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Today my status changed to "Card Was Mailed"

Yay congrats!

If you hate and have no respect for the people here, then why do you want to be a US citizen?
You can leave here without a US passport. You don't need a US passport to leave here and live in Europe.
Euro trash who wants the advantage of US citizenship and talks poorly of the people he wants to join.

Karma: there is no being lucky when it comes to this.
It is a fact that all new filed cases are going to California.
California does NOT have the same processing time as other service centers.
Vermont is NOT handling K1 cases, and has not for some time.
Texas is NOT processing any further newly filed cases.
K1 cases used to be processed based on the state the petitioner lived in. So pre-March, if you filed from an eastern and southern state your case would go to Texas. If you lived in a Midwest and western state, it would go to California.
This changed as of late March.
OP: You can expect your case to be processed in California within a month or two provided there are no issues with your case. Then, if approved, you will have the rest of the process to complete.

More than likely you'll be able to continue the process if you don't screw up the random test within the next year. And if your wife doesn't kill you.
I'd be more scared of the wife than immigration.

Thank you, Otter. I thought I was going crazy! We are all -- men and women alike -- creatures with agency. We can choose or not choose to stray outside the marriage. If you are secure in your relationship, there is either no or minimal temptation to cheat. Four of my best friends in this town are men. Two of them are my exes! I frequently see them without having my significant other chaperone me because, uh, I'm an adult and I get to have my own friends. When I'm going to hang out with any of them, sure, I mention it to my SO because I want him to know that I won't be around that evening. It's polite. He doesn't think that any boy and girl parts are going to get frisky. I have my friends of both sexes, and he has his. We trust each other because we communicate well and hurting the other would be worse than tearing off our own limbs.
While going alone in a car with a stranger is a bad idea, it's not a bad idea because somebody's pee-pee might fall into someone's hoo-hoo. It's a matter of safety -- you have no idea who this person is, where they might take you, if they might commit some crime upon you. It's totally understandable that your husband might be upset that you didn't tell him beforehand that you were going to a meetup, because telling our beloveds what our plans are is polite and respectful. It's not totally understandable that he was upset because he assumed you were going to cheat on him.
You are without friends for the summer. You want to do things that your husband is not interested in. You are allowed to have your own life. While your husband may be number 1 in your life, your very best friend, that doesn't mean you cannot do things without him. It is in our lives outside our relationships that we learn important things about our lives within our relationships. If you want this marriage to flourish, you guys need to communicate better and grow trust and respect between you. This may be me, but I would never be in a relationship where the other party wanted to control who I wanted to hang out with if the third party wasn't a threat to or a drain on me.

I think the marriage waters have been muddied. Wade carefully out of them. Your husband essentially called you a gold digger who deserves to be mistreated for it. While it may not have been prudent to make plans to travel with a stranger for your own safety, that response was uncalled for. Your "offense" is so bad in his mind that he doesn't even want to spend time with you as "punishment".
I prefer not to reminisce on times where you can say " Honey, do you remember when you said our marriage was a fraud, that I only married you for your money, you sided with your sister against me, and physically isolated me? Wasn't that a hoot! "

Contacting USCIS about your case does not put a red flag on it. Your lawyer doesn't know what he's talking about. It is perfectly normal for a couple to want to ask how their petition is going.
I can't help you with the questions about interview etc as I do not have experience with that type of visa. I just wanted to let you know that being given a red flag for asking about your case is bs.

Terri is back. Lol.

Seems like your relationship will not survive even she gets here buddy.

Evaluate your partner? What, did you find your girl in a catalog or something? If you're engaged or even married, you have already evaluated that "this is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with".

Yes it is. It's on your I-129f Approval Notice, just as shown in the picture above

Congrats Pheebs, I'm still waiting... only got the approval notice yesterday

In some countries it is much easier to get a K1 than a tourist visa

Tbqh, if he is upset that you don't believe this insane lie then... well he could lie to you about a lot worse.


NORMALLY, the longest between sex and implantation is a couple of weeks. Sperm can, depending on some studies, live in the woman anywhere from a week to 9 or 10 days, so at any point there if she ovulated she could end up becoming pregnant without having sex within those last 9-10 days.


But seriously though, If I was with a guy who thought I was stupid enough that his sperm could live in this woman for a year, with bathing, periods and expulsion of the uterine lining. I'd leave him.


There are some things that are red flags for how someone will treat another in a relationship. This is def one of them.


Edit: Biology isn't a cultural or a regional thing. Her body works the same as yours, his sperm works the same as most normal men in the world. Being Haitian should have absolutely no effect on sperm living inside a woman for over a year. If this guy were from any other country or a country that is more educated per se, would you believe it?

That said, I'm pretty sure even third world cultures know how creating a baby works. Yeah they may think a baby is an incarnation of god, but most people, even under educated or third world country people who have strict religious beliefs generally know how conception works, we've been doing it for quite a long time!


Edit edit: At the same time though I would honestly have a hard time being able to be with someone who believed they could get impregnanted by a man 2 and a half years after the deed is done. What other belief's could they have that is generally considered wrong on all ends of the spectrums.

Guys, I had the same thing happen to me, even though I tought I cancelled the return flight. Obviously it happens to a lot of people. I think I read somewhere it's because of the new electronic system, idk. Anyways just try to get it fixed as soon as possible, but don't stress too much about it. It hasn't been an issue for me, and I was freaking out at first.
Also...
Well how can they say you're not here, when a few weeks after you "left" you're doing your biometrics for example? Does USCIS trust airlines more than its own offices??

Whether or not to send what the RFE is asking for is not 'up to them', unless they want to be denied for not satisfying the RFE.
OP> Yes, the 2014 IRS tax return transcript works in place of a complete copy of the return. You need to send that. They will generally state that you do not meet the requirement if the most recent tax transcript is not included. So, does he currently meet the requirement or not? You can prove current annual income with a letter from employer and recent pay stubs. If he is self-employed, then see if line 22 of his 2014 1040 meets the income requirement.
If a joint sponsor has filed jointly, then they can provide an IRS tax transcript of the joint return plus a copy of their W-2 to show their individual income from the taxes. Again, they can use a letter from employer and pay stubs to prove their individual annual income, if you need a joint sponsor.

Having read through this thread I have to say that much of OP's story doesn't make sense. I'm smelling a pretty poor troll.
1) the picture taken from elsewhere
2) the use of an apparently real name - unlikely when you're posting such personal stuff (same goes for the pic)
3) the rather extraordinary story (a meeting in Morocco where they weren't allowed to meet in person so spoke on the phone from a balcony, etc)
I lived in the Middle East. Even in the Gulf men can meet women - they just need a chaperone... and Egypt is generally more liberal than the Gulf States.
I'm sure OP gets some kind of satisfaction from this game in some way. The posts seem deliberately crafted to elicit a response (making "Basim" out to be a pretty obvious fraud, and OP taking the role of gullible victim).

Pheebs, i just looked at your thread and it looks like your RFE is almost exactly like ours. The first box say to submit the complete tax return for the last tax year, and the second that he doesn't meet the poverty guideline blah blah and to either show assets that make up for the difference (they don't mention how much is this "difference") or get a joint sponsor. I thought they need the complete return for 2014, cuz we send the one for 2013, but i was still confused how come he doesn't meet the 125% since he works 2 jobs. And we sent all supporting documents too.

Sorry, I like reading people's stories and helping the best I can but I'm not touching this one, why would anyone try to help someone with your moral character stay here? You can go back to the Philippines with all your drama....and stop making it harder for the rest of us.

Comment: only have airline cancel return leg.

You need to contact the CBP about the mistake on your I-94 record. http://www.cbp.gov/contact/deferred-inspection/overview-deferred-inspection
And make an Infopass and take evidence(unused ticket, confirmation from airline, etc.) you did not depart. If it had to do with a round trip ticket you never canceled, then you need to contact the airline directly about the fact you never used that ticket. http://www.uscis.gov/save/benefit-applicants/how-correct-your-records-0
Read through this similar thread > http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/525727-help-just-got-rfe-for-i-131-advance-parole-due-to-departure-of-us-prior-to-approval-of-i131-which-i-didnt/

Feel free to invest in my bank account. Just saying.

How does one 'try out' a fiance(e)? You need to stop watching TLC. I was with my husband for 10 years before we filed for him to immigrate to the US. Yeah, then I 'tried him out' for 90 days after he entered the US with a K-1 visa. I decided I would go ahead and keep him then. Ridiculous notions you have.
Some people have long standing relationships before making life changing decisions. We lived a long time in a long distance relationship without him being able to come visit me, and I never begrudged those from other countries that could easily visit without even needing a visa. Sure, it was frustrating and hurtful at times. By human nature you feel that twinge of jealousy, but I never took to the internet on a cyber soapbox and lashed out others that could be together in person when we couldn't.
It is easy to sit up there on your high horse and think your marriage makes you more special and privileged than someone that is engaged, but it honestly doesn't.
I do not understand why all the animosity needs to occur. We are all going through, or have gone through, immigration processes of one form or another here on this forum. Seems like it would be time better spent to band together to help one another, no matter what visa route was chosen, rather than getting so upset and trying to place others beneath you.

Jesus Christ on a cracker, people. Just STAWP already. When we filed the I-130, I had no clue VJ even existed. I didn't discover it until about a month later and guess what? My laid back attitude about the whole process (it'll happen when it happens, how long is a piece of string, etc) vanished when I started reading these boards. All of a sudden I had people to compare myself to, and when I wasn't hitting various marks at the same time as others, I started freaking out. A lot. I obsessively checked timelines and refreshed webpages to try to figure out when we were going to get approved. I was MAD that K1 people were getting processed so quickly (it was sort of insane at the time we filed) while poor, poor married me had to wait and wait. I am confident that however much I learned here, it also gave me serious amounts of anxiety. Ultimately my case was my case, and it was going to be processed as fast as it was. I had no control over it. The other people on here had no control over it. So why the hell should I be mad at people who had no bearing on my processing.
This process sucks, and we all know it. But turning up your aggression towards others who have no bearing on your process just makes you feel worse, and it also falls afoul of the TOS. This thread is getting close to Closedowntown at this rate.