Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Oh so many questions!	By the way, it is perfectly OK to drive in the US with a foreign driver's license. It is, but in California if you are establishing permanent residence (which her fiancé will be) you are only allowed to drive with your foreign license for ten days' residence. And, as he isn't a US or Canadian citizen, he'll need to take the full road test and written test in able to obtain a California license. socalgal - you are welcome to message me if you like. But the short answer is I am adjusting very well - I love it here!	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2011-05-04 10:16:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Oh so many questions!	Welcome! Like your fiancé, I'm from the UK and moved to California. I don't have answers for all of your questions, but here are some: 1. This is more of a tip than an answer: Don't just count the filing fees themselves but the cost of postage, travelling to and staying in London, any printing costs, etc... especially important if you are on a tight budget 2. As others have said, 6 months. As for shipping, personally I had really good experience with Excess Baggage - http://www.excess-baggage.com/ They provided me with all the boxes, I packed, and then they did door-to-door delivery (picked it up and dropped it off in the US 12 weeks later) for around $500 for 12 boxes. I had no problems with customs, except for having to provide $50 for an x-ray. There are many recommendations in the UK forum, but that's my personal recommendation It was so easy! 3. You will have to wait for AP - this can still take a month or two after you file for AOS, so there's really no way to leave immediately for a foreign honeymoon. You'll have to delay, unfortunately. 4. Yes. It's really not rocket science! It sounds as if you already understand quite a lot. As long as your case isn't complex (criminal backgrounds, your sixth marriage, etc.) it's really just a case of following the instructions and telling the truth, like Damian&Kelly says. Keep a copy of everything you send and receive! Good luck!	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2011-05-03 16:50:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Petition Questions	even if it is not my current address or even the one before that? I dont want to make any mistakes Yes. When I filled out the form, NONE of the addresses I had used in the last five years (I moved around a lot as a student!) were addresses I had lived at for more than a year. So for that question I answered with my parents' address, which I had last lived at seven years ago.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2011-06-16 18:04:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Petition Questions	well all of my address are in England. So do I put the most rcent address that i had for a year? is that what it means? thnx for your help Yes, that is correct.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2011-06-16 17:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Petition Questions	Thanks, on the beneficary g325a do you just leave the address outside the US blank, all of the address are outside obviously lol No! You may repeat the address you mentioned in the previous section, but you should still answer the question.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2011-06-16 17:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Petition Questions	1st question, is it best to send the petition express mail to this address.... USCIS 2501 South State Highway 121 Business Suite 400 Lewsville, TX, 75067 2nd, on the example letters, letter of intent and cover letter, where it says "Address of your service center"and"USCIS service center" which on is this? Also on the petitioners fiance letter of intent what do you put in the "Embassy address" and "contry where it is located" On the beneficiary fiance letter of intent is the Embassy address the one in London? 3rd, can you state "student" in the employment section or do you just state none? 4th, on the G325a what does 'applicants address outside the US of more than 1 year' mean? Thanks 1. That is where to send the petition if you are sending it express mail, yes. If you are asking whether or not to send it express mail, that's entirely up to you! Personally I did not, but I can understand why others would. 2. I put the address to which I was sending the petition. I used the embassy address only when using the letter for packet 3, not at the initial filing stage. 3. I would state 'unemployed', as in the example given on VisaJourney.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2011-06-16 17:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	International Dating/ Salary Consideration	Well, it really all depends on where in the US does the petitioner live, which country the beneficiary lives in (i.e. if it's Canada or Mexico, it's much easier/cheaper to make trips to each other's country), and your definition of 'comfortable' life. Purely based on personal experience and travel and visa expenses, I'd say $35,000+. Also... the beneficiary can help pay, too, in many circumstances. I'm the beneficiary and covered the entire costs of the travel, visa, moving expenses, AOS and ROC.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2011-10-14 12:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Did you use a lawyer	I'm detail-orientated and our case was about as simple as you can get. No, we did not use a lawyer and we had no RFEs.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2011-10-17 10:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Difference of Age	If there is any woman on this forum that married and supports their husband, I would like to hear from them. That would be me! Paid for the entire visa, flights and moving costs myself, found work as soon as I had my EAD, and have been supporting us both ever since. There are all kinds of reasons for getting together. I did love Jim's post in this thread, though. Edited by Alex & Rachel, 23 October 2011 - 03:21 PM.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2011-10-23 15:19:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	should she change her name on marriage certificate	Yes, it holds true for immigrants. Yes, her passport won't match other documents. It wasn't a hassle for me to change my passport, however. But I do not know how it would be to change a Thailand passport. It's cheapest and easiest to change your name upon marriage. If changing it later, there are often fees to be paid.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2011-11-03 14:32:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Fee Outline?	have a look at this and other things to consider are medical fee... possible immunizations... police certificate I'd also like to add: Train tickets (or other cost of transport) to get you to embassy Accommodation night before interview Flight! Moving costs All the costs associated with actually getting married (even if you're only paying for a courthouse ceremony) It is definitely an expensive process! The AOS cost is tough - it was especially tough for us as my husband was laid off the day after we were married! I'd definitely recommend saving for it now!	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2011-11-11 13:00:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	My housemate is evil! She left out a catalogue to this company. Look at those make-up items! All of the pretty boxes are reusable. I'm so attracted to shiny things.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-27 16:44:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	dbears - if I ever need to unburden myself of a few of my books you shall be the first person I call! Although there's little chance of that happening, I'm afraid! I have a few books that I bought second-hand - most of them out of print; one of my favourite authors only has one novel left in print - but they're usually relegated to the top shelf. I'm far too particular about appearances. I used to lend out books all the time and I always used to wince when they came back with torn pages and tatty covers (and one time my friend managed to burn a hole right through one!). QUOTE (JeroenAndMichelle @ Apr 27 2008, 07:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Alex & Rachel @ Apr 27 2008, 10:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I expect you and sunnybear to try hard to keep up with us, Jeroen I try very very hard not to keep up with you guys lol.. I used to be a serious chatterbox on a different forum What do you mean, 'used' to? I have 28,000 posts on another forum (and I post on four) and that postcount is still growing! Uh...my work is very boring. Actually, I do look forward to being online a little less when I'm finally in the US. I use the computer to chat to Alex a lot so I'm always posting while we talk. Edited by Alex & Rachel, 27 April 2008 - 04:08 PM.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-27 16:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	dbears - you may appreciate this photo of part of my bookshelves, then: I'm the same way when it comes to shopping. I actually visited a bookstore the other week and for the first time in my life did not leave with a book in hand! The big book chainstore here is called Waterstone's - they have a lovely shop in the centre of Sheffield and they always have a 3 for 2 offer on certain books. If I spy one or two books I'd like in that offer I simply have to find more so I can take advantage of it! Yeah...I'm wondering what to do about my books. Most will probably be cheaper to ship over than to sell and re-buy. I'll give away any books that aren't in really good condition; I have a thing about liking my books to be pristine-looking.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-27 09:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	Mythologies and fairy-tales are the best! I also have a weakness for detective stories, especially if they're British and cliché. I love anything by Agatha Christie and I also have the complete Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Morse, of course! My mother was always telling me off for reading too much, too. She'd keep telling me to 'go outside and get some fresh air!' She was very good at always making us sit down for dinner together and to go out together, though, so I never did get away with staying in bed all day. My dad used to encourage me - he was always fed up of me stealing his books so he bought me all of the £1 classics, hoping that the dense language and length would keep me busy. It sort of worked; instead of reading a book in an afternoon I took (for example) three days to complete Jane Eyre and a week to complete Mansfield Park, but I think he was hoping I'd take even longer. Now it's quite nice because he, one of my brothers and I all swap book recommendations and compare notes on what we've read - but we all have our own copies and I'm 190 miles away so can no longer borrow his!	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-27 05:47:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	It's absolutely fine by me - besides; I have signatures turned off! I'm just glad for the company!	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-27 05:07:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	I expect you and sunnybear to try hard to keep up with us, Jeroen	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-27 03:23:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	Blake and Cecile; we three have over 130 posts in this thread! That's 70 more than the next poster (dbears).	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-26 18:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	Sight-read is correct. I'm the same; can't improvise (and am amazed by people who can - funnily enough, the two people I've known who were really good at improvisation couldn't read music) but love to sight-read, probably because I hate practising. I know what you mean about never going deep into anything! For example, I love all kinds of music and I'm happy to see an opera, or a musical, or a classical concert or a rock/pop concert. But there are so many people who are really into one genre and can tell you all about the bands in that genre and the influence they've had and they have the t-shirts and posters and signed prints. I couldn't do that; I love a little variety! I think it's a shame, when, for example, a theatre-goer criticises someone else for watching movies, as if a play is somehow more worthy than a film. Again, I've enjoyed so many different forms of entertainment; from ballet to the Rocky Horror Show. I'm trying to find more outlandish pet names for Alex. Maybe I'll take a cue from my mother and start picking foreign words at random.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-26 11:37:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	Blake - I like your attitude towards books, too. I'm the same. I just love a large library! I can't comprehend how people don't have a large collection of books...there are so many fantastic stories out there; I can't imagine what my childhood would have been like if I hadn't had so many books to read. It's the best form of escapism and is great for improving language skills. Jeroen - travelling is fun! I love visiting new places; very exciting. Know what you mean about cost, though. One thing I shall definitely miss about living in Europe is how easy and cheap it is to visit an entirely different country. Cecile/Miss Yoko - I was having a conversation earlier about pet names and that reminded me of what my mother calls her children. You might get a kick out of this! My mother used to be very good at French and had a French pen-friend she saw regularly (and still does) but there are still many words she doesn't know. (Once, when she was 17 and staying with her French friend, she wanted to communicate at the dinner table that she was full. Unfortunately she used a phrase which was also slang for 'I'm pregnant'. Cue a shocked dinner table!) Anyway, two of the words she uses as pet names are 'poubelle' and 'chou-fleur'. Even when she discovered what they meant, she still continued to use them because she thought it was so funny.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-25 18:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	No, not yet.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-25 12:14:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	Hobbies, eh? Since I no longer have piano, violin and tap lessons I suppose my hobbies consist of being social, cooking for friends and reading/watching films. Not terribly interesting, although I'm the go-to girl among my friends and family for DVD recommendations. I suppose there's not anything I'm really passionate about. I like to draw/design and have done the odd painting/website. When I borrow a camera I like to take photos. But most people like to do that! I love history; I did Ancient History at sixth form college and regret not doing it at university. But I'm lazy about reading it unless I have to, although I love historical fiction. I have a shelf full of Russian history books waiting to be read, actually. Edited by Alex & Rachel, 25 April 2008 - 11:56 AM.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-25 11:53:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	Please don't die, Cecile.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-25 07:38:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	QUOTE (Cecile and Bryan @ Apr 25 2008, 09:00 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So what is that proverb with canaries in a coal mine? Here you go: QUOTE One of coal mining’s earliest systems for warning of the presence of methane gas, the canary in the coal mine, though low-tech, was extremely effective and rather easy to read: if the bird died, miners had to get out of the shaft. As coal mines became deeper, so did problems of ventilation. Gas was an eternal problem in the mines, without adequate oxygen in the air, the miner's would die. The Solution: taking canaries into the mine. If the canary died, there was gas and the miners needed to leave the pit. The bright yellow canary birds were an early coal miner's life insurance policy. Carried below ground in cages, the animals' highly sensitive metabolism detected methane and carbon monoxide gas traces that signaled potential explosions, poisoned air or both. On their web site MSHA (Mine Safety Health Adminstration) says "Canaries were preferred over mice to alert coal miners to the presence of carbon monoxide underground.... For instance, when consumed by the effects of carbon monoxide, a canary would sway noticeably on his perch before falling."	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-25 05:28:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	QUOTE (sunnybear @ Apr 24 2008, 11:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Aww well congrats to them!!! I cannot wait for us to start getting married and post our pics etc! And yes me and Gareth have said repeatedly we BOTH should have upped and moved to Canada haha! I can't wait, either! I'm really looking forward to hearing from you all once you are in the US and also to seeing your photos! You, Blake, Cecile, MissYoko, and everyone else; we've been hearing all about everyone's plans and hopes in great detail, after all! Hello CHeCraig! You're very welcome to post here but I see from your timeline that you're not actually a K1 filer - you might find better support in the K3 forum, which is below this one.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-24 05:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	QUOTE (sunnybear @ Apr 24 2008, 02:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> LOL most Americans don't even know how to use English properly Happy to be part of such a busy thread....and will be even happier once more Jan approvals start popping up So very true! If you use Firefox it comes these days with an automatic spellchecker that underlines misspelled words as you type. Now, I pride myself on being a pretty decent speller, but there are still times when I come across a word I've not used in a while or I make a typo. Since the spellcheck doesn't automatically correct words but merely underlines them I'm forced to go back and make the corrections myself, and I've actually learned how to spell correctly a couple of difficult words that way. I suppose spellchecks aren't always entirely useless! Well, another couple who met on the same forums that Alex and I met on were married last weekend - they're going to file a K3! Actually, when we marry we'll be the third couple to have met on the forums to marry - the first couple moved to Canada where it sounds like the process was a lot easier.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-24 05:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	QUOTE (Cecile and Bryan @ Apr 23 2008, 02:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Here is an idea of what you can do when they are not online: go outside and take as many pictures you can, or write as many details as you can about your country, that way when you see them again or when your children are older you can tell them lots of things about where they come from. Even if you will probably go back to Turkey once in a while, I'm sure they will like when you talk about your country. I love this idea!	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-23 08:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	Yikes, you had to wait a very long time for your interview! Good luck to you, too, Pam - great to see more January filers posting in this thread. Good Tuesday morning, all. I had a fun weekend - travelled six hours on Saturday, attended my friend's birthday party and then travelled six hours back on Sunday! I did meet two friends I hadn't seen in years, though, which was really good, and the party was good fun (and now there are hideous photos of me on Facebook, d'oh. )	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-22 07:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	QUOTE (sunnybear @ Apr 18 2008, 01:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I added you as a friend on myspace Rachel I couldn't get your voice clips to play for some reason on my puter ??? weird! But my man is English and I lived there for 3 years so I know what you lot sound like Man I am depressed about the CSC....trying not to think about it so much but as the weather warms and I see more couples out and about together and this will be second summer without Gareth....well yeah it is #######!!!! I shall add you back! Very strange about the voice clips; did you try to 'save as'? That might work! Not that it really matters, of course. QUOTE (dbears @ Apr 18 2008, 02:48 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Rachel, I LOVE YOUR ACCENT! And I almost drop off my chair with the "Snape killed Dumbledore...." of course Snape ended up being a hero really. I have always loved the british accent, ALWAYS! Even when I was a young kid, I always love hearing it... No offense to the americans, I always thought English should be spoken the way the British do (though filipinos take after the americans in english)... I always make Ricky try to imitate the british accent, and he could really do but he'd be all red for really trying hard Thank you. Someone requested that I make that recording when the sixth book came out so they could use it to spoil the book for other people. Whoops; very naughty of me! QUOTE (BlakeandOlha @ Apr 18 2008, 06:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> OMG Rachel, you have the perfect voice. I love it!! Truely the classic accent. Haha, thank you! QUOTE (JeroenAndMichelle @ Apr 18 2008, 07:11 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hmmm.. I do know we all learn how to speak English in the British way, both oral as written (like 'colour' instead of 'color') so maybe that is why it is like that. We also start to learn English when we're about 11-12 years old. Compared to the Germans, we don't do dubbed movies, this might also be why we learn stuff earlier (like for example, when being in Germany, I learned most German coz the movies were dubbed haha). That makes sense. You're probably better immersed in the language. Of course I know many German and French people who speak English very, very well but they always retain a distinct German/French accent. QUOTE (CourtAndGrey @ Apr 18 2008, 08:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (JeroenAndMichelle @ Apr 17 2008, 10:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> btw... anyone seen Igor's list recently? There's someone who filed the I129F on March 20, March 24 was the NOA1 and they already have NOA2?? o_O Anyone else thinks this timeline was wrongly entered? I mean, 22 days? What they do? Throw all previous petitions out of the window and start with a clean sheet again? :S Yup, I saw that too. Their profile has been visited by tons of people today, I'm sure everyone is going "WHAT THE ^&$#&*???!" All I can think of is they are a Cuba petitioner. Those get pushed through right away, which might explain the 22 days. Their profile doesn't have any info, so who knows. I'm guessing it's either that or is just a typo like you said. Let's hope anyway... My guess would be that they are a Cuba petitioner, too. There are actually two January Cuban filers who received their NOA2s within a month, too. QUOTE (Glen&Teresa @ Apr 18 2008, 08:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Two things - how do you access Igor's list And has anyone seen the CSC timeline - last week it was out to 167 days, but this week it back to 152 So fingers crossed That's good news! Link to Igor's List is in my signature. Might be worth bookmarking it.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-18 03:48:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	Ooh - the voice files named 'spectre' in that directory are spoken by a Dutchman and he has an awesome voice - very 1940s radio presenter-y. All of the Dutch people I have known could easily have been mistaken for Brits when speaking English - perhaps because you're usually bilingual from an earlier age than, say, the French or Germans? Edited by Alex & Rachel, 17 April 2008 - 05:13 PM.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-17 17:09:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	Aye - some Brits may as well be speaking another language! If you're curious, I have examples of me speaking here: http://rebelsanctuary.com/voice/ Only the ones labelled 'rachel' though - the rest aren't me! Oh, and in one of them (I think it's rachel4) I'm talking about testicular cancer, so it's probably NSFW. (Hey, I needed something to read and it was on a nearby Gillette razor packet).	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-17 16:44:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	That's what I do - jump straight to the last page, that is - and I manage to keep up fine. I have to agree with Blake and Cecile; I'd like to keep everything in this thread! I hope it gets moving soon, too. This time last month a December filer was approved, after all! Oh - anyone with a livejournal account is welcome to add me as a friend: http://racheljanson.livejournal.com/ - since we're all sharing our blogs! Once I actually live in the US I'll probably be updating my main site (http://rebelsanctuary.com) a lot more often as my parents and grandparents read that.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-17 09:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	Aw! How cruel! Alex isn't nearly so cruel - just funny. I also play the Sims and I just can't be mean to them - I tried to kill a random Sim once just so I could populate a house with a ghost and I couldn't bear to watch! I'm not very good at detaching myself emotionally from what is only a game. Edited by Alex & Rachel, 17 April 2008 - 04:41 AM.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-17 04:41:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	I do hope! It'd be nice to sleep naked again. Wait, did I say that? I meant, it'd be nice to be able to turn down the heating and not have to wear three layers all the time! Well, Alex has found a way to pass time. He's created little Sim people of a bunch of forumers over on another set of forums, and he plays them and creates stories for them. They're hilarious!	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-17 04:23:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	Yes - and it's not the nice kind of snow, either; it's all horrid and slushy. I might see if my boss can give me a lift home tonight because I don't like walking on the icy pavements - I'm not very steady on my feet and am always afraid that I'm going to fall! The weather in Britain has been ghastly for the last year. Floods all last summer, a chilly autumn, winter wasn't too bad but it's lingering far too long - April is usually about sunshine and showers, not snowfalls! This is our second this month and it's only the 17th!	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-17 04:09:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	I have to admit that my accent is certainly a commodity (though I doubt all British accents are - many of them can be quite difficult to understand even for a British person!) although I'm never going to be able to order 'water' in a restaurant. It's snowed here again in Sheffield - brr! This time last year we were having a heatwave!	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-17 03:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	It takes me forever to create and implement new designs/layouts! Good luck!	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-16 03:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	I am always super-impressed by anyone who can speak more than one language! I learned French from the age of 7 to the age of 15 and I can barely remember anything - and I certainly can't speak it. I was reasonably okay at writing and reading French but when it came to speaking it I could never make myself understood. It was very disheartening! I don't have a very good ear for languages - heck, I often have to ask people to repeat themselves when they are speaking English - so I find it amazing when people converse in a language other than their native tongue. Writing a blog in English is a great way to practice the language! I think you have done really well to learn what you have! I'll be sure to tell you if you make a really, really bad mistake. Despite my inability to converse in other languages I am fascinated by language in general and I love all the nuances in the English language. I'm quite excited as Alex is currently doing an essay-based course and I'm getting to proof-read all of his essays. I just e-mailed one back to him, actually, covered in my red notes - I hope he's not too offended! It really was quite well written but I kept thinking of ways to improve it further. Edited by Alex & Rachel, 15 April 2008 - 08:31 AM.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-15 08:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	I have to be careful - it's a little bit too big for my finger; not so big as to fall off, but big enough to slide off easily if I get it caught on something (which I think is what happened in the hotel room). I wouldn't want to lose the stones, either! Fortunately Alex chose a ring that matched what I wanted exactly (I gave him a couple of suggestions, but he still chose it by himself) - the centre stone is tension-set (a sapphire) and the four surrounding diamonds are flush-set, so none of the stones are in a vulnerable position.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-15 08:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	January Filers at the CSC - How are you doing?	QUOTE (MissYoko @ Apr 15 2008, 12:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have to say that i was becoming a little bit under obsession last week. Reading VJs, watching timeline and igor's list. So i was searching something to do, something who cost almost no money. So, i know maybe there is already tons ... but i do a blog now. Its for me, I don't care about traffic or stuff like that. so, it helps me... a bit http://blog.miss-yoko-usa.com/ hugs and kisses to you all Ooh, I shall read it now! I like how you've peppered your writings with little pictures. Cecile is right - your ring is gorgeous! I love wearing my ring, too. I was distraught the other week when I thought I had lost it. My mother and I were walking along a street in London when I noticed it was missing. Fortunately my mother found it in my hotel room! Although I can buy an identical ring online a replacement would not be the same - this is MY ring and it was the one that was given to me by Alex. No ring could ever replace it. I was thinking about updating my website (which is rarely updated - I have a livejournal for most of my writings) with visa stuff but I hadn't really known what to write.	Alex & Rachel	Female	England	2008-04-15 07:54:00