Lance27

Congratulations!!!

The best way to learn Arabic (if you just want to converse) is to learn the words and then try to put them into sentences. I would suggest trying to converse with your SO. As for the alphabets, they are not hard at all, its actually trying to put them together to form words that can be a little of a challenge.

I worked in the ME for about 7 years and had a good oppertunity to pick up the language since I worked with and had to interact with a lot of people who knew little to no English, but I suppose it will be a little more of a challenge for you since you only have one person who you could converse with.

As a person who is not of ME decent I can tell you that it is a wonderful learning experience

Good luck

So Sad.

####### is a 15 YO girl going to a party and spending the night with over 20 year olds? Where TF were the parents!?

I was wondering the same thing.

Tell her not to get her hopes up... she can apply for the visa and see what happens. IMO from what you mentioned though the chances do not look too promising.

Congratulations!!

Can you please let us know what you have filed for? K1/K3, CR1/IR1?

Hi and welcome

My case was with the NVC for less then a week. I believe that is average for K-1 processing. A lot of petitions that are NVC bound get stuck at USCIS, as they wait for their boxes to fill up before sending a bundle to the NVC.

Also, rumor has it they hired a tortoise to move the mountains of paperwork from USCIS to NVC. I guess that's better then hiring the hare...

Or the hare took half the paperwork and fell asleep midway, thats why some of the paperwork reach NVC faster and some take longer.

Yup, never hurts to call and ask if they can accomodate your request. Would a later date help? You could also ask if they cannot schedule you in earlier if they can get you a later date.

Should not be a problem.

My wife worked for only 6 months last year as she lived in Canada prior to that and had no income. The CO just anualised her income. Her employment letter did state that she made more than enough over the poverty guidlines and we included 2 recent pay stubs since it shows a YTD amount on the bottom.

Good luck

Yemen

Civil lawsuites interesting.

Reminds me of how I called Montreal 5 times in 26 days... Im sure when I showed up at the interview they must have thought..."so this is the guy who kept bugging us" and Im sure they must have just been relieved that my interview date was done with

Updated - added a Status column for any differentials..

thanks for the input guys!

glad you all like it =)

I was so proud when I was done last night.. only took two hrs of checking and cross checking... (as I'm sure you can see from the posts here)

It looks great and very user friendly. Good job.

Just to be on the safe side of things, send in the check with the new fees. If you are worried about the first check, you can put a stop payment on that check with your financial institution.

Good luck.

lol... its a girl. Now I am curious to see what it returns for others

Agreed.

Print off the link from the travel.state.gov website and take along with the you to the interview.

I had emailed the same question to the Consulate here in Montreal about working in Kuwait and a Police Clearance and they replied that it was not needed.

I printed off the email along with the screen print from the website that stated it was not required. I was asked at the interview but I told them that it was not needed.

Forget about that certificate, the consular officers are instructed by DoS to waive the requirement for police cert from UAE unless you are living in the UAE.

Police Records

Available, only if applicant is physically present in the UAE.

Police certificates may be obtained by any person, regardless of nationality, by personally appearing at the Central Police Headquarters located in the emirate of residence or former residence. When appearing to request a police certificate, the applicant should provide recent photographs, a letter from the requesting authority, the date of residence in the emirate, and their passport.

Not available by mail. Post recommends that consular officers waive the general requirement to obtain police certificates unless the applicant lives in the UAE.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/reciproc...ocity_3698.html

Example: http://london.usembassy.gov/cons_new/visa/iv/pbcerts.html

Bom Jesus Church Braga Portugal?

Congrats, glad to know it all went well.

Hi Liz,

Just wanted to say Galateia was scheduled July 5 but she has asked to be rescheduled. Not sure if you want to add re-scheduled interview column to the worksheet.

I guess you could just change it when she has her new interview date and put an astrix to show it was re-scheduled.

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations again and great review!

Forget about the Canadian side, that's not your issue.

I'd do it out of spite!

You will be able to get some really good reviews here...

http://www.visajourney.com/reviews/index.php

Good luck with the upcomming interview.

Cogratulations!! Glad your story has a happy ending