Maypenny

On 8/23/2021 at 11:51 AM, Kide said:

Current case review time: As of 23-AUG-2021, we are reviewing documents submitted to us on 18-JUN-2021.

Where is this information taken from?

Does anyone know if we can delete any evidence we previously uploaded?

I uploaded a large PDF for our evidence of bonafide marriage and it was about 10mb so I used an online site to compress it and I didn't notice until after I uploaded it that it made most of the text fuzzy! I re-uploaded 2 separate files right after but I can't get the other bad file out.

Does anyone know?

5 hours ago, more00 said:

Last month on the 23rd they get back to me yesterday they needed two more documents so waiting on them to review it 

If it's not too personal to share, what other documents did they require that wasn't submitted?

On 5/26/2021 at 3:22 PM, JeanneAdil said:

5.  if any of you need to send further documents because of a RFE,  mark each and every page with your case #,  both your names and both DOB's in upper right and corner before you scan them / so many come thru on any given day that the papers do not necessarily come to the office in any order

Which is the proper case number? That IOE number from the receipt or your USCIS online account number?

2 hours ago, JKLSemicolon said:

I didn't label photos other than with the date and location, but in other sections (such as the relationship timeline and visit history documents I made) I referred to myself in the third person.

Awesome, there are so many pics and trips to document and I have to name family in the pics but i got confused if I name us as well.

1 hour ago, Babu Frik said:

you're overthinking it, doesn't matter, whichever you choose.

I used the terms Beneficiary and Petitioner, but My husband and I would be fine as well.

Thank you, I sprinkled a few husbands and wifes in too.

Weird question but did anyone refer to themselves in the photos as 3rd person?

I am labeling all of these photos and evidence and wrestling with if I should say My husband and I or say Maypenny and John. How is everyone else labeling their photos?

On 4/10/2021 at 5:47 AM, Dasf said:

I sent you a message with a helpful guide

Can you please share to me as well? I am having problems combining things for my evidence. 

16 minutes ago, aaron2020 said:

A waiver is not going to be easy.  Telling the truth now doesn't get him off that easy.  Can't blame an agent.  He is ultimately responsible. 

 

He wasn't comfortable going through with it?  Okay

 

He told you that he was afraid to come to the US in Summer 2019 because of COVID?  COVID was even a problem in China in Summer 2019.  It didn't become a thing until Dec. 2019 in China.  It didn't become a thing until Jan. 2020 in the US.  Why is he lying to you?

OMG, he isn't lying! He applied for the student visa in 2019! I never said the interview was in 2019. The interview was the following year which was during covid. 

11 hours ago, aaron2020 said:

There's a waiver for making a material misrepresentation.

Unfortunately, no one who lied about being married for a visa and then subsequently tried for a K-1 or CR-1 visa has ever come back to report how or if they solved their problem. 

So we can submit the document and be honest, but I can add additional information stating that he went through an agent who filled out the documents but once he found out the information submitted he withdrew because he was not comfortable with it. There could be a chance right?
 

11 hours ago, payxibka said:

For a finding of material misrepresentation,  the misrepresentation must have been used by the consulate officer in the determination of the decision on a visa.   

 

He did not get to that stage.  If he never interviewed,  he never took an oath as to the accuracy of the ds160.

I am wondering if there is some sort of compassion for him backing out and not going through with it.

11 hours ago, Timona said:

This story just doesn't add up. So he canceled US F-1 visa due to COVID but wants to go to Canada during the same COVID season? It can be easily seen that he's hiding something. 

 

Please, dig into this before you end up being hurt.

He wasn't comfortable with going through with it after the lies the agent told to get him approved. Please be advised some details are NOT exact. I am not going to go into it so granularly online! I just typed Covid. Sheesh

11 minutes ago, ra0010 said:

As some others have said, do not perpetuate the lie. It is illegal, and you’ll be in trouble trying to cover for the whole lie. Not worth it. Also, he said he wanted to start school in Canada but never did. Do you know why? This sounds fishy. The preparer “MAY” have said that he was married. WTH? Either he said it or not. I am pretty sure your bf knows what was said in the papers and is afraid of admitting it to you. Don’t go any further in the process until you are 100% sure of what was said.

My husband wanted to start school the year AFTER he originally filed the visa and canceled which was during Covid. He asked the agent for the paperwork and he didnt have it from so far back.

11 minutes ago, payxibka said:

He never interviewed for the visa,  it may not have an effect.   However,  if the review the application and notice that discrepancy,  they will likely request a document terminating that marriage.   

So should we say he was married before or no? I still havent submitted the I-130a.

Now I know why attorneys charge so much. This is complicated! But we really dont have the budget for an attorney at this time. 😟

10 minutes ago, payxibka said:

Zero effect 

9 minutes ago, Timona said:

Independent process. They are adjudicated independently..

Even if that student petition may still be open?  He paid the fee and has the receipt and everything.

Now he is saying the person who "helped" him do the documents for this visa may have said he was currently married in order to get it approved. WTH does that mean he can't come here to USA if that wasn't true???

I am looking and on our CR1 we answered that he was never married before but if there exists an imaginary spouse on an old visa petition then what? I'm losing my mind with worry now... =(

My husband applied for a student visa in Summer of 2019. He received an admissions letter from the university here in the US and received an interview from the embassy but decided NOT to go through with it as Corona has started. He says he cancelled on the embassy website and did not attend the interview and was planning on doing the schooling in Canada but never started it.

I'm not sure if he closed or cancelled this US petition properly. I am now scared to submit our CR1 petition...
Will this hurt or complicate our chances? I am panicking now.
 

22 hours ago, pushbrk said:

 

On 4/3/2021 at 5:54 PM, Ryan H said:

The answer to the prior marriage question is no, the cohabitation agreement your husband previously entered into was nothing more than that (common law marriage is not a thing in South Africa).  There's no need to include any copies of that agreement with your petition as it is not germane to your case.

Awesome, thanks 

22 hours ago, pushbrk said:

Correct, and if the dissolution of the cohabitation agreement came AFTER your marriage, it would just confuse things.  If the cohabitation agreement meant marriage, then it had to be dissolved BEFORE your married your husband.  Fortunately, this is all irrelevant.  He was never married before.

The cohabitation agreement was dissolved BEFORE our marriage. I made sure it was done and filed after we got engaged but before our official registry court wedding and the following traditional wedding ceremony. 

So we won't mention it in our petition, thank you! 😃blockquote widget

Does anyone have experience with this and how to categorize it on the I-130 documents? 

After high school my husband went to South Africa to get his degree and after university was over and he graduated he stayed in South Africa with his then girlfriend who he  met in SA. In order to stay in SA, they had to submit a cohabitation agreement to affect the student visa he was there on. The attorney who created the document filed it for him and they were together for years but have long since separated when she left SA to move to another country since 2014. Before we got married I told my husband that he would need to get this agreement dissolved and he went back to the original attorney and had something drawn up dissolving the original cohabitation agreement stating he and her were no longer together and he has left South Africa permanently and gone back to his home country, Nigeria. 

So he contacted her mom, who contacted her and they both submitted current passport data pages and signed and returned the document dissolving the cohabitation agreement. This took some weeks to do and I was involved the whole way even talking to the SA attorney myself but it is now done and filed.

I have copes of everything but have no idea how to answer the question on the I-130 petition of whether he's been married before? Do I say yes or no? And should I include the copies of these agreements under "Additional Information" or Evidence" or not at all???

On 10/31/2020 at 1:16 PM, carmel34 said:

Earlier post says Nigeria.  There is a ban on visas for Nigerian citizens until it is lifted or a waiver considered.  It sounds like a waiver is not being considered in OP's case.  All you can do OP is wait until the ban is lifted.  Good luck!

So if he is from Nigeria, only the Nigerian embassy can grant the waiver? Cause I see Nigerian cases that have recently gone to their embassy and get a waiver even with the ban?

He is currently living in South Africa so the South African Embassy cannot grant him one?

Thank you so much.

Is it possible? My fiancé and I are getting married in 5 months in his home country of Nigeria, we are both early 40s in age.

He got an offer from his former university professor for entry into a specialized program he has been waiting for years. But its in another country, and only for 1 year. I was planning on filing the CR1 right after our wedding but if he is in another country how would that work?

Would I need to file from the country he is attending university or his home country?