paujoric

Have you also send them copies of the stamps in both your passports. That seems something they frequently ask.

Can I also ask you a question? Are you still allowed to travel to the US (under VWP)after the INS officer made that comment? This is getting one of my concerns. I've also became a frequent traveller to the US and I'm getting a bit concerned that the next time I might be denied entry.

Thank you

we haven´t sent in any copies of stamps in our passports because we thought sending copies of the tickets and boarding passes plus about 20 pictures all taken over the past 2 years in TX or here in Germany would be enough evidence we have met in person.

what concerns your question about me traveling to the US so I still have my valid B2 visa and actually could travel back but there is always the risk you might get sent back at the airport because they assume you are trying to get married there and in that way to go around the long waiting process.

I didn´t wanna take the risk of spending so many euros on a flight ticket just to fly one time there and get sent back immedately. Paula was here again in May for 4 weeks. Also I wanted to be here in case really something was happening so I could care for everything that might be needed from me here immedately.

Like I said, no matter what that officer said, I got my stay extended from the USCIS in Mesquiete TX and have this black on white and even have sent a copy of this approval. It cost us 179 dollars I believe but at least I wouldn´t do anything unlawful or wouldn´t have overstayed.

I´m sure if we were not going through the K1 process I could travel back to TX without having any worries. The big question only would be how long they would grand me to stay. When once I filed for the B2 visa here with the US embassy in Frankfurt they told me I could stay for 6 months for as often I want and the visa was valid for 10 years. That was incorrect because always the office at the port of entry will tell you if you can stay for as long as you want. I guess it depends if that officer has a good day or a bad one. But you always have the option to file for an extended stay with the local USCIS office which mostly get approved...just for a little fee of around 180 dollars. LOL

money rules the world!

i view it as a trick question...' when do you plan to marry? ' . since the k-1 is an INTENT to marry, how the heck can anyone answer that??? certainly no one can make concrete plans when they do not know for certain when and if a visa will be issued. I believe I stated that in one of my letters to them. Welcome aboard. God Bless you on this miserable journey. forgive me, i am not in the best of moods today, suffice it to say, just GOD BLESS .

Thank you SteveInge and jabree for your posts.

well, we can say we are not in a good mood either and we really had better trips than this one LOL.

but we just can´t give up and will have to go through it.

What concerns the advice to check out the RFE list here on VJ so I can´t think of anything we would not have sent in except CSC might complain about Paula´s birth certificate which is only a short one. At that time when she was born there were no long forms available yet.

I have sent in an international birth certificate what they better won´t complain about because that is like the name already says INTERNATIONAL standard and multi language.

I never heard before they might ask for anything about my income here in Germany. What would that be useful for me to send them any papers about how much I make here? We are not gonna live in TX and work here in Germany. LOL

So I guess we will just have to wait and see what the mail man will bring us hopefully before too long.

And the jouney goes on and on and on and..........................................

Hi everyone,

we are new here on VJ although we have checked this forum out a hundred times to find all kinds of info that might help us before we finally decided to join this community.

Our names are Paula from TX and Rico from Germany.

We have sent our I-129F petion to the TSC and received NOA1 in our mail on April 26 2006 with receive date of April 21 2006 and that our case was moved to CSC. At that time we still didn´t know what long waiting times and what a big mess that will cause!

On June 30 2006 we received the first RFE (new rules by IMBRA) like most of you guys got them too who still has filed for K1 with the old I-129F forms.

Paula has mailed that back off on July 03 2006 and we got notice they have received it on July 12 2006.

Since that day almost nothing has happend anymore. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Paula tried to get ahold of them but you all know that´s impossible to find out anything by phone or to talk to anybody who really could tell you anything. So the usual blah bah blah or with other words "Keep your mouth shut and wait in line!" Neither we could find out anything when we have emailed them. We think this is a very poor service and they seem not to care about our lives aren´t eternal and that couples they want to marry each other want to be together and want start their lives together as soon as possible. Paula and I, we are both not the youngest anymore (40++).

Anyway, I can´t remember exactly anymore what date it was when they told us the preinitally process was finished and the remaining processing time would be less than it was estimated at the begin of this horror trip. I think that was when they told us about they received the RFE back.

It doesn´t matter anyway since from the 90-120 days processing time what once we found out about nothing is left anymore.

So now all in a sudden we noticed our case was touched on August 17 2006 but no change in the status yet. Well, for sure our hearts started to beat a bit faster and we thought maybe we are coming to an end now.

Wrong thinking! Yesterday our case was touched again and this time with a change of the status message...

Our so much beloved CSC has mailed us on August 21 2006 another request for evidence or additional information concerning our petition.

Now what the heck are they still wanting? We have sent in everything we could think of, from all the papers and forms they were required to lots of pictures, flight tickets or boarding passes from my trips to Tx or Paula´s trips to Germany. We even have sent them the NOA for an extended stay when I was in TX last time in December and had planned on staying until end of February and the lovely guy from the INS at the airport in Houston wanted me to leave already in begin of January again because for his opinion I have spent in the US too much time within the past 2 years (May/June 2004 for 11 days-our first meeting in person- Aug.-Nov. 2004 -89 days- with tourist waiver and Feb.-Aug. 2005 with B2 visa). So I never overstayed! Well, we applied for an extention of that stay and got granted so I could stay for as long as we had planned on, from Dec 08 2005 until Feb. 28 2006...not even 3 months...less than what the B2 visa actually would allow me to stay!

Now our question...

Who else has gotten a second RFE or has any idea what they might need again from us? We have no idea!

We are trying to get all materials they might need as quick as possible and send it back immedately so our case won´t get delayed for more. This etrenal waiting and not knowing what´s gonna happen and when something is gonna happen really sucks! How is anybody supposed to plan on anything like e.g. me to cancel my lease contract for my apartment here, to sell my car which I still need or all the other things you have to think of and take care for if you are going to move to another country for good.

They ask you what kind of wedding you have planned for. Ha, what a joke question! How are we supposed to plan a wedding in advance if they even can´t tell us exactly how long this whole process is gonna take.

It is absolutly amazing how some people think the can waste so much time of someones lives by them not to let know us anything at all and them to just hope we will keep our mouths shut and just sit and wait.

The sad part is, there actually isn´t anything we can do, they have the longer arms and we are depend on them.

Anyway, please post what experience you have made concerning a second RFE. To me that looks like it´s only another trick to keep people qiete for another one or two months. There goes one week until we will get their mail, there go another two weeks in case I need to mail anything to Paula and one more week or even longer until they will get it on their desk again.

Thanks bureaucrazy! (LOL...no spelling mistake)

We wish all you guys good luck and all the best for your future and that things will work out for all of us before too long.

Paula and Rico