Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	What are they doing whilst we wait for NOA2?	Hi All, I was just wondering if anybody knew exactly what they (the gremlins) are doing whilst we sit here waiting for NOA2? I heard something about background checks....who do they do that on? My fiance stole some things from a store as an early teen will this cause any problems? He was never charged just warned. What else do they do before we recieve the NOA2? Kinda getting me down I'm seeing so many people that have gone through CSC who have waiting 4-6 months from NOA1 - NOA2	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-05 11:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Originals for affidavit?	Oh ok! ta	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-01 11:06:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Originals for affidavit?	whats the difference between a sponcer and co-sponcer?	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-01 10:40:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	NOA2 APPROVED March 8th + touched 9th!!!!!!	WooooooO!!!!! Omg ... I went away from tues to today come back find find NOA2 approval in my inbox plus a touch notice on the online case status. They said 90-120 days it's been 2 weeks at the most.... WOW So after my fiance recieves NOA2 by mail, do our forms go to NVC?	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-10 10:46:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Do you get notication if...	Hi Ya'll, As you may have read in my previous post we got our NOA2 by e-mail notication today and should be recieving it in the mail soon. I was wondering if we actually get notication by online status or email notication when our case has reached NVC etc? Or do we just get touched or? Just wondering if not then is there gonna be a huge gap between now and packet 3....also what exactly is packet 4? Ty in advance	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-10 19:40:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	APPROVED!!!!	Fab news! Just a day after ours. WTG enjoy the feelin' its time to celebrate....	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-12 10:50:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	weee 4 weeks till packet 3!	Hmm ok... ty everybody. Now the police certificate 40 days you say? Dang, I would try and get it now I'm just worried about if they need to see proof of like it saying on packet 3 that I need it and I cannot supply them with that just now, also the date on the police certificate would be earlier than when the embassy requested us of it. I've asked this before but would this cause a problem? Also do I need a copy of this police certificate for the interview or is it for the interview and not to be sent back in before hand? I also wondered about the medical and interview. It's going to be a huge deal for me to get to london as it is (I'm wheelchair dependant etc need special assistance and transport)....how can we get them on the same day? I see alot of people do get them on the same day but I'm also aware you get the interview date after the list of medical places to try and get an appointment with. I want to try and make sure they're on the same day. It'll take me 4-6 hours to get from lancashire to london as is. Would I just hang onto the medical addresses until I recieve an interview date and then ring round to book a medical appointment? Also I'm going to need to send out co-sponcer forms to my fiance's mom to say she'll support us finantionally. Now is that the advicate of support (sp?) forms? They come with packet 3 yes? Also do I need to get more passport size photos of my fiance to take to the interview? He only managed to get 2 last time and we sent those in. How is the london embassy about medications? I'd need to take my asthma inhalers and painkillers into the building especially after the long journey and waiting around. I realise they take things off you. Do I need to get a doctors letter to say I'm on all these medications and that I need to have them with me at all times? They are all prescription drugs. As for the police certificate is it offically 40 days even with me having a clean record (never been charged/commited a crime)? I would like to send away for it now like people are advising but my parents recon i should wait till packet 3 incase the police station wants to see where it says it's needed ya know? I dunno if they will but just want to make sure. Vaccinations hehe I was to an advantage I've had the flu and pneumonia, MMR booster, tetnus etc jabs (basically all available in the UK) because I'm very vunerable. But ty for the reminder. Does it cost to obtain the vaccination record? Do I ask at my GPs ? Also as many of you know I have alot of medical issues. When going to this medical in london would you advise me taking a doctors letter saying my conditions and that they aren't contagious etc...or is it better to actually bring a copy of some or all of my medical files themselves to prove I'm not a harm to anybody? Also I take steriods for asthma ..... I understand they take blood, if it shows in it will it cause a problem also I'm unsure if anything will be seen on a chest x-ray asthma wise as I've never actually had one. ROFL had every single test except a chest x-ray. I've also heard some horror stories where they don't give you anything to cover yourself. Please say they give you a gown now	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-12 13:44:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	weee 4 weeks till packet 3!	Howdy VJers, Andy recieved our NOA2 by Mail yesterday and it said we should get packet 3 in about 4 weeks. Wooohooo! What sort of questions are in packet 3?	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-12 10:55:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	where do i write to to obtain police certificate?	Thank you everybody. I'm so sorry I did save that link way back but I cannot see it in my yahoo bookmarks now. Also I trailed through this entire forum section to try and find where you provided it for me and it seems it may of been before the forum crash. I don't mean to repeatively ask questions. Please know this is all SO appresiated. I'm all over the place today, my fiance goes into hospital tomorrow 'sigh gonna try and get all this sorted.	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-12 17:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	where do i write to to obtain police certificate?	I'd like to write in to obtain a police certificate as required for the visa/interview. I live in Bury/Heywood on the boarder between the two in lancashire. What I'd like to know is which police station do I write to and what exactly am I asking for?	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-12 16:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Advice Needed Police Certificate Drama	TY SO MUCH GUYS!!! We got this sorted. Printed out the forms, filled in my part. Gonna pass them to my social worker to sign (it says somebody has to sign if they have known you 12 months). I would of got one of my doctors to but I've just switched hospitals but oh well hopefully that should be fine. Then once he's signed it my dads gonna drop it off at the police station for me with some ID. TY ALL AGAIN SO MUCH. BIG weight off my mind. and YAY! we got a letter from NVC today saying they're gonna send out case out to the US Embassy in London within a week and we got our LND number	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-22 18:06:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Advice Needed Police Certificate Drama	TY guys so much. Just emailed bury metro again see what I get. If no responce by tomorrow....I shall phone if no luck then I guess I'll have to try and make some sort of arrangements to get to the police station. Questions: So they don't generally reply to letters? Will they have the form there or will I get sent home and asked to go back when they have? What sort of ID can I include?	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-21 20:21:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Advice Needed Police Certificate Drama	Hi Guys, Ok here is my issue. So I got onto the website order form for the "subject access" form and then notice it says that this form can only be used if you live in the London area. So I abandoned that after the confusion of getting hold of it a second time for you very kind VJers. Then I wrote to two local police stations and requested form called "subject access" and as of yet I have no reply still. I'm now doubting they can even send me this via mail. I sent both letters a month ago. Getting down to a police station is going to be very hard for me, I don't have my own transport so have to hire adapted transport (at a price that aint nice). I will HAVE to do it if I cannot get the form any other way. But I'm trying to avoid this as I'm not made of money and need to save it for hospital appointments and getting back to america when the visa is through. I so wanted to obtain this before Packet 3 arrives so I don't have to wait longer than I need to . Is there any other way to get hold of this form so I can fill it in and send it back with £10? Like I said I tried the online form but it said they can only process them if you live in the London area. I live in Bury, Manchester.	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-21 18:35:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	DNA Testing	I think they are trying to ask where they are suppost to go to get DNA proof that they are the parent of there child perhaps? Also I think personally they just needed to rant it out there frustation at the interview and want to hear others experiances...i.e if anybody else has been asked for DNA and USC proof.	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-21 11:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Hit the WEEEEEEED and go to your Visa interview...	hey pass it around, I think we need it	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-22 18:18:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	disappointed	The others have worded it so perfectly. The person who said this to you obviously has there own problems and simply can't see past there nose to be happy for others. I've been in similar situations, whenever me or my fiance tell somebody that I'm immigrating to the states to be with the person I love they think I'm not serious and begin lecturing us about how much we'll be a burden for the state. There are alot of uneducated people out there. Just wait, if they ever find love in another country....perhaps another moron will say it back to them...	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-12 10:48:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	co-sponcer forms, should I send these now to my fiances mom?	Ok just emailed the forms to my fiances sister in law who will print them and give it to his mom saves loads of time posting. I saw the evidence needed then (silly me). I'm just a bit confused about the difference between a sponcer and a co-sponcer? I am now assuming my fiances mom will be the sponcer and any additional helpers will be co-sponcers? Or is the petitioner the sponcer?	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-24 16:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	co-sponcer forms, should I send these now to my fiances mom?	What should I ask my fiances mom to include? I remember seeing something about past tax returns...	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-24 15:28:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	co-sponcer forms, should I send these now to my fiances mom?	Hi Guys, We were told today that our application has left NVC Now obtaining my police record is underway I wonder if I should now send the co-sponcer forms now? My fiances mom is kindly doing this for us. My only concern is that when I get packet three the co-sponcer forms may be different than those I can download now and send. Therefore having to do it all again. Or it'd just be my luck if they decide to update the co-sponcer forms. Should I just be safe and wait till I get packet 3 and send what they send to his mom or should I chance it and compare the forms when I get them back. Fiona	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-23 18:28:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Co-Sponcers...How Many?	Hi VJers, You know we currently taking care of the co-sponcer thing we came to a few possible pit falls. See both me and my fiance (USC) are unemployed and have been on benefits all our lives unable to get a job where our physical needs are not a burden on the company or against health and safety of other people! Anyway, we figure this is going to be our biggest pit fall. We already have concent of my fiances mom who earns over 40k a year as his caregiver to be our co-sponcer. But then whilst reading the guide on this side on the affidavit of support tips that there was a case were JUST the USC was on benefits and hey had TWO co-sponcers and got denied. Reading that has me kind of worring, it's all going fine now but we realise we're gonna be questioned to death over how we're going to cope finationally. We WILL, we have tramendus support from both our families. Do you think it'd be worth trying to get a second or even third co-sponcer to safe guard us (not sure of the actual limit)? Fiona	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-25 20:16:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Arming Myself For The Medical....	Oh just a thought, would it be nessecary you think to bring information on my fiances MD too? And we don't have a medical yet...still waiting for packet 3.....any day now.... Edited by AFQuaid, 27 March 2006 - 11:08 PM.	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-27 23:07:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Arming Myself For The Medical....	Gimygirl TY so much.... Brillient....Also it gave me the idea to perhaps have my fiances mom write a letter for me to take to the medical to say she's agreed to be my caregiver...	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-27 22:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Arming Myself For The Medical....	Hello Folks, I've been gathering things to help me with the medical. We figure my medical condition may be an issue and after reading the medical guide from VJ on what people with MS have gone through I'm arming myself now ready to FIGHT ! I swear I don't know how I'll react if my genetic disorder will be the cause of a denial... Anyway here is what I've been doing: 1. Printed off fact sheet from the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign on my particular disorder....my disorder affects 200 people worldwide so I doubt the medical doc will know of it. 2. Contacted the support group I'm in for this (has 12 members from accross the globe) and asked for positive letters....i.e what they have done with their lives DESPITE the illness. 3. Wrote letters to my previous doctors asking them to provide us with a letter on my diagnosis and why each of them is involved and my current issues I don't know what else really to arm myself with. The issue I think is going to be because my condition slowly deteriates with time....the MS example in the guide refered to one who rapidly deteriorated and one in remission....so I'm kinda in the middle... . Do I try to get more information on my condition for the medical.....I've had a look all over the web but can only find case reports and well...mostly they are morbid. The factsheet I printed out didn't contain anything of the sort. Any advice would be appresiated. I want to be prepared if they question me. Also if I'm denied on account of medical instability, what the heck do I do? apply for another visa, what another year apart? Fiona	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-27 22:24:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Resource for all those and their loved ones!	ditto	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-27 08:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Question About Form I-134 and employer	My mother is employeed by IHSS (In Home Support Services) an Indeed I am her Boss although I plan to have my worker from the state write a cover letter also, but I can not make it any clearer then just stating she is my employee an yes it is her primary job an has been since 01' . My mother makes I do believe (don't know exactly, not my buisness) 36-40k a year and we have my benefit's, as stated my mother will be writing an extensive letter of how she will be helping dirctly so as not to let Fiona become a "public charge" i.e. in the ways of caregiving an monetary support, Indeed this will be a hard case to pass an if it was economically able we would have an Attorney but it isn't as should be obvious by the questions asked an details known. If these details help anymore were still open to idea's or whatever, all help is of coarse appreciated... =/\=Andrew=/\=	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-28 23:29:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Question About Form I-134 and employer	The State Of California pays her the dollars	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-28 20:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Question About Form I-134 and employer	Yes they are, she gets the top rate in carer allowence (or the US equvilent to that rather)....but Andy actually has to sign her pay check etc...so plus any forms where she needs to put employer she puts him down so its a bit confusing...	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-28 19:57:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Question About Form I-134 and employer	I know me again.. My co-sponser to be is a caregiver to my fiance....so therefore my fiance is her employer. But she is also his mom. So does she need a letter from my fiance explaining her job etc or should we get a letter from the person from the health care/social services to write saying the situation? Or both? Also I'd like to know if we somehow need to make duplicates of her tax returns..... One more thing do I send form I-134 back with the said ones in packet 3 or do I keep hold of it till the interview? I would prefer to send it back with the specific packet 3 papers in hope if any issue arises it won't be told to us at the interview..... then again I've read some people say they hand this form over anyway in London at the interview despite already sending it in. *puzzled* Fiona	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-28 19:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Police Certificate Request Finally In The System	So today we got the Subject Access forms back from my social worker who signed them for us in the mail after waiting just a week. We downloaded these forms of the net after somebody kindly linked us to the Greater Manchester branch for this form. But after we had sent them to my social worker to sign a package comes in the mail from when I mailed the local police station 2 months ago requesting the forms! DOH!!!!! So anyway we look over them,compare them and they're the same so we thought right ok....no need to redo them. So my dad kindly goes down to the police station with my passport for ID and the signed (downloaded version). Waited in line and when he got to the front desk explained he was handing them over on my behalf as it was difficult for me to get there etc... She just looks at him and snaps back at him "Wheres the rest of the forms?"....my dad was like "You mean the instructions on filling them in?" she said yes.... we figured that was for us not them....but apparently they're needed. She disappeared in the backroom and then my dad noticed in the rush for the bus to the police station he picked up my mums passport not mine ...total disaster. So he rang my brother from the public phone box to ask him to bring mine along with the "instruction" forms. My brother took a taxi to the police station and gave him that AND my birth certificate (because I noticed it was TWO pieces of ID they needed but she didn't say). My brother then forgot to pick up the instruction forms.....and was going out so couldn't come back to get them. So my dad (poor guy I feel awful ) had to come back to the house and pick them up and take them back down and wait in line again. Then all she did was compare the package they sent to the downloaded subject access forms and hand him the friggin package back. Spending £25 on taxi fares isn't good. Then then told him if these downloaded forms are not right (yet the link I got them from was from the manchester police website) they'd have to send them back and they'd be delayed......plus that is going to take 40 days to process this. Well we already knew that. At least that parts over I guess....dad didn't get his dinner till 8pm because of all this	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-29 14:23:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Anyone still awaiting packet 3?	Thanks very much guys.... I'll send an email out. Hopefully they'll reply. Just to check if they have our file.... *horrible images of it getting lost from NVC on the way to london.* Wish us luck and thanks again you guys are great...	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-30 12:36:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Anyone still awaiting packet 3?	According to an query email responce from NVC our file left NVC on March 23rd for the London Embassy. On the NOA2 dated March 8th by email, recieved march 11th by mail it said 4 weeks till we'd get something from London. By my calcutations its been about 3 weeks. I'm seeing some people dated 15th left NVC but all from NSC or VSC...anybody around the same time as us whos still awaiting packet 3? It's taking all my might to not phone the embassy and ask whats going on....I HATE not having the online status case at this point...I'm naturally a busy person...and I've got nothing left to do now......police certificate underway, got supporting evidence to provide at the medical whenever that will be, co-sponcers filling in her forms..... *twiddles thumbs*....Feel pretty helpless now.... Fiona	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-30 11:28:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	RFE Initial Evidence Request	My suggestions : 1. Perhaps you guys went shopping together and you may have stuffed a shopping receipt into your purse....(it happens).... 2. Perhaps you both went to a concert and have a photo of you two at it.....then they could check that the concert was on the date you said 3. Maybe you withdrew some money from the ATM 4. Perhaps you have a way to prove you bought alot of gas for the long journey 5. Maybe you bought engagment rings together	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-30 17:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Police Report	Yes you best be safe than sorry. Many people spend ages trying to get hold of multiple police reports because they've moved so much. And yes they will accept it as long the time you need to hand it over to them is within the 12 months of its validity.... Good Luck	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-30 13:52:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Police Report	Luis&Laura, I'd seriously recommend filing for your police certificate now whilst you're still with your parents. Each police certificate is valid for a year And I do believe you need a police report/certificate from every place you've ever lived since you were 16.... Edited by AFQuaid, 30 March 2006 - 01:34 PM.	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-30 13:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Entire Visa Process	Basically: 1. Send in I-129F and bio forms.... 2. Play the waiting game 3. Recieve Notice Of Action (NOA) 1 via mail 4. Play the longer waiting game (but it isn't as good as the origional...) 5. Recieve Notice Of Action (NOA) 2 by email (if you signed up) 6. Recieve Notice Of Action (NOA) 2 by mail.. 7. Realise you can't check your online case status or recieve e-mails about your process from now on....withdrawal symptoms from checking your process online every hour.... 8. National Visa Center (NVC) sends you a letter in the mail saying they recieved your file...they will pass it onto your constulate soon.... 9. Play the waiting game and another new more advanced game called "Soon isn't soon enough...." and email the NVC to find out when it left them for your constulate 10. Play the waiting game.....back to the origional 11. Get frustrated and spend lots of money on the phone trying to get through to a human at your embassy to find out if your file actually did get there. 12. Recieve Packet 3 in the mail 13. Fill out 1 form in packet 3 and send it back asap 14. Get all thinks on the checklist and send that back 15. Book medical.... 16. Play the waiting game for the medical.... 17. Get out of the medical alive... ... chest xrays, bloods the works....and many vaccines later... 18. Book interview/or recieve letter of interview 19. Wait for interview.... 20. Go to interview....come out with an approval 21. Wait for your passport to be sent back to you in the mail 22. Make arrangements to go "home" to your partner 23. Land...get married 24. Start the Adjustment Of Status process.... Good Luck	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-31 00:12:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	what are the chances for denial?	ty miranda was about to try and do that to show her	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-31 17:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	what are the chances for denial?	You log on...first screen that pops up after that..... Receipt Number | Y | date | I129f | PETITION FOR FIANCE(E) Edited by AFQuaid, 31 March 2006 - 05:02 PM.	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-31 17:01:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	what are the chances for denial?	When you notice the date change...but the message when clicked on is the same as the last...	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-31 16:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	what are the chances for denial?	Hi There, Don't worry about the one picture thing. When we first started out (no VJ or nothing to guide us) we didn't know we were to add anything just fill in the question of how we met, the bio forms and passport size photos (3/4 view).... We got an RFE requesting exactly what was missing and unfortunitly for us during that time they changed from requiring a 3/4 view to a full frontal view passport photo for both of us. If you do get an RFE the good thing about it is because some processing has already taken place once you've responded things move along quickly. As for denials. I believe a person can get denied on one of the following accounts (more experianced members will correct me if I'm wrong). 1. Being arrested etc, jailed or commiting a serious crime can really rock the boat 2. Becoming a public charge that is your partner doesn't have the significant amount of money to fully support you for 2-3 years as required. Sometimes even with a co-sponcer you may get denied if they think its not secure enough/doesnt look realistic. 3. Lying on the forms...or you answers not matching what they know..always be honest. 4. They feel you and your partners relationship isn't genuine i.e if you both speak different languages and can only communicate briefly... it may raise some eyebrows 5. You have a mental/physical condition which have harmful/violent symptoms towards others. The good thing is though if you're denied you file for a waiver (go to the waiver forms to check them out) and appeal...... I hope this helps	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-31 16:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Fiance recieves Credit card offer and offer from stamps.com	hmmm my fiances address isnt on our website, nor is mine but our "to be" married name is.....its kinda weird....maybe they did see that and looked up his address?	AFQuaid	Not Telling	United Kingdom	2006-03-30 22:29:00