A topic that I wanted to discuss with all of you, we've had a lot of questions because we're
starting to see things slowly but surely moving in the world of immigration. We are starting
to see more and more interviews scheduled. More and more approvals of K1 visas. More and more
couples finally be able to be together in the United States. One of the questions that we
are receiving is a lot more people are seeing, they check on their CEAC
portal, it's a portal from the National Visa Center where you can check your
case status. In the CEAC portal, you can put your Department of State case number in
and it will show your case status. The status that individuals have been asking a lot about
recently is the ready status. I would like to answer this question both for K1 fiancé visas and
for spouse visas because the response of what it means is just a little different for both.
For the CEAC ready status for a K1 fiancé visa, the description
is very general. There's a paragraph underneath that lets you know if you received your interview
notice, go ahead and get prepared. If not, be ready to receive that interview notice.
For a fiancé visa, if you log in and see that status, that means that your case
was approved, your I-129F petition was approved. It is now at the National Visa Center
and it is in a ready status. It typically means that you should be receiving your
NVC welcome letter with the next steps on taking steps to schedule your
medical exam, to get your civil documents around, and to schedule your k1 fiancé visa interview.
Every US embassy and consulate is different but in general, when you receive that welcome letter
you will have instructions that you have to complete and you would actually
schedule your own interview for the K1 fiancé visa. You would take steps, you would log into an account
and then you would get in and see a calendar to schedule your own fiancé visa interview. If you
have that ready status, that means that you should have received a welcome letter already with those
instructions. If you haven't yet, you should be receiving it soon. You would typically receive
that notification, that welcome letter from the embassy. You can always contact the
National Visa Center if you're afraid that you should have received that
notice but you haven't yet. I will be sure to post, I have two other videos. One is about
how to contact the National Visa Center. I will also post that video in the comment section
and also in the notes and then I would also post a link to the K1 fiancé visa welcome
letter so you can get more details about what that welcome letter is and anticipate the timing.
That's the ready status on CEAC for a K1 fiancé visa. For the ready status for a spouse
visa, if you're going through a spouse visa process with the NVC, one of the steps with the NVC
is that you would submit documents on the CEAC website. There'll be a whole
list of documents that you have to submit online for your spouse visa. You do this with the NVC.
The National Visa Center collects all of your information. Their job is
helping to get all of the documents around so they know that you have everything and
that you're ready to be put in line for an interview with the US embassy or consulate.
Once you've done that, once you've collected all of the documents, submitted
everything to the National Visa Center they will let you know you've turned everything in
you have everything you need, we're going to go ahead and put you in line for
an interview and when the US embassy or consulate lets us know they have interview spots available
then we will forward your file on to that US embassy or consulate. The ready status means
you turn all of your documents in, you're ready for an interview and your case is basically
in line, ready to be scheduled for an interview at the US embassy or consulate.
For spouse visas, the US embassy or consulate is the one that notifies the National Visa Center
"We have x amount of appointments available in the coming month, please send us that many files
so we can go ahead and schedule those individuals." And then the US embassy or
consulate will let you know, they'll send you a notification with your interview
date. They actually schedule it, whereas for most K1 fiancé visas, you schedule that appointment.
Hopefully that gives you clarity on that CEAC ready status.