Document Verification

[~bLairwhich~ 0]

June 12- During the interview, while waiting for the que, I befriended two ladies next to my number, one is 50 years old and one is 45 years old. The 50 year old widow (I call her Mrs. Q) was petitioned by her daughter. She got pink slip like me but she needs to return at least in the afternoon to submit NBI clearance bearing her complete name.

The other lady, the 45 year old lady was petitioned by her husband, who she did not seen for 10 long years. They got sons and daughters but they qlso has been in the US for 15 years all ready and he haven't seen them for long period of time too. Her sons and daughters are all ready grown up and one is studying and a scholar in UCLA with a part time job. She was left here waiting, she is a accountant in Makati, and after long years of agony and waiting, finally it was her interview date. She was emotional while we are talking because she had been waiting for her interview date for years. After the interview, she also got pink slip and same white sheet of paper like mine, paid DELBROS verification and shipping too. I am happy for her that finally she will see her family in the U.S., I always thought pink slip is a good sign that VISA is approved. I congratulated her.

Fasr forward...

Yesterday, I never thought I will see the 50 year old lady in the VISA correction/pick-up section@ Windows 34, we were estatic and exchange good news that we are both was granted US VISA. She detached the Immigration Data Sheet from the yellow envelop out of excitement that is why she is there. While I was there to pick up my corrected VISA.

I asked her what happened to Tita Edith (the 45 year old lady). She said they been exchanging calls since our interview date and that sadly, Tita Edith VISA was not granted. I was shocked. But why? Her husband re married without her knowledge, when their documents was verified it appears that his husband re married a G.R.O. when he came back from the U.S. to visit her 10 years ago. It is given all ready that his husband's marriage to the G.R.O. was illegal and should be null because there is an existing marriage between Tita Edith and her husband. But then U.S. Embassy thinks that his petitoner committed bigamy.

I feel sad for her and shocked by the story at the same time. Tita Edith did not quit coming to the US so she can be with her sons and daughters, she will be petitoned by one of her son this time. It will not take that long I think because I thought the motive of her husband that her petiton took 10 long years is to hide his own status. I think he made delaying tactics.

It makes me realize that somehow document verification have a good purpose, it opens possibilities that although could hurt us but it might show us legal status of our partner and even ourselves that we thought had never existed. It is always good to know.

Edited August 5, 2008 by blairbitxh

[RyaNRiza 1]

Thanks for sharing this story blairbitxh My heart goes to Tita Edith. I hope she will be granted visa from her son's petition the soonest time.

There is really nothing wrong with document verification, rather it's the system with how it is done. A lot of visa deliveries are delayed because USEM -> DELBROS -> NSO's system in doing this has not been effective so far for most of those who undergone interview. I am one of the luckiest (but rather considered myself more blessed than lucky) to have gotten my visa one week after approval. There were those who waited more than a month, even two months for their visas to be delivered for just one reason of delay -- DV. I really hope that USEM will be able to notice and fix this dilemma that applicants are facing. After all, we paid what we were told to pay. I think it is just right that we expect to be given efficient service.

-Riza

[dbears 1]

Thanks for sharing this story blairbitxh My heart goes to Tita Edith. I hope she will be granted visa from her son's petition the soonest time.

There is really nothing wrong with document verification, rather it's the system with how it is done. A lot of visa deliveries are delayed because USEM -> DELBROS -> NSO's system in doing this has not been effective so far for most of those who undergone interview. I am one of the luckiest (but rather considered myself more blessed than lucky) to have gotten my visa one week after approval. There were those who waited more than a month, even two months for their visas to be delivered for just one reason of delay -- DV. I really hope that USEM will be able to notice and fix this dilemma that applicants are facing. After all, we paid what we were told to pay. I think it is just right that we expect to be given efficient service.

-Riza

I was lucky also with DV... my one week delay was due to the inefficiency of USEM people. They did not bother to check my file thoroughly. I guess they got confused with the 2 cenomars in my file, one was the cenomar we included when we filed I-129F petition, then the 2nd one was my verification result. But of course, one week delay, 13days waiting is not a reason to complain.

With all the fake documents flying aroung, I do understand DV, I am all for it. but like what Riza said, I hope USEM will be able to really fix the glitch in the system.