Help please...last minute change

[Yodrak 7]

Dawnette,

I don't know how to explain what he needs to explain either - that's why I suggest the consultation with an immigration attorney who has experience with the consular section in Morocco.

I have no thoughts on what your fiance's intentions are. But don't be naive - Morocco is a high-fraud post and the consular officers are going to review the visa application with a critical eye. People who are motivated to immigrate to the USA often have more than enough patience to write and say over a year's time whatever needs to be written or said to accomplish their objective. It's been done before, it will be done again.

And the issue is not your sincerety or your children's feelings for your fiance. The issue is his intentions - that's what he has to demonstrate.

Maybe all will go well for him, it does for many. But many others are surprised and angry when it does not go well. Recognize that fact and be proactive in taking steps that will improve your fiance's odds of making a successful and uneventful visa application.

Yodrak

..... I don't know how you explain that to someone, or show someone on paper that. And I guess I didn't expect someone here to think he had bad intentions toward me. The funny thing is he says he will wait however long he has to wait for us to be a family. I cry because my daughter woke up crying the other night thinking he would never come. So it is me that is more concerned with how quickly he will get here.

Dawnnette

[garya505 2]

Dawnette,

As other poster's have noted, the consular section in Morocco can be difficult - it's a high fraud post.

You have 4 children and your fiance is a student...... I think you should worry less about which K visa is 'faster' and worry more about how your fiance is going to demonstrate that his interest in you is more than a ticket to LPR status. Find an immigration attorney who has experience dealing with the consular section in Morocco and review the details of your situation with them.

Yodrak

Hello everyone...

.

Dawnnette

We have known each other a year. I did not agree to marry him until June. I was given the choice where I wanted to live...in Morocco or in the US. As I am an only child and the only grandchild that grew up near my grandparents (they are getting older and are ill) I picked living here at least as long as my grandparents are alive. I have chat logs from June until now saved. I doubt after reading then anyone can doubt that there is a relationship there. I could be wrong though...Plus there are letters and the relationship that I have with his family there and here. My relationship with his family is one of the reasons we are as we are. Between our families and our religion that is what brought us together. I don't know how you explain that to someone, or show someone on paper that. And I guess I didn't expect someone here to think he had bad intentions toward me. The funny thing is he says he will wait however long he has to wait for us to be a family. I cry because my daughter woke up crying the other night thinking he would never come. So it is me that is more concerned with how quickly he will get here.

Dawnnette

IMO you need to get a thicker skin to hang around VJ and to get a K1 or K3 VISA.

Forget what YOU think your chat logs show. The only thing that matters is what the people at USCIS and the foreign Embassy think about your relationship, so you should try to think like they do.

Keep reading these forums, and be patient. They don't call this site VISA Journey because it's easy or fast.

[MeenaBeena 0]

Dawnette,

I don't know how to explain what he needs to explain either - that's why I suggest the consultation with an immigration attorney who has experience with the consular section in Morocco.

I have no thoughts on what your fiance's intentions are. But don't be naive - Morocco is a high-fraud post and the consular officers are going to review the visa application with a critical eye. People who are motivated to immigrate to the USA often have more than enough patience to write and say over a year's time whatever needs to be written or said to accomplish their objective. It's been done before, it will be done again.

And the issue is not your sincerety or your children's feelings for your fiance. The issue is his intentions - that's what he has to demonstrate.

Maybe all will go well for him, it does for many. But many others are surprised and angry when it does not go well. Recognize that fact and be proactive in taking steps that will improve your fiance's odds of making a successful and uneventful visa application.

Yodrak

..... I don't know how you explain that to someone, or show someone on paper that. And I guess I didn't expect someone here to think he had bad intentions toward me. The funny thing is he says he will wait however long he has to wait for us to be a family. I cry because my daughter woke up crying the other night thinking he would never come. So it is me that is more concerned with how quickly he will get here.

Dawnnette

How do I go about finding such an attorney? i have no idea about it at all.

[Micky - Sabri 0]

Hello everyone...

I am leaving to go to Morocco in 10 days. I was originally going to get married then, I started reading here how long it takes to get a spouse into the US. I sat and cried for 2 days. I have 4 children and they are very attached to him. They talk to him online and on the phone. They mail him things and such, so there is no way I can imagine making them wait that long. It is hard enough for me to wait that long much less children. That is when I noticed that if you apply for a K-1 it seems to take a lot less time then a K-3. Can you tell me if what I have read is true? Will it be a shorter time if we decide to go the way of K-1 instead? If we do, can you tell me is there anything I need to do while I am there. I feel so lost....as everything seems to be changing at the last minute. I am overwhelmed, scared and lost.

He lives in Casablanca and is a student. He has family there and two brothers here. So he has family both places. Do they consider this a risk when issuing a K-1? I live in Missouri. How do I tell what the time length is for the K-1 in my area?

Thank you for any help you can give me.

Dawnnette

i have been waiting since feb26 for my fincee visa.he had his interview june 26 and still we dont have the visa.

[UmmSqueakster 54]

How do I go about finding such an attorney? i have no idea about it at all.

Most of us who have gone through the middle east/north africa have not used lawyers. I haven't ever heard of an attorney who has a specialty in ME/NA embassies. This is not to say that you should or should not use a lawyer.

Might I make a suggestion? Go, meet your sweetie, have a heck of a good time, consider it a relaxing vacation, and then come back and get started on the visa paperwork. Any visa you file will take time. Why let the stress ruin a perfectly nice trip overseas? Just be sure to take lots of pictures together and with his family while you're there, as evidence for the filing.

My first trip to Egypt happened 2 years before we ever filed any visa papers. I got a chance to see Cairo, meet his family and get to know my husband.

Edited November 22, 2006 by rahma

[Yodrak 7]

Dawnette,

You can try contacting the AILA to ask if they have any member attornies practicing in Morocco.

You can try to find some discussion groups or chat groups that are Morocco specific - try Google groups, Yahoo groups, Delphi Forum groups. Such country-specific discussion groups often have an immigration component.

Try the American Chamber of Commerce in Morocco (if there is one), or the US embassy in Morocco, or the American Citizen Services Unit of the consular section, to see if they have a list of US law firms with offices in Morocco, then start contacting those firms to find the immigration lawyers.

Yodrak

Dawnette,

I don't know how to explain what he needs to explain either - that's why I suggest the consultation with an immigration attorney who has experience with the consular section in Morocco.

....

Maybe all will go well for him, it does for many. But many others are surprised and angry when it does not go well. Recognize that fact and be proactive in taking steps that will improve your fiance's odds of making a successful and uneventful visa application.

Yodrak

How do I go about finding such an attorney? i have no idea about it at all.

[RosaMystica7 0]

If you do decide to go the K-1 route, here's my suggestions of what you get as evidence of meeting:

- Keep your e-mail flight itinerary, boarding passes, baggage stickers (the ones they attach to your bags that have the airline, date, your name, and the destination), and anything else you have as proof of the flight.

- Keep any itineraries/reciepts from any hotel stays you may have.

- If you have a credit card, debit card, or ATM card, use it at least once while in Morocco. Then save your credit card statements that show you purchased something in his town.

- Take LOTS of pictures of you with him and his family. If you can, get something with the date in the background, like a sign... or at the very least, hold up a newspaper with a visible date. Get some pictures in well-known places too, if you can.

Get creative. Think of any documentary evidence that can place you two together in Morocco.

As for after the trip, chat logs are good BUT they can be easily faked. (I'm not saying that you two would fake them, just that that could be the mindset of the officer at the interview.) I suggest writing some postal letters back and forth - save the envelope so the date and sending location can be seen on the postmark. Then have him bring both the internet evidence AND the postal mail evidence to his interview.

Edited November 22, 2006 by Angilla