Maria TH

That is so cool, Maria TH. This same way mine did.
So, you will receive the Oath Ceremony notice in the mail by Thursday asking you to show up early next week, like on Tuesday for the Oath. So, leave the early part of next week open for this special day.

I'd very much hope they'd remove the 'so help me God' finale which doesn't belong there anyway.

You have pretty bad attitude for Asian countries and Asian women. Are you married one of us?
well, I already wrote a long reply but I decided to delete all.. and make it short..
My life is better in term of the never-ending happiness in our marriage.
My life is worse.. the worst, in term of my own earning. I left a job that paid me triple more than I am making here.. and I'm from one of the "POOR" countries you mentioned.
Reading your post made me feel sick!

My husband spoke to her in Arabic and told her exactly what she needs to do and everything is clear to her now.

You are hijacking the thread. Please join April filer thread or make your own new post in forum
(FYI, I-751 is totally different from I-485. In I-751, they never update status of RFE or Interview on their website. You'll get e-notification only when you get a card production order)
Please don't make another questions on theis thread.

i suggest, instead of mentioning a husband at the interview,
you say
'I want to take the contract home and read it for 2 days'
That gives you time to do whatever you want, husband, lawyer, paralegal, minister, who-ever.

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I think everybody that is waiting for a K Visa to be approved forgets the K Visa was an accommodation to allow the spouse or soon to be spouse, to wait in the US while the status is being adjusted, rather than remain in his or her location until the immigrant visa was approved. In that manner, there is really no difference between adjusting from a K-Visa, or any other Visa, while remaining in the US.
If you eliminate the ability to adjust from a tourist or work visa, you might as well eliminate the fiancee visa.

There is nothing criminal in adjusting status. If there was, there wouldn't be a process for it. Your posts have become increasingly hostile and are violating the Terms of Service. Administrative action will follow if this does not stop immediately.
There are far too many judgemental posts and accusations in this thread. It shows a definite lack of education and awareness. If you cannot be civil you will find yourself banned from the thread.
Moving from AOS Process to General Immigration Discussion.

This thread may have started with a honest question, but it has become mean spirited and hurtful, and from what I can see there are dozens like it already. There is plenty to be frustrated about in the K-1 or CR-1 process, especially long separations. It is easy to look at those who in your opinion took a shortcut, or took a less ethical route and are seemingly rewarded, while we are doing it the "right way" and are seemingly punished and become frustrated, angry, jealous. I KNEW that I could have had my fiancee stay over her VWP since I hadn't announced our engagement anywhere publicly, and play the "whoops we just couldn't wait" card and avoid a long separation... I'd be lying if I said it didn't cross my mind, but I chose to go K-1 because I just couldn't do it in a less than honest way, since I KNEW we were going to get married.
But... There are those who came on VWP or visitor visa and perfectly legally decide to stay. The gentleman from the UK for instance. He entered planning to leave, was told about the possibility of staying and AOSing, and had a relatively easy way to take care of his matters back in England. This wasn't fraud, this was a man deciding to do what was best for his wife and child and perfectly legal.
The Chinese woman who posted earlier too... unless you (with no reason or evidence) believe that she came on this site to simply waste her time lying, then she too was perfectly within the law to stay with her husband. And cases like hers are NOT why visitor visas are so hard for high fraud countries... it is people who overstay and become illegal that make it so hard. She applied for AOS and they said YES. They could have said no. So many people from high-fraud countries just live in an ethnically homogeneous community often in sanctuary cities, and have no fear of deportation or reason to bother doing AOS.
There are plenty of people who commit fraud with the CR-1 and K-1. They are some of the most tempting for fraud, even. That is why they take so long. Not because some guy from the UK where 99+% of visas are NEVER broken or used fraudulently decided to stay with his wife and child.
I don't like waiting any more than you do, I know it is even harder for those of you with no VWP which makes interim visits much more difficult. But that doesn't excuse attacking people and pouring your frustrations on the undeservedly. Find a more positive outlet for that stuff. Those "loopholes" exist for a reason, just like the K-1 and CR-1 exist for a reason. Leave it to the USCIS to determine if someone is gaming the system. Some will and get away with it in ALL cases. Some will also try and get caught. Also innocent people will be accused and have to jum through hoops. It is the nature of any huge bureaucratic system, and will never change no matter who you blame for your own woes.

You have got the best advice from your parents! Listen to them.
This sounds like you wanted a brand new car and you have found it. It looks so great with all the options you need (I have those options in the pink).. Then when you had test drive, BAM!, you found something wrong with the engine! The drive was not as smooth as you thought, could not speed up and you could not control it as it wouldn't go to the direction you wanted it to go!
So... why you still want that car? It looks great with full options but it cannot take you to your destination!
(I didn't mean to really compare a man to a car, I hope you know what I mean)
What about in exchange for the ability to be yourself, to love yourself and to be proud of yourself?
Stop thinking about dating, searching.. you are not that desperate. Happiness comes from within, you don't need to have anyone to make you happy until you find the right one who really make you proud to be yourself and loves you as who you really are.
It is your choices.. to be suffered in marriage with this man for the rest of your life or to take a chance to find the right one which may come tomorrow, next month, next year, next 10 years or may be never.. but you can be happy throughout all those time.
It is not going to happen.

You have got the best advice from your parents! Listen to them.
This sounds like you wanted a brand new car and you have found it. It looks so great with all the options you need (I have those options in the pink).. Then when you had test drive, BAM!, you found something wrong with the engine! The drive was not as smooth as you thought, could not speed up and you could not control it as it wouldn't go to the direction you wanted it to go!
So... why you still want that car? It looks great with full options but it cannot take you to your destination!
(I didn't mean to really compare a man to a car, I hope you know what I mean)
What about in exchange for the ability to be yourself, to love yourself and to be proud of yourself?
Stop thinking about dating, searching.. you are not that desperate. Happiness comes from within, you don't need to have anyone to make you happy until you find the right one who really make you proud to be yourself and loves you as who you really are.
It is your choices.. to be suffered in marriage with this man for the rest of your life or to take a chance to find the right one which may come tomorrow, next month, next year, next 10 years or may be never.. but you can be happy throughout all those time.
It is not going to happen.

You have got the best advice from your parents! Listen to them.
This sounds like you wanted a brand new car and you have found it. It looks so great with all the options you need (I have those options in the pink).. Then when you had test drive, BAM!, you found something wrong with the engine! The drive was not as smooth as you thought, could not speed up and you could not control it as it wouldn't go to the direction you wanted it to go!
So... why you still want that car? It looks great with full options but it cannot take you to your destination!
(I didn't mean to really compare a man to a car, I hope you know what I mean)
What about in exchange for the ability to be yourself, to love yourself and to be proud of yourself?
Stop thinking about dating, searching.. you are not that desperate. Happiness comes from within, you don't need to have anyone to make you happy until you find the right one who really make you proud to be yourself and loves you as who you really are.
It is your choices.. to be suffered in marriage with this man for the rest of your life or to take a chance to find the right one which may come tomorrow, next month, next year, next 10 years or may be never.. but you can be happy throughout all those time.
It is not going to happen.

You have got the best advice from your parents! Listen to them.
This sounds like you wanted a brand new car and you have found it. It looks so great with all the options you need (I have those options in the pink).. Then when you had test drive, BAM!, you found something wrong with the engine! The drive was not as smooth as you thought, could not speed up and you could not control it as it wouldn't go to the direction you wanted it to go!
So... why you still want that car? It looks great with full options but it cannot take you to your destination!
(I didn't mean to really compare a man to a car, I hope you know what I mean)
What about in exchange for the ability to be yourself, to love yourself and to be proud of yourself?
Stop thinking about dating, searching.. you are not that desperate. Happiness comes from within, you don't need to have anyone to make you happy until you find the right one who really make you proud to be yourself and loves you as who you really are.
It is your choices.. to be suffered in marriage with this man for the rest of your life or to take a chance to find the right one which may come tomorrow, next month, next year, next 10 years or may be never.. but you can be happy throughout all those time.
It is not going to happen.

You have got the best advice from your parents! Listen to them.
This sounds like you wanted a brand new car and you have found it. It looks so great with all the options you need (I have those options in the pink).. Then when you had test drive, BAM!, you found something wrong with the engine! The drive was not as smooth as you thought, could not speed up and you could not control it as it wouldn't go to the direction you wanted it to go!
So... why you still want that car? It looks great with full options but it cannot take you to your destination!
(I didn't mean to really compare a man to a car, I hope you know what I mean)
What about in exchange for the ability to be yourself, to love yourself and to be proud of yourself?
Stop thinking about dating, searching.. you are not that desperate. Happiness comes from within, you don't need to have anyone to make you happy until you find the right one who really make you proud to be yourself and loves you as who you really are.
It is your choices.. to be suffered in marriage with this man for the rest of your life or to take a chance to find the right one which may come tomorrow, next month, next year, next 10 years or may be never.. but you can be happy throughout all those time.
It is not going to happen.

You have got the best advice from your parents! Listen to them.
This sounds like you wanted a brand new car and you have found it. It looks so great with all the options you need (I have those options in the pink).. Then when you had test drive, BAM!, you found something wrong with the engine! The drive was not as smooth as you thought, could not speed up and you could not control it as it wouldn't go to the direction you wanted it to go!
So... why you still want that car? It looks great with full options but it cannot take you to your destination!
(I didn't mean to really compare a man to a car, I hope you know what I mean)
What about in exchange for the ability to be yourself, to love yourself and to be proud of yourself?
Stop thinking about dating, searching.. you are not that desperate. Happiness comes from within, you don't need to have anyone to make you happy until you find the right one who really make you proud to be yourself and loves you as who you really are.
It is your choices.. to be suffered in marriage with this man for the rest of your life or to take a chance to find the right one which may come tomorrow, next month, next year, next 10 years or may be never.. but you can be happy throughout all those time.
It is not going to happen.

You have got the best advice from your parents! Listen to them.
This sounds like you wanted a brand new car and you have found it. It looks so great with all the options you need (I have those options in the pink).. Then when you had test drive, BAM!, you found something wrong with the engine! The drive was not as smooth as you thought, could not speed up and you could not control it as it wouldn't go to the direction you wanted it to go!
So... why you still want that car? It looks great with full options but it cannot take you to your destination!
(I didn't mean to really compare a man to a car, I hope you know what I mean)
What about in exchange for the ability to be yourself, to love yourself and to be proud of yourself?
Stop thinking about dating, searching.. you are not that desperate. Happiness comes from within, you don't need to have anyone to make you happy until you find the right one who really make you proud to be yourself and loves you as who you really are.
It is your choices.. to be suffered in marriage with this man for the rest of your life or to take a chance to find the right one which may come tomorrow, next month, next year, next 10 years or may be never.. but you can be happy throughout all those time.
It is not going to happen.

It would give us more idea if OP had more detail on the situation. This is too short and might create bias comment.
First, we don't know how OP and kids treat her at home. Does she get respect as a step-mom? If she knew about your young kids before she decided to move here, then that shouldn't be her first intention to tell you to give up your kids.
If she doesn't get any respect plus she doesn't have any work, I think that could make her feel so down and want to go home.
May be OP should try to sort thing out between wife and kids?
Just want to see from another angle.
But if she just asked you to give up your kids for no reason, but to have her own, you should let her go.

She asked if she could enter on the VWP and then apply for an immigrant visa from within the US. That's not fraudulent, it's misinformed.
The answer is to the OP's question is no. You're not supposed to use the VWP to enter the country if your intent is to stay here. And you wouldn't apply for an immigrant visa once you got here, because you'd already be here and the visa is meant to allow you entry. Does that make sense?
The legal way is to apply for the spousal visa (because you're already married) as others have said. You might have to be separated and you'll probably have to wait. It's a sacrifice you'll have to make if you want to live in the US with your husband. So get started ASAP.

She's not trying to play the system. As jdh said, she asked a question. Why can't people just answer it without screaming "you're bad" at the person asking?
If, after she's told she can't use the VWP to immigrate, she goes ahead and does it anyway, then scream away.

AoS through the VWP program and the like is not a loophole. That of course doesn't mean it is not abused from time to time.
Further it doesn't look like these poor folks are out to abuse anything - they asked a question about the proper way to go about things and got an answer. No need for a bombardment.

No, I thought the first post was from a man because it is hard to believe that it is the "Asian woman" who has bad attitude and stereotyping other Asian women.
Do you really think that you know better than the husbands about how their wives are thinking?
Come on! Happy marriage with love and care does exist even you have never seen it.
You know, a fish will never believe that there is something can live or fly in the air.
And please write your essay only about troubles that you have seen, do not write the assumption about others that you don't understand them.

You have pretty bad attitude for Asian countries and Asian women. Are you married one of us?
well, I already wrote a long reply but I decided to delete all.. and make it short..
My life is better in term of the never-ending happiness in our marriage.
My life is worse.. the worst, in term of my own earning. I left a job that paid me triple more than I am making here.. and I'm from one of the "POOR" countries you mentioned.
Reading your post made me feel sick!

You have pretty bad attitude for Asian countries and Asian women. Are you married one of us?
well, I already wrote a long reply but I decided to delete all.. and make it short..
My life is better in term of the never-ending happiness in our marriage.
My life is worse.. the worst, in term of my own earning. I left a job that paid me triple more than I am making here.. and I'm from one of the "POOR" countries you mentioned.
Reading your post made me feel sick!

You have pretty bad attitude for Asian countries and Asian women. Are you married one of us?
well, I already wrote a long reply but I decided to delete all.. and make it short..
My life is better in term of the never-ending happiness in our marriage.
My life is worse.. the worst, in term of my own earning. I left a job that paid me triple more than I am making here.. and I'm from one of the "POOR" countries you mentioned.
Reading your post made me feel sick!