DS-160 and Medical

By Colin

The next stage for me was to fill in an extremely in-depth form online: DS-160. This is the official K-1 visa application for submission to your interview embassy.

I was asked questions about myself, including details of my previous visits to see Victoria, employment history, a basic outline of my education and endless questions about whether I have been involved in things like genocide, people trafficking, terrorism, recruiting child soldiers and other shady things.  As with all forms, it is important to read all of the questions carefully and not presume that the answer will be no to all of them.

At the end, I had to upload a picture in the passport standard size, which proved to be a nightmare.  Every picture I took myself, would NOT crop down to the specifications required by the online "help" tool.  In the end, I went back to a photo shop where I got my passport pictures taken and they put the original onto a flash drive for me.  I uploaded that, and it worked perfectly.

One other problem that I encountered with the DS-160 was the very first question, which asked the location from which I was filing the application. I selected Belfast (being the closest place to me), but I hadn't realised that the answer should have been London, since that was the embassy which was processing the application. I received an email asking me to fill in the whole form again, because I made that one mistake.

I also have booked an appointment with the embassy doctor in London for my medical examination, which I will attend this Wednesday (Jan. 7th).  I've booked the trip so that I don't have to stay overnight, so hopefully I'll be okay for time, getting to and from the airport.

I'll post again later this week to go into more detail about what was involved for the medical.