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Since you joined this website you don't need a lawyer.
Most of us here haven't used a lawyer. If you need to ask questions just post here on VJ. Use the money on the visa than on a lawyer

How do you get these statuses on ceac?

congrats!

This is a good question, because my husband just passed the New York Nursing board but we're still waiting for CASE COMPLETE at NVC. I'm hoping we can get through this so we can start our life as one ASAP

Thank you!

Thank you!

JK_0704, i see that you received a checklist and your scan date was 3/14/2016. I had received a checklist and then my scan date was 3/11/2016.

I'm still not case complete yet. It's honestly been so discouraging seeing others getting case complete while I'm still waiting and waiting to be reunited with my hubby.

I'm excited for everyone who's been getting case complete and interviews but its been making me feel envious... the opposite of what i wanted

i know this is 2 years ago, but this just happened to me with last name being wrong. actually i was given a totally different last name!

Today my husband had his CR1 interview. He had to wait close to 5 HOURS before it was finally his turn, but when he was called in to talk with the consulate, he wasn't asked even one question. We went through a K1 visa process in 2014, then back for CR1 now (long story), When he went in, he saw it was the same person who interviewed him for the K1. The consulate smiled and said, "Welcome back. We meet again!" then he told him, "Congratulations! You're on your way back to your wife! I hope this time everything works out great." and then gave him back our evidence of relationship that we sent to USCIS and NVC, and the approval document. My husband was baffled that he wasn't asked even one question! God is great! I'm so thankful we're approved! I have to keep pinching myself! Thank you to everyone who prayed for us! <3

Congratulations! Its great to hear good news with the long tedious CR-1 process

Well, I never imagined that I would get selected in the first place when I applied for the dv lottery.

Before the lottery I was trying to migrate to other countries unsuccessfully though. It also didn't help that all of my family members and friends are all in the US, so that makes it my only option. And since I am granted a GC for free my family sees it as a the only road I got to follow.

It's not so much that I don't have any desire to come to the US, it's just I just wished I didn't have to quit my current job and break up with my partner in order to move to the US, so that it didn't feel that I am leaving all those things behind me. I know it doesn't make much sense.

I admit it. I am a crybaby...When I applied for the dv lottery I was stressed all the time wether I would win a GC.

Now that I won, I am stressed cause I don't know if I'll like it in the US and if I will find a decent job and a partner.

There are people who 100% wants to come to live in the US because that's where the one they love is (my husband in the Philippines). They have their life planned in moving to the states but have to wait.

So if you're not 100% then don't come. Your partner wants to stay in Greece (?) and you love her. So don't let her be the one who gets away.

I wish you all the best and happiness.

Same, though I sent my I-130 on July 30. I emailed LockboxSupport@uscis.dhs.gov , with a reply with things I already know. I called them but her answers were obviously from a manual because she wasn't answering my questions directly. It will take months to receive any updates on my case and probably yours too. We filed for the I-130 rather than the K-1 Visa because our Philippines consulate recommended this route. I'm back in the states missing my husband and waiting for our life to start as a family. It probably will take two years for him to be able to come here as I been told by others' experience. I thought it'd take just a few months...

If anyone has better news please let me know!

I was working 2 jobs before I left USA. He takes all the money I was making. and just give me 5 dollars for food. I keep the extra money so I can send some money to my family. He saw my savings and I told him I am sending that to my family as gift for xmas. He said NO. I am not sending anything in Philippines he got all upset and I got scared to ask him again. I don't have any control of my money. He doesn't want me to buy things for my self.

He cuts off TV, no computer or internet at home. When I was there, I don't really know what's going on with the world.

all he wanted me to do is clean the house, clean dog ###### in the backyard, make food for him and make money for him.

He yelled at me and call me names if something I do doesn't satisfy him. From a piece of wrapper I forget to throw, a toilet lid I forgot to close.

There was an instance, he saw a wet spot on the carpet and asked me what was that.. I said maybe water or dogs urine. He asked me to smell it. I told him I will just clean it up.He forced me to smell it like a dog. and after i did it, he laughed out loud. He treated me like an animal.

He doesn't give me right to speak if it means disagreeing he would threat to slap me. He thinks he is always right and everyone is wrong.

Even I am sleeping, He would wake me up and make me clean if something he sees wasn't cleaned well. I couldn't leave him because I am scared.

I have no friends to talk to and I feel embarrassed to tell people of my husbands behavior.

When he said he wants to go to Philippines to live there, I went with him hoping our life would be better but I was wrong. It got worst. don't want to give details what happened in Philippines because that wasn't the concern anymore. you are talking about abuse, tell me if he hasn't abused me or that abuse wasn't extreme.

Did you know what you gotten yourself into before you married him?

It will seem to the USCIS, so you married this man not for love but because you'd do anything to live in the states...