Tiff

Hey VJ

I have a question about my SSN!

I have indeed checked the box to receive one on my I 130, now is the question: Will they send that card to my house, and I don't do anything for/about it to have it?

Or will I have to run op to the SSN office myself for my sscard?

Any help is welcome!

Grtz, Lytha

My husband came to United States about 2 1/2 weeks ago and he did receive his Green Card on the second week. Then we went to SS office trying to obtain the SS#, but he is not even in their system yet! The representative told him that he should received the SS card within the next 10 business days. So in my opinion, you can either wait for them to mail in the next few weeks or go to the office yourself. Either way, you still have to wait about the same time.

Two years? I think that would drive me nuts. Congrats and here's to a happy life!

Thank you, "confusedasheck" Here to happy life! Cheers! LOL

congrats!! hopefully I'll get to have a thread like this someday...

Thank you Long & Kieu. My heart ached to hear you said that. Your time will come. Just hold on to each other. I will pray for you soon to united with your love ones. Please update us with your good news as well. Cheers! . :-)

congrats!! hopefully I'll get to have a thread like this someday...

Thank you Long & Kieu. My heart ached to hear you said that. Your time will come. Just hold on to each other. I will pray for you soon to united with your love ones. Please update us with your good news as well. Cheers! . :-)

Thank you, Mozzer1972. We have been waiting for a little more than two years already, at this point, we can handle anything ...hihihi...The reason I asked for the process is to let my hubby know what to expect. The timing is for me so I can arrange the time to pick up my son after school. I wish your family well and live happily forever after. :-)

Thank you Leatherneck for so prompt with your response. He will landed at 1:50pm, so hopefully it is not going to be busy. :-)

Hi VJ Family!!

My husband will be coming to America this Thursday from Vietnam under CR1 status!!! :dance: He first stop will be at Japan and then fly straight to Houston. I just wonder how long does the immagation process take at POE? Has anyone been thru this process and would you please kindly share your experience in detail? What does my husband should expect? Thank you for your feed back as always

Tiff

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Thank you all for you feed back! I will relay your answers to my friend. Xoxoxo. Take care all

I have a friend who heard me bragging about Visajourney forum and she asked me to post her story because she can not speak English too well. Apologize if this topic in the wrong forum, and please move this post where appropriate. Thank you in advance for your feedback.

Her boyfriend came to America under HO Program (Humanitarian Resettlement (HR) process in order to consider Vietnamese citizens who were former soldiers or officials of the former southern government before April 30, 1975 and were in re-education centers after April 30, 1975 (HO program.) He has an assault felony charge and will be deported back to Vietnam soon because he is not American citizen. Her question for us is what can she do to help him stay. Can they get marry since she is US citizen? Can he open a business here to help him stay?

She is waiting for your answer. Thank you once again.

Tiff

@ Diiem Kieu: Totally agree with you. We used agent office before and they only know how to fill out the forms, that's about it. Their fee is almost the same as lawyer's. In my opinion, hiring the right attorney in the first place will save you time and money.

Thank you rostov007 for sharing your thought. My husband has his visa letter approval and now waiting for actual visa. He will be leaving VN in the next two weeks if as planned...Your post has remind me to be in his shoes once his arrived to USA. I am sure Anh will be okay because she has a great man like you by her side. :-)

LOL...Thanks tcTTct! I guess each case has it own uniqueness, that's why we are keep guessing on how the C/O thinks. I am so grateful for everything :-) Thank you Buddah and thank you everyone!!

congrats!!

Thank you Long& Kieu! :-) :-)

We Got Our VISA APPROVED letter!!!!!!!!! Now I have to read more from this forum for what to expect after this. I am so blessed to have found this website. It has helped me to educate myself and know what to expect so I didn't break down for the unexpected. Good luck to everyone who are still waiting.

You didn't know that the very first thing one's supposed to do the next morning after arrival is to photocopy that Attached Visa with the VNese Custom Arrival stamp on it? Now you know. Hopefully others reading do as well!

Copies of trip ticket stubs/ boarding passes and similar items are meaningless to the C/O. Only copies of the Visa stamps and your credit card statements showing the transactions and dates count.

My case update: We have submitted everything we could think of that would help our case on Monday by Marc Ellis. C/O told him that we will received something from them within the next two weeks. Praying this is a good sign :-)

So I am trying to email the PDF files for the I 864 and it keeps saying it's too big - even thought I have saved them as reduced files.. then split them up - still not working. can you send more than ONE email??? or all the files for the AOS have to be in one email?? I am going on hour 3 after working night shift and near tears... please someone tell me best way to handle this

I did have the same problem with the files that were too large as PDF as well because I have to sent about 500 pages of phone logs and chats over sea. What my brother-in-law did was that he zip the file, and then he up loaded to Google docs. From there you should have a link to send to other party, and all they have to do is click on the link and download it. Hope this helps

I will approved you in a heartbeat if I was USCIS employee who was receiving this email! :-)

I will approved you in a heartbeat if I was USCIS employee who was receiving this email! :-)

Glad you got it worked out. Is calling the only contact you had. Did y'all email back and forth?

We do have all of the Yahoo chat records, but not much in emailing. C/O has not requested for the chat logs nor phone records yet, but my guess is that since we already have 2 blue slips; so therefore, our lawyer needs these information to build our case stronger. I have to wait for another 5 to 10 business days for T-Mobile mailing. They won't send it thru email. Another 10 days in delay :-(

Hello all

Now my lawyer needs the entire phone records from the time we initially contacted which was back in September 2009. The thing is that I used Lenux pinless company to call him in which the company able to provide me all of the calling records up to that date. Whenever my husband called me from Vietnam, his number showed on my T-Mobile call details report, but the problem is that T-Mobile only let me print out the report for 12 months back which is back to September 2010. I still need to have all the calling records from September 2010 back to September 2009. I have called T-Mobile and the representative told me that they can send me the print out but they have to charge me $5/per month which add up to be $60 for 12 months. The problem is that they can only print out the billing statements but they won't able to provide the whole detail of our calls. Did anyone have the same situation? Is the T-Mobile representative has gave me the correct information about they are unable to print out the whole detail? What is my alternative options? I don't have that much of calling records on Lenux as much as I have on T-Mobile. Thank you for your feed back and good luck to you all.

Tiff

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T-Mobile call report update: I decided to call T-Mobile the second around and talk to different customer service representative because from my past expriences, whenever you are dealing with calling center you need to get second opinion. This second rep was able to get me the full detail of my calling reports. She stated that they have two options in their system, one is for statement only, and another is for detail. The first representative did not know that and told me other wise.

Just turn in the requested documents and see what happens.

Hello all

Now my lawyer needs the entire phone records from the time we initially contacted which was back in September 2009. The thing is that I used Lenux pinless company to call him in which the company able to provide me all of the calling records up to that date. Whenever my husband called me from Vietnam, his number showed on my T-Mobile call details report, but the problem is that T-Mobile only let me print out the report for 12 months back which is back to September 2010. I still need to have all the calling records from September 2010 back to September 2009. I have called T-Mobile and the representative told me that they can send me the print out but they have to charge me $5/per month which add up to be $60 for 12 months. The problem is that they can only print out the billing statements but they won't able to provide the whole detail of our calls. Did anyone have the same situation? Is the T-Mobile representative has gave me the correct information about they are unable to print out the whole detail? What is my alternative options? I don't have that much of calling records on Lenux as much as I have on T-Mobile. Thank you for your feed back and good luck to you all.

Tiff

Hi all!

I wished I have know this website before my husband's interview and before I submitted the relationship timeline. I did know getting Visa from VN is this hard becuase I was thinking that if our relationship is real then there is nothing to worry. But after I've learned what I have read on internet, I broke out a cold sweat with many sleepness night. Here is my general timeline of our relationship. We have been introduced by my Dad's former longtime coworker in September 2009. My first trip was in January 29th 2010 and he proposed to me on February 14th 2010 at Tan Son Nhat Airport, that was on Valentine's day and also the day I flew back to America. My second trip to Vietnam was on September 18th 2010 to sign our marriage license and came back to United States on October 15th, 2010. My third trip was just recently, it was on June 9th, 2011 thru June 28th, 2011 for our wedding. We got married on June 18th, 2011, but coincidentally, he got the letter to schedule for interview 2 days prior to our wedding. He got all the dates right, even the date when did we go and sign our marriage license. He got a blue slip asking 4 notarized letters in English if possible (3 from me and 1 from him asking for his past 10 years of residency.) I felt so naive and dumb after reading the postings on this website.

They asked for:

Time line of our relationship ( I only wrote about 1 1/2 pages. I thought make it short and sweet becuase nobody has time to read down to the details. Keep in mind that I did not found this website until after the blue slip.

Where/who have I lived with for the last 10 years

Where and how my son'd dad lived and evident of his address. ( I have a son out of a weddlock and we rarely communicate to each other after the birth of my son so I have no evident of his address)

My husband was scheduled to submit all these in on June 14th, 2011 which is today. When he got there, they also asking my husband's past 10 years of residency in Vienamese as well and he only have the one tranlsated in English. They told him to come back on this Monday 7/18/2011.

Possible reg flags to CO:

I am female/single mom who married husband in Vietnam

I am six years older than my husband but he looks older than I am.

I have kid and he doesn't, but we both have never been married before.

I have much higher education than he does.

My guts feeling is that we might end up with the white slip on this Monday. Any thought????By the way, my husband said that the two female interviewers are very nice and friendly. I am praying every day and loosing sleep :-(.

Thank you in advance for your comments.

I meant that I DID NOT know getting Visa in Vietnam is this difficult...

Hi all,

Finally, I was able to colllect all of my husband relatives' documents requested from US Embassy, and we are about to submit it. But alas, we have found out that my husband have said the date that I came back to Vietnam for the first time was wrong!!!! It was about few days off. The reason for that, in his mind, he was so sure that I came back on the weekend, but actually it was on Monday instead. I gave him all of the boarding passes and I did not have the first time boarding pass copied on my end, so therefore, I wrote in the timeline base on what he has said during the interview. Has anyone came across with the same situation and what did you do? What should we do at this point??? Please help :-(

Hi Tiff,

We received a 2nd blue slip also because there was some discrepency between my (then) fiancee's birth certificate city and birthplace city on her passport. She was able to get it corrected in her home town and then received a pink.

I'm very happy as she is her now with me in the US and we are finally married.

Best of luck to you and yours.

Congrats to both of you :-) I am still trying collect all of the relatives information for my husband. More anxiety building up as time passing by.

Truly happy for you. Best wishes!

Dear All,

Thank you very much for everyone's past help. This forum has provided great information.

My fiance had her interview yesterday. Here is her experience and I have a few questions below. Any feedback is appreciated.

Interview Experience and Questions -

My fiance arrived at 9am and and had her interview at 10:30am. She first went to a desk and was asked a few simple questons by a Vietnamese CO. He asked her the following in Vietnamese:

1. My name

2. My age

3. My marital status

4. Any children

5. Her name and age.

She saw a pink paper there and he was checking some things off.

He then transferred her (and the pink slip) to another desk where the CO was a white lady with a vietnamese translater. She was sworn in in Vietnamese and then the CO started talking in English and asked her the following and my fiance responded in English (pink slip was still on the desk):

1. Her name, age, # of family members and where she works and what she does for work.

2. The first time we met and where

3. My name, where I live, the company I work for and how many years

4. When was the last time we saw each other and how do we communicate and in what language.

5. How many times I went to Vietnam

6. Since I went 5 times, the CO asked very specifically what days I arrived and departed Vietnam. Even I don't remember the exact dates but my fiancee did

The CO then asked the following questions and the translater asked these in Vietnamese. My fiancee continued to answer in English since she heard what the CO asked -

7. Describe exactly how we met

8. How did he propose?

9. How did you get engaged?

10. When will you have your wedding?

11. Do you know what kind of visa your fiancee is petitioning for?

12 Do you know when you will get married? (ie. 3 months after entry into US)

She also said she was thinks she was finger printed. She had to put her fingers up to some screen. The CO laughed bacause her hands were sweaty and she had to wipe them on her dress several times.

Overall, the experience took about 30 minutes. She said the female CO seemed very friendly. However, the CO finally reached into a drawer below and told my fiance that she needs some additional information.

The blue slip is requesting RELATIONSHIP TIMELINE, 10 YEARS RESIDENCY FOR BOTH OF US, and EX-SPOUSE (mine) ADDRESS. She has to return this about 4 weeks later or so.

My questions are as follows:

1. Can she provide this info earlier than the date specified? Will it speed up the process?

2. If she gets a pink when she provides the info, about how long until they issue the VISA?

3. As far as my ex-wifes info, the only evidence I have is a document from the court for QDPO when she was able to get half of my 401K after the divorce. It shows her name, DOB, address and phone number and my information and the addresses are clearly different. It is an official document from the Supreme Court of California and at the end it has that raised seal. Is this sufficient evidence for my ex's address?

Feedback is really appreciated!

Hi Mozzer1972

I am a female USC petition for my husband in Vietnam. On my first blue slip, CO had required the same as yours: RELATIONSHIP TIMELINE, 10 YEARS RESIDENCY FOR BOTH OF US, and MY EX-BOYFRIEND (MY SON'S FATHER) ADDRESS and evidence of his current address.

When we turned all requested documents from the first blue slip and my husband received a second blue slip which required:

List all my husband's relatives in USA with their DOB, Relationship to beneficiary and evidence of the address.

Dates stamped on my passport along with boarding pass.

My passport didnot have have date stamps since they stamp on my loose leaf visa and they keep it once I left VN, but I do kept all of the boarding pass.

Good luck on your case and hope you are not going to have the second blue as mine.

The Embassy in HaNoi plays no role in it.. its only dealt with at the consulate in HCMC. The list of relatives is only mentioned by the CO when they see some red flags and they want to make sure everything is legit.... it is not all that common... you can see how many times in the past couple of years they have been requested from VJ members in the appointment results topic. There seems to be an uptick in filers stressing over this item when it it not likely they will get asked for it unless there are red flags present... most commonly related to being introduced by a relative or friend..

So what is the CO trying to look for once they have the list of relatives? Did they want to see if them and I were related? To see how closed we live next to each other? or how many relatives in America that possbilby had committed visa fraud?

I had some issues with getting utility bills from my fiancee's relative in the US also. Her aunts and uncles are old and they don't understand so they were scared and worry about the Vietnamese government is getting their info. My fiancee's family called to convince them to send over. Since her relatives are all over the US it was very tedious and one of them sent to the wrong address. I went through a lot. She has a lot of relatives in the US, but we only use her aunts and uncles no cousin or distance family. Right now, i'm still in AP.

I was thinking to list out only his sister and two aunts at first, but his cousin was the one who introduced us so it did not make sense if I don't disclose his cousins. I was affraid that they will denied my cases if I did not mention the cousins. Sorry to hear that are you still in AP. My heart is going out for you both. Good luck and I pray for you to get that pink soon.