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Gary leaving VJ forever..but Luz keeps posting?

what happend in 2 simple hours from the last time he posted - the time he called it quits?

I think that approval is FAKE. for someone waiting 177 days did not make a big deal of annoucing his

approval? FISHY. its just as fishy to make a big deal out of Leaving VJ and not applying for the visa.

reminder - he was so anxiously awaiting his NOA2. -but, Luz sayes " Gary got to the end that he chooses to live here and marry me and apply another visa later " FISHY.

what could have happend in 2 hours? dont feed us bull doo doo. his case was pretty much done- according

to your APPROVAL of 177 days? heading to the nvc for a short time - then off to the embassy. now suddenly

he is giving up his lifelyhood? I smell a RAT. what happend in them 2 hours Luz?

Well, here are some possible (reasonable) explanations for those of you who need them. And you know who you are . . .

- The grownups decided it would be better for Luz's son if they didn't make this life-changing move at this time in his life

- Gary lost his job . . . in some professions, this can happen very suddenly and frequently

- They had their NOA2, and had come a long way, but they weren't close. CSC approved our app 9/11 and it still has not been sent to NVC. Meaning: NOA2 is maybe only half the journey . . . AARRGGH!

- Gary isn't posting because he doesn't want to answer all the personal quetions from people who like to ask a bunch of personal questions.

- Something medical came up . . . this has a way of putting a fine point on everything real quick.

- It suddenly occurred to everyone that if the objective is to be together, and be happy, why continue to go through these immigration hoops, uproot everyone in Phils, and haul them all to the US? He already has all that in Phils. Of course, living someplace is a lot different than visiting for a few weeks. But, when I am with Evelyn in Phils, I am in paradise, and do not want to come home. Ever.

is it ok to print by hand in blue or black ink? or, should it really be typed? in regards to question 18. should i just tell them of how we met for the first time in person this past september? or , do they want to know the whole story about how we met online in january? does it all go together in an attachment? also, when i was in moscow, ilyana signed and dated her g-325a and letter of intent. so, the dates on some of our papers will differ from about a month. is that ok? the photo i have for her g-325a, will they want some kind of proof that it was taken less than 30 days from filing? i'm not cut out for this kind of work. i appreciate any help

First, if you're not up to doing all this paperwork - and lots of people aren't - find someone to help you, like an attorney, maybe a good friend. If you make mistakes, it may cost you time later. When I filled out all the forms, I checked and double-checked every dot and tittle - my forms and Evelyns. Paperwork is certainly not what I'm good at, but I was just terrified of making a mistake that might cause a delay, esp on such an important thing as our future. Evelyn was the same way. I love her hand-writing, but she thinks it is not as legible as it could be. So she had her good friend, who had very good English hand-writing fill in the forms. Now if I could just get USCIS to actually send our stuff to the VSC like they said they did A MONTH AGO !!!!!

Hey everyone!! I am planing on flying to Thailand when me fiance finally get's her K1 visa. All POE's I have ever been through have a line for "citizens/residents" and a line for "visitors". I would hate to get separated from her by having to go through separate lines. We will come through either SFO or LAX. What did others do when they arrived with their spouse?

When I returned from the Philippines last month, entering the US at Minneapolis, I was curious about the same thing, not wanting to separate from Evelyn when the time comes. So I asked the immigration people there. I was told that she cannot go through the line with me (citizen), but I can go through the line with her (visitor).

Hi. I am new to this forum and have been doing a lot of research about bringing my fiancee to the USA with me. We both currently live in Japan, and I am from the US and he is from the UK. We are planning to send off our application for the K-1 visa this week and we have been talking a lot about weddings. I really want to have a big proper wedding, but there will not be enough time to plan a wedding within 3 months of getting to the US, especially since we both live in Japan.

So, I am curious. How many of you plan to, or have had, a big ceremony after your civil ceremony? Did it seem strange to get technically married and then have a big wedding? Were you pleased to take the time to plan a real wedding? Did you do a ceremony with a wedding dress and walking down the aisle and everything, or just a reception type thing?

We are planning on a civil ceremony when Evelyn arrives in the states. That will give us time to prepare for a formal church wedding in the Philippines. I don't think it will seem strange because they will be such completely different events. As for will we feel like we are getting married twice? Hmmm . . . actually, we already feel we are married, and have both said that when we are finally legally married, it will not change anything.

When I think about the fact that Sian is giving up everything she's ever known, leaving the UK, and moving here to marry me.

Two things. This is one. But it isn't just that she would give up everything to come here and be with me. She says she would go anywhere to be with me. The second thing is nearly everytime we talk, everytime she sees me, she thanks me for loving her. Nobody's ever thanked me for loving them.

Wow . . . big decision! To come so far, then stop. But, as you already know, it's a beautiful country with wonderful people. When the time comes, we hope to move there as well for at least part of the year. You're just getting there a little sooner than us!!

I met my future spouse on www.amigos.com. Is this considered a marriage broker? What does it mean if I answer ‘yes’ to this question?

I took a little bit different tac, and included the following attachment to my IMBRA RFE. So I'm not sure I answered yes or no, but no further questions were asked, and we were approved.

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United States Department of Homeland Security

U. S. citizenship and Immigration Services

Supplemental Questions to I-129F

Response to Question #1

Q. Did you meet your fiance or spouse through the services of an international marriage broker?

A. Evelyn and I met online through the services of WXY&Z. WXY&Z provided a place where we could post our respective profiles, and send introductory emails to one another. After reading Evelyn's profile, I contacted her via email (not her personal email, but through the email provided by WXY&Z) and, after she read my profile as well, we began corresponding. Neither WXY&Z, nor anyone else, introduced us or matched us in any way. WXY&Z simply provided the means for us to make the initial contact.

The following are the mailing addresses for WXY&Z.

Yada-Yada-Yada . . . .

Please let me know if you require any additional information.

Sincerely,

My K-1 petition was approved on September 18, and NVC still doesn't have me on file yet... Evidently USCIS hasn't sent it out yet. I don't understand what is going on. I wish they have sent the approval on to Manila.

Same. We have a Sept 11 approval, so 4 weeks this coming Monday. I called NVC yesterday and the guy I talked to was nice enough. But still no record of our app. I gently explained that the letter I had from USCIS stated it had already been forwarded to NVC, and he said, yes, USCIS does that unfortunately, but it means nothing. Probably, he said, it was still sitting in California. He said they recieve apps from Cal in bundles at a time. This is like walking through quicksand. You finally get one foot free only to find the other one's now stuck!

Now is that letter ok to send after receiving the NOA2? It looks like the one we sent fot the I-129.

Thanks

I think they just want to know that you still intend to marry . . . after being put through the visa hoops! People do change their minds along the way, and not everyone makes it to the finish line.

Here's mine. It's pretty simple stuff . . . but I figure as long as it covers the important parts, the less they have to read, they quicker it gets done!

Fiancee Letter of Intent

<Your name and address goes here>

United States of America

United States Department of State

United States Consulate, Philippines

Immigrant Visa Branch

United States Embassy

1201 Roxas Blvd

Ermita 1000

Manila

March 20, 2006

To Whom It May Concern:

I, <your name>, do hereby state that I am legally able and willing to marry <name of fiance>, and intend to do so within 90 days of her entry into the United States using the K-1 Visa.

Signed,

Maybe I chose the wrong forum, maybve I have ticked some people off( No ever said I did) But I think it because I smell. Everytime I make a post the thread goes dead. I must apologize if I kill the conversations, or is this VJ community so tightly there is no room. All I was trying to say in my last post is WE HAVE AN INTERVIEW DATE 11-01-2006. We are so excited, can anyone be excited for us! In case not:

Congradulation on your interview date!!!

Congratulations to both of you!!! I don't yet know how that feels, but I've got a pretty good imagination. I think anyone who makes it through this process in one piece deserves a HUGE CONGRATS!

Hi all

I think I am going to try and accompany Evelyn for her interview in Manila. I've started gathering all the information I need to send to her in the interim. But, since I'm planning on being there anyway, I was thinking I would just bring everything with me when I go, rather ship it. Is there any reason why I would need to send this stuff off to her now, or can I wait and hand deliver? Seems a much safer exercise to pack it in my carry-on.

I'm just bumping this up for one more try at a response. Basically, I'm just wondering if all this stuff needs to be sent ahead of the interview? Thanks!

My wife speaks English pretty well. The worse thing she does is mixing up him, her, he and she. Will start talking about a man and say she. Have to ask her who the hell are you talking about. LOL

Yes . . . same here. Must be a filipina thing. She also sometimes takes things very literally. Like when I told her once that I couldn't wait to see her. I had to explain that it was just an expression. She thought I meant I would truly not be able to wait. We were almost to tears on that one . . .

Watching the sunrise and seeing the woods and world come alive

Watching the sunset, seeing it all go back to sleep again

Fridays . . . what can possibly go wrong on a Friday?

Hanging out with my kids

Remembering all those times I hung out with my kids

My Springers

Listening to music / playing my guitar

Doing little things that mean a lot to someone else

Evelyn's smile . . . nothing compares to this

Hi all

I think I am going to try and accompany Evelyn for her interview in Manila. I've started gathering all the information I need to send to her in the interim. But, since I'm planning on being there anyway, I was thinking I would just bring everything with me when I go, rather ship it. Is there any reason why I would need to send this stuff off to her now, or can I wait and hand deliver? Seems a much safer exercise to pack it in my carry-on.

HELLO....I HAVE RENEWED MY PASSPORT..DO I NEED TO SUBMIT MY OLD PASSPORT TO THE EMBASSY? PLSS ANWER ME..THANKS

You can keep your old passport for reference sake but give your new passport to the embassy. And by the way, does your husband know that you dress like that ( suggestively) on the internet ???

As explained to me once, your old passport is still a source of identification. It's just not valid documentation for international travel. In other words, hang on to it. I always bring my old passport when I travel just in case I lose my current one. And . . . "suggestively"? I would say that is pretty typical filipina dress. I don't think it means anything, nor do I think it is suggestive.

Both ....I just got off the phone with the Visa Specialist in DC and they told me they don't have a number yet!! Sooo What can I say just wait....at least I know NVC won't hold it up.....I just wish there was something more concrete!!

You've been waiting for a month......Have they sent you anything with the new number??

Nothing yet. I just talked to the DOS and they never heard of such a thing. She suggested that I call the Manila embassy and see if its there.

Until you have reason to think otherwise, consider yourself blessed to have one less level of bureaucracy standing between you and your dream.

I think your friend and his fiancee need to have a talk. Explain your his feelings to her, and find out what the major draw is for her. Is she faced with an upcoming immigration and looking at the prospect of not getting to go to these shindigs for a while, maybe wanting to have one last great night with the friends? Is it something else? An honest dialogue will do you them a lot of good. Just remember that she loves you him, speak from love and not fear and you'll he'll be just fine.

Your typewriter doesn't have correction ink? B)

. . . but I think that's correction 'ribbon'. Ink came after typewriters, right?

This gets pretty subjective. But, if you have a long distance relationship, you really have to come to terms with the trust thing . . . esp when the distance involves two people with an entire planet between them. You have to trust no matter what. That's always a risk, but that's life. If you can't trust, you might as well end it now. On the other hand, you have to wonder why she would want to go to an all night beach party without her other half. But for some people, it would be no big deal. This is where it gets subjective. If Evelyn wanted to go, it would bother me because it would be out of character for her. But I know some women who could go, and it wouldn't mean anything.

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I relayed all of this to my friend to which he said he is very grateful for all the honest feedback from everyone here. He says you guys rock! He has good news that he and his fiancee worked out a compromise. She will go to the beach on Sunday.

Much appreciated! My friend says!

Joseph...

Out of curiousity, what makes you think this one is going to be different? Sounds like you've had some disastrous luck with Eastern European women...

I agree. If it were me I'd be taking some time out to take a long hard look at why this happens. In other words, give the visa-fiance'-marriage thing a rest, and find out what's causing you to pick the wrong women. Maybe they are fine women, just not a match for you and your life.

cockroaches/palmetto bugs freak me out. And in Florida we have plenty of them.

We also have a lot of lizards and spiders, but both do not bother me as much as seeing a gross roach. Lizards are cute. And they EAT roaches. So do spiders.

Lizards eat roaches? They are my new best friends...I'm going to let them roam in my house as long as they want.

This reminded me of when my young son's two Ball Pythons got loose in the house. I have a very old house (1912) and when the weather turns cold, the mice move inside where it's warm. They've been doing this longer than I've been alive, and you're aren't going to stop them now! But, during the 8 months the pythons were loose in the house (yes, it took us 8 months to find them . . . it's a big house!), there was not a single mouse to be seen or heard . . .

Steven, I agree this is dispicable . . . the stuff Foley was involved in is dispicable and any cover-up or looking the other way is just as dispacable. Both need to be punished. But neither party has a corner on bad behavior. There are plenty of skeletons in both closets. I can't remember the last time I voted for a Democrat, but the Republicans are losing me fast. They've had an incredible opportunity with control of both houses, and the exec and, imo, have squandered that opportunity on several important fronts. I have a co-worker/friend from the UK who comes to the states to visit now and then. Ask him his opinion of Tony Blair and politicians in general and he will say . . . "Oh, they're all rubbish in my opinion". That about sums it up. There are some good ones out there, but the parties as a whole . . . very disappointing.

I wrote this in my down time, lord only knows us VJ folks have too much of that.Tell me what u think.

I think you are inlove.

I'm sure there are aspects of the consulate in Russia that you are much more equipped to comment on than me and I would never give advice regarding that location as I totally lack that experience. Consulates vary greatly and it's best to only consider information regarding a consulate that comes from that particular consulate or direct experience.

I agree, but welcome all opinions. My situation is specific to Philippines, and understand that advice given for other consulates may not apply. However, I'm not the only one reading this thread, so information about other consulates is also valuable, right? So, my thanks to everyone for their information. Just, please . . . no personal attacks. It isn't necessary. So . . . back to the topic . . . it sounds like I should go for the interview. My concern was that my attendance at the interview would be needed to demonstrate we were serious and legit. I'll probably plan on attending, then return later to bring her home.

Hmm...Gary why is he asking you?

This might be more about testing the waters with you than it is about a piercing.

*never underestimate the trickiness of a teenager - even the good ones*

It's both. He has an answer from mom, which he would like to change, so . . . let's see what step-dad-to-be says. Then he can go back to mom and say . . . well, Gary says . . . Just be careful how you play this because you don't want to be put in a position between mom and son.

Hi all. I'm sure this has been discussed somewhere, so sorry if I'm duplicating efforts. I think our interview in Manila will be somewhere in the December to February timeframe. I just returned from Phils, and so am naturally already planning my next trip! I have a couple questions for those of you who have already been down the interview path . . .

First, should I, or do I, go with Evelyn to Manila when she has her interview, or does she go alone?

Second, is the medical in Manila, and can it be scheduled at approximately the same time as the interview so that we could make a single trip?

Finally, how soon after the interview completes can we expect the visa in hand? When she is ready to leave Phils, I would go there to bring her back to the states, and I imagine this would have to be a separate, later trip from the interview, right?

Thanks!!

Without going into a lot of detail, I requested an expedite on our k-1, and as you can tell from the timeline, I was somewhat less than successful! The problem was on my end, not Evelyn's, and was medical, possibly life threatening, and could mean that I would soon be unable to travel. Not good enough for Immigration. They didn't come back and ask for additional supporting evidence. Just a flat out decline. But it wasn't a big deal for me. I just thought it was worth a shot.