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Apply first in the school you want to get in, then they will give you the list of requirements for admission. Sometimes, some school doesn't require transcript of records to be evaluated esp if it is written in english. Some school doesn't require toefl if you are employed or your employer could give you a letter that you are fluent with english.

Darren, you are one of the Americans who have a freakin' armadillo skin, people cursing you because you are such a big mouth stupid American. Geez! Streotyping is not humor that you always refer about your wife cultural individuality. "browntail tuna", that's how you see your wife, you're freakin' old man than my husband and yet you didn't know how "to respect". I honestly pity your wife that she fell on someone like you. You only got money and tons of arrogance.

14 months after to meet in person.

6 months friendship.

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Met online July 2005

Met in Person September 2006

Engaged November 2007

Filed K1 September 2008

Get married August 2009

4 yrs.

i like fish soup for breakfast, but only my recipe, and no, i'm not sharing.

Sour fish soup is great.

I have undergone the sputum test and culture due to an old scar with my chest x-ray. I have no history of TB or any family history of such. It will depend on the x-ray findings. Bring the films with you for comparison, but I doubt that they will honor it.

After two months delay, I am now cleared and onto my interview next week.

They don't honor anything, if they find anything on your xray, you will undergo sputum test.

So, it seems Darren needs to attend class for composition and creative writing.

He might be cutting classes before or perhaps not present when he's teacher introducing this.

Now, that's the moral lesson, try to have perfect attendance, you'll never know what might come handy.

If they see scar in your xray no matter how it got there, you will undergo sputum culture that delayed your visa process for almost 3 months.

Honestly, I don't find their facility sanitizing for sputum test and the way they acquired specimen for sputum culture. Most likely caught the disease than prevent it.

I changed my name on my ssn before submitting my AOS before, right after getting married.

In Illinois, I brought my marriage license as proof of reasin to change my last name and middle name. They have it change on the same day but received the card after one week.

I suggest to go to SSN and change her name exactly same name as her greencard to avoid this confusion. She might have problem for credit in the future as SSN is always associated with most legal documenta.

Did you change her name SSN after getting married?

Hi Everyone, I just started the K1 process, Already filed my 129-f and received my NOA1 in the mail. My girl is in the Phillipines and will have to travel to Manila . Any suggestions anyone might have for us? I really would appreaciate it. Do we know how long it takes between the medical and the interview?

For the first time ,I am happy to be happy and looking forward to a life with Linie

Jim

Once, you get your NOA2, which is the letter of approval, wait till they transfer your case to NVC, and you'll get your MNL case number. Once you get case number, you can call the embassy to set her appointment for interview. She can have her medical one week prior her interview date.

While waiting for NOA2, make sure you have the list of all the documents that your fiancé needs for interview, and gather soon enough.

GoodLuck!

My Fiance has a strange preference for food. For example, at Breakfast He only

wants to eat Pancakes, or French Toast, etc. I ask him before if he wants fish

and He told me ... " No, Fish is not for breakfast " ...

Is this normal of an American Guy ? Why he dont want Fish for breakfast ?

What planet is he from ?

He's definitely from earth. Food is a big part of individual's culture. Food preference depends on one's geographical culture.

Philippines have dried fish and rice for breakfast as it is surrounded by sea and have vast rice farming land. America have four seasons and different food resources availability that affect the way people prepared food.

Yes, lot's of experience, my own, several friends, and many, many acquaintances. One might be the exception, two might be a coincidence, three or more is a trend, and the trend seems to be holding. Swore I would never find myself in that situation, and now, I am just another victim of the Pinay!

Bingo! My biological translator is at work. At least it is her money going back home and not mine...Slow the flow of money back home...hard to say no to mommy.

The wife gets all depressed when she works so hard, and mommy keeps asking for more and more! She has two brothers in America. One has twelve kids back in the Philippines, and barely sends enough home to support them. The other brother got tired of hearing from mommy, and put her on a fixed allowance. He told her to stop complaining, he has his own family to raise, or he would cut that off as well. She has another sister in Taiwan. She just puts even more pressure on the wife to send mommy money. Mommy and daddy don't work - they quit the family business and moved into an apartment-- their kids are all married and living in America, or Taiwan. Mom wants to travel with her friends, and dad wants to play the lottery. That leaves just my wife for them to pressure for more and more.

Well, thats why there's benchmark on helping family. If it is emergency, needs cash right away, I don't mind sending my family. They didn't asked money from me on regular basis. I've been here for almost three years and I only sent once due to emergency.

Apparently, its kinda a cultural thing for parents in the Philippines to depend so much to their offsprings, esp kids abroad. Not letting them know how hard your life is and your needs, will make them think that everything is okay, therefore asking money is not a big deal.

Helping family during emergency is a different story. Though frequent emergency is a manipulation.

Hope so. I have had the talk. Everything is settled, and a few months later, it is, "Oh, I forgot!" Blood is thicker than water.

Ina laging mauna. Ang pinakamahusay na maaari mong asahan, ay upang kontrolin ang dumudugo.

Hmmmm.... You might speaking based on your experience...

Though, I can't underdstand the context of your tagalog, your sentence construction is wrong. Probably, you're using Google Translation.... Hehehe... Control the bleeding of what?

It's hard on her part that she's not earning the money that she's sending to her family in the Philippines. If you think you have extra cash in the pocket, volunteer to help her family. That way, she will feel more comfortable.

Same thing happened to me, I got asthma when I was younger which seemed to leave scar in my lungs. I need to undergo sputum test. I hope there's more efficient way for St. Lukes to do this. Anyway, after I got negative result, I went back to St. Lukes, got my shots, they let me chose the date of interview based on their available slots. And they're the one schedule the interview to the embassy.

Some CO requires three months of pay stub. If he thinks he can get a job soon enough to suffice the requirement for your k1 visa interview, yes, you can file the petition. Your draw back is timing on how soon he can get a job and how soon your petition get approval. K1 visa in the Philippines have higher denial due to income requirement, no assurance too that CO will accept co-sponsor.

Just want to thank you all for stealing my thread, and turning it into something that it was never designed for. I posted this trying to help some people, and now we might as well just delete the thread. I'm sorry but it's incredibly rude.

Hi. I don't want to be rude and I've been here since my K1 visa, your post is great but was discussed here a lot of times. New members will keep posting different questions and concerns, same as what you've posted. And old members will always be diligently share their experiences to educate those in midst of the journey. This is a public forum, topics may go in different turns because of different point of view but you're still getting good response from other members. Just don't take things too serious, VJ'ers might having fun with forum but sure enough, they try to help others to get through the journey. Just chill.

Besides, not all Filipino fiancé or spouse really have the hard time with the process. I never had problem with the process as I followed the guidelines that was posted here.

Haven't noticed the cookies, but the ice cream and golden mangoes just like the Philippines are available in my part of the Midwest, Minneapolis/St Paul area. The ice cream is at the only Filipino grocery in town and the mangoes are all over the Asian groceries when in season. And we really don't have a whole lot of Filipinos in Minnesota compared to other parts of the country.

Philippine Mangoes are different. There are mangoes in Asian stores but its quite different. My province is in Antique, Philippines and every mango season we had Guimaras mangoes, its way different from mangoes they're selling here which usually came from Mexico and Chile. I heard that they are only available in Hawaii and California, due to short supply. As for the Ube ice cream, its very seldom in the Filipino store, nothing sold here in St. Louis, MO.

Our Walmart has Magnolia ube ice cream, but it sells out real fast. Also they sell Otep cookies.

Jeez! How lucky Hawaii and California as they get most Filipino stuffs pretty easy. Even the Philippine mango! They got it. Hope they share some to midwest.

Doesn't bother me. I worked as a server in a restaurant once, and I remember the employer telling me to greet people with happy holidays rather than Merry Christmas, but I celebrate Christmas. If I am going to greet, I will greet a Merry Christmas. It doesn't have to be merry if they don't want it to be. These things are trivial to me. About the ice cream. How about the fact that we(US) have considerably more choices to choose from, but we don't have some of that good Ube readily available.

Hmmmmm..... Hahahaha.... my husband likes Ube flavored ice cream too.

I'm just glad Darren is back, I have a way to entertain myself at work now!

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The answer to the OP's problems is to stop whining and become self-sufficient. Unfortunately, it seems obvious that her husband chose her because of her apparent neediness. Don't get me wrong, I feel bad for the woman. But if a woman wants to think like a modern, independent woman, she should be able to pull her weight in the relationship. That means doing things other than what men can do for themselves. Most men [hopefully] can take care of themselves. They know how to wash dishes, do laundry, cook their meals, etc. We can even get our "needs" satisfied. So you really need to have more to offer in this day and age. Otherwise, be prepared to settle and possibly take this kind of abuse.

For the record, every woman I've dated as an adult has been a Professional. All were Filipina, and their family values were still intact. Even my would-be Fiancee is a Licensed Midwife who rarely has time to chat, but I wouldn't have it any other way. My plan for her, if/when she comes here, is to study more and work hard so she can get as close to becoming an OB-GYN as she desires. That's my legacy to her; not an insurance policy. We'll both benefit because our goals will be more easily attainable if both of us are successful.

Most women wanted to be self-sufficient. Yes, she should prepare herself to be able to protect herself on whatever outcome of her marriage. But being self-sufficient needs to have more support and luck in life. Moving in the different places without money or very little savings, with culture adjustment and familiarization and trying to adapt in new environment are not an easy task. Even though, for a professional person, moving here will return your accreditation to zero. You will start again from the bottom.

We can try to make ourselves self-sufficient as much as we wanted, but its a long way down the road.