Leney

When you say you were approved, you mean your I-129F was approved and sent to the NVC and then to the embassy right? and it says Valid from 9/x/07 to 12/x/07? Once the Embassy receives the information from the NVC, that validation date no longer matters - as it was explained to me, after the embassy is involved they do something automatically to extend that date without you ever knowing or being told about it. My hubby's was valid from 1/x/07 to 4/x/07 but his interview wasn't until May 5th, 2007 and it made no difference.

As far as the affidavit of support, and further information, the embassy will not contact you from here on out - it is now your hubby's responsibility (scary I know at least that's how I felt relinquishing control lol) He will be the one with whom the embassy communicates, and he will let you know what you need to send to him, you can also check the K-1 guides and I bet they will help you to figure out what information you will eventually need to send to him, and you can go ahead and start gathering it now

I'm sure other people can add more, good luck!

Edit: here is a link to the K-1 guides for you: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=300

Who can I call to see if our namecheck is completed? Would be nice to know before the interview

I called USCIS but it was about my EAD...which was finally approved today The IO that i was talking to just happened to ask if i had been to my interview yet...until i told her i havent been scheduled for one yet she asked for my MSC# checked my case and told me my namecheck had been completed!! advised me to make an infopass appt to enquire about my case and when i'd be sent out an interview date for my AOS ....she didnt understand why i hadn't received it yet! because she says my local office is not backlogged that i should have had an interview date by now

It's about time! Congrats!!! Now get to work lady hehe

My Husband claims that when I get really mad at someone my Scottish accent get real thick and my Green eyes blaze.... I have never noticed....

Kez

lol when my hubby gets upset, you don't hear an accent, you just hear deep growling and shouting! But the use "####" as an adjective, verb, noun, is amazing

Leney kinda reminds me of me.....2nd word outta my mouth was "####" or it was until i turned over a new leaf

hehe A new leaf eh? I dunno, I'm not expecting the hubby to find one of those leaves anytime soon lol I've been reminded many times "you can take the bastart ootae Paisley, but ye cannae take Paisley ootae the bastart" lol However! I will say his swearing has become amazingly creative now that our 2 year old is repeating everything he says and telling daddy when he's said a bad word. He's started yelling "Chicken nugget!" when he's angry - on the plus side I'm fairly sure our kids will grow up to have an anti fast food complex lol

The K-1 visa is valid for six months. If it isn't executed it will expire and be null and void.

Thanks.

Where is the best place to look for UK visas and information?

It is looking like my fiancée might come here now instead. When we get married, it will still hopefully be in the US, but right now, we are looking at living together in the UK first, then going at a later date to marry. Is this possible? To bring a long term partner over to the UK to live with but without a wedding planned?

Teddy.

I am fairly sure she could only come as a visitor and I bet a pound to a penny the UK immigration officer at the port would deny her entry if they got wind of the circumstances. If she did get in as a visitor it would only be 6 months at most. She could come on a fiancee visa or spouse visa but I guess that isn't what you are looking for.

UK visa info at http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/

That's correct.

And for all the opinions one can read on the web about UK immigration being easier and simpler than in the US, there's definitely one area where it's not easier.

Once a USC enters the UK, they can't just up and marry their UK partner. The United Kingdom will not issue marriage licenses (or whatever they may be called over there) to any couple unless both are either UK citizens or the non-citizen partner has a fiance visa.

At least in America a VWP entrant from the UK can marry in the US. You can't do that across the pond.

Unless things changed in the past 5 years, I was able to enter the UK on my visitor passport for 6 months in 2002 apply for a marriage (however you have to be in the uk for over 15 days to apply), get a marriage license, and marry my (now ex-husband) fiance at the time in a civil ceremony. I had no problems at all. I was asked at the POE what my reason for visiting was, I said visiting friends and to meet my fiance's family, they asked if we had any plans to marry and stay in the UK I said no, he said no (he was traveling with me) they saw our return tickets, and then once I was there and met his parents we decided to get married. So it wasn't a lie we were just really effing stupid and did something neither of us were ready for...I did however return home after the marriage, at that time he was supposed to come to the usa, instead his family insisted I move to the UK (which I was in tatters over), his father came a month later to "fetch" me, and he went and got a visa on my behalf in New York and we flew out the next day. Non UKC's - (in fact two non UKC's can marry in the UK if they so desire) can marry without special visas as long as you have clear intent to leave the country on expiry of your visitors visa.

On a personal note, my ex's change of heart (as well as other things) about moving the US was a major factor in the downfall of our relationship. I wish you the best of luck though in whatever you decide to do - do what is best for the both of you.

Edit (i didn't read the whole length of the discussion before posting lol apparently the shtuff has changed! but oh well that's my experience anyway)

Bobby, best of luck tomorrow! I am really looking forward to your Philly review. You're in my thoughts and prayers!

My Husband claims that when I get really mad at someone my Scottish accent get real thick and my Green eyes blaze.... I have never noticed....

Kez

lol when my hubby gets upset, you don't hear an accent, you just hear deep growling and shouting! But the use "####" as an adjective, verb, noun, is amazing

WHAT A LOAD OF #######......

NOT EVEN FUNNY...

Kez

That was the exact same reaction of my hubby Though I had a chuckle, I can just see a Hawaiin Shirt 50 something American tourist with a fanny pack and jesus sandles taking it for gospel ;P

Before I ever met my hubby, and I was planning a trip to Scotland, an English friend of mine sent me to this web site: http://www.glasgowsurvival.co.uk/

I was so terrified of Glasgow before I ever got there, it wasn't funny Strangely, the site didn't disappoint lol

Funny how Gary won't come into any threads with actual mud against his candidate.

I wish I had a rubber stamp, so when people said blatantly obvious things, with blatantly obvious answers I could put a giant DUH on it for them. Why the hell would he walk into a snake pit wearing snake skin boots? If there is a store nearby that sells clues I highly recommend grabbing a couple.

I was breech and 4 weeks early, and my poor dear mother still delivered me naturally ;P Thank heavens I've never had to have a C-Section, I've had two perfectly healthy, natural (drug free) births, with no screaming, cussing, or attempting to break my hubby's hand But bless those mom's who need to have a C-section, it just seems awful.

Oh my, I can see it now, witches will be wanting reparations for decades, nae centuries, nae millennia of oppression and violence

Wowiezowie, all these folks supporting illegal immigration, makes you wonder why they are on this LEGAL VISAJOURNEY site...

I have been very worried about this as well. There is a post somewhere that I had made previously about it with several responses. I'll see if I can't find it and link it.

Edit: here it is: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...p;#entry1137094

Just checking in, hope everyone's doing okay This is my third pregnancy, and I had never started to get a belly before 5 months before, but this time, my belly has just popped out, not a lot, but I have a teen belly and my upper abs are already expanding- the weirdest part is I'm not nearly as heavy as I was the last two times I was pregnant, so I'm feeling super self conscious lol

When did everyone else start to show? Also when did you start feeling your baby move if you've had more than 2 kids already? Thanks ladies Loads of luck and happiness to you all!

Congrats cunnind, reno and Roy and Yazi on your AOS approval

Congrats Mr. and Mrs. Bird on your interview sched

Congrats chelsea.and.john and ELW on your EAD Card Production

USERNAME---------DATE FILED--RECEIVED----NOA1----BIOMETRICS--TRANSFER--INTERVIEW--STATUS/CARD REC'D--DAYS

bobby DE----------05/24/07---05/28/07--06/01/07---06/20/07---xx/xx/xx--09/12/07---

anniee&tee--------06/01/07---06/05/07--06/08/07---07/03/07---xx/xx/xx--09/14/07---

Leney(hubby-AOS)--06/15/07---06/18/07--06/22/07---07/13/07---xx/xx/xx--09/14/07---

Leney(step son)---06/15/07---06/18/07--06/22/07---07/13/07---xx/xx/xx--09/14/07---

he 12th and anniee&tee and Leney's hubby and stepson on the 18th...[/color]

Our interview is September 14th for my hubby and son, also anniee&tee is also the 14th You had me scared for a moment hehe

Congrats to cunnind, reno, and roy and yazi!!! Congrats Chelsea and John!!! and Good luck to the rest of us!!!

We have had a terrible time getting both our names on bills, people think it's an odd request as, most normal households don't do it - Penelec won't do it, our local water company won't even consider it (hell they still haven't changed it from my maiden name despite numerous requests), HSBC won't issue joint statements, Embarq won't do it, all we have are individual bills that come to our home, our joint checking account, and his HSBC card on my credit card account.

I was told for a joint checking account, as long as it's non-interest baring, they are not required to have your social security number, even though most times they want it, and insist you have it. Ours allowed us to get our joint checking account established before the SSN was issued because of this.

I would not risk traveling afterwards, if you want to travel, travel before you get married, then come back and get married.

Hi, I was just curious how it's going to work. It's 11 days away in Philly and I'm starting to worry since this is such a big deal. My hubby and son's AOS (from K-3/K-4) interviews are scheduled for the same day at different times, has anyone ever had their child with them? What will it be like? He's only 5. Will they just take us all at the same time? Sorry, just starting to do the freak out thing.

The only place I love in the world, other than (Central) Pennsylvania is Scotland ;P There's so much to see and do, so much history and culture, from the Amish to Gettysburg, the gorgeous mountains and scenic valley's, rivers, lakes, and whoopie pies *sounds like a visitpa.com commercial!* I also like to point out people are so excited to get out of New Jersey, they pay to get back into Pennsylvania teehee!

Just thought I'd resurrect this thread. I've recently found out, there is parking right near the federal building in Philly, but have not found the prices. We aren't going to spend the night down there, but we are meeting my grandmother's best friend, who knows her way around Philly, and she's going to help us get there.

We're leaving at 4am for our 9:40 and 10:10 appointments.

I'm starting to get nervous I think we have all of our stuff together, I have a cute little accordion folder with lovely heather on it lol I know it's 11 days away for my hubby and son, and 9 days for Bobby - so any words of advice or encouragement are greatly appreciated.

When my husband and I decided to marry, he was 21 and I was 25 - we're now 24 and 28 - he's more mature than I am though If it's really what you want to do, and you are serious about the love and commitment, age doesn't really matter for much.

My husband proposed about 6 months after we started our relationship. So we always knew we were going to get married - when, where, how, were the questions. Getting married was never really an issue for us EXCEPT for the religious vs. courthouse deal lol My husband was catholic, went to catholic school, went through puberty, rebelled, doesn't like religion - as it seems to go for children who have gone to catholic school for some reason!

I was raised Lutheran, and it was drilled into my head I needed a "real wedding", in the church I was baptized. We wanted something special for my hunny and me, but didn't want it to be big or pretentious. He didn't want anything "hippy-ish" (no outdoor weddings, or at the beach etc lol) Strangely I wasn't persistent and he wasn't resistant, things sort of just fell into place without either of us making any fuss. (Until my darling hubby decided he wanted to wear a kilt about 2 weeks before our wedding, and then realised that was impossible in Central PA with 2 weeks to go) We met with the preacher 4 times before our wedding, he interviewed us, asked us loads of questions and made sure this is really what we wanted. It was actually really reassuring. We had the pianist play Highland Cathedral for my entrance with my mom, our oldest son carried our rings (titanium bands - we thought it was funny because I have a titanium screw in my foot - yes we are odd ), we only sang one song during the ceremony (For the Beauty of the Earth), had my grandmother do a reading, and we were able to choose exactly what we wanted our preacher to cover during the ceremony - and it was centered around marrying your best friend, and included a prayer for our children and coming together as one family. It was really nice, I'm not overly religious or a kooky Christian, but it was very emotional for me, and even though I know my husband was not thrilled by doing the whole "God Thing" he has said several times since how much the service touched him and how glad he was we were able to really make it our own thing. Plus the whole family factor as some mentioned. It's really symbolic, as well as for your family, to let them have a small part in the major life decision you and the love of your life have made to come together. We had very few guests, but they were all close family (and older family members we didn't want to exclude), a couple very close friends, and our reception was just in my grandmothers back garden under a tent, we had metallica and alkaline trio playing in the background (each of our favourite bands - even though we knew they were "old fart friendly" it was our reception ), lots of beer, and our kiddos had lots of cake.

It's really important to do your own thing, make it yours, but you sort of need to except excluding family may cause hurt feelings/resentment down the line.

Well done!

Really really missing Scotland and food from the UK atm, but I think it's all in my head. The last time I was pregnant, we were living outside of Glasgow, and I was sick often, and my hubby got me one mint aero a day because it was the only thing I could keep down. I'm missing all manner of things though, from disgustingly rich caramel and fudge parfaits, to the chip shop, to quaivers (which I never liked much lol), scotch eggs, sausage rolls, to breakfast at a little place called Munchies in Paisley...it's really sad, but I am really really missing all of it.

I have a few NHS stories, and none are really that bad, and one happened because of a USA company the UK purchased supplies from lol (figures!)

My first experience with NHS was just bizarre. After living in the UK my hubby and I thought I was pregnant and he made me go to his GP. I only spoke to a nurse that day, but she was very thorough, asked a lot of questions, was very sweet. She had me give her a urine sample, and told me she'd call me later with the results. That seemed very odd to me, as I thought pee tests were instant, but didn't argue. We went home, called the office after waiting two days for a result to a pee test, only to be told it was negative. Honestly we just didn't believe it, at that point it was march, and I hadn't had my visitor since January. We went out that day, came home just in time to watch the news and there it was, first story: PREGNANCY TESTS RECALLED IN NORTHERN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND DUE TO FALSE NEGATIVES - Tests provided by a USA firm have been giving false negatives and it has effected hundreds of women throughout Northern England and Scotland. We knew this was us lol Went back a week later and presto it was positive. They never admitted it was their mistake (or the tests mistake) but I did get quality care during my time there but I went back home to give birth.

In another experience, our youngest son has asthma, and while we were visiting Scotland for his first trip to meet his gran, he became very ill about 5 days before we had to leave. My mother-in-law took us to emergency, he was seen immediately by a doctor who I could not understand at all, I had to keep looking at my mother-in-law to translate, and she could barely understand her. He was admitted immediately there were no xrays, no blood tests, nothing I have seen doctors do in the USA when I've rushed him to the ER. No blood oxygen monitor on him constantly. I thought we were getting substandard care from the start (because I had a preconceived notion of how it "should" be) A nurse came in, gave him several breathing treatments in a row, and he finally was able to rest. We were in a room with maybe 12 other children and their parents. He was given breathing treatments all night long (not with a nebulizer as they do in US hospitals, but with an inhaler and spacer) The next morning he was exhausted but his breathing was wonderful. They wouldn't discharge him until late the next evening, but he only had to spend one night in the hospital. I had a similar experience in the USA, they kept him in for 4 days and 3 nights and he was hooked to tubes, machines, and needles the whole time. After getting over my initial #######, I realized the care he was given in the UK was a little less invasive, and much less traumatic for him, with the same end result - Plus even though he didn't have an NHS card, they said it would be free as his father was a UK citizen, and he didn't have to apply for a card or number, it would be taken care of without paper work. *shock*

I know what you mean about the intermittent loneliness. I think what compounds it is that we have to struggle to find things that we're used to knowing without giving it a second thought. For example, I would like to take a course on Adobe Photoshop CS2. It's been a major chore trying to figure out where it's available. I've given up for now because it seems that colleges only offer degree courses but no individual courses.... not that I even know where any of those colleges are in relation to me. sigh. Wish I'd done it before I left Canada. When it gets disheartening like this, it tends to highlight the fact that you know nothing and no one.

I work for a Business Institute that offers individual courses vs. a whole course load. so there have to be more like it out there. The owner is also a psychologist, so she offers career and life counseling/coaching as well. We don't require people to have SSN's or have any sort of education based visa to attend classes (as long as they are legally in the usa, there is no problem). We offer certifications, and CEU's (continuing education units) that are transferable to Allegheny College which has campuses in Pennsylvania and Maryland. I'm not sure where you are in the world, but try looking for Business/Technical Institutes within your area, also state funded Career link type places (they only work for you if you have a SSN though) offer classes and refresher courses from time to time.