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"hôn phu" for a male fiance, and "hôn thê" for the female fiancee are correct, but they're "book words" that are almost never used in everyday language. Most people say "chong sap cuoi" (husband soon to be married) in everyday language. So I think mine will just refer to me as "fiance" and I don't think the CO will have a problem with that.

I was in an American Eagle factory outlet store recently and saw this Vietnamese couple buy around 30 pairs of on sale jeans. I also heard about people bringing Costco vitamins back to sell.

Did your Vietnamese coworker tell you this on April 1st by any chance?

Michael - tell her not to buy any new clothes over there. The style is different. The good stuff is always cheaper over here in the US, especially if you set her loose in a Burlington Coat Factory, Marshalls, TJ Maxx or Ross.

With all the pinks coming in this week, I thought it'd be a good time to remind you guys that these space savers exist in plastic or steel

But remember to buy hangers not hangars. Hangars are too big to ship and are useless for clothes

Congratulations! That's the power of love and perseverance right there.

Great information. Thank you for taking the time to report it. Congratulations.

Sure. My point was that it's not to the same extent as a 60k Civic.

TVs are not very expensive in VN, just cars and iphones etc.

The lady and I have the same last name and we never had to submit such things.

I was worried they may request for the birth certificates after the interview which may be a problem.

Just a quick sanity check on how many of you guys have had requests for both sides' parents' birth certificates because you have the same last name? I know kiki92 didn't have to but pholy did. Non-Viet-Kieus probably don't have this problem

my received a pink slip for her interview.

unfortunately we are not done and i find this pretty irritating. she is going to pick up her visa in about two weeks in one condition. they asked us to "please submit the original birth certificates of the beneficiary's parents and the petitioner's parents. if any of these birth certificates is not available, please submit an extract from the local authorities records." my opinion why they wanted this is because my dad went to her interview and he went in with her and they asked who he was and what he is doing here and he replied that he's "the husband's father." now they are giving us a hard time because of my dad. i have my mom's birth certs, but my dad is lost. what should/can i do about my dad's birth cert?

But didn't she already get a pink as you stated? I'm lost.

Congratulations! A lot of people have been getting good news lately.

Where did you get engaged? What nationality are you or your fiance? We need to know this in order to give you correct consulate specific answers.

This should stay in the Vietnam subforum if the question is Vietnam specific because an engagement ceremony is pretty much required for a K1 visa

People always look at me like I'm some sort of freak because, even if it's 100 degrees outside, I always order ca phe sua nong.

Yep. That's some seriously freaky stuff

Congrats.

I spoke to the lady I usually get my ticket from in Little Saigon, who charged me $1060 round trip LAX to Saigon including visa early May. She said that $900 one way from Saigon is the usual price for that type of ticket. It is what it is.

There have been people who got in trouble for having a return ticket

My mistake, I remembered wrong...

There have been people who got in trouble for having a return ticket

Congratulations to you both.

I know you had a lot of concerns - family not at the engement, engagement on first visit, same last name etc. This just goes to show once again that every case is different, and if you present the info in the correct way and it's real then you will most likely get pink. I'm glad you didn't let the negative posts get you down.

Now go build that smoking patio

Sorry I don't mean to sound rude but the Lunar date/Western date mixup doesn't make sense.

If the petitioner lists engagement ceremony date 1/20/10 Western format, the corresponding Lunar date would have been a higher month towards the end of the year because Tet comes after Western new year. So the lunar date would have been December or something similar, not 2-20-11. This sounds like the case of her being nervous and not remembering at all.

Best of luck to you both.

Crackdown or not you can still exchange it on the black market. They are just a little less blatantly obvious about it now.

Just use a gold/jewelry store. It's the easiest, there's one almost every corner.

The problem with Pattaya is there are so many prostitutes that the single sex tourists will look at your wife with that "which bar did you get her from ?" look. Some women are offended by that.

For most if the main tourist places in Thailand there's no need for a tour - just get a Lonely Planet guide or similar and get ideas from them.

You can book airasia.com online. That's what we used in Jan.

We took the bus to Angkor Wat in Cambodia, took a taxi to the Thai border, crossed on foot and took another taxi to Bangkok. Then we flew back to Saigon. Use taxis with a meter in Thailand or those tuktuk 3 wheeled motorbike things. Your wife does not require a visa for Thailand.

Check tripadvisor.com on what to do and where to stay. Have fun!

They don't care. I had 2 with me 3 months ago and the only question they asked was "Did you bring any iPhones or iPads to sell?" I said only for personal use and they waved me through. They clearly saw the laptops in the xray. No coffee money as asked for or exchanged.