Comprehensive Timeline for DCF Filing from 2004

All information is so informative.  I will use this, when we apply for my husbands visa.

All information is so informative.  I will use this, when we apply for my husbands visa.

Wow, I sounds like an airhead with all this informative/information talk.  Well, the timeline is very informative.  I am sure you all have gathered that by what I have posted twice

Rentfree --

One week after I submitted my application to the embassy, I received everything back with the cover letter that you described.  Though my circumstances are a bit different than yours, I sent them back the next day additional documentation showing that I had a "permanent" address here (in the form of a copy of an electric bill), and of my intention to remain in the UK (in the form of an employment contract) through the end of 2005.

A week after that, I received a postcard from them letting me know they had received my paperwork and were processing the application.

[Had they sent everything back to me once more, I was planning to call the embassy number and pay the ~ 95p/min ...]

Hope this helps...

I wanted to add a recent timeline to this post, since it's a few years out of date now.  The process has taken us four months from posting the I-130 to the scheduled interview date.

• February 14, 2008 - Posted I-130 to Embassy, next day service
• February 19, 2008 - I-130 official receipt date
• May 12, 2008 - We received the Notice of Approval (NOA) for our I-130
• May 15, 2008 - We received "Packet 3" - visa application and medical info
• May 15, 2008 - Posted DS-230 and DS-2001 back to Embassy, next day service
• May 19, 2008 - medical interview, DH wanted it out of the way as soon as possible
• May 20, 2008 - Embassy actually collected application from PO Box
• May 30, 2008 - Received interview date
• June 17, 2008 - Interview scheduled

Barring any unforeseen problems and assuming you've completed your medical at least 4 days prior, the visa is approved at the interview and it's been taking 2-5 days to receive your passport back by courier.  DS-2001 includes a line where you can propose a travel date.  We proposed June 28, 2008 as we already have tickets for that date (holiday booked before we decided to move).  It looks like the Embassy has come through for us. 

Congrats Carrie!  Good luck with your move back to the US. 

We filed 4/4/08 so we should be hearing in the next fews weeks that we are approved.  Thanks for posting your time line.  Looks like you didn't get any requests for affidavits, which is great! 

Nope, no requests for affidavits.  But we have been married for nearly 6 years, went through the whole fiance visa process, were married in the US, and had the conditions on his green card removed while we lived in the US (so he had permanent, permanent residency  ).  And we had just been down to the embassy together to register our baby's birth.  If they had asked us for any additional proof of our relationship I think I would have flipped out and told them to look at their #*%$ing computer files. 

Good luck with your move.  I hope you aren't apart from your DH for too long.

Thanks for sharing.

It's too bad there is no 'returning resident' visa for the US. What a pain to have to go through all of this again!

Thanks for that, Carrie. Good luck with your move! We're just starting the process ourselves...

Nope, no requests for affidavits.  But we have been married for nearly 6 years, went through the whole fiance visa process, were married in the US, and had the conditions on his green card removed while we lived in the US (so he had permanent, permanent residency  ).  And we had just been down to the embassy together to register our baby's birth.  If they had asked us for any additional proof of our relationship I think I would have flipped out and told them to look at their #*%$ing computer files. 

Good luck with your move.  I hope you aren't apart from your DH for too long.

Boy that sounds familiar!    We didn't have affidavits this time around either.

I got my UK citizenship and DH will get his US this time too, because I am not going through it all again should we move.

The time line for us was four months from start to finish as well.

Good luck to everyone!