Kelly C

Huh?? What?
Can I buy a vowel?

Uhh... excuse me, but Oct 07 means October 2007 to me, not 7 October 2011, which means that the illegal entry was more than 4 years ago, not just a few months ago.
OP - did the entry happen in October of 2007? This is important to our understanding of when things happened.
I can't remember the process, but I thought it was a 3-year ban for first attempt at illegal entry, not a lifetime ban. If so, then the OP might be able to go forward with the K1 process if the entry was actually 4+ years before.
Hopefully, the bashing will cease and some more knowledgeable members will chime in.

From a current Federal employee, and former career military veteran (same a many other fed employees).
I work my butt off, as do most of the other federal workers. We take great pride in our work as I am sure you do with yours. Our budgets have been slashed to nothing in past years, and many workers are doing three jobs just to keep up with demand.
Please don't take your frustrations out on us. I have a petition sitting at the service center SAME AS YOU, and am waiting SAME AS YOU. Many, if not most countries don't even have a K1 type fiancé program. Receiving a K1 is a privilege and not a right, so show a little gratitude toward your country and a little patience with some poor folks that are working hard to chop through a mountain of paperwork.
According to your timeline and the VJ calculations: Based on timeline data, your I129f may be adjudicated between March 24, 2012 and March 29, 2012*.

There is no official USCIS or DoS list of high fraud countries, or should I say a list that is released to the general public.
There is MORE than a fair share of politics involved in the process, as well as some unjust stereotypes that feed into the equation.
Viet Nam for example: Here are some excerpts from an article written by Attorney Marc Ellis (the article in it's entirety can be viewed at: http://www.ilw.com/a...0108-ellis.shtm
"There are unique problems of marriage fraud in Vietnam. Part of this problem stems from a refugee policy administered by the US government in the years following April 29, 30, 1975. Many people who were officially persecuted and had good reason for wanting to leave Vietnam were denied refugee status because a father or brother had spent less than three years in communist prison camps. "
"No doubt some would-be refugees tried to use phony marriages or other fraudulent avenues of family sponsorship to escape persecution. But most of the population of Vietnam today was not even alive on April 29 and 30, 1975. Still, I concede, the tradition of wanting to escape Vietnam via a phony family-preference visa is still alive and well."
"I cannot blame the consular officers for being aggressive in rooting out fraud. But something is terribly wrong with a system which grants Saudis a presumption of eligibility, even post-9/11, granting them a fast-track "Visa Express", that allowed travel agents to be involved in the process, and yet focuses considerable resources on protecting America from Vietnamese spouses and fiancees'

My best advice....
1. Slow down, take a breath ... Being in love is emotional, but rushing this process results in mistakes and further delays.
2. Wait for the USCIS letter and read it carefully, maybe draw out some clues on your goofs. (if re-filing after 30 days proceed to #3)
3. Carefully and slowly read all K1 guides on VJ
4. Carefully read all the K1 (129F,G325, etc.) form instructions on the USCIS website
5. Make a check list of everything you will need in the package (there is an example on this website)
6. Fill out a set of practice forms. Double check every block with the instructions. If any doubts about a particular form or item- Come back and post the exact question and quote the form/item#s
7. Fill in the final forms and sign where appropriate, same for your fiancée
8. Go through the checklist, assemble everything, triple check, mail the package with payment
7. Take another breath, and wait for the NOA1 ... Good Job !
8. Start preparing for the next steps down the road, do your research now!

I guess I'll be the bad guy and give a reality dosage. To me it sounds like he's starting to adjust well to things here, he got a job, joined a club and is making new friends. He can't be too homesick if he doesn't want to go back. It's been conveyed to me via this section of the forum that it's perfectly normal for a female to have many male friends, but when the shoe is on the other foot and it's the guy with even just 1 female friend he is most likely to be up to no good. Not sure which side of the fence you are on, with this.
Try the counseling thing if you can't have a normal conversation with out fighting. I think counseling may be able to work in some rare instances, but in many it is just a precursor or a brief delay to the inevitable break-up. I don't think there's much you can do to prevent him from staying here(except prove fraud) if it doesn't work out.
In the meantime, you could try sending him off to work with a smile every morning with some bedroom olympics, a good breakfast and a home packed lunch. Then send flirty texts throughout the day and finally prepare him a great dinner and to cap the evening off, try and drive him through the bed again before saying goodnight. Go to some of his club games, surprise him at work with an extra snack, etc, etc. If he's not interested in any of this, then you'll have to come to the logical conclusion that he's just not that into you. Life is way too short to spend too much of it(meaning 6 or more months, not a couple of weeks) unhappy, trying to repair something that is not repairable. Good luck to you!

Congratulations, good luck to you guys.

Thank you for serving this great Country, God Bless you, and good luck.
Kelly

Pushbrk is knowledgeable, and to his credit states facts not guesses. When I first started researching on VJ everyone had opinions and I found out the information was not accurate on some and simply an assumption on the posters part. IMO Pushbrk not only has a right, but a duty to discourage false information being provided.
Kelly

Pushbrk is knowledgeable, and to his credit states facts not guesses. When I first started researching on VJ everyone had opinions and I found out the information was not accurate on some and simply an assumption on the posters part. IMO Pushbrk not only has a right, but a duty to discourage false information being provided.
Kelly

Pushbrk is knowledgeable, and to his credit states facts not guesses. When I first started researching on VJ everyone had opinions and I found out the information was not accurate on some and simply an assumption on the posters part. IMO Pushbrk not only has a right, but a duty to discourage false information being provided.
Kelly

Right, OK.
So when I proposed to my now wife I had no idea there even was a K-1 but figured there had to be something. I googled something about wife visas and came up with this site and started asking questions. Pushbrk answered most of them and seemed pretty straight forward and plain speaking which I admire.
Now I have been through the whole process and Alla is now a citizen and we never had an RFE or a question asked at an interview until the citizenship and even that was no problem and I thank Pushbrk for that over anyone else (not to belittle the others here and there are plenty) but Pushbrk was always eager to answer, always correct (being correct makes it more than an opinion)
Pushbrk will also pay you the compliment of being direct. I have no use for polite idiots who make up answers that are not correct
My thanks toPushbrk for all his help in achieving my wife's citizenship

Pushbrk is knowledgeable, and to his credit states facts not guesses. When I first started researching on VJ everyone had opinions and I found out the information was not accurate on some and simply an assumption on the posters part. IMO Pushbrk not only has a right, but a duty to discourage false information being provided.
Kelly

Pushbrk is knowledgeable, and to his credit states facts not guesses. When I first started researching on VJ everyone had opinions and I found out the information was not accurate on some and simply an assumption on the posters part. IMO Pushbrk not only has a right, but a duty to discourage false information being provided.
Kelly

No. You'd need to request a waiver if you'd had one I-129F petition approved within two years prior to filing the current I-129F petition. It's been well over two years. If that was the only other I-129F petition you've ever filed then you don't need to ask for a waiver.

I have read of many, don't know about hundreds but its possible, who have went to BPI paid their fee and then the next day went online and scheduled their interview all within days of getting the MNL #. So waiting for a package to arrive is not necessary to schedule the interview. I also learned from one of those people, who within the last week did just that, that the I-129F package is electronically sent to the embassy with the physical package following later (the good folks at NVC told him this).
I know that when I have the MNL # I will have my Fiancee head to BPI to pay the fee, then get the interview scheduled the next day, which should be happening within the next week or so just waiting for NVC at the moment.
It seems there is sort of a pi$$ing contest going on between you two, but on this one I have to agree there is no need to wait on the I-129F package.

Pushbrk is knowledgeable, and to his credit states facts not guesses. When I first started researching on VJ everyone had opinions and I found out the information was not accurate on some and simply an assumption on the posters part. IMO Pushbrk not only has a right, but a duty to discourage false information being provided.
Kelly

Although it sounds to me like you know what you are talking about and I DEFINITELY appreciate accurate and thorough responses I feel like there are several times I post things I think to be fact, that turn out to be opinion.
Everyone has been SO nice and helpful for me on here and I think my favorite part of this site is the nice people willing to help out.
If you disagree with another persons post I think there is a nice and more appropriate way to respond.
No drama from me, just thought I was a bit rude!

Thankfully so. The information he gave is incomplete at best, incorrect for many consulates at worst and not good advice for someone in this process in any case. Fortunately in a public forum others can correct the misinformation or misinterpretation so people do not make mistakes based on what they read. Many times people read 3 different opinions and go with the one that is what they want to hear, not what is correct.

Bingo. Everybody knows the official requirements for using the I-134. Burying one's head in the sand is a popular tactic when faced with difficulty these days but don't expect the interviewing consular officer to use it. I'm not saying nobody is going to get a K1 out of Manila without a minimum of 125% being met. I'm sure some do. Here's a couple examples.
1. Petitioner is 23 with no children and six months from graduating from college after spending 5 years working their way through to a degree but only makes 102% of the poverty level.
2. Petitioner is 52 with 4 children and has income of 102% of the poverty level but has never had a job making 125% of the poverty level in their life, trying to bring a fiancee with poor English skills and no work experience to speak of.
Would you expect a Consular officer to treat the two equally? If so, pull your head out of the sand.

Actually, it's kind of awesome.

Some people believe that a wedding should be a modest affair - to highlight the commitment that is being made, not the amount of money spent to show-off. Weddings used to be more low-key, but now we have so much pressure with a whole industry telling us to coordinate the stationary with ribbons around the chair, and a whole television show about spending more money than you have for a ballroom gown. Women used to buy a practical wedding dress that they could wear again at other occasions.
My friend's grandmother eloped and got married in a small town somewhere in the southwest while they were driving around. That marriage lasted 50+ years and that couple was the foundation of a whole family for generations. She used to tell my friend about marriage, "It doesn't matter how it starts, it matters what you do with it."
What other people have done might not work for you, but you shouldn't belittle their precious memories and call it shameful or skanky: that attitude is atrocious. If you are going to be in an international marriage, you will have to learn to be more considerate of other people's opinions.

People should spend their time planning a great marriage instead of a wedding, The wedding is a moment in time, the marriage is forever... which is more important.

And a marriage isn't defined by the wedding. It's defined by the love of the people involved, not society and certainly not you.