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TiffAndMike

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  • Gender
    Female
  • City
    Fort Worth
  • State
    Texas

Immigration Info

  • Immigration Status
    IR-1/CR-1 Visa
  • Place benefits filed at
    Texas Service Center
  • Local Office
    Dallas TX
  • Country
    Germany
  • Our Story
    I met Mike in the spring of 2022 in a group chat for a video game. Upon casual conversation, I learned he was from Germany which I was super interested in learning about because my late grandmother was from Germany and brought to the states when she married my grandfather while he was serving in Germany. Over the course of the following few months, we began talking more and more frequently. The conversations about Germany became fewer and started to become much deeper, flirtatious and emotional. We got to the point where we talked every waking second that we weren't at work or asleep. We just unexpectedly fell
    in love with each other.

    We both declared our feelings for each other in the beginning of August that year. To make sure that it actually love and not just infatuation or a "love from a far" type of thing, we decided for him to come visit me here in the States and for him to stay as long as he could on the VWP to make sure what we both felt was real.

    On December 6th 2022 Mike arrived at DFW airport. Within 5 minutes of us being in the car together, we started snuggling up together in the backseat while my friend driven. Being in his arms felt like home which is something I did not feel for a long time before that. My anxiety completely went away and I was happy. At that point, I knew what we were feeling was real.

    We spent almost 3 months together. The only time we were apart is when I had to go to work.

    I'm the type of person who craves my solitude and I honestly can not stand having house guest for more than one night, if that. After a week of having him here with me, I knew I never wanted him to leave.

    Before he came here, we made an agreement with each other that things will only go one of two ways. Either we would split up and remain close friends or we would move forward with our relationship and all that entails as neither of us wanted a forever long distance relationship.

    On February 14, 2023 he proposed to me with a beautiful ring that he had picked out for me and of course I said " YES" with no hesitation.

    He is honestly the most wonderful man I've ever met and is everything I have ever wanted in a partner. He's a foot taller than me and he's so sweet and gentle with kittens that I gave him the nickname "my gentle giant". The little things make him happy in life as they do me. He is super nice and friendly to everyone he encounters.

    Growing up, my grandmother would go to Las Vegas every year with her brother and she would tell me about all the cool themed casinos like the Luxor, Excalibur and Cezars Palace and how once I was 21, she would take me there. Unfortunately she had an accident when I was 14 that severely impacted her mobility afterwards so she was unable to keep her promise. Since her passing it was on the top of my bucket list to go there.

    After seeing a few movies where they were set in Las Vegas, most notably The Hangover, Las Vegas was on his bucket list as well.

    Because of these reasons, Mike and I decided that we wanted to visit Las Vegas together and to get married while we were there.

    Over the next 6 months, we planned every little detail of our Las Vegas wedding and on September 10th, 2023 we were married.

    Since our wedding, he and I have visited each other every 6 months. I went to Germany to visit him and met his entire family. They welcomed me with open arms and I love them all so much.

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  1.    OldUser reacted to a post in a topic: Can't pay NVC fees nor send documents yet. How long do we have?
  2.    OldUser reacted to a post in a topic: Processing time for I 130
  3.    TBoneTX reacted to a post in a topic: Are CR1/IR1 visas still being approved at this time?
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  9.    TiffAndMike reacted to a post in a topic: IR1 Visa stuck after verbal approval at interview - not getting any responses
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  13.    TiffAndMike reacted to a post in a topic: Once interview approved and spouse enters US with green card- can they travel?
  14. TiffAndMike
    You won't hear a peep out of USCIS until you either recieve an RFE, approval or denial. Until then, it's nothing but silence and waiting. It took us 15 1/2 months for USCIS to approve our I-130. The rest of the process went by really fast through. My advice would be to go ahead and have your wife start getting all the required vaccines that she doesn't have record of. Hold off on the flu vaccine though as it may nor be flu season when she goes for her medical exam. Also, during this time start creating a folder of things to establish that your marriage is bona-fided. Plane tickets, lots of pictures, etc. The earlier you start to prepare for the interview, the less stressed and better off you will be. The thicker the folder of proof is, the less questions the officer tends to ask. Our folder was at least 3 inches thick and the officer spent less time questioning us than he did the 3 people before us who hardly had anything with them.
  15.    TiffAndMike reacted to a post in a topic: Processing time for I 130
  16.    TiffAndMike reacted to a post in a topic: Are CR1/IR1 visas still being approved at this time?
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  20. TiffAndMike
    My husband had his interview on the EXACT date you asked this and was approved at the consulate. His IR1 was issued in his passport the very next day. My husband also come to the states to visit me on an ESTA for 6 weeks while Trump was in office. Right now, there is a lot of half truths, distortion of reality and fear mongering going on. My advice would be to ignore it especially since you are from one of our allied countries where immigration fraud is not a major issue. If you were from a country like Nigeria where marriage based immigration fraud is common, then you might have some cause for concern. The government shutdown didn't affect anything for my husband and I nor did Trump's immigration policies. I fully believe it helped speed things up. If Harris would of gotten elected, our case would still probably be stuck at USCIS because the I-130 was a very low priority immigration benefit during Biden's administration.
  21. TiffAndMike
    My husband and I just had his interview less than 2 weeks ago and I ran into this same issue when trying to register his appointment as well. My attorney was even baffled by this. We were emailing EVERYONE from the consulate to the Dept of State over the exact same issue. The DS-160 is a completely separate issue that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the IR1/CR1 visa so just ignore that. If NVC sends you an interview letter for an IR1/CR1, you actually do not register your interview. You just show up at the consulate/embassy at the day and time of your interview. You do need to sign up for your passport delivery option though. They can either ship it to you via courier service or you can pick it up at a lock box.
  22. TiffAndMike
    The medical exam isn't exactly cheap either. We spent around $500 for my husband's medical exam and lab fees. The immigrant visa fee was $235. We paid that fee last week.
  23. TiffAndMike
    When I was going through the process to bring my husband over to the states, I applied for an expidited request with USCIS. It took OVER 4 MONTHS for USCIS to respond back to my request, which they ultimately denied. Being that your wife's condition is not considered "life or death" you will most likely be denied. I hate to sound harsh here, but due to the bad financial situation you and your wife are both in, I'd be in no hurry to get past the USCIS phase of the immigration process. Once you get to the NVC part of the process, finances are going to come into play in determining if you will be issued the CR-1/IR-1 visa. You will not be granted a visa if the Department of State believes you will be a burden on US taxpayers. If your wife were to come back to the states and be put on Medicaid for her health issues, then she would be receiving tax payer funded benefits. Someone who is on tax payer funded benefits is not financially stable enough to support their immigrant spouse. She would have to get a family member to co-sponsor you which would put them on the hook to financially support you for 10 years. That is a big thing to ask of a family member.
  24. TiffAndMike
    They didn't even ask us for the Affidavit of Support at the interview.
  25. TiffAndMike
    For the interview, she needs to bring her passport, recent passport photos, the police report from her home country and any other country she has lived in since she was 16 years old, the marriage certificate, your divorce decree, her birth certificate, possibly a certified translation of her birth certificate( if her interview is in a country other than the one she was born in) photos of the two of you together ( if you have photos of the two of you with family, even better) past plane tickets or itineraries of your in person visits since marriage. ALL LEGAL DOCUMENTS NEED TO BE ORIGINALS. You DO need to upload your divorce decree to the CEAC portal and she will need to present the original at the interview. What consulate will she be interviewing at?
  26. TiffAndMike
    It's a good thing to visit your spouse as much as you can during the process as it helps to prove the marriage is bona-fided. When we were going through the process, we made sure that we didn't go more than 6 months at a time without seeing each other and he came to the states more times than I did Germany. He never had any issues entering the country on a ESTA while our I-130 was pending, not even under Trump. My husband was actually asked "how many times did you and your spouse visit each other since your marriage?" by the immigration officer during his interview.
  27. TiffAndMike started following NVC Reviewed our case and requested document. and NVC appointment letter and confirming appointment questions....please help!
  28. TiffAndMike
    Hey everyone! We got our interview date at the consulate in Frankfurt. We recieved our interview letter on August 8th, 2025. There is no barcode on the bottom of it so I am concerned. Also, I am trying to confirm our interview date that was set up by NVC but can't seem to figure out how to confirm it. I already set up the passport delivery part and paid the delivery fee. When I'm on Visa scheduling site that I signed up for to have his passport sent back to him, it says "no interview scheduled ". Help please! *Ignore the 1st attachment. I uploaded the wrong screen shot*
  29. TiffAndMike
    Thank you!!!
  30.    OldUser reacted to a post in a topic: Wife has no vaccination records
  31. TiffAndMike
    As long as you have a return ticket home, I don't see what the issue would be. CPB already knows that you are currently in the process of legally immigrating here so I doubt they'd be too worried about you not returning to your home country. Why would someone jump through all the hoops to immigrate here legally overstay their ESTA? They are focused on national security threats, public charges and over-stayers.
  32. TiffAndMike
    We were December 2023 filers and we got approved in March. Idk why you haven't gotten an approval yet unless maybe you had some serious red flags that warranted a more stringent review. If your congressman and representatives won't help, I would contact JD Vance or Donald Trump. Their offices do make inquiries to USCIS on behalf of United States Citizens. I know this for a fact as I contacted Kamala Harris' office when she was VP due to the ever growing processing times and I recieved an email back from USCIS as a result.
  33. TiffAndMike
    My husband didn't have any record of his childhood vaccines so he just went to a private doctor and started getting the required vaccines as soon as we started the process. He will have to get the titer test done for the polio vaccine as the DR wasn't comfortable giving that one to him in case he had already recieved it. All of his vaccines were a one dose except for the Hepatitis one, that was a 3 dose vaccine. Not to be judgmental but why did your wife waited until right before her medical exam and interview to worry about the vaccines?
  34. TiffAndMike
    Hey everyone! So all our documents were submitted to NVC on July 4th. On July 16th, we got an email from NVC saying that they needed the divorce decree from marriage #1. (Mike is marriage #4, no judgements please) Anyways when I provided all my documents to my attorney's office almost 2 years ago, I forgot to scan in the first page of my divorce decree to husband #1. The paralegal handling my case caught it and I sent it to her. Well when she uploaded my divorce decrees, she didn't add the first page to it. I am beyond livid about this. My question is am I gonna be stuck waiting almost another 2 weeks for them to DQ us now because of her error? Or since we already were under review will they just go ahead and check it?
  35. TiffAndMike
    So you are one of the people on here who went to the interview right before your two year wedding anniversary?
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