Faithful2012

Congratulations!!!

For those of you who do not know my story. I met my Fiance when we were teenagers and we lost contact for many many years, and reunited the beginning of last year.After a year of dealing with this Visa Journey we are done. Finished. Approveddddd {Well this part of the journey at least} I give all the Glory to God. I give the Highest Praise and Honor to my Lord And Savior. Honestly I have to give so much praise to him, he is the one who kept us together, sane, healthy, alive, and Able really Able to have the finances, time,energy,knowledge, perseverance, and patience to do everything that was needed to make this process a true success, although this process took almost a year, it was blessing, a big blessing Indeed. God's timing is always the best because he knew when we started in July 2012 it was going to also end in July 2013. Words truly cannot express how grateful I am to everyone who helped, shared, prayed, and cheered us on. Words cannot express again how absolutely humble and appreciative we are of God's work. He is truly a miracle worker. Sorry I am writing a book, but this is a true love story that I never knew would end like this. This is my soul mate truly and I am honored that we will finally be 1 with each other and we will be together as husband and wife. I can honestly say I have lived true to my screen name {Faithful). I have been faithful to God and patient and now he has blessed us like I cannot believe. I am overjoyed and crying bu-co tears of Joy. I wish everyone success and happiness. The Journey will not be easy but it will be a testimony in the end. Good luck and God Bless everyone on your Journey.

For those of you who do not know my story. I met my Fiance when we were teenagers and we lost contact for many many years, and reunited the beginning of last year.After a year of dealing with this Visa Journey we are done. Finished. Approveddddd {Well this part of the journey at least} I give all the Glory to God. I give the Highest Praise and Honor to my Lord And Savior. Honestly I have to give so much praise to him, he is the one who kept us together, sane, healthy, alive, and Able really Able to have the finances, time,energy,knowledge, perseverance, and patience to do everything that was needed to make this process a true success, although this process took almost a year, it was blessing, a big blessing Indeed. God's timing is always the best because he knew when we started in July 2012 it was going to also end in July 2013. Words truly cannot express how grateful I am to everyone who helped, shared, prayed, and cheered us on. Words cannot express again how absolutely humble and appreciative we are of God's work. He is truly a miracle worker. Sorry I am writing a book, but this is a true love story that I never knew would end like this. This is my soul mate truly and I am honored that we will finally be 1 with each other and we will be together as husband and wife. I can honestly say I have lived true to my screen name {Faithful). I have been faithful to God and patient and now he has blessed us like I cannot believe. I am overjoyed and crying bu-co tears of Joy. I wish everyone success and happiness. The Journey will not be easy but it will be a testimony in the end. Good luck and God Bless everyone on your Journey.

For those of you who do not know my story. I met my Fiance when we were teenagers and we lost contact for many many years, and reunited the beginning of last year.After a year of dealing with this Visa Journey we are done. Finished. Approveddddd {Well this part of the journey at least} I give all the Glory to God. I give the Highest Praise and Honor to my Lord And Savior. Honestly I have to give so much praise to him, he is the one who kept us together, sane, healthy, alive, and Able really Able to have the finances, time,energy,knowledge, perseverance, and patience to do everything that was needed to make this process a true success, although this process took almost a year, it was blessing, a big blessing Indeed. God's timing is always the best because he knew when we started in July 2012 it was going to also end in July 2013. Words truly cannot express how grateful I am to everyone who helped, shared, prayed, and cheered us on. Words cannot express again how absolutely humble and appreciative we are of God's work. He is truly a miracle worker. Sorry I am writing a book, but this is a true love story that I never knew would end like this. This is my soul mate truly and I am honored that we will finally be 1 with each other and we will be together as husband and wife. I can honestly say I have lived true to my screen name {Faithful). I have been faithful to God and patient and now he has blessed us like I cannot believe. I am overjoyed and crying bu-co tears of Joy. I wish everyone success and happiness. The Journey will not be easy but it will be a testimony in the end. Good luck and God Bless everyone on your Journey.

For those of you who do not know my story. I met my Fiance when we were teenagers and we lost contact for many many years, and reunited the beginning of last year.After a year of dealing with this Visa Journey we are done. Finished. Approveddddd {Well this part of the journey at least} I give all the Glory to God. I give the Highest Praise and Honor to my Lord And Savior. Honestly I have to give so much praise to him, he is the one who kept us together, sane, healthy, alive, and Able really Able to have the finances, time,energy,knowledge, perseverance, and patience to do everything that was needed to make this process a true success, although this process took almost a year, it was blessing, a big blessing Indeed. God's timing is always the best because he knew when we started in July 2012 it was going to also end in July 2013. Words truly cannot express how grateful I am to everyone who helped, shared, prayed, and cheered us on. Words cannot express again how absolutely humble and appreciative we are of God's work. He is truly a miracle worker. Sorry I am writing a book, but this is a true love story that I never knew would end like this. This is my soul mate truly and I am honored that we will finally be 1 with each other and we will be together as husband and wife. I can honestly say I have lived true to my screen name {Faithful). I have been faithful to God and patient and now he has blessed us like I cannot believe. I am overjoyed and crying bu-co tears of Joy. I wish everyone success and happiness. The Journey will not be easy but it will be a testimony in the end. Good luck and God Bless everyone on your Journey.

For those of you who do not know my story. I met my Fiance when we were teenagers and we lost contact for many many years, and reunited the beginning of last year.After a year of dealing with this Visa Journey we are done. Finished. Approveddddd {Well this part of the journey at least} I give all the Glory to God. I give the Highest Praise and Honor to my Lord And Savior. Honestly I have to give so much praise to him, he is the one who kept us together, sane, healthy, alive, and Able really Able to have the finances, time,energy,knowledge, perseverance, and patience to do everything that was needed to make this process a true success, although this process took almost a year, it was blessing, a big blessing Indeed. God's timing is always the best because he knew when we started in July 2012 it was going to also end in July 2013. Words truly cannot express how grateful I am to everyone who helped, shared, prayed, and cheered us on. Words cannot express again how absolutely humble and appreciative we are of God's work. He is truly a miracle worker. Sorry I am writing a book, but this is a true love story that I never knew would end like this. This is my soul mate truly and I am honored that we will finally be 1 with each other and we will be together as husband and wife. I can honestly say I have lived true to my screen name {Faithful). I have been faithful to God and patient and now he has blessed us like I cannot believe. I am overjoyed and crying bu-co tears of Joy. I wish everyone success and happiness. The Journey will not be easy but it will be a testimony in the end. Good luck and God Bless everyone on your Journey.

For those of you who do not know my story. I met my Fiance when we were teenagers and we lost contact for many many years, and reunited the beginning of last year.After a year of dealing with this Visa Journey we are done. Finished. Approveddddd {Well this part of the journey at least} I give all the Glory to God. I give the Highest Praise and Honor to my Lord And Savior. Honestly I have to give so much praise to him, he is the one who kept us together, sane, healthy, alive, and Able really Able to have the finances, time,energy,knowledge, perseverance, and patience to do everything that was needed to make this process a true success, although this process took almost a year, it was blessing, a big blessing Indeed. God's timing is always the best because he knew when we started in July 2012 it was going to also end in July 2013. Words truly cannot express how grateful I am to everyone who helped, shared, prayed, and cheered us on. Words cannot express again how absolutely humble and appreciative we are of God's work. He is truly a miracle worker. Sorry I am writing a book, but this is a true love story that I never knew would end like this. This is my soul mate truly and I am honored that we will finally be 1 with each other and we will be together as husband and wife. I can honestly say I have lived true to my screen name {Faithful). I have been faithful to God and patient and now he has blessed us like I cannot believe. I am overjoyed and crying bu-co tears of Joy. I wish everyone success and happiness. The Journey will not be easy but it will be a testimony in the end. Good luck and God Bless everyone on your Journey.

For those of you who do not know my story. I met my Fiance when we were teenagers and we lost contact for many many years, and reunited the beginning of last year.After a year of dealing with this Visa Journey we are done. Finished. Approveddddd {Well this part of the journey at least} I give all the Glory to God. I give the Highest Praise and Honor to my Lord And Savior. Honestly I have to give so much praise to him, he is the one who kept us together, sane, healthy, alive, and Able really Able to have the finances, time,energy,knowledge, perseverance, and patience to do everything that was needed to make this process a true success, although this process took almost a year, it was blessing, a big blessing Indeed. God's timing is always the best because he knew when we started in July 2012 it was going to also end in July 2013. Words truly cannot express how grateful I am to everyone who helped, shared, prayed, and cheered us on. Words cannot express again how absolutely humble and appreciative we are of God's work. He is truly a miracle worker. Sorry I am writing a book, but this is a true love story that I never knew would end like this. This is my soul mate truly and I am honored that we will finally be 1 with each other and we will be together as husband and wife. I can honestly say I have lived true to my screen name {Faithful). I have been faithful to God and patient and now he has blessed us like I cannot believe. I am overjoyed and crying bu-co tears of Joy. I wish everyone success and happiness. The Journey will not be easy but it will be a testimony in the end. Good luck and God Bless everyone on your Journey.

i just want to say a big thank you to God and everyone on this site... he passed the Interview, and the visa will be ready next week...
thank you guys...

Congrats.
I heard that they are usually gentle with older Nigerians especially Grandmothers.

Of course they are not pessimistic... If they were, you wouldn't pay them... I saw from your other postings that along with the "not able to afford a ticket to fulfill the basic requirement to qualify for k-1 visa" you seem to have a few other possible red flags such as major age difference, short online only courtship and a somewhat higher fraud consulate. Although no one of these factors (aside from not meeting in person waiver which you have a snowballs chance in hell of getting), will disqualify you... If you look at it from the uscis point of view (that is a stranger seeing only paperwork in from of them) you would see that you are setting yourself up for failure. Perhaps your idea of flying over, marrying and filing CR1 might be better since it would at least get you over to meet her.
But I can also see from other posts you have a "us against the world and fight the system and nobody understands us" stance on everything instead of really listening and benefitting from others experience... So go ahead and "prove us all wrong" a lot of us have been her long enough to see the follow up threads "denied and crying, what do I do now"?
Sorry to sound negative, i really do wish everyone starting this long journey all the best, but it seem to me, that for a newbie who hasn't even filed yet, you sure come off like you got system pegged and figured out, wonder why hundreds of people here could not figure it out like you? Best of luck on your journey, I truly believe that everyone has the right to be with the one they love, and I think you're gonna need it. FIGHT ON BROTHER (but remember, uscis always wins!) OUT...

Getting a K1 or CR1 visa is a special trial by fire in part caused by the huge amount of fraud that happens there. It is almost the norm to have to file twice. More than one Nigerian to Nigerian couple I know have been denied the first time let alone the ones that are not Nigerians. The people there at experts at decieving each other. Go to Lagos and you will see "this house not for sale beware 419 " stencilled on buildings. Their culture allows that a fool and their money are soon parted. It is not the same world there. Whole families will assist a member to get to the US. If they are lucky to win the lottery that is the path they will take. If they find someone that they can sweep off their feet to get here , that is ok too. Not all behave this way, and those that have honest relationships have to go the extra yard to prove they have not been taken advantage of. I know of many horror stories through the years. The one that happened last week. Another where the Nigerian wife played the part of a sister living in the house while she served food to her husband and his USC sweetheart. Stories of wives sent home to the village while the USC is visiting. Some are playing multiple woman at the same time looking to see which will bear fruit the fastest. This is why Lagos wants to see that you have spent significant time together. That you know his family. That you know the culture. They know all to well the dismal long term success rate for marriages from Nigeria. Yes many relationships are true and survive the test of time. Not a single person currently going through the process will stand up this moment and say that their relationship is anything other than 100% real. But I have seen too many find out after spending years of their life and tens of thousands of dollars that they are the stepping stone for a man , his wife and the rest of the family to come to the US because there is no other viable path for them. Be aware, be educated and be safe.

Best advice I've seen on here in a while! I don't care how many skype hours you've logged - the honest truth is until you've spent time with someone in real life, you can't know what they are like as a person, and whether you'd be happy as their partner. Then add on the financial responsibilities you will have in sponsoring an immigrant. Spend as much time with the fiance as possible given job constraints before and during the petition filing. If you don't, you may live to regret it.

Please consider carefully the desire to marry someone you have never met in person. Learning how you travel together, live together, do finances, take care of personal things, family, all these items will dramatically affect your marriage. This person may be very lovely and charming online and on the phone, but you two may discover that taking a vacation together is an absolute nightmare. You pack light, he brings the kitchen sink. You like to go to the beach and relax, he wants to hike through the jungle for 5 days and camp. Really please, if you are truly to be together, take the time to learn these things. My fiancé and I have known each other for 5 years and only been dating for just under 2. We have seen each other multiple times, learned the quirky things about each other and learned how to adjust. This stuff can get really complicated if you are married and have the pressure of trying to make it work just because. 20 years from now, you will find that the 1-2 years of being engaged, seeing each other, surviving a long distance relationship is nothing to what you have in the end......
good luck!

I know some people were waiting to hear a feedback from meabout my husband’s interview in Nigeria yesterday. I was having a bad pregnancyday with some shortness of breath so was not up to it yesterday. The baby chose that day to be a football (soccer) player or maybe gymnast inside my belly.Hubby thinks the little one had an inkling of what was about to happen and was doing precelebration.
YES we were APPROVED!!!!!!! :dance: by a very difficult embassy. To GOD be the glory because His mercies and favor towards us has been innumerable. Infact,this week has been full of good news for VJ Nigerians who had their interviews.
After hearing the details of my husband’s interview, Idecided to use this title to draw attention to the fact that some of theseembassies are labeled difficult only because some of us are not well preparedfor our interviews. Yes I agree, there is still that CO that will issue adecision we may not understand but let us first address our areas ofchallenges(red flags), if any and leave the rest.
People, if you will pass through such embassies/consulates, FRONTLOAD!!!!!I cannot say this enough.
VJ as community has been a blessing and I thank everyonethat has supported us with encouragement, prayers and good thoughts . I have been and will still be available to assist and share whatever i know as needed here.
My review has been put up at our embassy’s site for others’ benefitand below is the link:
http://www.visajourney.com/reviews/index.php?cnty=Nigeria&cty=&dfilter=5
he also shared shocking responses given by some applicants. One lady was asked about their Marriage certificate and she said they dnt have any, the Co then produced one from her file sent by her US based hubby and aksed how come that is there ? so how did you guys marry and she was like: "we had traditional wedding and that is considered marriage in our culture". hello?????
This same lady was asked "where did you meet your husband" and she replied " at the airport" . The CO then asked "so you go to the airport everyday to see if you will meet a man?" and she said "no my aunt introduced us and he came down to visit so i went to pick him at the airport".
Co: When did he propose to you?
lady: "two days later"?.
CO; you just met someone, he proposed to you two days laters and you said yes?
of course she was denied. So many other stories he shared on what he overheard there revealed how callous some people can be.
So my conclusion is that these VERY DIFFICULT embassies/consulates are the way we fear them to be because some people do not do their homework well.

So So happy for you my sister....Wishing you a life long of true happiness....Congrats and great job....Happy new life guys :-)

Thank you and Yes, next election I'm voting against flake!
Thank you lady. and yes he is in charge and I am so glad of it.
Thank you, i'm in agreement on all points .

God bless you!
You speak the truth!
[4:126] To GOD belongs everything in the heavens and the earth. GOD is in full control of all things.

Thank all of you for your spoken blessings. This has been a long, hard journey, but as with every journey God leads us on, we grow, we become better on the potter's wheel, and we move on to the next journey God has planned for us. There are no words to describe how my husband and I feel about being able to finally move on into the next journey as one heart living together, and hopefully bring glory to God. While the time apart was painful and unwanted, we spent the time with God's grace gaining wisdom about the intricacies of a culturally blended relationship. We are more than anxious to begin the next chapter of our lives, humbly give God all of the glory for all the wonderful things He has brought into our lives.

Congrats...that's just lets you know GOD is in charge.....

Having a spouse outside can also give the petitioner the upper hand in the interview. When the CO wants to put their own spin on the facts you can declare that you want to have them explain that to the petitioner and that they are outside. Be sure to rent a chair if they aren't having a place for you to sit.

Having you there, even while waiting outside helps both of you with the intense emotions the day brings. Either way, whatever the outcome of the decision the CO gives, it is great to be with one another to face the music.

Your service center, CSC, currently runs 8-10 months in approvals.
NVC takes about one month and waiting for an interview slot about 2-3 months ...it varies.
I hope you have frontloaded your petition (included a lot of relationship evidence), Lagos is known to make up their minds before the interview and often refuses to look at evidence brought to the interview.
K1's are too often returned.
Interviews can be rough, tough and lengthy. Many have gone through two or more interviews.
AP alone may happen from several months to over a year.
They like to see couples close in age. They like several visits and lots of photos with family members. They do not like
engagements that appear to be traditional weddings. Plan another visit to strengthen your chances. You will have plenty of time. I also suggest a trip there for the interview in case things go down hill so you can request to talk to the CO who may or may not allow it. It would be good to show your support by being physically there, even if they know you are in the waiting room. Lagos is one tough nut to crack.
When all is said and done you can figure 12-18 months for Lagos.
Best wishes on your journey.

Congratulations!!!!!! wonderful news.....

I'm literarily shaking as I can't beleive this stroke of good luck.
I feel for those that are still waiting and who were in line before us but this is also my second go at bat as we had a K1 denial before.
Onto the NVC stages.
May we all be rejoined with our loved ones as soon as possible In Sha Allah.