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Document, document, document. Don't get into it with her anymore - no more emotional investment. Time to protect your interests and ensure she has no possibility of turning this around and making it about you, legally or otherwise. Stay calm, get legal advice immediately, end it quickly. An annulment if available is your best route.

Congratulations. Double blessing WOW.

Added you to the case complete interview thread.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/445361-september-2013-interviews/page-12#entry6438181

Woohoo, congrats!

Congratulations!! on your Journey. Definitely understand your feelings now, more the process continues harder it becomes to wait. But, the good thing is, your journey is soon to be over!!

Congratulations Again!!!

Thanks everyone!

Case complete today, AND interview date given today as well! Sept 11. All this waiting, and now it hardly seems like there is enough time.

You sent it to them on 7/11?

Mailed the 9th. They received the 11th. Also, I asked if I would get confirmation email, and operator said its best to call, for what it's worth.

Called NVC today and was told IV was approved! They anticipated the AOS, which was mailed same time, should be done early next week. So that makes 15 business days for the IV.

Called this morning, told to wait 20 business days after mailing the AOS and IV. Only half way there. Is that how long it has taken others?

I believe accurate information is vital as well. So help me out here. I'm not seeing what you are seeing.

At the top of the page from this link: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/georgia/538077/kharabadzem/instr-iv-eng.pdf

Is the following statement :

"After you’ve been contacted by the National Visa Center (NVC) or post with an interview date, you will bring all the following documents to the Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi on the day of your interview (emphasis mine). Please read this notice thoroughly. Failure to prepare properly for the visa interview will result in a delay in processing your case."

Then, listed below this statement is a series numbers (these being the "following documents" referenced in the paragraph above) enumerating what to bring: I'll copy the two I'm referencing.

5. POLICE RECORDS FROM A FOREIGN COUNTRY: A translated and notarized Police Record from a foreign country for applicants age 16 or over, including maiden names and former married names, if the applicant is currently living in that country for more than six months, or if the applicant has previously lived in that country for more than one year, or if requested at the time of interview. For further information, please read the Police Certificates title of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs web page.

8. TRANSLATIONS: Certified English translations must accompany all documents that are not in English. Translations must be certified by a competent translator and sworn before a Notary Public. All certificates must be less than 12 months old when presented on the interview date.

Yes, I meant the NVC process. What you quoted was USCIS language regarding documents submitted with the petition, not NVC.

What I quoted was language directly from the embassy directions for what the visa applicant must bring with them to the day of the interview at the embassy. The link I provided explicitly states this.

It's fine, I really appreciate the help. Time to move on to the next item of business.

The link you're reading does not apply directly to your current situation but the one I posted does.

If by current you mean the NVC process, agreed. If you mean something else, please clarify.

Can you provide a link to where you are reading this. I'm thinking it's out of context. That sounds like the exact instructions for filing an I-130, not submitting documents to NVC ....AFTER...the petition is approved.

Those are actually not the applicable instructions but you DO need the translation. Here's where to find the applicable instructions. http://georgia.usembassy.gov/iv-family.html which are... Please, note that the beneficiary will also be required to present a police certificate, with English language translation, from every country (except the U.S.) where the beneficiary has resided for more than six months since the age of 16. The certificate must be issued under all names ever used by the beneficiary.

I am aware of the police certificate requirements, and we will be providing from all countries (just two in our case).

This is the website address for the embassy instructions for interview requirements: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/georgia/538077/kharabadzem/instr-iv-eng.pdf

It's a link from this page: http://georgia.usembassy.gov/immigrant-visas.html

The NVC may not require as many have said. But if I'm reading this correctly, I'll still have to get everything translated and notarized for the embassy.

Furthermore, from the embassy instructions:

"Certified English translations must accompany all documents that are not in English. Translations must be certified by a competent translator and sworn before a Notary Public."

I've been through that before while in Georgia. They look at me like I'm crazy when I ask them to I include the statement about the translation being accurate and the translator competent. The response I get is- you're paying to have it notarized to that effect, why the statement too? I ask to be humored. We all roll our eyes about rep tape. .

You only translate a police certificate if it is not already in the local language for the location of the Consulate where the interview will take place. Are you talking about a police certificate from someplace other than Georgia?

Yes. Russia.

Certified, not notarized. Don't pay a notary. Just have the person translating write out the certification.

I'm going with the word used in the embassy specific directions for the translation of the police certificate, which is notarized. That's in addition to the translator's certification. This one I'm not making up or confusing with something else I read. I've got it in front of me.

Thanks again.

Ok, I got it. And yes, I've looked at all these documents, but not recently. In my lame excuse of a reason for the confusion, Ive just been working too many hours lately. Which is exactly why I joined this forum- because being a single parent and working like I do means relying upon others to set me straight from time to time. It's the translations that must be notarized, per the embassy instructions. Got it.

So thanks - I printed the embassy IV instructions. Good to go. And money saved. I appreciate the help.

Thanks for the replies. My wife tells me she could get an apostille or have them notarized. She believes notarization is not enough. As I read the state dept info, it remains less than a closed case argument for her.

Being not exactly young and having made plenty of mistakes to learn from, I think it wise to have her do what makes her feel more secure. I ask because I don't want her to spend this money for the apostilles if a notarization or official seal on the original document is enough. But that may be a secondary concern at this point.

My wife is collecting documents for our visa application, and we are running into a vocabulary issue. She tells me that we need to have the documents (police, marriage, divorce, etc) certified with an apostille, and as I'm reading the instructions I'm seeing the word certified or notarized. Can someone shed light for me? Is an apostille needed? Some of these documents are from Russia, and others from the Republic of Georgia.

Thanks for your help!

Approved today. Now on to the visa.

Just called USCIS to ask about our case status since we still can't see it online and they said we were approved yesterday! Absolutely thrilled! Fingers crossed everyone gets theirs soon

Congrats to you! Did you apply from abroad?

Thank you Senator Orrin Hatch!!

We got approved yesterday, I m pretty sure the fact that our Senator contacted them made a huuuuge impact: in 2 days our cases were axailable online then approved

Needless to say we're elated!

Let the fun start with NVC.

Congrats to you!! We filed same day. Though I have no faith that your speedy approval is a portent for me, I'm very glad to see the process working. Best of luck to you!

I've read on this forum that some folks never show up on line even after the NOA2 arrives, others get notices of every single action, and others yet anything between those two extremes. It seems to have little or nothing to do with the filer.

What would be one's advice regarding this: my wife owns her apartment in the Republic of Georgia and does not need to work (and therefore does not). Her passport is Russian. Since there is no lease, and no letter from an employer possible, how difficult does this make establishing her case that she will return to Georgia if she were to visit here? I know any answer is speculative, but I'm wondering if anyone has had an experience with similar circumstances. So far I've just decided its not worth the risk of being turned away.

Waiting in line is fair. I don't have a problem with expediting visas when it comes to work visas, however. Even with that possibility, we have a dinosaur of a system that makes it very difficult to recruit talent in STEM fields. We are shooting ourselves in the foot in that area.

And let's face it, if there was a fee to expidite fiancé/spousal visas, there are a lot of folks who would pay it. But you really think those extra fees would be used to hire more processors? In the end, you'd pay more for the same wait.

Not everyone gets a 1099. They are for other types of income: stocks, dividends, interest, government payments, etc. If he never received any, then there is nothing to worry about.

Visit this link for more information. http://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/HTML/PolicyManual-Volume12-PartH-Chapter4.html#S-B

It is from the USCIS policy manual.

"People believe what they want to believe and disregard the rest"

You just offered some folks something to cling to their concerning their misguided beliefs.

Meanwhile they look down on folks who doubt Global warming or whatever.

Some of you peeps crack me up you're so full of it.

A bit confused here. Is that directed to me? Because your statement in quotes that appears below my posting appears nowhere in my post. But the juxtaposition of the two make it appear as if that's the case.

If that is indeed for me, then I offered absolutely no such thing. The only thing I presented was the fallacy of mistaking correlation for causation, which is what is occurring in the article you've referenced.

That's the great thing about logic and critical thinking. It has no creed, no ideology. And people cling to beliefs (misguided or not) regardless of what you and I and anyone else thinks. That's been known for centuries. It is the hallmark of a belief