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Congrats OP! My fiancee was hanging out with some one named Oanh while waiting for the interview....Could that be your fiancee'? They hugged after my fiancee' passed the interview and yours was still waiting and said bye to each other.

I think this forum just like any other forum contains both good and badinformation. It's up to the individual to weed out the negative and keep the positive. I got plenty of help from Pete82.

Greeting from HCM city to all. I have decided to share what has just been an amazing two days for both of us here in Vietnam. I have, 6 months ago, posted a "plead for help" here on this forum due to a mistake I created ( labeling wedding pictures and mentioning our weddng ceremony in our timeline.) Well, several members came to comfort me and yet there were those that painted a very "dark and grim" picture for me. All We did was reminding each other just to tell the consular officer the truth about what happened. Her interview date was set 6 months afte I sent in the I-129f. We arrived at the Consulate at 7:45 for our 8am appointment. I noticed the Vietnamese nationals that worked at the Consulate are, for the most part, rude and extremely impolite toward alll people that came for their interviews. Wait almost 4 hours and finally Oanh was called to a window. The interview officer is a young white make who always has a smile on his face and speak perfect Vietnam. He did not have a translator with him. I was next to Oanh at the window and he swore we in. The first question he had for her was how we met, what I do for a living in the US, and what she wanted to do when she come to California. I was so nervous the whole time waiting for him to ask about the word wedding in the timeline. Please keep in mind I filed a K1 for Oanh. He took quick scan of the pictures and looked at us and told us when we plan to back to the US together. After 4 hour waiting and he asked her three questions totalling not even 2 minutes and told us to wait for the Visa. I would like to advice others just to come to the interview felling confident and prepare to tell the truth. I know I have made a mistake in this case, but I also refused to believe that the mistake warrants a denial. Prepare the evidence to prove your relationship and just let the consulate officers do their jobs. They are very fair and helpful. Best

Moderator, please help move this thrad to K1 process if you don't mind. Thanks.

Ok people, just talked to Marc Ellis two times today. He called me back from Ho chi Minch city, wow. He advised me with confident that he did not see any problem with my case (after he listened to my story and the timeline that I stupidly wrote) and that he has helped several cases just like mine ( I felt like a thousand pounds just got off me.) He also stated that the entire consulate knows exactly who he is and that they would know my fiance is one of his client since he will be writing a legal explaination of my timeline and put her name on the list of his client(?) The man sounds confident and knowledgable. Of course he will charge a fee for it. At this point, I am willing to go with Marc since he is over there and ready to step in should my girl gets a denial (even though he does not see it happens that way due to my personal background, job security, and our evidence of the relationship. By the way he said that the way to win is to stop the consulate from sending the case back to USCIS. Ke knows so much about the local culture and why I did what I did (married her in front of her family and friends and filed K1 sine I thought that I was not legally married to her.)

I just want to thank all for your support and understanding and I hope and pray for the wedding in America for both of us.

By the way, he requested that I should be there for the interview even though they, the consular officers, would likely not talk to me.

"Cam on" all gain.

Thanks guys.

_{It is our custom to have a wedding ceremony (she, being the only child, is required by her parents to have the wedding taken place.) the last thing I would do is lie on the papers and to the system to risk her being banned from ever entering the US. I specified in the timeline with the belief that being honest is the right thing to do. Filing the K1 since we did not register with the local authority and will have another wedding here in the States if and when she gets here. And yes, we both are singles legally.}

_{BY the way, admin or moderator please help me to move the threat to the Vietnam sub forum since I do not know how.}

_{Best regards.}

I truly wished that I have known the forum before I filed the K1. Have no clue what to do next. Hiring an immigration attorney so the correct papers will be filed?

Anyone? Please help....

So what I should do now? Is there a way to "refile" for a spouse? I thought that getting married in front of our relatives is the right thing to do, but not for the type of Visa I am seeking.

Hello all,

I am a new member here and need your advises as to what I should do right now concerning my K1 petition for my fiance (wife?) but first let me tell you all about my story: Got to know Oanh through an online site in July 2012 and starting to "talk" to each other exclusively. After 7 months worth of couple hundred emails and exchanged pictures, I went to Vietnam to meet her. Stayed there for 10 days with her and her family and had to go back to the US to.....work. Purchased a new house on May 2013 and proposed to her and with the blessing of her parents, I went back there in July 2013 to have our wedding reception in front of 700 family members and guests. I did not go to "So Tu Phap" to file the legal marriage certificate with the local government since they required me to stay there 21 days. A visit to a local "Immigration Visa service" center here in San Jose,CA, after listening to what service I was seeking, advised me to file the K1 petition since it is the fastest way for Oanh to be here with me. I did not know this forum then. Here is my problem, I wrote in my timeline that we were married in front of our family and friends and sent it in along with the usual wedding pictures, boarding passes from my trip to Vietnam, receipts from the hotel that did the wedding banquet,ect. My income is around $110k per year so I don;t think it will be a problem. What cvaused me to "freak" out is when I read on this forum of K1 visa being denied due to the fact that we "got" married albeit not obtaining the legal certificate with the Vietnamese authority. Her being the only child in the family and her grandma and parents would like to see us married in front of the relatives and all. Please tell me what to do next since she may be denied a K1 Visa at the interview which should be within three months from now ( The NVC has my petition now for almost a week.)

Please guide me with your experiences ans insights.

Thank you.