What should my husband expect at his visa interveiw? (We may have red flags).

[Krissyb93 27]

Hello everyone (:

My husband's visa interview is in about a week at the Mumbai consulate and we're super nervous! I think our relationship may bring up some red flags for the following reasons, and I just want to help my hubby prepare for them as best as possible. 1. We married our first time meeting. We talked for 2 years before I came to India to meet my husband in person, and we got married the next month. I've heard this may bring up a red flag. Another problem is my husband has been denied for a visa before, a student visa. He was unable at the time to prove his ties to India, so we're also worried about that. The last is he doesn't currently have a job. His family wanted him to visit them for a month in another state before he leaves for the US, so he didn't really have a choice but to quit. What's the best way we can prepare for this? What questions might they ask? Does this give us less of a chance of getting a visa?

Thank you for your time!

[Anitafeliz 1,133]

Dont worry about the denial at my k1 interview one ladies fiancee was denied 3 times a tourist visa.

relaxx

[Boiler 43,430]

Is this an arranged marriage?

[John andrew 8]

Dear Boiler what does arranged Marriage different love one, is there issue for such cases where marriage was arrange marriage?

Edited September 19, 2016 by Abdirashi

[Boiler 43,430]

Would make sense of the situation.

[katietw95 16]

Hello everyone (:

My husband's visa interview is in about a week at the Mumbai consulate and we're super nervous! I think our relationship may bring up some red flags for the following reasons, and I just want to help my hubby prepare for them as best as possible. 1. We married our first time meeting. We talked for 2 years before I came to India to meet my husband in person, and we got married the next month. I've heard this may bring up a red flag. Another problem is my husband has been denied for a visa before, a student visa. He was unable at the time to prove his ties to India, so we're also worried about that. The last is he doesn't currently have a job. His family wanted him to visit them for a month in another state before he leaves for the US, so he didn't really have a choice but to quit. What's the best way we can prepare for this? What questions might they ask? Does this give us less of a chance of getting a visa?

Thank you for your time!

Well, my husband and I had a similar situation when he interviewed last year at the New Delhi embassy.

We had met online and had been together for over 3 years before I was able to travel to India to meet him (due to my age at the time that we met). I was a college student when I went to meet my husband, so that was really my only chance to be able to go over there to visit him. We decided to get married while I was there, and that took place towards the end of my trip there (I was there for a total of 2 months).

The only issues at the embassy that we had was that they felt like it was odd that his parents were so accepting of me since I am Caucasian and that they were accepting of me staying in their home with him while we were unmarried.

We ended up with a 221(g) and had to submit more evidence (even though they did not look at any of the evidence that my husband brought to the interview). Originally, my husband had taken all of our chat logs from email, FB, WhatsApp, etc. along with two huge photo albums of pictures of us together, screenshots of our Skype Chats showing the date and duration of the Skype Call, ticket stubs/itineraries showing my trip to India along with the trips we made around India and to Dubai as well. As said, they never looked at it at the interview. So whenever he submitted the evidence in response to the 221(g), he submitted all that PLUS WhatsApp conversations I had with his parents, aunt, and cousin (to show that they are accepting of the relationship), a complete photocopy of my entire passport showing date entry stamps, two affidavits from each of his parents, a detailed long affidavit that I wrote talking about our relationship (one from me and one from him too). I am sure that there is more that we submitted, but I cannot remember at the time because it was a while back.

After submitting all that, he was approved for his visa within like 2-3 days. So, it is hard to say exactly what will happen at the interview. I hear that the New Delhi embassy is harder than the Mumbai one. However, I am unsure how true that is. Plus, we had had some issues in dealing with the embassy in regards to his visa before the interview. And my husband told me that the Indian CO brought it up to him at the interview and seemed angry that he had to answer the emails that I had sent to the Embassy trying to get some clarification on the problems we were having (we had been bounced back in forth between NVC, USCIS, and the Embassy in regards to our visa). So, it is likely that he may have given him a hard time due to that.

Best thing to do is to be prepared and have evidence to back everything up. You should be fine.

[KierenHby 897]

Flags are what they are.. address them, can't change em; any religious dissimilarities or a significant age gap may come up.

Might be helpful to join him at the interview if you haven't revisited in the 18-mos since the wedding. He should carry relevant set of evidence of a bonafide marriage and continuing relationship.

Edited September 19, 2016 by KierenHby

[IcezMan_IcezLady 582]

I think folks have given you good advise..Just tell him to keep his job until he has a visa in hand.

I know it can be exciting that interview is coming up but leaving his job before he gets his visa is risky.

Last year after my fiance (now husband) first interview, we were so sure he would get approved. Had he quit his job, he would be jobless now.

[Krissyb93 27]

Is this an arranged marriage?

No not in the slightest. Before we met in person we discussed the idea of marriage if the chemistry was as strong as it was while we skyped ect. It turned out to be even stronger when we met so we decided to get married.

[Krissyb93 27]

Flags are what they are.. address them, can't change em; any religious dissimilarities or a significant age gap may come up.

Might be helpful to join him at the interview if you haven't revisited in the 18-mos since the wedding. He should carry relevant set of evidence of a bonafide marriage and continuing relationship.

I'm here in India now. I went back home for 10 months to get the visa thing started and to take care of some things. There isn't a significant age gap however he is Sikh. He doesn't practice or believe any of it, but he wears turban to please his parents. I'm agnostic.

[Krissyb93 27]

Well, my husband and I had a similar situation when he interviewed last year at the New Delhi embassy.

We had met online and had been together for over 3 years before I was able to travel to India to meet him (due to my age at the time that we met). I was a college student when I went to meet my husband, so that was really my only chance to be able to go over there to visit him. We decided to get married while I was there, and that took place towards the end of my trip there (I was there for a total of 2 months).

The only issues at the embassy that we had was that they felt like it was odd that his parents were so accepting of me since I am Caucasian and that they were accepting of me staying in their home with him while we were unmarried.

We ended up with a 221(g) and had to submit more evidence (even though they did not look at any of the evidence that my husband brought to the interview). Originally, my husband had taken all of our chat logs from email, FB, WhatsApp, etc. along with two huge photo albums of pictures of us together, screenshots of our Skype Chats showing the date and duration of the Skype Call, ticket stubs/itineraries showing my trip to India along with the trips we made around India and to Dubai as well. As said, they never looked at it at the interview. So whenever he submitted the evidence in response to the 221(g), he submitted all that PLUS WhatsApp conversations I had with his parents, aunt, and cousin (to show that they are accepting of the relationship), a complete photocopy of my entire passport showing date entry stamps, two affidavits from each of his parents, a detailed long affidavit that I wrote talking about our relationship (one from me and one from him too). I am sure that there is more that we submitted, but I cannot remember at the time because it was a while back.

After submitting all that, he was approved for his visa within like 2-3 days. So, it is hard to say exactly what will happen at the interview. I hear that the New Delhi embassy is harder than the Mumbai one. However, I am unsure how true that is. Plus, we had had some issues in dealing with the embassy in regards to his visa before the interview. And my husband told me that the Indian CO brought it up to him at the interview and seemed angry that he had to answer the emails that I had sent to the Embassy trying to get some clarification on the problems we were having (we had been bounced back in forth between NVC, USCIS, and the Embassy in regards to our visa). So, it is likely that he may have given him a hard time due to that.

Best thing to do is to be prepared and have evidence to back everything up. You should be fine.

I have a ton of emails, and conversations. One thing I'm worried about is I got a new computer and it completely erased all of our Skype messages from when we first started skyping, that was probably the best evidence we had for the courtship ):

I think folks have given you good advise..Just tell him to keep his job until he has a visa in hand.

I know it can be exciting that interview is coming up but leaving his job before he gets his visa is risky.

Last year after my fiance (now husband) first interview, we were so sure he would get approved. Had he quit his job, he would be jobless now.

Unfortunately he already left it.

[Krissyb93 27]

I'm just trying to figure out what extra pieces of evidence we can gather to help offset the red flags our case may bring up. So far I have lots of conversations, some Skype logs, PayPal receipts where he sent me money after we were married and I went back to the us for some time, pictures of us together, pictures of us/me with his family, 2 affidavits from my grandparents and one from his brother (whom we live with). What else can I include?

[KierenHby 897]

I'm just trying to figure out what extra pieces of evidence we can gather to help offset the red flags our case may bring up. So far I have lots of conversations, some Skype logs, PayPal receipts where he sent me money after we were married and I went back to the us for some time, pictures of us together, pictures of us/me with his family, 2 affidavits from my grandparents and one from his brother (whom we live with). What else can I include?

Those are good sets of evidence, though the affidavits are hardly considered evidence. Those paypal transfers could be questioned. Why would he be sending you money? The devil's advocate in me, the CO, could view the money he sent you as attempts to buy himself a green card. The rest looks good.

[Krissyb93 27]

Those are good sets of evidence, though the affidavits are hardly considered evidence. Those paypal transfers could be questioned. Why would he be sending you money? The devil's advocate in me, the CO, could view the money he sent you as attempts to buy himself a green card. The rest looks good.

He was sending me money because he's my husband and I was jobless. I've seen alot of people advise including PayPal, western union, ect slips.

[indiana_sweetie 120]

I'm just trying to figure out what extra pieces of evidence we can gather to help offset the red flags our case may bring up. So far I have lots of conversations, some Skype logs, PayPal receipts where he sent me money after we were married and I went back to the us for some time, pictures of us together, pictures of us/me with his family, 2 affidavits from my grandparents and one from his brother (whom we live with). What else can I include?

Airline tickets show you went there, and now twice, correct? Those are important. They questioned my hubby at interview the exact dates that I arrived and left Kosovo. They also questioned him a lot because of our age difference (I'm quite a bit older). They never asked anything about religion. We had lots of pictures with family and tons of chats. We also met online and married on our first meeting. I went back to visit a second time because it was taking so long. Airline tickets and time spent together and meeting family are really important. Money transfers and affidavits, not so much.