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    DCF-Delhi embassy

    in Asia: South

    Posted

    This is almost 2 year old letter, I had my Tourist visa interview at Calcutta consulate and the CO out specifically told me to apply for i-130, anyways somehow when I got back to Port Blair, I had an email forwarded by Calcutta consulate.

    I was going through old mails today and reading this letter again made sense to me, so anyone looking out for DCF, think the cut out time to stay in India actually is 60 days, rather than 90 or 180 days, may be things have changed from that time, but still I thought about sharing the attached document I received from the consulate.

    IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

    Effective July 1, 2004 our Office will accept Form I-130 petitions from only those U.S. citizens who have resided/lived within our jurisdiction (i.e., in India) for the past 60 days at the time of filing the petition.

    The general instructions on the Petition for Alien Relative (Form I-130) state that if you live in the United States you should file this petition at the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) service center nearest your residence in the U.S. As a service to U.S. citizens our office will accept petitions filed by U.S. citizens on behalf of qualifying Immediate Relatives residing in India. All general instructions on the form itself as well as all local filing instructions must be met and followed before we will accept your filing. Our office reserves the right to refuse any such filing at our discretion. All CIS forms and instructions are readily available on the internet at our website: uscis.gov We encourage you to use the internet.

    The general local residence requirements are as follows:

    The U.S. citizen petitioner has been physically present in India for, at least, sixty (60) days

    OR

    The foreign beneficiary is a natural parent where the parent is more than seventy (70) years of age

    OR

    The petition meets special humanitarian or emergent criteria.

    Note: The final determination of whether or not any case meets special humanitarian or emergent criteria will be made by our office and may not be appealed.

    just a small clarification

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted

    I am just trying to learn about the NVC process as much as possible, so I was going through all the topics and did see how most of the people who did use joint-sponsors, they are somehow related to the petitioner.

    With our case, my husband's this year's income is well above the poverty line but we will need a joint sponsor because of lack of taxation of previous years, and a good friend/colleague(he is a USC) of my husband has lend his help in this regard. I was wondering if that would be ok or not, or does my husband really needs some relative to be the joint sponsor or anyone can be a joint sponsor as long as he/she is a USC and have filled past 3 years of tax returns.

    Thanks for the clarification :thumbs:

    How many times?

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted · Edited by silent

    Am I the only one who checks USCIS only once a day :o

    Ok, may be here is the deal, I wake up every day at 3:30 am Indian standard time, to spend time with my husband, and that's around 5:00pm in Indiana, so well I in my head I have this idea that since its 5pm there so they(USCIS peeps) must have completed their day work and left for their home, so there is no need to keep checking every hour, and if I will get any approval I'll get an email alert right?

    And once I am at work, I can't breath or do anything else other than work, thank god for that, time do pass by quickly at work :P

    So basically time difference is my reasoning of not checking.

    Oh, but I do check VJ every other hour :devil: , just refresh the page to see if there has been any news or who all got their approvals

    Interview date received

    in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    I was originally going to fly to Vietnam to be with her for her interview and if all went well bring her home with me but she is concerned that soething may happen with her interview. We decided that it would be best to wait until she has her Visa in hand.

    I would suggest to go for the interview, apart from her getting a moral support, you can also raise questions at the interview if something goes wrong. Being the USC you do get a right to question or challenge them, whereas your fiance will just have to accept whatever they give out.

    Since I do assume that you are going to go anyways to pick her up once she gets the visa, then going a few days earlier won't really hurt you.

    Best wishes for the interview :):thumbs:

    Vegas Service Centre (Vermont)

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted

    Other than the usual ritual of checking visajourney in every 30 minutes and checking USCIS page every morning (though I am good at it, I check that only once a day).

    Now the guilt part..........well you know, one of those astrology forums, where people give out free consultancy, well I did put out our(me and hubby) infos (birthdate..etc) and asked how soon thigns will happen and who will move where, even if he moves to India I am damn ready to embrace that.............but my shitty luck, not a single person answered my board question :P, so I guess we will live this online marriage for another 20 years to come :jest:

    kshatriya, can you share details on K-1 interview status?

    in Asia: South

    Posted

    I am just wondering about this whole engagement/wedding party pics, have more and more heard of Delhi embassy asking for it compared to Mumbai or Chennai, but then may be we have more K-1 filers from Delhi.

    What happens with wedding ceremonies? we had only 15 people at our wedding, including 4 or 5 arya samaj people, and a few relatives and 2 cops for protection (yey!! feels so important :P) and we never had any reception, just a small family gathering and I did lose that CD when tsunami hit our house back in 2004 (got married on sept 2004). What I wanted to ask is, does the longivity of marriage proves any point rather than the photographs of the ceremony, especially at Chennai consulate?

    Just its funny that consulates want you to spend lakhs or they won't validate a marriage or an engagement.

    Are they okay ?

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    Do Muslim's practice poligamy (up to four wives?) in this country (USA)? I've seen a sector of the Mormons do this also but they don't seem to have a limit in the number of wives. Do any other religions accept poligamy? What male would want to be married to a woman who had multiple husbands; I'm not sure why a woman would find it acceptable unless there was a llimited number of males who could support her family. If that was the case, that society has more serious problems to deal with.

    Actually polyandry (having multiple husbands) is followed in very rare parts of India and also in Nepal(doubtful though).

    There are cases where all the brothers of the family are married to a same woman. Well I say, more power to that woman :P

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