Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	August 2008 Filers	It's happy dance time! Good thing I'm the only one here so I can do my Fred Astair routine between the equipment racks. The e-mail came in from CRIS at 1101Z that our petition was approved and the NOA2 mailed yesterday. Not a single touch since NOA1 for 175 days then poof, here you go. I haven't told her yet. I'm going to try and keep it a secret until tomorrow. I have to get up and go to work early so I want to just leave the printout in her early wakeup Valentine's Day card. (The mushy card, chocolates, photobook of the last year and such come right before we go to dinner at the Top of the World Club. It takes months of planning to make V-day work up here.) Then the office phone will ring a few hours later and I'll try to act casual.	thuleshark	Male	Greenland	2009-02-13 08:53:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	August 2008 Filers	Still lurking in the depths of this thread. We're at day 170. This is driving me crazy. I know in a way that I have it somewhat easier since we're together but it's still a stain. Still working 12/7 for a company and management I despise and then have to put on a smile for her at the end of every day. There's only one other petition in for Greenland that I know of, because I helped the GI fill out the I129F. Talking to DoS about a foreign service gig. Maybe I should take it. One of the perks is supposed to be inside tracked processing for foreign spouses. Well if and when day 180 hits I'll make the calls. And what really agravates me is that this is the easiest part. When we deal with the embassy in Copenhagen every bit of mail has to go from here to the States through the APO system, then get mailed to Denmark, and vise versa. Each packet's going to take a month each way. I'm going to take out my frustration by pimp slapping a polar bear now.	thuleshark	Male	Greenland	2009-02-07 16:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	August 2008 Filers	Sigh. Day 160 closes without any notice. Mail plane is delayed and maybe canceled this week so we don't even have the anticipation of a hard copy without electronic update. On a positive note, the sky is actually bright to the south at mid-day now. Next month, sunrise!	thuleshark	Male	Greenland	2009-01-28 16:57:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	August 2008 Filers	Aarrgghh! After lurking in the depths for 276 pages I must rise up and my mostly useless two cents. I haven't had as much to fret about as we live on the same base together so we've been together everyday of this. But like everyone else we want to get on with life, since there is nothing here except the same routine everyday, and being winter, haven't seen the sun for quite some time. We're at 147 days and nary a touch. The worst part is that this is the easy part. Geography is really going to drag the rest of this out forever. We're in the most inaccessable place and the embassy, medical examiner, and everything else or on another continent. Let's get on with this! I've been working for .gov too long to have any patience for them.	thuleshark	Male	Greenland	2009-01-15 13:17:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Expediting the Medical Exam	I've been all through the Copenhagen embassy's website. I've already e-mailed them earlier when I first started this process and the response was so cold and uninformative that I'm afraid to bother them again without being tagged as a problem child.	thuleshark	Male	Greenland	2008-10-11 03:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Expediting the Medical Exam	Another newbie to this board but already somewhat along in the process. Like everyone else, our situation is unique. We are applying for a K-1 from Greenland. Greenland is a semi-autonomous province of Denmark and all Greenlandics are Danish citizens so we have to go through the embassy in Copenhagen. Obviously there are some major geographic hurdles on top of everything else. We can't just take a day off next week to go for the interview or medical exam. This will require months of pre-planning just to get this coodinated whenever it gets to that point. By my estimation we'll have to spend a month living in a hotel in Copenhagen to do the medical examination, consular interview and wait for the visa. This presents a lot of problems, and not just the economics of a month long hotel stay. The first hurdle is the requirement for eleven business days between the medical examination and the consular interview. There are only eight doctors authorized to do the medical examination and they're all in Denmark, none in Greenland. I already checked and it can't be done on a US military installation, which would make this a non-issue. Then there's the wait after the interview to get the passport back with the visa of about a week. That's cutting it close for us. We can travel back and forth on a monthly charter from Greenland but if we miss the return flight we lose our jobs. Even Danish citizens are required to have a passport to travel between Denmark and Greenland so if the passport isn't processed on time we're stuck again. So, I guess the big question is: can we do the medical exam before the petition even is processed through the USCIS or are we stuck doing everything in one long, time restrained trip? And just to make it more interesting we can't find any immunization records.	thuleshark	Male	Greenland	2008-10-10 20:32:00