MoroccanEscape

Hello everyone,

My husband received his green card in the mail just short of 6 weeks after he entered the US - thank you all for your help.

What color was the 221g? My husband got one too back in August. It was a blue 221g - we had to get a co-sponsor. His interview was mid-August and he had his visa by the 15th of September after we found a co-sponsor, etc., He has been here in the US since 9/22, so don't give up yet, in fact, never give up !

Hi Everyone.

Today was a total let down.

I met my Finance when we both lived in Dubai. I am American he is from Morocco. I am 41 he is 29. We met in Oct 2015. I moved back to the US in March 2016 and he moved back to Morocco. While we were in Dubai we applied for a tourist visa for him. It was denied, due to lack of personal assets in his home country. We knew we wanted to be together forever. So from Dallas I started the process working with a lawyer for the K1 visa for my man.

We had pics, all the forms, everything.

He went for his interview today. The interview went well, he did well with the questions, the CO was nice. At the end of the interview the CO said that additional documents were needed since I recently moved to Dallas from Dubai and he gave him the 221-G form. Ammari then asked what the process would be, the CO took his contact info (mobile#) and said they would contact him with what additional docs are needed.

The lawyer said it was probably due to the fact that his is from Northern Africa.

I have been reading like crazy on this forum. I am going to contact my Senator's office. Email the Embassy in Casablanca and call. Anyone have other suggestions. I am desperate.

Anyone have any comments, anything similar? I am totally bummed.

Help.

Did you write down the IOE number when you paid? If not then there is no way to track production.

As for length of time, it took us about 2.5 months, and I have seen anywhere up to 6 months for the majority of people.

Yes, I have the IOE number from the e-mail sent to me after I paid the fee. Do I call USCIS ?

My husband entered the US on 9/22 on a CR1 visa. The $165 fee was paid about a week prior to him arriving. Any general ideas on how long it will be before he gets his actual green card ? He's already received his social security card.

Is there a way to check on it's status ?

Thanks

Thank you for your answer

but they problem is he is not working in the same company and they just recently moved from old house to new address and they lost all W2s and pay stubs anything shows his part in income , i asked him how much u made 2015 he said i made 48k which is enough to sponsor me , but the problem is there is nothing prove it , so i only sent the original i864 of him and his 3 years of tax return thats all there is no pay stubs or W2s

Do you think it will be a problem or checklist

He can get a copy of them from his employer. You have to have them so that they can see what he made on his own. How else are they going to know which part of the total income was his and which was his spouses.

Our co-sponsor was the same. He filed jointly with his spouse. I sent an original I-864 signed by him, with a copy of their joint tax return and his W-2's reflecting his part of their income for 2015. It was approved. You only have to have the spouses information and income if one of them alone do not qualify to sponsor. If they are having to use both of their incomes to fulfill the income requirement.

Hello,

I used the I-130 guide found on this website when preparing our I-130. I chose to have my husband fill out the form and sign it and mail it to me from Morocco. I wanted it to be an original form so they couldn't come back and say they needed an original later.

Here is what it says on this website's I-130 guide. I think, if I remember correctly as it's been nearly a year since I filed our petition, that someone on this website told me it needed to be an original. I guess it's better to be safe than sorry.

Hello,

I used the I-130 guide found on this website when preparing our I-130. I chose to have my husband fill out the form and sign it and mail it to me from Morocco. I wanted it to be an original form so they couldn't come back and say they needed an original later.

Here is what it says on this website's I-130 guide. I think, if I remember correctly as it's been nearly a year since I filed our petition, that someone on this website told me it needed to be an original. I guess it's better to be safe than sorry.

13. G325-A filled out by the non-US citizen spouse signed and dated.

Hi Guys,

After we submitted the DS-260 online visa application, can we edit it to update some personal information, should be this like a red-flag to the NVC, or it's fine to correct submitted information.

I have been rejected a student visa previously Should this be an issue with our current file with the NVC.

Thank you in advance for your help.

To address our other question of being denied a student visa and it affecting your efforts now. It shouldn't. My husband had applied for a tourist visa and was denied in 2013. It did not affect our CR1 visa being approved and was actually never brought up in the interview or anywhere else along the way. Good Luck !

but she has not time, interview is at 9 and there is a holiday at 5

I think it will not reach in time

Hello,

My husband had his CR1 interview in Casablanca on 8/17. We were approved but had to find a co-sponsor. I had one just in case and sent him the co-sponsors financial information via FedEx on 8/18. He received it in Marrakech on 8/24. I don't think she will have enough time to get it to you. What happened with us is the CO gave my husband a BLUE 221g paper with what we needed highlighted. We returned what they asked for to ARAMEX along with his passport. I'd tell her to go ahead and send it and know that you probably won't have it in time for your interview, but if you are approved and that is the only thing you need, then you can have it to ARAMEX within a day or two of your interview. Good Luck and best wishes.

My husband had his interview on August 17th and we did not need this either.

Hello everyone ! My husband had his CR1 visa interview on 8/17/16 in Casablanca. The interview went well and the CO gave him everything back, except she kept our marriage certificate, his medical exam and some pictures. She told him at the conclusion of the interview that because I did not make the required annual amount in 2015, due to only working 6 months in 2015 in the US, (I was living in Morocco prior to that) - that he needed to find a co-sponsor, have them return the needed paperwork and his visa would be issued in 10 days after the paperwork was received. We got a sponsor the same day, mailed everything to him the next day and he received it this past Wednesday. He took the co-sponsors I-864 and related information, along with his passport and the blue 221g form he had been given to ARAMEX. They took everything, gave him a receipt, said they would deliver it to the consulate the next day and to give them a call in 10 days.

I truly hope that this will only take 10 days as the CO said. I'm just so afraid that something will go wrong from here. Has anyone else had this happen where you had to get a co-sponsor ? I wish good luck for everyone and that we will all be reunited with our husbands/wives soon. Inshallah, this will be over soon.

People seem to not be answering Moroccan threads lately...

Yes, I do think 10 days is realistic. I've done the math and it takes about that long for most people to get their visa/passport back in Morocco (as long as they didn't have a security check/other kind of AP, which your husband doesn't have to go through).

Thank you so much for your help. You have been great and you are right, people don't seem to be answering the Moroccan threads as often and it's a pity because this consulate can be very daunting at best.

I will post later what happens and also a review of the consulate. - Thank you again and good luck with your interview as well.

I mailed the I-864 with supporting documents from our co-sponsor yesterday via FedEx. My husband should have it by Monday and to Aramex on Tuesday. The CO that interviewed him said that once he submitted this information to ARAMEX, along with his passport he would have his visa within 10 days....does anyone think this is realistic ? Our co-sponsor more than qualified to sponsor us so I know there will be no problems there.

You're welcome!

I'd be just as much of a nervous wreck, so I don't blame you at all! I hope the mail gets there quickly and that he does get his passport/visa back in only 10 days (or less).

But I'm just going to say it now...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

You've got me crying now ! You are too kind.......I appreciate you.

Also, I think it's a good sign they gave him back his documents. If they had kept them, then there'd still be a chance of denial because they'd have his intact casefile that they could send back to USCIS. It looks like they're DEFINITELY going to approve him, as long as the joint sponsor's stuff is squared away and approved.

Thank you so much for the information, and for finding that for me. I'm just a nervous wreck right now and want to get them what they need so we can get on with it. He said that the CO told him everything was good and that once the cosponsors information was submitted to ARAMEX along with his passport that they would issue the VISA within 10 days. I guess I'm just being paranoid and overly cautious and not thinking clearly due to lack of sleep the past few days.

Thank you again !

I haven't personally been through that situation at this point, but my suggestion is to write an email and/or call the consulate (during their very limited hours when they take calls) to ask if there is a deadline to turn it in. Another option here may be to contact Aramex and ask them, since he was instructed to turn in the documents there...perhaps they were given information about a deadline from the consulate, or they have experience with others who had this same issue and can possibly advise your husband.

FedEx the joint sponsor's documents (make sure the right form is used, it's complete, and has the proper supporting documentation attached to it as described in the form instructions) to your husband ASAP, but I would also email him a copy of it all, just in case...that way he could show them that it's done and the original is forth-coming (if the mail takes a long time to arrive).

Thank you. He went to Aramex this morning and they told him he has one year, but I don't believe that. We have tried calling the consulate before at the numbers we've found for them during the times they say they take calls with no luck.

I will just get our co-sponsors things together today and get them FED-EXed to him.

Also, I'm confused because they gave him everything back. Our petition that they had, in addition to all our paperwork except for his medical.

My husband's interview was today at the consulate in Casablanca. His appointment time was at 8 am (2 am my time) at 7:25, my time my phone rang and it was him telling me that he had been told they "forgot" about his inteview. He was told to get some lunch and come back at 2pm local time (8am my time). He went back and he was told that I didn't make enough in 2015, even though I had sent letters explaining that I had lived in Morocco until the end of May 2015 and only had 6 months of income in the US. I also had sent in every single pay check stub from both of my jobs and letters from my current employers stating what my position was, how often I got paid, what my hourly wage was and how much I would make annually. I thought it would be enough but it wasn't. When he called me back to tell me that, I was devastated. But of course you do what any other married couple who is in love and just wants to be together does, you find a co-sponsor.

My question is, I am going to overnight the co-sponsors information to Morocco on Friday. It doesn't state that there is a time limit that we have to get his back to them. It just says to take it and another letter he was given to the Aramex office where his passport will be picked up. Does anyone know, will they take a copy of this I-864 in case I can't get the signed original there before any sort of deadline we don't know about ? Has anyone else been though this process in Morocco or anyone else for that matter ?

Thanks,

****I thought I'd let anyone know that was wondering what happened with this:

After several weeks of phone calls to the consulate in Casablanca that went no where; e-mails to the consulate and to the ustravelsdocs website - I FIANLLY got an answer back from the consulate this week. They said that as long as my husbands passport information was correct that nothing else mattered. I hope they are right. I am having my husband take copy of that e-mail with him to his interview, just in case.

13 days and counting until interview

Medical is tomorrow !

Praying that we are just a few weeks away from being back together - FINALLY

Continued good luck to everyone.

We got our interview letter from the NVC prior to our case even showing "READY"

The way they worded it wasn't clear at all. First they say IMMEDIATELY, then the next paragraph says "After the interview". That would confuse anyone!

I'm sure it'll work out for you guys. He's got to the get the visa one way or another, regardless of the website messing up. Best of luck for the interview!

Exactly ! All I saw was the word "IMMEDIATELY". LOL Thank you so much ! Insh'Allah, he will be here soon !

Just my two cents: I would have your husband talk to the consular officer about it at the end of his interview. Like if the consular officer tells him to register with ustraveldocs or Aramex to get his passport/visa, he should then mention his troubles with the ustraveldocs website. Perhaps they'll be able to give him some help (if they haven't answered his email by then).

The instructions in the pdf say: "After the interview, you must visit the following website to choose where you will pick-up your passport: www.ustraveldocs.com/ma."

Maybe he'll have luck if he tries again after he completes the interview and the interview result is put in the system.

"Ready" means the consulate received your case file.

I hope so. He will call anyway just to be on the safe side. I wish we had read it a little more carefully. But I was so excited that we had finally gotten an interview date, I was trying to make sure we did everything we were supposed to. Thank you for your help.

I wondered the same thing, but erred on the side of caution and mailed our entire package., i.e., EVERYTHING the consulate will have to my husband. He hadn't seen everything that I had sent in, and I want him to be 100% prepared for the interview.

Good Luck with your journey

What where you trying to do on this website?

we never needed it

all instructions for our interview(s) came in email

and we followed them

the next step is go to interview with all things they said to bring

if you are approved and get visa, pay for visa fee online thru USCIS

don't buy any tickets until you have that visa in hand

From the NVC website--under the tab "preparing for your interview"- there is an area where you select which consulate your interview is at and it will pull up supplemental pdf for that embassy.

Now looking at it- it says to register at the ustraveldocs.com/ma website AFTER the interview to select where you will pick up your passport.

Now I sure don't know what to do since we tried this BEFORE the interview. I hope we haven't made things more difficult for us. Everything was going a long so smoothly before this little hiccup. Any advice on what we should do ? We've contacted ustraveldocs.com/ma and my husband e-mailed the consulate in Casablanca.

Also, I checked our status on the ceac website today because it had been showing our case was still "AT NVC" until today - as of 7/14 it shows READY

even though we got the interview letter on 6/29.

Then I am confused as to why it says both CR1 and DS-160 on the confirmation. I don't know what to do now