IzzieLove

Whether he was Black American, Asian American or African, his background can still affect his perception of things. Subjectivity! I mentioned his race and nationality to emphasize that he should have understood what I meant when I captioned a picture “engagement party”. Out of all I typed, this is what you chose to respond to? Give me a break!

Probably good in your circumstances.  State your current income as the income for the 12 months going forward.  State your 2018 income from the tax return.  Put zeros in for the other two years, and write on the last page of the form, "Not required to file.  Student with income below filing threshold, for 2016 and 2017."

Although yours went smoothly and u were approved,   many hundreds do not and the heartbreak is real
and no one real is out to scare without cause
VJ members are trying to help with what we have seen in the past from Nigeria / the NOIR's , the NOID's 
the members who ask WHY and HOW this could happen to them, need help (if we can give it)
comments here are not meant to scare/ they are sincere and honest and sometimes can sound brutal (as mine do) 
but i went thru 6 years of an immigration nightmare to be with my husband and the VJ members helped

Well not sure about your case since it is Ghana and a high fraud country. But to give you a comparison - I was in the US for "only" half a year and married my wife without a church ceremony. Only my stepkids were present and neither parents or siblings of us. I bought the ring actually even after the wedding. We had no classical wedding dress etc. I just told my parents afterwards that I married. It was a marriage/wedding out of love and not to impress someone. USCIS approved it without problems. So i think the actual ceremony etc isn't important. But i would and we did write a letter explaining every thing. How you met, when how often and what led to the wedding etc.

We were married at the counsel and had a dinner of about 50 people afterward. I came to marry my husband alone...no family.....December will be trip #3......Since no family came....I have screenshots of my husband conversing with my mother, father, grandparents, uncles, friends and brothers. I think you will be ok.....I seen several approvals from Ghana without family members present....Evidence, family time, and visits are key with Ghana and ensuring ur hubby is prepared at the interview.
 
I also had my mother write a affidavit of support letter stating that a wedding will also be planned in the United States

Definately will need some personal insight from other users from Ghana as it is a tough embassy and they look at local traditions/customs heavily. So as to marriage especially, the wedding itself can be a huge factor as to how it was done, who was there, ect.

Some bickering posts have been removed.  No need to argue or pick hairs.
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Physical descriptions of a CO can be useful to other imminent interviewees if the CO's behavior or treatment was rude or rogue (an extra "be on your toes" tip), or if his/her skills in the native language are weak, for example.  Beyond that, COs are trained to follow policy, and their decisions (especially denials) are reviewed by superiors.  COs move to different posts every 2 years, typically.

I am saying that he was black American just to show that there was no cultural barriers and he should have understood the term “engagement party”. I am Black and American as well!

Hello everyone, let me share my story with you all. We applied for the k1 visa back in summer of 2017 and last week he finally made it to bis interview. Everything was going well until the officer went through our proof of relationship file and found 1- out of the hundreds of texts we submitted, my fiance jokingly called me his beautiful wife/bride and 2- a picture of me and his family in Ghana at a restauranr celibrating the fact that we are engaged. I labeled the picture “engagement dinner” and stamped the date of the dinner. Because of these two incidents, they accused us of being married and denied us under 221G. We both have never been married and we arent married to each other. We didnt have ANY pictures of us wearing matching traditional african print  fabrics or wedding rings. We do not have any wedding/marriage certificate and no evidence of us being married. 
 
To me, it makes no sense to deny a couple based on a picture and a text. Im American and engagement party refers to a celebration of an engagement, NOT A WEDDING. The guy who interviewed my fiance was a black American man and to me it feels like he was just looking for a reason to deny us. On the paper he wrote CR1 Spouse visa and told my fiance that we are married and filed the wrong visa class. I will attach the letter he gave him to this post. Please learn from our “mistakes”. We’re both in our early 20s and calling each other wifey and hubby is very common. I am just angry that they denied us and did not ask us to submit evidence to prove we are both single and never been married. The letter said that our petition will be sent back to NVC and then to USCIS. I called the NVC and they have yet to receive the case. I am just so discouraged that after waiting over a year and spending all this money, it has come to this. These people are literally destroying families and lives. We’re both clueless and dont know what else to do.
 
has anyone ever been in a similar situation?
 
has anyone ever appealed a denial?
 
My dream was not to get married in Ghana but to do it back home in the States. Is the spouse visa our only option now?
 
If yes, how soon can i petition a spouse visa? Do i have to officially wait for our k1 case to close?

Sorry that you've had to go through this. As others have said, it definitely pays to read up as much as you can on VJ before submitting any evidence and you will know this now for the future, it's just a shame you've had to learn the hard way.
 
When we applied for K1, I made sure I changed my fiances name on my phone from 'Wifey' before I printed out Whatsapp chat logs, as after reading various threads on VJ I was so paranoid that something like this might happen.
 

Write letter to UCSIC, asking to withdraw your K1 Petition, they will send you confirmation of your request,   then you can get married and file a CF1 visa.
 
Send it UPS or USPS with required signature so you know they receive it.
 
 
 
 

Hello everyone, let me share my story with you all. We applied for the k1 visa back in summer of 2017 and last week he finally made it to bis interview. Everything was going well until the officer went through our proof of relationship file and found 1- out of the hundreds of texts we submitted, my fiance jokingly called me his beautiful wife/bride and 2- a picture of me and his family in Ghana at a restauranr celibrating the fact that we are engaged. I labeled the picture “engagement dinner” and stamped the date of the dinner. Because of these two incidents, they accused us of being married and denied us under 221G. We both have never been married and we arent married to each other. We didnt have ANY pictures of us wearing matching traditional african print  fabrics or wedding rings. We do not have any wedding/marriage certificate and no evidence of us being married. 
 
To me, it makes no sense to deny a couple based on a picture and a text. Im American and engagement party refers to a celebration of an engagement, NOT A WEDDING. The guy who interviewed my fiance was a black American man and to me it feels like he was just looking for a reason to deny us. On the paper he wrote CR1 Spouse visa and told my fiance that we are married and filed the wrong visa class. I will attach the letter he gave him to this post. Please learn from our “mistakes”. We’re both in our early 20s and calling each other wifey and hubby is very common. I am just angry that they denied us and did not ask us to submit evidence to prove we are both single and never been married. The letter said that our petition will be sent back to NVC and then to USCIS. I called the NVC and they have yet to receive the case. I am just so discouraged that after waiting over a year and spending all this money, it has come to this. These people are literally destroying families and lives. We’re both clueless and dont know what else to do.
 
has anyone ever been in a similar situation?
 
has anyone ever appealed a denial?
 
My dream was not to get married in Ghana but to do it back home in the States. Is the spouse visa our only option now?
 
If yes, how soon can i petition a spouse visa? Do i have to officially wait for our k1 case to close?

He’s not a supportive brother ☹️