MrsAmera

ALL American citizens need a passport to travel. I went to Morocco with my 10mo. old and he had to get a passport.... (argh). I'm assuming the baby will also need a visa but I'm not sure on that one!

Thanks for the ideas thus far - anyone else??

My fiance got a lead on a good job and we are wondering if there is someway to extend his EAD before our AOS is done. I would hate for him to have the job for 2 months and then have to quit - esp. since it has full benefits for us. Please help us!!

Hi everyone. I am writing my final undergrad. paper about US Immigration Policy after 9/11. Sooo I am looking for personal stories, experiences etc. that might help me out. (It's one thing to include a bunch of stats and jumble but real experiences help too!) So this is the question:

1) If you dealt with immigration pre 9/11 (even better if you did pre and post - 9/11) what was the experience -was it different? the same?

2) The crux of my argument is that immigration policy is now more discriminatory towards non-Western nations. I'm specifically focusing on the Middle East and Africa but if you have experience from another non-western, non ME or African maybe it will change my focus?

I would really appreciate as much input as possible - I know that there are a ton of stories out there so try to just give me your experience regarding discrimination (or non-discrimination) obtaining the visa and then entry into the country.

Thanks a bunch!!

I don't think the dates that you sign the papers matters at all. Ours were dated in March but they didn't get sent until June - no problems. Yes you just need to pay the $170 with the package.

Hahaha - you know right before my honey got here my mom asked me "So is your house clean, did you get all your laundry washed?" and I laughed so hard because I thought of all of you on here! Let's just say laundry is never dirty

Youssef got sick however. Just a disclaimer to those of you who have a SO coming soon - we live in Wisconsin, and it's cold and rainy. Youssef hasn't been dealing with it too well and got a cold. Now he's got an upset stomach (flu maybe?) - I think a lot of the stomach stuff has to do with the food changes so I'm trying to make him food that he is more use to and hoping that that makes a differences. Anybody with some good Moroccan recipes put them on here because I love to cook but the changing the recipes to accomodate what is available in the US (and using a different stove than the gas burning ones) I am seeing some differences in how it turns out.

So good luck to those of you with upcoming interviews and congrats to the recent approvals!! We're doing wedding homework this weekend! YAY!!

Thanks for all the help - we're still considering options. (I lose my health insurance the day we're married so I'm trying to hold onto it a bit longer until we have plan B). Our situation was the same as you rhama. We got married in the faith so that it would be acceptable for us to stay together etc. and it made things better and easier with his family too. Didn't do K3 because of the time constraints and gathering all the documents and signatures to get married in Morocco took at least a month!!

I posted this in the AOS but they don't seem to willing to give out help . So the honey is here and we want to get married soon but we are sort of unsure of how the next process goes. So if we get married say February 14th, how long do we have to file the AOS papers? What if we were married closer to the end of his 90 days (end of April) does teh same amount of time apply? Will we have to send the I-864 right away or do we wait until the interview. Anyone who went through St. Paul (rhama and others!) how long did it take from filling to get your interview? Thanks for your help!

My fiance got here last week and now we are starting to thinking of moving our marriage up from the end of April to sometime in February. I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me what the process will be. If we were married say February 14th - what do we do next? and how fast do we have to do it? Will the I-864 need to be submitted right away or do we wait until our interview - like with the I-130? If anyone has processed through St. Paul and could give us an estimate of how long it took from the time of submission until their interview that would be great too! Thanks for all your help!

Hi Kathy -

Youssef's mom and sister in law are planning on coming for our wedding in April. We don't think it will be a big problem because his mom owns property in Marrakech and his sister will be coming with her son, but leaving 2 kids and her husband in Morocco. From what we have read and been told that would be some signifigance. Leaving family behind generally shows that they plan to return. We're sending our invitation to them in English. Hope this helps - I'll let you know what happens!