Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)	TURKISH - permanent US resident w/ Turkish spouse	i have a friend who is a turkish citizen and a permanent resident to USA(greencard holder) she filed papers for her husband and they told her it would take about 5 years for her to bring him to the US. which is same as she waits to become a US citizen (5 years) and then apply for greencard for him (another year or less)	substance	Male	Turkey	2007-02-05 08:41:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)	Just Turkish	Thanks for the answers. I am sure your answer will help people understand the reason of this thread. The questions on visa will go on new threads. Not all Turks eat that much bread. not all Turks gain no fat from bread either. You are just lucky your spouse has relatively faster methabolsm. Yes I have heard the AC thing, most Turks order cars with AC but they never use it, keep the windows open. When ask to turn on the AC, they say it makes them sick. btw who doesnt like getting massages? lol	substance	Male	Turkey	2006-12-22 04:18:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)	Just Turkish	what about this bread and A/C muscle thing? i dont get it lol can someone explain it to me? -------------------------------------------------- should we start a new thread to tell more about us? like where are we now? where are we going to live once the visa is in hand? for how long have you known each other? the first impressions on your spouses city/village/town/home? and his/her impressions on USA? I have read some interesting stories of people here. it would be nice to keep them in 1 thread. this thread is kinda like visa help topics. the new one would be just sharing experiences , advices , suggestions more on culture and living. I am waiting for your responces	substance	Male	Turkey	2006-12-21 10:14:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)	Just Turkish	OK I re-read your past posts. you are confusing K3 process and CR1/IR1. Yes you are right when you do send in the last paperworks for K3, the interview will mostlikely be in 1-2 months from that day. On K3 process, once your I129F got approved, they send your file to NVC, NVC only assigns a case number(and nothing else) which takes only couple weeks and send your case to Ankara. Then Ankara ask you for final paperwork which are similar to ds230 and I864. As I said this happens between you and the embassy in Ankara. and Ankara is lightning fast comparing to NVC , they review your paperwork in 2-3 days and you get the letter that tells you the interview date in the same week(mostly) and you are right its 1 and half month or 2 months ahead from you last send in final papers. Most people on this forum do K3 , thats why you see such timings. CR1/IR1 however is completely different. After your I130 got appoved, you case is forwarded to NVC and NVC does all the work. You send in the final papers. It takes about 3-4 weeks for NVC to review them . When your case is complete. You case has to wait till the second week of next month to get scheduled for an interview date. And the interview date is 1 and half month or 2 months from this day(the second week of next month). I assuming you mean sending in the final paper work to NVC as last step. Mine took exactly 3 months from that moment. When you replied to my message and predicted Jan15th, it had already been 45-50 days since I submited and NVC pronounced on its system that they have my final paperwork. I hope I am mistaken and you are right but if you check for CR1/IR1 applicants you will see that these are very common time frames. to Michelle and Omer.......... how long did it take for you to recieve Omer's passport in the mail? The Ankara website says 2-3 business days. My interview is on January 23rd and I am planing booking my flight for Jan 28th. the 23rd being tuesday.......wednesday , thursday, friday(3 business days) and i believe ups delivers on satudays too and my flight will be on sunday. I really have to make sure I wil get the passport within 3 days. thanks	substance	Male	Turkey	2006-12-17 19:05:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)	Just Turkish	thats rude to ask if the age difference will be a problem for you later on....its not their business. when you decided to marry you probably considered all pros and cons and ended up getting married you know. well i dont know if you read my previous posts but i had lived in the US for 6 years and I met my wife the last 2 years of it. So we have plenty of pictures of us together in the US as well as with her parents...BBQ parties and all. And of course she lived with me here for long time while we were waiting for the visa. and many pics from her moms and dads visit as well. Well we didnt have a wedding ceremony since we found it stupid to have a big wedding and she leaves for USA and I stay here for 1 year. SO ours going to happen this summer. We can have a big wedding by bosphorus and then trip to Fiji then live together in our new home. I dont think i will have any problems with the questions. and the pictures , mails, emails, phone calls, plane tickets, hotel reciepts for our trips will help as well. We both seem like great match.. about the same age , same height:) both college student, both turkish (she is turkish american from turkish parents) but still , its never 100% chance you know.... they can ask question about each other to test if its a fraud marriage but giving their own opinion about age and stuff is rude......they are not the ones to tell us who to marry. just ask your questions to see if this is a real marriage or not. thanks for the responce i would suggest wait till your second anniversy for your CR1/IR1 interview. by the time of the interview if its been 2 years since you got married, he will directly get IR1(10 year GC) but if its less than 2 years , he will get CR1(2 year GC) and 2 years after the entry to US you will have to deal with getting IR1 again. so better to wait or make it take longer by responcing the mails late to have your interview after your second anniversary.	substance	Male	Turkey	2006-12-17 08:24:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)	Just Turkish	Thank you for your answer Like i said we had to hire an attorney because of my fiancee's job. But he seems good, i trust him Hopefully we can get that visa until feb.. so we can do everything as we planned.	Bulut	Male	Turkey	2010-05-25 04:26:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)	Just Turkish	Hi guys, well im just registered but i have been reading what u guys write for a while already. We are about to apply for Fiancee Visa too. So i have a few questions about that. Actually questions like just for make myself a little more relax. Because i started to get stressed already. My fiancee is working for Navy and she has just gone for a long deployment which is gonna take about 7-8 months. Before she went, we hired an attorney. Name called Ted Huang. We wanted to make it more guaranteed and it was more because of her deployment. So while shes away attorney will still do things for us. She and i already arranged every documents that he wanted from us, and we sent him. At the end of this money, we will pay for last payment so he will apply for us. So my questions are, are there anyone who heard about this attorney? is he good? i think he seems really good. But i read some other posts about other attorneys then i scared a little. By the way, i was going to school before, then i decided to go to military, after 15 months i met with my fiancee online. Between that time, i have never worked in a job. So thats why (still im not working) i couldnt write any job history to our application form. Is this may be a problem? I think they dont care what i have or where i work etc. They care more about my fiancee's job and bank accounts etc. right? Other question is: Do you think we should go to interview together in Ankara? Because its a little hard to do for us because of her deployment, hopefully after we apply if i can take the interview date before she comes back it would be better. She visited me only one time. I couldnt go to US never before. is this would be a problem too? And, attorney and things i read on internet say the military job of her makes the things more possible and fast for visa. Is this true? Thank you so much for ur answers already GL to everyone Edited by Bulut, 23 May 2010 - 04:14 AM.	Bulut	Male	Turkey	2010-05-23 04:12:00