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What is it with the lawyers these days? So many complaints in the last week.
 
Of course you can do it on your own. There's no need to let a lawyer do it. Just make sure you don't pay 'em for it. 

AOS package delivered 10/11/2021. 
Texts received 10/15/2021.
Personal check cashed 10/18/2021.

Greetings Everybody,
 
      The Embassy approved our K1-Visa and we are moving on to the next step! Thanks everyone for the support.

AOS package delivered 10/11/2021. 
Texts received 10/15/2021.
Personal check cashed 10/18/2021.

I am not sure how anybody here could comment on your case, you joined and hour ago and have posted twice.
 
I certainly have seen waivers approved, more commonly I have seen people get upset when they realise how much it is going to cost and how long it will take and then they disappear, take that for what it is worth.

In Christianity, vaccines are considered "unclean". Since they use aborted fetus and other unclean ingredients. So yes, it's does affect one's health... We never lied about anything.

It is clear that you want to provoke people here, especially with that last sentence, so I will keep it short.
To live in society we need a balance between personal freedom and common good. We need a minimum of trust in institutions and experts and we need to have empathy and compassion. Otherwise society will just crumble. 
The only thing I can tell you, without sarcasm, is that you try to understand the people that disagree with you and see where they are coming from.
 
Lastly, you say you got a religion exemption but you say the reason for not taking the vaccine is "My wife's health is more important than any amount of money". So basically you are admitting that you just used religious exemption for what you consider to be a health concern. This is very disrespectful for people that actually value their religious freedom and practices. 
 
Good luck in life!

Life is full of choices....and consequences for those choices.  Good luck. 

Just to add in case you'll get something at the interview, the religious exemption will probably not work since the pope is in favor of the covid vaccine and for the religious exemption you'd have to show that your religion and the religious leader doesn't approve of it.

Call Uscis and give them his name and travel information he will be sent home with a month. 

So I just checked my bank account and uscis took the $1,225 payment, I was just wondering do they take the payment when everything is good or is there still a possibility for rfe? How long till we get email mail text? What are the most common reasons for rfe? Im 100% sure everything that was needed was sent but you never know. 

Sorry this happened but we’ve known about this for several months.  

My fiancé and I are a same sex couple. I'm a US citizen. He is an Iranian living in Iran. We're two men who fell in love, got engaged, and are waiting to get married in the US where it is safe and legal for gay couples to marry. I filed for a K1 visa the first week of January 2017. Trump took office and started a series of travel bans that blocked us. The K1 interview was in August 2017. The case was put in Administrative Processing. We were told it would be two weeks to four months for an answer. Months passed. The supreme court upheld the ban. I reached out to Senator Duckworth of IL for help in June of 2018. Her office took 4 months to respond. When they did finally engage and reach out to the embassy, the response from the embassy was non committal. Months continued to pass. Senator Duckworth's office was inconsistent in their support, often ignoring emails and phone calls for months at a time. We finally hired an attorney and filed a writ of mandamus in April 2019. That same month Trump declared the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization. The IRGC is a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces. For reference, Iran requires mandatory military service for young men coming of age. It's not voluntary and you have no say in which branch of the military you get assigned. It's completely random. My fiancé was conscripted (forced) into the IRGC for his mandatory military service. That was 15 years ago. He served the minimum time and got out. He received no weapons training. He saw no combat. He never left his state or country. The Department of State dragged the mandamus suit out for 10 months. The judge finally ordered the embassy to adjudicate our visa petition in February 2020. Within approximately one business day, the embassy refused the visa based on Presidential Proclamation 9645 and INA 212(a)(3)(B). They offered no waiver. We suspected the 212 was because of his forced military service in IRGC. My partner is not a terrorist. He has never been nor will he ever be a terrorist. Our attorney wrote a really good legal brief detailing why he qualifies for an exemption under the law and sent it to the embassy. The embassy invited him for a second interview to discuss his military service in detail under oath. The interview occurred the first week of July 2021. It went very well but at the conclusion they handed back his passport and said the decision whether to give him the visa was not theirs to make. Only Washington could make that decision. We were devastated. After multiple emails to the embassy from the parking lot, multiple conversations with the embassy's receptionist, and waiting an additional 2 hours in 110+ degree heat, we gave up and headed back to the hotel. From the hotel, I reached out to Senator Duckworth's office again for assistance and summarized everything. They reached out to the State Department and the embassy. The embassy responded that they had submitted everything to their partners in Washington immediately after the 2nd interview. State never responded. That was 90 days ago. I am now back in the US. My fiancé is back in Iran. We are waiting with no idea how long it will take for an answer or what that answer will be. It's going on 5 years since we applied for the K1 visa. Five years. Days have turned into weeks, which have turned into months, which have turned into years of waiting. I can't begin to explain the pain we are in. This has impacted both his and my mental and physical health. I have reached out to Senator Duckworth's office four times this week and have received no response. Three emails and one voice mail. Complete silence. I emailed The White House and the President immediately after the 2nd interview back in July. I've received nothing except a generic auto reply. This week I have started emailing The White House daily. No response. It doesn't need to be this difficult. It shouldn't be this difficult. I need this to matter to someone in power. I need to know that we matter. My fiancé is not safe in Iran. Being gay in Iran is punishable by death. The US government knows this. This is not a hard call to make. 

It is, but it is frustrating to read your responses, which appear to indicate that you are not comprehending what others are telling you, or even making an effort to understand it.  If you are struggling with the information, you may be one of the few who would benefit from an immigration attorney, vs DIY.
 
This process requires that you educate yourself.  People here will help, but they won't sugar-coat or spoon-feed you.

Every year this same topic comes up and people panic.
 
Every.

Single.

Year.

USCIS is funded by our fees. Period.

you do realize immigration is funded by our fees?
 
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS): As a fee-funded agency, USCIS would continue to process applications and petitions for immigration benefits, but processing delays, already widespread within the agency, could worsen for cases dependent on support from government functions that are suspended – for example, a security clearance from an agency that is affected by the shutdown. Appointments at USCIS local offices and Application Support Centers should not be affected by the shutdown, though COVID-19 precautions remain in place. 
Department of State: The State Department’s visa processing and U.S. citizenship document functions would not be suspended as long as filing fees remain available to fund consular operations. However, some passport offices may be affected if they are located in federal buildings that are closed due to the shutdown. These functions are already significantly affected by reduced staffing and other effects of the pandemic.
igration processing – including

There is NO WAY that person was in the hospital for 2.5 years.
 Something is very off about this entire story.
 

It is not their fault. We are not saying that. But this Is how it is. It has been like that for years. There are certain members of family who gets to immigrate to the US and there are others that don't. The US government decided that kids in certain family categories are allowed to come up until a certain age. After that, they are considered adults and can have their own lives. It is the US government who make the rules and it gets to choose who is eligible to immigrate.
 
There are only a few countries in the world that allow people to bring over siblings. I don't know what country you are from but it is a good chance that your own country doesn't have sibling visas. But you should still apply for your sibling and his/her family, because this is a privilege you have that may be going away. For years, many politicians have been trying to get rid of the sibling visa all together. You might as well do it now, even though it will take a long time. 
 
I'm sorry you are discovering this now. We have seen this before. Many people don't realize that US immigration is not "come one, come all" that they believed it to be. So many stories we see here on certain family being left behind.

Most lawyers will say anything to get your deposit. Then the issues start... and their additional billings...
 

Awesome, that's our exact situation!

That's what we did. We were waiting on the NOA2 when she moved. We gave the new address when we completed the DS-160. No issues.

Besides the previous thoughts does anyone else able to assist? I still could guidance with sources /testimonies etc!

Why should anyone keep helping you when you'll just ignore what we say anyway?

I've seen you post 10+ times on Reddit, often asking the same questions over and over, and have replied to some of them myself (with no response from you, I might add). Several of us even answered this exact question for you yesterday.
 
At this point I'm just going to assume you're a troll.

I can only assume you didn't believe the good people on the r/immigration sub on Reddit where you asked this questions over 10 times. Was that your "survey of folks"??
 
Good grief. There's a box on the application that you check if your fiancé/fiancée is currently IN THE US.  "If your beneficiary is currently in the United States. complete item numbers 38.a--38.h." 
 
For the final time (please, please), yes, you can do this. Plenty of people on Reddit provided resources AND stories AND already gave you this information. 
 
I'm all for helping people, but you seem unwilling to accept the information you've been given or to read the forms/instructions. Why?