kennyandhandan

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OMG Kenny and Handan, your little princess is sooo adorable! Tebrikler!! I'm glad to hear that she is doing well now despite her rough start!

Tanya & Ozzy

Thanks a lot.

Congrats on your sweet little girl. she's just beautiful!

Our little one was same exact weight at birth and 17in.. She's now 3 and at the 50th percentile in both!

Thank you!

Hey everybody. How's it going? Our baby, Nora, was born on Sept 4 so we've been pretty busy for the past month. My wife and mom are going to take the baby to Turkey some time around April 2011 (tax return time!!!) so that she can spend a while with her other half of the family. I wish I could go too, but Nora had some issues that landed her in the NICU for antibiotics during her first few days, so most of my vacation time is gone already. She weighed 5lbs 13oz when she was born, but already she's past 7lbs as of a week ago.

Come February we'll file for removal of conditions for Handan. I hope everybody has a good week.

Congratulations on getting your date. You could try asking for an earlier interview. I emailed them to ask for one and they granted it, but you never know. At least you have something to base your plans around now I'm happy for you.

We're just starting this process and trying to get ready. Do the Turkish police records come in English, or do these have to be translated into English?

They are in Turkish and need to be translated. We paid somebody to do it, but it's my understanding that they can be done by you if you speak both languages and submit a document asserting so. Also, if you pay for translations, I'd advise you submit a photocopy to the embassy and carry the original with you to the interview. Otherwise, you probably won't get them back (like us ) and you'll need the birth certificate translation again later for AOS.

Are the K-1 visas only done in Ankara or are they done in Istanbul too? I have conflicting information and I need to list the location on the i-129f I am about to file.

All of the K1 interviews are done in Ankara.

Thank you SO MUCH. I have searched the embassy web page completely and could find nothing. This is a great help!!!! Thanks again.

Glad to help.

Thanks! We were looking on the Embassy webpage, for the Embassy here in Washington DC and couldn't find any information at all. I will go back and look again and see if we can find some forms. I even tried calling the Embassy, but couldn't get through to a live person. At least I know it's possible and the information is there somewhere. We'll keep looking!!

Try this site, Jenn: http://www.konsolosluk.gov.tr/

My better half says we downloaded them from there.

Hey Jenn. We registered our marriage in Turkey through the embassy in Los Angeles. My wife downloaded a couple of forms and filled them out, took them in, and paid some fees. I'm not sure exactly how it broke down because we were doing several things at once, but I can ask her later. I applied for Turkish citizenship even though I won't qualify until next year. They accepted the form anyway. We also filled out a form to renew my wife's passport. I'm pretty sure we paid fees for all three of those things, but paid them as a lump sum.

(I just now called my wife and she thinks it was 10 dollars to file the application to register our marriage. She said it's more if you get the book, but we didn't do that one. She also said you can do all of those things by mail. Just go to the embassy website and download the forms.)

Hope that was sort of helpful

Also, it was easy dealing with the embassy. It was like a normal office building just outside of Beverly Hills. No long lines or anything, but they were only open like 3 hours a day!

Hi, anitashreve. Congratulations on getting this far. You can read about the experiences that people have had in Ankara here: http://www.visajourney.com/reviews/index.php?cnty=Turkey

Basically, you should take as much evidence as possible. The officers do not all ask for the exact same pieces of evidence, so just be as complete as is realistically possible. There's no way to know what they'll want to see so don't stress out about it!

Also, Gil + Pel - Congrats!

Hi guys,

well im just registered but i have been reading what u guys write for a while already.

We are about to apply for Fiancee Visa too. So i have a few questions about that. Actually questions like just for make myself a little more relax. Because i started to get stressed already.

My fiancee is working for Navy and she has just gone for a long deployment which is gonna take about 7-8 months. Before she went, we hired an attorney. Name called Ted Huang. We wanted to make it more guaranteed and it was more because of her deployment. So while shes away attorney will still do things for us. She and i already arranged every documents that he wanted from us, and we sent him. At the end of this money, we will pay for last payment so he will apply for us.

So my questions are, are there anyone who heard about this attorney? is he good? i think he seems really good. But i read some other posts about other attorneys then i scared a little.

By the way, i was going to school before, then i decided to go to military, after 15 months i met with my fiancee online. Between that time, i have never worked in a job. So thats why (still im not working) i couldnt write any job history to our application form. Is this may be a problem? I think they dont care what i have or where i work etc. They care more about my fiancee's job and bank accounts etc. right?

Other question is: Do you think we should go to interview together in Ankara? Because its a little hard to do for us because of her deployment, hopefully after we apply if i can take the interview date before she comes back it would be better.

She visited me only one time. I couldnt go to US never before. is this would be a problem too?

And, attorney and things i read on internet say the military job of her makes the things more possible and fast for visa. Is this true?

Thank you so much for ur answers already

GL to everyone

Hello. Welcome to VJ. I've not heard of your lawyer before. Most people that I know have preferred to file their own K1 papers. The reason being that it isn't usually necessary to pay for a lawyer. I've heard horror stories about lawyers, but I've also heard of slightly improved wait times. I'm not convinced there are any significant benefits to using a lawyer unless you have some complicated circumstance such as a criminal history, complicated previous marriages, child custody issues, or something of that sort.

I agree with you that they don't care too much about your work history especially since you finished school and fulfilled your military duty. You are not required to go to the interview together. My wife was approved and I couldn't go. Finally, the only requirement is that you have met in person. Nothing states you must have met on multiple occasions. You guys are going to be fine. Enjoy your wait!

Best of luck. I hope for a speedy approval for you.

Just got my NOA2!

Hopefully this means that instead of me going to visit Efe this summer, Efe will move to the US permanently instead

Congrats! That's excellent news.

If you're in the Riverside/Moreno Valley area send me a message and I'll help you find stuff locally. In a general sense I'd recommend Super King markets in Anaheim and San Fernando. They have very good produce for dirt-cheap and also stock a lot of Turkish brands. It's also always very crowded. I haven't been to Hamle's in Fountain Valley personally, but I've spoken with the owners and it seems like a reasonably safe bet that you'd find or be able to obtain pretty much anything you could want through them.

Yea that lol and you know I was joking...no need for apologies!

Sure I know. No problem It was a vague answer.

It looks the same, but it has the added sentence for the archived part Kenny! Don't confuse the poor woman lol

Suna: that is why you ask for BOTH the CURRENT records (going back 6 months) and the ARCHIVED (arsiv or anything that is older than 6 months)...if you don't ask or make it understood you will get what looks like the attachment above that Elisa has provided...it looks almost the same, but has an easily overlooked added sentence regarding the archived part...should say "yoktur" for both records as in there is no records, meaning essentially they don't have a police record either current or archived ( recent vs. old or "archived" or arsiv in Turkish the S with the tail of course, but my keyboard is not Turkish lol)..

Hope I made it so you can understand it guys and you are not more confused lol

Sorry for being unclear. The one we have says YUKARINDA KİMLİK BİLGİLERİ BULUNAN KIŞİNİN ADLİ SİCİL ARŞİV KAYDI YOKTUR as well.

I'm sorry for that double post... the website didn't respond so I closed down my browser and it automatically refreshed when I opened it back up. I couldn't find an edit button, so my apologies.

WHERE WASS THAT LIST OF COUNTRIES OBTAINED FROM? ...WHAT WEBSITE?

SO IF BENEFICIARY IS FROM MEXICO, THEN WE WONT NEED A POLICE CERTIFICATE CORRECT?

It was from our packet 3 from the embassy in Ankara, Turkey. Here is the full text from that section:

Police certificates are not required from Iran or any country on the following list:

AFGHANISTAN

BANGLADESH

BULGARIA

CAMBODIA

CHAD

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

HAITI

IRAN

IRAQ

LIBYA

MEXICO

MONGOLIA

NIKARAGUA

SIERRA LEONE

SOMALIA

SUDAN

TAJIKISTAN

TOGO

TONGA

UNITED STATES OF

AMERICA

Police certificates from these countries are available only to persons physically present

in the country who apply in person:

ALBANIA

BARBADOS

ECUADOR

ERITREA

ETHIOPIA

GUATEMALA

INDIA

JORDAN

KUWAIT

MOZAMBIQUE

NAMIBIA

PARAGUAY

RWANDA

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

YEMEN

Police certificates from the following countries are available only through the United

States Embassy or Consulate. Contact the American consular office if you currently are,

or have been a resident of one of these countries:

COSTA RICA

FIJI

KOREA

NETHERLANDS

SRI LANKA

TURKMENISTAN

WHERE WASS THAT LIST OF COUNTRIES OBTAINED FROM? ...WHAT WEBSITE?

SO IF BENEFICIARY IS FROM MEXICO, THEN WE WONT NEED A POLICE CERTIFICATE CORRECT?

It was from our packet 3 from the embassy in Ankara, Turkey. Here is the full text from that section:

Police certificates are not required from Iran or any country on the following list:

AFGHANISTAN

BANGLADESH

BULGARIA

CAMBODIA

CHAD

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

HAITI

IRAN

IRAQ

LIBYA

MEXICO

MONGOLIA

NIKARAGUA

SIERRA LEONE

SOMALIA

SUDAN

TAJIKISTAN

TOGO

TONGA

UNITED STATES OF

AMERICA

Police certificates from these countries are available only to persons physically present

in the country who apply in person:

ALBANIA

BARBADOS

ECUADOR

ERITREA

ETHIOPIA

GUATEMALA

INDIA

JORDAN

KUWAIT

MOZAMBIQUE

NAMIBIA

PARAGUAY

RWANDA

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

YEMEN

Police certificates from the following countries are available only through the United

States Embassy or Consulate. Contact the American consular office if you currently are,

or have been a resident of one of these countries:

COSTA RICA

FIJI

KOREA

NETHERLANDS

SRI LANKA

TURKMENISTAN

This is a double post, sorry! I figured I would have better luck with responses in this sub-forum.

I know this topic has been exhausted, but can anyone who interviewed at Ankara let me know what they included with their I-134? It seems pretty straightforward, almost too straightforward- but I don't want to overlook anything.

I'm including:

- Signed I-134 (this doesn't have to be notarized, right?)

- Photocopies of 2009 W-2's and 1040 (should I include 2008 and 2007??)

- Letter from my bank stating 2009 deposit amount and current balance

- Employer letter and paystubs

I appreciate any feedback, thanks!

Congrats on your NOA2. It seems straightforward because it is!

I did get my I-134 notarized when I sent it. My bank did it for me for free. The other stuff you listed should be fine. I wouldn't suggest you send them anything that you expect or hope to get back such as expensive document translations or anything of that sort. Send them copies and have the originals in hand at the interview.

When we sent packet 3 we included photocopies of our relationship evidence and my wife took the originals with her to the interview. They didn't even ask to look at anything except pictures at the interview. Best of luck to the two of you. You can message me if you need anything.

Congrats on your approval. That document looks the same as the one my wife had.

Suna, you need a police certificate for the interview in Ankara (packet 3). You don't need it to file your I-129F.

People in the following countries don't need to get police certificates:

Afghanistan

Bangladesh

Bulgaria

Cambodia

Chad

Equatorial Guinea

Haiti

Iran

Iraq

Libya

Mexico

Mongolia

Nicaragua

Sierra Leone

Somalia

Sudan

Tajikistan

Togo

Tonga

USA

Anatolian festival in Irvine this week:

http://www.anatolianfestival.org/

I guess they have an ayran fountain there

Congrats on your successful interview!

Sorry to learn about the tough news, Jenn. Here's to a bright future.

Thanks! I would really appreciate that.

Here you go: http://turkey.usemba.../k1k2102009.pdf

My wife said that at the interview the officer was mostly interested in our pictures together. I had sent along one that I took just before I got on the plane to leave her at the airport and we had tears on our cheeks. He said "What were you both so sad about?" She told him "We were sad because he was leaving and we didn't want to be apart." He said "Awwwwwwwwwwwwww..... approved!" There was no detailed interview for her or anything like that.