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Thanks for giving me this site and i called the number associated with domestic violence.. and they gave me number to contact but the problem is they can only offer me overnight stay.. i need longer than that while im pulling ourselves together..but where im gonna put my daughter now?

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It is hard to know what to tell you without more info...like where you live,do you have transportation

look for a shelter, use the police they will help you. Depending what state you live in each one has different services. Try also to contact phil assoc. in your area. need more info from you to give more advice and help

can i have my k1 visa delivered to my hotel i am staying at when i have my interview at us embassy in manila? dhl deliver it there or pick up request

YES you need to tell them at the time of the interview

Good luck

Who here at VJ has their case completed at NVC and still needs their interview date?

I am one of them, our case got completed on the 24 of October.

Case completed 10/19/2009

Rec'd GREEN CARD 10/28/2009

No interview

STill waiting for the kids GC to be processed

HI

We are still waiting for my stepsons GC to come through, I have seen all of the other posting about this just wondering if anything new has happened to anybody else concerning k2 that age out while waiting for answer

I am really disappointed and sad that after 3 years of fighting against the distance, the circumstances, and this visa process, it all came down to this shitty day. There is a person which likes to play god, and decide for you if you can be happy and sad for the rest of your life.

A person that detached from the real word by a glass wall, is able to destroy lives with a smile in the face.

I have been preparing for this interview for the las 9 months, and since my situation is a little complex( I lived in the usa before), I had to submit also extra documentation showing that I had been in legal status while in the USA. Well not only I was in legal status while in the usa, but I also drop thousand and thousand of dollars to get a degree from an american school. Moreover, since I also worked legally, I paid taxes to the us government for 4 years.

This interview is for a K-1 visa, which is supposed to be a visa for people that love each other. Nevertheless not even one question was asked about the relationship. Maybe the person playing God had already decided maybe not, but the simple fact that I am doing this the legal way, should give me credit instead of making me feel that I am a liar.

I do not go into details, because it upsets me only to think about it. I left upset, but not because I could be denied for a visa, not because I felt so humiliated by the wannabe god, and not even because I may not be able to go to the USA. I do not care about those things. I do not give a ###### about them. But the sole idea of having to tell my love that we cannot be together because the visa maybe be denied, is just eating me inside my brain and my heart. I called her and told her how it went and she started crying... and I cannot take that. My love should only cry of happiness because I can be with her. YOu can only understand this feeling if you love someone. But a wannabe GOD was not in the mood today to make me and my love happy.

They just gave me a green paper and said that they do not know how long it will take. They also said" If i were you I would not book a flight yet" The only positive thing is that they kept my passport..... what a ###### day

Hey don't give in that easy....they put my Fiance(now my wife) through ###### and scared her into saying our relationship was a fraud....my lawyer said we were done....then I called the embassy and emailed "The Letter" then 3 weeks later the visa arrived with her passport...

Hello guys !!

I really need your help !! I'm desperate, don't know what to do ...

I'm french, married to a USC, mother of a 11 year-old daughter (from a previous relationship, french citizen too). We got married in the US, and are living in France. My daughter is disabled, she has developmental delays and a kind of autism. She is here in France in a "special school for special kids" where they take good care of her. She sleeps at school 3 nights a week, and learns alot (different activities : paint, music, swimming pool, poney, ...) she really loves being there.

First, i would like to know how difficult it would be to find a similar place in the US (in Dallas would be perfect !).

This kind of school is very expensive in France, luckily the gov pays for it !! I guess its expensive in the US too .... here comes my second question : i guess a financial aid is available to help poor parents of disabled kids. But as an immigrant, i wont have the right to ask for any financial aid, right ? Is there any other way ?

My husband plans to move back home, i'm afraid i wont be able to follow him. We are poor, its gonna be very very hard to do a DCF, because of the "affidavit of support". That's the first big step .... and if there is no way for my daughter to go to a "school for special kids", then i will definitely have to stay here in France with her, far away from my husband !!

I'm so desperate, i need your help and your advices !!

Thanks.

I brought my wife's childs and the normal school district has those services and if you have private insurance they will pay for additional services

Hi all. We sent our paperwork in and it got transfered to CSC. Today we got an email saying the following:

The I485 APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS was transferred and is now being processed at a USCIS office. You will be notified by mail when a decision is made, or if the office needs something from you. If you move while this case is pending, please use our Change of Address online tool to update your case with your new address or call our customer service center at 1-800-375-5283.

Does this mean it has been transfered to a local office or is it still in CSC?

I had the same thing and just got an approval on 10/14

but still waiting for the kids approval

OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just got the email that my k-1 petition was APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't stop screaming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats

Good day fellow VJ'ers, how are you doing all?

I've been thinking about this question. " HOW DID YOU MEET? "

Me and my wife were introduced by my aunt who happen to be her co-worker in the same Hospital.

Do you think it will not cause any problem, If I will tell them that we were intoduced by my aunt.

They said you have to tell the truth only, nothing less nothing more.

It should be ok because it was your aunt not a family member of her's....but show good proof that it is real and you should not have a problem

Will a Hong Kong Divorce be accepted in Manila USE?, Legal HK divorce but no annulment in Phil OK for K1?

post Mar 4 2008, 11:42 PM

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Filed for: K-1

California Service Center

Local Office: unknown

Country: Philippines

My fiancee lives and working in Hong Kong, and hearing of the problems / difficulties with obtaining an anullment in Philippines, she filed for divorce in Hong Kong. The divorce was completed entirely legally.....But will the US Embassy in Manila grant her K1 Visa with the Hong Kong divorce?

We have already filed and recieved NOA1...any comments or suggestions will be helpful!

have a blessed day!

I wish to thank all of you for your efforts and replies to my original topic / question. Just so all of you are aware, I was eventually able to make contact with the USE in Manila regarding my Phil fiancée’s divorce in Hong Kong. After looking through her regulations, she reported "I have good news for you." then she stated something like...since the marriage would take place in the US (which recognizes HK divorces) she would be considered free to marry and so she could obtain the K1 Visa. She further noted, however, that I could not marry her in Phil and then use a K3 since my fiancée is not free to marry there due to lack of annulment.

It is clear from what I have been able to see, Phil recognizes only annulment between Phil nationals, however, the visa is being offered through the US government at the request of a US citizen and the marriage is to take place under US jurisdiction. It is only for that reason that the USE is able to approve the K1 visa despite her still being legally married in Phil (but I might add, not in most other countries which recognize divorce - for instance she could marry in HK to an HK Citizen).

Also, FYI, the attorney she used in HK reported that she has had other clients who were divorced in HK and then married in the US and were living there legally. I do not know if they filed for K1 in HK or Phil. We are only filing through Phil (Manila) because in addition to the other errors in her documents, her Phil passport is inaccurate. She will need to correct that before going for interview but once she does, she is in danger of being accused of fraud by HK immigration if she returns to HK....she has heard of other domestic helpers who have been jailed for correcting errors years later and then returning to HK on corrected documents only to accused and arrested by HK officials suspecting them of trying to mislead HK about their identity.

Additionally, an attorney I spoke with was able to identify records of proceedings in which the Phil fiancée / spouse was acknowledged to have a divorce but not annulment and it was not looked at as a problem. However, he was so far unable to locate any regulations that directly state the acceptance / rejection of a foreign divorce for Phil citizen.

Finally, due to the fact that Phil will never recognize the divorce we are most likely going to proceed with getting annulment any way....now that we know of a way it can be obtained in under a year (THANK YOU VJer's You are SOOO helpful!) but we will not use it in the K1 process since we have already filed....but unless we can bring her boys over (might be complicated due to ex husband's attitude - not likely to give permission- though one boy is 18) she will have ongoing reasons to at least visit Phil and we want her to be legally safe there.

THanx again and have a blessed day!

Congratulations that finally you found an answer to this difficult issu which we , the other members also learned a lot. The USEM is right, just dont marry in the Philippines since legally, the divorce is not recognized there but the good thing is that it is possible for her to be approved with the divorce decree obtained from Hongkong.

The regulation that directly rejects a foreign divorce for a Phil citizen is in the Family Code of the Philippines itself where it states that the only way to declare a marriage null and void is thru annulment . The difference is that in Divorce, the grounds for it can be anything as long as both parties do not contest while in Philippine annulment, the grounds are exclusive.

I wish you all the best and hopefully, we will see a post here very soon that your lady is already here.

Goodluck and keep us posted.

i saw this quiry and i want to know if this is really true.... hope u can share infos. about this... bcoz if its true then why pinay will undergo an annulment and waste money if its ok in the the us embassy here in manila the divorce decree obtrained in hong-kong...?

MY wife got a divorce in the US and it was no problem to bring her here on a K1

Hey there one of my friends wanted to get divorce, is it possible that she could still file AOS with a status of divorcee? Any help would be very much appreciated.

Don't count on doing her own AOS....it will cost her lots of Atty fees to go to court and I think both of those were on cases that took longer than they were suppose to process. I talk to an atty for myself on another issue that I'm dealing with and he said he needs 20,000$ up front to take to court and that is only if the gov't does not appeal. ICE will also go over every detail to make sure no fraud was involved. Tell her to see if she can work it out and last til the 2 yrs go by. Is there any kids involved???

Im getting worried that my nephew will age out. Their category has not moved a day in 3 months. Philippines F2B has been stuck on May11998. Anybody know why????

More info hard to know what to say....

just wanted to ask you guys... Well I got my interview date set for October 9th, but I haven't recieved my EAD or AP, I got my biometrics was done early August 13th and my original biometrics was supposed to be 28th August.

Do you think I should be worried at all?

good luck you sound ready

I am sending my AOS packet, do i need to include our bonafide relationship proofs? like wedding pictures, joint bank account and such... ty

the more you send the better...according to my lawyer

Even though we're still waiting on the NOA2 for the K1 visa, we have decided to organise together the forms needed for the Embassy interview and also for AOS. AOS in particular, is turning out to be a lot more complicated than filing the I-129F.

I have found out alot of info, so far, that contradicts each other. For example - I always thought that when filing AOS after getting married you send the I-485 form with the fee of $1010. I was under the impression that in addition to that, if you want to apply for an Employment authorisation and Advanced Parole to allow you to travel in the meantime of processing, there were two additional fees for each of those extra forms aswell. Even on the VJ Step-by-Step Guide on How to File for Adjustment of Status for K1 Visa Holders, it says on steps 13 & 14, "Include any additional required supporting documentation or photos as well as payment as noted here", and then theres a link.

However, I found out this piece of info on the USCIS website: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=73ddd59cb7a5d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD&vgnextchannel=7d316c0b4c3bf110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD

"If you filed a Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, on July 30, 2007, or after, and you paid the I-485 application fee required, then no fee is required to file a request for employment authorization on Form I-765. You may file the I-765 concurrently with your I-485, or you may submit the I-765 at a later date. If you file Form I-765 separately, you must also submit a copy of your Form I-797C, Notice of Action, receipt as evidence of the filing of an I-485."

Does this mean that I don't have to pay anything other than the $1010, even if I still want to file for EAD & AP at the same time as AOS?

Help is greatly appreciated!!

get a lawyer so much easier

I'm planning on moving to the US asap. Should I quit my job a few days before the interview or should I wait until I have the visa?

WAIT WAIT

So, My boyfriend (UK) and I (US) want to get married. I am not sure if we're going to be living in America, I think I might move over with him, but I wanted to know if it would be easier to get married in America first.

Really what I am asking is if there is a LEGAL way to get married without having to get a visa (especially if he may not even stay)?

People say that getting married is the "easy part" but I don't even know where to begin, please help.

MArriage is the hard part

Hi,

I wondered if someone could put my mind at rest (?)

I recently had my AOS interview in Tampa; the interview went very well except it transpired that I had forgotten a copy of my divorce absolute certificate from way back in the early 1990's!

The Officer said that this was not a major issue and that all I had to do was to send it to him at the Tampa Field office; we would not need to attend another AOS interview and he gave me an I-72 (not an I-797C) Request for Further Evidence with an 87 day limit to it.

Apart from feeling bloody stupid for not having it as soon as we got back in the car to return home, I immediately started making phone calls back to the UK and a very good and extremely patient friend of mine managed to track it down and had it sent to me within a couple of days. I sent it together with the I-72 and a cover letter back to Tampa for the attention of the Officer (as requested in the letter) via UPS and it was delivered at 10.30am last Wednesday, September 9th.

Does anyone have any experience of something similar? I sort of thought that upon delivery, the wheels would turn pretty fast and the website would be updated and hopefully an e-mail from the CRIS system would have been received by now!

On speaking to the help desk late yesterday, the person there told me that it was up to the individual Officer whether he/she wanted to use the website/e-mail route or just snail mail me in which case the website would not show any updates at all! I found this strange as I can not see why the infrastructure in place would be not used but I have heard of people who have had their Green cards for some time and yet the website still says that the application is pending so maybe there is some truth to that!

Not withstanding that, any idea how long this is likely to take ?

Many thanks for reading this.

Dusty

Its the Gov't thats why, they never do things the smart way

Just posting sum info on hopes its helpful.

Case is US citizen parent petition for child u21

I130 sent : 07 july 09

NOA1: 22 jul 09

NOA2 10 sept 09

California Service Centre

I'm doing one over 21 now but started under

Hi Everybody.

We searched VJ and couldn't find something similar but here goes...

We applied for AOS (from K1) on 8/7, and in the uscis case status, it told us that our EAD/AP approval notice was being sent on 9/9 and that our AOS was:

" Current Status: Case Transfered to Another Office for Processing

On September 8, 2009, we transferred this case I485 APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS to our CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER location for processing and sent you a notice explaining this action. Please follow the instructions provided on the notice. We will notify you by mail when a decision is made. If you move while this case is pending, call customer service at 1-800-375-5283 to update your address. You can use our processing dates to estimate when your case may be processed by following the link below. You can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case by registering in the link below. "

It seems some people get their case transferred to CSC (and it should be a good thing - possibly no interview).

Question: How long does it take for CSC to receive the case and in the future do we contact NSC or the CSC Premium processing number (866-315-5718)? We tried to use the Receipt Number on the I797C but CSC didn't recognize that number.

2nd Question: We haven't received our biometric appointment letter, it's been roughly a month. I think most people get their biometric letter fairly soon after NOA of AOS (and most time BEFORE transfer to CSC if applicable)...so we're wondering if anyone else has had this issue? Should we contact NSC/CSC? Can we walk-in with just the NOA and NO BIOMETRIC letter to local USCIS office?

Thanks for any help!

Regards

TLNT

Ours too was transfered to CA

Hi Everybody.

We searched VJ and couldn't find something similar but here goes...

We applied for AOS (from K1) on 8/7, and in the uscis case status, it told us that our EAD/AP approval notice was being sent on 9/9 and that our AOS was:

" Current Status: Case Transfered to Another Office for Processing

On September 8, 2009, we transferred this case I485 APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS to our CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER location for processing and sent you a notice explaining this action. Please follow the instructions provided on the notice. We will notify you by mail when a decision is made. If you move while this case is pending, call customer service at 1-800-375-5283 to update your address. You can use our processing dates to estimate when your case may be processed by following the link below. You can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case by registering in the link below. "

It seems some people get their case transferred to CSC (and it should be a good thing - possibly no interview).

Question: How long does it take for CSC to receive the case and in the future do we contact NSC or the CSC Premium processing number (866-315-5718)? We tried to use the Receipt Number on the I797C but CSC didn't recognize that number.

2nd Question: We haven't received our biometric appointment letter, it's been roughly a month. I think most people get their biometric letter fairly soon after NOA of AOS (and most time BEFORE transfer to CSC if applicable)...so we're wondering if anyone else has had this issue? Should we contact NSC/CSC? Can we walk-in with just the NOA and NO BIOMETRIC letter to local USCIS office?

Thanks for any help!

Regards

TLNT

WE applied about the same time and have already got boimetrics app

i just got married august of this year and i have an expired working visa 4 years ago. i am in the process of filing my petition for an alien relative and at the same time my adjustment of status...one of the requirements for the I-485 is a copy of a nonimmigrant visa within the last year and i haven't had this anymore.so, should i send them a copy of my expired nonimmigrant visa 4 years ago?or not? can you guys help me with this....thanks

Get a good lawyer or you might just get a one way visa home

Hey everyone. I feel so down right now. My husband had his appointment at the Jerusalem consulate and i went with him. We thought this was it... but NO. The officer who interviewed my husband asked him for pictures of our wedding.... my husband told him we have a few pictures in our phones that he can look at, and also he told him i have 3 pictures in my wallet. they did NOT inform us in the appointment letter that we needed to have proof of wedding pictures. So he did not get his visa, they gave him a paper saying they need further proof of our relationship, and they said I need to have proof of dominicle in the USA... i guess because i have been in Palestine for 1 yr now ??? what am i supposed to do? does that mean i have to LEAVE Palestine before my husband can get his visa? i am so sad and stressed, i do not want to leave without him. cant i just have proof of bank accounts and mail i get in the USA? can anyone help me and advise me what to do ??? please, any thoughts / tips are greatly needed !!!! i am so sad right now! the only good thing is that once we have the proof and pictures, we send it in automex (sort of like fed x) and that we don't have to go back because its really a hassle

!!! HEART BROKEN AND OUT OF HOPE !!!!

YES more pics lots more

My wife's and her daughter's application is pending and her daughter is getting married tomorrow. I was going to have her write USCIS referencing her A# and enclose a copy of her NOA and a copy of her marriage license. She should send it to VSC.

What am I missing? Call the 800# also? And???

I am trying to get her name changed at USCIS before they produce the 10 yr GC. Hopefully, we will make it in time and save money trying to change it later.