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Alexie89:
Thank you, I went with a photocopy.
It was successful
Thanks for replying.

Free is free of charge, you will have to pay for premium

Mitan7:
Should I use free or premium

Go with your passport that has your visa. They need to be sure you have your own visa before your child will be eligible.

Alexie89:
I have been asking for help on this and no one seems to have an idea, interview is tomorrow 😔

Open a ticket on the avits platform and tell them you are trying to reschedule an appointment after 221g. They would work on it from their end and you would eventually be able to reschedule an appointment

Linda2015:
Please I received 221g follow up notification in my mail.. am picking my passport this week from dhl, but on the avits portal I can't find reschedule as the link indicates. Please is there a thread for 221g I can read or can someone please put me through how to schedule the follow up appointment. Thank you in advance

Visa alert. Let me share my story in the spirit of giving back. I applied with my daughter
First time applying to the US
we applied for a visa at the beginning of 2022 and got a date in 2023. We initially wanted to go on summer vacation, but had to change our plans and applied to the UK, got our visa, went on vacation and came back.

Before we went to the uk, dates got freed up due to the interview waiver and we got a date for late 2022. I did all the booking by myself, with no agent and God by my side.

A month to the interview date, we filled a new DS 160 form, snapped new photographs, and updated it on my appointment page, i had difficulty filling the form, it just kept logging me out and i also had difficulty adding the newly completed DS160 form for my daughter, i had to call the embassy and they helped me to update it. A few weeks to the interview date, our appointment was moved but thank God the change in date was for just about a week.

I printed our confirmation pages, hard copies of our passport photographs and our payment receipt. Our appointment was supposed to be for 11.00am but we got to Walter carrington at about 6.30am, joined the queue, we had to drop our bags, phones in the car, no smart watches allowed, no sharp objects, no keys.

After about an hour on the queue we were ushered into the interview building, I did my biometrics and joined the queue for the interview. Blue papers were just flying about. All through only one white paper and the man is a frequent traveler.

I stayed on the queue and was directed to the 4th window, a woman.
She asked for my name, asked for my occupation, asked why I am traveling to the US and the duration of my visit. Asked where I would be staying, I had booked hotel reservations and she asked why I would be visiting the US, I told her my daughter has been dreaming about visiting all the fun places . She asked for my husband's occupation and why he is not traveling with us. Also asked for places we have been together. Asked if I have family in the US

She typed for long, she spent a lot of time typing, we were probably there for the duration for three sets of interview session. She finally said she would place us on AP and returned our passports to us gave us a white slip that ticked that we didn't need to provide any documents and then the wait began. I felt really bad because i thought it would end in a refusal, ans also because my only purpose in the US is tourism, i dont have any intentions of overstaying.

When I tracked the application it showed refused and some things about AP, after 2 working days we were called to drop our passports. After 6 working days it changed to approved , after 2 working days it changed to issued and the next working day we were contacted to pick up our passports.

I wish to thank all the wonderful people on this platform for sharing their experiences, it sure goes a long way. Note that no document was requested from me. All the documents I took along was not requested for