I think you are DONE. now relax will ya...
now celebrate christmas and eat some chicken. I dont think you have turkey in PK..

yeh Hafiz! Actually I have been there several time since I have been here. As I am only 2 hours from the border and have family in Toronto. The Canadian Border people are nice. I have to get special registeration done at the US border post and that sucks! Not only the American custom people at the Detroit or the Port Huron Border rude but take forever for NSEERS registeration.

Oh well. I guess I have to deal with this till I get my permanent residency!

today my husband received a call from the embassy asking whether he has ever been to malaysia/indonesia etc and whether this is his 1st pakistani passport. he answered no and yes. then she said you're still on administrative review and your case is being processed. what does all this mean?

probably means that there is a person who has a similar name as your hubby's and they wanted to make sure if it was not the same person. I think they will further investigate to make sure. Hopefully you will hear something soon!

Hey Yes i got Call from Embassy on 2nd Week Of This month and they Asked me Same Questions, "have u Ever been Abroad? , i said yes to DUBAI, man Asked any Where Else? i Said No, he asked how many passports u have i told, ..then he said ok send us your "passports" we are working on your case... after i sent my passports.... they requested an other Security Check from DOS on 18th December..

i ODnt understand What Securtiy check is now.. Dos Says it can take 10 to 120 days

OK! I just called Islamabad Embassy and they told me that my husband's visa was approved yesterday (the day they called him and asked all those questions). It will be printed and stamped within a day or two and will be sent out to him this week. Is it still too early to celebrate?

great...


okay I have a question guys.

My dads file has been at the DOS since early June 2006... whenever I call the DOS the only response I get is... "its still processing"

they NEVER give me more information and claim there is none. What is up with this!?

canuhandleit it means that whatever agency doing the the security clearance has not responded to the DOS's request to do the clearance, all they can do is follow up the request ( to which usually the agencies do not respond according to my experience).

Canuhandleit, all i can advice you is to wait, patiently and not to stress yourself out, believe me, i have been through this myself, i now think I was lucky that my clearance was done in a year. I know its ridiculous, but thats how it is!

It's not possible. I need to goto college man, I have to go! It's about my whole life. If my dad doesn't get back in time, what the hell am I suppose to do? It's stressful.

Is there any person I can talk to who will let me know more. Atleast who will let me know what agency it is at?

btw our lawyer said that after talking to the consulate... they said that there is a good chance visa may be issued next month? i'm assuming thats a good sign of something?

lawyers lie. Let me just tell you this. I have tried everything, I had the honourable Senator Carl Levin call himself to the embassy ( not one of his aides). I had a letter from him and my congressman with an official US government business seal!

It didnt do nothing, you had contacts in the INS, you know it yourself, once in clearance I dont even think President Bush can do anything. If you want to still keep trying that it fine, but I dont think its worth the effort.

I understand that you need to college, but you will have to wait, I waited for one year in Pakistan doing nothing, it was hard, but I had no choice, trust me stressing about it wont help.

The lawyer is giving you the run around, dont listen to him of her, the CANNOT tell you how long the visa will take. Probably you called the lawyer one too many times and he is just saying this one month think, but for ur sake i hope its true and visa gets approved soon, but no way someone can predict it will be one month, it could be tommorow it could be God knows when...

:-(
last year I was only losing time with my family... I never thought it would come to ruining my whole life completely! lol stupid ###### this is.

this is great. What a great country we live in.

hang in there brother! your time will come!

I think Its Time to Celebrate thats great, MashaAllah.... Hey how much time u have been on AP? Praying to listen Same news for Me and All others here - Ameen

sweet I love approvals!!!! As they are such a rare occurance from Islamabad!!!!

yes i would officialy start going crazy

HONORABLE, thats so desi,

wait wait thats so british desi,

thats total BS, whistling at girls is an activity man.

I never saw a girl worth whistling at while in Pakistan visiting... well there was one amazing one I saw in the airport.


One out of a million :-p

If only I spoke Urdu fluently...

Salam Adil Khan,

I see your wife CR1 was send to Islamabad embassy on Dec 7 and they recived on Dec 12, did you hear anything from them yet like did they send packet 3.5 to ur wife and what happen with K3 visa,

The reason i am asking is my time line is very similer to urs my CR1 visa for my wife was send on Dec 19 and they recived on Dec 26 and but when I called them yesterday they told me they only recived electroniclly so far we still waiting on paper work from NVC so give as another 2 to 3 weeks

and K3 got approved on Dec 21 and i am still waiting for NVC to recive it

so please keep me updated and i will keep u updated Thanks

Just wanted to wish you all Eid Mubarak and speedy reunions insha'Allah for all those waiting!

we are finally cleared.. now we are waiting for the embassy to contact javed.
its about dayum time..

I AM SO HAPPY FOR MASHALLAH YOU WAITED SUCH A LONG TIME YOU DESERVE IT
I HAVE BEEN READING UR POSTS YOU HAVE ALOT OF PATIENCE.
EID MUBARIK

Congrats.. I know you've been waiting for a while... best of luck to you and Javed.

I love my sweet wife, she spoil me every single day- yes. right now I am taking my tea here and I am missing my so loving wife. I am expecting that next month we will togeather and I will make a cold coffee for my wife. yeah! Thank for everyone to remind us for the reply to me. thank you for all friends that are sincere. I pray for all couples they are get togeather soon. It is my special request to pray we togeather- I love my wife.

I called the embassy they said: they will be contacting javed. funny thing is I asked if
he is cleared his security checks and they said they cant tell me that information,but the embassy will be contacting him. hahahhahahahhaa - duh I think DOS told me that..

Hey quick question guys my wife recieved the interview date for april 25th it wasn't a packet
i'm guessing packet 4. Would they send packet 4 a month before the 25th of april plus i'm thinking i should leave on the 27th of april to get my wife i know the whole ap/ar crap but isn't it better for woman on security checks any feed back would be great guys.

april holy smokes, thats far. best of luck shon
Are you blind(just kidding).

man i know thats far i even emailed the embassy and called them but the date is firm
i guess they have alot of applicants and they are busy.

you have too keep harrasing them, they will change the date.

contact your congressman. see if they can assist in getting the date changed..

Called DOS yesterday from pakistan , they said that the records show that my husbands visa was issued December 29th!! We couldn't cal the embassy, cuz it was closed, and today is saturday now , so instead we thought to go to PIA, Speedex in Multan, and as we sat in the office of the visa offical there a man came in with a bag, and yes, in that bag there was Rashid's visa!!! We are so happy, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Allah Is so Great, After only 2 and half months we have his visa and are now planning on a way to travel back to america together, this is such a happy time for us! Thanks for your help:)

Leona

MashaAllah thats Great

i m So happy to hear So many Good News From u People, these are the Gifts of Eid and new year From Almighty Allah.
Hoping best for all from The MerciFull Allah.

Congratulations Leona

and Congratulations Javed And Shon

Do pray for All us

Shon, I pray that you and the hubby are together soon, InshAllah. You two are SUPER patient.

I am sad today! Its Eid! Its New Years! Its my Birthday! And I just got laid off! From my cash paying job! So now I guess I have to sit like a bum at home till I get my work authorization! This sucks!

Wow Leona! That is soo great, congratulations on the speedy A/R.

- Jeez you big downer ...(j/k) You'll be approved before you know it - then you'll miss your lazy days...

The embassy has sent us a letter... guys put in a prayer that it's good news!

what does the letter say!

God knows... because I don't. I just know it's a letter.

well the things with letters is that you need to OPEN them and READ em! Thats what letters are for! lol! kidding kidding!

Haven't recieved it yet man! Now we have to wait for it to come in the mail!

The DOS lady would not tell me the contents of the letter!

https://www.ppoutlet.com/rates/cardrates.asp?cid=487

call pakistan any location UNLIMITED with Cell or Landline same pricing..

congrats. i wish you another cash job at a gas station. lol. yar rickshaw chalao.

i think this is a better card.

https://www.ppoutlet.com/rates/cardrates.asp?cid=487

hahaha! nahi yaar! Actually no gas station for me! I was selling cell phones! Pay bhi achi thi! Oh well! I did know it was just till christmas! Now better start looking for a real job! Maybe EAD will come soon!

PS one doesnt get laid off at gas station! Lol as people keep buying gas and there smokes! lol! And desi Gas stations screw there employees! So they never get "laid off"

Hi everyone.

I am doing a K3 visa for my wife in Pakistan. I just got my I129 approval letter, and a notice from NVC that they are now transferring my case to Pakistan.

How can I check if the consulate has received it, and is there a way to check if they sent the packet to my wife yet, and a tracking number?

Thanks!

I announced that my husband got his IR1 visa and i only got two people posting a congratulations? some how talking about phone cards and gas stations is more worthy then a simple congratulations, i feel invisible on this site and i duno why i waste my time coming here every day, this thread should be instead named the "Shon, Michigan, and Hafiz thread"

Thanks, for nothing really...

I think this posting just came from out of LEFT FIELD.. I am RAREly on this - I happend to post about a phone card. if you want to take things personal thats you. but, why RAIN on your OWN parade? that dont make since..

the lady with all the excuses, yeah, my point exactly, all about you. That's fine, i guess i no longer have a need to come here any way, the only one who ever helped was Mary, thank you Mary for all your help and sincere support.

O yeah, you are talking about me taking things personal? i can't count how many angry posts you have made, or let me guess, that was everyone else's fault that they are taking it personal, not you? I don't go angry or upset for no reason, i've been made to feel this way by the people on this site. That's all, anyway, i've said what i wanted to, after so long of biting my tounge...i'll stop raining on your precious parade.

RKhalid,

First of all my heartiest congratulations on getting IR1 visa for your husband. I can definitely feel how happy you and your family would be on this. It is certainly great news and came as a New Year and Eid gift.

Secondly, when we have great news like this and share it with others, particularly when we think of them as friends by chatting here on VJ, and do not get expected response we feel as if they are not happy about this. I think this is not the case. If someone does not express it to the level we expect, it does not mean that he/she is not happy for you.

Thirdly, we feel that if someone has not posted a direct response to our question, that person is not helpful. They may not have had anything to share or may have posted similar information somewhere else. It is better for someone not to post anything than to post something wrong and misleading.

Wish you and your husband good luck with your new life in the US.

Sufi