US Immigration from Russia

With the Russian government now restricting, and possibly outright closing WhatsApp and Telegram, how are people communicating with family, fianc s, or spouses in Russia?

Hello. My fiance went to her medical exam in Moscow for her interview for a K1 Visa in Warsaw Poland. Upon the interview, everything went well until they ordered a drug test because they labeled her scratches on her arm caused by her cat as 'evidence of mental health'. Upon the drug test, she tested positive for MDMA. She does not do drugs nor has she ever done drugs in her life. However, she is on a bunch of medication including mebeverine for her stomach, which has been shown sometimes to cause false positives for MDMA. Upon her showing them her medication as well as evidence that this prescription can read positive for MDMA, the doctor waived his hand in her face and told her he will not bother looking at the report and that 'its nonsense' such a drug can cause this, despite attempting to show him peer-reviewed science and medical articles describing that this drug causes false positives for MDMA, including from the National Institute of Health ( a federal funded american medical agency).

the next morning at 6, she went down to a narcologist and took a test again showing that she was completely clean. However, the clinic refused anything. That day, the clinic called her and said that htey could make this drug test go away but the head narcologist has to return from her vacation on august 26th to change it and then would be able to email it over to warsaw poland. THey mentioned she wont have to be here for this in person. However, the next day when she called, they said that actually yes, she will need to be in moscow during this and that the process will take two weeks instead. When she mentioned she would miss her scheduled appointment and thus have the schenghen also run out they basically said they didn't care.

Does this sound like strange behavior from a medical clinic to jerk us around like this? I got my lawyer involved to try and inquiry into the embassy in poland to see if they can do anything about it. What else should we do? She is not a drug user and never has been, and to be labeled as one and barred for a year because a physician has never heard of a drug and yet refused to even look at evidence contradicting what he declared is so crazy. I dont know if it helps, but I also got my state senator invovled although i dont know what else they can do.

has anybody ever dealt with like this before??

Hi everyone... we are exhausted k1 fillers, need your help.

Our timeline:

- 4 of march 2024 we got noa 1.

- 7 of November 2024 uscis request initial and additional evidence.

- 29 of January 2025 uscis received our response.

- 3 of february 2025 they approved our case.

- 25 of february 2025 case was sent to the department of state.

So nvc returned our case back to uscis

- 5 of may they reoponed our case

- 6 of may request for additional evidence

Reason - the 5th page of the form I129f is missing and they asked for a copy of the 5th page or a refilled new form I129f with updates.

My fiance was with me at that time, because we were tired of waiting, it is very hard to live at a distance so we refilled everything and also my adress has changed and petitioner adress changed too, so we described it in the letter. Because my fiance was with me, he asked his dad to send mail for him. We were waiting, waiting and after 2 months we got our mail back, because uscis couldn't identify our case, reason - his dad forgot to put the the request itself in letter. So we lost time again.

We sent response to uscis again and they got it in 22 of july.

So soon it's gonna be 3 weeks of waiting and I'm getting concerned, we got our approval after 1st rfe in 5 days and now I'm panicking. Does it mean they gonna deny us? If it takes longer than usually people got their approve after rfe? This waiting is killing, i have already psyological problems because of it or we still can have a chance to be approved? Maybe somebody had their approve after 1 month of waiting in situation with rfe?

Sorry for my English

Hey group!

Has anyone recently transited through the international zone of a European airport without a Schengen visa? We'll be flying from outside Europe to the US on a single ticket and won t be exiting the international transit zone.

From what I ve read on most websites, this should generally be fine at most airports (like Frankfurt, Vienna, etc.), but I ve also heard of people being denied boarding, especially on Polish airlines transiting through Warsaw. Still, I read one case of someone being denied boarding because of a transit in Vienna.

Just wanted to hear anyone's experiences!

My wife is Russian and a conditional green card holder. We realized yesterday that her passport expires in less than a year. I'd really like to get ahead of this and avoid any issues.

Has anyone had any experiences with renewing a Russian passport in the US recently? I know many consulates are still open and I've seen some spammy looking services from Google Searches that claim to provide passport renewals.

I'm not sure what the process would be and would very much like to avoid her having to fly back to Russia and then re-enter the US. This would not be the worst thing ever but is best to be avoided.