Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	police certificate - where?	QUOTE (llj45 @ May 15 2008, 02:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi, Everyone We are progressing in this visa process! For the interview at the Embassy in Moscow, does the police certificate have to created by the department actually located in Moscow? or Can the police certificate be created by the police department of the region in the women has lived her entire life? If anyone knows about such things, I have attached a set of three police certificates one certificate for each name scanned onto one sheet of paper to this post. Will these certificates be accepted at the interview in Moscow? These certificates were created by the regional police department. Thanks in advance for your help! LLJ45 I believe you must also get a certified English translation for each certificate. You must bring both Russian and English versions to the interview.	RodD	Male	Russia	2008-05-15 09:19:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best Value Way to Call Russia?	QUOTE (Fettman @ Mar 11 2008, 01:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What services are people here using and which ones have good quality? I am looking for something inexpensive, but at the same time I am trying to find a service that has pretty good voice quality. It can be calling cards or an internet service, but I would prefer something that I can use over the phone. I call her at work due to the time difference and the web filter interferes with Skype and other services. So, any practical advise will be great and I am not looking for the cheapest one, but something that will give me good quality at a reasonable rate. Thanks! - Steven When my fiance was back in Russia for a month over the holidays, I used a prepaid (virtual) card from www.enjoyprepaid.com. For calling her mobile phone, the actual cost was $0.067 per minute billed in 5-minute increments, and the quality is usually quite good. The actual cost you pay depends on the plan you buy, which for me was the Ruby plan. What they advertise is lower than reality, so keep that in mind. For my plan, they advertised $0.054 per minute for mobile phones, but reality was $0.067. For land lines, they advertise $0.009 to Moscow, $0.013 to St. Petersburg, and $0.029 elsewhere in Russia. In Moscow and St. Petersburg they provide access numbers to use the same card to call back to the US. The same company has cheaper, but less flexible, plans for Russia found at www.nobelcom.com. I have used NobelCom extensively while my fiance is in the UAE. But with the NobelCom cards keep in mind you must choose whether you will be calling a mobile phone or a land line because they are separate cards. You only get the rate for your card when calling the appropriate kind of phone and target location. They advertise $0.009 for their card specific to Moscow, $0.011 for their card specific to St. Petersburg, $0.022 for their card for all of Russia, and $0.044 for their card for Russian mobile phones. Both EnjoyPrepaid and NobelCom are the same company using the same network. There is an additional $0.99 weekly charge (every Monday) to maintain the account as long as it has a balance. They offer pin-less dialing from a list of up 6 phone numbers. When I call from my Nokia mobile phone, I have the access and pin numbers programmed into it so it is still 1-touch dialing to call her. As I already said, the quality is usually pretty good although sometimes you get dropped calls. (It's possible some of those were when my fiance's mobile phone lost its signal.) I can't even call my parents here in the US for rates anywhere near that low, so I'm happy with these cards. They also occasionally offer 10% discounts over certain holidays for puchasing more time. For example, just before Easter I added $100 to the card for only $90.	RodD	Male	Russia	2008-04-08 17:07:00
National Visa Center (Dept of State)	NVC Transfer	QUOTE (danielle46901 @ Jul 1 2008, 09:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How do you know your case has been transferred to NVC? Does USCIS send you an e-mail? Thanks so much!!! You should receive a letter from the NVC about 10 days after your NOA2 approval date, with a new case number.	RodD	Male	Russia	2008-07-09 20:33:00
US Embassy and Consulate Discussion	Police certificate for child 16 years.	QUOTE (pwrnlite480 @ Jul 9 2008, 04:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As I understand,a beneficiary's child 16 or older who will be immigrating must also have a police certificate for interview at embassy. Is this correct? Thanks Yes that's correct.	RodD	Male	Russia	2008-07-09 19:54:00
US Embassy and Consulate Discussion	Transfer Case File Between Embassies	QUOTE (RodD @ Jul 9 2008, 08:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My Russian fiancee was living in Dubai, UAE, at the time we applied for her K1 visa. We received the NOA2 just 3 weeks prior to her moving back to Russia on June 7. Unfortunately, although we asked for processing to be through the Moscow Embassy in our application, they instead sent the file to Abu Dhabi, UAE. She sent a letter to the US Embassy in Moscow on June 10 requesting the file be transferred from Abu Dhabi, but now we are stuck in limbo with no word on whether the Moscow Embassy has even requested the file yet from Abu Dhabi. In the meantime, I received the embassy packet from Abu Dhabi with an interview date there. (I'm not sure why it was sent to me instead of my fiancee!) Does anyone have any experience dealing with getting their file transferred from one embassy to another? Any advice (besides "Good Luck!") would be greatly appreciated. It was bad enough waiting over 5 months for the NOA2, but it is now 2 months since that time and we are still on hold. I called the Dept of State today and learned that the Moscow Embassy finally received our file last Friday, July 25, after 36 days since Abu Dhabi says they transferred it. We have an interview scheduled for September 19.	RodD	Male	Russia	2008-07-28 15:11:00
US Embassy and Consulate Discussion	Transfer Case File Between Embassies	My Russian fiancee was living in Dubai, UAE, at the time we applied for her K1 visa. We received the NOA2 just 3 weeks prior to her moving back to Russia on June 7. Unfortunately, although we asked for processing to be through the Moscow Embassy in our application, they instead sent the file to Abu Dhabi, UAE. She sent a letter to the US Embassy in Moscow on June 10 requesting the file be transferred from Abu Dhabi, but now we are stuck in limbo with no word on whether the Moscow Embassy has even requested the file yet from Abu Dhabi. In the meantime, I received the embassy packet from Abu Dhabi with an interview date there. (I'm not sure why it was sent to me instead of my fiancee!) Does anyone have any experience dealing with getting their file transferred from one embassy to another? Any advice (besides "Good Luck!") would be greatly appreciated. It was bad enough waiting over 5 months for the NOA2, but it is now 2 months since that time and we are still on hold.	RodD	Male	Russia	2008-07-09 20:30:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Applying Based on Marriage - Proof of Divorce	We are getting ready to apply for my wife's citizenship and discovered that the instructions say provide proof of divorce for all previous marriages. In our previous applications (K1 Fiance, Adjustment of Status, and Removal of Conditions), we only had to provide the divorce decree from my wife's most recent marriage even though she was married twice before. Do they really require the divorce decrees from all previous marriages?	RodD	Male	Russia	2011-12-26 18:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NOA2 Approved	We just received our NOA2 approval from USCIS CSC dated May 12. Total time from filing to approval was 165 days! Hopefully things will move along now much more quickly!	RodD	Male	Russia	2008-05-20 12:55:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Fiance Visa / Attorneys	QUOTE (KimandRuss @ Jul 28 2008, 02:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sorry to hear that.. DOS can handle all of that. (202) 663-1225 Press 0, then Press 1 They can always tell you if/when your petition has arrived at 'whichever' Consulate and will even tell you if it's arrived and if you have an appointment date. Hope it's sorted soon. Thank you so much for pointing me to the Dept. of State. I called them (it's actually Press 1, then 0, instead of the other way around), and they informed me that Moscow just received our file last Friday and the interview is scheduled for September 19.	RodD	Male	Russia	2008-07-28 14:55:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Fiance Visa / Attorneys	As I posted earlier, I have had only good experience with Holmes & Lolly so far. Right now I am truly glad I have an attorney. We got our NOA2 approval a few days before my fiancee moved from the UAE back to Russia. Of course the NVC still sent our file to Abu Dhabi even though we had requested Moscow from the beginning since we knew when she would return to Russia. But Holmes & Lolly's Moscow office helped us figure out how to request the file be sent to Moscow. Unfortunately, although the consulate in Abu Dhabi told me a couple of weeks ago that they sent the file to Moscow on June 19, Moscow says they have not received it yet. So right now our file is lost in limbo. Our paralegal just emailed Abu Dhabi to get a confirmation about where the file was sent. If it is truly lost, we will definitely need our attorney to help us sort through this mess.	RodD	Male	Russia	2008-07-28 13:50:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Fiance Visa / Attorneys	We also hired Holmes & Lolly. So far I don't have any major complaints, although I did need to proof read and correct the filing documents very carefully. Some of the errors were my fault, some of them were theirs. I have sent a lot of emails to them and they have responded to all of them. They also have an associate office in Moscow who have been directly in contact with my fiancee (both by phone and email) about getting all her Russian documents in order. It helps that they can explain things to her in Russian. They will also help prepare her for her embassy interview. Their fees include not just the K1 filing but also help with filing for AOS after her arrival and our marriage.	RodD	Male	Russia	2008-05-12 12:52:00