frustratedcitizen

Well, they didn't really even interview her. No questions about the travel or intent IIRC. Just her where she lives, why she submitted photos of her dad, and her father's citizenship. They were just looking for something to latch on for a rejection, which I hear is pretty common.

Either way, just posting our experience in case it's useful to anyone else.

17 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Not sure I understand why her inability to visit has such a dramatic effect, it should not delay the K1.

Just being vague for anonymity. I can't visit her without significant impact to my work. Whenever I visit her, I can't work. I'm not around to manage teams, resolve issues before they happen and it risks projects and business. I was able to visit often last year, before we got engaged, but it was during a lull in my responsibilities.

Managers & colleagues at my job were pretty shocked the letter, which took a few months of bureaucracy on its own, didn't even get considered in the adjudication. Everyone is supportive but I'm still in a spot where I have to choose between career and family.

Had my expedite request via congressional office rejected by USCIS HQ, though they said we can try again with CSC. Submitted US national lab letter from my employer on business impact and personal letter going over personal financial impacts.

I wonder which expedites got through and what worked before I submit to CSC. Wonder if anyone here was one of those cases?

This thread is for K-1 interviews. I don't know if it's the same wait through ais.usvisa-info.com/ :

Fiancée was rejected for a tourist visa despite:

• Letter from my prestigious USG civilian/military contractor employer stating I can't work abroad and can't leave without impact to $1B in business
• Letters from Pres. Obama & former ambassador to fiancée's father thanking him personally & photos of her father with various heads of state (to demonstrate she's from a good, law-abiding family)
• Wedding invite in the US addressed to both of us
• Statutory declaration from me committing to buying round trip tickets, not getting married, her not working/studying
• Job offer in her country

All submitted in advance via congressperson's office.

They just asked "is your dad a US citizen" and rejected her.  She had tried to explain about the letter from my employer and was cut off.

Truly awful people sit on the other side of the window. It's a major impact to my life and it's hard to see this as anything but a violation of due process.

Unfortunately she'll probably be going in for an F-1 visa interview later this summer as her starting her education a year late will set our entire lives back a year, including her first US job, having kids. State Dept is just out to ruin American lives without accommodating for how long these wait times are.

If she was born ~50 miles away, she'd qualify for ESTA and could just visit for a few months and save us so much grief.

On 4/6/2023 at 10:18 PM, Melody&Doruk said:

We scheduled our appointment this morning at 7am US Eastern time they seem to open up slots either beginning of the month or mid month anytime i called or emailed the embassy that the instructions were not helpful at all because the number they give out the visa people they told us to refresh the website even when we said we want to have an urgent interview. I ended up writing to my local congressman/woman about it all they can do is send out an inquiry to ankara asking like whats up with their application. Me and my fiancée missed the appointment slots 2 times during this we had to do shifts to refresh the webpage everyminute unfortunately seems like no other way and its total BS it felt like a game of musical chairs so yeah if anyone wants to write to their congressman i suggest researching alots

bump. curious how far out your interview is scheduled.

i'll be in a similar boat soon and we're trying to plan our wedding.

iyi sanslar