and around Philadelphia: - The good news is that, as I checked on websites, I can get a 3 bed-room house/apartment for rent at about $1k per month in a fairly decent neighborhood for raising children. - A major headache for me now is what they call "Credit Score", a very new concept...

Hi @abi328, which embassy and which forum? Can you please put the link here? Probably, @zeru may also need this option in case it takes them longer to call him ... because they are humans and they have a lot of things to deal with.

Recommendation from someone working in your profession who is living and working in the US is another point of departure.

I totally agree about bureaucracy. Susie, if you follow the point property, I never blamed the three week time or even more time or people who are providing the service. I was rather talking about how the system works and about provision of information regarding status of individual's case. No...