K1 visa Refused due to erroneous cenomar

[MM_27 0]

We had our interview last week and the consul said they have to investigate my fiancee's cenomar because it showed 2 marriages, hers and her sister's. My fiancée and her sister have a very similar names (traditional in the philippines to have similar names only difference is 1 or 2 letters) We submitted her marriage contract and her husband's death certificate and we told the consul that she only had 1 marriage. The consul said they have their liaison officer to verify it with NSO and it will take weeks to investigate. The filipino guy from window 72 said they will check all details (ie. D.O.B.) from NSO and they don't know how long it will take to investigate. He just sent us home. After only 1 day from our interview they already made a decision to refused her visa. I don't think they did a thorough investigation.

We called NSO to fix the erroneous cenomar and told them they should only put her name on the cenomar. We talked to the immigration visa unit reviewing our case and explained that the other name in her cenomar is her sister. He asked us to submit the supporting documents for prove our claim. He told us to send the supporting documents through 2GO courier.

My fiancée and I went to NSO to get her sister's birth certificate and marriage contract. Can we just hand deliver the supporting documents? I want to make sure that they will have all supporting documents while I'm here in Manila. I will leave for US in a week. We are hoping this will convince the consul that she only had 1 marriage with her now deceased husband. Please pray for us. Thank you.

[apple21 953]

Sorry for your refusal but its NOT a tradition (or even the norm) in the Philippines to give siblings similar or almost identical first names.

[Darnell 8,478]

A USCitizen can walk in, sure, but ....

is not for certain that you'll be allowed to hand over stuff for a visa application, as you are not the visa applicant.

[Greenbaum 12,259]

Two things you need to do. One is get the NSO to correct CENOMAR so you dont have future problems, and the other is get the documents that the visa unit is asking for and send them to the embassy via 2go like they requested. There is nothing more right now that you can do to hurry the process. Get the documents to them asap so they can begin the process.

For others who find mistakes in their paperwork, begin as soon as you can to rectify the error if not your only extending the time it takes to get your visa approval. If at all possible bring supporting documents to the embassy for your interview.

Edited May 20, 2014 by Greenbaum

[Hank_ 9,174]

We had our interview last week and the consul said they have to investigate my fiancee's cenomar because it showed 2 marriages, hers and her sister's. My fiancée and her sister have a very similar names (traditional in the philippines to have similar names only difference is 1 or 2 letters) We submitted her marriage contract and her husband's death certificate and we told the consul that she only had 1 marriage. The consul said they have their liaison officer to verify it with NSO and it will take weeks to investigate. The filipino guy from window 72 said they will check all details (ie. D.O.B.) from NSO and they don't know how long it will take to investigate. He just sent us home. After only 1 day from our interview they already made a decision to refused her visa. I don't think they did a thorough investigation.

We called NSO to fix the erroneous cenomar and told them they should only put her name on the cenomar. We talked to the immigration visa unit reviewing our case and explained that the other name in her cenomar is her sister. He asked us to submit the supporting documents for prove our claim. He told us to send the supporting documents through 2GO courier.

My fiancée and I went to NSO to get her sister's birth certificate and marriage contract. Can we just hand deliver the supporting documents? I want to make sure that they will have all supporting documents while I'm here in Manila. I will leave for US in a week. We are hoping this will convince the consul that she only had 1 marriage with her now deceased husband. Please pray for us. Thank you.

Don't know that you can hand deliver documents to the embassy, the normal process is take the documents to 2GO for delivery... but normally the documents are requested by the embassy. Not sure how to deal with documents the embassy is not asking for.

[MM_27 0]

Immigrant Visa Unit whose reviewing our case told us to send the supporting documents thru 2GO and all our email conversation with NSO regarding the typographical error in her cenomar. We sent it last week and their mail department received the documents last thursday. I called them last week several times and they were saying they have not received the documents yet and they kept saying my fiancée's visa status is under review but whenever I checked the status in CEAC website still says Refused and it says they send us notification in writing which we have not received yet. My fiancées case was just a mere typographical encoding error by NSO personnel. Hoping that the consul will approve her visa once they see our supporting documents.

[Hank_ 9,174]

Immigrant Visa Unit whose reviewing our case told us to send the supporting documents thru 2GO and all our email conversation with NSO regarding the typographical error in her cenomar. We sent it last week and their mail department received the documents last thursday. I called them last week several times and they were saying they have not received the documents yet and they kept saying my fiancée's visa status is under review but whenever I checked the status in CEAC website still says Refused and it says they send us notification in writing which we have not received yet. My fiancées case was just a mere typographical encoding error by NSO personnel. Hoping that the consul will approve her visa once they see our supporting documents.

Be patient. Just because it has been "received" at the embassy does not mean the documents have reached your file. This could very well, still, take weeks.