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i once found a forum for making wurst in numerous ways, but i didn't stay - i didn't have the guts.
some time later, i found a forum on shoe making, but it was dull and had no sole.

Really? More likely in the CEHST forum

You are one of my faves is on here I find you to be the most fair sympathetic, empathic moderator thus far. Kudos

English-only outside the regional forums.
British-only inside the British military forum.

Have stayed on chiefly to warn people not to take any portion of this immigration process lightly or treat it casually, specifically the infernal, godforsaken, hellhole, [censored] consular phase.

We are talking Lagos here, you need to send a lot of relationship proof from varies forms of communication and visits.
If you use skype, what's up, viber email, phone logs, etc. then send pages from each to show ongoing communication
daily, from beginning of how you met (print FB posts and messages) to current.
As mentioned everything from visits plus the kitchen sink.
Lagos likes lots of photos, also with family when you visit.
Write a relationship timeline of how you met, how your relationship grew ,your compatibility and love
for each other. Include lots of photos. Front load all items with your petition and then add more for the interview.
Don't compare your embassy with other countries, apples and oranges !

As of 2013, when the instructions were updated, original signatures are not needed.
You can scan them.
There is no proof that any RFE's have been issued for wet signature since 2013 because of the instruction change.
If you read the instructions, it will tell you that copies are accepted.

When I've made typos, I send a corrected version as soon as possible afterwards, with a line on top that says "Please disregard the previous transmission, which had a typographical error in it."
Of course, it only took me many, many years to remember to type the other person's e-mail address as the last action in composing a draft e-mail!
Fingers crossed for your success. Let us know.

First, let me say that online translators suck. I assume you are naturalized US citizen, not born in the US?
I think you are worried about the wrong things. You are worried about the visa payments and buying engagement rings. Engagement rings don't prove anything. She probably got an engagement ring from the other guy too, and look how that turned out.
Forget all that, and think about whether this woman loves you. It's hard to take her (and you) seriously when she has had 2 fiancées within a 5-6 month period. Like somebody else said, chances are good that she will leave you as soon as she gets her green card. Obviously, she will tell you that she is not looking for papers. Nobody will admit it if they are looking only for papers.

CR1
If this one is cheating then you can still stay.

It is not an automatic denial, and it is good she left the USA and did not overstay when no marriage occured but it is a big red flag to have another relationship with another USC and get petitioned so quickly. For a better success rate, give it some more time, and visit at least once more before petitioning her.

You send it back with an I-90 explaining the situation.

When the Visa and th packet at hand...with CORRECT INFORMATION specially your name...

I'd change it to "Self Employed" just for the sake of consistency. You don't want it to raise any questions later on.

Oh, Shelinny... he has already been dishonest with you from the first moment, when he met you using a fake profile. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Yes, there are real relationships coming out of every country including Ghana, but this one has ALL the red flags. As others have said, including the one who started this thread, it is extremely rare for a man from sub-Saharan Africa not to want children. I lived there for a year and never once met such a man. I was uniformly greeted with something like pity because I don't have children yet, from both men and women, and was urged to do so. While the cultures are not the same in every country and ethnic group, that seems to be a constant. The purpose of marriage is to have children; in fact the purpose of LIFE is to have children, and provide for them. I'm not kidding, there are even many Catholic priests who have semi-secret families.
It's one thing if a man already has some children and says he doesn't want more from his new wife, but I would even greet that with suspicion.
If a man was known to be infertile, he might have trouble finding a wife in his own community and THAT man might be interested in a bona fide marriage with a woman who couldn't have children either. (It would be rare to know this unless the man had had some kind of severe accident or disease that caused obvious damage.) That's a rare exception I can think of.
People sometimes ask me if my husband had wanted to come to the US before we met. I tell them, I would consider it a red flag if he'd told me he never wanted to and was only willing to move to be with me. I think the majority of the younger generation has at least considered it, and in my experience, think they would want to immigrate to the US--at least on some level. It's also a lot of pressure to put on a relationship, for one person to change continents and cultures and leave their entire family behind for the sake of one person. I'm happy that my husband is also looking forward to career and educational opportunities here, in addition to continuing our life together and starting our family.
I wish you the best of luck in life but hope that you will seriously rethink this. The process is so expensive and that's just the fees you pay at various steps--nothing compared to the difficulties that can come up if someone comes to the US for fraudulent purposes.

While we all think it is a bunch of poppycock that an age gap should be cause for refusal (behind general blanket statements of
"not bona fide" (they don't come right out and say it but make other excuses) it is actually a valid point OP is making.
I have seen the fraud referral sheet that the consulates go by and one fraud indicator is a large age gap. If you can still overcome
that suspicion, assumption and speculative reasoning the CO's have then fine but if there are also some other indicators (fast marriage,
short or just 1 trip, overlapping divorce beginning new relationship etc) then likely you will have a hard time the first time around.
It is a mute point to bicker over the age gap thing, I have seen it in print and it is a fact, it is listed as one of the fraud INDICATORS.
An indicator is not an absolute no but it is the elephant in the room that needs to be tackled. Either it tramples you or you sit on it and
ride it out with a visa.
When asked about children, have an intelligent and ready answer and don't scratch your head going ooommm.
The consulate cultural field manuals are still in the dinosaur era and need to be overhauled, their reasoning is from something
out of Beaver Cleaver times.
I want to puke every time I hear about outdated West African cultural nonsense that happens deep in the village and not in modern
progressive and bigger cities anymore. Unfortunately if the outdated training and manual says it then they follow it.
Is it ridiculous ? Yes. Is it a fact with CO's ? Yes. Should it be ? No.

You can't call a marriage or engagement a sham purely because of an age difference. Not everybody in the world wants children and that is perfectly fine. Not everybody in the world is able to bear their own children either. Just because you aren't privy to another couple's situation doesn't give you any right to judge.

I'm not saying he has to or even should consider it, I'm just pointing out that she's a person with wants and needs too and the US isn't all it's cracked up to be for 100% of the world's population. I think it's the "ungrateful" thing I'm reacting to. It's not ungrateful if it's just not a good match (and you had no way of knowing it wouldn't be) and you've got serious reasons to want to be back home. It's like people who manage to be miserable in college. It's not that they don't appreciate the education and opportunity. It's the fact that living in East Nowhere surrounded by a bunch of football devotees and a conservative faculty isn't really working out for them. Maybe they should have gone to NYU. Or trade school. People are different, you know?
Also, you surely must realize that your situation is really, really different than a lot of foreign spouses'. Having traveled so much in your life, period, and having visited the US several times is a really different worldview/perspective than someone who has never been on an airplane (my husband), and only left his own country once (to the neighboring country, which in the grand scheme of the world isn't that different at all. Sort of like Arkansas vs Tennessee in difference). This may not be Noon's experience, but it's possible and that really would change one's experience with immigration.
I don't think that sustaining a long term relationship with someone from a foreign country is anywhere near a close substitute for visiting there. It'll help get an idea of nuances of the culture in ways that even regular tourism can't but it's not the same. Even if it's not the country itself that is a bad match (which it certainly can be), what if the person themselves is just simply not good at being a fish out of water? And they never knew that about themselves? Your mileage may certainly vary (and it sounds like it does, which is awesome), but everyone is different and it looks like she may be on the extreme opposite end of the spectrum.
As for the logistics-- there's quality private medical care available in Thailand and it could be cheaper than buying Obamacare for the two of them (I'm not kidding) or paying out of pocket here (which I'm guessing is what they probably do). Children? Are they having any? Soon? Someone close to HIM gets sick too? Then they've got a real problem, just like an New York/ LA couple would if both their families had a medical crisis at the same time. But she has a current actual family medical crisis, not a hypothetical future one. Doesn't speak the language? She learned English somehow, and there are far more English speakers in Thailand than Thai speakers in the US. Again, not a reason why it'll all be ok for him but just from a matter of perspective and fairness. It's not like this was significantly easier for her to do than it would be for him.

She is trying to go home. That's what we're watching unfold. How they're going to navigate this wanting to go home vs wanting to stay married. At some point, she'll have to decide if she wants to be married to Kyle more, or go home more. Just like he'll have to decide if he wants to stay married to Noon more or stay in the US more. Barring some sort of compromise I can't quite picture, that is essentially what it boils down to which sucks but is true.
All of us here and our partners have made that decision at some point or another (and most of us here the decision was "want to be married more" and our foreign partners moved to the US). What really stinks is for people like Noon (and my husband, and countless other partners on VJ) who had to make that choice sight-unseen. I can't imagine. Truly, I cannot, and I remain in awe of their trust and bravery for doing it (even if the US is objectively "better" than any of these countries, which is a point I won't concede, it is still signing up to move to a foreign country long term to permanently that you have never once seen). I can't imagine how difficult having second thoughts/buyers remorse/ coming to the realization that this place is Not For You must be under these circumstances. At least if you chose the wrong university, you can transfer. Bought in a boring neighborhood? Can sell it. But their decision to move to the US is intrinsically wrapped up in someone who they love very much (enough to move for them) and it's not quite so easy to leave when "leaving" can mean divorce and heartache.

No, they don't.

I think a good twist would be to chance the couples around mid season to who seems to deserve each other. Match Azan with the gold digger and Nicole with the pot grower. I think it would be so much more fun.

I was quite shocked that Nicole went to meet his family, who seem at least moderately religious, in shorts way above the knee and a lot of skin showing. Even without knowing a lot about the culture, you'd thing she'd at least have worn long pants and maybe a shawl/ long sleeved shirt, out of respect.

Certain airlines may have more delayed flights than others. I've flown all of them but southwestern. Jet blue is awesome! We didn't pay for carry ons like you have to with Spirit.
FLL as a POE takes time. The lines are long and the POE interview room my then Fiance had to go to took about 30 minutes. Getting your luggage and going back through security and check baggage took a bit of time. We had to go outside and back in another part of the building to get to our connecting gate. Like I said I've traveled a lot on many different airports. FLL took 2 hours to finish. It has nothing to do with the airline. We got confused and lost a few times. I cannot imagine him doing all that alone.

I met a Russian woman many years ago who had met a Mormon missionary in Russia and fell in love, got married, yadda. The story she told me (before I knew anything about immigration) was that her marriage was actually over by the time she had an interview in the US but the officer felt sorry for her and gave her a GC anyway.
Anyway, the funny part was that she and her mom only went to the Mormon study group or whatever it was just because they were bored and wanted friends/something to do. Since they were so bored, she and her mother also went to the Witchcraft study group! I don't think her Mormon missionary husband knew this! lol

Oh god... blech.
Scammers in this category choose women that are older, often sick (my guess is so they don't have to sleep with them or they are distracted and won't notice the scam), poor (idk why but I see his fans say he was being used as a sugar daddy, maybe it's a way out?) and uneducated (for obvious reasons).
From all those glamour selfies I think he is gay.
Hopefully someone watches his tapes for his ROC