Our petition would be send to the National Visa Center in Portsmouth, NH, like I told in my last post. Michelle called to Portsmouth last week and they told her that the petition arrived there on June 12. I knew it wouldn’t take long or the petition would be send off to Amsterdam. Michelle called this week again and, indeed, the petition was made ready for shipment on the 16th and it was picked up by DHL a day later.

The funny part about the above is that I knew this all (or thought to know) before Michelle called the NVC for the second time, she actually called on my hint to verify this. It appears that you can easily search and track packages with DHL based on reference number and if you happen to know the reference number, you will be able to follow the shipments from the NVC to the consulates and embassies quite easily… fortunately I happen to know (as I read them on a visa community website) how the structure would be, and indeed, the structure as told was correct..

DHL said there was a package picked up and send to the consulate in Amsterdam with diplomatic papers (it was the only package send to Amsterdam from Portsmouth so it couldn’t be wrong) and today, at 11.12 am, the package was delivered at the consulate :D (btw, it went through the following route:: Portsmouth, NH > Portland, ME > Wilmington, OH > East Midlands, United Kingdom > Brussels, Belgium > Amsterdam, the Netherlands… this is probably the most logical for them although it seems to me a bit like they took a scenic route haha)

Personally I think the end of the whole process is near. Next monday I will get another pre medical exam and I’ll get the first Hepatitus B vaccine shot and I think it will take about 2 weeks max until I will receive the first package of documents from the consulate (which will probably mean a lot of writing and searching for me).

After the long wait for our approval in California (see my previous post) it all really seems to go a lot faster now