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Thanks guys, I haven't either. But this whole process has been "unique" to say the least so I am not surprised.

Hi friends

After a hellish process, my fiance finally has his visa/packet to travel to the U.S, although I will not jump for joy until I see him on U.S soil! He had to have someone else pick up his visa/packet for him since he does not live close to the embassy. They told the man who went for him that he had to let the airlines know that he would be traveling into the U.S on a fiance visa at least 4 days before travel. He is supposed to email them (we don't even have a flight yet) a copy of the visa but he no other info on that. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, did you just email customer service or call them? Whatever airline we decide on, I guess I will just call them ask but I would like some tips from the experts.

Thanks and good luck.

here's what i think:

1. iv unit issues the visa, well, he's got a visa. can travel into the usa.

2. say the iv unit changes their mind after visa packet sent out - they will call him to come back with the visa packet. [via telephone]

3. say it's issued, visa packet in hand, and the final 'catch up review' is done the day he gets on the plane. a flag will be made in the CBP computer to hold him at the POE for further ICE stuff.

But to be honest, if Vice-Consul review process has outcome of 'no other paperwork required' then some bright boy made a determination that since your fiance is blind, he's not eligible for the military service, AND has read all of your written letters of attestation about it, that you've already submitted that describes that paperwork snafu.

That's pretty much what I think too. It is difficult because there is no organization or professionalism in the Cape Verdean military, that's why we have this problem in the first place. They have lost his paperwork multiple times and this whole thing was supposed to be resolved in September. I just know that the only reason they are messing with my fiance in the first place is because they are eager to act like they know what they're doing when they obviously don't. They wouldn't have even noticed this snafu if he didn't contact them this summer for the doc. I guess we will wait and see what happens this week as the embassy gets ready to send out his packet and visa. After all this stress and hardship, I hope things go smoothly. I got a gray hair from this whole mess! Thanks for your advice.

Hello!

So my fiance has been trying to get the military clearance form (one of the necessary docs for the interview) from the Cape Verdean government for over 6 months. The whole process has been an absolute sh** show. Long story short, Cabo Verde has a selective service that he was excused from in 2008 because 1) He was moving to a different country for college and 2) He is legally blind. Everything goes fine. Now this summer when we are gathering all the evidence for the interview, they say he never showed up in 2008 and they refuse to give him anything until he does A, B, and C.

The US Embassy is aware of all this because I made sure they knew why we were taking such a long time to gather all the documents. They say it is no problem and that they will schedule an interview when they are ready. Fast forward to this month when they call my fiance and tell him that they have the interview set for him. He asks again if it is okay to come to the interview without the military certification and they say yes, it isn't a problem and they can just conduct the interview and then he can send it later on.

He has his interview on the 30th of January and everything goes smoothly. He does his interview in English and the guy asks him a few questions. It was very relaxed and we already knew it would be since they have seemed to be a little disorganized throughout this whole process. The thing is, the officer does not mention the military registration and neither does my fiance. The officer actually says that everything is in order and hands him a piece of paper to bring back to the embassy the following week to pick up his passport with the visa. So there is still a chance they might request the military certification in the next couple days but if they don't...

Will this matter when my fiance arrives at the POE? Truthfully, we are not concerned with what the Cape Verdean military will do because they are so useless and disorganized and the whole interaction with them has been useless. We just want to know if the US side of things will notice that he doesn't have the certification. For example, is that something that is usually in the sealed packet that the customs officer will search for? He does not need this certification to leave CV in general so not having it should not be a problem upon his exit. Also, I have told the embassy about his trouble procuring this document and they basically said that they don't really care about and that it is just on the list of things to bring.

Sorry for the long post, this problem is very unique to us since CV is such a small country and not really represented in this group. I don't expect anyone to know much since the embassy didn't know what to do and they have seemed to have forgotten that they requested it in the first place.

Thanks and good luck to everybody in their own Visa Journeys <3

Welcome!

Yes, since he is legally resident in Portugal he can absolutely do his paperwork, medical and interview there. But if he chooses to return to his home country for whatever reason, you can move processing there, no problem.

If you have someone in the USA who can send you on any paperwork you may receive from USCIS, you can really travel whenever you want. That being said, travelling right after your I-129F was accepted is probably easiest, as you are unlikely to get any paperwork (unless RFE) for 90 days after that.

Thank you, Penguin_ie, that gives me such piece of mind. Well then, I will hopefully be visiting this forum from Portugal in a few weeks!

Hello,

I have looked around and not been able to find anything on this but I am new to vj and let's face it-sooo overwhelmed by everything related to our visa process.

So, my fiance is in Portugal on a student visa, but he is not a citizen. He is a citizen of another country, a former Portuguese colony, therefore there are a lot of immigrants from his country there. My question is, will we still be okay using the U.S Embassy in this Portugal since he is there legally, just not as a citizen? If not, we would have to send him back to his home country to do all the paperwork there. This is not ideal since I would like to visit him while we are going through the process and it is not as easy to travel to his home as it is for Portugal.

Secondly, assuming he is in Portugal, when is the best time to visit for an extended period of time during this whole process? I would like to send in my I-129 and all that good stuff as soon as possible, wait for confirmation from USCIS, and then head to Europe. Should I be waiting for my NOA2? Is it possible that I could be in Portugal and be managing my paperwork abroad? Obviously, I plan on sending in all the necessary information and then some, to avoid any RFE's and also bringing all the necessary documents that my fiance would need for his part of the process. In a perfect world, I would be there to help him through what he has to do but since I would only be able to visit for 90 days max, I don't know how to time things.

In the end, I just want to know that we can be together if only for a couple months before the long stretch of time while we wait for everything to be processed.

Thanks in advance, this site makes things a little more bearable when you're not feeling too hopeful.

The names have already been changed, I should have mentioned that, sorry! so it seems that filling out all this stuff might be a good opportunity for him to solidify how he wants his name to be formatted for the rest of his life in the u.s? I'm just worried that it won't match up with former documentation he has since there is no specific way it has been done in the past.

The names have already been changed, I should have mentioned that, sorry! so it seems that filling out all this stuff might be a good opportunity for him to solidify how he wants his name to be formatted for the rest of his life in the u.s? I'm just worried that it won't match up with former documentation he has since there is no specific way it has been done in the past.

Hello everyone!

My fiance and I are slooooowly making our way through the K1 visa process but I wanted to clarify a few things. Most importantly, his name! He is from Cape Verde and has, wait for it, 5 names. Marlon Adriano Baptista Cabral da Cruz. For many of the forms, but specifically g-325a, it asks for your family name, your first name, and then your middle name. I argue that it should read:

family name: Baptista Cabral da Cruz

first name: Marlon

middle name: Adriano

This is because "Baptista" and "Cabral da Cruz" are his parents' last names, and he was given "Adriano" because it is his dad's first name, so an equivalent to a middle name (it seems to me). Since they don't have specific titles for all their names like we do, he isn't really sure what to do. He argues that only "da Cruz" should be his family name since that is what he usually goes by, Marlon Cruz, to save time. I have tried looking at old ID cards of his to get a hint as to what to do but it is never separated by first, middle, and last name. They always just write the whoooole thing out.

What does everyone think?

Also, when there is a space for "other names used," would it be appropriate to put "Marlon Cruz" there? That is what he goes by most of the time and I think it would be good to have that be common knowledge as we fill out everything.

Obrigada!