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28 minutes ago, trustG said:

I'm still here willing to answer anyone 

Yes, we are still waiting for an interview for our reaffirmed case.  Congratulations to the approved and issue visas!!  It's help keeping the energy positive in this uphill journey!!!

We were reaffirmed at the end of July.  Waiting to be notified for an interview date! 

Love, Love, Love!!!!!  Waiting on that glorious day as well!!!  Enjoy yourselves in wedded bliss!!!

1 hour ago, Volta-Region said:

My wife's reaffirmed interview was 10/30/2017.  She was approved but the officer didnt issue the visa because he wasnt satisfied with the financial documents.  He wanted a letter from the IRS confirming that i dont have to pay taxes and to drop everything at dhl when we have them.   I didnt get the letter because i knew it would take forever so I just printed the irs publication that applied to my situation and highlighted them.  i quickly got everything together and mailed it on 10/31 and it got to ghana on 10/4.   She took it to dhl and was issued on 11/09.   We were a little worried cause it took a while for the status to change but we thank God that it is over.   Its been a long journey. 

Congratulations!!!  A know it's a time of relief for you guys.  When were you guys reaffirmed, if you don't mind me asking?

25 minutes ago, trustG said:

They’ll contact you the petitioner. 

Thank you!! 

Good morning/afternoon to everyone.  Quick question: who was contacted for the reaffirmed cases to set up the interview?  

I the petitioner has been contacted for everything during our process, but i have noticed the other spouses were contacted on some of the reaffirmed cases to set up interviews.  

My husband can not get into his email so it has me a little concerned if they try to contact him and not me. 

We are waiting for notification to set up interview.  Case was sent back to Accra in August. 

We were denied June 2016. 

1 minute ago, IcezMan_IcezLady said:

You received NOIR  about 7 months from the interview.

That is impressive. 

I received USCIS notification on March 7th this year so hopefully we will get the NOIR before August << Very ambitious..lol I am hopeful.

Keep hope ALIVE!!! I continue to tell my self, it will be worth the wait!!! 

On 3/29/2017 at 1:22 PM, dwheels76 said:

Sorry to hear about your denial.

All you have mentioned is art work and video calls and Facebook. This is Africa and parental acceptance is vital to an approval. Did you submit pictures with your family, parents friends? All 3 visits showing difference venues. Or did you rely just on Facebook post. When they say fake or set up they are speaking to whoever but you are posting and interacting. I have had a few people get that noted in their denial that their Facebook was just created to appease immigration. Facebook you have friends, family to talk debate whatever. Not just I loves you's with just you two.

 

And the Facebook might be a sticking point because you didn't know. Remember you are married they expect you to know such things and not be blindsided at an interview.

 

Ghana is big on visits of long duration. When you have red flags like you do (the age no big deal) but a divorced woman with 3 kids is ages of maturity(well generally speaking) older. It's a big deal. They are approving a visa for you to  immigrate to a whole family not just her.

 

Me and my husband had red flags so I moved to Nigeria stayed from approval at USCIS to Visa in hand 6 months later. We also meet 6 months before we got married first visit. And this after I divorced my previous Nigerian husband 30 days prior to marriage. You have to do what's needed.

 

Unfortunately nothing you can do. You are in for quite a wait. People I am helping now had denials in January and February of 2015 just having interview. Expect now 18 months to even hear from USCIS. Keep the visits going.  And Ghana truly holds on to petitions usually 6 to 8 months before they ever even send them back. Then it will sit until reviewed for Revocation.

 

Wow dwheels76, i'm praying to be an exception to the norm.  Jude was denied June 14, 2016, Uscis received it September 2016, received Noir January 23, they recieved evidence Feb. 27. 

3 hours ago, IcezMan_IcezLady said:

What date did you receive notification from USCIS about the receipt of your case? im talking about when they first received it after the interview?

Your case seems to be moving very quick.

The first i heard from them after the interview was the message they received the case back September 12.  They didn't notify me with a letter.  I went and checked my status in October and it was there that they received it in September.  I found this thread trying to compare the time line after interview denial. 

This thread has been most helpful!!!  Thank you guys for sharing your info.  I was trying to get a sense of time from after the denial of the interview all the way up to the 2nd interview.  Is there a timeline graph for that in visajourney.com?

June 14, 2016..........husband interview denial

September 12, 2016......DOS sent case to USCIS for review

January 23, 2017..........received NOIR and request for more proof of relationship

February 27, 2017........USCIS received evidence

now waiting for decision.......

On ‎3‎/‎23‎/‎2017 at 8:01 PM, REM4ALWAYS said:

Good news.  I received my letter to go to the embassy and pick up a package for an interview.  The letter was dated 2/17/17, but I just got it today. It was mailed on March 20th. Check your case statuses on https://ceac.state.gov/ceacstattracker/status.aspx 

 

The last update on the website was the  day this letter was generated. 

 

Please, send us good vibes. This has been a 3+  year long journey. We hope for the best.

Great news!!!  Praying for you guys!!!

Congratulations!!! Go Ghana!!!

CatherineA, on 14 Mar 2016 - 11:07 AM, said:

You are (naturally) thinking about immigration from the "getting to live with my spouse/ intended spouse" perspective. The end goal is to be married and to be together. This is because you are human and have a soul. Unfortunately for all of us, immigration is *actually* a lengthy government process with various routes/rules etc. The end goal is to get you legal permanent residency after a series of background checks.

Where it seems only natural that married couples "should be" together faster (maybe, to some), the reality is that the K1 and CR1 routes/rules are so different that you really can't compare the two.

Basically, when deciding between the two, from the government's perspective (which is the only perspective that counts), you're basically choosing between waiting for your green card abroad (CR1) or in the US (K1). That's it. It's not a "oh, K1s have to AOS so we'll do them faster to make up for it". Nope. It's simply 6 months worth of paperwork that gets done at a different stage in the process and therefore makes the K1 6 months faster (roughly). All of that is USCIS/NVC stages though. You seem to be talking specifically about embassy stage. If you're saying that K1s with similar "embassy received" dates as CR1s are getting interviews faster, that does seem unfair....until you realize that those are two different sections of the consulate-- Immigrant Visa Unit and Non-Immigrant Visa Unit. Sounds like the Immigrant Visa Unit has a backlog that NIV doesn't. This would be consulate-specific, too. Not the case everywhere.

Sorry, truly. It sucks. I'm very familiar with having been in a giant backlog (was at TSC at the time that it was averaging 7 months--210 days, when CSC was taking literally a tenth of the time-- 21 days).

Just know that this isn't an actual choice the government has made: "oh, let's let the fiances in faster because their relationships are better" or whatever. It's just simply a matter of order-of-events, combined with (possibly) a specific backlog at a specific consulate.

Thank you for this break down!!!

Patience and prayers is the best remedy for waiting on an interview date from Ghana. But we are at the end of the process and the journey has been long. Take a deep breath and acknowledge "we are at the treshold"!!! We have learned and endured tremendously!!! Wishing all those waiting, a smooth interview!!!

For facebook, I sent my archives to my email and downloaded on my computer, went into messenger and copied and pasted our conversation to Words than printed it out. Much easier than screen shots. Start at settings on Facebook and you will see archives, follow the directions. Since our conversation is the most, it was located at the top after I downloaded and it goes all the way back to the 1st message sent.