mustafa1232

2 hours ago, nyrz01 said:

I am confused after reading this Post. 
Do we need to submit the Original Nikkah Nama? or a photocopy of the Nikkah nama to NVC?

What about the beneficiary documents like Birth Certificate or divorce certificate ? do these need to be Originals mailed to NVC ?

thanks.

hi,

     no ORIGINAL . you need to send to  submit original nikha nama photo copies and birth certificate and divorce certificate original certificate photo copies mailed to NVC..about original document beneficiary present and show all original document at the time of final interview.consular officer review all original document at the time of beneficiary interview

13 hours ago, ZnM said:

Thank you for your reply, and for your help! I hope they accept it so I can avoid getting another checklist. Hoping for the best!

THANKS  iam requesting you to please keep update your NVC process .its help lots of VJers who have a same issue as you face..your update gona help other people who apply for their love once.because i see lots of vjers post here. who did not update when they successfully pass out the difficult situation. hope you update thanks

8 hours ago, ZnM said:

But my original nikkah Nama is in English. It doesn't make sense for me to get my english nikkah nama translated to Urdu. 

 

Usually its the opposite. 

 

I have the Marriage Registration Certificate from NADRA. I have that in Urdu, and I also have this in urdu translated to English version. What if I provide this along with my original english nikah nama to the NVC? 

hi,

     znM yes nadra marriage registration certificate work for you. and you dont get any RFE .because NVC always accept NADRA marriage certificate.which is urdu and english same marriage detail in same certificate which is government of pakistan certified certificate. so you dont have to worry about .mail this certificate to NVC.

11 minutes ago, mustafa1232 said:

hi,

     contact NADRA pakistan office .pay some fee in nadra office they  issue you government official marriage certificate. which is urdu into english translation, .

or you can use other option contact masjid qazi office they have your nikha nama 3rd original copy .masjid qazi give you photo copy of your original nikha nama. remenber there is always 3 original marriage certificate (nikha nama) 1st original nikha nama for bride 2nd original nikha nama for groom and 3rd original nikha nama for imam for masjid qazi .you can recieved your original nikha nama photo copy from masjid imam qazi.

On 11/2/2017 at 2:27 AM, ZnM said:

what if I don't have the urdu version? I dont think we recieved an urdu version. I only have the one in english. what should i do?

 

hi,

     contact NADRA pakistan office .pay some fee in nadra office they  issue you government official marriage certificate. which is urdu into english translation, .

3 hours ago, ZnM said:

Hello Pakistani Vj members,

What document are we supposed to provide the NVC for marriage? Do you have to submit the Original Urdu version of the Nikkah Nama, or just the English translation....or both? I would appreciate your help!!

hi,

     submit both original urdu version photo copy of nikkah nama and urdu nikkah nama (marriage certificate) translation into english certified copy.

Hi, Mustafa1232. I hope that things went well for you today, and you are now an American

hi,

kovacs every thing went well iam very happy today iam us citizen now and i got my naturalization certificate today. iam share my experience to all vjers today there is 403 people for oath ceremony there is 2 immigration officer sitting on the table checking different cases related document. when i hand over my document to the immigration officer she asking me how many traffic ticket you got after interview. i told her i got only one traffic ticket. she asking me show me the ticket. i hand over ticket to her she asking again. when you got that ticket. i told her 3 day before my oath ceremony she told me ok when your traffic ticket available for payment. pay immediately and send payment receipt to the uscis office address and told me to go attend the oath ceremony. and i quickly ask her for my general knowledge. can i ask you one quick question please. she told me sure why not and i ask her simple traffic ticket if not paid. affect or delay oath ceremony. she told me we dont care simple traffic ticket.if its before your citizenship interview and if your case is clear. we only care and asking about new development is there any change in your case after your citizenship interview. she told me its vary and depend from case to case.but you have evidence and proof document that your case is clear and clean even its about DUI or any criminal related case.i hope this help all people who waiting for there oath ceremony. good luck

I cant agree with you on that, if you read the posters issue; look at how many strikes she got

1- Speeding Tickets, i dont know if it was a typo or really multiple tickets

2- courts give you only 2 weeks period to pay your ticket or take it to court, which means in her situation 3 weeks late!

3- my lawyer took care of it?? really? your lawyer? then let your lawyer take the oath for you

4- mentioned something about 3 months probation, so?

4 strikes , if i was the clerk i would do the same.

good news and bad news

its all up to the clerk, he may and may not let you in

you got your ticket few days before your oath ceremony and you admit that you were at fault and yet you didn't pay it

that shows lack or responsibility to them!

As i said the clerk may just tell u whatever go in, or he may stop you and ask about the status of the ticket!

my thoughts to you is; swallow the ticket, pay it online or go to court in person and pay it, take the receipt and attach it to your documents and make legal U turns next time :D

hi,

moekaroit iam appreciate your answer. but sorry iam not agree with you.and i think you dont read my post carefully. as i already mention above i got ticket sat/21/nov/2015. how its possible on monday or tuesday police officer hand over all traffic citation reciept to court clerk. and i know and everybody know all traffic citation detail goes in the computer data system after 3 to 4 week. 3 to 4 week is the standard time to put all traffic citation information in the computer system. and today i personally visit traffic court. and i talk court clerk about about my situation and court clerk told me you are not allowed to pay traffic ticket because your ticket detail is not in our system. and he told me same thing wait as i mention above.and i think iam fine because my ticket amount is below $500.as my research tell me immigration officer allways worry about. if you fight or contest your case in court or is above $500. immigration officer didnt care simple traffic citation case.

I hate to give you the bad news, but if you cannot provide final disposition of the ticket (a receipt showing paid in full or case dismissed), you will probably not be allowed to naturalize on Tuesday. This is exactly why I was so careful driving after my interview. Most dangerous period due to the short time to deal with a ticket.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/538617-it-was-a-bad-day-at-oath-ceremonyhelp/

hi,

kovacs iam sorry about your bad experience about speeding ticket. during your citizenship oath ceremony. which will delay your oath ceremony. in my opnion i think at that time you contest you case in traffic court.at that time officer think you have enough time to pay your speeding traffic ticket.but you didnt pay your ticket.and i think officer doubtful about your speeding ticket over $500. and i think that why he or she delay your citizenship oath ceremony, in my opnion it depend on the immigration officer some take traffic citation seriously some take lightly. and its also depend how strict he or she is. and also depend on luck which immigration officer you dealing with. i hope and pray to god.that i got my citizenship without any trouble. and please share your experince when you got your citizenship and how your experince with RFE. this will help other people thanks

I hate to give you the bad news, but if you cannot provide final disposition of the ticket (a receipt showing paid in full or case dismissed), you will probably not be allowed to naturalize on Tuesday. This is exactly why I was so careful driving after my interview. Most dangerous period due to the short time to deal with a ticket.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/538617-it-was-a-bad-day-at-oath-ceremonyhelp/

hi,

kovacs

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iam agreed with tyler747, san diego, khawaja

hi,

vjers after 3 year iam back to this forum. i have citizenship oath ceremony nov/24/2015. i got traffic ticket nov/21/2015.illegal u turn in bussiness district what should i do. in oath ceremony letter i check (yes) truthfully.and my court date is dec/24/2015. and my ticket is not in the computer data base system yet. my ticket amount is $234 so my question is that immigration officer extend or postponed my oath ceremony untill i clear the citation or iam ok with that. please explain me in detail.

Hello Everyone,

i really appreciate if any one help me i would like to know that when will i864 Expires while in AP for six months from Islamabad For CR1 Spouse i have done the interview on 15 June 11 and will we have to submit all the documents again like DS 230 and because our PCC Is also expires but embassy never ask for that kindly tell us will we have to submit all the income statement pay stubs or it will not expires until we are in Ap for 6 months any help will be helpful thanks.

hi and salam adilbbas EXPIRATION OF I-864 I in general the form i-864 must be submitted with in one year of the sponsor signture , if it is submitted after one year a new i-864 will be requried.

after the form i-864 has been submitted to and accepted it does not expire however if the supporting document are more than 12 month old, the consular officer will ask for new supporting document , such as the most recent federal income (1040) and a current employment letter

hi friends what is Difference between additional administrative processing and administrative processing becus yesterday i emailed us embassy ISL and i received email from them ur case under additional administrative processing....

processing

hi rafi happy EID mubbrak to you and all vjers additional adminstrative processing is only for that country who is in higher risk categories for usa

The counselor officer had objections like Why is the haq meher so little on the nikah nama? because it was my second marriage and we did not invite a lot of people when he saw the wedding pictures he said why are there so little people in the pictures? What kind of work your husband do? where does he live? she told him where I lived and he said that in the system it is a different city. He did not return the documents and my wife did not ask for them. He also kept the passport. He did not congratulate her either.

hi and salam i think consular officer doubtful about your marriage in consular officer thinking your marriage is only purpose for green card because after your wife visa approval and green card consular officer thing you divorce your wife and without any financial problem you give your divorce wife her small or little amount or haq mehar easily. because every consular officer have a complete petationer back ground history in his computer data base that petationer is a rich man or what is petationer status in usa consular officer have every single imformation about petationer. and secound doubtful things is that you and your wife invite little people in your marriage ceremony. because bear in mind one things consular officer traning is very very tough this is the part of the every consular officer traning which ever country embassy he or she belong. the first lesson of his or her traning is to teach and read about that country tradition and culture. and our pakistani culture and tradition is that type when we marry some one or any one we invite so many and lot of lots of people in our marriage. that why every embassy consular officer follow and believe our traditiion and our culture. and if we do any things to ignore our culture and tradition this things create consular officer doubtful. but i think you dont worry about that as my knowledge of experience this is not a big issue for embassy. and your wife case is going to back ground check in pakistan city. and after back ground check they will issue your wife visa with passport and your wife AP is belong to shortest AP which is only min 3 month or max 6 month only but you have a 2 plus point which is very very good for your cr1 case there is two good news for you no one news is your wife is female and no 2 news is consular officer kept your wife passport .

hi,

2'day I got my case number & IIN number..but when we did the login on line,we are not able to check on that box...pls help me for that..

Thanks

Shital

HI shitel did you send your ds-3032 choice of agent address form to NVC or not. you cannot login in your payment portal account untill NVC cannot recieved your choice of agent address form when NVC recieved your choice of agent address form by postal mail or if you do electronic processing by email then NVC enter your ds-3032 details in their computer data base and after that wait few days or week and after that you are able to easily login in your payment portal account.

They did not ask for any additional documents. The green slip is to be taken to collect the passport once they stamp (I hope! the visa. How long the AP would take usually?

hi and salam ALI777 can you tell me which kind of question consular officer ask to your wife if you give me complete details of your wife interview question.session. then iam able to tell you how much days or weeksor months your wife got her visa with passport and please tell me in the end of your wife interview with consular officer which kind of words consular say to your wife. i mean to say consular officer use words (congrulation) or not.and consular officer return all your wife original document or not . because some time consular officer in the end of benificery interview forget to return original document. if consular officer forget to return original then your wife ask about the original doc or not. or consular officer some things say about the original doc to your wife or not please give me complete details because this things decide your wife AP PERIOD TIME. because as my knowledge of experience there is a 3 type of AP. NO-1 SHORTER AP, NO-2 SHORTEST AP, NO-3 LONG OR LONGER AP which have no time limits

so happy for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!! Have a safe journey to USA I pray ours will come soon...we're still waiting thru name checks which started @ july 25th.. Inshallah we will hear something soon too...

hi Eabbas thanks for your good wishes. i think this last ramadan for your husband in pakistan and soon he got is visa with passport inshallaha ameen.

hi and salam to allvjers after 23 days of waiting (alhumdullaha) today morning i recieved call from american express that you can collect your visa with passport and this is a very very big news for me and my wife and my family so i thankful to (allaha) god and my prayers to all vjers who waiting for their visas inshallaha they all got their visa soon ameen. today iam very very happy

Incorrect. You can marry on a B2 visa and you can marry on the VWP, however, you would have to leave when your authorized stay expires.

This is also incorrect, while someone who was refused a tourist visa or refused entry would likely be asked about it at a spousal visa interview, such a refusal would not have any bearing on the CR-1 visa case.

hi Ryan please refresh your memory and then reread my whole paragraph again and please bear in mind first read whole paragraph then give any answer to other person. i quote my paragraph here

and lets come and discuss your second objection which i quote my own paragraph here.

for example if us costoms and border patrol officer denied op visa at the port of entry this visa denied is harmful for your usa previous travel history and this things also affect your status and your future travel reputatioin..

for example if we look in other side if border officer approved op visa at the port of entry and op going to usa and then op married to a usa citizen and after marriage op return back to his home country and then op wife apply for immigration cr1 petation for his husband and then at the time of op cr1 immigration interview for example consular officer ask op that you mis lead mis guide us or your commitment is untruthful and your statement is full of lies at the time of your tourist visa interview you told our consular officer that you are a visitor or tourist and your purpose is only to visit usa and your statement is save in our record or you trying to trick us or iam very doutful about your marriage and i think your marriage is preplanned and your marriage is only purpose for avail green card or you are a liar iam not believe you any more let suppose op have not any solid reason to satisfy consular officer.or have no any justification of op statement of is action or and the end of op interview op ask immigration officer please tell me the result of my interview and consular officer say to op iam not recommend any visa at a time iam transfer your case for further inquiry .. my purpose is only for to inform people beprepared and ready any type of cross questioning. becoz consular officer have fully right and authority to ask you any type of question. please dont think only positive side.think about positive and negative both side of question. because we are not living in dream world we are living in reality world. so please face reality of this world positive and negitive both for example if you miscommit any body every person have a fully right to ask you why you miscommit me or us so my question is for you Ryan why consular officer have no right to ask op why you give us wrong statement about your tourist visa let supose consular officer tell op iam consider your statement as a illegal or consider your statement as a visa fraud or consider your statement mislead and misguide or trick us or you commit a fraud

Hi,

I am a French Citizen and I intent to marry an American citizen in Dec 2011 in Florida.

THE QUESTION:

Supposing we go live in France for a while after we get married in December in the US, what type of visa should I enter in under? (visa Waiver, B2, else..)

THE SITUATION:

Because we were miss informed on the time it actually takes to get a K1,we've just sent in the petition for a K1 visa (early august) and we are already pretty far off in the preparation of our wedding in December. The problem is pretty clear, there is no way I will get the visa in time before the wedding and moving the date is the last thing we want to do.

Now I have been looking into other possibilities that would be better than moving the wedding day (anything would be better at this point). What I found to be what could suit us the best is to enter the US on the visa waiver (or similar), get married in the the US in December, then before my visa expires go back to France and apply for a IR1 from there (it looks so much more flexible than an AOS!). Now my question is first, does it seam like a good plan to you and then what visa should I enter the US under? I saw in the embassy of Paris' website, that in this case I should enter with a B2 visa but they don't provide much details? Of what I understand the problems come when the couple wants to stay in the US after they marry, but in our case we are fine living in Europe until I get the proper visa.

Thanks so much for you help!

-Matt

hi matywan Marrying a U.S. Citizen on a B2 visa

Generally speaking, if fiancee enter the U.S. to marry a U.S. citizen using a B2 visa, but you as a fiancee will need to convince the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer at the port-of-entry that you fully intend to leave the U.S. soon after the wedding and obtain another visa (which is cr1 visa)before re-entering. You cannot file for adjustment of status based on such a marriage while on a B2 visa.

Showing the CBP a return-trip ticket, a letter from your employer stating that you are expected to return to your foreign employment and other evidence of your intention to depart the U.S. may help gain your entry. but if we look in other side of imigration laws this is illegal you cannot marry on B2 visa, if you want to avoid all majors problem better get k1 Finacee visa and get married for smooth sail for example if you filed on b2 visa on adjust of status. there is no gurantee your visa get approved or denied no lawer give you 100 percent gurantee about denied or approval if your visa denied you suddenly deport in my suggesition you filed k1 visa for your fiancee because this is immediate reletive visa the whole process is only 6 to 7 month and other is the best strong option that your us citizen fiancee come to your home country and you marry her and then filed for cri1 visa and i strongly suggest you go for cr1 visa this is headace free cheaper money saving and time saving for example and if U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer at the port-of-entry denied your B2 visa request this things effect your cr1 visa case because customs and border patrol officer enter your B2 visa denied request details in their computer data base and after your marriage with us citizen and when you go for your cr1 visa interview there is 99 percent chance consular officer ask you about your previous B2 VISA denied matter and this things lots of effect your cr1 visa case because your one wrong step effect your whole future it is better for you and your future that you marry in your home country

salam adillabbas i think there is some errors in copy paste so i try to post another copy

I. SECURITY NAME CHECKS (ALSO CALLED BACKGROUND CHECKS)

• For public safety and welfare and national security reasons all visa petitions under current regulation and procedure are placed through security name checks at three (3) locations: 1 uscisoffice 2 National Visa Center (NVC) and 3 the U.S Consulate where the visa is ultimately issued.
• There can be not one but several levels of security checking. There is an initial security name check done rountinely on all in-coming petitions. If the results produce a lookout hit or red flag hit the petition is placed in line for additional more intensive customized security screening, which could include a request for full fingerprints and which obviously has the undesirable effect of extending processing time for adjudication. While security checking is widely focused on the visa beneficiary and petitioners and even attorneys and consultants involved in a case are subject to security screening.

A Lookout Hit or Red Flag Hit can be generated on a visa petition and among other reasons and for any the following:*Past arrest record<br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">*Past criminal conviction record<br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">*Past firearms record*Past record of domestic violence or sexual offenses<br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">*Past fingerprint record with any law enforcement agency<br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">*Past visa or immigration history<br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">*Watch List or Pending Charges Hit Petitioner or Beneficiary is currently on watch list or wanted on pending charges with any law enforcement or other government agency and (local state federal FBI INTERPOL Homeland Security State Department designated terrorist group list)<br style="text-indent: 0px !important; "> Common or Similar Last Name with others in the database who have !important; ">past arrest or conviction records (sometimes called a False Hit) !important; ">

• Under post 09-11 legislation such as USA Patriot Act, Border Security Act and Intelligence Reform Act our Immigration Service, the Consulates, and Customs and Border Protection, have worked to significantly upgrade their technological capabilites, increase inter-agency data-sharing and coordinate investigative activities. The current policy directive is zero tolerance policy for security issues. The on-going U.S.Visit program is one example. Another important example is the implementation of a critical software upgrade which effectively links up Immigration and Consular databases with many local law enforcement data bases and the FBI criminal database.Obviously, any security name check is only as good as the accuracy and completeness of the database upon which the check the done. Here is a sample of the principal databases upon which an immigration and consular security check can be done currently

• NCIC (National Crime Information Center)(also called FBI criminal database)
• IBIS (Interagency Border Inspection System)
• [Click Here for More Information on Security Checks with IBIS.]
• NIIS (Non-Immigrant Information System)
• CLASS (Consular Lookout and Support System)(This name-check database in particular has been greatly expanded, now storing up to 18 million records.)

• CCD ( Consular Consolidated Date Base)(Stores 75 million records of past visa applications and outcomes)
• TIPOFF (Classified DOS Bureau of Intelligence database)
• NAILS (National Automated Immigration Lookout System)
• TECS II (Treasury Enforcement and Communucation System)
• TSC and TTIC databases (DOS Terrorist Screening system)

• At USCIS (Homeland Security Department) stage, currently, NCIC, IBIS and NIIS database checks are done, with the option, if warranted, to do additional database checks.

• At National Visa Center (State Department) stage, a separate independent NCIC database check is done by in-house FBI staff in connection with information supplied in the DS-230. Based on results, NVC has the option to request full fingerprints to be taken at post. NVC checks can usually be completed in 24 hours. In some limited cases involving high-risk visa applicants meeting certain specific criteria, NVC also does Security Advisory Opinions (SOAs) before sending the file to Consular Post.<br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">

• At Consular stage, there are three (3) Visa Security name checks done: CONDOR, MANTIS AND MORE ANOTHER NCIC (via CLASS)<br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">[Consulate has option, if warranted, to run full gamut of checks, such as CCD (past visa applications & results), TIPOFF (DOS Bureau of Intelligence), NAILS (Nat'l Automated Immigration Lookout System), TECS II (Treasury Dept. database), TSC & TTIC (DOS Terrorist screening)].<br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">
• CONDOR refers to a check done mostly of information supplied on Form DS-157, and focuses on visa applicants with a potential terrorist, firearms or weapons background. CONDOR in most cases should be completed in 90 days or less. If not, contact the VO Public Inquiry line at Tel: 202-663-1225 or usvisa@state.gov<br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">
• NCIC (via CLASS) refers to the name check procedure done by the Consulate with the NCIC criminal database at FBI. This procedure screens visa applicants by name to see if there is a "hit" with the criminal database: that is, a person in the criminal database has the same or very similar name to the visa applicant.

• False Hits Problem: Consular posts however have recently been inundated with false hits from 7 million new names added to the NCIC database, including persons with convictions for minor offenses such as simple DUIs and shoplifting. Many visa applicants with common names with those in the database get a false hit the refers to when a visa applicant's name matches a name in the datebase but is NOT actually that same person in the database, just a person with a common or very similar name. This places the case into what is called Administrative Review. Under current rules, the Consulate is required in this circumstance to receive full clearance from FBI (via the NVC) before Consulate can issue the visa. It may require a full fingerprint check and customized investigation. Full clearance from FBI (via the NVC) in most cases can take 4 to 6 weeks, but in some cases much longer and even months.<br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">
• False hits have become a major problem for some visa applicants. There are reportedly an alarming number of false hits caused by similar or identical or very similar names, or errors, inconsistencies or discrepencies in listed names in official documents. This is true especially in countries, such as the Latin countries, where there are only a few surnames and name-similarity is common, or record-keeping accuracy in official documents is dubious. Reportedly, approximately half of all names in the NCIC database are Latino, and this has resulted in a high number of false hits for individuals with common or very similar last names at Consulates in the Latin countries. Applicants presently are not allowed the opportunity to prove that they are not the same person as that on the database, nor is there a way to initiate security checking in advance of the visa application.

• Thus, the best protection for visa applicants to avoid name check problems and delays resulting from Administrative Review at the Consulates and USCIS is: providing full, accurate and truthful name information (first, last, middle, and other) in all forms and documents, timely

221g - Need some guidance and help for AR/AP

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We had interview june 15th.. long story short they put us in mandatory ap and july 25th... the co called and did phone interview... at the end he said he was satisfied and that we have nothing now to worry about but one last check for my husband which is name checks. He said he will put him in that and at the end of the checks the visa can be issued.

That ws two weeks ago... i called DOS yesterday morning and the person told me we were pending (of course) but she also said he ws pending at Admin Review at the embassy... I asked if any name checks have started and she said nothing has been initiated for name checks that she sees.

My question is.. does DOS always get updated quickly?

Can the embassy do the name checks on their side? If it is no hit then visa can be issued?

Would DOS be notified if embassy did checks on their side?

IF it has a hit then does the embassy require Washington checks?

OR do they ALL go thru washington checks and DOS is notified of all??

Im so confused!!! I know islamabad is becoming very strict and that's ok but i get told so many different things and im not sure of anything now.

The only thing we are looking at is our anniversary coming in October... just want to be togther by then and IDK if that's even a possibility now...

Please anybody help me understand at least a little of all this...

salam adillabbas happy ramadan mubrak to you and pakistani vjers and all muslim worlds first of all your AP DATE is not start 15th june your AP date start at that time when embassy recieved your wife son custody document. this date is your starting AP date you START count your AP DATE at that time here is some AP DETAILS

I. SECURITY NAME CHECKS (ALSO CALLED BACKGROUND CHECKS)<br style="line-height: 17px; ">For public safety & welfare and national security reasons, all visa petitions under current regulation and procedure are placed through security name checks at three (3) locations: 1. uscis office, 2. National Visa Center (NVC) and 3. the U.S. Consulate where the visa is ultimately issued. <br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; ">There can be not one but several levels of security checking: There is an initial security name check done rountinely on all in-coming petitions. If the results produce a "lookout hit" or "red flag hit", the petition is placed in line for additional more intensive customized security screening, which could include a request for full fingerprints and which obviously has the undesirable effect of extending processing time for adjudication. While security checking is widely focused on the visa beneficiary, petitioners and even attorneys and consultants involved in a case are subject to security screening.<br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; ">A Lookout Hit or Red Flag Hit can be generated on a visa petition, among other reasons, for any the following:<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*Past arrest record<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*Past criminal conviction record<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*Past firearms record<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*Past record of domestic violence or sexual offenses<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*Past fingerprint record with any law enforcement agency<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*Past visa or immigration history<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*Watch List or Pending Charges "Hit": Petitioner or Beneficiary is currently on watch list or wanted on pending charges with any law enforcement or other government agency, (local, state, federal, FBI, INTERPOL, Homeland Security, State Department designated terrorist group list)<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*Common or Similar Last Name with others in the database who have<br style="line-height: 17px; ">past arrest or conviction records (sometimes called a "False Hit")<br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; ">Under post 09-11 legislation such as USA Patriot Act, Border Security Act and Intelligence Reform Act, our Immigration Service, the Consulates, and Customs and Border Protection, have worked to significantly upgrade their technological capabilites, increase inter-agency data-sharing and coordinate investigative activities. The current policy directive is "zero tolerance" policy for security issues. The on-going U.S.Visit program is one example. Another important example is the implementation of a critical software upgrade which effectively links up Immigration and Consular databases with many local law enforcement data bases and the FBI criminal database.<br style="line-height: 17px; ">Obviously, any security name check is only as good as the accuracy and completeness of the database upon which the check the done. Here is a sample of the principal databases upon which an immigration and consular security check can be done currently:<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*NCIC (National Crime Information Center)(also called FBI criminal database)<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*IBIS (Interagency Border Inspection System)<br style="line-height: 17px; ">[Click Here for More Information on Security Checks with IBIS.]<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*NIIS (Non-Immigrant Information System)<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*CLASS (Consular Lookout and Support System)(This name-check database<br style="line-height: 17px; ">in particular has been greatly expanded, now storing up to 18 million records.)<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*CCD ( Consular Consolidated Date Base)(Stores 75 million records of past visa applications and outcomes)<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*TIPOFF (Classified DOS Bureau of Intelligence database)<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*NAILS (National Automated Immigration Lookout System)<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*TECS II (Treasury Enforcement and Communucation System)<br style="line-height: 17px; ">*TSC and TTIC databases (DOS Terrorist Screening system)<br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; ">At USCIS (Homeland Security Department) stage, currently, NCIC, IBIS and NIIS database checks are done, with the option, if warranted, to do additional database checks.<br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; ">At National Visa Center (State Department) stage, a separate independent NCIC database check is done by in-house FBI staff in connection with information supplied in the DS-230. Based on results, NVC has the option to request full fingerprints to be taken at post. NVC checks can usually be completed in 24 hours. In some limited cases involving high-risk visa applicants meeting certain specific criteria, NVC also does Security Advisory Opinions (SOAs) before sending the file to Consular Post.<br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; ">At Consular stage, there are three (3) Visa Security name checks done: CONDOR, MANTIS AND MORE ANOTHER NCIC (via CLASS)<br style="line-height: 17px; ">[Consulate has option, if warranted, to run full gamut of checks, such as CCD (past visa applications & results), TIPOFF (DOS Bureau of Intelligence), NAILS (Nat'l Automated Immigration Lookout System), TECS II (Treasury Dept. database), TSC & TTIC (DOS Terrorist screening)].<br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; ">CONDOR refers to a check done mostly of information supplied on Form DS-157, and focuses on visa applicants with a potential terrorist, firearms or weapons background. CONDOR in most cases should be completed in 90 days or less. If not, contact the VO Public Inquiry line at Tel: 202-663-1225 or usvisa@state.com<br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; ">MANTIS refers to when potentially sensitive technologies might be used by the visa applicant in her visit to the U.S. If the visa applicant might employ a "critical-fields" technology in the U.S. which could have a "dual-use" such military or national security application, this check will be done to screen out a high-risk applicant. Most MANTIS checks can be done in 30 days. If not, contact the SAO Problem Resolution Unit atsaoinquiries@state.gov<br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; ">NCIC (via CLASS) refers to the name check procedure done by the Consulate with the NCIC criminal database at FBI. This procedure screens visa applicants by name to see if there is a "hit" with the criminal database: that is, a person in the criminal database has the same or very similar name to the visa applicant.<br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; ">"False Hits" Problem: Consular posts however have recently been inundated with "false hits" from 7 million new names added to the NCIC database, including persons with convictions for minor offenses such as simple DUIs and shoplifting. Many visa applicants with common names with those in the database get a "false hit": the refers to when a visa applicant's name matches a name in the datebase but is NOT actually that same person in the database, just a person with a common or very similar name. This places the case into what is called "Administrative Review". Under current rules, the Consulate is required in this circumstance to receive full clearance from FBI (via the NVC) before Consulate can issue the visa. It may require a full fingerprint check and customized investigation. Full clearance from FBI (via the NVC) in most cases can take 4 to 6 weeks, but in some cases much longer and even months.<br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; ">"False hits" have become a major problem for some visa applicants. There are reportedly an alarming number of false hits caused by similar or identical or very similar names, or errors, inconsistencies or discrepencies in listed names in official documents. This is true especially in countries, such as the Latin countries, where there are only a few surnames and name-similarity is common, or record-keeping accuracy in official documents is dubious. Reportedly, approximately half of all names in the NCIC database are Latino, and this has resulted in a high number of false hits for individuals with common or very similar last names at Consulates in the Latin countries. Applicants presently are not allowed the opportunity to prove that they are not the same person as that on the database, nor is there a way to initiate security checking in advance of the visa application.<br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; ">Thus, the best protection for visa applicants to avoid name check problems and delays resulting from Administrative Review at the Consulates and USCIS is: providing full, accurate and truthful name information (first, last, middle, and other) in all forms and documents, timely

There are no secrets, I just did not think to keep the receipts. He knows how all my trips were paid for. I had no idea I would meet Hassan at that time. Why would I keep something I did not know I would need?

hi talen nawaz i think your husband have no knowledge about her wife previous life if your husband have a complete knowledge about you and your ex friend and your ex husband he have no problem to face consular officer confidently because if your husband have a complete knowledge about your 4 four visits trips to pakistan your husband easily passed his interview with consular officer and consular officer have no objection to approved your husband interview without demand any proof and evidence because bear in mind one think consular officer is a very very busy man he have no time to demand benificery any unnecessary proof or evidence untill benificery cannot give correct and satified answer to consular officer if benificery unsure about his answer or nerveous unconfident and make bad face immpression in front of the consular officer then in that situtation only consular officer doubt ful about the benificery answer so in that case only consular officer is so demanding and ask benificery about the proof and evidence other wise consular officer never never ask about the proof and evidence if your husband during is interview with consular officer give reliable and satisfied and confident answer to consular officer about your 4 visit trips to paskistan iam dam and 100 percent sure consular officer never ever ask or demand any proof and evidence to your husband i tell you my own personal experience when consular officer ask me when you calling land line or mobile call to your wife in usa and i give answer to consular officer i call and talk to my wife in usa before i deposit my mobile in security check post. but when i realized and things about my answer i realized that my answer is not correct because after this question consular officer continue and ask me some other question and after some time later consular officer suddenly ask me and demand me calls record proof here is the question mark why consular officer ask me and demand me calls record proof because consular officer cannot satisfied with my answer and iam unable to satisfied him properly and my wrong answer create reason in the consular officer mind about evidence and proof that why he demand calls record here is the right answer if i give this answer to consular officer. i call and talk to my wife in usa twice a week or i call and talk to my wife in usa 5 to 6 time in a month and iam dam and 100 percent sure consular officer never ever ask or demand any call record to me and when i talk and discuss some people every person say to me yes this is the reliable proper and satisified answer and consular officer have no any objection to demand you any call record proof or evidence to you

Yeah, it's weird to me too! I don't understand their logic behind this either. They have a copy of my passport with the stamps, they want to know how I paid for the trips.

hi talennawaz because terrorisium involment in most of the countries embassy consular officer doubtful about your 4 four trips to pakistan he want to know who is funding you for that 4 four trips to pakistan what is the purpose behind your trips to pakistan where you stay which people you meet at that time when you stay in pakistan in which pakistan city you travel a lot because consular officer know about your past financially history at that time when you visit to pakistan you are not financially to strong in other words you are not rich at that time if your xfriend or xyz help you financially or funding you for the ticket what is the status of xfriend or xyz person what is the back ground previous history of xfriend or xyz person is xfriend or xyz person involve in suspious activitity or any drug cartel group activity or if xyz person or xfriend financially is not to strong so in that case who is the person back or behind of the xyz person funding and or xyz person involve in money laundering or any terrorist activity or xyz person involve any drug supply activity consular officer very doubtful about petationer 4 trips to pakistan why petationer cannot give complete details about her 4 trips to his husband with evidence and proof consular officer very very doubtful about petationer trips why petationer cannot give details to his husband about her trips to pakistan and why benificery have no secrets about her wife previous life that why consular officer doubtful about husband and wife relationship the logic is simple if husband and wife love each other there is no secret between husband and wife

Yes, but the point is your wife is not your niece. She's your first cousin once removed. It's a moot point for your visa because you have it, but if your wife was actually your niece, you would have no spouse visa to come to the USA. You have a visa because the Consular Officer knows your first cousin's child is not your niece.

hi pushbrk yes you are right actually me and wife have no particular blood relationship with each other my wife is not my blood relationship niece but the problem is that our pakistani traditionally is that type that we call each other uncle, aunty, niece, mammi, brother, sister ext ext we are calling each other same name but some time most of our relative is not our blood related relative in other words we dont have any blood relationship with these people