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K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reportscold feet-- is it over?
Yes it happened to us too.Now we are married......
We needed two Visa's to finally get it right.
I had second thoughts,he had second thoughts so we didnt use the first Visa.Everything seemed to go wrong.We had a horrible horrible summer and fall,then in December of 2008 I went to the US on a Visa Waiver and we realized that our love for each other was/is stronger than the fear .And we re submitted the papers to the Consulate.I went back to Germany only for the second Interview and left 2 days after getting the new Visa.
There IS hope.
If your Fiance truly loves you he will realize that he can not be without you and that ties to his Home Country in the end dont matter.
Good Luck to you.
Nat
VetsWife328FemaleGermany2009-10-21 09:32:00
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Yes Liz this is our time together. Quit your job if they don't understand.lol.. we have visa things to discuss..


LOL...If I won the lottery I would in a heartbeat...kinda need the job though until Pat gets here.

I'm here though...your not getting rid of me yet!

Has anyone else tried to track their packet?

I'm trying to call the NVC to see if my case is already at the Greek Embassy. I'm getting so worried now about this. I don't know if my SO will be able to even get the packet, being on a far away island....let alone tell me what I need to send him. We're meeting in Spain in a month, so I can hopefully bring all the documents then, but I just don't know what we need and he can't tell meeee. wacko.gif

Im not sure for ur country..but for Cuba everything was on their website and he doesnt have to go anywhere to get anything

Ok, thanks. smile.gif I'm calling state dept now to see about the location of the packet.
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-16 11:38:00
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QUOTE (lizandpat @ Jun 16 2009, 10:48 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (Rich and Bey @ Jun 16 2009, 09:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yes Liz this is our time together. Quit your job if they don't understand.lol.. we have visa things to discuss..


LOL...If I won the lottery I would in a heartbeat...kinda need the job though until Pat gets here.

I'm here though...your not getting rid of me yet!

Has anyone else tried to track their packet?

I'm trying to call the NVC to see if my case is already at the Greek Embassy. I'm getting so worried now about this. I don't know if my SO will be able to even get the packet, being on a far away island....let alone tell me what I need to send him. We're meeting in Spain in a month, so I can hopefully bring all the documents then, but I just don't know what we need and he can't tell meeee. wacko.gif

gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-16 11:33:00
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I knew you guys didn't smell so bad! Congratulations the rest of you, it's exciting!

Zambo... it won't be long for you either, this waiting won't even mean a thing once you have your fiance/fiancee with you again. It will be a memory that you don't have to ever look back upon.
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-15 18:50:00
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Congratulations everyone!!! Your dates are only a little after mine was..the mail is slow!

WOOOOOOT!
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-15 16:17:00
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I'm so excited to see my fiance that I forgot completely that I'll be having my 21st birthday in Spain with him!! It will be our first time being together on one of our birthdays.... But I could care less about being 21.... Or seeing Barcelona for that matter. I get to see my Hooooney!!!
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gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-15 12:41:00
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I saw the picture now! Wooow...You're basically famous Maire!!

On another note...I'm booking tickets now via Kayak.com to go and see my Lampros!!! I'm so excited. It will only be for a week...but I think it will hold me over till the next meeting.
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-15 12:03:00
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Ha, now I'm interested to see this picture when she had long hair.
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-15 11:55:00
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I saw that episode last night Maire!! You actually know that girl that Brooke dated? She seemed very sweet, and I couldn't believe what an #### that waiter was... People these days.. jeesh.


gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-15 11:53:00
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Morning all, I thought I'd add to the conversation. You guys don't smell so bad...I think it's because the NOA2's are coming soon!

This NOA2 is the biggest wait, and it seems everything has gone so much faster now, it's making my head spin!! My package was already shipped to Greece....and my honey is on an island...15 hours away from Athens! I hope they don't mind late replies.
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-15 09:51:00
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I've been looking into flights as I am expecting to receive my approval any day now, Maire and I have the same dates so hopefully mine is right behind hers, (by-the-way Maire YOU WIN!). I am trying to figure out how to fly to prague stay in a hotel for a week or 2 and fly back with my BH for the best cost. All the cheap ticket sites don't offer one way tickets departing from another country. When I did an international search for the one way ticket it was about half of the round trip price, in euros. But the website was in german and I could ready anything other than that.

Any ideas as to how I can fly to her for the interview then fly back with her?

What about just booking two tickets for the same flight out? You will just not use the one for her there...obviously, but then she'll get on the home trip.

I wonder if they'll wonder how she got to the airport though?

QUOTE (Maire @ Jun 15 2009, 12:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
i cant sleep! wacko.gif

Ehm...notice my time stamp. whistling.gif
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-15 01:14:00
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I know this is a bit late, but CONGRATULATIONSZZ Maire!

I got a letter in the mail from the Visa Center Stating they had received my case and within the week would send to the Greek Embassy! The notice is dated the 10th, and I it yesterday..ehm...yesterday yesterday (Thursday) and had called Friday and they didn't say it was recieved yet.

To make more sense....ALWAYS check the mail and don't rely on the interwebs/phone services!
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-13 23:30:00
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My fiance (Lampros, haven't mentioned his name yet) ..anyways, Lampros was approved by his commander for the days off in July!!! So now all we have to do is buy the tickets and gooo! I'm so so glad, only a month then I get to see him!

Roman + Vespa, I haven't called the VSC but I will very soon.

Roman, I can't believe it's already sent to the foreign consulate! Good news! That's a bit scary for me though, as we are trying to delay these processes a bit till he is definitely able to come in 6 months for entry.

Richard- I can't believe that poor 11 girl will be deported, it's tragic!

Hi everyone else!!
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-12 10:59:00
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OO that's fun, now I can post much more obnoxious and large posts tongue.gif.

My fiance is only doing 11 months of army now!! They reduced it a month, which to normal everyday people would sound insignificant, but to us visa filers that are counting EACH DAY and EACH WEEK, this is a giant deal and I'm super stoked!!
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gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-11 16:41:00
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Hey guys! I was trying to figure this html thinger out too.


gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-11 16:35:00
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That...would be awesome. .50c per post please. I have a feeling I'd just get ignored a lot though..
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-10 09:51:00
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I'm starting a new post because I massacred that with like 10 going on at once.

Roman, I hear you on that one. We'll use skype still to call his parents, and ok...we're both computer/internet junkies. His degrees are in IT, so maybe a broken laptop won't be so fun to come home to tongue.gif.

TRAFFIC- is the curse of the sooouuul. I miss living in a smaller area where I could walk to the store or ..anywhere basically. Maybe even a bike ride if it was 2+ miles. Here I live in a sub division which is 3+ miles just to get OUT of. In my area, there are not even any crosswalks or sidewalks and no public transportation, period. I just hope my little car can last a bit, it's quite "sick".
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-10 09:46:00
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QUOTE (D_n_M @ Jun 10 2009, 10:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I left NOVA because of the traffic. I used to live in Sterling and work in DC. Once I lived in Alexandria and worked in Fairfax. The traffic sucks and I was just sick of the area. I moved to Tampa and this place is Laid back and the traffic is just "congested" not bumper to bumper stand-still for ever! The mixing bowl is something these folks here in Tampa would never experience! I love Florida!


Oh the notorious "Mixing Bowl"... I was taking a class in Springfield, right before that mess of roads, thankfully. I'm a laid back person also and all the rush in this area gets me frustrated. My honey and I will go out to Oregon or Washington when he gets here biggrin.gif:D.


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QUOTE (lizandpat @ Jun 10 2009, 10:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Good grief...9:30 in the morning and it's already 81%humidity and 80F outside! That walk felt like it took forever today! blink.gif

QUOTE (Roman&Marina @ Jun 10 2009, 09:24 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I agree. Traffic sucks!!!!!!!!!! New York has plenty of it.



There you are! I thought you dumped us...lol! tongue.gif


Where would I go????? I am here as always. That is until Marina gets here. Then I will be M.I.A for a some time. HUUUUUNNNNKKYYYYYY PUUUNNKKYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I thought maybe work got in the way again....you've been kinda quiet the last few days! LMAO...I think we'll ALL be M.I.A for quite a while once our SO's get here... rofl.gif


Ha...hunky punky. When my honey gets here I don't mind if my laptop falls off a balcony, all I need is him..maybe food and water.

gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-10 09:36:00
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QUOTE (gatoula_tou @ Jun 9 2009, 11:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I know it's late and no one is on, but I thought I'd post this link for all you early risers in the morning.

http://www.parkwayre...m/archives/2937 -It's the best wedding dance I can recall ever watching!

D_n_M, I'm also in VA, NOVA, but I hate it..I'm from Seattle!

Everyone else, I can't possibly remember what 10 pages of thread contained, Gnight and take care!


Gatalou_tou,

D_n_M left about 5 years ago I think. What part of VA are you from? I don't mind VA so much - there are some nice parts. I am NOT a big fan of DC though - too much politics and ####### like it. The monuments and museums are great though...

Oooh now the link is twice listed, very close.

I'm living in Stafford, and I HATE the traffic, the populated suburban housing and the over-worked-traffic-ridden-stressed people I have to smile to everyday at work! (cashier at a grocery store) I think it's worse to think about because I'm not from here and most of my relatives/family is on the West Coast.

gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-10 09:17:00
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Good Morning all!

Poor Story, he was a good dog.. lol. I know you're all at work and in the forum.. (jealous, I would get beaten at work for that) but anyways, this is the ULTIMATE wedding dance:

http://www.parkwayre...m/archives/2937

I dunno if you guys can really watch it though, being at work and all. I love Pandora radio too because you can add what you like and hear what's new!

What do you call an Italian Slum?
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-10 09:14:00
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I know it's late and no one is on, but I thought I'd post this link for all you early risers in the morning.

http://www.parkwayre...m/archives/2937 -It's the best wedding dance I can recall ever watching!

D_n_M, I'm also in VA, NOVA, but I hate it..I'm from Seattle!

Everyone else, I can't possibly remember what 10 pages of thread contained, Gnight and take care!
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-09 22:07:00
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QUOTE (Maire @ Jun 9 2009, 11:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I hate going into meetings...I come back and have to read read read...grrrrrr

thanks Gatoula Tou...yes my babies will be beautifull

I want to be Uncle Ricardo!


only if u r a rich uncle whistling.gif



Haha...that's a good way to get your kids some nice birthday presents!
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-09 10:48:00
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Vowels are plentiful in Greek lol.

Thanks, I like the name too biggrin.gif. I love when he speaks to me in Greek. I'm not completely fluent, but it makes me melt!
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-09 10:17:00
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Hehe, thank you! That's one of our less goofy, better aimed pictures!

Gatoula Tou= His little kitten. Although it's written more like: ??????? ???!
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-09 10:11:00
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Ahh, I only added one so far, we don't take pictures very well lol. I love to go through them anyways, we have so much fun together!

Goofy is better, I can't relate with serious people unless on a totally awkward conversational level.
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-09 09:43:00
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I swear as I read the previous posts, you guys add 3 pages!

My honey went back to camp today, so back to texting through skype and the occasional internet cafe chat! I'm really grateful that he was able to hear about the NOA2 via phone and be at home to look up the stuff we have to organize now.

Ahhhh, I hope he gets to have time of the end of July for us to see each other!!

Maybe I'll post some pics too of us. Just a note, we're a bit goofy.

Maire-You two are gorgeous and whenever you may have kids, they'll come out as super model babies!

I've looked at others pictures too, and it's so encouraging to see all of us so in love with our SO!
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-09 09:28:00
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Thanks for the congrats everyone.

I have no idea what the order or work situation for the VSC, but I think that June is definitely February's month.

Good luck to everyone, I'll be stopping back in of course.

Prayers to all too, it's helpful when your honey is away..
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-08 19:45:00
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Bye Maire,

I'll keep praying for everyone!
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-08 16:55:00
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HOLY #######!!

I just came home from some shopping and found my NOA2 in the mail!!! (third check is the charm!)

My jaw dropped and instantly texted my honey, I'm in shock!!

It's dated June 3rd, 2009 and we have till October 3rd, 2009 to get it going, so I doubt any worries about this 6 months I was so fretful of..!

You all will get yours very soon, I can feel it.



WOOHOO! Congrats!


Thank you so much!

Finally talking to my honey now, we're going over all the details for real now. We had only speculated before!



gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-08 16:52:00
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Thank you!!

I think Roman and I were the same NOA1 date, so that means that they are going by order, not country or anything.

gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-08 16:31:00
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HOLY #######!!

I just came home from some shopping and found my NOA2 in the mail!!! (third check is the charm!)

My jaw dropped and instantly texted my honey, I'm in shock!!

It's dated June 3rd, 2009 and we have till October 3rd, 2009 to get it going, so I doubt any worries about this 6 months I was so fretful of..!

You all will get yours very soon, I can feel it.
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-08 16:28:00
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Morning February!

Well, it seems I just need to play it by ear, and kind of delay some little things.


gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-07 08:44:00
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Ugh..I'm getting worried now about our 6 months entry...he still has 8 months of army! I do NOT want to go through this process again in 2 years or something...

How long is it from NOA2 till the actual visa is issued? I mean...if anyone knows?
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-06 23:59:00
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QUOTE (minimule @ Jun 5 2009, 04:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yea...i try to stay positive but bahhhh, i ll feel better in the morning
let s keep hoping we all get approved soon



I bet you feel a lot better this morning indeed!!!

Congratulations!
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-06 19:28:00
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Haha, yes that's kind of my feeling after getting the Friday mail and not seeing anything I want to see. But it puts the chances up every week! Also the hopes to crush....ergh!
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-05 15:46:00
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QUOTE (minimule @ Jun 5 2009, 04:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
i hate weekends....so depressing.....


Are the weekends worse? and how come?

gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-05 15:28:00
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I know other people were talking about their SO speaking English. My honey speaks English very fluently (even sometimes catches my spelling errors!)

Do any of you speak the language of your SOs?
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-05 15:26:00
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That video held my attention quite well. It's rainy and gross out again here, but I am extremely pleased to have finally talked to my SO on camera and chat! He's home for European voting, which coincidentally runs through his birthday! I'm really glad he didn't have to be in camp on his birthday too.

Everytime I see him I am stoked (at loss for a more excited word) that he's my future husband!

This Friday ends another week, but that means that next week one of us HAS to get approved... I mean... Do the people down at VSC even get out of bed for their job? I wouldn't assume they'd have to seeing as how them laying in bed is equivalent effort to being at work and doing nothing...right?
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-05 14:17:00
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QUOTE (gatoula_tou @ Jun 3 2009, 02:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ehm...yes that's what I meant. Nothing wrong with your reading skills.. I'm not very understandable in person also biggrin.gif.

But yes...The CSC is half way through with February it seems!! If I was still living in Washington State maybe we would have been approved already.

Also, I don't much care for Northern VA anyways. Once my honey gets here, him and I are going back to the West Coast.


hmmm.........that didnt make much sense either...LMAO just joking whistling.gif

There's only so much I can explain lol.

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That's what she meant.
I saw the trend of approvals in the graphic and it seems that VSC and CSC are polar opposites. Look at the graph and you will see. When one is up the other is down they almost mirror each other.

http://www.visajourn...h...&page=times


ohhhh yeah.....interesting..but still no approvalsss

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That's what she meant.
I saw the trend of approvals in the graphic and it seems that VSC and CSC are polar opposites. Look at the graph and you will see. When one is up the other is down they almost mirror each other.

http://www.visajourn...h...&page=times


CSC sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come on VSC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Im about to go to VSC office personally..I swearrrrrrrrr and slap some sense out of them!


You mean slap some sense into them. You can't slap something out of them, which they do not have. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!


See, slapping sense into them, and out of them.

Their face will be numb (sense out) and they'll understand your anger (sense in)!!

gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-03 13:59:00
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Ehm...yes that's what I meant. Nothing wrong with your reading skills.. I'm not very understandable in person also biggrin.gif.

But yes...The CSC is half way through with February it seems!! If I was still living in Washington State maybe we would have been approved already.

Also, I don't much care for Northern VA anyways. Once my honey gets here, him and I are going back to the West Coast.
gatoula_touFemaleGreece2009-06-03 13:51:00