sorry haven't been keeping in tough with you guys, but have been busy with a new job and just leased a new apartment after my old landlord decided to build a shopping center out of my old one..

but anyway, my wife's interview is Today 5PM PST (8:00AM Saigon time). I'm praying everything goes well. I did all I could, we must have saved 500 pages of evidence (certificates, paperwork, phone bills, plane tickets, hotel bills, call logs, yahoo IMs).

oh please please, let the interview go smoothly. Pray for me guys..

Best of luck to the both of you. Get the Pink!!

Good Luck!

Good luck we all are praying for you good luck get that pink

Good Luck to both of you.
Regards!
2007k1

let us know how it goes!

I said a little prayer for you guys. I hope for only the best! We are less than a week away so I know how you are feeling!

Don't worry, she'll probably call you up around 10 PM or mid-nite that she has the pink slip

She is probably in the Consulate now. She’ll pass the interview.

10pm in FL right now... so 7pm in cali... what's the good word??? I'm sure you'll get the pink and tell us about it in 2 weeks right . hehehe... just keeping things on the light side...

Wait... forgot... interview time is 8am so she probably has to sit there all day first. I'll be looking for your post tomorrow some time .

I think it will be another 2-3 hours for the interview to be completed. Hopefully everything was a success. Praying for the Pink!!

Hope and success! All the best!

Good Luck. I hope everything goes smoothly.




Peter and Thi

I-129F Sent : 2007-05-26
I-129F NOA1 : 2007-06-11
I-129F RFE(s) :
RFE Reply(s) :
I-129F NOA2 : 2007-10-26
Touched: 2007-11-02
NVC Recieved: 2007-11-16

Interview failed, got the blue

Apparently, after looking through wedding pictures, family photos, and about 70 pages of records like emails, IMs, phone records showing we called eachother at least 6 times a week, every week for 2 and a half years, they determined that they "do not believe we have a bonefide spousal relationship." What the hell do these guys want, sex videos?

The one snag is I do not have the credit card statement for the purchase of the first 2 of my 4 tickets to Vietnam. I never figured I would get married to her 2 years ago, so I guess I carelessly just threw it out. I mean, that's normal IMO, you don't leave used receipts and stuff around to collect dust. And unfortunately, I am no longer a customer of the credit card that I used. So what can I do, on the paper it says that a reciept from the travel agency is no good, they want banking statements/credit card statements for the purchases which i do not have.

I did keep the statements for the last 2 trips to Vietnam that I made last year, but is there any way I can easily explain my situation with the proof of the first 2 trips? I mean I got the ticket stub, I got the hotel bill over there even. just don't have the "right proof" when it comes to purchasing the ticket.

The only thing on the blue was "No proof of first 2 trips to Vietnam?"

I can assure you that you can call that credit card company and get the old statements mailed/faxed to you. They may charge you a fee but who cares.

Don't think of the interview as a failure, its just a hiccup and a delay that everyone here is going to help you guys with.

Don't you have visa stamps in your passport from the first 2 visits?

I am really sorry to hear your news.
One of my friends got also a blue slip on his interview 11/21/07.
He went to the Consulate week after and provided some more pic. he recently took with his wife.
They let him waited for almost 4 hours and suddently they called up his name and gave him a pink slip.
I hope this experience can be a little help for you.

Good Luck!

Just wow! Even a receipt from the travel agency is deemed invalid?? Now what happens if you had paid for the tickets in cash? This is unbeliavable. They're sure getting more picky with the evidences each time. Is this the only reason for the blue slip?

As NeverSeen said, I'd be on the phone as soon as possible trying to get a statement mailed to me from the credit card company. If you don't remember the account number, you could pull your credit report and get it from there. The CC company should be able to provide you this information.

STL_HCMC

If I were you, I would try to get those copies...but if you can't, write out a letter explaining why you don't have them and that the proof from the second two trips should be suffice enough, sign, notorize and fedex it to her ASAP, have her bring it in for review, I'm sure they'll reconsider their decision.

Sorry to hear you got bue. IMHO, if you want to see that pink slip, you are going to need to show up at the Embassy yourself to disprove their accusation of fraud. It seems to me that they took the time to look at all your photos and phone records, so they KNOW you know each other and do have a 'relationship' together. I think the sticking point is that due to your lack of receipts for your first two plane flights, it might appear to the CO as if you 'met' under more mysterious/nefarious means. Since the CO's operate under the opposite of our legal system (everyone is guilty of fraud and must prove themselves innocent), your missing tickets give them enough reason to 'hold' your case indefinitely. The question becomes how do you get them to change their mind? Will the receipts be enough or is the doubt already placed in their mind? I know a lot of people will tell you to keep calling the embassy, or to contact your congressman, BUT I'd tell you to get those receipts, send to the embassy and contact attorney Mark Ellis, in HCMC to help with your case until you can get there. It's gonna cost you some money, but its a lot better than waiting for over a year for a response.

TRUST me... just look at my timeline to see how long you can wait for...

I wish you nothing but the best in luck in getting the VISA

Omg sorry to hear that I was hoping that your SO was approved when I started reading from the beginning and now this These things are now really getting to me as I have the interview in a couple of days myself. Hope they accept your explanation. Is there a chance that you can fly over there to be there with her?