TBoneTX

Your timeline is confusing -- it says that the visa was approved, and that you've filed for Adjustment of Status. Please correct your timeline, and explain here exactly where you are in the process. From your question, it appears that your Albanian fiancé will interview for the K-1 visa in Italy.

I don't know, but it's certainly worth asking about. It may save a lot of time. It's strange that you weren't given exact instructions about what to do.

This would indeed be entertaining.

Did the officer who interviewed you tell you where to file the waiver? Will the officer's USCIS office take it and process it? Or, do you mail the waiver to some other USCIS address?

Having been "spoiled" (to pick a term) by Trumpian foreign policy, I'm mystified why any of this is the U.S.'s business at all. In fact, might it not be the U.S.'s fault, for having broken that 1990s (?) promise to Putin about not expanding NATO?

Per what I think Boiler said some time ago, when we read the term "woman" or "man," it means the opposite of what we read. What are the penalties for refusing, and might this be worth fighting in court?

Sympathies to his inner ear.

L.A. City Council specifically voted on it. Make your bed, lie in it...

Holy mackerel.

Hadn't considered this. Good thinking.

If they try this again, mass noncooperation is likely (and called for).

Thread is moved from the K-1 Process forum to the Embassy/Consulate forum -- topic involves that phase.

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Some consulates permit petitioners to be on the premises during a beneficiary's interview. This is optimal if the CO has questions and wants to clarify answers by calling in the petitioner. However, it would be highly unusual for the petitioner to share this, the first interview. Other consulates have petitioners wait outside the premises. Either way, take the petitioner's U.S. passport to hand to the document-collector inside the consulate. In the interview, tell the CO, "My fiancé is outside, if you'd like to talk."

Scintillating Sunday repartee, yawn man. ------- Thrilling Sunday report, see man: Took Mini-B. to visit Mama T-B., ecstatic senior she man. Short visit ruined further by uncertainty about little amigo's party's start-time, disorganized man. We had barely raced casa-ward to wrangle laundry when we had to head back, hectic man. Of course, had to stop at drugstore to get Mama T-B.'s pills, man. Delivered pills and retrieved Mini-B., aysheep wee man man. Then we had to stop at the casa again so Mini-B. could get his hoodie, good grief man. Why couldn't Mini-B. have told us to bring the hoodie so we could go right to the party, huh man? Despite all this, dropped Mini-B. at party in ample time, good grief man. Lunch was Many (2+2) Arby's gut-bombs*, takeout and ingest we man. *procured WUOC, financially savvy we man We managed to catch up on the laundry, Many (2+2) loads man. Even got a siesta, adrenaline-crashed we man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. retrieved Mini-B. from the party, dropped with us man. Mini-B. then jumped on computer to play games with his amigos, 2 hours man. Din-din for Mini-B. was spaghetti & a cake piece donated by Mama T-B., ingest wee man. Din-din for us was the remaining 2 corn dogs, ingest we man. Meanwhile, miu was not to be seen for these Many hours, no miu man. Last we'd seen of miu was her watching us make Mini-B.'s bed, observant miu man. We presumed that miu had crawled under bed for a miu-siesta, typical of many mius man. Miu finally reappeared right when we were offloading Mini-B.'s stuff, fashionably late miu man. Mini-B.'s stuff seems to reproduce on its own, amount grows like jackrabbit clans man. Stuff took up the entire T-B.-mobile back seat, good grief man. Ex-Mrs. T-B. came out to help carry stuff in and promptly spilled an important box, ex-she man. Ex-she man refused to let us recite our "We're Two Guys!" mantra in her casa, uptight ex-she man. Mini-B. and we muttered it sotto voce, punctuated with stomach-bumps, take that ex-she man man. We have conquered the remaining laundry, victorious we man. We have cleaned the miu-box, intestinally prolific miu man. We must dish and subsequently de-dish the warsher, Sunday night man. Then we shall cavort lustily with the rubias, lustily cavort we man.

But you are ordered to wear them nevertheless!