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DS 230 form

Hi guys

One more question .....

We paid the AOS, and the IV fees, I can go ahead send in my affidavit support package...I864 forms,
in order to make the process faster, can my wife download the form DS-230 and turn them in with other paperwork, the same time i turn in my I864 forms?
I know that we need to include the document coversheet of the receipt AOS and IV....how long would i expect to get a interview date?

Thank you very much for all your help!

Vinh

Male

2009-10-23 16:22:00

Interview - medical exam

Yes !!

My wife got her interview date Jan 5. There is a medical examination process, the embassy is in Vietnam. Will they send her more paperwork? what paperwork require to bring for examination?....If any knows please let me know...

thank you very much!!!

Vinh

Vinh

Male

2009-12-15 21:58:00

wow its so nice to know there are co-vj's in NC!

Edited by dj1206, 07 March 2008 - 05:46 PM.

dj1206

Male

Philippines

2008-03-07 17:45:00

affidavit question

QUOTE (sharif @ Feb 27 2008, 08:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

QUOTE (Rocketta @ Feb 27 2008, 05:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

QUOTE (sharif @ Feb 27 2008, 08:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I didn’t send any pictures or letters. I sent the marriage certificate my wife’s ID’s and national card both in Arabic and English. G325 I-130 and my passport. By the way the marriage certificate both in English and Arabic and both were certified from Iraqi local court, federal court and the Iraqi foreign affairs ministry. I don’t know if you need to do that or not but I heard it would help so I did it

Thanks, everyone for the advice!

Shariff, my husband is Iraqi as well. Did you send your wife's actual ID and national card or a certified translation of those items?

just copy of all her ID and certified translation of those items. you can send copy or his passport. I didn't send send it because my wife didn't have one at that time

Thanks for the info.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-02-27 09:03:00

affidavit question

QUOTE (sharif @ Feb 27 2008, 08:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks, everyone for the advice!

Shariff, my husband is Iraqi as well. Did you send your wife's actual ID and national card or a certified translation of those items?

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-02-27 08:38:00

affidavit question

I'm trying to file a I-130 petition and I wanted to send in some affidavits from my husbands friends that the maShriage is real. First should the affidavits be from the foreign persons friends or the americans friends and family? If it's the foreigner's friends should it be in their natural language or english?

We got married where he is at, Jordan. So my family have never seen us together? We've never lived together so I can't provide any of that information.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-02-26 23:32:00

Visa in hand

Congratulations!!!

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-02-28 17:25:00

Arrived in America

Well I hope this is the case for everyone when they arrive. However, I will be shocked if it's that easy for my Iraqi husband.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-03-02 20:21:00

waiting to Do DCF in Bogota, Colombia

Here's hoping the political unrest doesn't escalate down there.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-03-03 21:04:00

QUOTE (eau_xplain @ Mar 1 2008, 03:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No, Shian doesn't have her appointment yet. She's still getting ready to send her AOS packet out next week. She's just looking ahead because of her husband's deployment.

Ah I see. thanks.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-03-02 19:55:00

Do you have a date for your appointment, yet?

Do you have a date for your appointment, yet?

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-02-29 12:22:00

QUOTE (eau_xplain @ Feb 28 2008, 04:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I checked Greyhound and it is 7-9 hours trip, one arriving late at night and the other very early in the morning

hmmm, pm me I'm in NC....there maybe something I can do to help you.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-02-28 17:19:00

Approved

It's soooooo inspiring for me.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-03-20 01:10:00

Approved

Congratulations!!!

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-03-20 00:01:00

Afiidavits from friends and family....?

I submitted one affidavit and I had it noterized, better safe then sorry.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-03-22 14:42:00

FINALLY APPROVED!

whoa!!! Congrats. I think I would crazy if my process takes that long.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-03-31 23:12:00

Does anyone know if your spouse/fiance' is iraqi and was apart of ...

*bump*

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-03-03 13:16:00

Does anyone know if your spouse/fiance' is iraqi and was apart of ...

Oh yeah it was allowed check out this article.

QUOTE

Baathist secrets revealed
Joel Brinkley

Sunday, August 19, 2007

IT GOES without saying that President Bush invaded Iraq knowing almost nothing about the nation and society he would soon own.

Do you recall Bush saying anything about the challenge, for example, of keeping peace between Sunnis and Shiites? The closest he came to that, in a press release issued days before the war began, was this: "All the Iraqi people - its rich mix of Sunni and Shiite Arabs, Kurds, Turkomen, Assyrians, Chaldeans and all others - should enjoy freedom, prosperity and equality in a unified country."

So much for that idea.

When Bush embraced Nouri Kamal al-Maliki as Iraq's prime minister, did he say anything about Dawa, Maliki's political party? Hezbollah in Lebanon is an offshoot of Dawa, and the two Shiite groups still have connections. Hezbollah, of course, started the war with Israel last summer and has long been on the American list of terrorist organizations. Dawa was on that list in the 1980s.

Well, here's a new piece of knowledge about Iraq, gleaned from records of the Baath Party, which was Saddam Hussein's political base. The Bush administration could not possibly have known this. But then, it should have realized that Iraq offered a rich stew of political and military rivalries and contradictions. Just imagine how an Iraqi leader might fare if suddenly he was placed in charge of San Francisco, or New York City, with little if any know-ledge of the cities' history or politics.

Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi American author and academic, is the official custodian of 2.5 million pages of records taken from the Baath Party's headquarters. He came upon them in the rubble just after the American invasion in 2003. The records document the party's malignant work over a decade or two. And from that, Makiya has drawn an incendiary new conclusion.

The Baath Party was not just Hussein's political base. It was also one limb of a three-branch security force that kept Iraqis cowed. The other two were the army and the Mukhabarat secret service.

I happened to meet Makiya during a reporting tour in Iraq at the end of 2003. I had a look at some of the documents. They offered a vivid picture of treachery, deceit and horrific brutality. Among the documents were stacks of ledgers, each one 2-by-3 feet wide. They listed everyone in the nation and judged them on various ideological criteria, such as their position on the "Mother of all Battles" (the Persian Gulf War), whether the individual was a friend of the president or held Baath Party membership.

Now, five years later, Makiya has completed a study of these ledgers. He made the surprising finding that most everyone who lives in Sadr City, a militant Shiite Baghdad neighborhood, was, before the war, a card-carrying member of the Baath Party.

What does that mean? Remember, the Baath Party helped cement Sunni control. Party enforcers, for example, rounded up army deserters and sliced off their ears, then cut off all food rations to their families. Shiites were generally the victims.

Iraqis here and there joined the party to help get a job. But for an entire Shiite neighborhood to join Makiya, argues that there has to be another explanation. Sadr City is the political base for Muqtada al-Sadr, the incendiary young cleric who leads the largest and most militant of Iraq's private militia's, the Mahdi Army. He is the son of Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, the predecessor to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most influential figure among the Shiites.

You may recall that Shiites in southern Iraq tried to stage an uprising just after the Persian Gulf War, and in response Hussein razed villages and slaughtered thousands of people. With southern Iraq in disarray, Hussein asked Sadiq al-Sadr to restore order. It was the sort of request one could not refuse.

Over the years, a Baathist enforcement army took form beneath him. No precise records have come to light, but it seems unlikely that Sadr controlled it directly. He grew restive in this role, and in 1999 Hussein assassinated him. But his force lived on - and eventually became the Mahdi Army. Sadr City is named for him.

Then comes the American invasion - and the insurrection. I often wondered how the Shiite militias - the victimized underclass for decades - so readily adopted the sort of vicious brutality that had long been the specialty of the Saddam's Sunni enforcers.

"It is ubiquitous Baath-style violence," Makiya explains. "The beheadings, the mutilation: The Baathists loved these gruesome spectacles, and now these displays are their fingerprints."

This bit of knowledge certainly complicates the question of de-Baathification. And what does it have to say about Muqtada al-Sadr, who has been Maliki's most important parliamentary ally? Sadr commands a "Baathist" militia.

How little we knew in 2003. How many surprises are left?

Joel Brinkley is a professor of journalism at Stanford University and a former foreign policy correspondent for the New York Times.

http://sfgate.com/cg...9/ED7IRK08D.DTL

This article appeared on page E - 5 of the San Francisco Chronicle

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-03-02 21:22:00

Does anyone know if your spouse/fiance' is iraqi and was apart of ...

QUOTE (Don_Joy @ Mar 2 2008, 08:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I thought they just passed a new law reconciling with former Baathist's.

yeah partially, they can now be a part of government in Iraq but what does that mean for who they let in the USA?? Especially, when the person who is in the party is also a Shiite?

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-03-02 21:02:00

Does anyone know if your spouse/fiance' is iraqi and was apart of ...

the Baathist party if that will cause all kinds of problems considering to get a decent job in Iraq it was almost required?

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-03-02 20:52:00

NVC case number

Wow, they like you... your case is moving along. Congrats!I'm ready to hear that I've been approved. I'm waiting on pens and needles.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-05 12:46:00

Where the HECK is my Approval!!!!

Wow, I wish you all luck!.. I've only been going through the process a short time and it is very stressful and it can suck the life out of you. I'm just very lucky that they decided to rush Iraqi processing it seems. Personally, everyone who has waited months just to get a NOA1 or NOA2 has my deepest respect because I don't think I could've done it. I probably would've had to move to Jordan to be with my husband. Good Luck everyone!

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-09 07:34:00

Question for People who got their I-130 approved

Yes I heard through email first.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-09 21:57:00

VENTING

I feel your pain and completely admire all the people on here who have been waiting months just for the first approval. I would go bat #### crazy if it's another year before I see my husband.

Edited by Rocketta, 10 April 2008 - 01:15 AM.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-10 01:15:00

Nothing Special, Pure Luck!

Thanks Everyone!

Edited by Rocketta, 09 April 2008 - 04:43 PM.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-09 16:43:00

Thanks Everyone!!! Finally got up with the hubby and told him the good news.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-09 09:38:00

Thanks Everyone! I'm so happy but today of all days can't get a hold of the husband to give him the good news! It's driving me crazy. lol

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-09 07:27:00

Thanks everyone! I'm over the moon! lol

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-08 22:16:00

They have to be doing something.... that was what 11 days? I've never been this lucky before. I submitted mine at the absolute best time.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-08 20:54:00

That was so fast and I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Happy!!!

Whewwwwwww on to the next part!

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-08 20:31:00

need advice pls

if you're not sure of the month why don't you try to just write the correct year or just give your best guestimation. I agree with everyone else who says N/A would be worse than a 'close but no cigar' date.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-10 23:54:00

When do they do the background check?

QUOTE (S and S @ Apr 12 2008, 04:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I looked around, so long as you don't have any hits with your husband's name, if he does refugee he can get all the security checks done within two to three months of his first interview for refugee processing.

http://www.america.g...cm0.824032.html

http://www.state.gov...s/rm/100030.htm

It is all up to you.

I wonder if he has already gone through these checks as he's registered already with the UN about refugee status before I met him?

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-14 00:16:00

When do they do the background check?

thanks guys, that's scary that the longest wait can be after the interview.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-10 16:22:00

When do they do the background check?

When do they do the background check? During the USIC process or the NVC process?

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-10 11:00:00

CR-1/NVC help?

Just wishing my fellow North Carolinian good luck as everyone already answered your questions.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-07 15:30:00

My Hubby had his interview today and....

Congrats! The sad part is I worked a job for almost 8 years and just quit. Now if I get a job before I have file the financial support they are going to say I'm not working long enough?

Thank goodness my mom will co-sponsor if needed.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-16 12:39:00

Vermont Making Good Progress?

QUOTE (Jason&Dani @ Apr 17 2008, 04:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

There is no way to tell who gets approved when if you ask me. They dont seem to have any order in doing the approvals. There have been some Feb. and Mar. filers that are on this forum alone, imagine how many others that are not known to us because they dont use this forum. According to USCIS they are still on July 30th 2007 filers, but yet we still see so many people that are well beyond that day being approved. You never know, you might get approved before some Aug. and Sept. filers, all is possible in the hands of the mysterious USCIS.

That's totally true. I filed in March and have been approved.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-19 01:39:00

Excellent News - I-130 Approved (VSC)

Congrats!!

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-14 11:47:00

Question about DS-230

QUOTE (SusieK @ Apr 20 2008, 08:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

QUOTE (Rocketta @ Apr 20 2008, 07:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I live in a town of 5,000 people there is no mosque here. LOL

btw, thanks for the offer of help.

What you could do is just get an interpeter for that issue if you just need the correct arabic way of doing it - since each court house has many different people, it may save you time and money to go this route - just a thougth!

Cheers

yes that's an idea but I would be shocked, flabbergasted, almost in a coma if there was a court house within 150 miles of me that has an arabic interpreter.

Rocketta

Female

Iraq

2008-04-20 20:51:00