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MartaR said:
Good afternoon,

I will be having my interview at the Embassy next week and, If I am lucky enough, I will be moving to US. However, I would like my boyfriend to come with me. He does not handle any kind of Visa yet, so we were thinking about getting married.

@Britsimon @Sm1smom which would it be the fastest and best way to manage that if I am a Green Card Holder? Asking for a K visa and then get married in the US once I am there, or get married in Spain once I have the GC and start the required paperwork in Spain?


Thanks a lot for your input!
Regards
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Unfortunately, your boyfriend cannot come with you to the US right away, and there’s no such thing as “fastest” when it comes to immigration. Susie already provided guidance above on the only option currently available to you which is for you to sponsor him after you get married - a roughly 2 year process from when you file and when he can join you in the US.
 
forum d said:
Does anyone know if the US consulate in Montreal has issued any diversity visa? The email I got from them says that they were working on some tier four cases.
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As far as I know, the consulate in Montreal has not processed any DV cases. Will need to check with a couple of others and see if they have heard about it. Will let you know.
 
Erika_erika said:
Ok, don’t be depressed - it’s time to be organized. Here what you need to do :
1. Send documents in different formats (jpeg or pdf)
2. If you have translations - try to put them in different file than the original
3. In the body of the email put name and surname, applicant date of birth, file number (CN), maybe place of birth
4. In the subject of email also put your name
5. Play with case number - write it either with 2021EU0000*** or without zeros.
Personally I literally wrote in the paper all different combinations of files / names / formats I could send them. And send in every email different combination. They also refused documents (I received an automatic email each time that some docs were missing, after 15 min). In total I sent maybe 8-10 emails with different document combinations. Finally it worked, but I don’t know which combination was successful. In your case - maybe the system does not see your files ? At this point you literally have nothing to lose, keep sending them your documents and NOT just emails asking about documents.
i am sure you will get your documents approved soon. Chin up
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So that means I shouldn't be content by sending my documents once? I got their automated reply that they received my email and are currently processing my documents. I thought that was enough. Shall I send them again?
 
SusieQQQ said:
K visas are only for US citizens. You will have to get married and sponsor him under F2A. It will probably take about two years from when you file the petition to when he can get a visa. What a pity you didn’t marry before your DV interview so he could have been a derivative, which would have been much easier, cheaper and faster.

Just to ensure you understand, you don’t get a green card until you move to the US on your immigrant visa (It wasn’t clear from how you said “get married in Spain once I have the GC”.) You can marry before you go, you just can’t start the petition before you have a green card. Also, the paperwork is filed in the US, not Spain.
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Thank you!! Yes, we didn’t marry in between the process as I was very worried about the current situation, because of the lack of time. I wanted my case to be very quicky to process!! I was just notified two days ago about my 2NL when I had lost all my faith… CN29k. Definitely not a low number.
I know my Green Card will be sent to my US adress once I cross borders, but I still need to pass the interview though! I hope everything goes well!! I was just referring to the time and difference between getting married in US or Spain, and if this could change anything.
Many many thanks for the advice!!
 
Sm1smom said:
Unfortunately, your boyfriend cannot come with you to the US right away, and there’s no such thing as “fastest” when it comes to immigration. Susie already provided guidance above on the only option currently available to you which is for you to sponsor him after you get married - a roughly 2 year process from when you file and when he can join you in the US.
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Thank you! Yes, I know he can’t join now, but we will start the process as soon as possibe once I get my Green Card (In case I get it approved). I just wanted to know the different options we had.
 
Dv2021 29xxx Saudi Arabia said:
So that means I shouldn't be content by sending my documents once? I got their automated reply that they received my email and are currently processing my documents. I thought that was enough. Shall I send them again?
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Same here. I think it was just suggested as a random thing to try. Some people get DQ after sending their docs only once. Others never get DQ even after sending their docs 10 times.
I submitted my docs more than once 7 months ago after receiving doc request email. Still, to this day, no reply from KCC. I’m not even DQ :)

I think they “generally” process lower case numbers first. But given the prioritization scheme, even some of those with relatively low CNs are not getting any response from KCC either. I don’t know, the whole process is a little bit random and disorganized in my opinion.

hopefully the lawsuits will give us some relief.
 
Dv2021 29xxx Saudi Arabia said:
So that means I shouldn't be content by sending my documents once? I got their automated reply that they received my email and are currently processing my documents. I thought that was enough. Shall I send them again?
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If you didn’t get the email saying your documents are checked now and you are ready to be scheduled for interview - it means you are not documentarily qualified yet. In my case, I was sending them documents and was receiving a reply almost right away that sth was missing. So I kept on sending documents until approved. Your case different - seems they didn’t even try to open your documents. So it’s up to you whether you want to send again
 
It's mostly based on which consulate has some capacity at this point. I am with Montreal that doesn't process any cases and they never even opened my DS-260.
 
i am kind of envying the Cameron (YDE) and DRC (KIN) embassy right. they seem to have had the most interviews in the AF region, more so in the last 3 months or so. yet my embassy has had a total on 9 interviews in the whole FY... i have a fairly high CN and noticed the case right ahead of mine has already been proceed in YDE... still hopeful (on the lawsuits really) but it gets harder everyday.
 
tadie07 said:
i am kind of envying the Cameron (YDE) and DRC (KIN) embassy right. they seem to have had the most interviews in the AF region, more so in the last 3 months or so. yet my embassy has had a total on 9 interviews in the whole FY... i have a fairly high CN and noticed the case right ahead of mine has already been proceed in YDE... still hopeful (on the lawsuits really) but it gets harder everyday.
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Don’t lose hope
 
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tadie07 said:
i am kind of envying the Cameron (YDE) and DRC (KIN) embassy right. they seem to have had the most interviews in the AF region, more so in the last 3 months or so. yet my embassy has had a total on 9 interviews in the whole FY... i have a fairly high CN and noticed the case right ahead of mine has already been proceed in YDE... still hopeful (on the lawsuits really) but it gets harder everyday
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There are still a lot of people that still haven’t been interviewed in Cameroon but I get your point
 
Hi all, can i ask for feedback of people that got refusal of visa because they've not used an international passport as official document on the DV entry?
Thank you in advance!
 
JanetP said:
Unfortunately it's exactly me, but you know this little hope that it still alive :)
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you have an interview? This is a fairly new requirement and then COVID /trump Ban hit so there’s not a lot of feedback. Please be sure to update the forum with yours.
 
SusieQQQ said:
you have an interview? This is a fairly new requirement and then COVID /trump Ban hit so there’s not a lot of feedback. Please be sure to update the forum with yours.
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I dont have interview yet , my CN is high EU22*** but i would be happy to try my luck on the interview and i sent my DS260 anyway. I'll keep you in loop. Thanks for the replies!
 
JanetP said:
I dont have interview yet , my CN is high EU22*** but i would be happy to try my luck on the interview and i sent my DS260 anyway. I'll keep you in loop. Thanks for the replies!
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Which country? I am 25xxx, only a couple people in our case range got an interview scheduled so... I mean, you could definitely try... I am not sure if I would spend money on your medicals before knowing if you would be denied because of the passport... You technically should be denied... so yeah, you may end up spending $1K for nothing. Up to you IF you ever get an interview, of course.
 
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