erikarandy

tell me how and I'll fly her to Tijuana and bring her across the border ..

no, not saying we were a victim. just so much going on didn't catch that. Thanks for the help. Not sure what will happen, but I have my congressional representative helping, so hopefully we can make it work, somehow.

to cross at the Mexico border is illegal. She needs to cross at a port of entry.

hahahah, Walking across the border seems to be so much easier these days. It's disgusting! No Covid requirements, tests or otherwise. The definition changed Fully, from being vaccinated to having the entire series before you got to the USA. She only had the first vaccination. and honestly I didn't want her to have the second one, because they are poison!

The expiration date on the visa says May 17th, 2022. Yes, I'm aware of due diligence, but the change in definition of the amendment on April 14th changed the definition of Fully Vaccinated. Prior to April 14th it meant a vaccination. It was very confusing. Both the embassy, the airlines and the CDC had slightly different explanations. Was very confusing. When she had the physical, she was told, in order to fly she needed to get the vaccination and then when she arrived in the US to get the second. The process for the Pet Import Permit couldn't be started until we had the visa and knew when we would fly. the process, again is very extensive and confusing and took 4 months. Then when you do get the approval, the permit is only for 30 days and then you need to start making flight plans. We have made and cancelled so many flights and lost so much money on them. Also, the rabies shots need to be given at a certain time and then bllod/serum needs to be sent toa special lab in the US. When you are dealing with so many different industries, Embassy/State department, CDC, Viral Labs, and airlines, it's not easy to get them all to do things in anyone else's time constraints. In reality, we did everything right. we just got bit by the Covid definition change while we were focused on the CDC for the pet permits.

She was fully vaccinated until the definition amendment, made April 14th 2022. I didn't understand the difference .

My fiance is Colombian and we received our k1 visa in November 2021. We then started on the process to receive a pet import permit to bring our dogs to the US, also as they are very important to us. The process took a long time but we finally received the pet permit. We were, finally, all ready to travel with only 3 days to go before the visa expired. We were aware of the CDC guidelines for travel from a forgien country, but didn’t fully understand the new amendment that went into effect April 14th 2022, that changed the definition of Fully Vaccinated and could travel. We thought she was fully vaccinated because she received the Covid vaccination when she had her physical before the interview that was in November 2021. She was not told it was mandatory to have a second vaccine because it wasn’t required at that time. We now find out she needs an additional vaccination to be considered fully vaccinated and did receive the J&J Jansen vaccination just this past Saturday the 14th, which is considered a Full vaccination because it is a 1 dose vaccine. Also, she now has two doses. The problem is that now she needs to wait 2 weeks for it to be good to travel, but the visa expires May 17th. What can we do? Will we have to start the entire process again? I talked to my congressional representative and she said she doesn't think we can get an extension, but she isn’t sure and so we are waiting until she hears back from the embassy. I can understand if we were already in the US, but we never were able to get to the US. We are heartbroken and in a panic. If it wasn't for this covid mess, we would have had everything good and she'd be here now. It really isn’t fair to change tat they changed rules and really no one let us know. Sure I know we should be responsible for the government, but really? Change it a month before our travel? This entire process has taken us over 3 years. What can we do? I have heard that if the visa expires and we can’t get an extension, we may not have to go completely back through the process. I don’t know.If we could just get a 20 or 30 day extension we could make it work.