funkyab

Hey all,

When my wife was in the U.S. for a month last summer she was not asked to return her i94w and didnt understand it was important.

She is coming to chicago next week with her CR1. Anything she should be concerned about? The Embassy of course had her passport for over a month during the DCF process and never mentioned anything about it.

She has plenty of stamps in her passport showing that she left well before her visa waiver would have run out such as entry into denmark and 3 month visa on arrival from when we were working in Kenya. Surely this is more than enough evidence if someone stresses on her. No?

ahh haa...

well.... sometimes change is good. Verizon is useless.. especially for those of us that frequent many different countries regularly or have family members and friends or collegues outside of the usa.

verizon is great for people that strictly use their service in the usa and have all of their life based in the usa... Boring.

for you guys,, it is just something that will have to be adapted to. ANYWAY. tmobile and att/cingular plans are better anyway.

whats wrong???

Your phone will work just fine and great as long as it is on Tmobile or ATT/Cingular!!

some other problem we can help with??

Nokia N95 is a very versitale phone..

It will work on Tmobile and att/cingular, as long as it is unlocked. all she has to do is pop in the new chip when she arrives and you are in business.

If it is locked which i doubt, there are MANY unlock services on the internet that can do it for like 10 dollars. If you have problems let me know and ill point you in the right direction.

as you are on verizon and likely have a contract, if you like your service, get her a new phone for cheap (like 20 dollars) and be glad with that.

However, since she is used to gsm, and considering all of her friends and families use GSM and since GSM is better,,, i would consider switching to Tmobile or ATT//Cingular..

if there is a dealy time.. as soon as she gets here,, get her a temporary pre pay tmobile or att chip and use that until you can make a more informed decision.

(we were already married when we filed)

when we initially submitted our i130 and had a bit of a dramatic initial questioning session, the interviewer asked why she didnt have her ring on but i did. Very simple answer. "well we were in a hurry and i didnt put it on after i showered." she was asked "u take your ring off when you shower?." She replied "yea, what do you do with your ring and is that really any of your business?"

interviewing officer was a bit taken aback, and rightfully so. There are some legitimate questions and some that are plain stupid.

rings are symbolic. Some people make a big deal about and to others it dosent matter at all. As far as i am concerned, an engagement ring will eventually be replaced by the wedding ring,, so why care at all about the first ring when something better is coming later. In our case. our actual wedding rings were hand carved by people we were working with in Kenya. Actual street value of the rings are less than one dollar each. True value is not able to be measured as they are a symbol of our relationship.

seems like all the money some people spend on rings that are stupidly expensive, could be much better spent on life expences and costs that are assoociated with the process. Of course for some people the money is not an issue but for the rest of us...........

terrible answers everywhere.

Phillipines uses gsm networks like most of the rest of the world.

like all other countries EXCEPT the usa, phillipines uses the 900/1800mhz frequency. So.... if you only have a dual band (900/1800) phone, NO it will not work in the usa.

The USA uses 1900mhz for its gsm, being tmobile and att. sprint, verizon use CDMA which is totally incompatible with most phones bought anywhere else in the world.

The ACCURATE answer to your question is....

if you have a "tri band phone" i.e. 800/1800/1900 it will work fine in the USA. as long as it is unlocked, meaning that you can use a sim chip from any carrier. If yours is triband but locked, have it unlocked for a few dollars at any corner GSM phone shop. Once you get to the usa you can pop in a sim chip for tmobile or att and be good to go. If your phone does not happen to be triband, you need a new phone. A few dollars on ebay should be able to sort that out.

Send your phone model number and i can give you a definitive answer about your exact equipment if you dont know the specifications.

nothing says i love you like a bj

HAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!! INDEED!!!!!

So good to have a relief from some of the stufiness around here!!

"Jeg elsker deg"

in Norwegian!!

well,,,,,

as i have noticed before, apparently the site that i pointed you to is blocked by the admin of this site..

Very stupid however..

The 221g guide there is helpful and was very much so in our case.

go to google and search for FBI with the last word being "immigration", the second being "based" and the first "family". you will find a 221g guide in the forums.

Read this....

go to ***removed***

and then fing the link in the forum section for 221g.

then dependant on where you think you are... go to the MENA forum and go through the sticky about this topic.

In the case of 221g there are SOOO many variables. Some people finish 221g in a matter of days. some unfortunately take much longer.

I noticed that in your case they did not ask for additional information (which can at times be a bad sign) but did NOT indicate they were sending your case to the regional USCIS office for review.

I would get as much information from the embassy about your denial and then contact your REP. This can never hurt in the case of DCF. I have been posting, browsing and lurking here for a short time now and have seen very few if any outright DCF denials or crazy long 221gs.

GOOD LUCK!!!

You really don't qualify for DCF now that you have a job it the US unless you are still living in Mexico and stay there.

I would "guess" that if he has lived there for so long and has such strong ties, i.e. residency, a home, family, etc... he should be all good. He mentioned that he only started a job in the u.s. last month.. residency does not necessarily disappear so quickly.

When we filed DCF i had been outside of sweden for various periods of time doing work, school, internships, etc. however sweden was my place of residency as all other places were temporary in nature. Because of these being temporary in nature, it would have been impossible for me to consider my place of residency anywhere other then sweden.

All of these factors will of course be up to the interpretation of your particular C/O.

I think DCF is definately worth a shot in this case.

It will happen when it happens.................................... wait.

dont think it would be something that u should worry about.

They can always ask sh*t later.

Pretty bold to make travel plans based on assumptions............ Good luck.

Too much Bla Bla....

You are fine... If they want more they will request it. Might be a pain in the as$ but you are all good...

"17. List all educational institutions you attend or have attended. Include vocational institutions but not elementary schools."

This directly indicates that you include everything except elementary schools.

Hi, thanks for the quick responses... do we have to go through the interview process again? or is this a form we fill out?

Come on man.. directly above your post is the guide.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=310

wow... do a search to find out the most fundamental basics of this process. Amazing that you made it this far without understanding that you will have to file i751 to remove conditions. Dont mean to sound sarcastic but, very interesting.

in the miltary they say,. salute the rank and uniform not the person///

same here.. i would not have booed him at all...he is the President of the United State of America, and for me, i would have been respectful..........

i see several votes for NO......

wonder where these squares are hiding!! Would like to see some dissenting opinions!! Only one nay sayer even posted.

??? you have to meet the income requirements. a number is a number.. either you got it or you dont.

wouldnt expect anything less

forcing them to dress up in the crazy a$s outfits some relative sent!!!!

having them in the first place

Try using a proxy server (or VPN if you have access to one) and see if it opens.. I have this problem sometimes opening my swedish bank site from the u.s. Opens fine when i use proxy server from sweden.

hello! can anyone please help me out? i just received the form 1-134 from my fiance (USC). I noticed that on item #11 "I ( ) intend ( ) do not intend to make specific contributions to the support of the person(s) named in item 3" my fiance checked DO NOT INTEND and wrote on the space below NONE. Is that correct? He says that the form itself says that he is willing to support me so why does he have to say he needs to make specific contributions? I am not sure if this is correct. I have a feeling that he shouldn't have even checked the box at all. Any USC who has done this before? What should he have done? My interview is on April 23. We can't afford any mistakes at this point. PLEASE HELP ME ANYONE OUT THERE?

as the form indicates "specific contributions" i would assume he filled out the form cirrectly. It would seem to me that only in the case of "specific" things being arranged, the answer would be none. This is just my perspective when looking at the language of the form.