ForumTitleContentMemberSexCountryDate/Time
Middle East and North AfricaWhat's your opinion about Arabic??

Didn't post ignorant things.. let see if they will ignorantly ignoring me with their unwanted ignorance. :P

i have no idea what you are saying here, or what it has to do with my comment.
this, combined with arguing with a poster directly quoting an english dictionary over what kind of work arabian is full of win. do continue.

I don't want you to give me the examples from a dictionary since you're a native speaker.. give me a good example.

Arabian horse = Noun + proper noun

Never seen this syntax.

my cousins have arabians. horses. they are commonly referred to by people who are into those kinds of horses as arabians. proper nouns are still nouns. but in the context you are using it, arabian would be an adjective.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-09-13 14:34:00
Middle East and North AfricaWhat's your opinion about Arabic??

"Arabian" and "Arab" are actually nouns, as well.

what about in the case of gum arabic-is it a noun there?
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-09-13 14:19:00
Middle East and North AfricaWhat's your opinion about Arabic??

Arabic, Arabian. those are all adjectives.
Arabic people not Arabic language hahaha.
I don't use the word Arab.. for unknown reasons i don't like it hahaha.

it's nevertheless the correct terminology. incorrect terminology often leads to people ignoring you because they don't have any idea what you're talking about, or just messing with you-case in point...lol.

I prefer the evil language German hahaha

warum?
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-09-13 14:18:00
Middle East and North AfricaWhat's your opinion about Arabic??
ha!
my daughter's opinion, as a halfie, would be that jim is just tooooo darn hard to write. she has the hardest time drawing it, and we just don't understand why.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-09-13 14:02:00
Middle East and North AfricaMENA Baby Names
^story of my life. :blush:
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-11-26 18:24:00
Middle East and North AfricaMENA Baby Names
you want two daughters both named aminah?
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2009-11-14 01:43:00
Middle East and North AfricaMENA Baby Names
i heart.gif the name naayma, it makes me think of the john coltrane song. my husband and i both can't stand the name layla though. ugh.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2009-11-02 19:24:00
Middle East and North AfricaMENA Baby Names
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Jenn - I think you'll be ok with Adam - Mikhail's name got through! There is some rules about having an Arabic name for children and names like Sarah and Adam which are considered anglicized (i guess) were not always being accepted. However with one foreign parent I think they are much more lenient.

I depends on how you pronounce the name. Both are Qur'anic and Biblical so maybe I'm missing the point of the argument. Adam is the same Adam (s.a.w.) in the Garden of Eden and Sara (r.a.) is the same Sara who was the wife of Abraham (Ibrahim (s.a.w.)) (Qur'an 11:71-73, 51:28-30). What's wrong with Mikhail (a.s.) (Qur'an 2:98), is the name of angel who is said to control the weather not good enough? Pardon my French ladies but #######????? Am I missing something?

whose argument, morocco's? good luck trying to make any sense of it. according to this story, "Moroccan law requires first names to have "a Moroccan character" ", but they'll refuse amazigh names as well. the whole thing is completely knackered.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2009-10-30 23:36:00
Middle East and North AfricaMENA Baby Names
if ayah had been a boy, she would have been called idriss. i'm also partial to the name eman for a baby girl. very fond of zainab as well (that's my preferred spelling of it.)

umm...i actually met a little girl named tasneem today. she was a little sweetheart!
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2009-10-28 22:14:00
Middle East and North AfricaDoodlebug?
That's such a weird, random, and crappy thing to bring up here, now. "LOL". WTH?
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-11-21 00:15:00
Middle East and North AfricaDoodlebug?
Amal?
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-11-20 08:54:00
Middle East and North AfricaDoodlebug?
She's talking about two different people? The 2nd of which sounds like Jackie?
It's been a long time since I've seen either post?
I feel like I'm in the San Fernando Valley?
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-11-20 01:23:00
Middle East and North AfricaConfused!!
Fluency in the language that the couple communicates in is what's important. That language may or may not be English.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-08 21:45:00
Middle East and North AfricaOregon Shooting
Thank you! Yeah, we go to movies there and stuff pretty often-my husband can't stay away from the huge REI store. It has to be scary for kids too when their school goes on lockdown like that :-(


I'm glad to hear you and everyone you know is safe, Sandista. I hope your mother's neighbour will recover easily.

I'm sure it's a mall you frequent often, Sandista, being so close to you?

My supervisor is from that area. She said her youngest brother's school was on lock-down after it happened.

They don't even know what the shooter's motive was at this point.

This such a mad world.


sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-13 16:44:00
Middle East and North AfricaOregon Shooting
She posted on Facebook about being at her fragrance table in the front of the store, and actually seeing him fire a couple of shots into the air. Herself and a couple of customers hid in a stockroom for awhile, and then were escorted out by the police about an hour later.
My mom had a lunch date there that afternoon but ended up not going, thankfully.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-13 16:38:00
Middle East and North AfricaOregon Shooting
Thanks RFQ and WoM.
I've been reading stories about people who stepped up to help others when this was happening, helping each other find their way outside, that kind of thing.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-13 03:30:00
Middle East and North AfricaOregon Shooting
Aww, thank you Tamara. It's literally right down the road from our home. Everyone I know is safe, but my mom's neighbor was working at Macy's when this happened, in the same store the shooting took place. Absolutely horrific, and she's actually pretty traumatized right now. :(
My heart hurts at all of this.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-12 22:08:00
Middle East and North AfricaLeave in MENA pls
Raw news, FTW.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-13 02:42:00
Middle East and North AfricaMy instructor's rant
You are not Yakov Smirnoff Staashi!

And I should say it was a plane headed out of Egypt, rather than to. So no worries until anyone leaves.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-05 11:35:00
Middle East and North AfricaMy instructor's rant
Be careful of snakes on planes headed to Egypt-
http://m.gawker.com/...flight-in-egypt
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-05 02:02:00
Middle East and North AfricaMy instructor's rant
So cause Dubai is so peachy, it's all good in Egypt? Right on.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-11-27 23:26:00
Middle East and North AfricaTips? Pointers? Am I missing something?
Precisely. And while I stated my personal opinion on that type of arrangement, it wasn't just because I wanted to talk about my personal feelings randomly. The OP seems to be reading it as straight forward as well, it was just a time thing. The consulate could potentially be looking at it like, this is extremely scummy on this guy's part and that of his friends and family - what's their ulterior motive?

Conjecture ? I was not making any assumptions about you personally. I was just wondering since you did the nikah and all, why not go ahead and make it a legal marriage. But time available is a critical factor - and you're right, it can take 3-4 weeks to complete all the stuff you need for a marriage in Morocco. It makes sense for a lot of people to do a K-1.

Long-distance relationships are not easy at all, and they're really expensive as well as stressful. Just about all of us here have had to deal with the same kinds of issues - trying to get enough time off from work to stay longer than a few days with our loved ones, the money needed for travel, having to make arrangements for child care, etc. - not to mention the anguish of being physically separated from your loved one. You will find a lot of good advice and support here, but try not to take it as personal criticism. The ladies (and men !) here have a lot of experience, including with Casa, and they can provide you with invaluable insight (even though sometimes it may not be what you wanted to hear, it's not meant to insult you - just telling it like it is.)


sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-25 15:10:00
Middle East and North AfricaTips? Pointers? Am I missing something?

 your plan for visiting for 3 weeks for the interview may not be the best timing because after the NOA2 (USCIS approval) they will ask you to send the National Visa Center another packet of forms and evidence which includes proof of ongoing relationship. This is the time to show you have visited again because they are not required to look at any evidence you bring to the interview.

Is this accurate for a K-1 currently? 
I did not have to send anything to NVC, for a K-1 but that was awhile ago. 
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-25 15:00:00
Middle East and North AfricaTips? Pointers? Am I missing something?
In the past there's been a few couples who went through morocco with a similar arrangement. I don't know if they had any complications or not, I don't recall their updates. It's been more common with those petitioning for an SO in Egypt than elsewhere in this forum anyways. Is it an arrangement to disclose to the consulate before or during the interview, I don't know.
I don't know how Casablanca looks at this type of marriage in terms of fraudy or not. In my own opinion it's shady as all getout, lots of people maintained halal relationships with their SO and got to know them without agreeing to get married in a manner that completely deprives them of any and all of their Godgiven rights in a marriage, and without agreeing to a marriage that really no self-respecting Moroccan guy would ever condone for their own daughter or sister or the woman they loved, respected, and wanted to share the rest of their life with. But how important any of that is to the consulate-maybe someone else has more insight?
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-25 12:19:00
Middle East and North Africathe first few days in Morocco for marriage
your weird fixation on it aside, mutton tajine is not the food of celebration.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-26 14:00:00
Middle East and North Africathe first few days in Morocco for marriage

The expression on your adorable daughter's face in your signature pic would go perfectly with the caption, "You will care one day." :lol:

I wish I could make a sparkly poster!
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-21 08:42:00
Middle East and North Africathe first few days in Morocco for marriage

Hawai is only available in Morocco and Spain :crying: :crying:

It's tragic I know! :(
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-20 22:55:00
Middle East and North Africathe first few days in Morocco for marriage

You will care one day

Dude, I'm talking about drinks for a birthday party. No one is saying Jarritos are like totally part of a balanced diet at every meal, not that it's any of your concern anyways. Cool your sugar dissing jets brother.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-20 22:48:00
Middle East and North Africathe first few days in Morocco for marriage
Yeah, I'm sure grown women like being told what they can or can't drink.
We'll probably have to make do with pineapple Jarritos, the sugar content of which I don't know and don't care. :)
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-20 00:45:00
Middle East and North Africathe first few days in Morocco for marriage

I hqve not seen pepsi; but I have had a few Hawai and cappucinos yummy

Hawai, yum.
i have been looking, looking, looking everywhere for Hawai here in the US, and have had no luck finding it. I want to find some so bad for my husband's birthday party next month! :crying:
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-19 19:54:00
Middle East and North AfricaThank U VJ
This is great news!
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-11-09 09:05:00
Middle East and North AfricaI got an email from consulate.
Or they could go back to not using either one!
In early 2007, neither were required for K-1 there. But there were people out of Casablanca 6-12 months before us that needed one of the two, I don't remember which. They are fickle, to say the least.

I would suggest to all going through the Casablanca consulate to have the 134 and 864 on hand the day of the interview. It seems one month the ask for the i864 as they did with me and then the next year they wanted the i134. The i864 has been used since 2010, just recently, they started asking for the i134 and many of us used the I864 and told zagray to use this form.
So be prepared to use either for those going to interview, as you may be asked for either of them on the day of the interview.


sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-11-03 23:07:00
Middle East and North AfricaI got an email from consulate.
Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory...
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-11-02 22:07:00
Middle East and North Africaneed advice and helpful ideas, especialy from moroccan community

Ooops , make that 3 out of 3 that I don't know. Thanks for clarifying that!

No worries, I hadn't any idea how much foreign currency could be taken out of Morocco, so since that amount has a cap, it doesn't matter much, to the OP anyways, how much you can bring in to the US!
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2013-01-09 02:51:00
Middle East and North Africaneed advice and helpful ideas, especialy from moroccan community

Re: the money the info referenced above by sandinista is the answer to the question about what amount can be taken out of/brought into the US. As noted by sandinista there's no limit.
If the question is what is the amount you are permitted by Moroccan authorities to take out of Morocco then the answer is $10k.
So if you're asking about US rules it's one answer. If you're asking about Moroccan laws it's another answer.
Re: POE we came through JFK a couple of years ago. They were fine, cordial, respectful, allowed me in the area he had to go in. The wait to be called took longer than the questions, which I remember taking about 5-10 minutes. My husband remembers the questioning taking a little longer - 15 minutes. So we were taking to an officer somewhere between 5-15 minutes. We had been waiting about 75 minutes prior to being questioned.
Overall I'd say it was a painless POE for him/us.

Does that amount change if you are Moroccan or not? Just out of curiosity.
Here, it says the import and export of foreign currency is limited to amounts equivalent to £10000, that's a little over $16000 US dollars converted. So if you needed to move out more money than $10000 would you be able to get £10000, and then have the pounds converted to dollars once out of Morocco I wonder?
http://www.worldtrav...money-duty-free
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2013-01-09 02:47:00
Middle East and North Africaneed advice and helpful ideas, especialy from moroccan community

I don't know the answers to 2 of your questions, but what I do know is you can't bring more than $10,000 in cash with you into the USA.

nope.

How much currency / money / monetary instruments can I bring into the U.S.?


There is no limit on the amount of money that can be taken out of or brought into the United States. However, if a person or persons traveling together and filing a joint declaration (CBP Form 6059-B) have $10,000 or more in currency or negotiable monetary instruments, they must fill out a "Report of International Transportation of Currency and Monetary Instruments" FinCEN 105 (former CF 4790).
https://help.cbp.gov...to-or-leave-the
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2013-01-08 18:11:00
Middle East and North AfricaShould we apply for K1 now or wait a year?
Yeah, no. Even when there's no way to avoid a co-sponsor, just taking off for Morocco to wait out a visa in those kinds of employment and employment prospect situations reads ridiculous and irresponsible. And naive as hell. There are occasional exceptions. There are even less commonly people who have no financial or employment things to think about at all, ever. Those people are few and far between. Crossing fingers in hopes of it all just somehow working out back in the States doesn't fly for most people. Having a co-sponsor you can't avoid having doesn't change any of that. Most co-sponsors won't pay your rent or gas bill. Nor should they. 
The state of employment opportunities for a huge number of MENA immigrants here, even highly educated/trained people isn't exactly awesome, or moneymaking, at least for a good while. Ask the people with lawyer, dr, accountant, etc. spouses trained and employed in MENA how much employers in the States are tripping over themselves to hire them. 

As far as "underlying" ways of throwing jabs - ha! With Mithra what you see is what you get. No subterfuge, no cryptic, hidden messages. 
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2013-01-12 16:41:00
Middle East and North AfricaShould we apply for K1 now or wait a year?
sarcasm or ?
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sandinista!FemaleMorocco2013-01-03 16:16:00
Middle East and North AfricaShould we apply for K1 now or wait a year?
What would be the public benefit of raising the guidelines? Is there currently a glut of immigrant spouse families receiving public assistance? 
I was unemployed when my then fiancé moved here-I was a student. I did however have suitable housing arrangements set up when he arrived, along with an employment opportunity for him, once he could legally work. He also did not arrive here penniless. I didn't plan on being in school and unemployed when he got here, I
had a good job when we sent in our application, but midway through got an acceptance letter to an academic program I really wanted to do. I'm  biased because it's me I'm talking about, but I consider it different 
to be managing that kind of situation and dealing with it as responsibly as possible, and being as self-reliant as possible, as opposed to just saying whatever, and dropping a good job, leaving my kids, etc and moving to Morocco for 6 months, hoping my hypothetical widowed on a pension mom will co-sponsor while my newly arrived spouse and I put in applications at Target and Safeway. It paid off for us, my husband has a good job, and leaving my job back then for school allows me to make more money now working less than half the time. But our situation would've totally looked bad on paper at the time. There's some really messy, reckless, situations out there though that have a lot of cheerleaders. 
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2013-01-01 23:16:00
Middle East and North AfricaShould we apply for K1 now or wait a year?
For most grown-ups, the unemployed in the US for over a year part and not wanting to involve parents as co-sponsors trumps that. Like, hugely.
It's few and far between that there are petitioners who have the economic ability to just move to another country and worry about jobs and money later.

It is not extreme to live with your love in another country outside of the U.S.
If it something that I suggested it was to honor his B1 visa, marry then go back... spend good quality time TOGETHER in Morocco while waiting out the visa. ...where OP said I just don't know if I could do another nine months of separation, especially when I want us to be able to start our lives together

Really agree they has a strong case with a K1 or CR1 and might not foresee problems getting approved if they do it right.


sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-12-30 16:55:00