Brad and Vika

At some point she will have to explain. Questions 11 and 12 in the I-129f ask if she has ever been to the US, and what her status was while here. Her passport number and name are in the database at State somewhere, and if she is not truthful, she could be denied the visa and banned.

There is no problem at all receiving another K visa, provided she left on time before, and had no criminal charges while here. Disclose everything asked in the application and interview.

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That poster you quoted is a sock puppet and troll.

There are no sock puppets posting in this topic (we checked ). Any member that had a previous or separate account on VJ has closed it.

Now, having gone this far **heavy sigh** I am compelled to say that, as you know, baiting and personal attacks are violations of the TOS. Any further name calling of members or their spouses will result in administrative action.

I split this out of the Forum Bullies topic, as it seemed a separate issue.

No imagination

Wellcome aboard

Congrats

Lets see if this worked. I know you are all on pins and needles. We had our dual citizenship bundle of joy this last weekend! (I wish it was that easy for us to get it!) Mom and little Felix are doing great, as is daddy. 7lbs8oz and 20.25in or for you metric people, like my MIL, 3.4kg and 51.4cm What a feeling! Im sure we will have some questions about citizenship and all that fun stuff soon. PS dodge pickup truck and mercury sable, Cessna coming soon... but i still prefer waking up with my wife.

Congratulations. Life gets a whole lot more interesting for awhile now, take it from me

Best defense against scammers is a brain. Stupid people get separated from their money and I demand their right to do so!

I guess that a short scam is better done on the web. Short scams are things like "I love you guy, but I cannot start this process before my sick momma has her operation". Under normal circumstances, it would be tough to produce a fake ill relative in person. Another good one is "I am about to be evicted, I need __$ right away or I cannot proceed", or "I can't really communicate without a decent laptop, I would LOVE to chat with you on skype like this every day, but my girlfriend/schoolmate/boss needs the computer back. Great news though, I found a great computer for only $600 (can you send it today?). OR ANY OTHER REASON TO SEND CASH NOW

See how long those excuses hold up when your answer is "Sorry for your troubles, I am on the way. You can spend a week or two getting to know me, right?". Cell phone inexplicably off after that, email account invalid.

no doubt

Baiting and personal attacks are violations of the VJ TOS, and will not be tolerated in this forum. Administrative action will be taken if it continues.

As Brad said, I think you will find a lot of couples on the RUB forum who met in person, although I would say that the number will decrease significantly if you limit it to those who met in person in the US.

The comments that have surprised me the most were from members that refused to believe any of us met in person. There apparently is a contingent that is sure all of us that say so are fibbing, and we really went online to meet. Kind of a reversal to what would have been maybe ten years ago probably. I don't see what difference it makes.

What we do disagree on legitimately is the assertion that spending time together matters. Although it depends on the social skills of the people involved, I think it helps to do so. Not that you can't get to know some one by skype, nut I think it is tougher to carry on a short scam in person (again, depending upon the social skills and personalities involved).

We met in person first, right here. You might be surprised how many of us in the RUB forum did. The online group can be more vocal at times, but plenty of them lurk (watch but don't post) too.

Any way, welcome.

Great, that seems to be the right answer. Lena will be going to order the certificate next week. She just submitted her passport renewal 2 weeks ago so she wants to wait for this to arrive before making her appts in Kiev.

Thanks Brad!

Sure thing Hector. Hang in there, the information gathering is the worst of it, next to the wait.

Vika says she thinks it took about a week. She couldn't remember the cost.

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Looks like the OP got what they needed. As this thread has served its intended purpose, I will close it.

Duplicate topics merged.

Try the working and traveling forum. The stated purpose of that forum is:

This forum discusses working and traveling for US immigrants both before and after obtaining US Permanent Residence. Employment Authorization Documents (EAD), Advance Parole (AP) and Social Security Numbers (SSN) (in its sub-forum) are discussed here.

Good Luck!

Orphans in Russia, at least, have to be available for adoption for Russian parents for a certain amount of time before they are allowed to be placed with foreign families. So there is an even greater chance of getting a child with some sort of issue if you are foreign.

Even though unemployment and everything is better here than in most parts of Western Europe, wages are lower and there is a view that there is not much room for growth. And even if things aren't great in Europe now, they probably will be in the future and it's just seen as a better life, with working formal institutions. Also now they are making medicine and education paid, which sucks.

The first paragraph explains a lot. In your second, it looks like you are saying that foreign marraige is an accepted way to access superior economic opportunities in the EU?

There is a couple in our town that has adopted two Russian children, a boy and a girl. Neither of them speak Russian, so they are paying one of our friends to help the kids retain their Russian and try to learn to read and write it. The boy is about 8 and the girl is 5 or 6. With the exception of the boy being a bit belligerent towards learning his Russian, they both seem pretty normal.

I have a client whose son and daughter-in-law adopted a Russian boy (2 years old I think). He had a very difficult time adjusting, hitting at day care workers and parents, throwing shoes, etc. at them. Their pediatrician said that in addition to the normal adjustment problems and his perceived lack of stability in life generally, their son also showed signs of personality disorder common with kids born to parents that have substance abuse problems. Apparently the background information on adoptable kids is either sketchy or unavailable.

When Vika and I were in the US Embassy in Kiev, there were a number of adoption interviews going on. The parents to be couldn't speak any Russian, but Vika could understand what the kids (pre-teens) were saying. Apparently the kids did not fully understand what was happening to them, and the translator for the orphanage was not really translating the entire conversation. If those older kids were misinformed or not understanding that they were leaving Ukraine permanently, I can only imagine what happens to the younger kids. One of the pre-teens was already making nasty sounding, hostile comments about her American parents. I remeber Vika saying that those parents were going to have lots of trouble.