congrats shafeez

I am a real estate agent in california since 1988. if you buy thru an islamic mortgage company, you will be robbed. stay away from them. with them you will be renter. never be an owner. if you have any common sense, stay away as far from them as you can. they will con you. rob you

I need HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
I am writing a paper about the Pakistan Cultural " norms"
there are like 10 questions. The questions are geard toward someone that is from Pakistan but moved to the USA. the person just have to
share a few experiances and share with me the diffrences between
life in PK and life in the USA... person can be male or female..
please please PM me or yahoo me.. this is urgente! thank you!!! -shon

Congrats brother !!

Congrats Shak! You got a well deserved break! Message me on yahoo when u get a chance!

Congratulations Shak and I know Tara and your little girl will be waiting for your arrival home.

please give details.

and by the way mike what other options are out there? NONE

HEY EVERYBODY:)

our interview is finally here-will email tomorrow afternoon with details!

Prior to close your house did you complete your homework I mean did you compare the ‘numbers’ between two lender companies? I mean try to compare Islamic Mortgage Company amount to some local mortgage company. I visited the site you sent me but I think it is kind savvy in order to understand all that material one should have to sit with a financial consultant.
Anyway try to do common scenarios like

A Company (Islamic Mortgage)
Principal = xxx
Interest = (it seems to me in Islamic Mortgage there is no concept of interest but there is something you can call it (intangible amount)
Number of years = 15 or 20 (in most cases)


B (local mortgage company)
Principal = xxx
Interest = xx
Number of years = 15 or 20

I think at the end of the day one should be paying exactly the same amount no matter you are going through Islamic Mortgage or Local Mortgage. If this is not the case then please write something about Islamic Mortgage. Like Mike said earlier he has been in the real state industory for quite long he must have valid reasons.

from my understanding the company i am using is exactly like the regular mortgate company, with the exception that they are coowners of property. The regular bank can do the exact same thing but choose not to for whatever reason.

i know a few people who have been with this company and dont seem to have any issues. nevertheless mike if you can comment on the specifics. i know of one person who recently switched companies, went from the islamic one to chase. so i am going to talk to him and see why he did that and get back to you.

interview went very well
didnt ask too many questions and hardly asked for many supporting documents
the C.O. even said if he could have given the visa-he wuld have given my hubby the visa immediately..but unfortunately we have to go through admin review which he said will not take more than 4 months
.insha allah i will be goin back home in a less than 3weeks!!
can't wait
wake up ISB threaddddddddd!!!!!!

congratulations.

You are not only following my case pattren but you are hearing the same words also.

Congrats on your successful interview and hoping you a speedy AR.

did they give him any token or anything to pick up his passport? did they keep his passport? just wondering...

Congrats Saeedeh...!! inshallah things will be alright !

congrats saeedeh, good luck

ALHAMDULILLAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations. Have a nice time during vacation and hopefully he gets visa soon and comes back with you. INSHA ALLAH.

Alhamdulillah, that's wonderful news that your husbands interview went so well, congratulations and i hope all the best for the both of you...my husband's interview is coming up here in about 12 days...just kind of waiting around for it

To Day mark 1 year since my interview at USICS dallas

WHERE THE VISA BE AT?

Your profile says you were born in 1907....that's a mis type right?

Your interview in Dallas was for the approval of I-130. Which they did! So it doesnt have to anything with the actual issue of the visa through DOS. You have to realize the USCIS and DOS are two different entities.

The USCIS had doubts about the bonafides of your marriage, so they conducted an interview. They were satisfied, so they approved it and send it to NVC and then to DOS. So now u are on DOS's mercy.

yeah its supposed to be 1908 .. I forget those 2 dates..


how many USCs get interview and still wait a YEAR after it? btw, its almost a YEAR
since our 2 field investigations too.

have a great ramadan everyone, i will check in once in a while. but i will be pretty busy. so everyone take care.

~~~~~~ we have a member of VJ and my dear friend she finally got off AP/AR after 2years and 5 months. ~~~~~~~
she had been on AP/AR much longer than me by far. she finally got the visa she is from
Manilla Phila. I thought this would be an inspiration to us all..

link:
ID fiancee in waiting...

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...mp;#entry466232

Assalam o alaikum everyone,

Ramadan Mubarik


My wife got her interview date in October. MashAllah. I was surprised by this date, becuase she just send her papers 1 week back through Amex.

I was thinking that I will get an interview date around Febuaray. I hope everyone thing goes well and smooth on her interview. InshAllah.

I will pray for everyone else who is going through AP/AR. May Allah unite all of our partners in happiness and peace.

Thank you and Good Luck

Sham

im not sure if you were joking or not about the 1908 thing...i mean, you really have to be joking right?
That is so sad that someone waited over 2 years, anyway...i clicked on the link you pasted but it took me to an error page....

here is my friend good AP news..< fianceeinwaiting >





AFTER THE EMBASSY'S REQUEST TO RENEW MY NBI CLEARANCE AND MEDICAL REPORT WHICH I SUBMITTED LAST SEPTEMBER 7, 2006, HERE IS THE BEST GOOD NEWS I EVER HAD. FOR EVERYONE OF YOU WHO ARE STILL HOPELESSLY WAITING FOR YOUR VISA... FINALLY AFTER 2 YEARS AND 3 MONTHS OF WAITING, LAST SEPTEMBER 12, 2006, TO MY SURPRISE, MY VISA WAS DELIVERED TO ME BY DELBROS. THANK GOD, THANK GOD! YEHEY!!! I AM GOING HOME TO MY LOVEYDOVEY.


NOW I WISH THE BEST OF LUCK TO ALL OF YOU. MY PRAYERS ARE ALL YOURS.


GOD BLESS AND TAKE CARE EVERYONE. KISSES AND HUGS.

[size=3]AUG 1, 2006 son-in law approved for visa - DOS says didn't recve fingerprints yet as of today - do you people think he will get visa before 2006 is over? Just looking for opinions PLEASE
My daughter is pregnant and due in december 11-
What ever input you can give me will muchly apprec'ed
thanks all
jules

of course not - dont you know 99% of all 90 year olds are skilled in logging on
the internet and surfiing. its a fact.

I second ae4ever's well wishes Saeedah!! Alhamdulilah

Ramadan Mubarak and good wishes to all of you... i'm hoping to have all the AOS stuff out in the mail in the next day or two insha'Allah!

that's great, i didn't mean to be rude, i was just suprised to know that you are 90 and on such long AP

take a joke .. I am not 90 .. course that would be funny 90 year old
trying to start a family with her husband

Hi
something weird happend..
I got a call from the USA STATE DEPARTMENT at 12:51 Pm
thought I would list this number coz, yall would not belive me.
202 861 0945 from " Jackie"

the message is " GOod after noon this is jackie in the visa office
I got a message about your husbands visa case. I did look up the case
and it is still pending SAO < security advisory Opinon > case number ISL #### blah blah
you can call DOS public inquiry number at blah blah blah. "


least I know its an SAO check ..

Shon that is weird but good news that it is still in SAO checks. Hope your are having a good week and hope you hear something soon.

Mary

well this is NOW day 83 of the SAO security check
this thing better end soon. last time we were on SAO with the
K-3 I rember it taken like 92 days. so I hope we are outta hell soon

Hi everyone,

Can someone plz give me advice on what i should do now that i have moved and my address has changed? my husband interview is october 6th. Thanks alot for your help.

Leona



lol, im sorry, sometimes i can be very thick headed... so how old are you really?

one more question...i am filling out a new AOS for my husband to take to show my employment and stuff like that, anyway, my Q is that this AOS I-864 i downloaded from the uscis website says it expires 9/30/06, and on the website it says acceptable through OCT 19/06 , so it's all ok for me to use this form for rashid's oct 6 interview right? , i did call the NVC and they said the embassy will accept it...but i would like to just double double check

Thanks a bunches

Leona

No need to change address on this file. Case is at embassy. When Rashid goes to embassy, he can let them know your new address or he can have this address on his DS230. Just do normal address change at post office.



Thats the latest I-864 they have on the web site, thats what u use. INSHA ALLAH, there wont be any problems.



So what was the purpose of the call? did u call her back?

whats up everybody

Shon! Let me ask you this? how do you know what day on SAO you are? Did the DOS tell you? right now Donkey mantis is taking about 100 days to process (thanks to the student rush).

Even at the embassy COs are telling applicants to wait 4 months instead of the normal 45 days response.

So how do u know ur at day 83, when was ur 4th SAO ordered?

Leona,

I have to agree with ae4ever on the address change. I would file out the correct address on the DS 230 and get a change of address form from post office. Just tell him to make sure that he does inform them and that they make the changes at the embassy to correct his USA address.

Your form I-864 should be just fine since it is so close to the expiration date I would not worry. Keep us posted his interview is just around the corner now.

84 days is not far to 100 day mark...
DOS told me what day they order the check . you think when I call
DOS- I am stupid as not to ask them when the check is ordered? I got a call
from DOS yesterday. I was told it was SAO check. - I dont need to make up a mother truckin thing to anyone of yall. how about asking me what prompted them to call me. instead, of thinking
I am making things up.

Hi again,

Thanks for your replies...i saw this form I-865 on the USCIS website, for sponsor's change of address and it says to mail it to the service center for my state, so you are all saying that this is not gonna apply to me though, and just have rashid put the new address when he goes to his interview? , just want to make sure i am on the same page, thanks again for your patience. ( o yeah and once i did a change of address for the post office, and all my stuff kept going to my old address...same is happening to my sis, we get her mail all the time...so would it just be better to change address with the places i expect important mail from, like college, work, bank?)

Leona

whats up folks

how is the fasting coming along. what you guys eat for suhoor and iftar?

My wife had her K-3 interview today.

The Q&A took about 10 mins on std stuff (pictures, how we came to know each other, and review of the requested docs, etc) and was told that her visa is approved. The embassy staff was very friendly and courteous which made the interview process painless.

However, she had to give complete finger prints after the interview and was told that she will be called by FedEx within 60 days so she can pick-up her passport.

She was handed a couple of papers (white) with some info on it......she will fax those to me tommorw. These appear to be simple receipts that she may need when she collects the passports.

Any experiences or comments about the fingerprint process? Does it really take as much as 60 days after you've been told that your visa is approved. ...........

Nasir

Nasir,

Congrats on the interview. Your wife having to submit full set of prints means that her name had a hit in one of the data bases and they will have to come to DC and be manually checked. It does take a little time and once the check is complete she will have her visa issued. Good luck on a speedy turn around.

Mary

congrats nasir

dear Shon!

I ask you one thing, I am not mocking you. I am just asking when was your SAO ordered? Do you know? How do u know of this 83 day mark. i do know for a fact a whole bunch of SAOs were ordered at the embassy on July 20th! so I am trying to see that urs was ordered in that too or not!

Hey everyone Assalamo Alaikum.

I just saw this thread.

It seems by your timelines that the avg K3 time for Pakistan is 6 months.

Is this correct??? That would be so awesome.

Any advice to make sure that everything goes smoothly for me????

Thanks!!!!

Wa Alaikum Assalam;
Welcome. Just pray, be patience, and get information. An informed person, who prays makes a better petitioner.