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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Ecuador
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I haven't been able to find any posts on a situation similar enough to my own, so here goes...

My question is:

I, the petitioner, am currently living with my fiance in his native Ecuador. I have a work visa here that is valid until 2009. The work visa states that I work in a certain Academy which I left several months ago. If I put this information on my G-325 form, will the US government call up the Ecuadorian government and tell them that I am no longer working at the Academy listed on my Ecuadorian work visa? And will the Ecuadorian government subsequently deport me from Ecuador?

If I lie on my G-325 form and say that I am still working at the Academy listed on my work visa, will the US gov't find out? How closely do they check job histories?

Any answers or guesses would be appreciated, from people in Ecuador especially...Anyway, quite possibly I am just obsessing as usual! THanks!

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Ecuador
Timeline
If I lie on my G-325 form
This matters. Never EVER lie on a U.S. Government form or to a U.S. governmental official. If you do, you've made your bed, and you will surely lie in it (no pun intended).

Also, in case you're unaware, the Guayaquil consulate (which processes family-based visa applications) is a rogue and ####### consulate. They stop at nothing to obstruct, delay, and block even the most straightforward-seeming or forthright application.

As general advice -- because you have no timeline posted here, and we can't tell your situation -- come clean immediately in whatever ways are possible, and tell only the truth. Otherwise, you're on a slippery slope that could prove to be your worst nightmare... as if the Guayaquil consulate could possibly be topped in that regard under even the most optimal circumstances.

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Ecuador
Timeline

Thanks a bunch, TBoneTX. You've got me scared about the Guayaquil Consulate, but I think it's better I'm scared and know the truth than calm and ignorant...and now I feel more decisive about what to put on my form. No timeline yet because I haven't sent in my 129F package yet. Will create a timeline as soon as I do that.

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