Lonelywithouthim

Thank you all....I hope this works.

It must be something in the air, I believe this is the third approval i've seen today. Congratulation to all of you and hope to see more good news

So happy for both of you....congrats

Hello all,

I heard several people using viber to contact family around the world. I was told I need to upload viber on the phone here in the US in order for it to work. I am visiting my fiancé next week in Africa. My question....do I set it up with a US phone number or local ( Southern Sudan) number. I would appreciate your help.......

also please let me know if there are anything else I can look into to call my hubby.

Thank you so much!

Congrats

I know exactly how you feel the hardest thing in life is not having any control. The waiting is a killer but unfortunately that is all we seem to be able to do. I am willing to sign, mail, email, call whatever it takes to get this process moving. I don't think it will change anything but at least it may Help us with the waiting. MAY GOD HELP US ALL!!!!!!

I can't speak to the child custody issues, but as far as the visa, I would send them an email followed up by some sort of documentation. Seems like this is their email:

kingstonivinfo@state.gov

I'm not sure about Jamaica, but Thailand requires the subject line in the email to look like this:

IV Inquiry <case number here>

Then state your concerns in the body of the message. You can find your case number on the letter you received from NVC.

You should also include his name, passport# and his birth date on the email. Those were the information requested from me when I initially contacted the embassy and now, I include it with every email. Good luck !

Good luck to you and your wife. We were also denied the k1 visa back in March but later changed to AP. We are still waiting but I'm thinking of taking the same step as you did and just get married. I would suggest get all your supporting documents organized, including pictures of the two of you and family. look at all the questions sample here and ensure you practice with your wife. Good luck to both of you!!!

The only point I am going to touch with this statement is that it's the same for him going there for a culture shock as it is for you to come here. If you can do it, he should be able to.

2nd that!!!!!

Congratulations

Good luck

Great news..Thank You GOD!!!!!!!!

I wish folks would keep their preaching to themselves or in their closets.

I'm headed to see Susan next month so I'm focusing on that instead of the K1 which may or may not happen this year the way Vermont is going.

I have also reached the same stage, can't think of the k1 visa any more instead I'm going to see my baby. Counting down to when I will see him has been much better than driving myself CRAZY WAITING FOR A $&@$8$&$&@ RESPOND.

Sorry but I am losing hope :crying: :crying:

OP you are in a better place and I hope everything work out for MUCH better. Good luck!

Congratulation on your approval!!!

I'm sure all will be fine, you have survived through the hardest part of the process. I have heard of several people who had to wait longer than a week to receive the visa and they did :thumbs:

Hmmmm...I don't think you ever want to mail the original but you can take it with you at the interview but never give it to them. They will not return any documents back and I'm sure you will need your original later on. Mail can also be lost, so you were right not to mail it. Maybe others can also confirm.....

Good luck!

When I started this journey my Fiancé told me it is going to take a year, I told her our Government is more efficient than that. Ha she was right, 8 months to get approved 2-3 months for the rest. I will listen to her from now on, she seems to know more about my Government than I do. LOL

You remind me so much of me when I started the process. Just breath and read everything on this site...lots to learn. You will survive and good luck!

No, we have not married. She has access to nothing. Was not here long enough.... no key to the house. 3 days, then split.

She left 3 days later???? That is insane. She didn't give the relationship a chance to make any decision. I'm sorry for all your trouble but this looks like a scam. It's a blessing to go through it now than later....good luck to you.

I'm so sorry for your troubles. Good luck!

I think it's best to be forthcoming and do what is required to make the adoption legal. I'm not sure how long you had the children and why the birth certificate was forged but I hope you have a good enough reason to justify it now. If they are not your biological children, i would think they will need to be adopted legally. Considering all the human traffic and child abduction, we should appreciate the laws that are protecting the innocent.

Good luck to you and your family.

Wow....finding this post and reading some of of the notes felt like I was reading all of my thoughts and frustration. The process is hard enough but not to have an idea of when our life can start together is a killer. I do hope we all are united with our other half soon.

Here is how we are keeping in touch. I am using skype and calleasy for calling via phone and paying $.13 per minute. Viber sounds good but I don't think it works in southern Sudan, Uganda or Kenya. Is anyone using it for africa?

You should make certain you check the expiration date on the visa when you receive it. It is up to the Embassy as to whether you will need another medical in Kenya should the first one expire and you are still in AP. If 12 months has elapsed since the medical, you will need to do a new one in the US when you do the AOS. I am just not sure if you will need a new one in Kenya if it goes beyond 12 months since the first one and you are still in AP .

Good luck and may you find yourself out of AP soon,

Dave

Thanks for your prompt response Dave!

I do hope we get out of AP soon too.

To answer your question; you can delay your POE but take the below mentioned into consideration before delaying it too much. The K1 journey is flexible when you want to delay it at certain stages, indeed.

If you postpone your interview, please do yourself the favor of postponing medical too. The reason for that is when you have to adjust your status in the US(after marrying), you do not have to get another full medical if your medical done in home country is dated less than 12 months prior to filing AOS.

The validity of your medical is a year from the date is was done and if there's less than 6 months validity left on it by the time of your interview, then you will have equally less time until POE. So, if you had your medical done in january 2012, it would expire january 2013. If you had your visa interview in december 2012, your visa would expire en january 2013

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This is news to me....so our initial interview was in January of 2012, second interview in March of 2012 and we have been in AP since. Will we hear something before the expiration date of January 2013?? I am sooo confused right now.

Sorry, I'm not sure if I should just start a new post.....

Congrats

congrats :dance:

According to your timeline you are only a week or two away from EAD. Relax a little and consider that he is not supporting you, you are married. You are both supporting each other. Money isn't the only way to support. I earn nothing at all and I have a daughter with me. My husband has a big commute of 4 hours each day and not a huge amount of money coming in. But I earn money negatively. In other words I do what I can to save from spending and I take some of the burdens for maintaining the household from his shoulders, he has more free time. I make sure he comes home to a tidy, serene home with a lovely meal ready. I send him to work with a home made lunch, I do what I can to make his days easier. He thinks that is worth alot more than the few dollars I could earn. Just something to think on...money is not always worth as much as we think it is.

So true :thumbs: