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I think it is a stupid tradition.

What is most surprising is that women who have been FGM still choose to do this to their daughters......so that makes me wonder.....how bad can it really be? Maybe the media overhypes it?

Why would mothers who love their daughters take them to be cut?

Here is a little quote from some article i googled.

Why? So her daughter(s) can get married.

This tradition - and it has nothing to do with religion - is a man thing. It's men who want wives that have been cut. Make no mistake about that.

Why don't y'all just use that free Magic Jack app? You can talk all of the time and it goes where you go.

And? What happened?

Even if your wife doesn't go to counseling, find an hour to go yourself. Surely there is someone at Student Health who can help you. That's your FIRST step.

I wish you the best.

It's not common for Egypt, but it's not unusual, either. He's not the first and he won't be the last.

On the advice of my pediatrician, I started giving my 9 lb. 12 oz. son rice cereal in a bottle at four weeks old. Sorry, but that's not abuse.

If the state has decided to file charges, there's quite likely little she can do about dropping them. Do you have a lawyer?

The Individual Registry is either the registration of his birth or the registration for his national ID. That's not what they want.

The MOI will give him a Family Record extract for a whopping 30 LE. He can get it done at a police station. It will show all persons attached to his ID number, meaning wives.

The government is saying they have a record he was married at one time. National ID numbers are attached to marriage (and divorce) records, so a name search will get him nowhere. I'm pretty sure he knows this.

Look, I'm not going to tell you your guy is scammy, but this is one big red flag, particularly because anyone can take an ID number down to a police station and get a record of anyone else. If the government is saying they have proof he's married, they have a good reason. Do you still have the second paper, the one you never got translated? I'd be having that done, like, yesterday.

ETA: The MOI has a pretty thorough mechanism to get stuff online.

http://www.egypt.gov.eg/services/avlblservices.aspx?section=personas

It won't be official unless it comes from the police station with the proper stamps, but the stuff is online. Again, it's not hard.

We inquired about this at the local police station. and he was able to find out that his name is similar to the husbands name but it is not exact. There is no nikah, and he is adamant that he has never before been married. He has that proof from the ministry, we are only hoping to find out where to get this specific paperwork that USCIS is asking for.

Did he get a Family Status document from the police station? That would include his full name and the ID number off of his government issued ID, so no information from someone else's marriage could be attributed to him.

The RFE says the consulate has information that says he's married. They have his name, her name, and a date. Egypt's marriage records, for registered marriages anyway, aren't shabby and mismanaged and they're all entered into the database that's accessible at a police station. I can't imagine why a Family Status document wouldn't be sufficient.

He can be adamant all he wants but the proof is in the paperwork. All he needs to do is have a report run on himself. It's not hard.

I know it is on my side, I can simply walk in to the court, file for the divorce and get the divorce decree in the same day...I know also it would be a tough mission for her to divorce me in the US, especially to break the religious marriage. I have a very solid evidences regarding her virginity though and as well regarding her plans with her families ...So I am backing myself up in this regards...Even if she walked into a U.S court with my signature on a nikah and she demanded the however much money written there if I divorce her, she knows that I have all those evidences...I just dont want to be tricked into paying more money for them, as far as my lawyer said she cant claim that money even if it is written in the nikah and as an atty he makes sure that never happens.

You're a man. Divorce laws in Saudi Arabia are on your side.

For her to divorce you in the U.S. would probably take three months (to be sure she isn't pregnant). You want to be the one to divorce (and lying about her virginity should be sufficient) because you don't want her to walk into a U.S. court with your signature on a nikah saying you'll give her however much money if you divorce her - not that it's guaranteed, but there's no way to know what a judge will do.

MARRIAGE TERMINATION: Records from the American Consular Section in Cairo indicate that the beneficiary was married on June 30, 2011.

Is it possible that there is a nikah (marriage contract) out there somewhere that was not followed up with a wedding party, so culturally, your fiance has never been married, but legally he has? Those things happen.

Either that or he really was married - full on married - and never divorced.

Something has caught the caught the government's attention, and whatever that is includes his name, his ID number, and a date, and it says he was married and without a divorce document, you're stuck.

What counts is that you are sincerely a married couple, and it appears that you are.

Arkansas is lovely.

Best wishes.

All he has to do is go to his local police station and request a Family Status document. Marriages are associated with official ID numbers, so this would be easy to do.

EVERY intending immigrant from EVERY country in the world is subject to background checks.

In developed countries that digitize records, those background checks can and often do, happen quickly - so quickly the intending immigrant's background check is complete by the time they interview.

In countries that do not digitize records, someone - and it is always a local employed by the US government - has to dig through dusty stacks of old records. That takes time. It also takes motivation and, if you think about it, why would someone who maybe would never have the chance to visit the US much less immigrate hurry so someone else can.

All you can do is wait.

Cooperating with the Police in the prosecution of a bigamist.

If they would even bother to prosecute.

I did a quick google search and there hasn't been a bigamy case prosecuted in the US in some 60 years.

Marriage fraud, tax fraud, welfare fraud, the list goes on.

OP, your problems are bigger than the scope of what this self-help immigration message board has to offer. You need an attorney.

(2) Some days, about 15-20% go into AP. Other days, it's closer to 50%. Different employees? Or just the way the dice was rolled that day as far as paperwork needed, etc? Who knows. But remember I'm looking only at the CURRENT STATUS--some of those cases were undoubtedly AP at first and now say issued. So I'd have to follow the cases every day and check them again to really know.

No. Every intending immigrant goes through AP. The difference is that people from countries that digitize records usually have a shorter wait time and background checks are completed by the time they interview.

Egypt, and most of MENA for that matter, is different. If a name matches a name in a database - and that could be for something as simple as being a witness to a crime - the file has to be pulled and examined to determine if that person is a security threat.

It has nothing to do with employees at the Embassy and everything to do with common names.

Interesting analysis, BTW.

The Embassy is up and running today, and has been without closure for some time, even with the elections going on. Let us know how his interview goes.

Checked it out looks like the first ones are Christian not sure and the second one the interview was 2013-06-12 put in AP then given visa on

2014-04-12 not so good must be Muslim.

Just looking at the husbands' first names, neither are Christian. Dunno where you got that from.

Energy assistance is public assistance (PA) in the sense that money comes from tax dollars, however it is out of a different pot of money and there are different eligibility requirements, etc. So, yes, in a way you are receiving public assistance, just in the form of helping you pay your utility obligations.

The Embassy has loads and loads of Arabic speakers as well as translators on hand, so they wouldn't need to call and ask before. He should still have the number in his phone and would know if it came from a mobile phone or a land line - and the Embassy only uses land lines.

I assume that those who asked did so rhetorically given the snarky tone from others. Simple answer: my fiance had a job offer in England and has a friend in Qatar that might have been able to help us. If his K1 is denied and we have to file post-marriage, I doubt we'll do so from the Cairo embassy. They are a nightmare to work with, an absolute information black hole, and super backed up because of the political problems. I miss my sweetheart and I'd do anything to get him here with me ASAP.

There's nothing snarky about it. Facts are facts. Egyptians aren't free to up sticks and travel where they'd like to go for work or pleasure and your guy is no different.

Oh, and if that K1 is denied, he'll still be going through the Cairo embassy because he lives in Egypt.

by the time they asked him about the previous husband, I the I-130 HAD JUST BEEN FILED

Your current maybe not husband was asked about your ex-husband during the interview for a visitor's visa. If I understand this correctly, your problems are bigger than they appear.

Get a lawyer.

If they asked your current husband about your first husband at the interview, they know you were married.

They also know you didn't supply information about the marriage on the I-130.

You need a lawyer. Your problems are larger than the scope of a self-help web site.

Why not? What could go wrong?

/sarcasm

Move where? What countries are going to be faster/easier that guys in MENA can easily pick up and pack for? With equal employment opportunities/pay during the waiting period?

Short answer: nowhere.