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    Best Birthday ever!!

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Ahmed&Freda said:

    My husband's first interview was on his birthday in 2017 and did not end as we hoped.    His third and final trip to Islamabad embassy happened to be on my birthday.  After spending 4 hours at the embassy he walked out with Visa in hand (yes this actually happened)!!!

     

    Alhamdulillah!!!!

     

    I'll update more later after I get over the initial shock.  

     

    Ahmed is coming home!!!

     

     

     

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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  CONGRATULATIONS!  

    Islamabad Consulate interviews 2018

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    Had our interview on March 18, immediately accused us of marriage fraud.

    • How did you meet? Kept asking how did we meet through facebook? (No you're lying, if you don't speak truth you'll be banned forever of entering the US) *note: this CO could not move past this
    • Why would you marry a woman 15 years older than you? (commented on how I have a daughter close to his age. Kept smiling and laughing at the idea of us even being together)
    • She came and met you while she was still married to her husband? (Questioned my meeting him while I was legally separated from my ex husband who was no longer in my house anymore and questioned our communicating during that separation)
    • Why was it a court marriage? Why not a traditional one? (CO smiled and laughed at the answer of my husband's grandfathers passing, Eid celebrations going on, and prior family wedding that immediate family was already committed to)
    • Where did you travel? (CO questioned how he paid to travel to these places but didn't invite any of my family and friends over here to meet or for our wedding and should have used the money on them)
    • Where did your wife go to high school? (My husband would not have remembered that bc he doesn't know the area like a local does to have remembered that, plus I've never seen anyone get asked this question for us to worry of getting asked it) 
    • Where does your wife work and what does she do? (he said at walmart and is the dept manager of bakery and the CO response was "what's that?")
    • Why did you marry a christian lady? When did she convert? (I reverted before marriage and it says under religion on nadra certificate Islam) 
    • How many times has she come to see you and where did you go and stay? (Husband told him Lahore, Islamabad, Murree. Was questioned why Lahore, why all the places we have been)
    • Why hasn't she gone to meet your family? (Husband said it isn't safe to take me to Quetta, that's why. I've seen where another was questioned for putting their wife in danger by taking her there. So we are wrong in both ways of doing it. I do video calls with the family) 
    • Were you a refugee in/from another country at any time? (What stupid question was this?)

    In the end, they took his medical, did not ask for my i864 or tax transcripts for 2017 or 2018 (which shows he is on my tax returns with a legal ITIN number). Did not give any 221g paper. Did not keep his passport. Was told goodbye, your case looks like fraud to us, we are sending back to NVC. 

    medical fee cost at each clinic in Pakistan

    in Asia: South

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, Maham10 said:

    I had my medical done in first week of January for K1, it's cost me Rs. 30,554. And it's not just any clinic. There are a few designated clinics in major cities that are authorized to do the medical exam for U.S. visas. Hope that helps.

    We know which clinics. There is one in Islamabad, one in Lahore, and one in Karachi. But I've seen where each cost different, so we were wondering the amounts at each.

    medical fee cost at each clinic in Pakistan

    in Asia: South

    Posted

    I want to find out, of those who have already gone and had medical done in Pakistan, how much it cost them for everything at any of the clinics providing exams?  When did you have it done and the cost at that time? My husband and I need to make sure he has enough on him to cover it all when he is there. Thanks in advance.

    Immigration wait destroys marriages?

    in General Immigration-Related Discussion

    Posted

    The main reason for posting this question was merely curiosity. Many things factor into relationships not making it. And it isn't a matter of not loving each other either. The stresses of this process, regardless of knowing what you sign up for in the beginning, can become more than one or both ever expected. Yes, you should know what you signed up for when you start this whole relationship, marriage, immigration process. And majority do, and believe they can make it through these stresses....but no one knows the extent until you go through it. 

     

    This was not a post in relation to my own marriage or our own stresses with this wait to be together.  It was just as I said, merely curiosity.....thank you everyone for their opinions. 

    Immigration wait destroys marriages?

    in General Immigration-Related Discussion

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, Ahmed&Freda said:

    My husband and I have faced so much anxiety and depression through this whole process but never does divorce come to our minds.  We have thought of moving to a neutral place until this is over but to be honest the stress from us both moving, transitioning children, finding jobs, having enough money to survive is just to great for us to deal with  right now.   There are many couples that have to live apart for different reasons.  Military wives do it all the time why their husbands go on tour.  I just keep telling myself this is temporary (even though we are on year 2) one day we will look back at what we had to endure to live together it will be a constant reminder to be thankful for each time we drive each other crazy.   

    You leave in just over a week, don't you? I'm sure you can not sleep from anxiousness 

    May 2018 Potomac service center

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    On 9/5/2018 at 7:39 PM, EandH0904 said:

    Others of us who have gone through Potomac (and updated profiles) can be seen by looking at the "Processing Times" link at the top. 

    Here is a quicklink. You can sort by processing center or NOA1 date or a number of things.  

     

    http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list.php?op3=5

     

    I was a Dec 2017 case and was approved last week. 

     

    If you look at the USCIS processing times, it's 8.5 months - 11.5 months at Potomac. Meaning 50% of cases will be adjudicated in 8.5 months and 95% of cases will be adjudicated in 11.5 months. Of course there will be some that are done sooner and some that take longer. 

     

    https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/

    If everyone who signed up on this site and created their timeline would update theirs when things progress, it would help the rest of us following that are trying to get an idea of wait times. 

    My husbands visa was denied solely on the reason we met on facebook. Is it a legal reason?

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

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    8 minutes ago, Ahmed&Freda said:

    My husband is also from Quetta.  I did get married there with his family and friends but any other time we are together its in Islamabad or Dubai.  I stayed at the Serena in Quetta and only went to a few places people came all over to see me..lol but I never felt I was in danger.  My husband's uncle is an officer so I was collected off the plane by guards and kept very safe.   

    We have stayed in Lahore or Islamabad the 3 times I've gone over. We have made plans for me to go to Quetta but as it got close to my trip last September, Trump had made remarks that caused issues and made traveling an increased threat to US citizens. You are lucky his uncle is an officer and could assist you, my husband doesn't have that to help us. I've been told by him that when I do get there in Quetta it will be a sight for everyone lol.

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