Bonnie&Bob

I actually just did this in April 22, 2015. I was missing the US door sticker on a 2013. You can get all the Canadian Inspections you want done on your car. You require a compliance letter from the manufacturer of the vehicle. It has to have a sticker on the door US DOT and the US Emission under the hood. They will let you through customs but will not inspect your car or give you that form to import. You have 90 days to get all the stuff done then. Not a lot of time...trust me. If they don't have both you have 2 options. (1) Have to imported car by a broker...Big $$$$. or (2) wait until you get where your going and import it by the DMV Inspector (cost $0 and takes them 10-15 mins). You can't do this until you have a state license for which the state that you will be living in. To get that license, you must have a SSN, proof of insurance, and proof of your residence (I used my marriage certificate because I was married in the US). Then you get the vehicle road inspected by the state you live in. Then once you get your permanent license (not the temp paper) you can go to the DMV and register your vehicle with your state inspection, proof of insurance, and your permanent drivers license. You pay the fees and have then successfully jumped all the necessary hoops required by the wonderful government to import and register you vehicle. I crossed the border on April 22, arrived to my destination on April 25. I just finished this process last Wednesday June 24, 2015. (60 days of struggling) Hustle when you get where your going and get right at it.

P.S. If you arrive at a DMV and they tell you they don't do those inspections, go home and call the DMV. That is what I had to do. I also went to the police station to make sure my information was right.

Welcome to the....err ....GOOD LUCK

For sure go get the interview. They may let you through anyway. If not, that part is over and you can wait on the Police Certificate and send it in. If you lose your spot for the interview you could be waiting a long time for another one. Sending in the paper later will save a lot of time rather than rescheduling.

This question was asked when I was at my interview last week and the CO answered it clearly. Here is your answer. When you enter the USA after your K-1 is issued, that is the only visa you are able to use at the POE. Once your K-1 has been used to enter the USA it is a one time pass until you are married. If you leave the USA before the marriage, YOU ARE OUT until you marry in your own country and wait the CR-1 process in your own country. They will deny your entrance back into the USA. You are also not entitled to a waiver because you are not yet married which would have to be filed before you left the USA.

You also need your taxes for 2014. We had a lawyer for our process. YOUR LAWYER IS RIPPING YOU OFF. A delay doesn't cost them an extra cent. They only fill out the paperwork and send it in. If there is a problem, they respond. Other than that they wait for the approval the same way you do. Our lawyer charged us a $1000 for everything that was over 2 years waiting and we had to jump through numerous hoops, hundreds of phone calls, and resend documents 4 times in the process. These documents were all sent by courier and the lawyer paid for everyone of the shipments. She also emailed me weekly and 4 times the day before my interview and called to congratulate us after the approval. Some people are just born crooks and money grabbers. Your into it financially now so I guess you have no choice at this point. Sorry you got skinned for that kind of money. Good luck.

My husband and I have been doing this for over 2 years (717 day to be exact). I'm not going to sugar coat it and says it gets better because we both know that isn't going to happen. We were ready to pull each other apart. Just some advise....before you say something mean or that you are going to regret, remember that no one is to blame and don't take your frustrations out on each other. Remember why you started this. Make many phone calls but keep them short. The longer you talk about nothing, it turns into something...an arguement. You will get through it. If me and my hubby made it, anyone can. We are both use to being bosses and in controll in our work world so we already started with clashing in that. Just when you are completely fed up with checking emails and searching your status, it will happen. That's where we were and now we only got 3 more days until our interview. Good luck.

I just did all of this yesterday. I have a 2013 Hyundai Accent. I called Hyundai Canada for this famous compliance letter. Save your dime because they will tell you straight up they don't do that anymore.

Go check the stickers on the door and under the hood.

You are looking for: U.S. EPA: #### ### and OBD: CA II and No Adjustment Needed. These 3 things are your key to freedom. I know its there because it is on mine. Find the Form 3520-1 online and open it with Adobe Reader. Fill out that form. Leave the Customer Entry # blank...your not a broker. Go online and find the Port Entry Code of the Port you will be entering from. For example....I am entering the US at Houlton, ME so my Port Entry Code is 0106. Next look up HS-7 Declaration (DOT), fill that out the same. Don't sign them until you are at the point of entry. Make a copy of your bill of sale or lease. (Get a letter from you financing or bank on letter head saying they are allowing you to transport the vehicle to the USA with money still owning and that you have made arrangements with them for payment). Make a copy of the registration of the car and also the permit for the license plate. Make a copy of your insurance card. If you have the phone number & fax of the port you will be entering you can fax the title of your car ahead of time for them to search the title to speed things up at the border. Send with a cover page of when you plan on entering the US and the details of your car that is still under a lease and also the letter from you finance with your agreement. Call them to make sure they received it. YOUR DONE. Now all you have to do is show up at the border with the car.

It's $320 in Montreal plus $25 if any shots are needed. In Canadian Funds. I had that same question.

Just call Medisys. They will give you a medical appointment that will work with the interview date so you will have it in hand for the interview. The hospital is open at 7am, so you can even pick it up the morning of your interview appoint.

Congrats, you have to file for a I-130. You can not apply for a ssn until you are approved to be a resident of the US. You need all your financial info for both, birth certificates for both, passport photocopies for both, divorce decree for both, all associated details with the Affidavid of Support (tax records for 3 yrs, letter from your employer, assets, income, bank info, etc) , and marriage certificate. Then fill out the application, send in your money for the application and wait for your NOA1. Eventually you will need a medical but don't do it too early. It will expire after 1 year and you will have to pay again. You will get your approval after some wait and then you will be told when you should make an appointment for your medical and then told when you are scheduled for your interview. This is a process that takes some time. Most likely a year or maybe up to 2. It took us 717 days (almost 2 full years) from our NOA1 to receiving an interview date.

You have to register online by https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-CA/iv. Chose your closest location. Don't forget to print it off. You need that paper to get into the consulate along with your interview letter and DS-260 with the bar code. If you don't have those papers you will not get through security and certain wont make it to the interview.

When I scheduled my medical the first words out of their mouth was when is your interview and bring the interview letter with you. Which I had of course. I asked if you could schedule without it. He said you would be hard pressed to find a doctor to do the medical without the interview letter but they certainly would not without it. He said they are busy getting all the medicals done on time for those scheduled for an interview. Also, you medical has an expiry date. So if you do it too early and you still have no interview, you will have to pay again to have it re-done.

I passed my interview and was recommended for approval. She asked when we stopped living together and i told her right about the time i was approved, she wanted a specific time and i gave her the month which happens to be the month after the ROC was approved. She didn't ask for my tax transcripts or mentioned anything about my ex's child. Thank God this immigration journey has finally come to an end.

Thank you all for responding.

I told you if you explained your situation everything would be fine. So happy to hear. Your done and can get your life started again. Best of luck.

For some reason, when you know you should be nearly there, the last stretch seems so much more difficult. It also doesn't help when you keep seeing other approvals rolling in around yours. Makes you feel a bit invisible,doesn't it? I think the hard part is that all the advice anyone can give is what has already been applied during this long wait (keep busy, take one day at a time, prepare paperwork for the next step ,....) and you get to a point where it doesn't work by way of a distraction from the days rolling along on the calendar. Sometimes you just need a bit of empathy and support. Let's face it, this is a lonely journey. It's just you and your fiance/spouse and nobody else really seems to get it. Fingers crossed for you that you'll hear something soon. We are also waiting. No RFE or anything has come through for us. We are sad because our month is almost completely processed and we were somehow skipped. We feel for you and with you.

Oh, my! 717 days? I'm kind of hoping that was a typo Congratulations, and about time, too! Here's hoping this last part goes smoothly and quickly for you.

The 717 days is not a typo. That is how long we have waited. I never dreamed I had that much patients. Now that we are finally almost there all that I have been doing is having nightmares about the interview. I will be glad when this is all over so I can sleep.

Good golly. you have been through a mess. First, I am so sorry to hear all your troubles. Second, if she was living with you I can't see why you can't tell these so called experts your circumstances of her having to live with you and that you were able to claim her and the child as dependants. I think if you calmly explain your situation everything will work out just fine. They are there to listen to your story, so just tell it like it is. I wish you the best of luck.

You are a K-1 so if you sent your packet 3 in at NVC you may not get packet 4. I didn't get one. You should be able to schedule your interview online now and pay the interview fee.

Hang tight. When you least expect it, then it will happen. My husband and I have battled more hurdles during this process then I ever thought imaginable. We have been waiting 717 days. I had finally given up checking emails, etc, and then Monday, NVC completed our case. So I told my husband thats great, so now we wait 2 more months for the interview date because the 15th of the month is drawing near so we will miss next month. Then only 2 days later on Wednesday we get a date. Have faith.

Montreal doesn't have a phone number to be reached anymore. They stopped their contact number over a year ago. They can only be reached by email and will take 3-5 days to get back to you.

I am still waiting for that famous call back since May 2014. Call and call and call until they are sick of hearing from you. I have been in this process since April 29, 2013. On the upside, 717 days later, Monday got our case complete from NVC, and today we got our interview date. I'm so glad this is almost over. Keep calling. Redial will be your friend.

Going to throw this out there. When you have your interview they give you a pamplet on spouse violence. You are to report it to authoriities immediately. She could have him arrested. When he appears for his court date and is/if found guilty he will not be able to apply for a change of status with a criminal record. He would then be deported back to his own country. Isn't this the real way it happens. They wouldn't make this pamplet sound so important if it didn't hold water. I would think anyway.

You will MOST certainly get an RFE. I just got one for the same exact thing. Send another one in right away. Don't wait for it. Fix the paperwork and send it.

I came home for an emergency also. I was 3 days over my 180 days. Got a 3 year ban. Refused at customs when I tried to go home. We had already filed our 130. I've been waiting for our paper work to be processed for 2 years now and still waiting. You will not be able to return to the USA for any reasons, baby or not....period!!! If you leave the country you will be waiting a very long time before your papers are processed. You also have the issue of getting married immediately after you entered the US. They are going to try and prove you had intent to marry and refuse your application at the inteview. Then you have to deal with the overstay on top of that and you will need to get a waiver and wait even more time after the interview.

You don't have to re-marry her. If she wants to help you...great. Make things work on your own so you don't feel obligated to anyone. If you feel the need to look further into the option of getting back together with her, no one says you have to marry her. Later try living together maybe but you don't have to get re-married. You've been there and done that already. Where did that get you?? Writing on visa journey to find out what to do next...that's what. Think with your head and not your heart. Obviously you don't know what you want to do exactly so the best thing to do is sit idol. If it didn't work once, history has a habit of repeating its self. Good luck.

You need to tell her your done with this crazy behavior. Give her a choice.

(Choice #1)...She goes to a counciller to deal with her problem

(Choice #2)...Tell her to get a lawyer for a divorce.

That is abuse. When you went through the immigration process they would have given you a pamphlet on abusive immigration relationships. I would advise you read it. She didn't buy you and can not stop you from having a life not only with her but at work, watching tv, and going to the gym. She has created a Jailed Relationship with you. This is cruel and I feel for you. I hope things work out but if not, move on. Good luck.

You will have to be patient. You are waiting to BE married. Many already married are still waiting. I've been waiting 2 years for this stupid process without the kids or my husband. They will be all gone to college when I get back at this rate. Ridiculous.

Take a really good guess at it. I had the same problem with addresses. I have bounced around from Province to Province with work. Write them all on a piece of paper, sit with a coffee, and let your mind wander back. It will come back to you. You can't fill out that DS-260 with stress, so relax.