meowmeowmeow

congratulations and good luck!

ah, i wish i saw this thread earlier, i made a new one thinking there wasn't any others...

our interview is november 8th whoohoooooooooooooooo

good luck to all of you who have interviews in this month!!!!!!

congrats!

is it really a big surprise... karzai is super tight with the bush family as well...

thanks christeen and kaushalia

i hope things work out for everyone whose interviews are later rather than sooner

i dont have kids, but if i did, no. and i won't get one for me either.

how, sad RIP

thanks guys!

actually, this kind of is weird but it is better this way. since we will have been married for 2 years come november 1st, this means that he can hopefully just get a straight IR-1 visa pending the interview's results. so at least we won't have to worry about removing conditions or anything later, and from what i've been reading, he can apply for citizenship in just 3 years...

maybe everything does happen for a reason.

good luck to everyone else having interviews in november!!!!

WELL,

Perseverance helps. I just got off the phone with the Damascus embassy, and hubby has a new interview set for November 8, 2009.

He actually contracted a serious virus which led him to be hospitalized for over a week with pneumonia like symptoms. He had been freaked out about the swine flu issue (apparently it is now in Syria as well), but thankfully it is not swine flu. Just needs some antibiotics, chicken soup, and a lot of sleep. And he's got his medical all done as well, thank God, so we are set to go!

Anyone else have an interview in November? Join me....for we are no longer with the October bunch

lol

It's raining and ####### outside, but I'm so happy....

kitkat

congratulations!

congrats!!!!!!!!!

tebrikler

it certainly wouldn't hurt! i did that with mine

Who gives a rats tookas what Syria recognizes????? You are applying for him to come to the USA as a resident of USA... NOT syria... So all that matters is that the US government recognizes the marriage NOT if Syria recognizes...

Just becuase the Embassy is located on Syrian soil... IT IS NOT PART OF SYRIA... For all purposes, embassy soil is legally the United States of America, therefore, only with the US govt considers valid matters... Now if you wanted Syria to recognize the marriage, that is a seperate Syrian process...

It really sucks that he could not go to this interview... You need to get it re-schedulined ASAP... Talking to all his Syrian Friends and Family (probably not immigration lawyers I suspece) does him no good... This is an issue with United States and he need to follow the research you proveded... If they did not recognize your marriage in the US, then you would not have even gotten this far...

i agree 100000000%. i just talked to yet another attorney friend of mine today and she suggested that perhaps that angle is being brought up because syria isnt keen on letting people out so easily, i guess because they lost a lot of brain power from the 80s (she is syrian too). soooooo.....i told hubby, just call them tomorrow and reschedule and go and hope for the best..that's it.

guess everything happens for a reason....on a side note, so random......i got a free car today. it's a minivan and old, but in great shape....and i didn't really even ask for it, it was just offered...at least i'll have a decent set of wheels to pick him up in when he comes lol

trying to find the bright side in all of this....

thanks, guys

It should not matter if Syria want him to leave or not... It is up to the United States of America to grant the request for him to become a legal permanent resident so it doesent matter what Syria wants!!!

bearing that in mind, i pray that they won't take forever to schedule another interview.... keeping fingers crossed. thanks for your input, i needed to see this...

congrats!

congrats and good luck!

paris heart, I hope and pray that things go well for you and your hubby...do let us know!

xoxo,

kat

Who gives a rats tookas what Syria recognizes????? You are applying for him to come to the USA as a resident of USA... NOT syria... So all that matters is that the US government recognizes the marriage NOT if Syria recognizes...

Just becuase the Embassy is located on Syrian soil... IT IS NOT PART OF SYRIA... For all purposes, embassy soil is legally the United States of America, therefore, only with the US govt considers valid matters... Now if you wanted Syria to recognize the marriage, that is a seperate Syrian process...

It really sucks that he could not go to this interview... You need to get it re-schedulined ASAP... Talking to all his Syrian Friends and Family (probably not immigration lawyers I suspece) does him no good... This is an issue with United States and he need to follow the research you proveded... If they did not recognize your marriage in the US, then you would not have even gotten this far...

i agree 100000000%. i just talked to yet another attorney friend of mine today and she suggested that perhaps that angle is being brought up because syria isnt keen on letting people out so easily, i guess because they lost a lot of brain power from the 80s (she is syrian too). soooooo.....i told hubby, just call them tomorrow and reschedule and go and hope for the best..that's it.

guess everything happens for a reason....on a side note, so random......i got a free car today. it's a minivan and old, but in great shape....and i didn't really even ask for it, it was just offered...at least i'll have a decent set of wheels to pick him up in when he comes lol

trying to find the bright side in all of this....

thanks, guys

dude, go to mira mesa in san diego, there's a HUGE filipino community there if that's what you're looking for. there's even a restaurant or two on mira mesa blvd. good luck

congrats!

Its a heinous crime BY, but you have absolutely no context forb this. None whatsoever.

What it does show is that kids are now desensitized. To look on and laugh is an absolute disgrace. Situations like this is where I like France's Good Samaritan laws. All of those who looked on, let alone laughed, should be punished for not doing anything. This girl has had her life ruined and they think it's funny. Funny is when every single one of them is in prison for 10 years. Then we will see who is laughing.

Sure you will say I am generalizing, so have a look at the comments from teenagers towards the girl who can no longer walk properly due the side-effects of the flu shot. Yeah real funny. If I dared mocked the misery of someone else, my old man would have slapped me across the head. If I did what these kids did, going to prison would be the last thing I was worried about.

I was watching a few news reports from the area there, not to my surprise I saw typical 2009 parent responses of "the school is to blame for not having surveillance or security". No b-tch, pathetic parents like yourself are to blame for their gross incompetence and should be held accountable.

The two issues are the:

• Lack of empathy for the victim.
• As per usual, parents shifting the blame to someone else.

you is gangsta, mad props yo

He's interviewing at the USEM in Syria? What do you mean they will not recognize your Turkish marriage? You mean the USEM won't or the Syrian government won't? What do they have to do with the process anyway?

Damn, that sucks. I'm so so sorry for you. I don't know what to say.

hey sachinsky, basically the syrian government wont recognize it because he had to get permission from the government to marry a foreigner prior to all this. we didn't know that when we got hitched. we also got married in TR because i love turkey and so does he and we wanted to honeymoon in istanbul. that was a selfish reason, perhaps, but that's what we did. i also didn't want to go to syria because i have a bitchy old aunt there that i can't stand, but i sucked it up this year and went and it turned out fine. i kinda wish now we went to syria and got married to avoid all this sh*t....

thanks for your condolences..i hope you won't run into any snafus on your end

im confused!!!!!!!!!!! he is immigrating to the usa not syria.......how does what syria says about ur marraige have anything to do with the usa embassy? didnt you already go thru nvc?

I feel so bad for you.......i dont even have words to help u......all i can offer is prayers and dua.......i would go ahead with the interview and do ap if that is what it takes i dont know about attorneys in syria but i would think they would feel more compelled to hurry with what ever has to be done if the interview is complete and u and the embassy is waiting on their completion of their work..........im so sorry this happened to u.......i hope someone can come and give u knowledgeable advise about this instead of just my misguided thoughts about this situation........

sara

that's what i'm saying...what does syria have to do with this? when we went to turkey, i went to the US embassy in Ankara, and i signed an affidavit to marry there. then we got married. that automatically makes me assume that marriage in turkey is VALID in US law, if i had to go through the US Embassy to even do all this, right??? i'm thinking hubby is getting some bad advice. well, today couldn't have been helped because he is pretty ill, coughing non-stop, and i'm not about to have him go to the embassy in that condition and spread his germs around. but im hoping and praying also that they aren't weird about rescheduling and hopefully it will be mighty quick.