Meme26504

This is a simple case of an LPR trying to circumvent the visa process.
What I don't get is how an IO actually approved their B2 visas. How did they ever meet the "ties to their home country" requirement? Their mother is living in the US, what reason would they have to return? The IO should have seen this coming from a mile away.
What the OP seems to not understand/accept is that her kids must go back and she must apply for their visas the right way or she risks that they may not be able to come to the US for much longer if they incur bans.
The reason these types of people irritate me is because they are looking to cut corners while the rest of us have to wait many months for our kids/step-kids to get here the right way. There was clearly intent to emigrate from a B2; it could not be any clearer.
There are not enough repercussions for the offenders in clear cut cases such as this. But I still blame the IO in their home country who actually approved the visas.

My case is a difficult case. My husband came here on a 6 month visitor's visa in 2006. He has been here ever since. He is currently in removal proceedings and will have his interview with the immigration judge in July - hopefully sooner. But today wasn't about my husband, it was about my step-kids.
A year ago, I spoke to 5 lawyers about my case. Not one of the lawyers would take my case. They would not even touch it. They said there was no way I would even get an I-130 approved, let alone a visa, until my husband (their dad) got his green card. I even asked questions on VisaJourney and a few veteran members, whom are well respected by not only me, but many people on this website, even said that it wasn't going to happen. I even contacted Marc Ellis...he wouldn't touch it.
I read the instructions for a USC to petition for a step-child and the only requirements were that I was married to their father and that their father was their actual biological father. I read and read and read some more about this immigration process. I was confused as to why none of the lawyers would help me, and why people were so discouraged by my case, as everything I've read was cut and dry....I had to be married to the kids' father and the kids' father needed to be their biological father. Well, that fits our situation to a T, so what's the problem?
I decided to go against everyone's advice and petition for the kids in April 2012. We got sent to California and at that point, California was approving petitions in 3 months (sorry to those at California now... ). 3 months to the day rolled around and when everyone else got approved, we got thrown into Additional Processing. I was devestated and cried for a good 2 days. I was second guessing myself and just knew that I wasted money and should have just listened to the lawyers. We got a letter in the mail stating that if we hadn't heard anything in six months ( ) that we could feel free to call them. Wow. What a depressing 4 months that was!!! I was finally called into my local immigration office for an interview. I passed with flying colors and my IO approved the boys on the spot. Their cases were passed on to NVC the next day!!! WHAT A RELIEF!!! We pretty much flew through NVC (23 days or so) and was assigned an interview date of March 20, 2013.
The past few weeks have been a roller coaster of emotions! I would go from being excited one minute, to nervous for the boys the next minute, to extremely scared that those 5 lawyers were right, and that this was an impossible task and they were going to get us at the interview.
My step-kids had their interview today. The IO said if they had pictures they would have been approved on the spot which really is UNHEARD OF for Nigeria. Since they didn't have any pics, they got sent for a DNA test with approval of visa upon receipt of a positive DNA match. THANK YOU BABY JESUS!!!
The point of my story is... Trust your instincts, reasearch on your own, and have faith that all will be well! Had I given up after those 5 lawyers shot me down, I wouldn't even have a petition in for the kids today. I would be no closer to getting the kids here than I was 11 months ago. Our children will be here in America and be green card holders before their Dad even is. No thanks to a lawyer!
Good luck to all who are still going through this process. You will get through it!
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That's nice to hear coming from someone who had their petition approved in two months, and the visa in hand, in a total of five months.

1 Corinthians 13:4
Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is
not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,
5 does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own,
is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,
6 does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails;
that is truth

Please stop acting like you give a damn. You've shown your colors already. You've made too many racist comments to try and add anything meaningful to this thread.

I'm fine. I feel sorry for you. And those like you.

Of course because when slavery ended, all the doors opened. You know, assimilation into main society. There were no lynchings and no segregation, it was a walk in the park, by your account. Because many black folks are treated like second class citizens in a country we were born in. We were born here, and couldn't even vote. So what's the comparison?

President Barack Obama is often referred to on social media by the N-word. Some white college students still dress in blackface at Halloween and many black parents say that well into the 21st century, they still feel they must give their kids “the talk” about how to avoid raising the suspicions of police or others in authority.
Last year was marked by the shooting death of black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin as the youngster walked to his father’s home. And in North Texas, authorities in Lewisville say race may have been a factor in the separate shootings — one fatally — this month of two black men. Police arrested an Asian man, who said the victims looked “suspicious” to him.
This comes 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington and the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas and 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. These incidents also occurred after the election of America’s first black president, who on Monday — while much of the nation pauses to celebrate the King holiday — will be publicly inaugurated into his second term.
Despite that historic achievement and many other notable gains by black Americans, some historians, sociologists and others lament that race and racism remain immovable and odious stigmas in this country. And it has them questioning whether King’s 1963 vision of an America where his children “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” will ever become reality.
“On the surface people talk about the dream being fulfilled,” said Julianne Malveaux, a political commentator and economist. “But go just below the surface and you’ll see that’s not true at all.”
Malveaux noted that there are still huge disparities between blacks and whites economically, educationally and in other areas. She said she believes racism has played, and will continue to play, a large role in those discrepancies.
“Race is America’s sticking point,” said Malveaux, a former president of Bennett College for Women. “Nobody wants to deal with it, but it is what it is. Both black and white people are uncomfortable with it, and until both sides can become comfortable dealing with it, nothing will change.”
When Obama addressed the families of the Connecticut school shooting victims, he did so on a Sunday night. His speech briefly interrupted the broadcast of the football game between the New England Patriots and the San Francisco 49ers, and many viewers took to social media to spew hate-filled vitriol about it.
“Take that n----- off the tv, we want to watch football!” University of North Alabama football player Bradley Patterson wrote from his Twitter account. Patterson, a walk-on, was subsequently dismissed from the team for his post. He later apologized, stating that he was not a racist.
He was far from alone — that night or in previous online discussions about the president. On the night Obama was re-elected, social media exploded with a barrage of racial epithets about him, including this angry Facebook post from a 22-year-old California woman.
“Another 4 years of this n-----,” Denise Helms wrote. “Maybe he will get assassinated this term.”
In a subsequent interview with a Sacramento television station, Helms acknowledged that wanting the president killed was “kind of harsh,” but she added that “if it was to happen, I don’t think I’d care one bit.” She eventually deactivated her Facebook page, but not before using it to deny being a racist.
“Apparently a lot of people in Sacramento think I’m crazy and racist,” Helms wrote in a follow-up post. “WOW is all I got to say!! I’m not racist and I’m not crazy. just simply stating my opinion.!!!”
The aggressive nature of such missives has raised the concerns of many cultural observers who say Obama’s election in 2008 turned up the volume levels of racial hatred.
Marvin Dulaney, chair of the history department at the University of Texas at Arlington, said many in the country are suffering from what he calls the “painful demise of white supremacy.” Dulaney said he believes that many, if not most, of the outspoken racists in the country today feel empowered by leaders in Washington who stubbornly oppose the president.
“Barack Obama’s election may have spurred this thought among some whites that they’re losing status in American society,” Dulaney said. “His election may have happened too soon, before some whites could adjust to it.”
“They cannot accept the fact that a black man is leading the country,” added Dulaney, who acknowledged that he didn’t initially back Obama and was “absolutely shocked” at his election. “To have a black man as president, it upsets everything they have come to believe in,” he said.
Jim Downs, associate professor of history at Connecticut College, said he also sees virulent racism in the country. But he said that type of behavior might be easier to address than the hidden forms of racism that are not readily apparent or ignored.
Downs said that in popular movies blacks are still often portrayed in subservient or inferior roles that he said perpetuate the stereotype that they shouldn’t aspire to higher, more intellectually demanding positions. Even at the college level, he said, he still encounters students from inner-city New York who don’t believe that they can get jobs in fields such as medicine, law or engineering.
“We’re living in an era based on Jim Crow segregation,” said Downs, who specializes in African-American studies. “Those economic problems of a hundred years ago are still weighing us down today. So let’s change the terms of the debate. We’re talking about politics … but you have black mothers in New York who can’t get a flu shot for their kids because pharmacies in black areas won’t provide them.
“It’s hard for you to talk about whether King’s dream is a reality yet when you’re just worried about whether your kids can even survive from day to day,” he said.
Brenda Wall, a Dallas psychologist and ordained minister, has witnessed the racism of late herself and said she’s very much aware that, 45 years after King was assassinated, America still has not overcome.
Yet she remains hopeful that the country is headed in the right direction and will eventually achieve King’s dream of racial equality. But she said the struggle will not be easy.
“Absolutely, it’s realistic. Dr. Martin Luther King did not die in vain,” Wall said. “The work of President Obama is not in vain. It has been very harsh, the racism in this country has been very harsh. Enslavement and captivity has been very harsh.
“But faith is stronger than fear, and the kind of work we’re doing continues to move forward,” she said. “We will see the peace and the justice because the work goes forward.”
Wall said that one problem that many blacks and whites fell prey to was a false belief after Obama’s election to his first term that America had become a post-racial society, where the color of a person’s skin had no bearing on what they could achieve.
“They thought … that we had arrived, but we have not arrived,” Wall said. “The struggle for us is to be anchored in truth and reality and not in materialism.”
Dulaney, though, is skeptical. He said that he believes the current divisive racial climate will improve only after Obama leaves office and even then, things will only “go back to normal and we’ll know racism exists but it will be hidden.”
Wall fights that notion, however, and said that for her, King’s dream is well within view.
“I hope you don’t think evil is stronger than truth,” she said. “I hope you don’t think that a racist is stronger than we are. It has been a horrible experience for 400 years but let’s … look to the future. Our work is not complete, but we will win.”
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/dallas/headlines/20130120-50-years-after-mlks-iconic-dream-speech-many-still-awaiting-racisms-retreat.ece

If someone decides to ignore my advice, that's their choice. We're all allowed to call the operators and report back on what they said. 90% of the posts are reports of what operators told them. The guides are exactly that. They're guides. They aren't absolute. In fact, as I said, the guide says to send a templated email of the 3032, but people later in this thread have indicated that they're having better success doing what the operators told sld to do. Sign, scan and email the actual form. He's also allowed to report back on what the results are. We're here to learn, support and hopefully help, not to be reemed out or alluded to that we're stupid. There's no benefit. This is a stressful enough process. I think you realize this, what with having to put together your own RFE for the I-130. You have very valid advice sometimes, the helpful stuff is good.
And if I got cranky every time someone didn't take my advice, I'd be out of a career. Instead, I'm not and I love what I do, with the understanding that everyone is on their own journey, so let them take the journey. If they annoy you, ignore.

I'm only just seeing posts now as I've been away from the boards. The number we pulled was the adjusted income from the transcript.
Keep in mind they're giving you general wording that is probably form a drop-down menu in their computer.
We got the same checklist saying line 25 didn't match the W2 or whatever that was BUT the number DID match, they just couldn't read it because my husband made a low-res scan and the person trying to read it just couldn't see it clearly. As soon as I sent better version of it, no problem.
And nobody here is getting frustrated with you.

So, just to clarify, you sent NO tax information with the AOS package?
That's what the checklist is talking about, that you've not included any tax information (whether it's one year or three). All you need to do is send in the tax information, either the tax transcript(s) (which is highly preferred at NVC) or the entire tax return (1040, W2s, 1099s, schedules, worksheets, etc).
As for question 25, it's simple. Read the question again. If you filed a 1040, then use the amount from the "total income" line. If you filed a 1040EZ, use the amount from the "adjusted gross income" line. There's no adding up. Please re-read the question, it states this right on question 25.

Hmm, that sounds right. You should try calling up NVC and requesting to speak with a supervisor, and explain the situation to them. Perhaps they can help.

Does it really matter? At some point soon USCIS will update their site with the new guidelines. The OP was merely showing people what they should expect in the near future. To you the increase may not seem significant, only a few hundreds dollars, but to may people struggling in this economy that few hundred dollars could mean the difference between need a joint sponsor or not.....

did he email the DS 3032 yet? do it nowish cos you really have to be proactive with NVC in a sweet way to get things moving( if you are in a hurry like me).
even though I knew how the NVC timeline worked, I still called them up and innocently asked why I cant pay the AOS bill yet and the site says to contact NVC, the lady explained " thats because we have not sent you the invoice yet so give it couple of days". the same day, i got invoiced. Same with the DS 3032, we emailed it 01/09 and again on 01/11. I know this takes couple of days but I could be impatient and I called and was given the wait 10-15 business days but same day 01/14, we emailed another one with "supervisor review" in the subject line and that got accepted next day. soon as i saw that I called 'wondering' why I cant pay the IV bill since our DS 3032 has been accepted and yet again was given the 20 days speech. next day IV bill was invoiced. :rofl:

OOOO I see it now saylin thanks, Dealing with twin 6 month olds and being near sighted doesn't helps .....and I over looked your beginning post dear So no need for sarcasm this way....

As long as the beneficiary has children you should list them on the I-130. Doesn't matter where the child was born.
You dont know what the future holds so always be truthful on the forms.

The poster has done what he believed would work for him. So give him a break & be reasonable before bashing on the poor guy. If he would get in trouble (I hope not) because of uneducated immigration personnel/Airlines crew, none of VJ members or USCIS it self will do anything to help him out. That being said, A lie which makes life better is NOT a lie, it's necessity. period.
Matt Sonders.

Y are u always so negative and harsh with your words people make mistakes and they would regret it true, but stop rubbing it in. People post for assistance not for antagonistic comments like yours. Tell him how he can go about his situation not how his life sucks....

loladolly, I am not trying to upset you in any way but just consider that everyone here is going through the same waiting process that you are. Some of us have even been waiting longer for their k-1s than you have so far, in fact many of us. Although being apart is an unfair and unwanted part of this process I can promise you it makes it about a million times harder to get through it if you constantly let yourself fall into a negative mindset. All you can do for now is forget you even filed for your visa for about three or four more months. No VJ, no timelines, no USCIS checking. It'll go a lot faster if you don't check every day and depress yourself. And on a positive note once it's over you will forget about it. This is such a tiny piece of time your trading for your happily ever after. It's doable, just keep your chin up.
Good luck.

Yes maybe. Everyone is on the same boat. French or not. ( and I was french ).

Let's not confuse the issue. At no point did we get pregnant to expedite the process, it happened after we filed, other wise we would have got married and filed for a spousal visa. It is very rude for people to read and imply such a thing,
Also let's not confuse the fact that I am 5 times above the poverty level, I just don't have liquid cash on hand, think about 3 trips to the Philippines over 7 months, a first time child on the way and the start up costs,
While I appreciate the genuine responses, we come to this board for help, not to be judged or criticized, if that was the case I would just use facebook...