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175 dollars for a medical exam?!?!? Consider yourself lucky. My fiance's medical exam cost about 500 including vaccinations. We also had to pay for a plane ticket and a hotel because we had to take a trip to Ankara (we are in Istanbul). The ridiculous thing is that the this doctor is the only doctor approved to give exams in Turkey and we both live in Istanbul which is much bigger than Ankara and there are no approved doctors there.

We were in the same situation. We showed up at the interview without it and got denied under 221g and were given a year to send the certificate. We are sending it today.

We ordered ours one month before our interview because it was supposed to take 5-10 days, however due to some unknown delay it took 2 months and we had to go to our interview without it and got denied under 221g. Our police clearence just arrived yesterday and we are about to go to the post office to send it.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/security/police-cert/asia-pacific/singapore.asp


This site gives detailed information. Order it early, I don't know how long Singapore takes but my fiance and I ordered one from Canada. According to the company we were using it was supposed to take 5-10 days and ours took 2 months.

Ok we are doing it from a country more in the middle, Turkey, a lot harder than Belgium but nowhere near as hard as Haiti, and for our 129f, we just included skype transcripts, a flight itenerary, engagement party photos and and pictures of us with my parents two instant message conversation from early in the relationship. According to our lawyer, we were one of the fastest approved I29F cases they have seen in a long time.

For us it was a hassle. Because Turkey doesn't have a way to do digital prints that we know of and the Canadian company provided inaccurate information on their website. However getting a Turkish clearence from Turkey was easy. He went to the courthouse and left 15 minutes later with the clearence.

It depends. We are using a lawyer and my fiance is Turkish and lives in Turkey but was in Canada for 10 years. We had to fingerprint him using ink at our local police startion. Then we had rush them overnight to a fingerprinting company in Canada. They then digitized the prints and sent them to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who searched their database and made the report. This was supposed to take 5-10 days but it took us two months forcing us to go to the interview without it and get a 221g denial because of the missing report. We were hoping to get it before the interview and had asked our lawyer about having the fingerprinting company mail the clearance directly to the embassy instead of to us but he didn't want to risk it because it could end up getting lost somewhere in the embassy.

Finally the report was processed, and now it is being fedexed back to us where we will send it to the embassy with a form with our case number on it and passport. So normally they send it to you and you need to bring it to the interview.

There is was no checklist or anything? We recieved the same denial under 221g and were given a piece of paper that had a checklist and the document that we were missing was checked off. All we needed was his police clearence. Hopefully it is an easy fix like ours was.

Immigration aside if somebody you knew said they just got engaged to somebody they had known for 3 days what would you say?

And the add in everything else.

So what do you expect the Consulate to think.

Much easier than taking a boat across the Mediterranean.

My fiance and I got unoficially engaged over the phone and officially engaged 4 days after we met, when I visited him. That was in 2012. However he returned to Turkey in January of last year and we started the K-1 process in Sepetember so we had spent more time together in person before filing.

Here is the information you need. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/security/police-cert/asia-pacific/singapore.asp

Do it soon becuase police reports can take forever.

What about volunteer positions. Can someone volunteer at a soup kitchen or animal shelter?

If you require police checks, apply a few months early. You never know how long they could take to get to you. We had to apply for a police record from Canada for my fiance and the finger printing company we used said it takes on average from 5-10 business days if there is no match in the system. Ours took two months and we had to go to the interview without it. There was no match in the system but it took way longer than they claimed.

My dad is our cosponsor and he is a well known professor at a major research university, so we were lucky, one google search can show he is successful and legit and can easily support us. We supplied both of my parents' W-2's from 2013 and 2014 and their tax returns from both years and we never had a problem.

People should stop judging him and stop assuming he is committing fraud just because he is from Nigeria. Yes his story is very atypical but he could very well be telling the truth. You never know until you have walked in his shoes. If he and his fiance are legit and truly in love who are you to question that. I hope it works out for you. Get a lawyer and file an appeal.

The fact we made concrete plans and told the embassy about them I think has helped our case. I got accepted into one of the top schools in the country which helps a lot and it shows them we have plans and are serious about starting our lives together in the US.

I have been living in Turkey near my fiance. I basically was working for 2 years and now due to the changing political situation and new laws, I ended up losing my job because I don't meet the new educational requirements. I feel horrible not being able to work for a year and am only doing freelance that pays badly and I want to be able to do something better with my life so I decided to apply to grad school so I can start supporting my fiance and I until we marry and until he is able to work. I am stuck in Turkey basically sitting on my butt and I want to do something productive with my life and working legally there as a foreigner is becoming more and more complicated. We started the process in September and got interviewed last month, it has been going really quickly according our lawyer. Our 129-F was one of the fastest approved petitions they had ever seen. Our biggest problem has been the delayed police report. Hopefully it will keep going as is and we can get to the states this summer. We have to make plans. I need a place to live in NY and I want it to be with him and the fact we got family housing is good.

I know the 221g was just asking for extra documents. In our case it was just his police report that came back completely clean, it just was delayed for some odd reason. I understand if they would give us AP if there was a crime on his record but his was completely clean so it looks like they were making sure he didnt commit a crime.

Oh also my school requires our marriage certificate because we will be living in family housing.

Honestly we dont have time to set up a wedding. After we go home to Minnesota in the summer we have to be in New York in the end of August so I can start grad school. We already paid the deposit on an apartment. the wedding has to be in August if I want all of my relatives to attend.

Hey,

My fiance and I are planning on coming in July and getting married if everything keeps going as well as it has been going. We will be living with my parents in MN until the end of August, when we will be moving to New York City because I will be starting graduate school. The embassy knows about this because I provided my acceptance letter and our family housing application with both our names on it to show proof of our plans. We finally were assigned housing but it is for only 2 semesters and we have to leave during winter break. Would we put that as his permenant address on the AOS or do we put my parents house?

If you already have the answer to your question why are you posting in the forums? 100% of the knowledgeable members on VJ will tell you never to set a fixed date, buy plane tickets, etc. until you have the visa in your hand. Even the US Embassy says the same thing. Apparently your opinion holds more weight than the embassy, thus go ahead and send out wedding invitations. If you are sent to AP like another poster said, you will remember this conversation vividly. Based on your post you haven't even sent the documents, yet you are ready to send wedding invitations? good luck.

Do you people honeslty think I can expect my family to come to our wedding if it is short notice? My family is important to me and I WANT THÊM AT MY WEDDİNG. But like most normal people THEY MAKE PLANS! I have to notify them well in advance if they actually plan on showing up. And my opinion is the best one, I actually use common sense. WHY THE HECK WOULD ı GET SENT TO AP? I was just told to send in his clean police report and passport. I get it people here are bitter, judgemental and pessimistic, but don't let that cloud your logic.

If you already have the answer to your question why are you posting in the forums? 100% of the knowledgeable members on VJ will tell you never to set a fixed date, buy plane tickets, etc. until you have the visa in your hand. Even the US Embassy says the same thing. Apparently your opinion holds more weight than the embassy, thus go ahead and send out wedding invitations. If you are sent to AP like another poster said, you will remember this conversation vividly. Based on your post you haven't even sent the documents, yet you are ready to send wedding invitations? good luck.

Do you people honeslty think I can expect my family to come to our wedding if it is short notice? My family is important to me and I WANT THÊM AT MY WEDDİNG. But like most normal people THEY MAKE PLANS! I have to notify them well in advance if they actually plan on showing up. And my opinion is the best one, I actually use common sense. WHY THE HECK WOULD ı GET SENT TO AP? I was just told to send in his clean police report and passport. I get it people here are bitter, judgemental and pessimistic, but don't let that cloud your logic.

I don't appreciate your negative view on things. The reality was we were denied solely because we were missing a document. They told us to send that document with his passport when it got here. There is no logic behind why they would AP us if they just told us to send it in and everything will be fine. I woke up this morning feeling positive because our document arrived so we could send it in and get the visa like they told us. After reading this my mood went down the toilet

And guess what if I want my family at my wedding I have to make plans, I cannot expect people to fly across the country at short notice, I have to tell them in advance

They do require proof of relationship. I brought a bunch of photos from the past year including one with my mother and fiance's mother together. I also included photos of my fiance with various family members of mine. I had my dad and my fiance's friend write letters documenting our relationship. I (the US Citizen) also went slightly overboard to prove that we have plans in the US. I recently got into a really good graduate school and I gave them a copy of my acceptance letter. We also applied for family housing which required me to put my fiance's name on the application, so we gave them the family housing application form to prove we already applied for a place to live. Showing we had plans helped.

I know someone who was in the exact situation at the same embassy who got the visa a week after sending in the documents. So guess what I will send out the inviations because we have a fixed date. And telling me I may still get administrative processing? The interview went perfectly and the guy just told us to send in the document and passport. So know I won't get administrative processing. Your pessimism was not needed or asked for. I will send out the invitations ASAP because I actually have relatives I want at my wedding. Reposting on these forums was a mistake because some people are so pessimistic.

A similar thing happened to us. We applied for a police report for him a month before our interview which was supposed to take 5 to 10 business days, unless they find a criminal record in the system, which makes the process longer. He has no record so we assumed it would be quick. A month later we had to go to the interview without it and were denied under 221g because we didn't have the report. We kept calling the cops and the finger printing company and they wouldn't give us any information besides that the report was being processed and that longer processing times usually mean a criminal record. The fingerprinting company were beyond rude. It was so frustrating. I was crying constantly and worried sick. Finally today we heard from the fingerprinting company notifying us that the police report is finally ready and there is no criminal record just like we knew. However on the police report it said it was processed on March 31st but it wasn't sent out until this week, so it was probably sitting on someone's desk for two months. The moral of the story is never give up hope. Bureaucracies can be a disorgnaized mess