My spouse and I had our interview in Denver yesterday. It could have been a lot worse. The officer was nice and asked us only very basic questions (spelling of our names etc). She wouldn't even take all the letters I had (from bank, housing etc) to prove our marriage was valid, or look at the nice photo album I'd prepared. She said both our interactions with our baby told her enough.
BUT she did ask for the receipt for the $375 each we were meant to have paid the KCC. Which we didn't have. We were sure it must be at home, or at the lawyers office, but at the moment it looks like we never paid it (we wrote so many checks and paid so many fees, but looks like we didn't send $375 to KCC). I would have thought they would have held up our application over this, but they don't seem to have. The lawyer hadn't heard of it either (and we had a meeting to go over the interview process and she never mentioned we'd need the receipt - I guess she didn't know).
So we have now sent off the money to pay the fee - goodbye to another $750
Does anyone know how long it might take for us to get the receipt back from KCC?
Also, my name check isn't cleared yet. I'm from NZ and have only one small speeding ticket to my name (and that was in the US a couple of years ago). I thought I'd have to be a pretty low risk, but apparently there is someone dangerous out there with a name like mine. The immigration officer said she'd requested that they expedite my name check - do you know if the FBI takes any notice of this?
So I am still hopeful, but I had no idea this process would be so hard - it sounded so simple at the beginning! I suppose we still have two months, so here's hoping...
BUT she did ask for the receipt for the $375 each we were meant to have paid the KCC. Which we didn't have. We were sure it must be at home, or at the lawyers office, but at the moment it looks like we never paid it (we wrote so many checks and paid so many fees, but looks like we didn't send $375 to KCC). I would have thought they would have held up our application over this, but they don't seem to have. The lawyer hadn't heard of it either (and we had a meeting to go over the interview process and she never mentioned we'd need the receipt - I guess she didn't know).
So we have now sent off the money to pay the fee - goodbye to another $750
Does anyone know how long it might take for us to get the receipt back from KCC?
Also, my name check isn't cleared yet. I'm from NZ and have only one small speeding ticket to my name (and that was in the US a couple of years ago). I thought I'd have to be a pretty low risk, but apparently there is someone dangerous out there with a name like mine. The immigration officer said she'd requested that they expedite my name check - do you know if the FBI takes any notice of this?
So I am still hopeful, but I had no idea this process would be so hard - it sounded so simple at the beginning! I suppose we still have two months, so here's hoping...