ally and moh

50 days passed but no response ....my friend who post his Ap experience in other forum got his visa after 92 days.....

This is day 65 for us

What country is your friend from?

I hate the way they tell us that this could all be over in 4-6 weeks and then it takes MONTHS!

I got this from an international matchmaker.

"Some applicants mistakenly have the belief that by getting married, that they automatically prove their relationship is bone fide. This is not the case. An UNmarried couple hoping to bring a fiancee to the USA, and promising to marry after arrival in the USA, is viewed the same way as a Married couple who has just recently married and applied for a spousal visa.

You will be speaking with the same consular officers when you attend your interview for the CR-1 visa."

That is interesting. I had never heard that. As you have probably seen on here, most people advise you to marry if a K1 fails and apply for the CR1.

Maybe the matchmaker meant if you are going to file for one or the other soon after meeting and on VJ if the couples marry after a bad K1 experience, they already have a long history together.

But I will keep it in mind!

Just want to say HI from AP Hell!

Today is day 64 and I pray it ends soon!

Our situation is a bit different. I didn't cancell my K-1. It became invalid when we got married. I hope we don't have to go through what you went through.

Did they ask you why you cancelled your K-1? What kind of questions did they asked you?

Sounds like they're jerking you around. I hear that AP is not good. They're digging for a reason to deny because they're suspicious.

I know that they view a couple that's recently married filing for IR-1/CR-1 the same as an unmarried couple filing for a K-1. I know that's not very encouraging, but maybe it'll help you prepare.

As for the cancel of the K1, I sent a letter and called to do it, but when I got back from marrying him, I found out they never processed it. So they put it thru again and told me the marriage made it null and void any way.

It was never mentioned at this interview and the questions from the CO were the basic ones... how we met, what he would work when here, nothing unusual.

MOST (not all) AP is just deeper background checks and they go thru but sometimes it takes a year or more. I think any questions they had about the relationship were answered when they had us alone.

Honestly I have been on VJ for almost 2 years and I have never read they view newly married couples the same as K1s. Can I ask where you found that?

Any way if they ever ask for more evidence I have it. Not many pics from my very 1st visit because I went not knowing if I was going to stay there with him or come back here. We had no idea we would file fro his visa to come here and need all this "proof". In the last year with my 3 trips (one was 7 weeks and the other 2 were 3 weeks each), I have about 5000 pics. We send 100 texts or more every day. We even keep our calls open online and sleep together every night. We truly love each other and I will prove it if I have to!

And luckily we BOTH saved every online chat for more than 2 years now, so I can print all those if they really want them... LOL!

We had lots of pics too (like more tan 4000)!

I made an 8X8 scrapbook and put all the pics on CDs with index prints.

I took the book with about 60-70 pages of the best pics and I took the index prints.

They never looked at any of it!

In Sept 2009, My husband interviewed for a K1. He was told it would go back to USCIS for further review because they thought he was marrying me for a visa.

I cancelled the K1 and flew to Jordan Oct 1 and we married Oct 6, 2009. We immediately filed the CR1.

It took us 5 months to get thru USCIS when most couples went thru in 3. At NVC we got an RFE (my mistake on a paper) but it was easy to fix. We got CC on May 11, but didn't get an interview date for weeks!

When we went for the interview on Aug 24, it was not a good experience. Seems they still had some doubts about us. We interviewed with the CO and were told we were getting AP and to wait in the lobby. Then a DOS guy and Homeland Security criminal investigator interviewed me alone and then my husband alone. Those 2 guys were NOT nice!

We left with mandatory AP and a 2nd CO told us the file was going to Washington DC. We think it's in further background checks, but I can't get a straight answer on that.

Although they had doubts about us, the 2nd CO told us our paperwork was perfect. I flew to Jordan with about 35 pounds of additional evidence... which they never asked for a piece of! I had all our chats, phone logs, text records and tons of pics from the 3 trips I had made before along with new ones from that visit.

You just never know what they are going to do!

We are now trying to survive this AP HELL!

when i call to Dos or Embassy only 1 Ans u r in AP............

We can never get a person at the Jordan embassy, only a recording.

I have emailed them a couple times and called DOS 3 or 4 and that is the answer I get too. And yesterday the woman I talked to at DOS was so rude she almost had me in tears.

This AP is the worst part yet!

i am in Ap from 9th september 2010....

Our timelines are fairly close.

Have you gotten any kind of update or do you know what they are doing?

A friend who went thru AP a year ago suggested this to me and it sounded like a good idea.

Did anyone else out there get put into AP around Aug 24, 2010?

I don't care what country... would just like to communicate with someone else with a similar timeline!

Thanks!

Sorry to hear of your bad news.

As the AP process is in DC, I am not sure the embassy can do anything. You could try your Senator/ congressman for help. It's election season, so they may be busy though.

I have already had my senator and congressman working on our case, so I emailed the senator's office last night and got a reply this morning. They are going to inquire for us. I think it will be better if they do and not me. I pray it helps. This is a tough situation.

If I am posting in the wrong forum, please move... thank you.

Tonight I received some very bad news that my grandmother has a cancerous tumor and there is little hope.

She has been very supportive of my husband and me and I really want him to be able to meet her in person (not to mention what a difficult time this is for me.)

I have a medical condition myself (lupus) that is made worse by stress, and having my husband here with me would really be a blessing right now.

Is there ANYONE I can contact to try to get our case out of AP for this situation?

We interviewed on Aug 24 and were told the case was going to Washington DC for mandatory AP. The CO said our papers were perfect and we didn't have to show them anything extra we took with us (over 30 pounds of evidence I flew to Jordan with and didn't need).

We think it is just a background check, although the embassy and DOS won't tell me for sure.

I just really need him here with me now and need to know what might be done.

Thanks and please pray for our family.

Nice to meet ya! AP sucks! I hope it moves swiftly for u guys! I can't wait to go back to Jordan and see all of hubster's family again. I miss them terribly. I travel vicariouly through my friends who get to visit! I just love looking through their photos. *sigh*

If you are on facebook, look us up.... Alice Al-Hosainy.

I have alot of pics there!

Zain, I am just wondering exactly what the 221g they gave you says.

We attempted a K1 last year and it was returned to USCIS for further processing because they didn't believe our relationship was real.

We married in Oct last year and did the CR1. This time I was at the interview with him. This 221g was worded differently... stating mandatory administrative processing.

Check and see what your paper says. If they sent it back to USCIS, this is a long process and it's usually faster to cancel the K1, get married and file CR1.

Mandatory AP is usually background checks and the procedure seems to be that they ask for the names and birthdates of your brothers and sisters.

Again... good luck!

Well, i just got back from an office, this office do look after ur case, and the guy said he can get it done in a faster time, and the background check is on both petitioner and beneficiary. As far as i know, i don't have a criminal record, and i am sure not a terrorist but who knows what the embassy gonna tell.. so do you think we should contact the senator??

Is this a lawyer or someone else?

My hubby is interested in going to this office, too!

Hi! Since we were put in AP Hell on Aug 24, I haven't been on VJ much.

Mohsin grew up in Mafraq and now lives in Amman and works in an Orange Telecom call center.

I am in West Virginia.

We married Oct 6, 2009.

I made my 4th trip for the interview in Aug-Sept.

I have no real trip plans right now as we are praying AP isn't too long. But I will be with him this Valentine's Day 2011 if I have to make another trip there to do it!

Not from RI... but West Virginia.

My husband is from Jordan. The process there is a tough one. If we can help you 2 in any way, feel free to contact us.

We interviewed on Aug 24 and are now in AP.

Good Luck!

My husband had his interviewew Aug 24. I was with him. He also got AP. And the interview they put us thru was pure HELL!

They told us maybe 4-6 weeks, maybe 5 months, maybe a year!

They take their sweet time with this I think!

My senator's office contacted the embassy and the embassy told them it should be done in less than 5 months.

I know one couple who had AP for 5 1/2 months, another had almost 2 months, and saw one here on VJ that finished in less than a month. (All these stats are for Jordan.)

Today makes 54 days for us. I pray it ends this month... but who knows!

Good luck!

please i need advice on whats faster K-3 VISA OR CR-1?

HOW LONG IT TAKES?

should my American fiance apply after marriage from Egypt or America needs more information plz on that from someone done one of those visa?

i am feeling lost!!

We only filed for CR1.

We mailed all the paperwork from Jordan via DHL about a week after we got married there and could get copies of our marriage contract and certificate. Good luck!

Awhhh cool ! I guess that's about 100 miles west of me,I'm in Mitchell. Famous Corn Palace !! lol Well ... Sorry to say it's not only Pakistan that it's hard to get though, it's most of the mena countries. Did you find out anything from DOS ? Only thing they'll ever tell me, is case still pending AP?

I haven't visited SD yet, but my sister lived in Mitchell when they first moved there and she still goes there a lot. Small world LOL!

I didn't call DOS. But yesterday we finally got into the system to check for updates. IDK maybe Ramadan slowed things down here or something. The last person I know of who got AP here was a friend of mine I met here on VJ. Theirs only lasted 50 some days. Praying ours goes that quick!

After my husbands interview, they also asked for all his siblings names and b-days. That was in January we still are waiting.I hope they are correct on how long it will take for your AP !

Good luck !

I am sorry you are going thru this. From what I have read, Pakistan must be really hard to get thru.

I see you are in South Dakota. My sister lives there... in Wessington Springs!

If anyone starts a petition... PLEASE let me know!

I am so sick of all this s#*t!

Our K1 was sent back to USCIS in Sept 09. We withdrew it and married in Oct last year and applied for the CR1.

Our interview was this week and ... AP... back to DOS.

The interview was a nightmare. We were the first there and the last to leave. After the CO talked to us, we were separated and grilled by a DOS guy and homeland security officer. Then a 2nd CO took more info and said its going back to DC for administrative processing.

What gets me is if they doubted our relationship... why didn't ANYONE ask for any paperwork? I took 30 pounds with me! And they asked for nothing... not one phone bill, picture, or anything. The 2nd CO even said there were no problems with the papers we sent... that they were perfect.

I am guessing this is for name checks based on what others have told me. But who knows!

So YES count me in for reform! And I will be writing my senators and congressmen when I get home. One of them helped us already, so they are familiar with our case!

Hmm.... I was not aware of a web site to check your AP. If that is so, whats the site? Also ... When calling DOS press 1 then 0, that way you wont have to go though the whole recording !

Good luck

The guy gave us a paper with the link. I think if you go to the embassy web page for your country and then go to immigrant visa section, there should then be a section on AP.

For Jordan the link is

jordan.usembassy.gov/iv_administrative_processing.html

You may be able to just change the country name and it will work for you. (I am not the greatest on the computer... LOL!)

Can someone give me the DOS phone number?

We have the website info to check our AP, but it says not in the system. I read this should be available almost immediately and now it has been 2 days.

I emailed the embassy about it, but they will be closed Friday and Saturday and now I am feeling very nervous about it. I know we are only a couple days in, I just want to be sure we are in the system correctly.

Thanks!

I really hope the AP is fast. We sat at USCIS for 5 months while most went thru in 3 months. The only RFE we got was because I did not send the original marriage contract to NVC.

Then after the CO interviewed us, we faced separate interviews from DOS and homeland security. It was terrible! The 2nd CO took all Moh's brothers and sisters names and told us it was going back to Washington DC for AP. He said most AP was taking 4-6 weeks but I don't know if I put much faith in that. He told us our papers were perfect and no one ever asked to see any of the 30 pounds of evidence of our relationship I brought with me. They never even asked for extra pictures and I had a scrapbook prepared just for this!

Add us to the list... mandatory administrative processing at our interview yesterday.

We were told it was being sent to Washington DC. I think this means background checks... am I right?

The CO said our paperwork was perfect... which I guess is a good thing!

And I am trying to be strong, but it will be very hard to fly hime without my husband in a couple weeks.

I feel emotionally and mentally drained.

All I can say is the interview is FINALLY over and we got AP. It was a long hard day with lots of complications. I will explain more later. But just know we got AP.