maekai05

Hi,

I finally received K-3 visa in my hand today.

My interview date was Nov.26, and he only asked me one question that I was a legal resident before, and I will return to US to stay again.

I said "yes" and then, the visa was approved! it was only 10 seconds interview.

Now we can be all together.

Thank you for people on visajourey for all the help!

We are planning to go home to US in Dec19th.

I once had a green card, but since I was out of US for more than one year, my green card is no longer useable.

I then applied for SB-1 (Returning Resident Visa), but it was denied.

Here is a question.

1)Should I have to write "Denial of SB-1" on No. 31 on DS-156 ?:Have you ever been refused a US VIsa ?

2) Also, Green Card and Re-entry Permit will be considered as US Visas?

If so, I will have to write those on No.20 on DS-156 ? : Have you ever been issed a US visa?

But I can't find the types of visas on those... like F-1, K-3 etc..

Please help.

question (2) I meant question No.30 on DS156..........not NO.20

I once had a green card, but since I was out of US for more than one year, my green card is no longer useable.

I then applied for SB-1 (Returning Resident Visa), but it was denied.

Here is a question.

1)Should I have to write "Denial of SB-1" on No. 31 on DS-156 ?:Have you ever been refused a US VIsa ?

2) Also, Green Card and Re-entry Permit will be considered as US Visas?

If so, I will have to write those on No.20 on DS-156 ? : Have you ever been issed a US visa?

But I can't find the types of visas on those... like F-1, K-3 etc..

Please help.

Congatulations! You made a long journey. You definately deserve it!!

Congatulations!!

Congatulation Kalina!

have a safe trip to US!

hi,

I know how much stress you guys are having...

I am a March filler, and our I-130 took 7 month, and I-129F took 6 months.

We found out that ours went to "Extened review" at FBI name checks after normal name checks.

We believed that this was becasue it was my 3rd green card.

We got help from 2 congressmen, Ombudsm, and they helped us a lot, and finally one of our congressmen pushed USCIS to promise to approve our case in a day, and they did it!!

After USCIS, our I-129F application went very fast. It went to NVC in a week, and got to Embassy in a week after that.

You guys should call your congressman for help.

Good luck to you guys.

I think

Your US spouse has to be with you outside of US, and she also has to hold the valid resident visa( more than 6 months) for the country where you will appy for CR1 by DCF.

I don't know exactly about embassy in Fiji, but at least US Embassy in Tokyo require those things in order to apply for CR1 by DCF.

Both you and your US spouse have to be show up in person at embassy to turn in applications.

Hi,

We have an appointment day for interview at US Embassy in Tokyo! Its Nov.26, 07.

A lady from US Embassy in Tokyo called me up for some missing papers, and when I explained my situation (we have two small children waiting for being reunited with his father), she gave me the appointment day on the phone without me receiving package 3 yet!!

I could book earlier day for the interview, but I need sometime to gather paperworks to bring in for interview.

Our case went amazingly fast after being approved in USCIS!!

I hope that people on visajourny.com will be reunited their love ones soon.

My case got forwarded yesterday....yayayaya...so when should i check to see if the embassy got the packet???

Congatulations!!

Thanks dbzman

Our waiting period was pretty hard on us, but I hope you will have a smooth ride.

Your wife and I might have met somewhere..

Good luck to you.

Oh my...

We have two children as well. I can feel your pain.

Ours took long time to get approved, too.

The reason that ours took so long was that ours went to FBI's "extended review" for name checks.I

I heard that it could take for over a year.

Once we thought about sueing USCIS for taking so long to make decisions. We contacted three laywers, and they said we have a good case.

Also, we contacted two congressmen, and Ombudsman. They work hard and help us lots. They called USCIS, wrote letters to the top of USCIS, and so on. They pushed USCIS so much for us.

Finally we got approvals.

I can tell you this, without their helps, ours haven't been approved yet even by now.

You should contact them to see what they can do, and also I heard that writing to the first lady will help as well

Good luck!

Thank you everyone for all of the comments.

Our case was stuck in FBI name check for "extended reveiw". I heard some people would stuck there for over a year.

so, we were seriously thinking about making a lawsuit against USCIS at one point,

but our 2 congressmen, and Ombudsman helped us a lot.

They made lots of calls, and wrote letters and push them to look into our case.

USCIS finally approved us. We are sure if without their helps, our case wouldn't have approved yet even now.

people on visajourney helped us lots as well to make us not loosing hope.

Thank you very very much.

See you guys in the next-step threads!

Hi, everyone.

We finally got approved on both I-130, and I-129F. It was long long waiting time. But finally we got it.

Thank you for eveyone for the supports.

We have two children 5, and 8. Our children are not involved in this process, since they are US citizens as well.

I am currently living in Japan with our two children.

My husband in US is planning to come for interview at Embassy in Tokyo with two children.

So whole family will go to interview. But I don't know if they will come to the interview room with me. They might wait for me the outside of the room while I am interviewed.

For the first time in 179 days I called USCIS, got the normal touch yesterday , and then a somewhat expected second one today, checked my e mail at 6:30 PST and there's an approval for my wife's I-130 :dance: !!!!!

It's just been approved in the past 3 hours, and now I'm hoping to see approval for my stepdaughter's I-130 and the I-129f for the K-3. What a nerve wracking experience this has been. Thank you God !!!!!!!!!!!

congatulations!!!

faith11, Lil-Lost-Girl, Almoto, Alan01, Parachute4U ... 5 MARCH FILERS LEFT

Parachute4U.. I m happy to hear that you had a wonderful time... but am also sorry to see that you still haven't gotten your NOA2.. I had actually thought you would have yours by the time you are back... recent NOA2 wait times are getting ridiculous..m sure you 'll agree with me.... lastly just wanted to say good luck... hope u get your NOA2 soooon

Thanks pkewl. I called USCIS today and of course I wasn't able to get much out of them except that " it goes from this dept. to another dept. and it could be processed soon, call back in 30 days, blah, blah, blah :angry: . Time to get on the old congressional bandwagon and see what help ( if any ) I can get there. :help: .

Hi, parachute4U.

I am Alan01's wife. Ours also passed 180 days since we filed, so we contacted to our congressman. He said that our file went to "Extended review". That means our file is stuck in FBI name check for a while. Most of people are sent to FBI for name check, and come back in 72 hours. Ours went to "extended reviews", so it stuck there.

Actually, because of personal reasons, we applied for green card three times.. This is third one. That's why we thnk it is stuck there. It sometimes takes for years to finish up name check when it's stuck..

Now, we are thinking Writing letters to USCIS, FBI, etc to expedied our name check at FBI and if it would not slove then, we are getting ready to sue USCIS taking long time.

USCIS won't tell the truth so easily. Once we got response from our congressman that ours went to extended review, then we called USCIS again to confirm. They told us first that ours is in still normal process, then when we told them that our congressman mentioned ours is in extended reivew. Then they admitted.

You really should get the infomration what is going on your case, then you can think what you can do next..

Good luck on you

We are still waiting

Hi, Lil-Lost-Girl

Ours are not approved yet. We found out that ours is stuck in FBI name check according to our congressman. This might take for years !!!

We are thinking about getting legal help or looking other options to expedied our name check..

You should ask your congressman to call to USCIS if yours is in the same situation as ours is.

Good luck

You have to check if you filed for K-1 or K-3. You should have filed for K-3 if you are married already.

If you enter with the wrong kind of visa, you will have a nightmare coming up!

I filed mine (K-3) in March, and hasn't been approved yet.

I feel your pain..

But you are not alone!

At least i don't feel all alone now, I thought i was the only March filer left, lets hope next week is our week Maekai

Maybe yours has been approved already since you had a touch on 28th.

Sometimes, it is even though websited says still pendiing"

Well, hope mine will be next.

ahhh maekai05. you poor thing. you are long overdue. i pray that next week you get your approval. i also suggest that you call uscis using the RFE trick. atleast bring it to their attention. good luck.

Thank you neel06..

I hope so, too

At least i don't feel all alone now, I thought i was the only March filer left, lets hope next week is our week Maekai

Maybe yours has been approved already since you had a touch on 28th.

Sometimes, it is even though websited says still pendiing"

Well, hope mine will be next.

We called them serveral times, but then nothing. Our congressman called and found out that ours is in FBI for name checks. Only thing that we can think of is that I moved a lot inside of States (When I was in US with F1 visa ) and outside of US ( We were in France, Germany, England and Japan) So it is taking long time for FBI to check..

We called a lawyer. He said we can't do anything till 6 months passed.

I hope ours won't take 2-3 yrs till it get approved like I hear on news sometimes..

Maekai, sorry to hear that. If I were you I would try to enter USA like tourist. I think that Japan is with visa wavier program. If at US entry post allow to you to enter US you can be together all the family for 3 months.

Thank you for the advice. But I am afraid of being turn down at entry and worry about kids' schools to be changed.

We will think other options when it will take longer...

I'm still waiting

I am with you

There are two type of tourist visas for Japanese. One is for Visa Waiver program which people from some countries including in Japan are allowed to enter US without visa. This is for 3 months.

Another is B-2 Visa, which allow you to stay in US for 6 months for tourism. But I heard it is difficult to get.

Once you are applying for K-1 visa, or K-3 visa or CR-1, during the process, your fiancee (or spouse) can enter US with visa waiver or B-2 Visa. This is not illegal. But since it is depends on the officer , it is too difficult to assume if she will allow to be entered. if she brings the proof of strong tie to Japan, it is more likely approved to be entered. But this time, you should not tell the office "a lie", tell him honestly that she is visiting her husband or fiancee for a short time and make him believe that she will be out of US when the visa is expired (She MUST get out of US no matther what) and bring NOA1 of I-130 or I-129F. That way you can explain him that she is in the process of obtaining those visas.

I myself didn't try this (even my husband is recommending this) because I am affraid if I am turned down..

But I know that lots of people who did this sucsessfuly very recent. Well, I just know people applying for K-3 or CR1 who did sucessfuly. I don't know about K-1 people...

The key is "tell the office the truth"

We called them serveral times, but then nothing. Our congressman called and found out that ours is in FBI for name checks. Only thing that we can think of is that I moved a lot inside of States (When I was in US with F1 visa ) and outside of US ( We were in France, Germany, England and Japan) So it is taking long time for FBI to check..

We called a lawyer. He said we can't do anything till 6 months passed.

I hope ours won't take 2-3 yrs till it get approved like I hear on news sometimes..