AfricanQ

17 minutes ago, Aburashid said:

Hello, congrats on your marriage. You and your husband still have a bit of a journey ahead, and you've already experienced that the U.S. Embassy in Ghana is no easy walk in the park. It's good that you're doing what you can while in Ghana. You should also begin to focus on building up your bonafides on the U.S. side as soon as you get back. Very essential suggestions would be to put him on your health insurance plan, life insurance policy, other beneficiary documents, and above all, file him on your taxes as a spouse as soon as you are able. The tax issue is very important, but it is not easy since he won't have U.S. ID number. I have suggestions for that should you or your husband wish to follow up in private. I filed for my Ghanaian wife last year with success--she and our twins are by my side as I write this, so been there and done that, and willing to help if I can. 

Wow, thank you very much and congrats on ur family. Reglading the tax, my tax has been filed already before i arrived to Ghana n got married. I'd checked on filling as married and was told that I wasn't married in 2017 to add him. Other than that, he on everything I'm able to add him on

Hello VJ

I'm back again....I am currently in Ghana for my wedding which took place April 14th.  I've also been busy gathering supporting documents for my next filling. Anyway, my husband and I went to open a joint bank account in Ghana and was told i need a permit to do that because am not a Ghana citizen.  Is there any other way to get a joint account without getting a permit?  My time here is limited....I'm planning on getting a permit for my next trip n adding it to the NVC stage. So far, we have joint capital one credit card. Would it be a problem not adding the joint checking/saving accounts when milling the forms?

2 hours ago, O&GForever said:

I think you have excellent evidence to front load your case. You’re off to a great start. Remember that you can keep collecting evidence to submit during the NVC phase and the interview. 

Thank you so much.  Yes, I'll submit evidence from the 4th trip to NVC and evidence of my 5th trip for the interview to support him. Question: looking for the date on form I-130, it expires  7/31/218. Does that mean the fees are changing?  Thinking abt mailing my package end of May....would it be a problem due to the fact that is abt to expire?

11 hours ago, ms_bobdog said:

That is for those who have been married in any part of the tax year and filed as single. You are ok in this.

Thank u so much guys. I really nervus abt this process.....don't wanna make any mistake 

6 minutes ago, ms_bobdog said:

It goes by the tax year. Not the year you file. So if you were single the whole of 2017, you would have filed as single.

Thank you so much guys. I was just worried becuz I read reviews about cases being refused becuz of filing single while married.

12 minutes ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

I would imagine,

 

You have been single through the whole 2017 tax year , so what's to amend? 

 

Next year file jointly for 2018 returns.

 That's what I thought But I wasn't sure.

I have a question: I plan on filing my tax this month March 2018. My wedding is in April 2018. How do I file? ....Single? Then amend it after we get married? Please help!!!!!!

I have one simple question. Okay!

I plan on filing my tax return this month March 2018. My wedding is set for April 14, 2018. Do I file still tax as single and not married filing separately??

Good day,

My fiance and I were recently denied for K1 visa in Dec 2017 due to the CO not convinced enough that we would get married upon his arrival. We had an engagement ceremory and it was taken as a marriage ceremony.  I'll be traveling to Ghana April for our wedding ceremony and start the spouse visa. I am a little worried regarding what to mail with our package. List of documents we plan in mailing.

1.I-130 form

2.I-130A form

3.Marriage certificate

4.Passport photos from the both of us

5.Birth certificate from beneficiary

6.401K and life insurance: husband as my beneficiary

7.Joint credit card (capital one)

8.Joint checking/saving account in Ghana

9.Affidavit from family and friends

10.Passport stamps/Tickets/visa stamps from my previous trips to Ghana. (April will make my 3rd trip) I plan on going back after the wedding and for his interview which will make 5 trips total. 

11.Pictures of places we both visited also with family and friends, engagement and wedding.

12.Passport stamp from my mother passport as she will be traveling to Ghana with me. 

13. Letter from from my husband and I regarding what led to marriage.

14. Text messages, email chats, video chats, whatsapp call log, Facebook posts

15. Naturalization certificate

16. Receipts from hotels during my stay and receipts from items for the wedding.

17. Wedding invitation card/guest list

18. Church record of marriage 

Am I missing anything else?

1 hour ago, She0710 said:

Ummm that’s very stupid. Doesn’t make sense at all. So now u have to do the entire process over again? 

Yes, we are starting the process all over again this time CR1 visa. We are collecting all over proofs. 

1 hour ago, She0710 said:

Okay thanks so much for the advice, I’m actually currently working on adding him to my bank acct i have in the US as well as my life insurance. He will also add me to all of his Life insurance as well as his bank Accts. 

i just checked your time line, what’s going on with your case?

was it denied? 

Yes, it was due to the fact that we looked too married for K1. We are currently planning on getting married in April when i get to ghana. N file CR1 

We had an enagement ceremory and the Officer thought we were married due to tht. Go under K1 n look for 221g i wrote the whole story n got get advice on my next step

22 minutes ago, AfricanQ said:

My fiance took updated letter of Intent to marry . It was less than a month old before the interview becuz i was there in Nov, 2017 and the interview was Dece 6, 2017,....also, emails abt our discussions of our wedding, pic of my wedding wear that got in ghana. ( ghana doest provide receipts. ) smh

We will do just that! How do u go abt withdrawing the K1? Do i write the embassy or USCIS?? I feel little better knwing where we stand. I cant to see my bae in April. We have already started getting our proofs. 

20 minutes ago, Ebunoluwa said:

Hurray for the embassy finally clarifying that k1's aren't reviewed 

as most still follow old templates of review which slipped into one of their sentence.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 yes, i was shocked when i saw that statment " Abt time"

Happy that i knw where we stand

16 minutes ago, Ebunoluwa said:

Did you not have him bring  updated intent to marry letters 

from both of you and receipts from 

a wedding dress or other items such as a potential venue for a wedding here ? Yes, very likely they believe you are already married as I previously stated.

Yes you can marry and file, don't have to wait and don't have to withdraw the previous petition. You can, if it makes you feel better, 

attach a simple statement  of withdrawal with your new petition.

My fiance took updated letter of Intent to marry . It was less than a month old before the interview becuz i was there in Nov, 2017 and the interview was Dece 6, 2017,....also, emails abt our discussions of our wedding, pic of my wedding wear that got in ghana. ( ghana doest provide receipts. ) smh

15 hours ago, She0710 said:

So my husband and i don’t have any joint Accts. However i have proof that we have been friends since 2010 and started dating in 2015. I have pfroof of us on face time all the text messages since we started dating and some call logs. 

Do u advice that we get a joint bank account and have him put me on his health insurance ? 

 

Again, Ghana is a very hard embassy. They will need more than just being friends for years, face time, text etcs. They really want to see hard core proofs. More trips, joint bank accounts, his name on ur life or health insurace, trips taken together or with family. 

My fiance is the second user on my Capital One credit card, we will also get a joint checking and saving account in ghana when i arrive there in April 2018. Hes also the benifciary on my life insurance ill also add him to my health insurance and 401K. So do get a joint bank account were u both are using so u can bank statments the more hard core proofs the better

4 minutes ago, geowrian said:

That's correct. They won't issue a NOID for an I-129F and it will just sit to expire.

In my readings from others, the "won't marry within 90 days" line is typically the cause stated when they believe you may already be married / are uncertain of it.

Exactly!!! Thats what i thought when i 1st read it. The officer thought we were married. 

I emailed the Embassy regarding our case and this was the response i got today

" Case notes indicate the interviewing officer's decision to return the petition to USCIS for review and possible revocation. This action followed the officer's  interview in which sufficient evidence was not convince the officer of the intent to marry within 90 days. Applicant's passport was returned and instructions were given regarding next steps. When USCIS receives returned K1 petitions, they do not send the petitioner (NOIR) as they do with I-130 petitions. Therefore, the petitioner can either file another K1 petition or marry the beneficiary and file an I-130 petition."

9 hours ago, Ebunoluwa said:

Remember there are different AP's that I had explained earlier.

 

AP= security and background checks.

AP= to issue the visa that takes administrative processing for a day or two.
AP= administrative processing while the petition is returned to die the death of expiration.

That is why one must be sure where the file/case is first before moving to the next step.
If you are sure it has been returned then you can marry and file a CR1.
Don't let others rattle you with stories about a returned and resurrected reaffirmed I-129 petition for a K1. Not happening. Not country 
specific. 

The issue now is that our wedding is plan for April 2018. I dont want the case whereby our CR 1 doesnt get approve becuz of the AP from K1. And  we dont  wanna wait around for months becuz of AP to later find out our case was returned. Our status still shows AP n is been over a month.....wouldnt it show return by now being that 221g states is being returned.?  So, even if we found out the reason for the return but it still shows AP would tht case issue with our next case CR1??  Or can withdraw our K1 or just leave it to expire?

On 1/20/2018 at 8:39 AM, She0710 said:

I am the beneficiary and i received a case complete on 1/17/2018. I have a few concerns. I am from Ghana and my husband is a USC. I initially moved to the US back in 2005 my step father was filling for me, we were beneficiaries under my mother. Long story short it just never worked out, and they got divorced. When my mother went for her final interview she got denied. However we never received any emails or letter in the mail. I met my husband in college in 2009 but we never dated until 2015. We have been inseparable ever since until i stupidly decided to go to Ghana for a few weeks but left before i got an approved AP travel doc. (Now I’m stuck in Ghana) my husband who was my bf then came to visit 2 months later which was in November of 2016. His very first time in Africa and Ghana. He met my entire family and my father even took us all out to a resort at our home town. He then came again to visit in feb 2017 and this time he proposed and we got married at the registrar office in Ghana the day he was leaving. Prior to me leaving the US we had talked about marriage and all so this was something we knew e wanted to do. Anyway we started the immigration process the following month. He then came to visit for the 3rd time in July and again in December of 2017. We spent the holidays together and all. 

 

Okay my my main concern is there might be a few red flags in the sight of the CO however we are madly in love and want to be together. My husband has even tried to move to Ghana while waiting for this process but there hasn’t been any luck with him finding a job. 

I would like to know if it’s a bad thing to flood them with a lot of pictures and text messages. We talk and text all day everyday. This has been our life ever since we started dating. I took screenshots of text messages in just this past December and i have 107 pages worth of pictures from the screenshots. This is just in one month and it not even screenshots of our convos from the entire month just a selection of it. 

I want the CO to truly understand that this relationship is real but idk if it’s a bad thing to flood them with too much info. Also we have almost 1k worth of pics from since we met even as friends. Please any advice would be helpful. Thanks! 

Ghana is a very hard enbassy. I said give them every document u have to proof ur relationship.( Joint bank account etc...) Also get ready for questions abt u leaving the US without an approval. Make sure to have all the proves to fix that issue. 

I believe that if it werent for ur wife's past issues with her ex hushand/green card, the visa wouldve been issued. They are right get ur congress person to contact the embassy on ur behalf and  get a lawyer. Also try to get every documents u have on her green card/ex hushand issue and fix it. From reading ur story, the issue is from whatever happened while she was in the states to her leaving. 

On 12/8/2017 at 10:33 AM, EandH0904 said:

Are you sure? Is this country specific? I know there have been posts from the Morocco portal about people who got married and filed CR1 since their AP was taking forever and they got RFE wanting resolution of the K1 petition. 

 

 

See, thats what am  afaid of that....our case is still in AP as of now

Besides, we have an idea as to why the case is being returned. 1 of 3 or maybe all 3

1. Looked "Too Married" for K1 but not married enough for CR1

2. Needed more then just 2 trips to prove a bona fida relationship

3. Engaged on the 1st trip (Red Flag)

All these can be over come by getting married and filing CR1, more trips and evidents. 

1 hour ago, Ebunoluwa said:

Congressman can not "open the case" that was closed by the consulate, only open the case in his / her office to inquire the reason.
When you ask senator's aid for help YOU must be in charge and tell them exactly what you want done. They are usually also clueless but will
follow your direction if you are assertive enough. Never let them make the decisions for you. 
What you wanted was to contact the embassy and ask for reason of return. That doesn't take 15 months but the embassy has to respond
within 30 days to the senator's inquiry. The embassy can chose to not let them know the reason if they want to be stupid about it but that is not
a 15 months ordeal. Whoever said that has it mixed up with a CR/IR return and NOID for reaffirmation which would take about 6-12 months to
receive a NOID. ( NOID contains the reasons for return for CR/IR spousal type visas only)
You can try a different senator's office for reason of return inquiry or forget it and file again after you married.
Don't overwhelm a senator's office with long stories.....you simply say you want them to inquiry of the reason it was returned. Bang ...that's it.
Any further long story will confuse them. 
 

Yea, she sounded very confused over the phone. 1st she mentioned tht she emailed my fiance with the result and closed in their office then, she started talking abt 214b then later said no wait his was 221g. I did informed to her that we only want to knw the reason for the return that was when she said she,would open our case in her office and email the embassy. She got her  cases confused becuz 15 months is for CR1....thats what i thought.  Ill just forget it n get married. I also emailed the embassy yesterday hoping to get an answer. 

14 minutes ago, AfricanQ said:

Called the congress office today n my case wasnt even looked at. 😔 she said with cases like this, is taking 15months to get an answer. Normally the OC doesnt give reasons for the returned so her best advice is for us to reapply. 

After lnforming her of the dpucments tht were collected after the interview, she said she would open the case but doesnt knw when she will contact the embassy. SMH!!!. She knws is a dead end from here thts y much afford is not being put in the case..... We going to get married and file CR1 end of story!!!

Called the congress office today n my case wasnt even looked at. 😔 she said with cases like this, is taking 15months to get an answer. Normally the OC doesnt give reasons for the returned so her best advice is for us to reapply.