Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	Interview tomorrow	Good luck indeed, as long as you have your documents the interview is very easy, you will be surprised how little they actually ask for. Kevin this is true. my wife just had her interview last Wednesday, Nov 2nd. they asked less than 8 questions building up to my trips there and when and where we got married. she simply showed the consul our pictures - about 12 in all, the consul looked through them and when she saw pictures of our wedding she said "congratulations, have a happy trip" and approved my wife's visa. so i think, if you applying for a CR1 or IR1 visa, and you have good collection of evidence in pictures then the interview is very easy. my two cents.	mpsmith78	Male	Philippines	2011-11-07 21:06:00
Middle East and North Africa	NOA2 to the interview ????????/	How long is a piece of string? You could try asking in the regional forum for more specific answers for your country: http://www.visajourn...d-north-africa/ Or look at the timelines for Morocco: http://www.visajourn...o&dfile=No&adv=	cathy2904	Female	United Kingdom	2012-09-21 10:18:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	130 filed in dec.of 2010	According to Igor's list, almost half of the December I130 filers on VJ have been approved already.	cathy2904	Female	United Kingdom	2011-04-29 14:35:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	haven't heard from uscis after upgrading i130	Just to let you know that we got an email last night to say that our NOA2 has been sent and we are approved - less than a week after they received the naturalisation certificate.	cathy2904	Female	United Kingdom	2011-08-03 01:19:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	haven't heard from uscis after upgrading i130	awww but we havent heard anything....!!!! It was just over two weeks between calling with the upgrade request (07/08) and receiving the RFE (07/25).	cathy2904	Female	United Kingdom	2011-07-29 10:37:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	haven't heard from uscis after upgrading i130	what do u mean by upgraded his status on the net?? my status says initial review.... Ours said that until yesterday (since 04/01) but now it says Request for Evidence Response Review.	cathy2904	Female	United Kingdom	2011-07-29 10:35:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	haven't heard from uscis after upgrading i130	awww...so we are almost in the same boat i think...but i a worried because we havent even received a confirmation leter from them saying they received our documents !!! i thought they process us citizen spouse petitions faster...keeping my fingers crossed...they said they wud be able to say something only after 30 days wen we phoned them two ays back...so gonna wait for two more weeks..hopefully something will happen..for BOTH of us !! He got an email yesterday to say that they have received the RFE response and they have also updated his status on the website. They say we should now hear something within 60 days!! Hopefully it won't be anywhere near that long. I hope you hear something soon too.	cathy2904	Female	United Kingdom	2011-07-29 10:16:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	haven't heard from uscis after upgrading i130	Trevor got his naturalisation on 8 July and phoned them the same day to upgrade the petition. They didn't ask him to send anything in at that time but when he phoned a few days later to see if the upgrade had been applied they told him they had put in a service request but it would take 30 days. He received a letter a few days later confirming that the service request had been made then on 25th July he received an RFE requesting a copy of his naturalisation certificate. He sent that straight back so we are hoping we will see some activity soon. I hope it won't be long for you now either.	cathy2904	Female	United Kingdom	2011-07-28 05:41:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	Joint bank account for proof	When we filed the I-130 the only evidence we sent was three affidavits from people who knew us. We got our NOA2 with no RFEs (apart from the naturalisation certificate). We will have much more for the visa interview but at that time we were (and still are) living on separate continents so we hadn't been able to co-mingle our finances. We have been working on that since we filed. Edited by cathy2904, 09 August 2011 - 01:45 PM.	cathy2904	Female	United Kingdom	2011-08-09 13:44:00
Middle East and North Africa	All AOS fees to be waived, free greencards for everyone!	LOLLLLLLLL I WAS LIKE OMG ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I JUST PAID $1070 for mine hahhaa good joke though!	GJen	Male	Venezuela	2011-03-31 23:36:00
Middle East and North Africa	We Got the VISA!!!	Congrats to you	KASH2011	Male	Uganda	2012-09-07 20:11:00
Middle East and North Africa	Hello from beautiful wonderful Morocco!	Enjoy your time together	KASH2011	Male	Uganda	2012-09-29 07:17:00
Middle East and North Africa	Continuation of "it's not been a bed of roses."	Frustrating is the word... but something that would help...see the comical side of it.... Give him some more time, he would sort himself out. But you do have a good sense of humour when you flip out!!!! lol. Meanwhile any updates?? how are things now... better i hope. Much love. Edited by Beautiful_years, 08 November 2008 - 08:29 AM.	Beautiful_years	Female	0	2008-11-08 08:27:00
Middle East and North Africa	One Year Ago Today	Happy Anniversary!!!	Beautiful_years	Female	0	2008-11-09 13:56:00
Middle East and North Africa	VISA finally received today!!!	congratulations!!!	Beautiful_years	Female	0	2008-11-25 06:22:00
Middle East and North Africa	My husband is coming!!!	QUOTE (S and S @ Nov 25 2008, 03:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My husband just got the call from the IOM (International Organization of Migration) saying he was approved for refugee and will be flying to the United States on the 10th of December. I can't believe it. I went through so much trouble getting the expedite and then in the same 24 hours he gets the refugee visa. He is going tommorow to take his passport and start the final outprocessing for refugee. I began to wonder if this day would ever come. Thank God is all I have to say! Yaaay!!!! congratulations!!!	Beautiful_years	Female	0	2008-11-25 06:31:00
Middle East and North Africa	newbie evidence question	Welcome to Vj, Meanwhile did you take pictures with them? Your flight tickets there? Those are evidence you can show.... Its understandable you stayed with them...so get picturs to also indicate that meanwhile your flight ticket down there is Evidence.	Beautiful_years	Female	0	2008-12-14 06:55:00
Middle East and North Africa	For the Members	If she's done with the 22year old can i have him....?	Beautiful_years	Female	0	2009-01-29 17:06:00
Middle East and North Africa	For the Members	QUOTE (Nagishkaw @ Jan 29 2009, 10:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hello Beautiful_years. Don't start packing yet. You have the right to Adjust Status and keep all September filers encouraged. I knew you ll let me stay. lol Don't you just love these threads!	Beautiful_years	Female	0	2009-01-29 10:54:00
Middle East and North Africa	For the Members	####### ???? Just when i think, oh another boring day at veejay... something pops up! The other day it was bigots treating people as aliens.. subhumans! If i post an f---ed up story here and your wife takes it personal... my apologies! Dont tell Nagish the police, All il have is the right to sit down, shut up and pack my bags! Hello Nagish.... i love this forum! If you are looking for good stories... look harder, there are a lot of them here. Dont identify with the worse, there are more good stories here than bad. P.S Charles, you just cracked me up....! This laughter is good for my soul. Edited by Beautiful_years, 29 January 2009 - 10:42 AM.	Beautiful_years	Female	0	2009-01-29 10:38:00
Middle East and North Africa	Update on Amal's mama		Beautiful_years	Female	0	2009-04-03 04:31:00
Middle East and North Africa	Interview tomorrow	QUOTE (chasnik @ Feb 5 2008, 07:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well...the title pretty much says it all...our interview is tomorrow the 6th at 8am Casa time and 3am Cara time. So any prayers would be appreciated. Good luck tomorrow!	Black Velvet	Female	0	2008-02-05 22:57:00
Middle East and North Africa	Another Visa In Hand Finally!!!!!!	QUOTE (samira_07 @ Jul 28 2008, 11:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well its official my husband has his visa in hand!!!! He called me and surprised me with this great news about an hour ago. Now I am so excited, hopefully some stress will be relieved, O wait I will be having a baby soon so its still there. We are so happy he will be here soon we are checking ticket prices for him to arrive this weekend (at this point in time who cares how much it costs). We are so happy now we can not stop dance: I'm so happy that your husband will be here to witness the birth of his child. Congratulations!	Black Velvet	Female	0	2008-07-28 10:58:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	CR1/IR1 2 year mark	Hi Bailador, I tweeked this information from a previous VJ post. USCIS will figure it out which class you are belonging to... IR1 stands for Immediate Relative type. If you married to the same person for more than 2 years when you get interviewed, it will be considered as IR-1 and they will give permanent resident card (I-551) with 10 year validity. If you married with less than 2 years for same person when you get interviewed, they will issue Conditional permanent resident card with 2 year validity marked as CR-1.	Black Velvet	Female	0	2011-06-24 16:30:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	I-130 evidence of bona fides marriage...Please help!	Since that is all you have, it will be ok to submit that. USCIS understands that people who live in different countries are not going to have things such as joint accounts. I agree with Ryan H. It may be helpful to include copies of boarding passes, airline ticket receipts, money transfer receipts (Money Gram or Western Union).	Black Velvet	Female	0	2011-07-07 22:01:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	Name Change	Inky is absolutely right. Travel on the name in your passport. When you return, feel free to change it to your married name.	Black Velvet	Female	0	2011-07-18 21:17:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	Upgrading F2A to IR-1	Are you sure NVC "completed" the case? I expect USCIS approved the petition and sent it to NVC where it now awaits payment of the AOS fee, IV fee, affidavit of support, visa application and civil documents. If all that has been done already, then September or October is possible. If not, probably looking at November if the NVC process is managed efficiently by the petitioner. IR1 is a permanent resident category and a visa category, not citizenship. Yes, I am sure that the NVC completed the case. The petitioner has paid all of the fees, submitted affidavit of support, send marriage certificate, etc. I noted IR-1 because the petitioner and beneficiary have been married for five years. Please see below. The applicant's name has been placed on the list of documentarily qualified cases awaiting the availability of visa numbers under the numerical limitations prescribed by statute. The designated representative of this case (applicant, petitioner, or attorney) will be notified of an appointment date as soon as the numbers have been received. The applicant should NOT make any travel arrangements, sell property, or give up employment until the US Embassy or Consulate General has issued a visa. An immigrant visa is usually valid for six months from the date it is issued. It may be used to apply for admission into the United States any time during its validity. Case Number: KNGXXXXXXXXXXXXX Beneficiary's Name: XXXXXX,XXXXXX Preference Category: F2A Your Priority Date: 15Mar2010 Foreign State Chargeability: JAMAICA EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES 142 OLD HOPE ROAD KINGSTON 6 JAMAICA	Black Velvet	Female	0	2011-08-02 10:44:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	Upgrading F2A to IR-1	Thanks for replying Singhisking. The case was completed at NVC on December 16, 2010. Since she was a LPR at the time, the case couldn't be forwarded to the Embassy in Jamaica. In other words, her husband had to wait for a visa to become available. Since she is now a US citizen, hopefully, her husband should not have to wait much longer.	Black Velvet	Female	0	2011-08-02 10:28:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	Upgrading F2A to IR-1	My friend's IR-1 petition was completed on December 16, 2010. She just became a citizen yesterday. Other than sending a letter to upgrade F2A to IR-1 along with a copy of naturalization, what else does she need? Does any one have any experience with Kingston, Jamaica? Is it possible for her husband to get an interview in September or October? I believe the cut off is the 15th of each month.	Black Velvet	Female	0	2011-08-02 09:34:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	On our way to the embassy soon	Things are moving very fast: 1) Package sent to Costa Rica embassy 7/28 (from DHL search) 2) Package received at CR embassy 7/29 (ditto) 3) Case closed 7/29 4) Interview scheduled today for September 8 !!!!!!!!!! So much for the myth that interviews are only scheduled during the second week of the month. Congratulations! Good luck.	Black Velvet	Female	0	2011-08-02 10:35:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	Wife passed Interview	My wife passed her interview.. It was like 10 minutes.. They didn't want to see any documents. They ask only few questions.. 1. Where ex husband lives? 2. Why 19 year old son not go America now? 3. Where you meet husband? 4. What you love about husband?? 5. Your husband understand your english? LOL wife tried showing all her picture album, interviewer just nod and grin. They finally tell her you have your visa and my wife was still trying to show more pictures etc.. They took passport and it will take 8-10 for her to receive visa and documents from DHL.. Congratulations!	Black Velvet	Female	0	2011-08-18 08:41:00
Middle East and North Africa	Returning Petitions to the United States via 221g	Just wanted you to know that my husband's interview in Bogota was successfull and he has his visa in hand. Thank you to each of you for your advise and support. On to AOS!!!	paisita411	Female	Colombia	2007-07-30 11:59:00
Middle East and North Africa	Returning Petitions to the United States via 221g	Justchillin... I'm glad that you have positive outlook, but maybe you don't realize that this could take up to 2 years? It is urgent that your fiancee get her congressman involved. Send him/her all the evidence including the plans for your formal engaement. You may still be able to stop them from sending back your case file. Also have her call the Embassy herself and ask to speak to the director of consular affairs and make her case. The more noise she makes, the more likely that you can handle this now. If they kept your passport, than it may be in Administrative Review and you have a better chance at a second interview. Good luck. Dre	paisita411	Female	Colombia	2007-06-27 16:39:00
Middle East and North Africa	Returning Petitions to the United States via 221g	We have our interview date!!!!!!!!! July 23, 2007 in Bogota. They did not require us to call to schedule through the automated system or to pay the customary fees, the vice-consul emailed me and said that she personally placed us on the list!!! Thank you for your well wishes and for the advice. Believe me, this time I'm going armed to the tee with all of the evidence of our relationship. Dre	paisita411	Female	Colombia	2007-06-19 23:23:00
Middle East and North Africa	Returning Petitions to the United States via 221g	THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!!! I just got home from visiting my husband in Colombia last night (6/17/07) and of course, today I'm sitting at work completely bummed out because although we had a wonderful time together, everytime someone asks me how my trip was I want to say "TERRIBLE!! I'm here and he's there and we don't know when he's coming!!!" It takes all my strenght not to cry everytime. Well....my cell phone rings..ID UNAVAILABLE...I'm so busy that I hesitate to answer b/c its probably a bill collector (ha ha ha), but I think, sometimes when the hubby calls it says the same thing...so I answered...... "This is the vice-consul from the US Embassy in Bogota..." I almost fell out of my chair! "We have your husband's application under administrative review and want to offer you another opportunity to interview in Bogota" The lady is as nice and polite as she can be, she tells me that the police certificate and medical are all valid and that she only needs me to send her an updated I-864 with this year's tax return and how SOON DO YOU WANT THE INTERVEIW? (YESTERDAY) She says that the embassy understands that long distance relationships are difficult and that they have to be very carefull about situtations with marriage fraud (she was almost apologizing to me)...then she says to me...."do you remember that I was the one that interviewed you and your husband in Februrary?" I SURE DID! So with that I started to explain away some of the concerns she raised at the interveiw and she said "lets not revisit the interview, I'm going to give you the opporutnity to have another interview with another officer and to provide more evidence" I told her that I just got home from Colombia last night and she said "that's great! that will be very beneficial to proving the validity of your marriage" I don't know if this was prompted by my constant pestering of my congressman, incestant prayers to the Almighty or what, but I thank God first for this unbelievable turn of events and secondly to the support from the VJ community! I have a meeting with my boss today to formally request the time off (I'm out of vacation days and just got home yesterday!) and as soon as I get the OK at work I'm emailing her with my availability for the appointment!!!!!!! It looks like we can have an interview in less than a month!!! I had to share this with my VJ community	paisita411	Female	Colombia	2007-06-18 13:29:00
Middle East and North Africa	Returning Petitions to the United States via 221g	OMG! I'm more freaked out now! Maybe I need to write and cancel my FOIA request. What is the congressional liason saying now? I'm soooo sorry about this. I trully hope and pray its just a mix up. This RED TAPE can't be the way to treat USCs! It makes me CRAZY!!!!! I hope KIVA and CHIQUITA can chime in and lend their expertise on this one. DAVE keep you head up and keep us posted. You're in my prayers. This is a nightmare for all of us. Dre	paisita411	Female	Colombia	2007-04-26 11:38:00
Middle East and North Africa	Returning Petitions to the United States via 221g	Ok..Dave....PLEASE don't freak us out!!!! what is NRC? And please explain yourself clearly. I have a K3 case sent back for NOIR which I havent recieved yet, but I submitted the FOIR last month. The last thing I need to hear is that I'm setting myself back. Where are you in the process?	paisita411	Female	Colombia	2007-04-26 10:30:00
Middle East and North Africa	Returning Petitions to the United States via 221g	Limah, thank you for your update. I'm very happy to hear that you recieved a notice about your case. Its an awful feeling being in limbo. Today has been 2 months since my husband's interview, if my paperwork is processed at the same rate as yours, I should be hearing something from USCIS in July!!!!! Good luck with the next step, I'll keep you in my prayers. Dre	paisita411	Female	Colombia	2007-04-17 18:10:00
Middle East and North Africa	Returning Petitions to the United States via 221g	Hi there. Sorry I've been out of touch so long. As of today, I've recieved a resonse for each of our FOIA requests (4 in total, I sent 2 each for my husband and myself, just in case they want to say that the information is his or mine). The letter states they have recieved my FOIA petition and will contact me once they have located the documents. Very standard. In the mean time, I'm planning to visit my husband for 10 days in JUNE!!! I can't wait!!! and we are documenting everything. We've gathered letters from our parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and close friends. After my trip in June, I plan to send my first batch of 'additional' evidence to the NVC Fraud Unit and the CA service center. I'm expecting that between June and August, I should recieve the NOIR letter and I WILL BE READY!!!! My spritits are high, I'm focusing on the positive, using my time effectively and being as proactive as I can. I haven't heard a thing from NVC or DHS concerning our petition, but I'm going to ask the Congressial assistant to ask for the Consular Pouch today!! As always, thank you for the support and good luck to all of you who are in the same boat! I wanted to share the latest response from the Vice-Consul in Bogota, Colombia concerning my husband's K3 visa. As some may remember from a previous post, the visa was denied on the basis of a Labor Certification and below is the consul's response: This petition is being returned per INA 212(A)(5)(a) 9 FAM 41.81 N6.5. The consular officer finds that the spousal relationship is not bona fide, but rather entered into solely for immigration purposes. This category of refusal is used for immigrant visa applicants who are not determined to be eligible for the immigrant visa category for which they have applied. As a result, the petition is being returned to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A memo will accompany the returned petition outlining the consular officer's reasons for returning the petition. DHS will provide the petitioner with a copy of this memo. The petitioner is welcome to file a FOIA request, but DHS will already provide her with a copy of this memo as soon as it receives the case. As I stated previously, the decision of the consular officer is not final, however. A decision to revoke a petition, or to return it to the U.S. Embassy for continued processing, rests with DHS. If the petitioner wishes to pursue his application for a fiancée visa, she or he should contact his or her local USCIS office for further consideration. I hope your constituent finds this information useful. If I can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me.	paisita411	Female	Colombia	2007-04-15 12:01:00
Middle East and North Africa	Returning Petitions to the United States via 221g	Kiya, I was with him at his last inteview and the consular officer gave me a form with a bunch of statutes and circled the same one she referenced to the congressioanl aid. I looked it up yesterday and its pertaining to a Labor Certificate. I think this merits a call to a lawyer. I'll definityly get in touch with EI by tomorrow and get his take on it. By the way, I forgot to thank you for his contact info. I'll keep you posted. Dre	paisita411	Female	Colombia	2007-03-14 16:18:00