flower6

If he did not want to stay in the US last time, why would he want to go back?

There are plenty of cheap phone options to ring the UK.

UK immigration can be done in a day.

boiler tell me about UK immigrations. Hes on unemployment, can I file for leave to remain if hes on unemployment?

I think he knows he made a mistake going back instead of giving it a try here at least for a while. He just didnt really give it a good try. It is a hard country to adjust to. We have friends here in the US that are UKC married to USC's and they say if they hadnt settled in small town like back home they would have never adjusted well. I drop my husband in the middle of the big city. didnt go over well.

If it's not the cost of travel and accomodation, then I wonder if your husband is adding up the cost of the medical and any immunisations he may have to pay for during the medical? That's the only other reason I can think of for him to say it is that expensive. There is a large list of vaccinations that they require but most are only applicable to certain age ranges and the list looks much worse than it actually is.

The only vaccinations I require for my age group (I'm 27) is MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), Tetanus and, that I have had chicken pox at some point during my life (which I have). If you have those given to you at the medical they do add extra cost to the overall price. However, those 2 are available on the NHS for free.

There is also a cost for the visa (I believe) if it is approved, he might also be taking that into consideration.

What is the cost for the visa? I figured there be a cost for the medical but is there another cost that I have overlooked? I thought I had payed for everything.Its like I said, they'd bleed you dry if they could! See me and my husband only have email to communicate with each other so I wish I could see the bloody thing, I'm sure I could sort it. If I could just talk to him on the phone I could calm him down. Cant he get any vaccinations from his GP so we dont have to pay for them? See we did this phyical when he got his K-3 so thats one reason hes off on a benny cause were just repeating steps here. He didnt need any shots actually the first time. I wish I had the money to fly over there for the interview.

If he didn't need any shots before, I don't see what could have changed now. Unless any of the requirements are new that I wasn't aware were new. He can definitely get shots from his GP - just needs copy of records to prove it.

If you've paid the $380 IV fee bill and the $70 bill for the I-864, then the only cost he'll have to cover now is the medical and the courier (like 12 GBP I think and not paid until the interview day).

margot thank you. I thought I had it all paid for. I know he has no idea what hes looking at cause he hasnt help with paperwork at all, he doesnt want to know see! instead of letting me know whats in there so i can sort it he just goes off on a benny. By the way do you or someone thats past this point can tell me whats in this bleeding packet so I can sort this? thank you for your help

If it's not the cost of travel and accomodation, then I wonder if your husband is adding up the cost of the medical and any immunisations he may have to pay for during the medical? That's the only other reason I can think of for him to say it is that expensive. There is a large list of vaccinations that they require but most are only applicable to certain age ranges and the list looks much worse than it actually is.

The only vaccinations I require for my age group (I'm 27) is MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), Tetanus and, that I have had chicken pox at some point during my life (which I have). If you have those given to you at the medical they do add extra cost to the overall price. However, those 2 are available on the NHS for free.

There is also a cost for the visa (I believe) if it is approved, he might also be taking that into consideration.

What is the cost for the visa? I figured there be a cost for the medical but is there another cost that I have overlooked? I thought I had payed for everything.Its like I said, they'd bleed you dry if they could! See me and my husband only have email to communicate with each other so I wish I could see the bloody thing, I'm sure I could sort it. If I could just talk to him on the phone I could calm him down. Cant he get any vaccinations from his GP so we dont have to pay for them? See we did this phyical when he got his K-3 so thats one reason hes off on a benny cause were just repeating steps here. He didnt need any shots actually the first time. I wish I had the money to fly over there for the interview.

My UKC husband of 5yrs has his final interview in london on Aug8th and our packet got lost in the mail and never received and so they sent it again and he finally got it today and he is bloody raven! about the medical and the cost. He said its going to cost 500pounds. Is this right? Hes so mad he wouldnt even tell me what else is in the packet and what all the evidence is they want. He said to forget it hes had enough!

See we did the K-3 and flew back in jan 05, he was here on that and we were trying to get the money together to do the AOS but hes not to happy in the US so nothing doing but to go back to the UK so he sold our 2nd car and bought a plane ticket and went back to the UK in nov 06 so we are now finishing paperwork from the UK. Now I know what your going to say, why didnt he use the money to finish the paperwork? I asked him the same question but he couldnt give me an answer. His K-3 is now expired. So hes over there no job no real place to live, hes just on his own like the poor unfortunate. Immigrations is killing our marriage. I told him I'll just move there, but he hasnt a job and cant find 1. Hes 50yrs old see, so hes on unemployment. Can I get leave to remain there as his spouse if hes on unemployment? I know I can get a job there. I was living there for the first 3 yrs of our marriage but on visa wavier going home every mos and coming back and I got offered several jobs by friends but my husband wanted to live in the US so I never attempted to do UK immigrations.

Anyway, our I-130 was approved in march of 05 and then to make along story short I filed for CR-1/IR-1 in dec. 06 and I'm not giving up on my marriage even if he says hes had enough cause I know its not us hes had enough of its just fighting immigrations hes had enough of and trying to get us both in the same place. Immigrations, they bleed you dry if they can.

OMG you guys I just called the state dept. my husband has an appt on aug 8th at 9am at the embassy/london. I'm still shake'in. just a few more weeks and its over, this immigrations nightmare will be over. I just emailed my husband, I wish I could call him on the phone. they mailed the letter to him on july9th but as of yesterday he hadnt received it but a copy is being sent to me as well. I cant believe theres a end finally!!

Question- My husband is a UKC and will be doing interview in London. I gota letter last month dated june 9,2007 that all paperwork and fees has been received, processed and sent to US embassy london and my husband will be contacted by london by mail with interview date.

How long will it takes to get this interview date? its been over 4weeks, should it take this long? I was looking at everyone's latest time lines and it seem to be shorter then this. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions please?

thank you

I just read this on the US Embassy London website under Q&A

The National Visa Center (NVC) informed me that my file had been sent to the Embassy in London. When can I expect to be scheduled for a visa interview?

There is a delay of at least 12 weeks between the date the file is dispatched by NVC and the date the Immigrant Visa Unit receives the file and completes action on the case. The Immigrant Visa Unit will be in contact with the applicant once they are able to schedule the visa interview.

The info they give to contact the embassy is so vague. It gives a number to call within the UK only and a number for outside the UK but its $16 per 7mins and its for non-immigrant visa info only. There is no email address. Anybody know some back doors? or something I'm not seeing?

This is what gets me so mad at this country(US) of ours. They leave people in limbo, their lives, their marriages, you dont know what your doing from 1 month to the next, from 1 year to the next. If they could tell you an exact time frame and stick to it, then you know what direction your going in and a ball park time frame of how long you got to be there. This has taken a huge toll on our marriage. We've been apart for almost a year now, we're down to email contact only. I moved home with parents in US, hes stuck in a hostel and cant find a job in England, and we just feel like our lives are so on hold and we have no control cause right now immigrations have control of it. I know some of you guys know what I'm talking about, so sorry for venting just gets to ya you know!? We've been working on this immigrations for 3yrs. enough already eh!

Question- My husband is a UKC and will be doing interview in London. I gota letter last month dated june 9,2007 that all paperwork and fees has been received, processed and sent to US embassy london and my husband will be contacted by london by mail with interview date.

How long will it takes to get this interview date? its been over 4weeks, should it take this long? I was looking at everyone's latest time lines and it seem to be shorter then this. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions please?

thank you

4 weeks is on the long side for London, but there have been quite a few delays lately. You may find it useful to call the Department of State on (202) 663 1225 and speak to a visa specialist there. Make sure you have your husband's case number (starts LND2007...) and ask what the latest is on the case.

Has your husband sent in the checklist to the Embassy yet? This is a form which tells the Embassy he is ready for interview and has all the appropriate documents (police certificate, birth certificate, etc) ready and to hand. There have been a couple of VJers recently over in the UK forum who thought their UKC fiance(e)s/spouses had sent in the checklist and hadn't! If this hasn't been sent, no date will be allocated.

Let us know how this goes -- post over in the UK forum and I'm sure others will have lots of suggestions for you!

Check list? I thought that came with the interview letter. where do I find this, OMG dont tell me its been me holding this up my husband will kill me! Hes stuck in England without a pot to piss in or a window to chuck it out of and its all my bloody fault!!? Boy this immigrations does my head in.

Question- My husband is a UKC and will be doing interview in London. I gota letter last month dated june 9,2007 that all paperwork and fees has been received, processed and sent to US embassy london and my husband will be contacted by london by mail with interview date.

How long will it takes to get this interview date? its been over 4weeks, should it take this long? I was looking at everyone's latest time lines and it seem to be shorter then this. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions please?

thank you

Again guys I'm sorry I'm just really stressed & depressed, I just want my husband,my best friend back.

thanks guys, Tess

Tess, please stop. Just stop for a minute.

This is not the US gov't's fault. You *need* some help with this; it's really hard to tell what you do understand and what you don't. If you keep sending money and forms in, CIS will happily accept them, but YOU need to get a grip on the process. You obviously have a LOT on your plate right now and it doesn't sound like you're getting much help anywhere.

Do you live in a city? Can you look up an organization like Catholic Charities, that can help you with some of the more in-depth questions?

I understand you saying that it wasn't working out too well for your husband in the US, but it doesn't sound like it's working out very well in the UK either.

Well, to the factual part, yes, your husband is applying for a new visa, completely separate from anything you have done before. He is going to have to get his police cert, medical ALL the documents you had before etc. If he gets his visa after his interview at the Embassy and comes to the US, he will become a Permanent Resident as soon as he enters and he will be legal to live & work in the US indefinitely. At least this part will be D O N E.

Just complete the DS-230 that the NVC sent you, get him to sign it, and get it back to the NVC. They will forward the file to London, and London will send "Packet 3" to him, which are the instructions for getting ready for the visa interview and a list of documents he has to have ready. When he has them all ready, he mails the checklist he got back to the Embassy. They will then contact him about his interview date, and while he is waiting for the interview, he goes to his medical.

I still do not know myself what happens about the waiver; I'm sorry I can't put you at ease about that.

I really want you to not suffer so, and to understand what you're doing.

Well I understand that the K-3 is seperate from the I-130, but I thought we were just completing the I-130 at this point. Instead of doing AOS in the USA we were just finishing that process from the UK. I read where people has did the K-3 and at this point they flew and finished in the UK cause it was quicker then doing AOS in the USA infact people incouraged us to do this way cause it was shorter. The time lines I have seen here from this point have been from 6 to 12weeks, but we know how time lines go. If we had done AOS there wouldnt have been a medical. When I did the K-3 and I-601 I was on top of things but I'm just worn down now. I'm my husbands agent so wont the packet come to me? If it goes to my husband he will be lost. He wont be able to do this paperwork. I sent in the DS230 fee bill yesterday, $380 so what happens now? I'll have to figure out how to fly over for the interview and sort everything for him. You should have seen him at the K-3 interview, he was fit to be tied. He has no patiences so this is all unbearable to him. To tell you the truth I dont want to be in the USA and I'm not sure he does either, but we come this far so we got to see it through. I fell in love with England when we were living there. I think about it all the time and dream about it all the time. Its my home now. But its my parents that keep me here for the moment. And I'm going to lose my marriage if I cant get an understanding of what is going to happen from this point with immigrations.

Guys I'm sorry if I sound all over the place and short of over the edge crazy, but I'am really. My husband has been gone for 5mos and I'm just so lost without him. Hes stuck over there where he has nothing. No place to live, no money, cant find a job, sleeping in a cheap car he bought, and hes giving up. I got a email where he told me he cant take the waiting anymore. Not knowing when our life is going to start and told me to just let go. It was alot of work to get him talking to me again and interested in finishing the immigrations process. But I cant tell him a thing or give him hope because I cant understand or find out what it is were doing at this point.I had a mild stroke 2mos ago from all the stress, my dad is dying from cancer, and yeah its all doing my head in to say the least. and I'm just getting so furstrated with this frick'in paperwork. Its 4yrs down the road and were still fighting with it. When I went to England it took me 2 weeks $400 and we were done. This process should be done in a couple months tops. They repeat steps, ask over and over again for the same applications, same evidence. They waste time, bleed us dry of money. This country is suppose to be so great then why is it taking yrs for people to get to have their lives with their spouses. Always in limbo its just not right. Were USC's, and by god they owe us a heck of alot more then this mental abuse they put us through. Were 45 & 50yrs old, were being made to waste precious time we could be enjoying each other.

But what I'm looking for is what evidence is going to be sent with the DS230 and what is it that they are going to send my husband and what evidence is he required to have to take with him to the interview. Can you download a copy of the DS230 packet ? I mean all I have is the DS230 app itself.

1 more question, when he did his first medical it was done by US DR's and immigrations made the appt for you the morning of your interview, will they do it the same way again?

Again guys I'm sorry I'm just really stressed & depressed, I just want my husband,my best friend back.

thanks guys, Tess

Hi everyone. My fiancee will have her medical exam next week. She wants to know if it's particularily invasive... like for females, do they have to do the whole 9 yards including maybe a pelvic exam or that "area" ? Or anything really personal of that nature? She wants to prepare herself for anything like this. I know they probably will do a breast exam depending on age or what not. And maybe if there is anything like this, it's perhaps country dependent? (I've read some different medical exam procedures for different countries/hospitals). Oh well, probably nothing to worry. Any other comments? Thanks.

I dont know if this would be helpful to you, but my husband had the turn and cough at his exam so why wouldnt they ck the women as well I would think and oh he had to pee in a cup. We went through london.

Now see on question #31 on the DS230 it ask if you ever been charge or arrestedor convicted of a crime.I dont know if I should say yes or no?

You always want to answer those questions honestly. Lie and it will come back to bite you.

I wasnt talking about lying I was talking aboutsince we hasalready done the I-601 would I say yes to that. when you file an I 601 its a big application, it took me 6mos to do and you have to letters from family members and I had to write a hardship letter that was 16 pgs long, it was just really hard, but once thats approve it mean the US basicallly forgives and forgets your record, so I wasnt saying to lie I just wanted to know how to correctly answer it. how ever I did find out that I say yes attached a copy of the approved I-601 and he doesnt have to have a copy of his police report as they already have that on file.

flower6,

How did he answer when he filled out the DS-156 Q 38 (may have been a different number back then) for his K3 visa?

I think I know, as he was required to request the waiver, and I think it would be a good idea to be consistent.

Yodrak

Now see on question #31 on the DS230 it ask if you ever been charge or arrestedor convicted of a crime.I dont know if I should say yes or no?

well on the DS156 we said yes because wehad his police report, but see we had gone through the I-601 which was approved and K-3 approved, whyI ask is I thought that once we did that I-601 that its removed from immigration records. But are we going to have to do the I-601 again? Weshouldnt have to go through that again, I mean this is all the same continuing application, so I dont knowif I say yes to that or no.

I'am so confused on this end of the process simply because i cant much info on it and it appears to be different depending on the country. I cant find what evidence gets sent with the DS 230, what my husband needs to take with him to the interview. From what I have read and see in these forms it seems were just repeating what we did already once when we did the K-3 interview. If this is true immigrations could save us all alot of time and heart ache. MaybeI'm just stupid and notgetting it but I've just not seen any helpful info on this part of the process.

Ok guys I really dontget it. I'm filling out the DS230 today and I'm thinking to myself, this seem so familar. So I get out my immigration folder and, OOPS! THERE IT IS!! I already did this application. Are we repeating out selves here? It ask if you have commited a crime ck yes or no. Now we already been down the I-601 road and was approved and Ithought had moved so far away from that. If I say yes are we going to have to do the I-601 again? and are we going to have to do the medical again and police report again? I'm so confused. It looks like we are just repeating the whole process again. Our I-130 is already approved. I'm so confused on what were doing here. If my husband has to go through all this again I may as well stop right now cause he wont do it. If we are repeating the whole thing again and spending all this money to do the same thing again, then Immigrations is really wasting our time and getting over on all of us. This is crazy! Why are repeating forms we already did.

plzzzzz...any help would be so appreciated guys I'm so burned out on this

flower6,

How did he answer when he filled out the DS-156 Q 38 (may have been a different number back then) for his K3 visa?

I think I know, as he was required to request the waiver, and I think it would be a good idea to be consistent.

Yodrak

Now see on question #31 on the DS230 it ask if you ever been charge or arrestedor convicted of a crime.I dont know if I should say yes or no?

well on the DS156 we said yes because wehad his police report, but see we had gone through the I-601 which was approved and K-3 approved, whyI ask is I thought that once we did that I-601 that its removed from immigration records. But are we going to have to do the I-601 again? Weshouldnt have to go through that again, I mean this is all the same continuing application, so I dont knowif I say yes to that or no.

I'am so confused on this end of the process simply because i cant much info on it and it appears to be different depending on the country. I cant find what evidence gets sent with the DS 230, what my husband needs to take with him to the interview. From what I have read and see in these forms it seems were just repeating what we did already once when we did the K-3 interview. If this is true immigrations could save us all alot of time and heart ache. MaybeI'm just stupid and notgetting it but I've just not seen any helpful info on this part of the process.

sorry to ask, but why did they deny the k-3? was it anything other than an immigration matter? could you say please, as i flew back after getting married on a k1, had to come back before aos due to medical condition and we couldnt afford treatment in the usa.

i stayed 6 weeks after we got married, in the build up to saving for an aos.

now applying for cr1, im wondering if i'll need a waiver? i601.

any opinions please?

thanks

We had to file the I-601 because when he was 17yrs old he took a casette tape from woolworth on a dare from a friend and got caught and got a 50pound fine. So they denied us the K-3 because of that so then we had to file the I-601 to get the K-3. see we got married 5yrs ago in the US then moved to England for 3yrs and then we came to the US in jan of 05. I'm afraid I knew nothing of DCF at the time or we would have done that. So we went way around the block. The I-601 is for police records and I think the I-212 is for overstays. You have 180days after your K-1 expires before your an overstay and fall under a 3yr ban from the US I believe.

Hey do you know on the DS-230 part 2 on line 33a if I need to ask for a SS# for my husband? He already recv a SS# with his work permit, would that be the same SS# he would have keep once he has his greencard? and it ask if he was assisted completing the DS230 and since I filled it out is ok to say yes to that or should I say no to that question?

How horrible to have such a petty thing come back to haunt you both.

Yes, use the SS number he was issued when he in the states. It will never change.

I'm not sure about your second question. The purpose of the question might be in case a lawyer or a translator filled it out.

Now see on question #31 on the DS230 it ask if you ever been charge or arrestedor convicted of a crime.I dont know if I should say yes or no?

sorry to ask, but why did they deny the k-3? was it anything other than an immigration matter? could you say please, as i flew back after getting married on a k1, had to come back before aos due to medical condition and we couldnt afford treatment in the usa.

i stayed 6 weeks after we got married, in the build up to saving for an aos.

now applying for cr1, im wondering if i'll need a waiver? i601.

any opinions please?

thanks

We had to file the I-601 because when he was 17yrs old he took a casette tape from woolworth on a dare from a friend and got caught and got a 50pound fine. So they denied us the K-3 because of that so then we had to file the I-601 to get the K-3. see we got married 5yrs ago in the US then moved to England for 3yrs and then we came to the US in jan of 05. I'm afraid I knew nothing of DCF at the time or we would have done that. So we went way around the block. The I-601 is for police records and I think the I-212 is for overstays. You have 180days after your K-1 expires before your an overstay and fall under a 3yr ban from the US I believe.

Hey do you know on the DS-230 part 2 on line 33a if I need to ask for a SS# for my husband? He already recv a SS# with his work permit, would that be the same SS# he would have keep once he has his greencard? and it ask if he was assisted completing the DS230 and since I filled it out is ok to say yes to that or should I say no to that question?

I just read in another thread that the medical is good for 12 months, so as long as your husband's medical was less than 12 mos before the interview date for the CR1/IR1, it's fine.

this is getting more and more of a mess. we came to the US in jan 2005 so its been overa year. If they see his police report that means we have to do the I-601 again cause they denied him the K-3 at first so we did the I-601 and they approved it and he got the K-3. Oh I just want to cry. I'm so sick of immigrations. I thought this part was going to be easy.

Slightly off-topic, but why didn't he apply for the AOS while he was still in the US on the K-3? Why'd he leave?

Its along story but it has been so rough for here in the states and my husband has had a rough time adjusting to the US so then his K-3 was expiring so we thought the best thing was for him to go back to and finish it this way.

Aw, I'm sorry to hear that.

I hope you find the guide I linked to earlier helpful.

we were scared of an overstay, then I talked to immigrations after the fact and they said he should have stayed anyway. Now its just a mess. But I'm trying so hard to finish this thing. It says on there an medical and police report. now we already did those 2 things with the K-3 and we had to file a I-601 which was approved of course thats how he got the K-3. We dont have 2 do those 2 things again do we?

Slightly off-topic, but why didn't he apply for the AOS while he was still in the US on the K-3? Why'd he leave?

Its along story but it has been so rough for here in the states and my husband has had a rough time adjusting to the US so then his K-3 was expiring so we thought the best thing was for him to go back to and finish it this way.

Guys I really need some help. let me give you some back ground. I'm a USC my husband is a UKC. we've been married 5yrs. He came to the US on K-3 and we filed the I-130 which has since been approved. His K-3 expired Nov 26,2006 which my husband flew back to the UK before that happen. So at this point we are doing CR1. I have sent in the 3032, the I-864 and the $70 fee bill. I'm on the DS230. I have it printed and I recv the $380 fee bill from NVC so I'm trying to get this last thing done.

My question to you is what evidence do they want with the DS230? Is part 1 and 2 sent together? What does my husband need to take with him to the embassy? I cant find any info or directions. Its driving me crazy. I would really appreciate and help. Thanks guys

Hey guys

I got the I-864 filled out but I'm confused on part 6 #25 federal income tax return information

I have copies of my tax returns and W-2's for 2006 and 2005, both years I filed the 1040A. What should I put on part 6 #25, if anything? 2004 I was living in England and did not have anything to file as I didnt work.

Also I have my last 6mos of payck stub copies, is this all the evidence I need for the I-864? My husband has a bit of income for 2006 which I file joint 2006 & 2005 but I meet the 125% of poverty guidelines by myself on both years.

Thanks guys for your help.

do you mean just make a copy of the taxform itself for 2006, the one u send in to IRS? and then maybe copies of our W-2's? and then get the transcript for 2005?

sorry guys dont mean to ask so much but its like learning a whole new chapter in immigration. Just when you get through one step and you got it down pat you have start all over with a new one to learn. lol stay tuned, I may have more questions before its over.

thank you for the advice, thats what I'll do then. Is there a quick way of getting transcript of 2005? Oh and I read here that they only require 1yr of taxes, so the 2005 and 2006 be ok in your opinion?

I have a question. I havent filed for 2006 yet but I have 2005 and 2004 I was living in england and didnt work so I didnt file. I'm filing IR-1 for my husband who is english. Were at the point of sending in the I-864 but I dont want to hold things up by filing for 2006 and waiting to get 2006 tax transcript. We want to get this done so he can get back home here in the US. What is your opinion on this? I have my W-4's for 2006, I mean couldnt I send those in or something? I would be filing joint because my husband was here last year and worked. Would apreciate your opinion. Thank you