joonphon

I promised myself i will not check my status until the end of Sept. but I don't think that's going to happen because I usually caught myself checking USCIS website every hour! hhaha

I promised myself i will not check my status until the end of Sept. but I don't think that's going to happen because I usually caught myself checking USCIS website every hour! hhaha

have been waiting for over 2 months-almost 3 months here making me so frustrated.... I'd be totally mad as well if i were in your shoes. I'm thinking in my case it'll take long because of the background check? My fiance's been living in another country back and forth to his home country for a few years...

Hang in there... and good luck w/ the call on Monday! cheers!!

wow! that was very quick! congrats!!!

should be okay... Enjoy the trip!! good luck!

Please get out of this relationship! This person doesn't love you... You need to move on and find your true love/wait for your true love to show up... You're so lucky that you realized this even before starting the paper work..... You get a chance... take it now!

You seem to be a very strong person..... You can do it! We all believe in you!!!

congratulations!

and i think csc is the new vsc....

Yeah.. i think so too.. it's getting slower and slower!

I wanted to mention something else concerning K visas and Thailand. I think I brought it up awhile back.

Make SURE you get a decent birth certificate. I have seen at least 3 people here that have turned in what they thought was an official birth certificate to the Embassy/DOS. Embassy would accept it. Then they went to adjust status and USCIS would issue an RFE. These people had to go through hell to get the right birth certificate from Thailand once the beneficiary was already here in the states. Seems the Bangkok embassy has a much lower standard than USCIS when it comes to Thai birth certificates.

are you freaking serious??? my fiance never had his birth registered!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If her parents would help out w/ anything including filing fees then I'd say yes you should file k1-visa.

congratulations...

we filed in the end of June.. so will have to wait until the beginning of October sadly

congrats!!!!!!!!!!!! It's been 84 days and waiting

congratulations! and good luck!!

hi everyone.. June filer here... filed toward the end of the month... I'll wait until everyone gets approved then I'll get excited later when it's my turn.. hehe

Keep in mind that each case is different. For some, having just the household and Thai ID were fine and they were approved. In our case, my fiance has her household registration and Thai ID at the interview, but we were missing these:

1. A page of a form was missing (with questions as to where she lived since she was 16 yrs old, etc).

2. She had forgotten the original document (first certificate of birth) from the Amphur. Also the copy of this document did not state her place of birth, very important.

3. We knew each other less than a year, short according to CO.

All these gave the CO some doubts and so my fiancee's interview was a bit harder than others.

After the interview she was given a yellow paper requesting the following:

"Please submit evidence of your place of birth. The certificate of birthplace(baay raprong gan kut) should state where you were born. Please submit the original certificate of birthplace, not a photocopy. You may also be able to provide certified copies of official documents from the time that you obtained Thai citizenship.

For further inguiries, please email to visabkk@state.gov."

She went home and got the requested document from the Amphur, went back to the embassy the following week and had her visa 2 days later.

You can email the embassy also and ask them if you have certain question. I have found that to be very helpful.

Please read the following topic that I started when we were going through this.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/327023-urgent-help-needed-regarding-birth-certificate/page__p__4878926__fromsearch__1#entry4878926

Hope this help and not cause you more worries.

Thank you so much for the information!!!

So he better get that bai rabrong from the Amphur stating the place where he was born and get it translated into English....

another problem is that he never had to have his name drawn for the military draft.... I think they asked for proof of military draft exemption.... where can he get that? This is so complicated!

Not necessarily so. It could sit there for 6 months and then be denied without an RFE for not having a clear eligibility for a benefit. It has happened in several cases here on VJ and then you have to start over, 6 months later.

usually more than 2 weeks, but you can think of it that way for now.

I'm so worried now.... How did I miss that information? only if I knew this website existed, everything would have been perfect... and the letters that we sent to them weren't clear either i think. I could have written a better letter than I did. but thanks for the info.... this is so stressful..

omg.. i just read the the k1visa guide again.. and i forgot the proof of name change for both of us!!!!!!!!!!!! how did i miss that???? GREAT!!! we'll waste about 2 weeks for RFE..

joonphon,

See Packet 3 for more information.

My fiancee just went through this. She was denied her visa during interview because of her certificate of birth.

For additional documents, your fiance can go with his mom to the Amphur of the place he lives. His mom can testify that she gave birth to him at the place of his birth. Amphur can write a document with seal stating his place of birth according to the his mom.

Any certified copy of the document when he applied for Thai citizenship and household registration helps.

Make sure the document clearly states his place of birth and bring the original documents to the interview. These two items bit us during my fiancee's interview

Good luck!

When your fiancee went for the interview, what exactly she brought w/ her? did she bring her household registration and thai id and her visa was denied?

sighs.. the problem is his village is so far away from the town.... and he left that place more than 10 years ago.... not even sure if mom's still alive or not how would we find her??? omg... this stresses me out...

http://travel.state.gov/visa/fees/fees_5455.html?cid=9660#docs

You will need to comply - here are further details.

He told me his birth was never registered. But he has Thai national identification and i think he does have household registration as well. Can he really use these two documents in place of birth certificate?

My fiance is a Thai Citizen. Never had his birth certificate but does have Thai identification. Left his hometown more than 10 years ago. I know they asked for birth certificate. What should we do?

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congrats! I've been checking my mailbox every 5 min for the past month.. but nothing yet..

still waiting

I'm happy for you two.......but what do you mean ex ???

I looked at your timeline... so you haven't received NOA2 yet either.. this is taking forever.. I'm getting very impatient!!

I live in Va Beach Va. The beginning of the week we had an earthquake, we are now experiencing a Category 2 Hurricane. After running around gathering batteries and flashlights and food, went to the mailbox and today I just received the wonderful news that NOA2 was approved. I wish everyone well, especially us on the east coast bracing for natures fury.

What does it say there? any instructions on the letter?

OMG!!! I sent in our photos but our names were not in the back of the photos, just date and location but i haven't heard anything back from them yet regarding no names on our photos.

The last time they touched my file was back in June when I first sent in my application. Does anyone know how long do we have to wait until we hear something back from the USCIS?