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  1. My fiance is on disability too and we have a co-sponcer. I am also on disability so double the fun.

    We collected:

    My fiances;

    1. Bank letter with date account was opened, current amount and total amount desposited within the past year. Some banks can't tell you total amount disposited over the past year so he had to get all his bank statements for a year and calculate it all himself and write a note attaching it to the bank letter

    2. I-134 completed and notorized

    Our Co-Sponcer

    1. Bank letter with date account was opened, current amount and total amount desposited within the past year. Again some banks are funny so just do the same as above.

    2. Letter of employment, she is his caregiver so contacted the State Of California for a letter explaining her job

    3. 3 years of tax returns

    4. I-134 completed and notorized

  2. Ok guys,

    I'm freaking out cos I just realised when I made my email account I put the first letter of my fiance's surname as my last name rather than the letter of my current surname. I use his surname for "non official" things like some couples due through the strain of this process. Stupid thing to do now I realise that London Embassy might have looked at that funny and think we're married! Because I've been using that account to send emails to the embassy. Plus I go and print out an email and send it to them as confirmation of the medical and interview being on the same day (they gave permission via email) so I just popped that in with the checklist so they'd see they'd agreed just incase. But now I'm really worried because of the letter of the surname thing i.e Fiona S instead of Fiona A on the sender info of the emails. Do you think they'll spot that and a red flag will pop up? :crying: I know I've done this to myself, I'd die if thats the reason they turn us down thinking we're married. Has anybody else done this? I didn't realise till I was looking at old emails and realised it comes up as Fiona S. Doesn't say the whole last name ever just the first initial.

  3. Can totally relate. My mum is somewhat like that, one minute fine, next minute refuses to discuss ANYTHING to do with the fact I'm moving eventually then gets on my back about how I need to make sure its the right thing and sometimes spits out nasty opinions of Andy as if shes the one thats been talking to him for 6 years not me. It angers me but nowt we can do about it. Gotta keep thinking if it was my children I'd freak too...

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    Hope this works, haven't used photobucket in a while. May not look much but this is the candle we lit near every night next to our bed when we had those 2 1/2 weeks together. He actually packed this in my suitcase and its sat on my desk :( good memories but sad ones, only time since that I've lit it is when he was in hospital to try and get some good vibes or something. BTW :blush: try to ignore the soda cans....you see he stocked up on fanta before I came because he knew I had a craze for the stuff at the time :lol: sweet he is but now hes got me addicted to diet pepsi! and appletizer...

    Oh and IGNORE THE DATE, this was taken with his bros camera which date was in a time warp. this was take June 2005!

  5. Thanks everyone for your kind words and encouragement. Glad to be back! Where's that sweetie trolley? I want some jolly ranchers imported from the States to tie me over till I get back hehe...

    Joey, can't find the thread but here's a brief.

    Dec we recieved RFE, they had changed their requirements right in the middle of our process so we had to send recorrected photos (when the requirements changed from 3/4 view to full frontal), and our explaination of how we met wasn't enough on the question so it took it 4 months to gain as much information as we could to get a solid case on our relationship. Most of the delay was due to trying to obtain letters from the travel agent, wish charity, van rental etc it took them quite a while to do that and our deadline was March 4th to get it all back in and I believe we managed to in feb. Then everything went very fast till we got Pkt 3 and hit the I-134 form NIGHTMARE! Andy is unemployed due to disability and is way below the requirements finationally so we have his mom as co-sponcer and they had a horrid time fighting with Wells Fargo Bank in stockton california. They could NOT understand the I-134 requirements they basically had to spell it out to them and they could not give them total amount deposited so he had to obtain every single one of his monthly bank statements and work it out himself (I really hope the Embassy don't have a prob with that) cos wells fargo just wouldn't co-operate. He then found out they don't notorize stuff either! so he had to make another appointment elsewere, more waiting. He ended up spending near 200 dollars which included notorizing, obtaining a years worth of bank statements, paying for a letter from his moms employer and gas to get to these appointments added up because they kept cancelling! *breathe*

    :no: I swear he is leaving that bank !

    You can visit our website (link in sig) for more updates, im redoing it just now so its a bit up in the air but the majority is there :)

    Again VJ thanks for the support, I dunno what we'd of done without your advice....

  6. Hey Everyone,

    Our visa journey has been at a grinding hold since April because of *scoff* Wells Fargo Bank. But Now :dance: *does the visa dance* we've hopped back aboard this visa train and have that BLOODY! checklist sent back in after 3 months.

    :dance: So So happy :dance::innocent: I pray we don't hit anymore obsticals but with our luck this is just the first of a long line of them. Well its like the 2nd after the RFE knocked us for 4 months :wacko:

  7. Ok guys, thank you all for your responces. Heres an update...

    Andrew phoned the number and they told him to print off his transactions and use that, but they CANNOT sign it. For some reason....Now is this acceptable...a print out that isn't signed or stated in a letter of total amount disposited in the last year? We're going through London.

    Andy can find somewhere else to notorize it, possibly kinkos. It's just that "total amount disposited" thing...

  8. Ok, so Andy goes to the bank today to request the evidence needed for the I-134 forms which were:

    Statement from an officer of the bank or other financial

    institution where you have deposits, giving the

    following details regarding your account:

    1. Date account opened;

    2. Total amount deposited for the past year;

    3. Present balance.

    The bank manager wrote a letter and signed it stating when the bank account was opened and present balance but couldn't write the total amount deposited in the past year because the way there system works he has to call a customer service number to obtain that info

    And to top that off the bank doesn't notorized.

    advice please :( He's gonna try and call this number tomorrow but he's not sure what hes doing. It's wells fargo bank. Anybody got experiance?

    *had to edit because I misunderstood*

  9. Range of possibilities....

    • Constipation
    • Holding it for too long
    • Pushing too hard
    • Hemmeroids
    • Tearing
    • You've eaten beats and forgot or something else very rich and red/pink
    • Skin irritation

    Hope you feel better soon :blush:

  10. My father looked into this, it can be done...you need to contact your local pension office to have your pension payed overseas. You can continue to recieve this from the UK unless you become an US citizen through naturalization. Best of Luck.

    And for those on the long term high band incompacity benefit in the uk (like myself) I just found out they will pay it into a US bank account for me as long as my needing it still applies (unable to support myself). But the down side is it may be subject to both UK and US taxes. So thats a bummer but great news that we can get a little bit of help with that :) I got the form from the pension office about that ready to fill in and send off 2 weeks before i leave.

    I hope this helped :thumbs:

  11. Erm lemme see if I can recall the redflags....

    • Not sharing the common language
    • Relationship doesn't look valid
    • Not having the right documents ready can make you seem ...well not serious
    • Not enough evidence of time period you've known each other
    • Overstay
    • Previous visa denied (is a red flag if you've lied and they found and is generally a red flag even if you do mention it)
    • Drug abuse
    • Criminal records
    • Contagious illness
    • They consider you may become a public charge (nice ones like London ask you to get a co-sponcer instead of straight up denying you)

  12. If it helps heres what I had to do. It would have cost me over £1000 to get to London twice because I need adapted transport...(don't have a car and am disabled). So I emailed the embassy and said it was extremely difficult for me finantionally and physically to get to London. When I visited my fiance (got a lift from manc to london then flew from heathrow to san francisco..thats 4 hours by road, 10+ hours in the air and another 2-4 hours on the road to stockton) I was very unwell. So I explained that and they gave me permission to have both medical and interview done on the same day. I'm still a bit skeptical on how exactly its going to work out because I look at peoples timelines and both medical and interview times seem to be around the same. Early morning. So I hope the medical people are co-operative with me about getting the medical on the same day as the interview and earlier in the morning so theres enough time.

    I'd suggest emailing the embassy you're going through and asking. I don't think money alone gives you an exeption but you can do but try.

    Good Luck

  13. I so agree, Andy and I have known each other 6 years and been going through this ridiculas process for 7 months and still not together. We cannot even visit because of lack of money and are saving for the time the visa is hopefully granted. It annoys me to the bone to see people only knowing each other for a few weeks or months going headfirst into this process and then giving up and after all that, I don't feel sorry for them I feel sorry for all us lot who are waiting and being delayed because of these ignorant people.

    :thumbs: still waiting for VJ to provide free blow up immigration officials to punch and kick and scream at to our wee hearts content... :D

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