Bobbie

Thank you everyone. I am the USC. For whatever reason I thought when the NVC sent the case to Germany they would send me a bill for the ..whatever. I think I am confused with the AOS bill people are talking about. So, the case is in Germany (hopefully it doesn't expire too soon), and Klaus needs to do his medical, criminal ect. When it is complete, call in and make the appointment and we go from there.

I'm now very concerned about the income, because again, completely self employed and still working on taxes with the accountants.

Ahhh if life were easier would it be as much fun? YES!

Hi

I have been calling and calling and calling, and my case on the auto line still says it is not there. My fiance says he has the letter, however we have not even had time to talk about it, because due to the business, we are too busy....I have not received anything from NVC though. Nothing. They said they sent a letter, but I never got it, so I asked for another. But wasn't I supposed to get a bill?

I am confused.

BObbie

We got our NOA2 on June 20 and still the NVC says, we have no record of your case number. Who should I call or is this part of the backlog? I don't mind it so terrible, we have many things to ready for the interview and so on, but I would like to know if this is an indication of a problem.

Anyone?

Bobbie

Does anyone has experience with filing 601 in Frankfurt. I have so many questions. Tank you

www.immigrate2us.net -- check the 601 forum.

I have questions too, and while I have really looked through the immigrate2us site, there isn't that much on frankfurt. Anyone? Experience?

B

I would check again - there are definitely people who have been through Frankfurt but they may no longer be active. But there is a spreadsheet with information on when they filed their waiver and when they received their approval or denial, so that will help with understanding timing and maybe even approval rates. If you post a question asking for it, someone will provide it for you.

I do see more information than the last time I was in there, thanks.

Thanks everyone for the responses!

Does anyone has experience with filing 601 in Frankfurt. I have so many questions. Tank you

www.immigrate2us.net -- check the 601 forum.

I have questions too, and while I have really looked through the immigrate2us site, there isn't that much on frankfurt. Anyone? Experience?

B

I received my NOA2 around June 22 and have heard nothing from the NVC. This isn't so bad, we are not in a hurry now, he must stay in Germany for several more months for work reasons anyway. When I call they say they haven't gotten my case either. I assume it should be there this week, or I will get a bit worried. I don't mind them taking their time, but I don't want anything lost either.

Anyone else, how long did your case take to get to the NVC?

Bobbie

yes i vote for 3 weeks as being 'normal' if they are busy...

It does seem an awful long time but then you wait more for agent form generation etc etc - then they approve and wait for it to go to the embassy and then wait and then wait etc etc

in between times, they generate your stuff but it doesn't arrive because your national post office goes on strike the day you expect it !

yes 2 days ago !

then you miss your train to the embassy and your photos aren't not quite right and the visa is held up past your plane departure and then they send your green card out with the wrong name on it

so the answer is to put yourself in a catatonic trance and only start taking an interest in life when you finally get your correct green card in your hand - then you get mugged and someone takes your wallet with the green card in it

actually i am a half - full type secretly - I am doing this for the third time !!!! there again I could be a masochist

alan

He he, bad karma?

3 times!!!! Is this an annual thing for you? Or shopping around w/90-day return policy?

Return policy ? no her Ma won't take her back !

Let's just say circumstances - but I told Carolyn last night that I can't do this again - if we fail at some late hurdle then we either get divorced or we go live in a shack on the beach in the Canary Islands and live on sea fish.

Seriously, I couldn't do it - it is taking over my life with all the stuff that can and does go wrong - and now a postal strike and backlog of mail! 2 weeks since the IV was generated and nothing - haring down the stairs every time a letter comes - had enough....perhaps one morning I will slip on the stair carpet and be found deceased on the door mat with the IV bill wedged between the teeth of my cold body...

Once I get to the US I think I will live in the basement for 3 years until I get my passport - that way they can't say I have done something for which I should be deported...unless living in the basement is a crime in Florida ? The worry never ends !

SUPRISE!!! very few basements in Florida...the water table is too high in most instances....you will be relegated to the "screen Porch"

I also believe the SSN is in the event it is an interest baring account. If no interest is paid, no reason for them to have a SSN. Truly, I give the fewest number of people possible my SSN. IF they want it for your DL (some states still do this) tell them you want a different number. ID theft is made easy in many instances because we didn't really think how low people would sink to. Pity but such is life. Protect your SSN and don't use it unless you really really have to. I actually do not give it at the DR. office since I pay in cash. Now, if I give a check they will want it, because if the check is bad, they need that to prosecute me. However cash never goes bad, so...there is no reason for them to keep tabs on me, and feed me into the big health computer in the sky.

Bobbie

That would be my question, I think you would still be financially responsible for him. The affidavit of support doesn't end with divorce.

Are you OPRESSED? hmmmmm.

We were...thank God for the founding fathers!

Were, Past tense? Might wanna move forward. To today.

I'm sorry it is late and I have no idea what you are really trying to say. I simply am saying, this is a wonderful day to celebrate some statesmen, who stood up, were counted, and impact our lives so deeply 200+ years later.

Now, I am not saying it is all peaches and cream. I am saying though, Thank you,

They say (whomever they are) that we use the term, sign your John Hancock, because when the founding fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence the rumor had it any one who signed it would be hunted down and killed.

John Hancock wrote his name very large. He said, I do not want any confusion who is signing this document.

No apologies, I get goosebumps!

Are you OPRESSED? hmmmmm.

We were...thank God for the founding fathers!

We all forget from time to time, it took brave acts of treason to create our great country. This is a day, not for troops, not for vetrans, not even for the dead. Today is a day to celebrate those who rise up against oppression. To those who say about our country, love it or leave it, forget it. The founding fathers would tell you that is a lazy act. Love it, and work to change, for the better. Enjoy!

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:

Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:

John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:

Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:

Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:

William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:

Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:

Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:

Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:

Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:

George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:

William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:

Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:

Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

TO the writer,

I understand...you think you are in one place and someone changes the scenery. Im so sorry to hear about this for you. It is a painful thing you are going through. I am sure he is going through pain too, but he didn't write, so I guess I am not so concerned with him. It is tough, and you are going to do some crying, and some sobbing, just let it out. It isn't the end of the world, can feel like it, but it isn't. You know how things could end in this story....don't beat yourself up, hopefully if he is gay, he will allow him self forgiveness also. I don't see how you have done anything wrong with the gc. I agree about romantic love, it happens, it fades, it happens and it fades, and that can be all in the same week!

Life is hard, and sometimes it really really blows. But, we preserver, go on. Stay your course, point the compass to true north and don't let the winds of change move your sails. But, if they do, tack, turn around, and keep going.

Success to you,

Bobbie

Hi! i have apply for the I-129 and it has been aprove, however, there were many more steps left to be completed. My case now has been sent oversea and I have not recieve any type of infomation regarding my case. Also, they have not told me whats going on or whats my next step in processing this app. it has been 3 months now and nothing has happen since then. Can anyone help me with this topic or any advice...

Try reading this thread and you will find it helpful. Also when you get a chance fill out your timeline.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=61956&st=15

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My fiance in Germany had the smaller photos, and no RFE. We just got our NOA2, can you tell by the smiles on our faces?

I have the very marketable (cough) BA in Political Science with a minor in History (emphasis on Middle Eastern History).

I am a mortgage broker, and a business owner. I do think I use the thought process I learned in Political Science.

Bobbie

Hello to all of you,

I am a new member to this VJ site and a dedicated member to I2US. I will be willing to post my HSL for a reference to show peeps how to start their own letter.

You see when I found out my husband would have to file for an I-601 I needed lots of questions answered. I didn't know where to Start or how to start my letter. So I read thru the many Approved HSL letter posted on the I2US site and it help me out (ten full).

I got good pointers here and there.

So if a MOD reads this topic. I would love to post my HSL without the personnal names and so on to have peeps use as a reference.

Thanks

Thank you so much, that is a great offer. I for one, really appreciate that!

Bobbie

Hi,

Job interview went well on Friday. They called me back the same day and invited me for a 2nd interview on Wednesday...Will see what happens...I really hope to get the job.

Nina

Nina

If this job isnt "in the bag" you are very very close!

Gut Gluck!

Hi

My question is, if I am required to send an I-134 to my fiance for the visa interview, then why do they also have me do the I-864 before the interview? I thought it was only done at time of adjustment. It requires 125% of poverty line and the other is 100% of poverty line. Now I understand why everyone says, think 125....but isnt this odd?

Do I send in the I-864 or just pay the bill and then send it in after we are married and during the AOS?

Bobbie

Ok I get it, we PAY for it now, but we dont send it in until we do the AOS, after marriage...prepayment fee's, smart, ride the spread of the money in the bank....

Bobbie

I am also reading I can count my fiance's income , as long as it will continue from the same source. We have a business together, and when he comes, we will still have the business together.....can we count the money he gets from the business as income also then?

Seems like a dumb question, because I am thinking the answer is Yes...

but I defer to the brain trust who have really studied these matters,we bow in your greatness!

Bobbie

Hi

My question is, if I am required to send an I-134 to my fiance for the visa interview, then why do they also have me do the I-864 before the interview? I thought it was only done at time of adjustment. It requires 125% of poverty line and the other is 100% of poverty line. Now I understand why everyone says, think 125....but isnt this odd?

Do I send in the I-864 or just pay the bill and then send it in after we are married and during the AOS?

Bobbie