chuck_n_rose

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Thanks God, after I received the Welcome Noticed last Nov. 5, the actual green card arrived yesterday Nov. 7......God is so Good.

Hi guys, our interview went smooth for only 7 minutes. The interviewing officer is very very nice. She just confirmed or asked all the information stated or written in our AOS papers. And she asked any document that we have both name and we gave the joint bank account and medical health insurance. Last thing that she asked is the pictures in our wedding day . Thats all and she said okay guys, you are approved and she gave me a letter with her signature stating that I am approved and I will wait my conditional green card for 2 weeks. Thanks God.................

Thanks everyone! I'm here in the Taipei airport waiting for my connecting flight to Manila. I can't believe my interview is less than 24 hours!

Hi Eric, Have a nice trip and gud luck on the BIG DAY.............. God bless you and your fiance.

Congratulations

Congrats sis. God is soo good welcome to the US he he he he .

Hello fellow vjer,

I also received letter from USEM telling me that my case is eligible to be scheduled for a visa interview, but I already called them. My interview is May 12 @7:30am. If you want to keep in touch with me, I can be reach at ay yahoo id: maria_milgen72@yahoo.com, or my cell # 0916-205-9232.

Have a pleasant day and Good luck to you also.

Myrna

myrna, i also received a letter from USEM telling that my case is eligible to be scheduled for a visa interview,but we already called the call center....we are the same...the letter was late it came when we are done calling the call center,,..

joyce

Hi myrna and joyce

Good luck to both of you in your interview date. I will pray for you. God is soo good all the time.

hang in there i was in AR jail for 6 weeks so be patient! i know the feeling!

Hi lot, just pray always and soon you will receive your visa. God is so good all the time.

Rose

thanks rose...hehehehe im not worried,kahit ilang weeks pa sya kc the brighter side of this, is that im approved just few days or weeks delayed lang to be with Richard. diba? like i said all of these winding roads will lead me to only one straight path, and its towards Richard's loving arms and we will be together forever. i just need to sacrifice a bit and face this challenge, challenge na sure winner naman ako in the end right?

kamusta ka naman jan rose? im so happy for u talaga. i wish u goodlck on your next journey ha. give my regards to chuck. we will see each other soon.

Im happy because we are together already with chuck. Thanks god. Just wait and pray to him . Soon you are here and will meet each other.

congrats

congrats

gee, it was enlightening to read all your replies. thank you all!

i am filing for a leave for now until i know what my fate is on my interview date, april 22.

good luck to all of us on our journey to be one with the love of our lives.

I resigned 2 weeks after we got our noa2 approval February 19 ( one month notice is needed in our office) and last day of work march 25 and interview date is march 28.Thanks god, visa is ready march 31.

hang in there i was in AR jail for 6 weeks so be patient! i know the feeling!

Hi lot, just pray always and soon you will receive your visa. God is so good all the time.

Rose

Nice work !

congratulations.

Hi all, Just wanted to let you know that we, Chuck and Rose, have returned to the US together. Everything went so smooth and I am very thankful. The POE was too easy. The guy asked her if she knew how long she had to get married. She replied, "Yes, 90 days." The guy then said make sure you do it or you will have to go back and we were out of there. Good luck to all on the upcoming interviews.

congrats to you.

Rose and I arrived here in the US last night.

We picked up the Visa today in person at the US embassy. Now we will return together to the US to start our new life. See you all in the AOS thread. Take care and Good luck to all.

We picked up the Visa today and will be returning the U.S. together and will post all the fun stuff of the transition. The wedding will be in San Jose, CA on Friday April 18. Can't wait to hit the AOS thread. I haven't even looked to see what we have to do there. I'm guessing more waiting. Atleast we will not be thosands of miles apart for this part of the waiting game.

The USEM called us on Monday March 31 to notify us that our Visa was ready for pick up. We went today, Tuesday, and picked up. Rose is now in the CFO and we will go to another place to get the stamp when she has finished. That will be it, then we will just wait for Friday to go to the U.S. POE San Francisco. If I would have known that there were 2 different places to go: 1 for CFO and another for the stamp. Rose could have already completed the CFO and they do not allow the US citizen, me, to go in the building. So, I am around the corner sitting the internet cafe typing to you. Also, they had her come her and get a copy of her passport.

I know alot of people have asked me how they can pick up the Visa in person. I do not think they will allow unless the U.S. Citizen is at the interview. I typed up a letter "Request for Visa Pick up" and gave to the CO at the end of the interview. I told her that I already purchased the plane tickets and didn't want to take a chance waiting for Delbros to deliver. I also told her, I can show her the tickets, but she did not want to see. I don't know if will work for other people, but the worst they can they say is no.

I purchased my ticket from a friend of my mom's travel agent. She got me a round trip from San Francisco to Manila for $1050 and Rose a one way for $834. and our seats are next to each other. If I needed to change dates, there is a $75 fee per ticket. If you try to purchase in PI, your flight may be booked full or you may not have seats together. Also, remember that the planes fees change during different times of the year, so when other people tell you what they paid, it might have been during non peak season. I arrived here March 27 and we will leave April 4.

Before I purchased the ticket, Rose called man.y travel agents and was not able to get a lower price ticket and all the fees and taxes were included

I was able to call the USEM 4 times with the same pin number even though the recorded message says it will only work 2 times, not sure if and when they will update their system when they figure they are losing potential revenue from this. Call about 1-2 weeks after the USEM received your packet. Good luck.

Call SLEC, they will have your packet and you can pick up from there.

Interview APPROVED today. We will get Visa on Monday, and return to California on April 4 together.

Thanks for all the help my fellow September filers.

Hi all, I took some paper and pen with me to the interview so I could capture all the moments.

Well, Thursday night ended for us by going to sleep at 7 pm. I woke up at 2 am and so did Rose, so we decided to start our day then. Just taking our time and getting ready. We were out the door at 5am and quickly found a cab. It was your standard Manila cab (beat up, no straights, and a great contibutor to the ozone layer). This guy was one of the wildest driver's I've encountered. The would bet money the guy thought I was a NASCAR scount checking out his talent. I eventually him to slow down n we are not in a hurry. I was tempted to offer him 100php to take his time because we wanted to get there in 1 piece. He continued to jockey for postion and show off his runway talent. We arrived at the embassy at 5:45 and the arena of junk sellers were in full force. I was fed up after about 5 minutes of listening to them. We did have 1 objective: find a person to hold Rose's cell phone will we were in interview and did for a fee of 100php. [i came to find out later that we could have left it at the embassy gate for free, for future reference]. I knew I would be hungry, so we walked across the street to get away from the vultures. I saw 2 Starbuck, neither open it appreared. So, I went into the Yellow Cab pizza and got some half baked potatoes to go. We went back across the street to the embassy, more poeple trying to sell a passport photo. I said we have 2 extra, you want to buy from me, half price. After I finished eating, I noticed that the real line was down the street. I was a little upset. We got in the long line. As I was talking to people, I was getting a random sample survey and quickly dicsovered a pattern, everyone was there for travel or work visa. HMMM I kinda had that feeling since it had been a while since they set any dates. We went through the metal detector, I had 3 bottles of water with me, but only had to drink 1 of them. Once inside about 6:45, we were seated at the infamous bullpen of blue chairs. The guard was sending rows of people up to retrieve numbers. I took a quick scan of the room and counted about 130 people still waiting for numbers and about 50 people already with them give or a dozen. Rose got her number at 7:10, #7004. Wow number 4 of the K1 folks. Next is waiting for finger scanning. It is true what you heard about trying to hear you name being called. The decible level must be set at wisper on the speaker. It was not too bad at first, but once people in front of completed their finger scanning, they had no reason to keep quiet. I was very irritated with the loud mouth guy behind who was trying to teach the history of the stock market. I gave him the customary U.S. look back at him with a little eye roll, similar to the treatment a talker would receive at a movie theater. The funny part was he was still waiting for finger scanning. We were called to window 16 for finger scanning at 8:55 along with the 3 other K1 filers, who all arrived at the embassy long before us. We then went to window 26 at 9:45 for prescreening. The person ask Rose 2 questions and me 2 questions. When she had Rose sign the papers, I noticed she was shaking and just to mess with her, I asked her if she knew the date.

After that we went to winow 27 at 11:10 for the real interview, we had a femal CO. She asked Rose the following questions.

1) Where did we meet? answered correctly

2) Why did she like me?answered correctly

3) What do your parents think about you leaving? answered correctly

4) Does he have brothers/sisters? Yes, answered correctly

5) Is he married? answer Yes, {wrong answer}

6) What does he do for a living? answered correctly

7) What was his previous job? Paramedic {wrong answer, I drove an ambulance}

8) What does he do for hobby? answered correctly

9) What interests do you share? answered correctly

10) What did your fiance learn in school? answer, fire {wrong answer, I have a BS in Environmental Science [ to Rose's defense, I have an AS in Fire Science and AA in Liberal Arts}

11) What kind of wedding do you plan to have?answered correctly

12) What did your fiance tell you about the climate in California? answer, He said it was the same as here, the CO said it was nothing like here.

So, I just sat there in dismay, thinking she doesn't know anything about me. I would have been worried, but I noticed that the CO was just firing questions at here, thinking more about where she will go for lunch than the answers (or incorrect answers ) Rose was giving. The CO said, "Well everything is in order and you are approved to receive your Visa, please wait outside for your name to be called." Rose said thank you and I chimed in, "Maam, I have a letter typed out for a request for Visa pick up because we are leaving next Friday." She responded 'can I see the letter?" I gave it to her and she said OK, you can pick up Monday or Tuesday.

We both thanked her and went outside. At 11:25, we were summoned to Window 38, and it was the moment of truth. Will it be the pink slip or the white slip? The first question the guy asked after looking at the papers was what phone number to call when Visa is ready. As he turned the pages, I saw the pink slip that I saw on some others earlier in the day and was geatly relived. We left the embassy at 11:40 and recovered Rose's cell phone.

As promised, I saved every detail, except for the headache I had all morning I left, and the street vendors did not sell asprin and neither did the 7-11 across the street, go figure. Life is Good, and God has been good to us.

Thank to everyone on VJ, here is to another success story.

PS. Sorry, if I have any grammatical errors, I will not be proofreading.

Here I am sitting in the Ever Gotesto Mall in the internet cafe, just living the PI dream. Rose is so nervous, I doubt she will sleep tonight. I told her that I will sleep for her. And she will probably start yawning when the consulate asks her questions. Plus, she got up 2:30am to pick me up at the airport. She wanted to get to the embassy 4:30 am. and the debate, bargaining, and deal or no deal started. The compromise we will leave Ortigas at 5am and should get there about 5:30. After reading what Aaiz said about getting there so early, I knew it was a lost cause. Cant wait til my next post because it will be the results.

CYA

Big congrats to you. I am here with Rose in Ever Gotesto Mall in Ortigas. I hope with the same experience as you. Rose will call you later. Whe you will go to U.S.? Take care.

What up Eric? I'm living the dream sitting in a mall internet cafe in Ortigas. I think you should just fax it so or send via email. Your orignal intent should be good. Rose had me make a new and I'm asking it where she read that you need a new one. But I would contradict because I think it is just a rumor. I don't see that it expires in the guides.

If you still dont want to take a chance, send by DHL, my packet that I sent to Rose was 10 ounces, but they round up to the pound and they charged me $38. and it might be less for a single letter. I would just sign it, scan it and email it to her and she can print out.

Good luck.

Thanks to all for your words of encouragement. I'm just finished packed and will be headed to the airport. WooHoo, the wait is nearly over. Thank you God.