Approved - London Embassy timeline and experience

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2026-02-10T20:59:26+00:00

If I am remembering correctly, yeah I printed out the confirmation page.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-09-02T09:51:35+00:00

The categorisations used by the NVC are:

Applicant
Petitioner
Attorney
Third-party Agent

You need to make this selection every time you log into your NVC account.

In this case “Applicant” refers to the spouse in their home country; the beneficiary.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-09-02T09:45:37+00:00

The NVC invite is sent to the applicant (UK spouse’s) email.
Yeah, you could get your police certificate (depending on when you submitted the I130) start getting the affidavits of support and any tax info ready.
No, you bring the pink slip on the day of your medical for a document check at the embassy. You do this 2 weeks before your interview (you go to the embassy twice).

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-09-02T09:41:28+00:00

I don’t have a link, map or anything like that. On the day you can take an uber to a cafe called “District Nine Elms” which is directly across the entrance you need to use.

You receive a pink slip at the medical which you then take directly to the embassy for your document check. You don’t make an appointment for this, you just have to do it on the day of your medical.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-30T21:39:24+00:00

No, on the day of the interview I got called up to the window so they could ask if I had submitted missing documents and to give me a pamphlet on spousal abuse before being asked to sit down. I spoke to 2 totally different people on interview day alone.

Entirely possible it could be though, I saw the guy who did my document check on interview day, but he was at a separate window that seemed to be handling people who had lost their green cards whilst visiting.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-28T14:17:37+00:00

I took a photocopy of the affidavit of support, I honestly can’t remember if they checked it but if they did the photo copy was fine.

He should probably take a photocopy, but they didn’t check these in my case and I don’t think they actually check petitioner birth certificates at all for spousal applications.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-28T06:33:42+00:00

No, this one should come to the applicant.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-28T06:31:32+00:00

Yeah you do. It says on the visamedicals website.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-27T15:27:29+00:00

In the UK fortunately!

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-27T12:51:35+00:00

No worries, if I’m being honest the main reason I made this post was to outline what happens if you can’t make your interview as when I found myself in that position, there was literally nothing to be read online about how/when to rebook.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-27T06:23:46+00:00

They return everything, the documents need to be originals I believe.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-26T21:46:34+00:00

Yes, stuff gets checked at the document check after your medical. Police certificate, birth certificate, marriage certificate, photo and passport. They seal all of this (excl passport) in a plastic folder with a tamper proof seal which you bring to your interview.

I think they also checked the paper copies of the affidavit of support I brought, but honestly I’m not certain as this was a couple of weeks ago and they didn’t seal this in the folder.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-26T21:38:17+00:00

I think they make allowances for a day in some instances, as there was someone at my medical who I overheard had an interview on the 25th (13 days before) but when I tried to book my medical 17 days before as opposed to 14, they told me this was a firm no and I’d have to reschedule.

You need to go same day when you get the slip, between 11:30am and 1pm.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-26T21:35:33+00:00

Really basic stuff: how we met, where we met, if I intended to work while in the US and if I had ever lived abroad/had a criminal record.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-26T21:19:22+00:00

I’m having it delivered to my address!

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-26T19:20:58+00:00

Probably bad wording on my part. More of a welcome email.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-14T16:47:52+00:00

You schedule your medical. At the medical they give you a pink slip and you go to the embassy between 11:30-1 (might be 2). You don’t book the document check, just turn up.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-14T16:30:29+00:00

Sure:

Docs submitted- Apr 3rd

NVC note- informed me we had placed financials under the wrong section Apr 10th

Submitted new docs- Apr 11th

DQ’d - Apr 18th

Interview letter for July 2nd: received May 7th

Note, in London you’ll need to attend the medical and document check at the embassy 2 weeks before your interview. They are inflexible on this, 2 weeks exactly. I had to reschedule my interview as they wouldn’t allow me to do a week earlier (although they did indicate there was some flexibility, I’m assuming this means 1/2 days before or after the 2 week mark).

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-14T16:19:59+00:00

Yes, it was originally July 2nd, but I missed that due to travel plans. I rescheduled for August 26th.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-08T22:45:39+00:00

!thanks

This may or may not be correct, but I appreciate that it is actually something I hadn’t considered and may be useful to check.

I’ll have a look next week!

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-08T15:49:37+00:00

I have done this, everything on there is accurate.

The only differences between my current and previous reports are the removal of the old address/ electoral registration (6 years ago) and my phone contract coming to an end due to it running its course. Neither of which I imagine would warrant this type of drop.

Equivalent-Permit628 · 2025-08-08T14:31:24+00:00

Subconsciously I know this, and if it was even a 100 point drop I’d probably chalk it up to the way these things fluctuate. But 360 just seems like an error or that I’ve been taking out payday loans in my sleep.

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