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Thanks everyone...my heart is starting to pick up speed.

Thanks!

Interview is in 3 hours, nervous and excited

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Hi again Bigant, I recommend you join Brent Finger's group and a few other groups on Facebook. I have made a few friends here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Shoot me a message and I can link you these groups directly.

I also recently made some friends with some women I met that work in a local restaurant. They saw me on Skype video calling, and now when I go in, they are super excited and asking me when she will arrive. Hopefully, the next visit, she is there with me!

I am trying to cast a wide net so that she has plenty of friends. Hopefully we can focus our time on the ones that will be healthiest for our relationship (We both have this goal). I want her to stay connected with people that can help her transition to life in America! Also, for the food!

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Wow, interview is Monday! It will be Sunday night for me...good luck to everyone

Congratulations! I won't be able to attend her interview because I didn't have enough vacation to both visit her family later this year and attend. I suspect she will have built a lot of confidence by getting her CFO certificate and medical complete - hopefully she will be glowing - as I think her friends are probably sick of hearing about me. It's also nice to see stories like this that I can share with her. Thanks for sharing! Good luck! Ours is May 23, and I am hopeful to get her here for Memorial day so we have several days together without burning up too much vacation time.

My fiancee broke a tooth biting a mango seed. The dentist was very affordable and did a nice job fixing. Just look at our pictures!

They are citizens by current Pakistani law, it is the local government who makes things difficult for them by refusing the card. That doesn't make them stateless, it just means the local government are obstructionist.

They will need to try other avenues. Perhaps they can move within the country to somewhere more friendly?

This, too.

I suspect that contacting a congressperson is the right way to approach this. It seems like safety and human rights are at stake; if the situation is dire enough, move to a district where your representative seems to be responsive to requests like yours.

The same government that allowed your transition to US citizenship is not necessarily the same government that refuses to issue a passport for the beneficiary. Reasons like these are why the current US policy allows for the congressperson to intervene.

Recently, I spent many hours putting together a package of documents and sent them to my Fiancee via DHL. They were organized in a pink (not clear), entirely plastic three ring binder with dividers. They contained maps, a small collection of photographs with us and her family, and relevant information that I have gathered here and from Hank_ and Greenbaum's wonderful guides. (By the way, Hank_, if you have a paypal link on your site, I would like to show my appreciation - not a suhol )

My question is, "is an opaque document folder like this allowed in the Embassy?" If not, we will adjust accordingly. Also, she will have her sister with her, who can in waiting outside, retrieve anything the embassy will not allow.

I wonder if the political unrest will have any help in some Brazilian petitions being approved quickly. I am sure that some of our more experienced posters will shoot this idea down with something concrete.

Finally got good news from the NVC today! They have our case and said to call back Monday for our case number. yay! Congrats to everyone with good news too!

Congratulations.

I was in a similar situation. NVC received the case on Friday, and I received the case number on Monday around 4:00 Eastern Time. I had called at 1:00 eastern with no case number.

I highly recommend that your fiancee get a savings account with BPI. It is fairly easy, and you can pay the Visa fee online with that account. We got our MNL number and several hours later scheduled our interview. It was very easy, and now she has added protection from theft.

Interview scheduled

New apartment, new car, life is changing quickly! Hope we can learn from the others here and inspire successful folks with a similar journey.

NVC gave me our case number. Just waiting on her to wake up so we can schedule!

I have sometimes gotten the feeling about this kind of stuff...

But people have CRAZY stuff happening all the time. Adultery, multiple marriages, you name it. It is pretty bad that people don't seem to care about that stuff, but they are super concerned that someone is using you for a visa.

Even when someone is being used for straight up money or status, people in the US don't seem to care too much.

At the end of the day, I really won't be thinking about what those people think when I am snuggled up to my loved one.

THIS is what the congress inside track is for.

Happy to hear about this resolution.

Yes, Georgia

NVC (as of today) knows about my case but doesn't have the reference numbers yet.

Hopefully NVC receives soon!

Always like to see new people here confirming NVC so I can compare our NOA2 dates and get a ballpark idea. We are trying to get the medical done in a certain window, but we can't do it until we have an interview. (I think)

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Thanks for everyone sharing their experiences. We have already spent a lot of time talking about this stuff...hopefully we can be adults about it and find points of agreement throughout our marriage.

I have little things worrying me too. I think the best we can do is communicate with our significant other, and encourage them in being truthful! It sounds like you are on the right track.