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Albatross

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  • Birthday February 9

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    San Antonio
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    Texas

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    K-1 Visa
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    California Service Center
  • Local Office
    San Antonio TX
  • Country
    Ukraine
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    2 "wrinkles" in this story. #1. RFE for 2 reasons: A. You gotta specifically ASK in a separate letter, for ANY kind of waiver, including for a "general waiver" if you have had 2 K-1 visa applications in the past. Don't think you can just check the block on the I-129f. Gotta write a separate letter! B. Just because a document does not exist, USCIS will not believe it until some other, equally stupid government agency tells them that the document does not exist. #2 Police Clearance MUST include ANY and EVERY surname she has ever had. Including her maiden name even if she got married early... and divorced...ANY name from childhood...

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  1. Had the same problem initially with USAA. This situation makes a lot of work for them if someone on the account is not a US citizen or at least a Green Card holder. They have to have the non US person fill out a form called a W8BEN. And then they usually have to talk with the non US person, AND refresh the data every so often, maybe every couple of years. Rinky dink banks don't want the trouble...
  2. When I lived on Guam, a 79 year old guy got a K-1 for a 19 year old Filipina. She came to Guam, but they had a hard time finding someone who would officiate the marriage. Finally found someone, got married, still together as far as I know unless he passed away....
  3. I lived on the island of Guam for many years, flying for Continental Air Micronesia. The island is about 40% Filipino. Every guy out there who married a Filipina discovered he did not marry a woman, he married her family. As soon after marriage as they could arrange it, any an every Filipino/Filipina related to the wife was living in his house... A house for two (and kids) quickly became a house full of 15 Filipinos/Filipinas. Filipinas are incredibly mercenary to help their families. I know an 80 year old "Kano" as the Filipinos call us, who married a 20 year old Filipina. This guy had an apartment in Makati, the high rent district of Manila. The girl got a K-1, had a Green Card two months after the marriage, her whole family was trying to live in the apartment in Makati. What a nightmare. And the reason I have a Ukrainian wife (who still doesn't speak much English, but then I speak Russian fluently, so that made it easy for me to go that route.) NO cultural issues with Ukrainians compared with Filipinas....Слава Богу! (Thank God!)
  4. My wife was denied a B-1/B-2 visa while we were dating, probably BECAUSE she had one of her sons already living in the USA. He came on an employment contract, married an American citizen lady and got a Green Card. But the fact she was denied a B-1/B-2 visa had NO effect on getting the K-1. They did ask about her son at the AOS interview, however...
  5. I heard from various sources, that either you needed to APPLY for the SSN BEFORE getting married OR it would be a long circuitous process. There is another issue as well. The SSA does NOT communicate directly with whichever agency issues the I-94, and has to get it from somewhere else because of their stupidity. Forget getting a SSN in 4 weeks. It took us more than 8, AND that was after I complained to my US Senator's office at the 4 week point. And I am on good terms with his office... I don't know if this is part of your problem or not. We were told to make application with the AoS if you didn't get it before you got married...
  6. We applied BEFORE COVID. And were lucky in many ways. Application was received around Aug 1, 2019, got K-1 visa end of Feb, 2020. Got my (now) wife out on special flight to NY on MAU March, 2020. 15 months from her arrival in US to get married, apply for, and then finally receive Green Card. If you want to ask questions on the phone, I speak reasonably fluent Russian. My Ukrainian phone (after 9/25 for a couple of weeks)
  7. My wife has many of the same issues. She is not postpartum with a new baby, however. She is 50. She does not speak any significant amount of English yet, and at least you seem to be reasonably fluent (I am reasonably fluent in Russian, so that is our common language). My wife has a Ukrainian driver's license, but is afraid to drive here in Texas. Worse, she is used to living in a city environment, and my home is on the distant fringe of suburbia. Between language, location, and not driving she is essentially a prisoner when I am not home. And she is not alone in feeling as she does. She is not my first Ukrainian wife, and over the last 30 years I have known several women, both in the US and in Ukraine who were not happy living in the US. Probably 60% were not happy here. Many of those even left and went back home to Ukraine. Some were US citizens, some threw away the Green Card, did not want to even come back for a visit, and it was not about their partner, it was just that they didn't like living in the US. We have my wife's Green Card interview in a few weeks, and I anticipate that after that, she will go home for a couple of months. I don't think she really wants to spend more than half of her time in the US looking forward. I am semi-retired, so I can spend some of that time in Ukraine with her. I am a retired Army Colonel, have lived all over the world since I was a child, and am comfortable in many places. Some of the discomfort in living out of your native country is related to when you began to travel. The earlier it begins the easier it is to live somewhere else. The later you begin, the more difficult it becomes.
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