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I'd like to be added to the list too! Jo (USC), Alex (UKC-Glasgow, Scotland) Bronx, NY (he's coming this Sunday, March 29)

Quick update, they retook his fingerprints, and gave his passport back to him. He is now back home in Glasgow after a long train ride, with passport and visa, and that sealed envelope My goodness has this been a longggggg journey. Now I wait for him to fly over in about a couple of weeks.

Thanks to VJ for all the info and some helpful and supportive posters here.

Yes, you can have more than one joint sponsor.

My DH filed from the UK. He was recently approved, but has to go back to redo his fingerprint scan at the embassy because they screwed up.

Good luck to you.

Edited to add that he filed and was approved for the IR-1 visa.

No clue, something about it not properly showing up on their computers when they tried to retrieve info about his case. Something like that anyway.

Ah man, stuff like this can only happen to us. So, turns out there was a problem with the fingerprinting! This is bad. He is going to have to miss another day of work, shell out over 100 pounds on travel. We have spent a ton on travel, due to a number things that required him to return to London. I hope this is the very end of it. He will go on a sleeper train Wednesday night to do it on Thursday and then come right back.

There was a Canadian, who had a call back after visa was approved, it was just a minor glitch regarding finger printing. They had to fingerprint her again, so it might be something technical with your case too. Don't worry too much.

Best wishes

Oh gosh, I seriously hope it has nothing to do with having to go back either! He's been there so many times and spent so much money! Well, better that than anything truly very serious.

Thanks again all for the reassurance. We are staying calm and positive, no use worrying!

Yes, it's good until 2013.

I'm just getting a headache with all the worrying i'm doing. Might as well try to stay calm and positive until Monday, since I really cannot figure what it could possibly be and we've already been approved.

Yes, we paid for the service to pick up the passport, and have it returned to us as well.

Thank you for the reassurance.. but I don't know how they'd expect him to go pick up the passport, they'd just send it back via secure mail. *sigh* and of course the letter has to get to him Saturday, when he can't call and find out right away what's going on.

DH's visa was approved on the day of his interview, Feb. 12. However, it was "suspended" because we couldn't leave his passport at the embassy. We had to fly out to Glasgow that night since plane tickets were far cheaper than train tickets for us, at the time.

So we sent his passport back to the embassy via secure mail services a week after the interview. We waited a long time, until DH heard from them this morning. He received a letter from the embassy telling him to call them regarding his immigrant visa.

Normally I'd be calm about this and figure it was something minor, or there was something they needed to clear up, but we are both so paranoid now. Everything has been working against us ever since we started this process. We began in June 2007, we filed directly with the consulate and it shouldn't have taken so long, but it has, due to one thing after another. We just can't help feeling some sort of dread and worry over it now. What could they possibly want after everything we've been through for the past 1.5+ years. He's already been through the medical and the interview, he was approved, can they just not stamp his passport and send it back, what would they need to know...

Anyway just want to know if this has happened to anyone. TIA.

My husband will spend his time waiting for his green card at home with our daughter while I am out working and going to school.

Had daughter Sky on Feb. 2, 2008.

I found out I was expecting her in June 2007, 2 weeks after I moved back to the US and sending in our I-130 application. Pretty sh*tty timing really.

Haven't been to the movies in such a long time. I think the last thing I saw at the theaters was "You Don't Mess With the Zohan."

Congrats to all the pregnant ladies. Makes me broody and longing for another little one.

I did move to DH's native country of Scotland in May 2005. It was OK at first, although I struggled with a lot of homesickness for the first year. I got the hang of living here and I even got a job. However the more I thought about starting a family and going back to school, I thought back home would be better for me. DH was considering moving to the states, but he wasn't sure he was ready.

We ran into some marital problems that began early 2007 and by the summer of 2007, I was depressed and I just wanted to go home. We thought about making a fresh start in the states.

I wanted to be closer to family there as well, since I am much closer to my family than he is to his own.

I moved back June 13, 2007. Funnily enough I found out I was pregnant about 2 weeks after I got home! So good thing I made it home in time.

DH was just approved the IR1 visa. I think it'll be so much better this time around. We have a lot of support there. There are so many opportunities for us. Plus I am going back to school to finish up my degree in science and go to pharmacy school. and we feel confident that raising our daughter there is the best thing for her. So we are pretty optimistic about our future.

Sebastian never posted his experience in here- but they sure bruised his arm up when they drew blood! He had the Irish doctor at Knightsbridge.

Funny about that, my dh had the irish doc too, and before his blood was drawn he was told that it could be a "bruiser." He didn't really get a big bruise on his arm.

Not sure I have a favorite either, but I really like Chris Cornell's remake of Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean.'

They may ask her a few questions about it probably. I'm no expert on the medical nor am I a doctor, but if she's only had a couple of seizures in her lifetime that did not concern her GPs, and test results didn't turn up anything unusual, I wouldn't be overly concerned about whether or not it would be grounds for denial. IMO I don't see how something like seizures would be.

Hope it goes well.

Tasted chili & chocolate and cajun squirrel. Both are icky, chili and chocolate was only slightly better. I don't like overly weird flavors of crisps.

don't you find that they all taste the same? it is like when they did tomato ketchup crisps and they were basically prawn cocktail flavour!

Well I find chili & chocolate a bit different. But the cajun squirrel did taste similar to other meat flavored ones. But something about it seems a bit more gross. It had to be if it's meant to taste like squirrel!

Tasted chili & chocolate and cajun squirrel. Both are icky, chili and chocolate was only slightly better. I don't like overly weird flavors of crisps.

Congrats! Glad to hear you had a safe and pleasant journey.

Hi niniel71. I had to go down to London three times in the past year or so. It is very, very easy to get to.

My DH is a bit hopeless when it comes to things like this too, so I kind of know where you are coming from.

I used all sorts of transportation. It is very easy to get to and around London, and i'm not even from here! (I'm the usc, and i'm from NYC. Plus we are in Glasgow so it is a very long trip for us).

To travel down there we have used trains. We used the National Express website, which has already been mentioned. We also used sleeper trains.

We used the tube. it is SO easy to get around by tube. Well, it is easy for me as I live in NYC and our subway system is far more complex so perhaps that is why it is a piece of cake for me. But really, you can get tube maps and schedules, etc. online and it is very simple to use and understand all the train lines and such.

To get to airports, if you are going to use such airlines like easyjet or flybe, etc., we took easybus or National Express coaches which take you to and from central london to the airports outside of the city.

You can find EVERYTHING online. seriously.

And I cannot stress how useful map sites were, like google maps and such. If you are walking around, use them!

We have never gotten lost! We also have had very little trouble, except for bad luck with being out in London the two times it snowed there, so there had been delays and cancellations and such but I'm sure that won't happen to you.

Good luck to you!

Thanks! DH shall be moving around end of may/early June.

You may want to post this here: http://www.visajourney.com/consulates/dos_review.php

Congrats!

Thanks, I'll be doing that in a bit.

I posted this on another forum, just thought I'd post my DH's experience here. GOod luck to all those going through the process.

Our visa interiew experience:

Some of you know how long this journey has been for us, and the problems we have encountered in the past so this is an especially joyous occasion for us.

I'll try to keep this as concise and to the point as possible, so I'll leave out the horror stories about our two trips to London, getting caught in the snow those two times, flight cancellations, sleeping on airport floors, taking every kind of transportation that exists out there, etc

Our new visa appointment was on the 12th at 10am. We actually got to the area at 8am but we didn't want to show up so early in case we would be turned away so we walked about, sat in the park, had coffee at the nearby Starbucks. Stupid thing to do, we should've gone in anyway because when we got in, there were ten immigrant visa applicants in the queue ahead of us.

We were called about 3 hours after arrival, and we had a pretty friendly guy. We gave in the documents one by one, and they all seemed fine. We had all originals and copies (will tell you specific docs at the end of this post). We paid the $400 at the other window. The he gave him his x-rays in the brown envelope. There was some discussion about the pasport situation because that night we were to fly out and obviously, the embassy needs to keep your passport. So, the guy told him he could just post his passport back to the embassy via their courier service.

An hour later we were called back and we had a very pleasant guy interviewing him. He just asked him when we met, how we met, minor questions about his last visit to the states and some stuff about our daughter. She was with us, so the guy started waving and talking to her lol Then he asked him his plans in the US. After all that, he got a "Congratulations" and a "Good luck" and he gave DH the blue form telling him that his visa is suspended because he did not have all the docs. Really it was just the passport.

The docs we gave in were:

his passport and copy

his birth cert and copy

marriage cert and copy

my i-864 and 2007 tax transcript with copies

my dad's i-864A with 2007 tax return and w2, with copies

my dad's passport biographic page (copy)

They did not ask for proof of domicile because I have been living in the states since June 2007. At least this is what I think is the reason. Plus they have seen us before, in November 2007 and they knew our situation then.

So all he has to do is phone the courier service, and give them the passport and just wait to receive it back with the visa in it.