My fiancee had her interview this morning, and everything went smoothly and her visa was approved!

Next step is for me to order her airline ticket. She can't come until after July 1st, so the best deal I've been able to find is a one-way Air France flight from Moscow to Atlanta on July 3rd for $1,027.

Congrats!!!! Can you explain the interview and questions they asked, how long it took, etc...??? Thanks..... My girl will have her interview late August or Sept.

Congratulations James to both you and your fiancee!

Congratulations

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Fantastic news for a Monday morning!

Congratulations. Keep 'em coming.

Congrats!!

Congrats!

Good price on airfare, too! Let us know more about the interview when you can.

Congratulations

We are excited for you both!!! I have searched for tickets and hve found a similar rate into NYC on the fouth of July. All the other are very expensive.

QUESTION: I am having trouble copying the Barcode onto the forms to use James shortcuts. Is there a trick...right now it is just a little frustrating.

Congratulations!!

Congratulations to you and to your fiance/wife...

That's fantastic news! Congrats and may you have a wonderful life together!

Congrats!!

Did you check Delta Airlines? Delta has direct flights from Moscow to Atlanta for about $850. Well, at least it used to have them about three years ago, prices may very well have gone up

Congrats on the visa

Well done Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Congrats!

I found the $1,027 airfare on good old Yahoo travel! They actually have better deals then all those other websites you hear about on here (www.kayak.com, etc)

Unfortunately I don't know what you are talking about with the "Barcode" - please explain...

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations!

Many congrats... but I would like to hear about that interview

PS: congrats

Congrats..!!

wow,, very expensive!!

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I don't have all the details, but Katya said the interview was fairly quick and easy. It only lasted about 5 minutes. I think it was so easy because this was our second time applying for a fiancee visa, and we had a very good reason why we didn't get married the first time. Her grandmother became very ill the first time she was here (last July), and it was very upsetting to Katya. So rather then get married when she wasn't totally into it mentally and emotionally, we decided it would be better for her to return to Russia to be with her granny, and we knew we would file for another visa at a later date.

The supporting evidence of our relationship that she took with her to the interview was about a half dozen recent e-mails, about 10 photographs of us together, a few used pre-paid phone cards that I had used to call her, and some MoneyGram receipts to show that I was helping her out financially. She also took a notarized letter from her grandmother's doctor explaining her grandmother's health situation, and that was key for the interview.

Katya said they asked a few basic but serious questions like "Are you sure James is the man for you, and that you love him and plan to get married this time?" (or something very close to that.) Before the interview I coached her to just be calm, confident, and decisive with her answers to their questions, and everything would be fine. I told her to never answer anything with "I'm not sure" or "I don't know" - it's better to think of something quickly to say in that situation (even if it isn't 100% accurate) then to answer with something indecisive! She memorized everything on the I-129F, my G325A, and the letter that I had sent to the USCIS with our petition. I told her to do that because it would be possible they could ask any questions from those documents.

That's about all the info I've got... Good luck to everyone with upcoming interviews!

CONGRATULATIONS. I am mailing our I-129F tomorrow (NSC). My beloved was in the U.S. for 6 glorioius weeks and he just returned to Ufa, RU on May 20. We are both heartsick. We know that finally filing the papers will give us the exciting anticipation of our marriage early in 2008!!!!

Great!!!!! Congratulations!
Try Airflot or Delta for tickets, might be better. Finnair is decent too. 1-stop flight might be cheaper...

Ticket prices to Moscow change with the time of year -- and it is getting to the expensive time of year. Around $1000 isn't cheap, but not exhorbitant. Is the Air France ticket actually using Delta equipment? Sometimes they codeshare ...

They both fly to NY, Delta operates 777s to Seatle and LAX, 767s to ATL and JFK. They are typically the cheapest, DL or Aeroflot.

My preference is BA through London if you need to change planes, the only problem is that you need to make sure the flight to the US leaves from Heathrow (not Gatwick, the bus is a pain).

If you can find a deal from anywhere in Europe, flights from Moscow tend to be cheap. This is also a plus if you are not leaving from Moscow. Flights from other Russian cities to Europe can be even cheaper.

To New York, Delta, Aeroflot and Finnair are best. ATL and LAX, -- Delta. Miami - BA. Detroit or Memphis, NWA.

You guys are brave. I couldn't do this process twice! It is so hard to get a "visa" from Russia, to go through this again would be beyond me.

If my "girl friend" was able to get a tourist visa, we'd probably just do the AOS if after the meeting we knew we were going to marry. Completely legal, as long as the tourist entry did not involve intent to immigrate. Anything to avoid the K1 process in my opinion.

Congrats

My fiancee's Air France flight is actually using Aeroflot equipment on the Moscow to Paris leg, and then Air France equipment for the Paris to Atlanta leg.

At least they got it in the right order!