AFQuaid

When you notice the date change...but the message when clicked on is the same as the last...

Hi There,

Don't worry about the one picture thing. When we first started out (no VJ or nothing to guide us) we didn't know we were to add anything just fill in the question of how we met, the bio forms and passport size photos (3/4 view).... We got an RFE requesting exactly what was missing and unfortunitly for us during that time they changed from requiring a 3/4 view to a full frontal view passport photo for both of us. If you do get an RFE the good thing about it is because some processing has already taken place once you've responded things move along quickly.

As for denials. I believe a person can get denied on one of the following accounts (more experianced members will correct me if I'm wrong).

1. Being arrested etc, jailed or commiting a serious crime can really rock the boat

2. Becoming a public charge that is your partner doesn't have the significant amount of money to fully support you for 2-3 years as required. Sometimes even with a co-sponcer you may get denied if they think its not secure enough/doesnt look realistic.

3. Lying on the forms...or you answers not matching what they know..always be honest.

4. They feel you and your partners relationship isn't genuine i.e if you both speak different languages and can only communicate briefly... it may raise some eyebrows

5. You have a mental/physical condition which have harmful/violent symptoms towards others.

The good thing is though if you're denied you file for a waiver (go to the waiver forms to check them out) and appeal......

I hope this helps

Today we woke to a reply to our e-mail asking if our file had made it to London ok:

"Embassy records show that on March 29, the Immigrant Visa Unit sent you a packet of forms you are required to complete in connection with your visa application.

Thank you for your e-mail correspondence.

Consular Information Unit

U.S. Embassy, London

CONS/CIU/SF

This informal method of responding enables us to respond to you within a shorter time. No record is being made of this correspondence. If you need to e-mail us again, please return this e-mail. "

Woohoo, maybe it'll come tomorrow. YAY!

Basically:

1. Send in I-129F and bio forms....

2. Play the waiting game

3. Recieve Notice Of Action (NOA) 1 via mail

4. Play the longer waiting game (but it isn't as good as the origional...)

5. Recieve Notice Of Action (NOA) 2 by email (if you signed up)

6. Recieve Notice Of Action (NOA) 2 by mail..

7. Realise you can't check your online case status or recieve e-mails about your process from now on....withdrawal symptoms from checking your process online every hour....

8. National Visa Center (NVC) sends you a letter in the mail saying they recieved your file...they will pass it onto your constulate soon....

9. Play the waiting game and another new more advanced game called "Soon isn't soon enough...." and email the NVC to find out when it left them for your constulate

10. Play the waiting game.....back to the origional

11. Get frustrated and spend lots of money on the phone trying to get through to a human at your embassy to find out if your file actually did get there.

12. Recieve Packet 3 in the mail

13. Fill out 1 form in packet 3 and send it back asap

14. Get all thinks on the checklist and send that back

15. Book medical....

16. Play the waiting game for the medical....

17. Get out of the medical alive... ... chest xrays, bloods the works....and many vaccines later...

18. Book interview/or recieve letter of interview

19. Wait for interview....

20. Go to interview....come out with an approval

21. Wait for your passport to be sent back to you in the mail

22. Make arrangements to go "home" to your partner

23. Land...get married

24. Start the Adjustment Of Status process....

Good Luck

Ok...calm down was just a thought. It couldn't of been tickertag because they only ask for an email and first name, log in name and password....

Anyway it doesn't matter.

My suggestions :

1. Perhaps you guys went shopping together and you may have stuffed a shopping receipt into your purse....(it happens)....

2. Perhaps you both went to a concert and have a photo of you two at it.....then they could check that the concert was on the date you said

3. Maybe you withdrew some money from the ATM

4. Perhaps you have a way to prove you bought alot of gas for the long journey

5. Maybe you bought engagment rings together

Yes with the rest of the mail not in the same envelope....its just rather odd....that we're getting things addressed to both of us as soon as our file passed through NVC.....we're doing the fiance visa so I'm not a Sertich yet exactly ... I just wonder if at the NVC they put "to be" married couples into a system. We can think of no other way the credit card company nor stamps.com would of known of our intentions....

Yes you best be safe than sorry. Many people spend ages trying to get hold of multiple police reports because they've moved so much. And yes they will accept it as long the time you need to hand it over to them is within the 12 months of its validity....

Good Luck

Ok this is very weird. With our last letter from NVC my fiance says it also contained a credit card off (addressed to Andrew & Fiona Sertich)....and yesterday he recieves a letter from stamps.com offering him cheaper stamps as they "followed" how he sends multiple gifts to me abroad...again addressed to Andrew & Fiona Sertich.....anybody else get this? We aren't married yet....and we've never even been to stamps.com ..... does NVC pass our names onto companies or something?

Fiona

Luis&Laura,

I'd seriously recommend filing for your police certificate now whilst you're still with your parents. Each police certificate is valid for a year

And I do believe you need a police report/certificate from every place you've ever lived since you were 16....

Thanks very much guys.... I'll send an email out. Hopefully they'll reply. Just to check if they have our file.... *horrible images of it getting lost from NVC on the way to london.* Wish us luck and thanks again you guys are great...

According to an query email responce from NVC our file left NVC on March 23rd for the London Embassy. On the NOA2 dated March 8th by email, recieved march 11th by mail it said 4 weeks till we'd get something from London. By my calcutations its been about 3 weeks. I'm seeing some people dated 15th left NVC but all from NSC or VSC...anybody around the same time as us whos still awaiting packet 3?

It's taking all my might to not phone the embassy and ask whats going on....I HATE not having the online status case at this point...I'm naturally a busy person...and I've got nothing left to do now......police certificate underway, got supporting evidence to provide at the medical whenever that will be, co-sponcers filling in her forms.....

*twiddles thumbs*....Feel pretty helpless now....

Fiona

I only read maybe 3 lines and after reading, that you got scrweed by the lawyer for 6 grand. I could just tell this is going to be a "bitching" story. Get a life, move on.

I wonder what the officer had to endure at YOUR interview/POE etc with a stinking f*cking ungreatful attitude like that. How DISRESPECTFUL can you get? If you ever have problems with immigration we'll all remember to tell you to "Get a life and move on...." when your hearts at steak. You go back in your little hole, nobody cares to read rude and NASTY comments like that. How awful! Just f*cking go away ...

So today we got the Subject Access forms back from my social worker who signed them for us in the mail after waiting just a week. We downloaded these forms of the net after somebody kindly linked us to the Greater Manchester branch for this form. But after we had sent them to my social worker to sign a package comes in the mail from when I mailed the local police station 2 months ago requesting the forms! DOH!!!!! So anyway we look over them,compare them and they're the same so we thought right ok....no need to redo them. So my dad kindly goes down to the police station with my passport for ID and the signed (downloaded version). Waited in line and when he got to the front desk explained he was handing them over on my behalf as it was difficult for me to get there etc... She just looks at him and snaps back at him "Wheres the rest of the forms?"....my dad was like "You mean the instructions on filling them in?" she said yes.... we figured that was for us not them....but apparently they're needed. She disappeared in the backroom and then my dad noticed in the rush for the bus to the police station he picked up my mums passport not mine ...total disaster. So he rang my brother from the public phone box to ask him to bring mine along with the "instruction" forms. My brother took a taxi to the police station and gave him that AND my birth certificate (because I noticed it was TWO pieces of ID they needed but she didn't say). My brother then forgot to pick up the instruction forms.....and was going out so couldn't come back to get them. So my dad (poor guy I feel awful ) had to come back to the house and pick them up and take them back down and wait in line again. Then all she did was compare the package they sent to the downloaded subject access forms and hand him the friggin package back. Spending £25 on taxi fares isn't good. Then then told him if these downloaded forms are not right (yet the link I got them from was from the manchester police website) they'd have to send them back and they'd be delayed......plus that is going to take 40 days to process this. Well we already knew that.

At least that parts over I guess....dad didn't get his dinner till 8pm because of all this

god you guys seriously need to write that book for real...there are NO WORDS to say how strong you guys are..... You'll get through this, hang on.........it isn't over till you give up.....and when your through it and your together.....direct us to where we can buy your book in our thoughts

Fiona & Andrew

My mother is employeed by IHSS (In Home Support Services) an Indeed I am her Boss although I plan to have my worker from the state write a cover letter also, but I can not make it any clearer then just stating she is my employee an yes it is her primary job an has been since 01' . My mother makes I do believe (don't know exactly, not my buisness) 36-40k a year and we have my benefit's, as stated my mother will be writing an extensive letter of how she will be helping dirctly so as not to let Fiona become a "public charge" i.e. in the ways of caregiving an monetary support, Indeed this will be a hard case to pass an if it was economically able we would have an Attorney but it isn't as should be obvious by the questions asked an details known. If these details help anymore were still open to idea's or whatever, all help is of coarse appreciated...

=/\=Andrew=/\=

The State Of California pays her the dollars

Yes they are, she gets the top rate in carer allowence (or the US equvilent to that rather)....but Andy actually has to sign her pay check etc...so plus any forms where she needs to put employer she puts him down so its a bit confusing...

I know me again..

My co-sponser to be is a caregiver to my fiance....so therefore my fiance is her employer. But she is also his mom. So does she need a letter from my fiance explaining her job etc or should we get a letter from the person from the health care/social services to write saying the situation? Or both?

Also I'd like to know if we somehow need to make duplicates of her tax returns.....

One more thing do I send form I-134 back with the said ones in packet 3 or do I keep hold of it till the interview? I would prefer to send it back with the specific packet 3 papers in hope if any issue arises it won't be told to us at the interview..... then again I've read some people say they hand this form over anyway in London at the interview despite already sending it in. *puzzled*

Fiona

Just wondered if anybody knew wheather a relative can get special permission to be present in the medical and interview.... I know they're asked to wait in the waiting area but I'm going to need physical assistance.....especially doing a x-ray etc ..

I plan to call the embassy when I get a date but just wondered if any of you "experianced" folks out there know of anything of the such?

Fiona

Oh just a thought, would it be nessecary you think to bring information on my fiances MD too?

And we don't have a medical yet...still waiting for packet 3.....any day now....

Gimygirl TY so much.... Brillient....Also it gave me the idea to perhaps have my fiances mom write a letter for me to take to the medical to say she's agreed to be my caregiver...

Hello Folks,

I've been gathering things to help me with the medical. We figure my medical condition may be an issue and after reading the medical guide from VJ on what people with MS have gone through I'm arming myself now ready to FIGHT ! I swear I don't know how I'll react if my genetic disorder will be the cause of a denial...

Anyway here is what I've been doing:

1. Printed off fact sheet from the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign on my particular disorder....my disorder affects 200 people worldwide so I doubt the medical doc will know of it.

2. Contacted the support group I'm in for this (has 12 members from accross the globe) and asked for positive letters....i.e what they have done with their lives DESPITE the illness.

3. Wrote letters to my previous doctors asking them to provide us with a letter on my diagnosis and why each of them is involved and my current issues

I don't know what else really to arm myself with. The issue I think is going to be because my condition slowly deteriates with time....the MS example in the guide refered to one who rapidly deteriorated and one in remission....so I'm kinda in the middle... . Do I try to get more information on my condition for the medical.....I've had a look all over the web but can only find case reports and well...mostly they are morbid. The factsheet I printed out didn't contain anything of the sort.

Any advice would be appresiated. I want to be prepared if they question me.

Also if I'm denied on account of medical instability, what the heck do I do? apply for another visa, what another year apart?

Fiona