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Hello ALL, Natasha and her daughter had their interview on Friday August 15 2008

she said that the man giving the interview was very pleasant, and asked Only a few questions, One of the questions was if she was taking language classes, she told him that she was and he started asking a questions in English, Natasha's daughter

had to translate for her, and the rest of the interview was in Russian. The interviewer did not ask Natasha's daughter (14 years old ) any questions.

Natasha said that she had the impression that they had already decided to give her the visa before she arrived.

So next thursday i am flying to Russia to bring them both back to the US, it has been just over 1 year and 1 month since we have been together.

I feel like my life can finally start.

I would like to thank all of you for your help. Even though i do not post very much i learned a lot from reading all of your posts, questions, and answers.

I have a friend whose son (now he's 16) wanted to stay in Russia while they were waiting for their NOAs. She was very upset and she couldn't understand why he changed his mind. Later he told her he had a girl friend and he wanted to stay with her He was very serious, my friend was shocked. Now, when the lovestory is over he changed his mind back May be there are reasons Masha's son is hiding?

Could be. You never know with kids. My son told me he was going to marry his first serious girlfriend (he was fourteen). After several long arguments about issues like paying bills, not being old enough to work much, and being too young to drive, he stopped talking to me about it. Fortunately teen boys have rather short attention spans, and he came to his senses. I can only imagine what moving to a different continent might cause a teen in love to do, or plan.

I have found this thread very informative, My Natasha has a 14 year old who want to only come to the U.S. for a short time and return to Russia to go to school. I have been trying to convince Natasha that a 14 year old is still a child and should not be allowed to make such a big decision, but so far to no avail. I will have to try harder.

IF she does come to the U.S., i was wondering how hard was it for your kids to adjust to living here? is there anything that i can/ should do to make their adjustment easier?

Thanks

Richard

I love hearing this small, personal stories. Thanks for sharing, slim.

I want to thank all of you for the information and help that you all have given to me with my question.

Natasha will try to catch her train out of Moscow after her interview.

Richard

Hello all, i have a question about how late the interview process last at the Moscow Embassy. My finance has her interview on Friday August 15, and she wants to catch a 4:30pm train back home on the same day of the interview. I was wondering if anyone knows how late they conduct in the day they conduct the interviews.

Thanks for any info. that you can give to me.

Richard

Hello, I'm originally from russia...me and my husband are planning to go back to russia and he is american...so we are trying to figure out how to get him a visa that will let him stay there for 1 month...My mom back at home says she needs to sent him an invintation so he can get a visa...i'm really confused at this point.

Please tell us where to start and wich agency or whatever we can use...also we are planning to leave in oct or late sept..is it too late already?

Thanks in advance

It is a lot easier to get the tourist visa than a homestay,( tourist visa good for 30 days) any of the russian travel sites/ russian visa sites on the web will get you the invitation letter/ travel voucher taht you need, and when you get to Russia you can stay with your family and registar his passport there. I used www.visahq.com for my visa. also there is a site waytorussia.net that has a lot of information on traveling to russia.

Give it more time My Natasha has her interview Aug 15 and she just received her letter today

Ditto here. My Alla was. rather, surprised the Embassy had no interest in seeing this document.

The embassy did not ask us for our daughter's biological father's signed permission. My wife had the paper giving her father's permission to travel to the US with her. The airlines did not ask for it either. Noone has asked to see the paper so far.

That is my experience. Yours may be different, I cannot say.

thank you, for sharing that with me. it makes me feel better.

Natasha went to court and received a document severing the parental rights of her daughter's biological father, in preparation for coming here to the USA. This was an easy document to get given the absence of the father in Vika's life and his refusal to pay the court ordered child support these last 11 years. The father was at the court proceedings and though he didn't agree, the court ruled against him.

That said, this document was never shown to anyone. At the airport in Moscow, the passport control officer asked IF we had the document and we said we did, and I started to get it from the binder but she stopped me and said she didn't need to see it.

As everyone else says, each case is different and your results can easily vary from my own.

Good luck!

thank you for our help, it means a lot to me. I have been very worried about this.

The embassy did not ask us for our daughter's biological father's signed permission. My wife had the paper giving her father's permission to travel to the US with her. The airlines did not ask for it either. Noone has asked to see the paper so far.

That is my experience. Yours may be different, I cannot say.

thank you for information, i hope that they do not ask my Natalia.

My step daughter came here on a K-2. We did not have a letter from her father and did not get asked for one, but she was 17 years old and thus probably did not need one. Not sure what you mean about a 3 month time limit. Is he saying she can only stay in the US for three months? This could be a problem at the embassy or later. My step daughter came to the US, and after about 3 months returned to study at the university in her city of Rostov-on-Don. This has become a big problem as she has been denied a visa to return to the US. Once the K-2 is used and she returns it will be very difficult to bring her back especially after one year. We found out that tourist and J-1 visas will be denied on the grounds that she will likely be a high risk to stay as she has been here before and her mother is now residing in the US (the exact words from the embassy when she was denied last time) unless she has some extraordinary proof that she will return to Russia, and I thought that owning her own apartment and continuing her university studies would be just that proof.

Having said all that, if you get the visa with the letter he provided, I am quite sure once she enters the US no one can force her to return. Just don't let her leave until she adjusts and has her green card.

the 3 months is the limit in which she can stay, according to the letter that the father signed.

thank you for the info.

Hello this is my first post

I have a qusetion for any one who went thru the moscow embassy to get a k2 visa

My Natalia got at leter from her ex husband so that we can bring her 14 year old daughter to the U.S.,

but he put a time limit of 3 months in this letter. So my question is will the embassy give her the visa????

has anyone had this kind of problem???

Or do the embassy people even ask for a letter from the father to allow the kids to get a K2 visa????

I thank you for any help that you could give me.

Richard