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Hi,

What timing!

So I brought my (now) wife on a K-1 and got AOS in march. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I received a job offer from a very prestigious company located in Saudi Arabia - a dream job for me that Ive been applying for the last 10 years since I began my career.

Anyways. If I were to accept the offer and move out of US, is there any way my wife can continue to come back to US every 5 - 6 months and still keep her residency? or will she need to relinquish the status and get it again upon moving back to US?

Has anyone had the same experience?

I'm gonna tell you the truth that congressmen and senator never help in case only information they will tell you the same thing like admin process in your case from embassy and i have been AP 29 month still waiting and praying i was ask to senator help in florida and she refused to help me in my visa application so i dont believe it sorry thanks

Im sorry to hear about your situation, its such frustrating to be in AP but keep your hopes up. I had applied for a K1 visa for my then fiance. Unfortunately, USCIS lost my case (they actually sent it to the national repository center NRC instead of the embassy). I called many times for them to find it, but they just kept saying I need to keep waiting. I ended up contacting my senator who then contacted their sources in USCIS and they finally searched and found the documentation and forward it. So, yes, you are right in that a Senator will not interfere with the normal process of these agencies but they can help in certain abnormal situations.

I dont think they will be able to do much in my grandfathers case, but I would like the embassy to be aware of the case being still active and am hoping they finish it once contacted about it.

Best of luck to you.

Fahad

Hi There,

My auntie applied for my grandfather's I-130 parent visa (currently living in Pakistan), it has been a while since the interview and the embassy in Pakistan does not respond to any emails she sends them. On top of that when I call they ask me to send emails.

Can someone tell me which senator she can contact that will be able to work on her case? She is the sponsor. I cannot really do anything because Im not on the case. I tried to go on the senator's websites, but wasn't able to find any information on NVC/Embassy issues. Any assistance will help.

Thanks all in advance !!

VisaJourney to the rescue once again. Thanks to you, both

Hi There,

My (now wife) came last month, and we just went to make her SSN card but the folks at the social security office said they need to see her I-94 card... What is that? She is on a K-1 visa for now, until I change her status. Someone said they give that to her at customs at the airport but she said she didnt get any white card from the customs people at the airport...

Appreciate the help.

Thanks.

Issued! Wooohoooo. I guess that AP was for one day only. Just saw it right now, it stated "Issued".. Hopefully that means the visa process is complete... and not another step after this...

Keeping my fingers crossed...

I just called DOS trying to ask whats going on, the lady said they're still processing it, its in administrative processing right now. I said, AP? I though it was approved... She said yes, it was but its still being processed.

Hi,

My fiancee had her interview two weeks ago and after a few questions the CO stated congrats, you've been issued a visa, you will get your passport within 7 - 8 business days. This was on Sept. 9th, and its been 10 business days. All this time, I was checking the NVC site and the status was "Ready", until today. I just went to see it and it says Administrative Processing.

I had though the case was approved, I don't understand why it state AP now. She didn't receive any type of forms or any type g221 or anything after the interview. Can someone help?

Thanks.

Approvedddddd!!! finally the K-1 journey's hard part is finally over!!!! After all the headaches (thank you USCIS) and waiting, its over.

Major Kudos to US Embassy in Islamabad. They went well above and beyond due to USCIS sending our file to NRC instead of NVC that delayed the process by two months and almost caused our file to be expired before K-1 visa could be processed. My Senator's office actually also went out of their way not not only following up with USCIS to finally untangle the mistake but also contacted NVC and contacted the US Embassy in Islamabad (without even me requesting them to do so). I was visiting my fiancee in Pakistan and my household received a letter from my senators office with a response from the embassy - I have to say I was shocked they contacted them without me following up with them.

Pretty much NVC processed our application within a couple days and mailed it. Then it was delayed again (sigh...) by DHL. They held it in Heathrow Airport for a few days, I had to follow up with DHL to finally get it released and send to Embassy. They Embassy, knowing how many emails I had send them, received the application and within an hour of receiving the file sent my fiancee and myself our Packet 3.5. They asked my senator to tell us that we need to immediately fill out the forms and mail it back to them. After a few holidays in Pakistan, we mailed the forms back (along with the letter the senator send me to remind them this is time sensitive case) and they arranged our Interview a week before our expiration date, well before other interviews scheduled that were received the same time.

Interview was usual with usual questions (listed on my profile page), and right away said congrats, approved! Its approved and you will receive it before the expiration of your I-129F.

For everyone in this process - Please stay on top of this process - Stay on top of it get as much help as you can from anyone you can get it from! Special thanks to the VisaJourney Community!!!

Kudos to the US embassy in Islamabad! They've reinstated my trust in our system! I really expected our application to expire and this whole hell to start all over again for us.

Thats great news! On what date is your interview?

Hi,

We had sent our packet 3.5 to Islamabad embassy two weeks ago, but I wanted to check when we should expect packet 4.. It seems around 2 weeks.

Also how will we get packet 4? Via email like 3.5 or will it be through American Express delivery service?

Can I have my fiance do the medial now, instead of waiting for packet 4?

Yup. Same thing happened to me only difference was mine center was csc. Expect it to be back within a week after the letter date. Then you'll have to wait a couple of days for them to mail it. Email cisombudsman@HQ.DHS.GOV, but their response might come back late. They gave me the correct date my partition was actually mailed out. It was on a Saturday and NVC started processing on wed.

It sucks when this happens but this is a great thing they found it. Just know this, the process will actually speed up from this point further ( barring any other screw ups). I got help from my elected official with this so if you did the same keep on calling them to find out updates. They get information you and I can only dream of with those script reading computer monkies they have answering the phone calls at uscis.

Best of luck.

Thanks for the reply i do have one more question. I see they requesting on 156k, proof of continued relationship? Is this needed now or in the interview day? and what is exactly needed for this?

Thanks again

Hi,

We're getting ready to send in our package 3.5 for our K-1 visa to Islamabad embassy but the packet 3.5 email states that a fee of $350 need to be submitted? When? Now or upon interview? And if now, what do I send them? Cash?

Thanks

Assalamalaikum,

I wanted to check if anyone has gone through K-1 visa for and were asked "why didn't you marry her/him in pakistan, instead of going to US" ... And what was your response to it. I just don't know if my reasons to not get married with my fiancee in pakistan will get our application in problem or not...

Any advice/help would be really appreciated.

Thanks.

ps - even on the embassy's site it stated that cr-1 visa are usually typical with pakistani couples.. I just don't want them to start suspecting something or worse to outride reject it.

Just to add -

This was an arranged thing. but we wanted to get to know each other first so thats why we wanted to marry in March in pakistan after speaking over the phone and skype, etc. But once I got the job, I just told my new employers to hold off my start date, let me travel back for two weeks and ill come back and start. I knew i wouldn't be able to get enough time off to get married, especially the kind of marriages in pakistan that take weeks. And plus I wouldn't know anyone in the marriage

Also, when i say the parents will not attend the wedding, I mean her parents, they live in pakistan and cannot attend because of visas and stuff.

Im just suspecting the interview expects a straight forward case, and any type of issues like this, they get skeptical about it and put someone on AP for months/years only resulting in refusal for the visa at the end.

The thing is, I am planning to marry my fiancee when she comes to US. I went to pakistan in August to get engaged with her, but I just don't know if the embassy interviewer would mark this as a red flag since, typically pakistanis get married and then go to US on a marriage visa, especially if its a female.

Our plan was to marry in March but then i got a permanent job that I was going to start and i didn't think I would get enough vacation time to come to pakistan and marry. So we decided, I go to Pakistan for a week and a half, get engaged, keep getting to know each other, same time we will have the K1 visa process going... once the K1 is complete, she comes to US, her uncle and auntie will also be attending (they live in US). Another reason was that I have all my friends and family (at least who I keep in touch with) will be in US and would be able to attend. Ive heard there can be issues because the interviewer can first ask, why didn't you marry in pakistan and the reason needs to be a well off reason. And also they may get skeptical if the parents will not be at the wedding.

Ive seen some real horror stories where the interviewer alleged the interviewee is married (without much proof) and therefore the application would be rejected. I mean these guys, can pretty much do what they want. Our recourse is very little, heck even getting senators help would be limited. So i just want to make sure I dont make a mistake...

So if this is going to be a red flag, I just wanted to check with a lawyer on what the recourse can be if they say anything.

Any thoughts? Im really confused with this now. When i first did it, it soulded like a good idea.. but after 9 months, i just dont know what they will think.

My case was at csc and uscis said they mailed it to NVC. It turned out they send it to NRC which is their repository. The only thing that found the mistake was that I submitted a service request after 30 days if waiting. And I contacted my senator. They got on the case also.

You can see if NVC get it in the next couple days but at this time frame in my case I called uscis and spoken with a tier 2 rep and filed a service request. These slugs usually take a couple of weeks to find it and then couple more to request it back and mail it to NVC.

Best of luck.

Hi,

Can someone recommend me a good (trustworthy) immigration lawyer that has experience handling K1 visa when the fiancee is in Pakistan? Any will do, but I live in california, any good attorneys here would be best.

I have a few questions I need clarification on.

Thanks!

Hi,

Can someone recommend me a good (trustworthy) immigration lawyer that has experience handling K1 visa when the fiancee is in Pakistan? Any will do, but I live in california, any good attorneys here would be best.

I have a few questions I need clarification on.

Thanks!

Thank you

Hi There,

I remember there was a site to check status for NVC (if I wasn't dreaming when i saw that) Does anyone know the URL to the site? You needed to put your nvc number and get the status ... or something..

Anyways.. my application is at NVC, how should i track this application from this point on, I remember there was a way to also track the DHL package when its done processing it and sent to the embassy ...

Can someone help me at this point? Ive already called them and gotten the status, they're processing it .. Is there a writeup on VJ about this anywhere? how to track or what to do from this point forward.

Thanks everyone!!!!

I just went through a service request because after my NOA2, they never sent the petition to NVC. They should have given you a target date for the SR. I received a notice exactly on the target date, they researched my file, found it was located in NRC (obviously they wont accept fault and say that, they'll say something like "were requesting your file from the repository"). They then had the petition sent to NVC.

Also try to send a request to Ombudsman and they can at least keep tabs on this well oiled agency to finish the job you had paid for. For me, Ombudsman told me the exact date my petition left USCIS to NVC.

Best of luck.

This looks great! You should have your petition received by NVC pretty soon. You wont have to but you can try emailing cisombudsman. They do take a few days to respond but they were able to tell me my application was mailed out of USCIS CSC office on Saturday.

But I think you don't need to worry any more, and just keep checking with NVC daily!

Best of luck to you two.

Happy:)