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Sorry for her torment. It's rough. Keep us posted! We care.

You're all hat and no cattle, D ma'am.

In addition, the consulate isn't able to refuse the visa on the basis of information that USCIS has seen and passed on.

It is Sunday! We have proven (that is, if correlation = causation) that our jokes bring about approvals and positive progress. Accordingly, here is our Official Weekly VAWA-Thread Joke: =========================================== THE BLONDE BANK-ROBBER A redhead, a brunette, and a blonde robbed a bank and were trying to evade the police. They came upon a farm and hid in the barn. The redhead hid near the horses, the brunette hid near the cows, and the blonde hid in a pile of potatoes. The police came to search the barn and stopped first near the horse stables. The redhead let out a hearty "Neigh!" The cops were convinced that the horses were indeed alone, and the redhead escaped. The police then searched near the cow pens. The brunette let out a hearty "Moooo!" The cops were again convinced, and the brunette was able to escape. The police then turned to the stall where the blonde had hidden. The blonde, seeing how easily her companions had gotten away, said, "POTATO!"

Report: Texas Has Saved Humanity Over 3 Trillion Seconds By Shortening 'You All' To 'Y'all' TEXAS — A new report out of Texas A&M University revealed that Texans have thus far saved humanity three trillion seconds by brilliantly shortening the term "you all" to "y'all." According to researchers, no other linguistic development in all of history has saved the human species from more wasted time or syllables. "Many lifetimes have been literally saved by 'y'all'," stated lead researcher Dr. Marty Schmitt. "Well, not you all, like the people gathered here in front of me listening. I don't know if you guys have done anything for humankind. I'm betting on pretty neutral. But the word 'y'all' has saved so much time and opened countless windows of opportunity for the human race. Thanks, y'all. Again, not speaking to you people." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/report-word-yall-has-saved-humanity-over-3-trillion-seconds-by-shortening-you-all

Get Pfizer working on a vaccine for this -- they'd surely be happy to help. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Minnesota Republicans Introduce Bill Classifying 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' a Mental Illness Senate Republicans in Minnesota are set to introduce a bill that classifies "Trump Derangement Syndrome," commonly referred to as TDS, as a mental illness. For those not privy to the latest medical journals, TDS is a condition where otherwise normal humans turn into frothing, wild-eyed lunatics at the mere mention of a particular golden-haired president. Symptoms include spontaneous outbursts of "Orange Man Bad!", an uncontrollable urge to blame him for everything (including, but not limited to, their burnt toast), and a knack for seeing Hitler in everything he says. The bill, already logged into the legislature website, will be formally introduced and read in the chamber on Monday. It has five Republican authors added to it. [...] https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/03/15/republicans-in-mn-just-introduced-a-bill-classifying-trump-derangement-syndrome-as-a-mental-illness-n2186689

Good luck, health, and safety to all related Saffers.

Or Addis Ababa, even farther. I'm going to ping somebody who should have more insights.

Smart thinking, I agree. For sure. Could Dad emigrate somewhere where you could visit him? That long? Holy mackerel. Where's the +1,000 upvote button?

tjasmin111, welcome to the forum! This is an old thread (now closed to further comment). Sabela doesn't have an immigration timeline, but you can hover your cursor over the name "Sabela" and click "find content" in the pop-up box. This will show that Sabela passed that stage and several more, and so all is well. If you're still concerned about your own issue, you can start a fresh thread.

Just from your photo above: What a lovely, happy couple!

If South Africa gets its act together, maybe this won't be necessary for long. I have no specific knowledge, but my guess is that Nairobi would be the only consulate on the east-ish coast of Africa that might have the wherewithal to handle transfers. A bigger concern for me would be how and where "U.S. Citizen Services" would be handled.

Thread is moved from the CR-1 Case Progress subforum to the Africa: Sub-Saharan regional forum.

Brian, good thinking. What you're describing is called "front-loading the petition package." The requirements to pass USCIS's standards for the petition are minimal. Petitioners often fail to realize that the visa interview at the consular phase is even more crucial. When dealing with a difficult consulate or one in a high-fraud country, it's prudent to include extra "evidence of a bona fide relationship" such as documentation of your multiple trips. It's important not only to document your DUI, but to clarify that your fiancee is fully aware of it. I would put USCIS's required materials on top of your package, and behind this have a cover sheet with "FOR THE CONSULATE" atop the boarding passes, receipts, and selected photos from each trip, along with selected correspondence throughout your relationship, that you want the consular officers to see. Be very careful to exclude any correspondence in which you playfully refer to each other as "husband/wife." "Now" is a relative term -- it will take many months before your petition is adjudicated, and months after that before it's assigned to a consulate, and longer still to obtain a visa interview.

She has Many (2+2) kids -- si man, Many (2+2) kids, wow and man. 1. Girl age Many (2x2x2 +2+2+1), wee she man 2. Boy age Many (2x2x2 +2+2), wee he man Many. Boy age Many (2x2x2), wee he man Many. Girl age Many (2+2+1), wee she man Sounds like an Ontarklar-in-training, professional bear-childing abilities evident man.

You asked; people are telling you what needs to be overcome. Prayer will have zero impact in your circumstances. And you need to answer the remaining questions from JeanneAdil.

Thread is moved from the Bringing Family of USCs forum to the CR-1 Process forum.

God is completely powerless in the face of the consulates, especially Lagos.

Thrilling Saturday non-GS/ES report, see man: A rubia junior chica is interested in us, si man. Lives close to an hour away without traffic, bummer man. Has 2 (at least) kids, young-uns man. Quite a challenge, sigh man. The PJC (Proximal Junior Chica) still wants to meet us, so there's that man. Breakfast was a banana, shut up inferior primates and ingest we man. Went GS-ing/ES-ing on way to FST, itinerary we man. Lunched at #1 favorite FST restaurant, ingest we man. We consumed the "Big Tex" chicken-fried steak with double green beans, ingest we man. The waitress was impressed, no other possible reaction man. Then went to FST supermarket, grocery we man. Found some stuff on unadvertised sale, financially savvy we man. That place is a destination, not an option, conclude long ago we man. Returned to casa and serviced demanding miu, service we man miu man. Then took shower, dusty windy day man. Then took siesta, zzz we man. We have dished the warsher a day early, get coffeepot in there before brewing more man. Replaced batteries again in miu's SmartyKat toy, Costco batteries suck man. Should probably start party with the rubias early, cavort we because Saturday night is young man. Must conquer LLs on Sunday, only plans unless Mama T-B. demands Walmart trip man. And that was/is our thrilling Saturday, report party-animal we man.

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Saturday GS/ES report, see man: We ultimately itineraried 1 GS and Many (2+1) ESs, itinerary ultimately we man. The first ES was phantom, man. The GS turned out to be part of a subdivision GS, visit Many (2+1) GSs we man. Got skunked at the GSs, no take man. The other 2 ESs were wastes, skunked we man. From appearances, it might have been Semiannual Citywide GS Weekend at FST, perhaps man. If so, publicity stank and so did local participation, big opportunity missed by all man. Total = $0

That's weird. It should have.

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Some really compelling arguments are in this article. Comments? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Use of Red Flag Laws Doesn't Mean They're Effective Red flag laws are one of those things that are far too popular for anyone's own good. I get the idea of disarming dangerous people. The problem is that there's already a mechanism to do that lawfully. People get their due process rights observed and, if it turns out they're really dangerous, they get their gun rights revoked. They'd basically become someone else's responsibility, much like a child in many regards. It's not an easy thing to do, but these are people's rights we're talking about here. It shouldn't be easy. Red flag laws skip this due process entirely and just take the guns based on one party's word that they seem dangerous. The problem is that the aforementioned method, we always had put someone in charge of keeping that person out of trouble. Red flag laws don't. They just treat the gun as the source of all problems. And I'm more than sick of stories about how the problem is that it's just not implemented more. [...] https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/03/12/use-of-red-flag-laws-doesnt-mean-theyre-effective-n1227940

This is eye-opening. Comments? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You Won't Believe Why Johns Hopkins is Cutting 2000 Employees [...] What I couldn't have told you is that the cuts to USAID would be the reason they would choose to do so. Who knew that hundreds of millions of tax dollars a year are poured into just one of an uncounted number of universities from what most people think of as our foreign aid budget? [...] https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/03/14/finally-universities-are-cutting-staffs-bigly-due-to-federal-budget-cuts-n3800752