Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	Does Form I-864a need to be notarized?	No. It is already signed under penalty of perjury. No need to get it notarized. Wow, you really are the Info Queen! Thanks! Vote Sach in 2012!	MSPtoYYZ	Female	Canada	2010-04-16 23:16:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	Does Form I-864a need to be notarized?	Can anyone tell me if form I-864a needs to be notarized. I am getting both yes and no for an answer, and now I am really confused. Has anyone already had an interview without notarization, and if so, what was the outcome. Thanks! Ellen	MSPtoYYZ	Female	Canada	2010-04-16 22:41:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	Fraud Prevention Unit	Many things can tweak the dog of fraud into hounding you. It comes partly from country of origin and then they throw a few other things in to create a web of fraud. A good portion of the time it isn't true. However knowing that you have attracted the attention of the fraud unit means that you are going to fight every step of the way to get your visa. Our first interview went up in flames when Joseph couldn't provide DETAILS of my classified work. By the second interview they just threw some regrading racially charged comments at him and gave him a visa. (He actually laughed at the infamous Asian lady of Lagos ) Getting the visa was hell. However AOS was a piece of cake. I guess the exhausted their attempts to disprove the relationship during the visa portion and already know the answer of AOS. Sit down and go over what was said during the interview word by word and see at what point things went bad. Prepare to rebut these if you have to. Good luck Hubby says she asked where we met, how he came to US, how long he was there. Then she asked him for my 2009 taxes. He said he thinks she was angry because he took too long to give them to her, and she decided to end it there. I wasn't inside with him, so I don't know how it came to that.	MSPtoYYZ	Female	Canada	2010-05-22 09:49:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	Fraud Prevention Unit	That is the thing, I don't have a freaking clue! We did everything right, filed all the correct paperwork, made sure he didn't overstay when it was time for him to leave-even though we had a 2 month old daughter at that time! I wish I could say I did know why, but I think this is a case where somebody got their wires crossed.	MSPtoYYZ	Female	Canada	2010-05-22 09:34:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	Fraud Prevention Unit	Montreal Consulate: We got to the consulate early, first in line. Met VJ member SupportGeek-hop I got that right, he came second. Nobody else came til much later, really long line by the time doors opened. We went throught security, got letter A and were told to wait for the guard to bring us upstairs. We waited upstairs for about an hour, then hubby was called up to window 10. The lady behind the window starting asking for hubby's docs. They had everything, but she kept saying she needed the translation of his birth certificate. He told her she had it, she insisted she didn't. I gave him the additional copy I had, and as she placed it in the stack of paper, right on top of the one they already had! She took hubby's fingerprints and told us to go sit down. About 45 minutes later, hubby was called to room seven. We started walking in, and the lady inside took one look at me and Chellie and said, "No, get out, I just want to talk to him. Go sit in front and wait." I gave hubby the evidence package and waited outside the room with Chellie. 5 minutes later hubby comes out, and I hear fire breathing dragon lady screaming, "No! No time, get out, fin, you take the paper and mail it!" I'm standing right there, so I ask hubby what the hell is going on. He said she needs my tax information-and I tell him it's right there in your hand, go give it to her. He said she wouldn't take it, and said she doesn't have time get out and you can mail it later. So we have to get out. So we are standing right there in the consulate with everything we need to get his visa, and we can't because she won't even look at the information. So technically, we didn't even have an interview. We went to the post office on the way back to his cousin's place, and mailed the required docs. It said they will take up to 4 weeks to process, and maybe they will let us know if we get another interview date. I had a really bad feeling about the whole thing, because it didn't make any sense. When we got back to the apartment, I looked through some of the papers she had given back to hubby. She returned all of my previous tax year transcripts. I would not have brought this next point up, but I am wondering if it has any bearing on the reason why she was acting that way. On the bottom of the stack is a piece of paper that says: Routing Slip, and it is dated on the day NVC received all of our docs. It reads...From: Fraud Prevention-1, To: File Room. File Room is crossed out, and DK-1 is handwritten in. It has our USCIS and NVC case numbers, hubby's name, and the words 'Case Status: P4. There is a note section that reads "Petition reviewed and flagged by NVC Fraud Prevention Unit". Does anyone have any idea what this means?	MSPtoYYZ	Female	Canada	2010-05-22 07:58:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	What would you do if....	So,what would you do if you are one of the spouses waiting for quite sometime now in USA for your other half to be given visa and she or he gets denied? The question came from stories I read here about visa denial after 6+ months of waiting..some people even longer,even over a yr and 2... So? WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Re-do it? Move to your spouse's country and live there(because you love each other) or something third? Or you never thought of that? I'm moving end of year if this keeps up...	MSPtoYYZ	Female	Canada	2010-08-02 22:32:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	just a doubt	Im Haitian living in Dominican Republic with visa legal way in my passport, then my girlfriend will field papers for does she have to field it to have appointement in Dominican Republic cause thats where im living now, or she has to do it for me to have appoitment in HAITI in my Native country... what i have to do? My hubby is living in Canada, and he will interview there, so I assume that you can interview where you are as long as you have legal status there. Hope that helps!	MSPtoYYZ	Female	Canada	2010-04-19 00:44:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Getting married in Florida	Hubby and I were married in Florida. we didn't want to take any course, so we had to wait for 3 days after applying for the license before we got married. We went back 3 days later to get married-we both took a lunch break from work, met at the courthouse and got married, then went back to work. So the answer is no, you do not have to take the course if you don't want to.	MSPtoYYZ	Female	Canada	2010-04-24 16:16:00