Karam and Jamie

I think they are making queue as they mentioned above. They are processing now the finished papers ( I guess those who have completed their medical exams and got all the papers ready for the interview). I do not know the system in Egypt, but in UAE, the Embassy send a letter to the petitioner with list of all the required documents and date of interview, and the petitioner send this letter to the beneficiary to make medical exam and collect all these documents. That is why they put the interview date after (60 to 70 days) from the letter date to allow the beneficiary to collect all these documents and do the medical exam. We do not have packet 3 or 4 or any of these stuff. We do not send papers to the embassy. We just get a letter with interview date and required papers, we collect them, do the medical exam and wait for the interview date.

From what I understand from their letter, they reach in the queue till mid march. Check when your fiance papers reached the embassy, and you will see how much time they need to reach your fiance papers.

Be patient, good luck

I appreciate your response but didn't help me much We sent his packet 3 with all papers and they received them on May 18th. He has to do the medical 3 weeks prior to his interview according to the email we received from the Embassy. They have all other papers.

Can someone help me out a little with the email below. What do they mean by when people prepared their documents? I know they don't mean the petition (album) because I sent ours in early February. Do they mean when the Embassy prepared the documents?

We are scheduling on the basis of first come first serve basis, according to the preparing of the documents, and we are now scheduling people prepared their documents mid of March.

Regards,

Consular Staff

Expiate is to atone for guilt or sin.

Expedite sounds more logical.

Smart ### lol

Greetings everybody,

I am seeking for an advice in regards to my case.

Actually, I came to USA 3 times before, on the last time I entered the states on B2 visa for a clinical externship and couple of courses and conferences (I am a doctor) and it happened on last November 2013. Actually while I was in the states last time, I got married to a girl whom I already knew for 1 year before that and the marriage papers were signed and done on December 2013. As my wife was a LPR, she petitioned i-130 only for me and it got approved later on March 2014.

Anyway, we had our wedding on February 2014 and actually things went downhill really fast right after the wedding. That happened for 1 reason, those people (Her parents and her) planned on getting a Divorce right after the wedding as they have the old culture of a girl should be a VIRGIN if she is never married, and the girl WAS NOT and all what they did was to cover that up, and at the same time they will get some money from the marriage (As per Arab's marriage culture, the man pays some amount of money and jewelry to the girl before the marriage which I already did and it costed me 35,000$) . Basically, I would say it was a scam.

I have traveled back to Saudi Arabia on March 2014 and ever since her parents called me twice and asked me for the religious Divorce and not the legal divorce but I didn't do anything regarding that. They all blocked me on every sort of contact form, changed all their phone numbers and they are even telling all our shared contacts to not give me any information about them.

Before we dip deeper into this, I had 2 marriage papers (The first is the religious islamic marriage certificate which we do with the presence of a religion man and which gives the marriage its religiousness. The second is the legal marriage certificate from the county which we only did for the USCIS paperworks for the immigration benefits).

At the mean time, me and her are considered married (Legally) as we had a marriage certificate at the county and also she sent that marriage certificate to the USCIS when she petitioned i-130 for me. She, and her parents are not willing to make a legal divorce case against me for many reasons (1- They are not affected by that paper as if they got the religious islamic divorce she can simply marry anyone within the states without doing the legal part and only do the religious part..... 2- They want to keep it as it is so they make a case against me once I am in the states on the next time, so they can win it and get a share of my wealth too).

I have some concerns regarding that case and I really pray that I can find some answers for them:

1- What is the best action to do regarding that legal marriage certificate? They already scammed enough money of me, and they want to take more!

2- What will happen the next time I enter the US and when USCIS see on their system that I am married and have i-130 approved? They wont even believe that I am separated or divorced, and also they will grill me to death and I don't think they might allow me in...correct me if I am wrong...

3- Its causing too much headache for me and I really want to find a solution to get out of this trouble without causing any problem for me on my subsequent entries or visas. I am a doctor and I go once every year for 2-3 months for couple of conferences, courses and some externships which benefits my working experience and benefits me in my country.

4- Also, please give me any other adivce you might think about other than my concerns or regarding the whole situation.

May God bless you all,,,

Thanks

If I was a man I would NEVER give a woman that much money UGH. I am so sorry for you

Great topic!!! I can totally relate to the not wanting to look awful after the looong travel! So but of course I had a plan lol.... I flew from Chicago to Turkey before my final flight to Cairo. So once I got to Turkey I found a restroom and whipped out my arsenal of soap brushes lotion and perfume. I washed.. scrubbed... moisturized.... brushed my teeth my hair then changed my clothes. I then went to wait for my final flight feeling fresh n clean n nervous! About 30 mins prior to landing I got out my makeup bag and put on some light makeup did another spray of perfume and was feeling rather pretty and confident.

Upon landing I went thru customs got my visa... picked up my luggage where I also found LOTS of eager "help" LOL I had to keep saying No NO NO I have help waiting! I walked a long time to get out where I would find my Ahmed. I found one last restroom I ducked in for one final once over. OK AMBER PERFECTION!!! LOL

I walked out into the waiting area and began looking around and there he was standing off to his self looking handsome... happy and nervous! My heart and stomach did flip flops in unison! We walked to each other he grabbed my cart and led me out to his car where he had flowers n candy waiting. He then began driving like a bat outta hell! I was screaming baby! baby look out... oh God oh God! He starting laughing and saying relax relax this is how we drive here! Yikes!

As we were traveling thru the city on our way home I kept looking at him just drinking in the sight and smell of him. He kept sneaking peeks at me and I thought "woohoo thank God I had my refresher in Turkey! " Once we got into his flat we kinda just stood there looking at each other. Then he showed me around and said good night to me with a handshake! YES A FREAKING HANDSHAKE!!!

So there I was alone in his flat in a strange country with a handshake! I changed into my nightgown and fell asleep before the call to prayer woke me up LOL! All the next day I was alone while he worked. When he came to me after work I was ready to cry! Here after all these months of talking planning and being excited we finally are in the same time zone and all he does is shake my hand!?!?!?

Anyways he came in the flat and we sat there talking then suddenly he asked if he could kiss me.... I of course said YES! The rest is history LOL He hasnt stopped kissing me since that kiss!

I wish you the best most memorable meeting and life together!

Oh my gosh. I smiled through this whole thing! Thanks hehe!

I do the same thing and he literally spends the whole call trying to make me smile. I also agree with you, I finally found my soulmate, and if I cant be with him here, I will be with him somewheres. I just wish they would skip all this paperwork junk, go strait to interviews and background checks during that. Seems like they are just wasting time and money doing all this, that being our time and money. To them its just a job they do everyday, too us however they are playing God with our lives. Good luck to you, hope your with your love soon.

Yeah, they love the money I bet ugh. Thank you and I hope you get to be with your man soon too

when the case transit from n v c to egypt . when us consuler in egypt give the inter view date ?

Seems to be 3.5 to 5 months UGH

Hello Everyone,

I married my husband in Nigeria. Come to find out he's a dirt-bag. He's cheating and got already got a woman pregnant. I have not petitioned my

IR-1/CR-1 yet and I no longer plan to. But in order for my divorce to be legal and for me to drop this whole Immigration process, Immigration told me I will have to go divorce my husband in Nigeria.

Will that be a difficult process for me? Please give me your input.

Also, will I need an Invitation letter from my own husband to go to Nigeria again? I have my marriage certificate.

How terrible. So sorry to hear this

I try my best to think of all the positives, and not the negatives. I work 9 hours outside my home than I come home to my two kids & my niece & nephew that also live with me. So even though half my day I'm working outside my home, and the other half is spent being a single mom inside my home. I'm never busy enough to miss my love, people get annoyed that I stop whatever I'm doing if we get a chance to Skype or text. I never take a second of our time for granted. I'm sure like some say once we are together, it wont hurt anymore. I guess what really gets to me is the vast difference in the times it takes to approve a K1 visa. How are you supposed to plan a wedding, your futures, with so much uncertainty? Do people ever get denied a K1....if so I wonder how or why. I just hate having to get some random persons approval to marry the man of my dreams, what makes that person the judge of my fate????????

I agree!!! Why do they get to decide???? UGHHH! I feel just like you, it's SO hard!!! Some days I am too depressed to even get on Skype with my honey and then he gets hurt then I get frustrated ahhhhh! This whole thing SUCKS!!! But I won't be with ANYONE else. He is my soul mate. Really, NOTHING helps the time pass blah

Found on a small local forum (somebody called KCC).

EU 40150

AF 69300

OC 1450

SA 1550

Egypt 32250

AS 12700 (Nepal 9500)

Can anybody confirm those numbers?

What are these numbers?

You were approved in 8 days and the Embassy received your case on May 23rd and you are complaining???????? lol!!! Do you see how long some of us have been waiting? lol

I called them 10 days after I heard we were approved and they told me our case was transferred to the Embassy

I hope too!!! now we are waiting from 2years and 4months for this visa...

I saw your timeline and I wanted to throw up. I can't even imagine waiting that long for my love!!! ahhhhhhh! We can't afford for me to fly and see him so much

Hi guys, I'm in AP after interview...I check my visa status on Ceac site, until yesterday said "Status Updated Date: 30-may-2014"

Today said "Status Updated Date: 03-june-2014" . Maybe means they are working on my case??

Hoping it means something for you

My case was completed on jan 10th,2013. I know friends their cases were completed on same month jan. There is one of them same day as me his appointment is on july 21. So why i didn't get to schedule for an appointment yet? Also there is another one his case completed after me and he got his appointment.I know you get from the embassy the capacity every month and also should be first come first schedule. Please i need somebody tell me what could i do

Sorry to hear this :'( It's torture for my fiance and I to have to wait. Stupid Egypt takes SO LONG

. I am not really sure, though. Everyone seems hugging each other in the party. I had tried my best to get close to my husband. The guy who hugged me in the party had his wife there and she hugged another people as well. And the other things, my husband and I don't drink alcohol and whenever we went to parties, people would looked at us and said," hah, you guys don't drink?"

My other concern too that people seems smoking everywhere outside. I can't stand smell of cigarette. Don't get me wrong, I love everything in the US but those things make me feel alienated. My husband doesn't hug people unless they are his family. And he never embrace with an open arms whenever we met someone. I guess the reason why he doesn't hugs because he is more introvert, calm, and shy.

You guys are funny!

Some people love to force things on us. The drinking thing. I don't know if people feel better if you do the bad habits with them or what but I get the same thing. Sometimes I want to be like, "NO, I DON'T WANT A DRINK NOW SHUT UP!!!!" and then calmly say, thank you Some groups of friends and families do like to hug I have noticed. It took me some time to get used to because I had a group that liked to do that but eventually I just said, ok, screw it. hugggggggssssssssss LOL

Hi all! Its my first time posting here and I'm new to the forum. I need a,little advice on my situation which I'll make really short because the long version will be too long. Married my husband almost 2 years now, out of good faith, trusting he was "the one". Before I married him I had a,great career and beautiful life, I was promised things can only get better. I was in love,so I trusted him. Basically he's made me spend all my savings,left me with an apartment and bills,in our name I can't afford, given me anxiety, racked up hospital bills because of my anxiety. He also moved out and tries to pop in and,out of my life as he chooses and when ever I mention divorce he's threatened me, begged me don't leave because he knows how much I love him so I always,take him back then he comes for a,short time and goes back to the road (he is,a,trucker) and doesn't take my calls for months at a,time. Recently he's had multiple women messaging me and telling me to leave him alone saying they're sleeping with him. he says that he doesn't know if I will leave him if he gives me my green card ECT. I married this man out of pure love, he's destroyed my life,I would like to go back to my home country but if I do then I won't be able to come back to the USA, my line of work requires me to travel all over including the USA, my fiance visa is long expired. I just don't know what to do.

Wow, so sorry to hear this. Some people are so heartless

I know how it used to be since all of my grandparents also came that way 100 years ago. One line at Ellis Island for your medical. You pass it, next line is fill out papers. Or maybe the other way around. Then you get a ferry ride to Battery Park, and you are in. Same day you arrive.

Fast forward to 2014. Now we have this monster to deal with. You never know when CEAC is going to update. They think they are in the CIA and will tell you nothing in advance. Be that as it may, checking it once per day is sufficient, at about the same time. This way if there is a change, the information is at most one day old.

I am at CEAC. post interview waiting on a visa. Same thing, check it once per day at the same time each day.. It is really all you can do right now.

This whole process really is a monster!!! :'( We are missing each other terriblyyyyyy.......Hoping you hear good news soon I get too depressed some days to even check the STUPID CEAC website lol

I wasn't sure where to post this topic. I'll get straight to the point.

In January I suffered complications during a pregnancy due to pre-existing health problems (we didn't think I could even get pregnant). I was sent to the University Health System hospital for a scan, which came back inconclusive. I voiced that I would like to go elsewhere as it was very clear by my rapidly deteriorating health that I couldn't continue with the pregnancy. They told me I HAD to return to the same hospital for more scans, saying that I couldn't have an abortion until they knew what was going on and made out that Planned Parenthood (where I had suggested I go) would not check for ectopic pregnancies before carrying out an abortion. They kept scaring me into coming back by telling me different things might be wrong, but they assured me that my hospital bills would only come to $100-$150 per visit after I explained that I wasn't a US Citizen yet and had no personal income. After my fist visit I received a call in the middle of the night telling me I needed to come back immediately, only for me to arrive at the hospital and for the nurses to tell me they didn't know who had called me or why but they HAD to perform another scan to be on the safe side. I eventually got my bills which were for $900 per visit (I visited 3 times, one of which I strongly objected to and the other being the unscheduled visit after receiving the call in the middle of the night). Throughout each visit I was sobbing and telling them that I suffer from panic disorder, that I was in agony and that I needed some kind of help for the crippling pain and sickness or that I would need to go elsewhere and get treatment but they would not do anything for me other than keep telling me I NEEDED to come back to the hospital in case it was something serious. I kept telling them that I had a pre-existing health problem that meant that if I were to somehow get pregnant that it would put me at risk of severe pain, fever and sickness, but this wasn't enough for them apparently! I was asked to come back for a 4th appointment but instead I refused and went to Planned Parenthood where I found out that I had lost over 15lbs in weight over the past 10 days, had a regular uterine pregnancy but that the fetus wasn't doing well and, due to my pre-existing health risks, I was right in thinking that I needed an abortion. After recovering I visited the Patient Relations department at the hospital to complain about the bills being $800 more than I was quoted per visit and to address the fact that I had scare tactics used upon me so that I would return to the hospital for appointments that I didn't wish to attend. On top of that, I had to endure a surgical abortion as opposed to a medical one thanks to them wasting my time whilst refusing to offer me any kind of treatment despite me being in absolute agony and completely unable to walk, eat or sleep. I made it clear, however, that I would be willing to pay the maximum $150 that I was quoted per visit.

Four months later my case is still being disputed yet I am receiving calls from debt collectors. I contacted the lady at the hospital who took my case but who hasn't ever gotten back to me when she said she would over the course of these past 4 months, and in the end she told me she wasn't actually doing anything for me, that I had to pay the bills in full and that if I continued disputing them then I would be deported back to the UK, despite me being in the Adjustment of Status process. I am now taking the case up with an attorney, and filing a complaint against the representative who took my case for threatening me with deportation if I don't pay every cent of my unreasonable hospital bills.

My question is, will doing this actually put me at any kind of risk with regards to my green card? These last few months have been a complete nightmare. We were billed waaaaay more than we were told to expect, and now I'm being threatened with deportation if I don't pay up exactly how much they're billing me for, no matter how unreasonable? I didn't even receive any treatment from the hospital! I just want to get this all sorted out so we can move on with our lives and mourn our loss in peace.

Email the Attorney General too about the harrassment and threats about the bills

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has contributed in any way to this site.

Following the K-1 guide instructions very carefully and meticulously, and pre-filling out everything we could, every step of the way, my fiancee and I managed to go from NOA1 on 3/14, to NOA2 on 4/14, to interview in Tokyo on 5/27, with immediate approval. My fiancee and I couldn't be happier!!

Thank you all so much for this fantastic wealth of information. We would never have accomplished this goal without each and every one of YOU!

Next stop - Adjustment of status!!!

Best regards,

-Dave

Congratulations, I am so jealous lol Egypt takes FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Lizzie thanks for the link......... ah more possibilities LOL

I suppose with all the things we have to do, file, fill out, police checks, ring, don't ring, email, don't email, pay, don't pay yet, tier one, tier two, tier 89, get ready but don't be ready, oh my........ .

can't say have any obsession over any of it other than... it would be nice to have a "consistent general idea" of how it will play out ha LOL, I suppose to if we miss a detail it can mean more delay etc...

5 months, 3 months, 18 months uscis

1 week, 3 weeks, 7 weeks nvc etc.......

it's like going to the airport and going through security, pat down, no pat down, shoes off, shoes on, coat on, not coat allowed, every airport different, every security check different

to think my grandmother just got on a boat and sailed off for America, would sure like to chat with her about this if she were still with us

You crack me up!!

Please be patient. My fiance sent his papers to the Cairo embassy at the beginning of February and the current wait time was five months. (Meaning they were scheduling interviews for cases that had returned the Packet 3 five months before.) That would have put our interview in the middle of Ramadan in July. We were thrilled that it was the end of May instead. Cairo is working hard to catch up and make the wait time shorter, but I doubt the wait time has gone from 3.5 months to ONE month somehow in the last month. You're likely looking at August for your interview unless the embassy continues to work hard to reduce the case load. For your sake, I hope that's true! But it's really best to plan for the worst and live your life... I hate to say that because I know you're in HELL right now with the waiting! Trust me, the wait after he receives his interview date but before the interview will be the hardest days/weeks of your life if you're anything like us!

Also, from my experience, they seem to schedule a whole month at a time. For example, they'll schedule all of July's appointments the last week or so of June. So if you don't hear anything by July 1st, that means you're likely not on the calendar until August at the earliest. That's what I noticed from the VJ timelines. People were only receiving their "packet 4" letters the last week or so of every month and then nothing new until the last week of the next month. Does that make sense? My fiance received his interview letter April 22nd and his interview was May 29th. Hands down the worst five weeks of my life! Please PM me if you want to know any more of my OCD ramblings about the Cairo embassy. I was absolutely going crazy!

I know lol I will still obsess until I see the interview date hehe!

LOL Jamie I remember the flying back and forth, it is expensive

then when you are together you will say wow we have all this money LOL

hehe!

LOL g'day Jamie

I mean to buy tickets to get to the interview as we live in another state and will have to fly from our place to their place

wish I could say it was something exciting like buy tickets for a great concert, or beer and wine and cheese festival LOL

ok, maybe it will be exciting, but the waiting is not.............. LOL

esp...... don't think there is any way faster, oh wait you could get it faster if you were engaged, that is 3 months LOL, once you get married you go in the much longer process which makes so little sense, hmmmm....I wonder if the bridal places have some kind of deal with uncle sam? LOL

we went into thinking it will be 12 months from start to finish, that way if it happened faster we would be surprised, and if longer.......... well those that have that wait could probably answer you better

good luck mate

Oh! I don't have to fly to Egypt to go to the interview. Thank God. Already spending enough money on meeting twice and now him having to fly to America (SOON hopefully!) lol Not to mention adjustment of status cost an arm and a leg lol Exactly why I wanted to do the Fiance Visa, didn't want to have to wait longerrrrrrrrrrrr Good luck to you too!

karam I think we are in same boat

first it said in transit, now it says ready yet consulate has not sent any interview date

doesn't ready mean ahhhhhhhhhhhh READY!!! lol would be good to have some time to buy tickets for interview LOL

Oh yeah, what do you mean buy tickets for the interview? lol

karam I think we are in same boat

first it said in transit, now it says ready yet consulate has not sent any interview date

doesn't ready mean ahhhhhhhhhhhh READY!!! lol would be good to have some time to buy tickets for interview LOL

I wish I could laugh, ok, I will lol!!!! I am already sick of waiting for the interview date! This is Jamie, by the way. Karam isn't on here