Petition the whitehouse

[toxicatta 10]

And, I'm not sure about other types of visas, but for K-1 visa you don't need a police clearance or medical exam before the interview. Yes, the final decision is made after the interview and yes, you need to bring your clearance and medical there, but at least you don't have to send them with your initial petition. I think it's reasonable enough?

[NikLR 13,220]

And, I'm not sure about other types of visas, but for K-1 visa you don't need a police clearance or medical exam before the interview. Yes, the final decision is made after the interview and yes, you need to bring your clearance and medical there, but at least you don't have to send them with your initial petition. I think it's reasonable enough?

Yes a K1 visa needs a police certificate and medical exam. The I-129F petition does not but that's a petition not a visa.

[dwheels76 5,463]

I think you'd get a lot more support for a petition asking to remove the ability to AOS from visitors - tourist visas, VWP, etc. By removing that incentive, they could relax the burden of proof potential VISITORS need to meet.

That and the automatic if its your 2 year wedding anniversary at POE you are rewarded a 10 year green card. Too many people been in the process for almost 2 years and seen each other 1 or 2 weeks and get pissed when they are denied or put in AP for not bonafide evidence.

Change from 2 years to 5 years for 10 year green card. Then Remove conditions, make that Citizenship 7 years marred to a US citizen spouse. If you divorce them you wait 10 years before you can be citizen. And 15 years if you want to petition someone else. So no one can marry citizen divorce and petition immediately. Only those who actually were living together those 2 years broad should be considered for 10 year. That may make people go hmmmm.

I just have seen too many after 2 year landings get green card and he/she is gone soon as green card arrives. I know of 4 just in 2015. One didn't even bother showing up at the US Citizens (wife's) city. Had address changed at interview and POE card came she never knew what was coming. All the while he talking to her she thinks he is in Ghana.

OP, you can't just go by others experience. Not everyone posting their denials are being straight forward. Many will know what's up when they get that NOIR letter from USCIS find out the real deal what happened at interview. Hidden wives, girlfriends, babies not known to petitioner. Not telling petitioner the truth of past applications. These are all some of the few denials at Ghana.

I get your passion and individual CO's if abusing authority need to be address. Someone posted the complaint route. But telling the president which means getting a law implemented or changed just isn't realistic. Also the man has less that 8 months in office and changing this part of immigration isn't at all even on the radar of a priority. Heck they won't even accept his pick for the Supreme court seat. Go to the source let the embassy know HELL NAW!!

I bet if everyone of you folks going through Ghana lately denied or in AP (there is quite a few) all got together and wrote your complaint and each sent in one by one by one you would get some notice.

[dwheels76 5,463]

Thanks for all the comments and I even expect more to come in.. Let me make it clear here, I didn't get enough room to write all I wanted to say on the petition site. I will never request for medicals or police clearances to be stripped off.. All I was trying to say is, iv applicants after being interviewwd and granted a visa(hopefully) can then proceed to undertake the medicals whiles the embassy holds unto the visa until it receives the reports. In the other way round where applicants are made to undertake the medicals and given all those shots. It all goes waste if they are unsuccessful. I know more than anything that immigrating to the U. S is a privilege and not a right but a lot of things do happen in this immigration process. If really America is a nation of immigrants as it claims it is, then there should be a more viable way of ensuring that families are united rather thank the current system where most genuine families and couples are treated as fraud. It's a lot to say but I guess I just have to leave it here.. Once again thank all for the comments.. I enjoyed the bashing though ?

It's just like a job where you may have to get a physical, drug test and background checks. Until they get the thumbs up the job offer is not complete. Yes some jobs will start you pending reports to come back and I have worked and seen people start on Monday gone by Friday because of background or drug test failure.

And what of the TB test that come up positive. Now you have approved someone but Visa in passport and they now have to go for treatment that may take 6 months to a year.

What about the failed drug test?

[THEMSRILEY 4]

I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO SAY WITH THE PETITION. YES, THINGS NEED SOME REDOING, UPGRADED, REWRITTEN....SOMETHING. IF THE CO'S HAVE A CHECKLIST AND/OR PROCEDURE TO FOLLOW, THEN THEY SHOULD DO IT. JUST BECAUSE THIS CERTAIN COUNTRY HAS FRAUD, DOES NOT MEAN THAT EVERYBODY IS GOING TO DO WRONG. THEY NEED TO PUT A SYSTEM IN PLACE THATS BETTER THAN WHAT IT IS. IF YOU HAVE DONE EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE SUPPOSE TO DO WITH THE IMMIGRATION PROCESS AND JUST BECAUSE THE CO'S FLIP A COIN, THEY DECIDED THAT TODAY WE ARE NOT GOING TO APPROVE VISAS, WE WILL DENY OR PUT THEM IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSING........THATS NOT RIGHT AND YES WHAT I JUST SAID ABOUT FLIPPING A COIN IT DOES AND HAVE HAPPENED.....

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

If you can't afford the visa fees, how can you afford a plane ticket and a hotel in the US? Visa fees are paltry compared to the cost of a vacation.

[IcezMan_IcezLady 582]

 

You're not paying for the visa itself, you're paying for the process of applying.
Who should pay for the work that goes in to the application if not the applicant themselves?

Did you miss the part where I said then they should call it something else?
Application fee will do. But if you call it visa processing visa, then a visa should be processed. Common sense!
The fee is called VISA PROCESSING FEE!

 

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[Boiler 43,764]

Did you miss the part where I said then they should call it something else?

Application fee will do. But if you call it visa processing visa, then a visa should be processed. Common sense!

The fee is called VISA PROCESSING FEE!

They process the visa application, the result is an approval or denial.

[Ryan H 3,796]

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[Transborderwife 4,666]

They're still processing the visa. Approval and denial is still a process.

[yuna628 9,547]

Did you miss the part where I said then they should call it something else?

Application fee will do. But if you call it visa processing visa, then a visa should be processed. Common sense!

The fee is called VISA PROCESSING FEE!

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I'm a little bewildered at what the issue is.

It's a visa processing fee because it's a visa processing fee. It's part of a process in a step which can be approved or denied, which there is no guarantee of either. It's common sense, because it's common sense.

There are a lot of things that can and should be fixed, that I think we could all agree on.. but the OP's complaint is not one of them. I am thankful that my country gives me the freedom to live with my husband and allows him to live here, which cannot be said of his own country. Is the process fair? There are some aspects of it that are unfair, redundant, and downright stupid - but that is due to a system of doing things that is becoming outdated and bloated. Things aren't streamlined, the process is not informative, the USCIS routinely offers bad information almost gleefully, things could move faster, and being stuck in backlog was hell. There are some elected officials that actually do want to help and some that just don't care. There is a reason why some people on here, went all the way to the top to finally get some changes made - because they received no answers or assistance from anyone else.

Visas should not be guaranteed things. You should not be able to buy your way in. Users routinely post to this forum their experiences in abusing (yes abusing) the VWP either intentionally or via their own stupidity, attempts to abuse the tourist visa program, and many times wonder why they have been denied. Typically it is the users own fault. That is not to say it is everyone, but it is a lot. This is a human process, and COs are only human, they can only make decisions on what is in front of them, and are required to make tough decisions that do not take emotions into account. That may seem unfair and cold, but they have to be. Yes there are some on power trips, we've seen some examples of this too.

But large changes are not going to be made until you get the public at large to actually even care. And they don't. Going to the top and only getting the smallest of a change made (even if it was helpful) is proof of that.

[IcezMan_IcezLady 582]

I'm a little bewildered at what the issue is.

It's a visa processing fee because it's a visa processing fee. It's part of a process in a step which can be approved or denied, which there is no guarantee of either. It's common sense, because it's common sense.

There are a lot of things that can and should be fixed, that I think we could all agree on.. but the OP's complaint is not one of them. I am thankful that my country gives me the freedom to live with my husband and allows him to live here, which cannot be said of his own country. Is the process fair? There are some aspects of it that are unfair, redundant, and downright stupid - but that is due to a system of doing things that is becoming outdated and bloated. Things aren't streamlined, the process is not informative, the USCIS routinely offers bad information almost gleefully, things could move faster, and being stuck in backlog was hell. There are some elected officials that actually do want to help and some that just don't care. There is a reason why some people on here, went all the way to the top to finally get some changes made - because they received no answers or assistance from anyone else.

Visas should not be guaranteed things. You should not be able to buy your way in. Users routinely post to this forum their experiences in abusing (yes abusing) the VWP either intentionally or via their own stupidity, attempts to abuse the tourist visa program, and many times wonder why they have been denied. Typically it is the users own fault. That is not to say it is everyone, but it is a lot. This is a human process, and COs are only human, they can only make decisions on what is in front of them, and are required to make tough decisions that do not take emotions into account. That may seem unfair and cold, but they have to be. Yes there are some on power trips, we've seen some examples of this too.

But large changes are not going to be made until you get the public at large to actually even care. And they don't. Going to the top and only getting the smallest of a change made (even if it was helpful) is proof of that.

I understand, the Visa Processing term used at the embassies are not the same as what the term Visa Processing Fee is attached to.

A visa is processed ,that's printed when an applicant gets approved. So that makes the interview and Administrative processing all different terms not the same thing.

I am not saying that it should be free.Someone spent time on processing the application, they should be paid. But the first time I heard visa processing fee, I mistakenly thought that was a good sign.

An application fee would suffice. It makes more sense since the end result isn't guaranteed.of course, it is wishful thinking..

[IcezMan_IcezLady 582]

That and the automatic if its your 2 year wedding anniversary at POE you are rewarded a 10 year green card. Too many people been in the process for almost 2 years and seen each other 1 or 2 weeks and get pissed when they are denied or put in AP for not bonafide evidence.

Change from 2 years to 5 years for 10 year green card. Then Remove conditions, make that Citizenship 7 years marred to a US citizen spouse. If you divorce them you wait 10 years before you can be citizen. And 15 years if you want to petition someone else. So no one can marry citizen divorce and petition immediately. Only those who actually were living together those 2 years broad should be considered for 10 year. That may make people go hmmmm.

I just have seen too many after 2 year landings get green card and he/she is gone soon as green card arrives. I know of 4 just in 2015. One didn't even bother showing up at the US Citizens (wife's) city. Had address changed at interview and POE card came she never knew what was coming. All the while he talking to her she thinks he is in Ghana.

OP, you can't just go by others experience. Not everyone posting their denials are being straight forward. Many will know what's up when they get that NOIR letter from USCIS find out the real deal what happened at interview. Hidden wives, girlfriends, babies not known to petitioner. Not telling petitioner the truth of past applications. These are all some of the few denials at Ghana.

I get your passion and individual CO's if abusing authority need to be address. Someone posted the complaint route. But telling the president which means getting a law implemented or changed just isn't realistic. Also the man has less that 8 months in office and changing this part of immigration isn't at all even on the radar of a priority. Heck they won't even accept his pick for the Supreme court seat. Go to the source let the embassy know HELL NAW!!

I bet if everyone of you folks going through Ghana lately denied or in AP (there is quite a few) all got together and wrote your complaint and each sent in one by one by one you would get some notice.

Omg!! I heard that Ghana story. This wasn't the first either.

I agree with your points 110%.. I believe the USC shouldn't be the only one in the hole. Sometimes the beneficiary blackmails the USC with the affidavit of support. Some Vjers have even recommended to some OP's to use that as leverage.

[lutz 41]

How people love to attack. If you have concerns about he way the petition was written, instead of hurling insults, why don't you give the writer some constructive criticism?

[TBoneTX 43,433]

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