Colombia Club

[BYRON-LEIDY 0]

Congradulations girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From what i have read in the posts that you have been through no one deserves this more!!!!!

[buck501 0]

I think I have completed a miricle. I actullay got a Colombian to have a sense of urgencey about sometning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just got off the internet with Paola. She has assured me that she will get the invitation letter. A friend of hers who is also getting married to an Americano are going to travel by bus on Monday to get the letter. She says they have it all under control and for me to stop stressing out. I said OK, I will still have time to call and make arrangements if all else fails. Who would ever have thought this would be such a stressful journey. In the US, you can pretty much count on what is said and what will be done. In Colombia....................you have to pursue all and figure that nothing will be done. It may be in part to my personality, but I do not feel comfortable leaving things to the last moment. along with that, you can not make plans, such as airline travel or hotel accomodations at the last moment. Once you spend the $$$$$$$ for that, it puts a little bit of urgency on everething. I had a heck of a time getting a room for a resonable amout of money and plane tickets 4 weeks out. This has come down to a one time shot for me to be there for the interview. I can not refund the tickets. I can change the travel date for up to 60 days at a cost of another $100.00. I am taking notes and when we get the visa, I intend to write my thoughts, experience and advice, (for what ever it amy be worth) so that others who are just beginning this can maybe avoid some of this stress. I am gaining "hind site". LOL.

[BYRON-LEIDY 0]

What we do when in love!!!!!!!!!! Both men and women!!!! LOL

[HAL 9000 96]

Congrats Andrea... finally you can say you're over that part!

See you in the AOS forum!

[Mononoke28 135]

CONGRATULATIONS ANDREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so happy for the both of you. You finally get to be together. Woohoo!!!!

[Mononoke28 135]

I think I have completed a miricle. I actullay got a Colombian to have a sense of urgencey about sometning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just got off the internet with Paola. She has assured me that she will get the invitation letter. A friend of hers who is also getting married to an Americano are going to travel by bus on Monday to get the letter. She says they have it all under control and for me to stop stressing out. I said OK, I will still have time to call and make arrangements if all else fails. Who would ever have thought this would be such a stressful journey. In the US, you can pretty much count on what is said and what will be done. In Colombia....................you have to pursue all and figure that nothing will be done. It may be in part to my personality, but I do not feel comfortable leaving things to the last moment. along with that, you can not make plans, such as airline travel or hotel accomodations at the last moment. Once you spend the $$$$$$$ for that, it puts a little bit of urgency on everething. I had a heck of a time getting a room for a resonable amout of money and plane tickets 4 weeks out. This has come down to a one time shot for me to be there for the interview. I can not refund the tickets. I can change the travel date for up to 60 days at a cost of another $100.00. I am taking notes and when we get the visa, I intend to write my thoughts, experience and advice, (for what ever it amy be worth) so that others who are just beginning this can maybe avoid some of this stress. I am gaining "hind site". LOL.

Buck,

I think it's great that you're a worry wart. It helps you stay focused and it helps you in getting everything prepared for the interview. This whole thing will be all over before you know it.

Diana

[TonyS 0]

Congrats Dre!!!!!! I will see you in the AOS side and Buck, keep on top of them!

[sjoefl01 1]

Who would ever have thought this would be such a stressful journey. In the US, you can pretty much count on what is said and what will be done. In Colombia....................you have to pursue all and figure that nothing will be done

Buck,

I think you will change your mind about 5 minutes into SS, DL, and AOS.

[LUISH 0]

To: All VJ members going through the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia.

I am posting this thread because I have had to explain this process many times so by putting it here it should help everyone. The best of luck to your fiancée and you.

You could look at my timeline and get an idea. Remember no two K-1 fiancée visa petitions are exactly the same.

After your petition leaves your service center (CSC/TSC, NVC, VSC) it goes to NVC and it might take about two weeks. From NVC it goes to the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá this usually takes about four or five days.

There are short-cuts that you can take once the petition gets to Bogotá. But the first thing you do is to call NVC every couple of days to a week. Make sure you speak with a customer service representative and not the automated system, K-1’s stay less than two weeks and they do not put them in the system. When you call NVC, get your case number and ask them when they will sent the petition out. Once you know that date, call back on that date and make sure that they sent it out. Then you track the package through www.dhl.com. I will give you the instruction later.

Once the petition gets to the Embassy you or your fiancée faxes and sends by courier (Servientrega); a copy of your fiancées passport, OF-169, DS-2001 and DS-230 part 1. If the Embassy gets these documents before the cut-off date (varies from month to month 16th to the 20th) then you get the interview the following month. If not by the cut-off date you get the interview the month after that.

After the NOA2 every thing moves fast so you need to make sure your fiancée and you get all the documents, paperwork, and all other stuff ready and send it to her.

Good luck,

Peter Miami

Congratulations Oskar y Dre, it is great to hear the news that y ou finally made it happen, we are all very happy for you...................

[OjosAzules 0]

Who would ever have thought this would be such a stressful journey. In the US, you can pretty much count on what is said and what will be done. In Colombia....................you have to pursue all and figure that nothing will be done

Buck,

I think you will change your mind about 5 minutes into SS, DL, and AOS.

Here, Here! The fun is only beginning Buck

Ripley's believe it or not: We were waiting in line at the New York City USCIS office for our number to be called to go to one of those little windows, there were probably 200 people waiting to be called. As you may expect in nyc, I would estimate 90% were immigrants from Spanish speaking countries. NOT ONE person working in any of the 10 windows spoke spanish. Every 5 minutes they would say, "does any one in the audience speak spanish and english that could help translate" My favorite part was that they kept saying "audience" like we were all there to see some kind of immigration show.

[jediknight 0]

great news andrea!! you got through the difficult part, now lets hope things go well for you to receive the visa. this delay, although difficult and dissappointing, happened for a reason. Dios sabe como hace sus cosas, asi que felicidades, suerte con todo y que Dios los Bendiga.

JK

[buck501 0]

Quote: Here, Here! The fun is only beginning Buck

Ripley's believe it or not: We were waiting in line at the New York City USCIS office for our number to be called to go to one of those little windows, there were probably 200 people waiting to be called. As you may expect in nyc, I would estimate 90% were immigrants from Spanish speaking countries. NOT ONE person working in any of the 10 windows spoke spanish. Every 5 minutes they would say, "does any one in the audience speak spanish and english that could help translate" My favorite part was that they kept saying "audience" like we were all there to see some kind of immigration show.

Thank you......I am only going to worry about one thing at a time. LOL>LOL. I think your were seeing a "show". LOL.

[olafgypsy 0]

I think I have completed a miricle. I actullay got a Colombian to have a sense of urgencey about sometning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How did you do it? LOL . . .

After three months of lost faxes, lost mail, the run-around from the embassy, and my incessant worrying, the embassy *finally granted my fiance a visa interview for August 21st. My Colombian fiance's response: "See, I told you not to worry!" My response: "If I hadn't worried, we would never have gotten an interview date!!!!" Although I admire his constant faith that things will turn out well no matter what (and that's one of the reasons I love him), I just can't change my innate nature as a worry-wart . . .

CONGRATULATIONS Oskar and Andrea. No one deserves this more than you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mononoke28 135]

Aaaaaaaugh, going to the Immigration office is the worst thing ever! The people there are so rude, you have to wait for hours just to be called to the window and for some reason there is always an odd smell in there. I don't know what it is, but it just smells funny. I hate going there.

[lucho562 0]

Hello all!

We are tying the knot today....in attempts to beat the USCIS price hike deadline. However I am happy that we are getting married however it's not what we really wanted...civil marriage. Next year we will have a 'real' wedding, the whole 9 yards, gown, tux, partying, etc.