Aniomaman

Congrats!

Vik's UK Visa has been renewed... Now, if only the US would get its act together!

Now that's brilliant! Just waiting on the interview date, right?

Definitely bluffing! Normal processing time is about 6 months, so sit back and relax. You definitely don't need a travel agency for the K-1 visa, they can't do nothing to speed up the process.

Congrats!

It doesn't 'erase' the red flags but helps address them, lots of communication and pictures will help. The fact that you have your kids when you visit helps but that's just my personal opinion. Just gather as much proof to show if they bring up any of those issues at the interview stage. All the best.

I would say he should answer and probably it's best you both practise this before the interview. Nigerians(am a Nigerian) DON'T normally marry older women and marrying one who is 10 years older would raise eyebrows but then he could tell them the qualities he sees in you which made him make that decision. Does he get along with your kids? Like do they talk on the phone or online? I believe they will ask him stuff about your kids so he should definitely be ready for that. You really cannot answer the questions asked, he is in a better position to do so.

As for marrying on your first meet and within 4 months of knowing each other, I don't need to be a CO to know that will definitely raise a red flag when it gets to the embassy but then you might meet a CO who would be won over if you have sufficient proof. You might try and make another trip before your interview to help you with more evidence of a bona-fide relationship. Be prayerful and God will see you through.

All the best.

Anyone interviewing in August? Had my medical last week and waiting on that packet 4. Back in 2007, it came like 4 days after I posted packet 3 back to them...looks like they are taking their jolly good time now.

Congrats!

Good morning!

I don't come in here very often, but I just got my NOA2 yesterday! I'm so excited, and I had to tell someone else

Congrats on your NOA2 ...good luck for the rest of the visa journey!

You are God's property, your testimony is on the way. My people have a saying that when an elder takes something which belongs to a child and holds it up, the hand will get tired after some time and the child will get it back. It is well.

Amen! It is well. Thank you

Any arrested development on your SO's visa?

Hello Friends

I met my hubby online last year November, we got married this year february, he was studying in Malaysia when we meet and he went back to his home country in february 09 for our wedding and we started 1 month together and he didnt go back to his studys in Malaysia he stayed in his home-country, he asked his college in Malaysia for deferment but the college in Malaysia refused to issue him one and he didnt go back to Malaysia we decided our priority to choose which or what we want, his diploma study in Malaysia will be completed in 2010 and we can't afford to stay away or apart from each other that long and we choose our priority on a scale of preference that he should stay in his home country since 1. I will be going back there to live with him until our NOA2, NVC completes our case and at the INTERVIEW no matter how long that takes. My question now is can he be denied visa at interview because he quit his study in malaysia? He has a copy of email that was sent to the college for deferment which they did not reply to but told him on phone that they cannot issue a deferment letter.

Can him staying in his country to wait on the process be view as for immigration purpose?

Need your advice please!!!!!!!!!!!

His studies has got nothing to do with this visa process, I wouldn't worry too much about that...what you need to worry about is proving he didn't go into this for immigration purpose alone since you only met in November. Nigeria is pretty tough on marriage after just a few months of dating especially if you get married on your first visit. I would ask to have the moderators move this to the Africa forum for others to give better advice. All the best.

Oh my bad, I thought it was the same everywhere. Well am sure Lagos embassy know the postal system is ####### and they should email the packet 3 instead of mailing it. Most of the time, it's the DOS or NVC who lie just to get u off the phone.

I really don't think you should take the chance of relying on the 28 day rule(it's like a discreet rule and sometimes u need to have a lawyer to make them enforce it), have your fiance apply for the extension asap or go for the premium service if possible...that way he will have his passport with him for when the embassy decides to interview him. The embassy will not accept an expired visa which is what your fiance will possess at that time and with the automatic AP trend for foreigners in the UK...u might get caught up in that. It's better to be safe than sorry and it might hurt your pockets a bit but it's better than going there and being turned back for an expired visa. Just my thoughts though. All the best

Since you are now married, you are no longer entitled to the K-1. Since your K-1 has been reaffirmed, you are sure that whatever issue the embassy had with you on the K-1 visa has been dealt with and cleared by USCIS. Apply asap for the k3 or CR1 and email the embassy to advice them of your new status and that you no longer want to pursue the K-1 visa. All the best

Congrats!

Ask both but IMHO, they can't do much to help except make endless enquiries with the USCIS. Our case took 2 years before it got reaffirmed but keep on pestering your member of congress and senator. I wish you all the best.

-Your visa gets triggered once you enter the US on your next trip, you cannot use the VWP at this stage and you'll need to wait for your GC to arrive before you make any trip out of the states, I believe.

-It's not a matter of choice, it gets triggered anyways and I believe the GC is sent to the stateside address given when you filed, I wouldn't advice you to change address at this stage as the USCIS are well known for messing things up with changed addressed.

I would advice you to wait until you really want to make the big move before travelling as your visa will be triggered now despite being eligible for the VWP, which will mean u need to wait until you get your GC which is taking about 8 weeks at this time due to card production issues. All the best.

Just my understanding of the process and do stand to be corrrected, maybe others who have been through the same process can shed more light.

Make sure you email during hours that they would be open. Some place "protect" their systems by shutting parts off and emails end up going to never never land. See if that helps.

Thanks. I have sent 2 from my email address during their business hours. The 2 my SO sent I think were after they closed so I will have him resend his. I read somewhere, dont recall if was Lagos or not, that someone was emailing a embassy and they would only response to her SO that was in that particular country and not her emails from the US....I dont know if that makes a difference or not either.. They have both of our email addresses on the petition...

I'm in the same situation, My and So and I have been emailing the Embassy as well for our Packet 3. We actually got an response back where they attached the packet 3 but they did not give us an interview date. (What good is that?) So we have been emailing trying to get an interview date as well as my So has visited the Embassy 3 times and all they keep saying is to email again. This is crazy! I wonder if there is someone we can call in with power that can assist us in this matter. Any suggestions? What about the NVC or DOS, anyone we can appeal to there? I'm willing to try anything at this point. JESUS!

I don't think they can assign you an interview date until packet 3 is returned which in itself tells them you are ready to be interviewed and have all the documents. So have your SO send back the packet 3 asap to get that date. All the best.

Good Luck!

I believe you took the right step by getting your congressman involved, that was something we didn't think but obviously the case was well on its way back before we found out we were faced with that predicament. I am praying for you and am sure we'll have a reason to rejoice this new week, it can only be delayed but not denied. All the best.

Just to give you a bit of what we went through in 2007. My interview concluded with the CO congratulating me and telling me what I will need to do once I get to the states and he said I should get my passport in 3 - 5 days, I left feeling glad the interview is already behind me and called my fiancee to tell her the good news. I actually woke her up cos it was still very early there, an hour later my fiancee called me to tell me she received a call from the US Embassy London and that the man asked her a few questions...we were kinda surprised but then I felt they were just being thorough which is good. Two weeks went by and I didn't receive my passport back and that was when we began to get worried, called DOS who then informed my Fiancee that we have been put on AP.

The long and short of it is that my case was well on its way back before I got my passport, within 2 months we established it was on its way back but the mean spirited people at the embassy kept my passport which made my fiancee fly down and help me with retrieving it as the extortion line are just as useless as my left hand. We had our traditional engagement in Africa that September which was why I really needed the passport back and got it back just in the nick of time. We simply let them take their jolly time as we were not in a hurry, though it cost us money in phone bills and flights to see each other but she couldn't move here as she was still studying or that would have been the next move. We got reaffirmed 2 years after the case was sent back. I believe everything happens for a reason but I think putting every foreigner in London on AP is cruel and mean-spirited in every sense of the word. BTW, we have known each other for over 11 years and prior to our filling, she visited London over 15 times and not spending anything less than 2 weeks on each trip.

itzallgood: This is MY THREAD, I started it and if a member sympathizes with my situation and is offering good words of support, I don't think that it is your right to criticize whatever someone else has said to me. You as well as Bioler, have not posted constructive information in this thread, so I don't see why you both even post in this thread, unless you just like to bash others and offer useless information.

Your posts in this thread do not help me, so please refrain from posting in my thread.

I ignored these two posts of yours because I thought them worthless:

Its ok. Sob away. There are LOTS of crybabies here!

And your sarcastic remark:

Contacting the FBI helped us as well!

ALL UNCALLED FOR.

And the following post you wrote in reply to someone that has actually been FOLLOWING our journey here on VJ. JeremyR is a member that has offered support on every step of the way and has followed all of the events that took place in our journey and understands the situation more than you think you do. So before you post such a presumptuous and unwanted post with information useless and unnecessary in my thread (not to mention a WASTE of reading time) take a look at my time-line and profile. No one is forcing you to post here.

So you are saying that he should be jumping up and down or otherwise being inappropriate?? What good will that do? Just being calm and rational like he is doing is the right thing to do. If someone does otherwise, then they are not in control of their life.

You will do yourself much good to ignore them. I would definitely advice you to post in the MENA forum because that is where you'll get a lot of support and advice as they go through the same situation almost on a daily basis and understand what you are going through. No offence to the nice people on the UK forum but I tend to see people from UK always giving smart answers and sarcasm when someone needs actual help and support. I have chosen to ignore so many of those comments but it's annoying when someone is obviously in a dire situation and all you can offer is sarcasm and silly smart comments which show how insensitive they really are. Feel free to pm me, my case was quite different but still alike in the sense that I was a student in the UK at that time but I am now on a work permit after rounding up my masters. I wish you all the best and pray God sees you through this trying period, it really is hard and I totally feel your pain.

My husband said that the officer said something about a unauthorized form I-134 form. It was the new version, could that be the reason for denial, since we did not use the old version.

They would have simply asked him to get the old one if that was the case. The 212g given to him should state the reason why it's being sent back. How far have you gone with contacting your congressman/woman, any luck?

USCIS has obviously examined your case closely and has considered all of your supporting documentation in detail. They made an informed decision.

Don't therefore be offended of people on this board assume that the government was correct in deciding that you became married solely for immigration purposes.

I cannot offer you any sympathy because I have not seen your case. USCIS has.

And Nigeria is deemed a "high risk" country when it comes to immigration applications. This is a fact. It is not offensive to point this out.

You are not making any sense and obviously don't know about the issue at hand!It was approved by USCIS but sent back for revocation by a power-drunk CO at the embassy who felt it was within his power to decide how real a relationship is by looking at a few papers and being bias against Nigerians just like yourself!And before you point towards fraud like so many ignorant people on VJ have been doing, you all have fraudsters in Europe and there is a particular country whom their women continually scam American men but they don't get scrutinised the same way. People on here should profer solutions and STOP making couples feel like they made the mistake by being together in the first place, if you don't have any useful solution to offer other than BS then do the couple a favour and STFU! I went through London and despite knowing my Fiancee for almost 11 years, the CO still painted me with the same brush and USCIS reaffirmed the case without asking for further evidence and so many cases from Nigeria have been reaffirmed recently without the need for further evidence. So keep your mouth shut about high fraud and what not, you don't know the couple and you should stop being judge and jury!

hello everyone, I need your assistance please. Here is my situation. On March 30 2008, my fiance had his interview in Lagos Nigeria, at which time he was denied his visa and the petition was returned to USCIS for revocation. On June 7 2008, I went there and we got married. On June 2 2009, we received a 797 stating the petition had been reaffirmed and forwarded to the embassy in Nigeria. We filed an I-130 on March 30, 2009,which was approved on July 22, 2009. Yesterday, I received an email inviting my now husband back to the embassy for another interview on the I-129F. My question is, should he attend the interview that's scheduled for I129F and if he does not attend will we be penalized when we go for the I-130, which we have decided to persue?

Thanking you inadvance for your assistance in this matter!

I don't think you have a problem here. Just contact the embassy by email informing them of the change in circumstance and I believe the reaffirmation of your K-1 validates your relationship and you will not have the same problem at your next interview with them. But be sure to get a response from them with regards to the K-1 interview cancellation, if not he should attend and let them know about the change in circumstance. All the best.