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In the rush of sending all the required documentation for my I29F, I made a couple of errors i.e. selected widow for my fiancee (she's never married but her son's father died a few years ago), wrote her son's DOB wrong (just the year) and wrote his name the way she calls him (Andy instead of Andrew). Will these be red flags for the interview? Any one with similar experiences? I appreciate any input from the forum.

You will probably just get an RFE. If you listed your fiance as widowed you would have needed to include a death certificate and you did not. So you will have to explain that you were mistaken. That is all I can think of.

Good luck!

I did look, before I replied. Many of them are 200 days or less, thats a little bit more than 6 months, some are at 3 months. There's 1 or 2 that may have taken 11 months. I don't see them having any right to judge you on whether you were married before. These people have to follow the US Department Of State rules. The AP happens if they are suscpicious of your relationship, as in is he or both of you just collaborating to get him in the US. Or if his name somehow comes up in some criminal database or something.

But since that, I think, is probably not the case you should be fine.

I started my own thread on this topic. I'm going nuts!!!! 200 days or less from NOA1? Not bad.... I want so bad for this to go right. I knew nothing about this AP at interview stuff. I thought you would get APd at NVC and no where else. Dumb me!

The only thing that has kept my head above water is that no CO in their right mind would deny us, you can tell we are in love, it is hard to miss. When we are together it is like nothing else. I'm sure you know how that feels.

I started looking through VJ and other sites for info on the consulate in Abu Dhabi and it seems like they do a lot of A.P. Maybe I am seeing this information wrong because I have gotten myself all worked up, I just don't know. My fiance is actually a Pakistani National but was born and raised in the Emirates and has not spent more than 2 months in Pakistan his whole life! I realize that the fact he is Pakistani and residing in an Arab country that these could both be cause for A.P. I have read a lot that it should be expected that a male from a middle eastern country will receive A.P. But I want to know if there is a chance he won't. I plan to attend the interview at the end of July and I just want to bring him home with me.

I couldn't believe it. I checked the website today, as I do everyday, and I was approved. Thanks for putting up with my complaining.

No RFE...240 days.

Oh well, it's all forgotten. Life is good.

Congratulations!!!!

Best of luck to both of you!!!!

P.S. Your profile says you filed for an F-1 I'm assuming that's not right

You shouldn't worry like that. So far you have received your NOA2 in 3 months, according to you signature! I looked over the UAE timelines actually they are not too bad. What possible reason do you think you have for being put on AP? Your fiance being born in Pakistan poses no issue and your being five years older is not a reason for AP either. USCIS saw no issue with your relationship as they approved you so quickly.

Stressing yourself out over this will not do you and good! Take the 2 months to search this site for interview questions and go thru them with your fiance. This is the time when you need to brief him on all of this so that you two can get through the process with flying colors. Good luck!

I really appreciate your kind reply. I went over Abu Dhabi's consulate reviews and it just doesn't seem that good. If you have time could you take a look? Maybe you will see it with different eyes than I do. I just see it all bad. I have zero hope of him coming back with me after the interview. I just can't get my mind out of this funk!

I have to say though your words helped me a bit! I appreciate it. But what do you think about our previous marriages and my kids? Problem or no?

"Profiling"? We all do it every day. If I go out jogging and see a small dog in someone's front yard, I carry on. If there is a rotweiler in their front yard, I go to the opposite side of the street and am much more alert. We tend to "profile" based on what we believe to be normal based on our own experiences and cultures.

Profiling sounds about right. Discrimination just sounds bogus to me. It says, "poor me". I don't know why. But profiling fits this topic much better.

Don't you hate that when you have a word for something and you just can't think of it? Thank God for VJ!!!!

If this is a clerical error by the USCIS... guess what you qualify for?

http://www.uscis.gov...00045f3d6a1RCRD

Ooooo good lookin' out girl!!!!

Mine took 25 days. I sent it on Nov 22 and recieved the NOA1 on Dec 17. My question is should I be looking at the time between them recieving it to calculate expected NOA2 or the time since NOA1?

I would say time since the NOA 1. And then if it comes earlier, SUPRISE!

Good luck!

I am under the impression that your fiance would be able to come and stay with you without affecting the K1 petition. Whether or not he violates any immigration laws while in Canada would probably be the only issue. You just have to file the K-1 in the US. After that he could stay with you the whole time if you wanted I assume.

Concerning where your petition will go, from what I can tell it will go to Vermont. Check out this discussion.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/294195-what-service-center-do-i-go-by/

Best of luck to you both!

Yes, it would be highly unfair to make someone wait years in AP. I guess I was trying to point out that you have no control over it, so don't let it wreck your life. Stay strong, regardless of the amount of time it takes. Like someon pointed out, it's just a bump in the road in the whole scheme of life... albeit a big bump if it is years. But it's something you can't control.

Honestly, I think that is what is getting to me the most is that I don't have any control. What I do know is that realistically I know we have nothing to worry about. Our relationship is very real and as soon as a CO sees us together they would know too. I just had it in my mind that I was going to return to the UAE for the interview, we would be approved and within 2 weeks my love would be returning home with me. And since I have discovered all this info, now we are talking about back up plan, which include just moving there with him.

We just want to be together just like everyone else.

You might want to start trying to get a hold of your congressman. Once you hit the 6 month mark it seems to be appropriate. Good Luck

I say that without a reason, I wouldn't do anything. I do not know exactly how you can get an answer to that question, but I would do my best to get an answer before making any decisions. Good Luck!

Whoa... consider the worst. If you get AP is it really that big of a deal. In the end you will be with your significant other. It's only time. No use losing sleep over it.... take that attitude and life will be much easier.

I'v heard that AP can last for months and years though!!!

How do you guys cope?

I personally don't. My guy is the one that keeps me going. He is strong and I am not. He has his moments though and we have to change roles and I be the strong one, but without him I would lose it. Lean on one another, that is my advice. I the grande scheme of things this is a very short amount of time.

Another piece of advice, do what you're doing. Bond with your fellow VJer's. Vent that is what we are all here for, to answer questions and vent.

I wish you both the best and if you ever need anything, feel free to PM me. I know it gets hard.

My point is there is no mandatory AP after the interview....

So what I think normal is, is that AP should only get triggered when there is reasonable doubt.

I went a did some research of my own. The consulate in Abu Dhabi has varied results. I'm a bit worried. It seems that others from middle eastern counries are put on AP, but females from the Philipines go right on through

I am so scared!!! I have been obsessing over this all day! My fiance is a Pakistani National, but he was born and raised in the Emirates. He has never spent more than 2 months in Pakistan. Also, we both have previous marriages, I have kids, and I am older than him (only by 5 years). OMG! I am so convinced we will get AP.

Can anyone calm me down? I need sleep and we still have over 2 months until our interview!

"Prior experience" is the term you are looking for.

That very well may be it. I feel like there is a word just hanging out there I just can't grasp it...

It is sad. I can understand the OP's frustration. I am 11 years older than my fiance. I was 6 years older than my ex-husband. I do not consider myself a cougar. I do not go out looking to fall in love with a younger man. It just happens. And to be quite frank, the younger men usually are the ones that initiate a relationship. Why? While I know that I am not 20 years old; I don't look my age, I work out and take care of myself.

I too am concerned what a CO may say about our age difference. In Cuba, where my fiance is from, age differences are not really an issue. It is not frowned upon. My family and my fiance's family do not appear concerned about the age difference. Hopefully, that will be the case with the CO.

Good luck to all those that have age differenced!!!

I wish you both the best of luck! I wouldn't let all this talk get to you. I honestly feel if we all keep faith and have true hearts and good intentions, we will be granted our heart's desire. Age, race, religion, culture, country, nothing will get in the way. Have faith!

Alright I have checked several (approved visa) VJ Pakistan timelines, especially the most recent 11.

Good news for the folks applying, no need to worry at least 4 or 5 got their Visa within a 3 days of the interview and the average looked like it was 200 days or less from NOA1. The others got their Visa within a month or 2 after interview. I flew thru the others and there were a couple that waited nearly 2 years.

But looking at it I would say for recent petitions anyway, it doesn't look like mandatory APs, more like what you would expect out of any embassy.Well I guess I couldn't leave this one alone cause the Cyprus embassy is just south of Turkey and if there was even a possibility of something like a mandatory AP it would annoy the heck out of me!

Which point are we talking madatory APs? Before the interview or at the interview. Your comment "more like what you would expect out of an embassy", what do you mean?

Exactly what I was thinking, neither of us have been to Brazil and I definitely did not mention anything about Brazil.

You should definatly call!!!!

Great post!

so youre saying ex convicts are getting discriminated as well because past convictions can raise redflags?hell even past marriages can raise red flags.or the amount of time a couple has spent together

That is why I am saying I do not think discrimination is the right word for it. Maybe a term cannot be given, it just is what it is, a red flag based on a suspicion. Period.

calling it discrimination against women is bull ######. im sorry but it is.they have nothing against a woman,or even an older woman.the truth is middle eastern men by nature think the younger the woman the better.its a cultural thing and has been going on forever here,so of course its going to raise red flags and questions when a young man goes against his " nature " and gets married / engaged to an older woman.

lets not forget to a CO,EVERYONE is committing fraud based on different grounds,age is one of them.if youre so sure of your relationship,frontload and go in with the mentality that you want the visa and you will get it.maybe try looking at it from unbiased point of view as hard as it is?

PS: im the middle eastern end of the deal so trust me,i know what im talking about

I have to say the word discrimination fits into this topic for lack of a better word. Discrimination does seem a bit extreme, but is there a better word to describe it? An older woman automatically raises a red flag, what do you call that? Discrimination honestly doesn't fit for me either, but what else can you call it?

do you want the truth ?? , i will talke about arbs countries okay specially egypt depend on something im very sure of and away from being nervous okay its customs and rules even inside egypt itself as example ,its not acceptable here that man with 25 years marry awoman with 45 years ,long distance between its ages and dont try to confense me this is love okay cause i know what im talking about,it may be adifferent in age but not all this years when young men here as example do that they do that to get immgrant visa to usa than when they finished their papers they divorce them , that what uscis and embassy understand very well and that is why most of the young men married with old women go through AP ,if u wanna sure i will suggest u something else ,start new topic asking american old women if they deceived by name of love and finely got divorced after they finished thier papers work , just wish all old american women to be careful casue im woman 2 and i know how much we are woman need love ....etc but ended us with hurt ..good luck

I have heard all of this before. And I know unfortunatly that sometimes it is true. Such a horrible thing to do to another human being. It cannot be that every single man does these things, it just seems that many have. So that leaves those with genuine love and affection for one another at a loss. No one will take their relationship seriously.