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Hi and thanks in advance for your guidance.

Which income (item number, etc.) on the Schedulce C of the 1040 is the one used on the AOS. The Schedule C lists both income and gross sales receipts. Which one is the one that should be reported on the AOS. Thanks!

I completely understand and feel her pain. I too waited 13 long months for my husband's interview, simply, as you said because of the country of adjudication. Unfortunately, there is a significant backlog in the DR, no one understands exactly why, but hopefully things will take a turn for the better with the new 'management'.

Hi all. I posted this question in the CR1 forum.. erum.. basically it was ignored.. and left unanswered.

so I ask please if there is anyone here in the Dominican Republic area that can assist it would be greatly appreciated..

Hi all. I was talking to my daughters Volleyball coach. I learned that she and her husband have filed for IR1 back in 2005. She is filing via Dominican Republic.. and I understand it is extremely long wait for interview once the file is in the embassy there.

She has been given her info that the case is now in Dominican Republic.. that it left the USA and was sent to Dominican Republic with a prefernce date of 3 2006 but a acceptance date of 2 2006.. She has a number of where she is sitting in Que.. back in feb 2006 she was at 22000. We checked today and found out she is at 8000. the way it looks her husband might get his interview possibly by August? No idea of how or when...

The question I have and she also has... since she has already gotten her NOA1 for the I-130 back in 2006... should she chance it and apply for a K3?

I think that it is terrible that she will be waiting close to 2 years just for interview.. and that is with no AP.. no RFE.. nothing.. just sitting in Dom Republic waiting in que.. ..

Anyone have a idea as far as what she should do . or where to turn to next.?

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Does anyone have the phone number of the Congressman or Liason in Oregon that she might be able to contact.. oops.. wait. .she filed when she was in New York.. and is using her mom's address.. so not to confuse anyone.. so. I guess she might need to contact the Congressman from New York? I think this long might need a little push? thoughts??/

I did the process via the DR and had our interview about a year ago. I did an IR1 and K-3(which didn't proceed). Filing for a K-3 at this point would be a waste of time and money because since the I-130 has already been approved, the K-3 would be rendered 'not applicable'. Furthermore, whether on a IR1, CR1, or K-3, each beneficiary must wait in the same queu. If it were the case that her K-3 could have been approved and transferred to the SDO, the case would still sit in line.

In the past, when I and some other people I know have contacted congresspeople to assist with this delay, our requests haveyielded no results.

Hope that helps.

You have 4 of these posts. I answered you on one of your other threads.

Yocasta,

I am pretty sure that the Mr. Bent connection is indeed real.

Hi folks, Tampa Robert here, my first and last post on this forum.

I heard from some nutball (who actually thought the Cowboys were going to the Super Bowl) that on another forum (confirmed by a quick lurk-search) my good name was being associated with a poster on this thread, manualderegil. BTW-when I spoke to ~him~, he was making plane reservations to Transylvania to look for una nueva esposa, the theory being if he was gonna get a blood-sucker, he ought to go right to the source.

In any event, I am not the miscreant on this thread questioning tim/twincactus.

Manuel, Tim KNOWS the real deal with fiance/spousal visas for sankies and sankettes coming to the US from La Republica Dominicana. He could give PhD lectures on the subject. Say what you want about the boy's style, his substance is rock solid. He deserves the respect that comes with his considerable knowledge. Pay attention and learn.

And I don't have a dog in the hunt. Just offering some clarification to some folks (*cough*LaChula*cough*).

Y'all have a fine day, and I sincerely hope hearts can be mended and families brought together. Alida and I are doing well, I got back from a week in Santiago and Samana before Christmas, and will be going back down in Feb. for a couple of weeks for Carnival.

TR

Hi there!

We all know that our wait will be long. I have had experience with k-1 visa's and other business at the consulate in santo domingo before. I know what a mess it is and what it takes to go through the process. Given the many variables and the inability of human beings to prognosicate the future I don't try to pinpoint when my visa interview will be, that would be an exercise in anxiety and futility. All I was saying is that according to the numbers assigned to the cases, the k-1 visas that are being assigned interviews in jan and feb were passing through uscis last june and july. 28000 in the waiting list, 25000 being processed each month. Do the math.

if it doesn't go according to the math because of prioritization, thats fine, if your worried about it, it won't bust my bubble

Frankly, I trust very little advise given to me in these matters, least of all yours

This guy who's advice you don't trust probably knows more about the system in DR than 99% of the lawyers out there and he has helped HUNDREDS of people go through the process prepared and come out successful. I am one of them. I also had a lawyer who DID NOT HAVE A CLUE and told me the wait for an interview would be 3 - 6 months. I WAS EDUCATING HIM through the process. When we started on the waiting list as a K-1, we were at #18,000. We were added to the list on 4/22/05 and finally had our interview on 6/2/06. That was just the wait for the interview, after the processing here. We waited 14 months for an interview. BUT NOW - the waiting list is 27,189 cases long. Yes, of course you want to be in denial about it, everyone does, because yes, it IS unbelieveable, it IS unjust, but it IS also a reality.

I am assuming you are talking about twincactus, right?

But of course, who else?

Take heart k-1 visa seekers who are waiting for an appointment at the American consulate in Santo Domingo. If you check on the scheduled appointment list for January 2007 on their web-site you will find the case numbers indicate that the vast majority of the cases they are interviewing were sent to uscis in june and july of 2005. This means an approximate wait of 12 -13 months from receiving the approved petition at the consulate to the interview date. This is taking into consideration processing time at uscis and the national visa center. Though still outrageously long, this is a great improvement over the 2 year period being reported.

They are a very few k-1 cases dated to May of 2006 (I believe 5). I don't know if this indicates that they are working from both ends of the waiting list or if they are giving certain cases priority (potential spouses of dept of state employees, ha ha.)

Apparently they have either hired more staff or are giving more priority to k-1 visas. Our tax dollars at work. Maybe they heard our complaints

The latest cases received and put on the waiting list for cases which have not been scheduled an interview are from August of this year.

I'm sorry but you are not correct here. You are right that the case number reflects the June and July date, however this is the date the NVC assigned the case number and is the date the cases were sent to the Consulate in Santo Domingo. This does NOT take into account the time the case was at the USCIS service center OR the time it may have been at the NVC in the case of a marriage visa. Add about 6 months right now for the USCIS and even longer for the NVC if it's a CR1 petition. I just came through the process and it took 20 months total. We had several people with appointments in November, December, and January on my forums, and each of them is in the 22 month range. We have not noticed a difference and in fact the waitiung list has gotten larger this month. http://www.usemb.gov.do/Consular/waiting_list.htm

I do wish you were right about this.

The date used in determining the case number assigned by the nvc is the month in which the petition was approved by the uscis, not the date it was processed by the nvc.

You are incorrect, yet again. The case number, i.e, SDQ2006XXXXXX, is assigned by the NVC and it is based on the date they petition is received by the NVC. If you would have read about the case number, what it means and how to decode it, you would know that USCIS has nothing to do with assigning or generating that particular number.

People beware of Manuel's claims.

You could not be any further from the truth Manuel. I went through the process very recently and it took us 13 just for the interview (after the case was transferred to SDQ) AND we started at around 16,000 just like Tim. Members from our forum who were transferred a few months after us waited even longer for an interview.

Furthermore, I prepare the charts for our website which show the trends in interviews granted each month, and the information you are providing is grossly inaccurate at best. There are on average about 2,000 cases interviewed each month, and even then, people on the waiting list move an average 1,000 (on a good month). There is a discrepancy on these two numbers, but that is a another issue.

In short, your experience/knowledge is not reflective of what the majority are experiencing at the DR consulate. Please check your info before spreading false hopes.

Peace!