Info About The I600 Paperwork

This is posted on the following blog http://home.comcast.net/~wielandad/site/?/blog/
I am sure at some point soon in our journey this info will come in handy!
Thanks for posting it Andrea and Kevin

Here is the process of the I-600 approval (that is what the finger prints are for).

Once your I600 approval is done, they send it on to the National Visa Center (in New Hampshire), where you'll be logged in and then logged out. This usually takes about 1-2 weeks from I600 approval to get logged in/out. I'd start calling NVC to see if you're logged in after about 6 days from I600 approval. The number you call to find out if you're in/out is: (603)334-0700; press 1, then 5. They will ask you for your case number. Tell them you don't have one and you want to find out if you're I600 approval has been logged in yet. They'll ask for DH's name, birthday, and maybe his SS#. If they tell you you're logged in (or out!), ask for the SEO#. That is your case #. You'll want that handy for all the remaining phone calls you make!!! .

Then...after you are logged OUT of the NVC, they will send your file on to the U.S. Embassy in Seoul by air-mail. This usually takes about a week or a little more to get there. Once your file arrives at the embassy, the embassy will send out the Packet 3 to your Korean agency. To find out when the embassy has sent out your P3, you call this number: (202)663-1225; press 1 then 0. Tell them you want to find out if your Packet 3 has been sent out yet. They will ask for that magical SEO# and hopefully tell you that your P3 has been sent to the agency on such and such a day.

Meanwhile, your child will be getting EP sometime after referral acceptance is sent. Anyways...IF your child has EP AND your Packet 3 has been sent to your Korean agency from the embassy, your Korean agency will return your entire file to the embassy. Once the embassy gets that P3 back from Eastern, they can schedule the visa interview. You will call that (202) number to find out if VI is scheduled. It generally seems to take about 2 weeks to get a VI scheduled after the Packet 3 is out (If your child has EP....if not, then it will obviously take longer).

If you call that (202) number and they say your visa interview has been scheduled, you know 100% for sure that your child has EP. Your travel call should be very quick after VI is scheduled.