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K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresis my fiance a fraud?

Can somebody explain if not 2 years since they met persoanlly, how they aproved that peticion? is only 1 and half years, an i supossed that they start the process, was less. thanks.

The requirement is that you've seen each other in person within the last 2 years, not that you have known each other for 2 years.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-08-24 08:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Proceduresis my fiance a fraud?
Only you can really completely see what is going on and make a decision, but from what you have said, there are a bunch of really enormous red flags. Any of those things individually (the multiple visa applications, the "bugging" comments, and the indications that he is planning for how things will be different after he gets the visa & is in the U.S.) would be cause for concern, but all of them together sounds really, really suspicious to me.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-08-24 08:27:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresStarting the K-1 Process
We thought about doing something like this, but decided against it as it is so fraught with potential snags, the biggest of which being that it's virtually impossible to prove that you're NOT married if some part of the U.S. government ends up thinking you are. How about a big "engagement party" with her family, instead? You can have special food, speeches, fancy clothes, etc. and the family can celebrate.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-09-11 10:45:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresK1 visa

The end. About 6months after the petition is filed.

The total time varies depending on LUCK, your thoroughness and carefulness in assembling your petition & documentation, the petitioner's location in the U.S., the beneficiary's location in the world, any regional scheduling variations or extenuating circumstances at the embassy, the outcome of the interview, and many other factors. It takes most people 6-8 months, but in some cases can take far longer.

Our case has been relatively straightforward so far, but the total time from sending the petition to the interview is going to be almost 9 months. So, the soonest he could potentially get his visa is ~ 9 months, and that is not accounting for any unexpected snags at the interview.

Please plan accordingly, and don't buy plane tickets or make non-refundable deposits until the visa is in the beneficiary's hand.

Edited by afoyoswa, 18 September 2012 - 10:49 AM.

afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-09-18 10:41:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresDetour

Not trying be mean, just pondering why after all this time apart, she wants to see someone else first? Makes your relationship suspicious. Why can't her friend come visit you both in Atlanta?

Yeah, or both of you can travel to NYC later to visit them? I'd be really surprised and displeased if my fiance proposed this idea. If she's realistically planning to spend a whole lifetime in the U.S. with you, what's the rush in going to see this friend right away? Not to mention that there are (to me) a lot of advantages in having POE in a location close to where your fiance lives, if possible. Seems really odd to me.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-09-18 14:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresGirlfriend

It's not being judgemental - it is experience. I got married first at the age of 25 and can tell you now that I was way too immature to figure out what person I should really be looking for. Now maybe that's just me, but will simply tell you that people getting married at the age of 18 have no clue what they're doing.


With the wide range of ages and levels of life experience represented on VJ, making a blanket generalization like this is not accurate and not the best idea. People vary tremendously in the level of maturity they reach and the amount of time they take to reach that level. There are also huge variations in the amount of personality/character development, change, and growth people undergo after reaching technical adulthood, and other factors such as lifestyle and education can take wildly different lengths of time to be "fixed."

Some people change very little after their late teens, and others resemble their 18-year-old selves almost not at all by the time they reach their 30s or 40s. Neither is better or worse, but the trick with relationships is to either already know who you are and where you're going and be with someone who also does, or to find someone who's going to change in a direction that's compatible with the direction in which you'll change. In the second scenario, this gets complicated if you're very young and don't really know where you're headed yet.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-09-18 11:26:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresGlossy OR Matte ?
I printed ours on (matte) white cardstock. We had 3 visits, and I arranged the evidence with everything from a given trip grouped together, with a cover sheet listing what was in the section, and then the photo page(s)[1-3 pages per trip, with 5 or 6 photos per page] as sort of introduction page showing the relevant details ("Trip 1: MM/DD/YYYY"). I liked using paper, as it allowed me to easily group relevant photos together and to provide captions (people in photo, date, location). Every photo I sent had both of us in it, except a set of 2 of us both in front of the same location.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-09-19 06:48:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresFiance Signature I-129F, she is overseas?

I have completed the I-129F, G-325A, and Letter of Intent. My fiance is not in the USA, she is very far away overseas.

Does my fiance have to put her signature on the G-325A? She also has some pages attached to G-325A, must she sign those too? Does she have to sign the Letter of Intent?

Can I put my signature on everything instead? If so, how exactly do I do that? Do I write, my name, and my signature near the area where her signature is supposed to be?

Almost everyone working on a K-1 visa has a fiance/ee who is very far away/overseas! But yes, the G-325A and letter of intent do need to have original signatures from her.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-09-20 22:13:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresWhere the fiance intends to stay in the US

and is filing in California Service Center easier? than in Texas

The only USCIS centers that process I-129F petitions are California and Vermont, and your petition will be automatically routed from the Dallas, Texas lockbox to the correct one, based on the petitioner's location in the U.S.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-09-20 21:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresVisa fiancée time frame and cost

Also Expect evrything to take up to 9 months.

Or longer. We're going to be at very close to 9 months by the time he has his interview. There are plenty of other people who filed the same month as I did and are still waiting.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-09-22 20:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresUrgent K-1 question. Must see
As far as I know, it is possible to get interviewed in a country other than your home country as long as you are there legally. Others will hopefully chime in with more details about this.

As for traveling to the U.S. to marry, you'll have a lot of trouble getting a U.S. tourist visa with a Nigerian passport, especially if you disclose that your purpose for the trip is to get married (which doesn't necessarily mean that you're planning to stay and try to adjust status after your marriage, but the embassy will assume that regardless). Africans who are young, single, and without strong ties to their home countries (good job, a wife/children, etc.) have virtually no chance of being issued U.S. tourist visas.

Try the subsaharan Africa subforum for more advice from Nigerians, and good luck!
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-09-28 15:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresI-129F - describe how you met (Question-18)
I put:

Aaron and I first met 12/27/10 in Entebbe, Uganda while I was visiting the home of [Name] (my friend and his cousin) 12/27/10-1/11/11, since which time we have kept in touch via phone and Internet. I visited him again 7/2-7/9/11. During my 3rd visit 12/24/11-1/9/12 we traveled together to visit his sister in Nairobi, Kenya 1/5-1/8/12, where we became engaged on 1/7/12.

This was sufficient for USCIS & NVC: still waiting to find out what the embassy thinks...
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-10-11 05:50:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresIs it worth getting a lawyer?
We went the DIY route, and just received K-1 visa approval from a fairly difficult consulate. I spent a LOT of time and energy on the initial petition & accompanying evidence, and it seems to have paid off with an RFE-free NOA2 and a very quick, pleasant interview/approval. I'm not sure how a lawyer would have made this any more straightforward than it was, and it would have added stress to the process for me not to be able to double-check everything before it was sent in. Even if you use a lawyer, you still need to be educated enough about the process to know when the lawyer is getting things wrong, so in my opinion it doesn't seem like it would really be too helpful except in a complicated case.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-11-12 20:21:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresHow to Organize Proof of Having Met vs Proof of Relationship
You may want to indicate which consulate you'll be interviewing at to get more relevant advice. Evidence of an ongoing relationship is not a requirement for the I-129F petition, so depending on the embassy, including it can fall anywhere on the spectrum between "absolutely crucial" and "over the top." You'll want to be sure you match your petition package to the embassy.

In our package (medium-to-difficult embassy: Nairobi, Kenya), I included all of the travel evidence in one section organized chronologically by visit, starting with the most recent. Each visit had a cover page listing the evidence presented, and behind the cover page I included several pages of photos from the trip in question (printed in color on cardstock, with captions) along with the emailed travel itinerary, the passport stamps generated on that trip (just that page of the passport), my boarding passes, my bank/credit card statements showing withdrawals/charges during that timeframe, bus tickets & hotel receipts if applicable, and any other documentation. I also made labels to put at the bottom of each page of evidence (such as "[Name]'s boarding passes, [City] to [City], [Date]") to make it absolutely clear to the adjudicator/CO what he/she was looking at. I also included a separate section for relationship evidence not related to the trips: phone/text/chat/webcam records, emails, and a few affidavits from family/friends.

Our I-129F was approved with no RFE, and the K-1 interview was very brief and pleasant with no additional relationship evidence requested, so the assembly style and evidence included must have been what the reviewers were looking for, but again, all of this varies a lot by embassy (although not during the USCIS phase).

Edit: Re-reading your question, I didn't specifically answer what you asked! I definitely mixed relationship evidence and proof of meeting in the trip documentation section, but I did label the section with the trip documentation as "Proof of meeting within the last 2 years" or something similar, so they would be sure to spot it easily.

Edited by afoyoswa, 15 November 2012 - 02:19 PM.

afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-11-15 14:14:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresNeed help! Fiance or Marriage Visa ?

see this is what im talking about.. why do i need a police record/?? she did not visit denmark.. she went ther to work and an opare or somthing like that... what ever that is... and she was gonna get her visa renewed and her employer told her dont worry if it expires.. whell get it taken care of.. well push came to shove and the employer.. lied... and couldnt get the visa extended.. and she was detained by police.. and she said she had to stay in some kind of prison camp for a week or two then deported.. thats some serious shyt.. for overstaying a week..

Im pretty shure she wont know how to write a written statment.. and im very shure she will send it and it willl get lost in the mail or it will take a month or 2 just to get any info back.. that is way to long!! I need to get this thing moving on... Do you know how hard it is being half way around the world away from your loved one waiting day by day??? I just dont got the patients waiting that long..!!


How long was she working as an au pair in Denmark? One of the requirements of the K-1 visa is a police certificate for every country in which the applicant has lived for 6 months or longer past the age of 18. Another is a complete and truthful record of the applicant's town/city & country of residence for the last 5 years (on the G325A) or 10 years (on the actual K-1 forms). No way around either of those. But then, talking about impatience and the difficulties of being separated won't get you very far here, as many of us have spent/are spending many months apart, just to do things the right way and not have to live with the worry that an omission/untruth will come back later to unravel everything. Even if you think you're getting away with something with the USCIS/DOS, you never know how long that will last.

Also, if your divorce is not even final yet, what is the hurry, exactly?

Edited by afoyoswa, 15 November 2012 - 07:23 AM.

afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-11-15 07:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresAugust 31st Wedding
As you can see from our timeline, our NOA1 date was Feb. 23, and he arrived in the U.S. on Nov. 20, so almost exactly 9 months start to finish. We actually got our NOA2 in August, but there were unanticipated delays at the embassy, and we ended up having to reschedule the Nov. 3 wedding date we had started (after the NOA2) to plan for. We had set up the venue, photographer, etc. with a backup date so it didn't cost us anything, but it WAS a huge let-down.

In the end, we planned and carried off a fun, beautiful, perfect wedding in about 7 weeks (with only the venue and officiant having been booked before that period, and only preliminary research done for everything else). The guests all knew the situation and were flexible, and everyone who really mattered ended up being able to come.

So, I would really hesitate to go full steam ahead planning an August wedding, unless you're planning for a built-in backup date several months later like we did. The estimates mean exactly nothing at this stage, as the processing centers speed up and slow down erratically and unpredictably, so you won't have a good idea what to expect for several months yet (the estimates are a little bit like a weather forecast for 2 weeks from now: anything could happen).

Edited by afoyoswa, 29 January 2013 - 09:20 AM.

afoyoswaFemaleUganda2013-01-29 09:15:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresHow did you submit pictures with your K1 Visa Application?
All of our photos were digital, so I arranged them 4-5 to a page in a Word document, which allowed me to include captions/headings.

I organized the evidence from our in-person meetings into a section called "Evidence of in-person meeting within 2 years" and then grouped all of the documentation from each trip into its own section, starting with the page(s) of photos printed on cardstock (heading: "Trip 1: <dates>", with captions on each photo listing the location, date, and people pictured). After the photo pages, I included the itinerary, boarding passes, and any receipts/bus tickets/bank statements/other transactions for that trip.

I had another separate section called "Evidence of ongoing relationship" with the phone records, emails, video chat screenshots, letters/cards, affidavits from friends, etc. but this was for a difficult embassy necessitating front-loading.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2013-02-12 09:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresI-129F Denied :(
I've noticed on the USCIS status updates that some petitions get rejected outright for not being properly filed, while others (like the OP's) get put away for adjudication and then denied later. The OP's petition would seem to be a classic example of not being properly filed: why wasn't it rejected right away?
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-08-01 07:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresCommunication Method Recommendations After Arrival
I attended my (now-)husband's interview and thought about bringing him a phone for just this purpose, but didn't end up getting around to it. I did make sure he had the local currency for his connecting airport (Amsterdam), so he was able to call me several times during his layover there, but during the POE I just waited. It took almost 90 minutes from his flight landing time for him to come through the door, and I was close to being a nervous wreck by that time. I knew, though, that he had my phone number memorized and that no news was 99.9% likely to be good news, so I waited and then waited some more. It helped that I'd done enough airport runs for people traveling from his side of the world (for work) to know that the POE process can be immensely time-consuming.

I can totally understand your being afraid, though! I hope chiming in with another "everything was fine!" story is helpful: statistics really are on your side. I've only ever heard of one story of a K-1 being turned back, and the circumstances were extremely murky.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2013-02-25 14:58:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresUSCIS Processing Time Information for our Texas Service Center
The Texas Service Center does not process K-1 petitions, and is not the same thing as the Dallas Lockbox where K-1 petitions are sent to be redistributed to the 2 service centers that do process K-1 petitions: Vermont and California. Your NOA1 lists which of these your petition was sent to: when you figure out which one it is, update your timeline with the corrected information and then check the timeline for that location.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-03-24 23:45:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresBio Information issue
Hi,

I just have a quick question about the g-325a Bio Information form.

I'm filling out my fiancé's employment history, but stumbled upon one issue.

When they ask for the full name and address of the employer,
do they mean the actual person that hired him or the company's name?
And the address of the company, not his boss' contacting address, correct?


Any help would be much appreciated!!

Thank you in advance!!!!
MkandiFemaleJapan2009-12-01 21:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresExtending K-1 Visa?
Thank you so much for all your help! Both of you. I greatly appreciate it!

Hopefully it will all work out good in the end. :)

Thank you both again!!!
MkandiFemaleJapan2010-03-03 09:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresExtending K-1 Visa?
Really, six months? Are we sure...?

I heard 3 months most of the time... And something about people getting ranging times, such as 3 or 6 months...

Maybe I'm just paranoid...? :(
MkandiFemaleJapan2010-03-03 09:03:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresExtending K-1 Visa?
Hello,

I was just wondering if the entry time limit given on the k-1 visa can be extended, perhaps?

I just found out this morning that my Japanese fiance has landed a job which will need him for 6 months.
I filed my K-1 visa for him at the end of January, with a processing time of 5 months.


So needless to say.. The given time for him to come to the US might not be enough.


Can it be extended?

And normally, isn't the given time limit to enter the US only 3 months?


Thank you so much for all your help, I greatly appreciate it!
MkandiFemaleJapan2010-03-03 08:53:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresIn What Form To Send Skype and Email Communication?
For me, what worked is:

I did a few pages of screenshots of my Skype incoming and outgoing call History, (It can be found in the menu of Skype) and printed it out. I wrote on the bottom of the first Skype History screenshot printout, "Incoming and Outgoing call history of my fiance and I on video call program, Skype." We talk twice a day, everyday, so my history on skype was around 7 printed pages! :o

As long as your skype name is your actual full name, and your fiance's full name it shouldn't be a problem. If they are more like a screen name, I would mention who is who in a footnote of sorts.

I also printed out various e-mails (their translations from Japanese, plus the translation certificate also included), ranging from the date I came home from Japan up until the filing of the visa. I didn't screenshot my inbox though, I didn't really think of it. But it didn't seemingly matter, since I had nearly 1lb. of emails, the translations, and 7 pages of Skype History. It worked.



Best of luck, and you have my best wishes!
MkandiFemaleJapan2010-04-28 10:36:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresQuick question regarding updating one's address!

Not a dumb question at all, since it's best to be diligent about this entire process.

Your timeline isn't up to date, so I don't know what step in the process you are, but I would imagine you'd want to update your address to make sure that you get all correspondence.

You can think of it as just the mailing address if it helps but I don't think it will matter. Maybe someone else will have a more concrete answer.


Thank you for the response! I know I have to update my timeline, we're already past and approved for the AOS and he has his permanent resident card in hand. But I just don't know what is best, with him being physically back in Japan for the time being. There isn't any mail coming back and forth from Immigration anymore, not until we have to remove the conditions on his permanent residency 90 days before the 2 year expiration. Maybe I'm just over thinking the whole thing? My family moved into my old home, so it's not like strangers would end up with our mail, haha. I'm just finding myself worried about the whole situation.
MkandiFemaleJapan2011-10-14 10:14:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & ProceduresQuick question regarding updating one's address!
Hello everyone,

My husband and I had, just about a year ago now, been through the whole K-1 visa process. But I have a slight issue, and I am unsure of what to do. I searched the forum for like questions, but I didn't find any.

Anyways, my husband recently went back to Japan and doesn't plan on being back until around January or February, due to some family troubles. I moved in the meantime, just a few towns over from our original location. My husband isn't physically in the country, but me being the wife, should I update his address to my new one, even though he hasn't even lived/arrived in this new location?

I am very sorry for the dumb question, I was just very curious as to what is the best thing to do. I don't want immigration to think I'm lying or trying something sneaky, saying that he has moved within the U.S when he isn't even here currently. Maybe I am over thinking? My marriage, husband, and his visa mean the world to me, so it has got me worried!


Sorry everyone for my dumb question. I really appreciate any help, thank you so much!
MkandiFemaleJapan2011-10-13 21:25:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAny February 2012 filers?

I hope they appprove everyone this week plus all the RFE's ;)

I'm on board with that!

I found 22 more 2/21 petitions earlier at the USCIS website (current total being monitored = 211), including a 7/26 approval. So, there is movement even that far into February! It's coming.

Oh, and these were all VSC petitions: meant to specify that, but VJ won't let me edit.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-07-30 02:24:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAny February 2012 filers?
I found 22 more 2/21 petitions earlier at the USCIS website (current total being monitored = 211), including a 7/26 approval. So, there is movement even that far into February! It's coming.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-07-30 02:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAny February 2012 filers?
The good news: I checked case status for my cohort of petitions received 2/21, and there is one new RFE from yesterday. The less-good news: I looked at a bunch more receipt #s below the range I had found before, and now I am up to 189 I-129Fs received 2/21, and no approvals except expedites. Thinking that they'll magically grab mine now-ish is a little like hoping an elephant will manage to extract a needle from a haystack. Using chopsticks. From the other side of the Grand Canyon. But hey, it could happen!

Congrats to Cori and Rob, though! Yay, approval!

Edited by afoyoswa, 27 July 2012 - 02:23 PM.

afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-07-27 14:23:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAny February 2012 filers?

:thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:
I will be keeping my fingers crossed for all our February group.

And the rest of the January VSC folks: what's good for them is good for all of us!

For the data-inclined:
CSC VJers
Jan: 107/126 (84.9%)
Feb: 101/144 (70.1%)
VSC VJers
Jan: 90/138 (65.2%)
Feb: 18/166 (10.8%)
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-07-26 10:17:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAny February 2012 filers?

165 days and finally approved. On to the next stage!

Yay! I have email alerts set up for all of the February VSC K-1 filers, so I raced over here as soon as I saw. I'm so happy for you!

Edited by afoyoswa, 26 July 2012 - 06:29 AM.

afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-07-26 06:29:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAny February 2012 filers?

Just popped in to say that I also looked around at the receipt #s for VSC on the USCIS website. There are indeed long stretches of numbers that are for other types of petitions, but if you keep going, there will always be some more I-129Fs sprinkled around. It just shows you how much other stuff VSC has on their plate aside from the fiance/ee visa petitions. I looked through a sequence of about 1600 receipt numbers adjacent to mine for documents received on 2/21 (the date mine was logged), and out of those, only 141 were I-129Fs (and out of those, 1 was withdrawn, 2 had RFEs, and 3 were approved: 3/23, 5/16, and 5/17).

Quick correction, as I misrecorded my data...
2/21 I-129Fs at VSC
  • 141 total petitions
  • 2 withdrawn
  • 13 immediately rejected (on 2/23)
  • 3 approved (3/23, 5/16, 5/17)

afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-07-23 09:37:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAny February 2012 filers?

Me too all the numbers around my receipt number are different applications and some before my number already been approved.


Hi everyone! I'm feeling a lot calmer now and will try to stay that way! Hope everyone has been hanging in there.

Just popped in to say that I also looked around at the receipt #s for VSC on the USCIS website. There are indeed long stretches of numbers that are for other types of petitions, but if you keep going, there will always be some more I-129Fs sprinkled around. It just shows you how much other stuff VSC has on their plate aside from the fiance/ee visa petitions. I looked through a sequence of about 1600 receipt numbers adjacent to mine for documents received on 2/21 (the date mine was logged), and out of those, only 141 were I-129Fs (and out of those, 1 was withdrawn, 2 had RFEs, and 3 were approved: 3/23, 5/16, and 5/17).

Curiously, there were also a bunch of I-130s in the sequence that I reviewed, and I didn't keep track, but it seemed as though well over half were already approved. If you look at the statistics for spouse visas at VSC on Igor's List, the timelines are several weeks ahead of those for the I-129F. So, I guess that's what they've been working on.

And still we wait!
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-07-22 23:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAny February 2012 filers?
I'm sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings, and I appreciate those of you who could see where I was coming from and that I meant nothing by my remarks. And now that I think about it, I am very lucky: to live in an age with cell phones and internet access so that Aaron and I can communicate even to the limited extent possible, and to have had the funds and time off from work to have been able to spend as much time with him as I have. It could be so much worse, even if I am despairing right now at there ever being an end to all of this waiting.

(Time to turn off the VJ email notifications, it seems.)
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-06-29 10:48:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAny February 2012 filers?

He can still come here until his interview if that's the only option.

After this I'm REALLY leaving, I promise! Just poked my head in, only to be hit with a really major case of "I have it SO MUCH HARDER than you" which is ample proof that I should stay gone. Mary, I'm glad you find the idea that he can just come here and hang out until the interview comforting, but a lot of us would be thrilled out of our minds to have that option, vs. having loved ones who have no way of ever setting foot in the US at all anytime ever without this fricking fiance visa.

Be well, everyone. I'll be back at some point.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-06-28 11:50:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAny February 2012 filers?
Okay, this is getting to be too much for me. I'm going to disappear for a bit and try to find something more productive to do with all the time I'm spending refreshing Igor's List every hour or two. See y'all in a while.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-06-27 13:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAny February 2012 filers?

Everything will be fine. And I think the puzzle of what was happening over at VSC has come together. February filers will not be waiting as long as we did. A little bad luck for us, but you guys will be okay. You'll be in the tidal wave of approvals soon to come at VSC. It all came down to H1B...and thank god it's almost over. Many of our own files are just waiting on a desk and the green light for the adjudicators to actually work them..we finally have some consistency with reports as to what was going on..which means now we can get a better perspective of what's going to happen. things are looking much better.


Where did you get this information, and why would this affect only VSC and only this year? I'd love to get some of my optimism back but I'm skeptical.
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-06-26 22:59:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAny February 2012 filers?
I'm trying hard not to be too overly negative, but...this:

It's so hard right now,

:thumbs:
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-06-26 11:40:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAny February 2012 filers?
Yay, our weekly celebration of Will-Vermont-Ever-Approve-Anyone-Again? Day(s)! I'm really kind of wishing right now that there were only one processing center--then we all *would* be in this together. Woe is me.

Ray of sunshine, I am!
afoyoswaFemaleUganda2012-06-26 10:25:00