ViQuoc

well it about freaking time... Congrats man

* btw if anyone wonder what i'll be doing this sunday. I'll be picking up my wife and daughter at Chicago Airport. :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

my wife pick up her visa yesterday and they mess up the expiration day on it, they put it in for 10/2010. she point it out to them and they fix it. for 4/2011. so i guess all visa had a 6month expiration.

anyway she will be here on the 14th.. am so exited....

for those of you who's going to buy tickets for your wife or family to the state. BEWARE!!! there are alot of FAKE agent in vietnam who sale fake tickets. i myself WILL NOT buy it in vietnam, am going to buy it here and e-mail it to my wife. the price difference are around $30-40 cuz of tax difference in vn and USA. so BEWARE my friend.

ViQuoc...Congrats!!!! Another person off the AP list.

Scott, I have no clue as to what their doing there. I dont think there is a year limit from interview to decision as there are others that have been in AP longer than us, but who knows, certainly not me. The inquiry my senator made for me produced a letter from the acting consular section cheif (unsigned) stating our case is pending further review by a consular officer to determine if a bonifide relationship exists between Duyen and I.

I cant friggin cant believe that. And they refer to her as "Ms. and not Mrs. I considered writing them about that but decided to to cause trouble.

Now one would think, with the resources they have availabe plus ALL the information (sworn and notarized) I have given them, all the additional info we both have given them and my 4 trips that they would have come to the conclusuion that our marriage and relationship is indeed legit. All they need to do is LOOK AT THE FACTS, it doesnt take a sleuth to see the truth, it shouldnt take a year or more to finish any investigation. All I can say is they better get it right.

*hey frank i know that is stupid how they refer our wife as "MS. not Mrs." but i guess that how they do it.

like you know my senator got an e-mail from Sarah K. Bellman Acting Consular Section Chief three week ago and she did the same thing too, she refer my wife as Ms. not Mrs. but whatever don't worry about it.

*************again i like to said thank you to everyone here for there blessing***********

Great news ViQuoc!! Did they ask her any questions when she dropped off the docs?

nope they didn't ask her anything (no interview). when she come in to turn in the paper at window B the lady just take her paper and said wait. when she came out she give my wife the pink slip and told her to come back next week (10/29/10) to pick the VISA.

Scott is your wife here yet?. she got her visa already right?..

Pink! Pink! Pink!

Yaaaaaaaaahooooooooooooooooo !!!!!

I was sleeping and my wife call me at 4 o'clock in the morning and said she got Pink! Now am so happy can't go back to sleep, so I got on here to share it with every1!

*well she went in today to turn in the medical and police report at window B 1-2pm. When she turn it in the lady at the window said wait so she waited for 45min. 45min later the lady call her and give her the Pink slip woohooo.

for the past 3days my wife and i are trying to decide which hospital to go to for her medical exam.! BV cho ray or IOM , at cho ray we have to wait until 11/11/10 to get in but at IOM we can get in within a day or two. so we hear IOM is faster and ez but will not recommended for anyone with lung problem.

anyway it went really smooth at IOM she was there at 7:30 today and got everything done at 10..

she on her way home and be back tomorrow to IOM office to get the stuff.

*so anyone here who wife's need to get there medical report done fast and have no problem with there lung or health i really recommend go to IOM it cleaner,faster, and it got AC ....

BTW thank you everyone here for being on our side and helping us with question and problem for many month. specially to Scott . thank you ya'll

weir! so my wife got her OF194 in the mail. it said to

*please provide a police certificate from the Department of Justice office.

*Please submit your medical examination results.

and ofcouse there a lot other stuff but it not important blah blah blah blah.

so the weir thing is that there's NO RESUBMISSION DATE, it just said once we have the two item done turn it in at window B on any working day between 1:00-2:00, window will be open at 12:30. SO NO RESUBMISSION DATE ..

ANY IDEA SCOTT ? ANYONE?

When did she get the first police certificate? Its good for 1 year.. they likely lost it and if she got an extra copy as Thuy did, you can shave a month off of the wait by submitting the one she already has.....

both of it are expired. i don't worry to on the police cert taking long, i got people in VN to get it done in a week.

just like my married certificate and the police report before that, i got it done in a 8-9day..

They sent Thuys letter on the 8th and I think she got it on the 13th or 14th... that was in Hanoi.. she cant get the medical without a letter but she can go to the consulate and ask for a copy...

Thank Scott i was being impatient but about an hour ago got a e-mail from my senator.

Consulate General of the United States of America

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

September 29, 2010

Re: HCMxxxxxxxx, Ms Tran's

Dear Senator Lugar:

This is in follow up to our response of September 13 regarding the immigrant visa application of Ms.Tran (HCM2009xxxxxx). This case is of interest to your constituent, Mr. Thang. I regret the delay in my response to your inquiry.

A consular officer reviewed Ms. Tran’s file for a visa on September 24 and provisionally approved the issuance of her visa. Ms. Tran now needs to submit new medical examination results and a new police certificate. Notification (OF194) of this request has been sent to Ms. Tran.

Ms. Tran may submit the additional information either by mail or in person at the Consulate between 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., any working day. Ms. Tran should include the OF-194 refusal sheet that she received asking for additional information.

I hope this information is useful in responding to the concerns of your constituent.

Sincerely,

Sarah K. Bellman

Acting Consular Section Chief

uhhhh an update on 9/24 that last friday, for my wife to get her medical and police report redone."every1 here know that and thank you for all your blessing" but she hadn't got the Notification letter in the mail yet." maybe am losing patient, she live in BaRia VungTau that not too far from HCMC at all. let see if she get it tomorrow.

* eveyone know uselly how long it take them to send out the letter to your spouse?

GOOD NEWS !!!

I call DoS today they said HCHC office had request my wife to get her police report and medical exam redone, didn't said when they send it out.. is that a good news or what.

Congrat Scott. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

* can some1 answer this for me ? so on 9/10 i call DoS they said my case was pick up for review and it's being 2wks now they have NOT make an update since. it's normal for them to pick it up and put it down again ? for much longer?. am confuse ......

My friend swears that they do NOT clean house ever, even at the end of the fiscal year. I do think that they have been busier, at least that is what my friend keeps saying is that he has a bigger workload now than ever, so maybe they are cleaning house, but he says it is not due to the fiscal timing. I live here with no thoughts of moving back to the states, so I will be here for years to come.

that is awesome that you live there man. one of these day i would love to go back and live there for 1or2 years. well thanks for the update on the CO, i just when you have to wait so long for a pink it start to piss me off.

@jeromebinh are you still in HCMC? any news on the CO office are they moving case out "clean house". fiscal year is ending soon.

update from 9/13. i call DOS today they said my case is still under review, and i ask "did they ever touch my case on the 13" she said there was no update on the 13, only a email was send to my senator, they never touch my file. uhhhhh all this sh!t really starting to piss me off.

At last some good news! I think we (Peter & Hanh) are next for the interview. Our appointment is Oct.6th. I am flying to VN on Oct.1st to help if I can. We could not get an appointment for her medical exam until after the interview, so I guess we will get a blue for that! Very frustrating! We wish you all the luck in the world for a good result.

If at all possible, I would like to know how it went for you.

@pwolocen go to CHO RAY and give the nurse some coffee money($500,000d)thing will go smooth man.. remember "money talk" in vietnam ..

so i call DoS on monday for a status check the lady said my case was put up for review on 9/13.

call back today (2dayslater) the lady said your case is still pending under review.??

what the hell is going on, am so tire of all this B.S.

well what ever it is . let just keep our finger cross.

so scott i don't know if it good or bad news, but i call DoS today after last week my U.S. Senator send them a e-mail. long story short i call DoS and Susan said they have put out my case and look and reviewing it. so my case have being touch YES!.. so a letter from the senator make them look at my case.

Well, my fiancee and I correspond through Skype and e-mail usually, but I heard someone say that I should write letters to her occasionally because e-mails can be done by a dich vu too, so sending snail mail letter. But then others say that, why send snail mail letter is not good because I have e-mail and skype, why would you want to send letters? Any thoughts on this?

my wife and i never send mail. we only e-mail and skype and talk on the phone thru(lunex). so on the interview day with the CO, i print out all my calling detail and email, to bring it to the interview. the CO didn't said anything about if we send snail mail or anything like that. ohhh i do send like x-max card and b-day card that it.

anyway do whatever you think is right man. " it's the twenty first century who the hell talk thru mail, when you can go skype. "

100DAY in AP still pending.. ~>_<~

Look like he is already in office. they finally update the website.

http://hochiminh.usconsulate.gov/consul_general.html

I AGREE WITH @clayr "cheer"

" if you have nothing better to said than don't said it at all "

@jeromebinh any updates at HCMC ?

@ScottThuy any news on your end buddy ?