Experiences of Others

[JR2008 0]

Now I find out the Bucharest Romania has a reputation for being perhaps the least accomodating embassy when it comes to fiance visa applicants. When your turn comes you are called to stand before a bullet-proof panel of glass and to speak to your beligerant and uncooperative interviewer as s/he barks questions, refuses to explain procedures and is likely to send you off on a wild goose-chase for more documentation at a whim. Evidently Bucharest has had a lot of complaints and peope who are familar with the Ukrainian Embassy mention the stark contrast between it and the embassy in Romania. I have to send my fiance and her Rusiian speaking mother there in a few months. There is no way I can make another trip to accompany her. And, it seems, that Bucharest officials are known for arbitrarily deciding that a fiance visa application is a sham, especially if the American fiance isn't there. So how did I get all the luck? (2004)

During the mid 1980's I underwent 3 attempts to bring my wife from Iran, with both of us flying to Istanbul, Turkey for each visa interview, accumulating a debt of $10,000 in the process. This is when an average home in the midwest cost $30,000. In the second attempt my wife was visibly pregnant, and with an infant on the third attempt. (1987)

My Uncle Ralph Roubicek of Southampton married a beautiful Japanese woman around the year 2000, but yet here we are in 2007 and he still hasn't been able to have their marital legal papers completed with Immigration. This is awful treatment as my Uncle truly loves his wife Fumiko and they are very dedicated to each other. (2008)

Was married in aug 2005 in egypt, had K3 interview feb 2006, as i thought all went well. its now march 2008 and ive received nothing in mail or anything at all, im expecting his child now sucks he will miss out on alot when i call and ask about where case in all pass and say we sent to nvc or we sent to uscis for reajudication but when i contact all 3 no one calims to having it its like a run around im a us citizen so this makes em very angry they leave u in the dark with no answers adn not knowing whats going on. I contacted some congressmen they told me its at national benefit center for review and reajudication. and there is not timeline on how long makes me sick. (2008)

Feb.2007, I went to Nigeria and married my wonderful husband. After coming home I filed papers to bring him and my step-daughter to the US, his interview was Nov.26,2007 in Lagos. We recieved an 221-g and were also told he needed DNA testing for the daughter, they charged us $800. for the test! We were also told the administrative processing would take from 6-12 months because they are having staffing and budget trouble. This really just isn't fair, we paid our fees and did everything they told us to do and now we are in this black endless whole, with no end in sight. Something really need to be done to correct this. (2008)

Applied k-1 visa 3/06. Interviewed 11/06.Its now 1/08 . Still no decision. Daily illegals come to this country. During this election year many politicians say how cruel it would be to send them back to their countries. But what do you get if you try to have your loved one come legally? If you follow our laws. Nothing but humiliation. You are judged by if they think you should be in love. Not if in fact there is a relationship. Made to put your life on hold. Made to daily which illegals enjoy life in this country while your life remains in limbo.If you have no security issues you should be given your fair chance at life together. We take part in the process because we are innocent and law abiding.Judge the security issues and if cleared let us have our lives.The illegals are rewarded with life here , while honest applicants are made to suffer and wait indefinitly. Where is my right to persue happiness? What benefits do you get for following the law and wanting to do things the correct way? None that i have found.The illegals are having the last laugh at honest applicants and at our government.Our government bars the honest applicants while making things easy for the illegals.If you go to consular office you are treated like a criminal.You are treated worst then the real illegal immigrants.Thats if they even bother to speake with you.Many times they simply refuse you audience,and dont bother to even give a reason for the refusal.As a tax payer they should serve me. Not degrade me.My taxes pay their salary so they can treat me like a third class citizen.And what crime have i committed? Just to fall in love and dare to ask to have my fiance' join me in my country. (2008)

yes i have experianced the same indegnates with my gov in morocco saying 221g with not even a explianation of why,today tho i have found that the proof of relationship was not up to my countrys standerds of love i guess .i have sent my love with a stack of ims that go on for a yr worth of personal talks and photos of us together for 2 dear weeks with our engament cerimony with my wounderful husband to be s family . we didnt expect to fall in love it was a long slow prosses that evoled into love but becouse i cant jump on a plane and miss work and trying to be responceable and frugle with financess it was turned away. i work every day with illeageal immagrants , i see they just cross the boareders and do things like marry a american to become leagal . but the fact is i fell in love with a man over seas, trying to exercise the right to love , to be happy to do things the right way, for what for someone who desides awe he dont love her what a terrible thing to do to someone who belives in this country and what is right and fair. (2008)

I applied for a K3 visa for my Nigerian husband, father of my 18 month old son. My I130 petition was approved very quickly and forwarded to the NVC while my I-129F sat on a shelf in Vermont. I was informed that I am no longer eligible for a K3 since I have the I130 aproval. I did my research, this is NOT USCIS policy. They told me this after I had already waited 5 months for the approval. Now I have to start over and wait 2-6 months for the NVC approval and at least 10 months for an interview. If they did not terminate my K3 petition, I would have had an interview in about 3 months! I have seen that the majority of CR1 cases end in AP in Lagos, Nigeria which could take a few months to years! When is my American son going to get to live with his Father? Why do they intend to destroy families???? (2008)

i am married for 2 years to an american citizen all our immigration papers approved for CR1 visa but at the us embassy cairo/egypt i was given back my passport and asked to wait so called administrative processing that is issued in first place because i am a muslim born in middleast which i have no problem with but my question is why do i have to wait months after interview while they had me applying for immigration 1 year and a half ago was not that enough to do security checks? by the way its now 4 months since my interview and still havenot heard anything from embassy and some people had to wait more than 1 year after interview to get their visas. (2008)

I'm married to a man in Egypt. And have been for 2 years. We are cought up in administrative processing for over 9 mo's. Something needs to be changed. It is not right or fair that they keep us apart for so long. It has been 2 years of this journey. And they never give a answer to the delays. (2008)

I begun the process back in 2006, my husband and I had to delay the ending of the process because we could not take the distance. The strain it puts on me to raise a child here while he is stuck in Jamaica was/is too much to bear. (2008)

I have personal experiences in this matter. We married in Egypt. We are on our 2nd year and still waiting after being denied then they tell us to wait for their call to tell us our next step. (2008)

I have a personal experience with the Consulate in Casablanca Morocco, and it sure seems like a lot of people have had the same eperience. On September 4th 2007 I arrived at the US Consulate and i have to say embarassed to call that building my Consulate or Embassy those people there are a joke! I was entranced to the building my tax money and your tax money built!!! I could not believe my ears, nor could i believe the nerve of these people that call themselves US citizens. I think living in the other Country's have damaged there senses, because no one there was like myself at all. They where not nice to me at all. i was told oh no you cannot ask any questions, you can not call any Consulate , you must sit across the street in the cafe and wait. As I sat across the street staring at this building I said to myself 8,000 miles i have traveled to go inside this building and make sure these people do not try to shaft my fiance, like i know they will try to do! So i was denied to enter the building when he went in and after he came out. what is the reason i can not go inside my own Embassy??? DISCRIMINATION!!! in the biggest form. iF I was in the USA and this was done to me, some heads would be rolling, but America is making us pay the salaries of these people who are without any consideration for other peoples lives. I agree with all the people who have placed their stories on this website. My fiances story of his interview that these interviewers are frustrated and angry with their jobs and DO NOT TREAT PEOPLE WITH RESPECT. Grill them unmercifully and give them a paper with the excuses of 221g. we all are american citizens wanting a good husband and we are finding what we want! in the laws of America we have this right, and our loved ones fiances husbands have the right to be with us in a timely fashion.it should not take 2 or 3 years for these people to do there jobs that we pay them not once but twice this is not a freebee! if i treated my customers at the retail stores the way they treat me, I would not have a job!!! We need to fire them all! Hopefully our new president might hear our voices. I know so many Congressmen will hear mine so we can live our American dream we are promised. And the blood of our fathers brothers and uncles sheld for us to marry any man we want. (2008)

I wish I didn't have experience in this matter, but I do. My case is lost in the abyss of the "Administrative Review" blackhole. I cannot get any updates, information or answers. I especially cannot get any help no matter where I go or who I talk to in the USCIS. (2008)

My daughter married a wonderful man from Egypt and I now have a beautiful grandaughter who has never seen her father because of these self preserved people who make the rules and tear up families and hearts and don't care. Why should they....they all go home to their families and loved ones when the work day is done and they have accomplished destroying others families. This is a sad sad thing when congressman and senators who are being charged with child molesting and stalking and drugs and doing God knows what in public rest rooms are able to decide the future of an innocent child and keep her father from her in the most informative years. (2008)

My daughter married a wonderful man from Egypt and I now have a beautiful grandaughter who has never seen her father because of these self preserved people who make the rules and tear up families and hearts and don't care. Why should they....they all go home to their families and loved ones when the work day is done and they have accomplished destroying others families. This is a sad sad thing when congressman and senators who are being charged with child molesting and stalking and drugs and doing God knows what in public rest rooms are able to decide the future of an innocent child and keep her father from her in the most informative years. (2008)

I filed for a visa for my husband. we were denied on our K-3 visa under section 221g in October of 2006 which is amazing my husband had everything and anything with him at the time of his interview. However the women who conducted the interview had no interest in looking at anything. The thing that confusses me is that we were sent back for more evidence while he had it from day one and they didnt look at it. We then got the approvle on our I-130 in November of 2006 our approvle was not processed we were sent back to USCIS for futhur review. Which we now go to the bottom of the pile and start all over again. It has been there for 9 months and nothing has been done on our case. We are still waiting for them to even look at our case. I was born and raised in the US and am a US citizen and I fell in love with a man from another country and I cant even be with him. I have been there 3 times to see him and have to plan another trip due to the fact that they are not processing our case. Alot of people have children and jobs that we can not walk away from, but have to do what we can to try to see our loved ones. (2008)

My fiance was denied in Casablanca July 23,2007....because he could not explain the progression of our relationship in English ( which we speak at least 5 hours a day) ..or Arabic, which is his native tongue)..they wouldn' even look at our pictures...we had ove a 6 month chat log, , phone calls almost daily log, emails, cards .two printed chats from each month, I spent three months there...and it's not easy to go because I am on social security...no hve to refile, am going back for another few months....had to hire a lawyer... I am broke...but nothing will keep us apart...unless the lies of the interviewer will count again. ALl she ws interested in was, what do you want with an older woman??? she badgered him relentlessly!!! HE is 42 years old...never married...don't you think he knows what he wants....he would happily stay in Morocco...only reason for wanting to come here is me...what is wrong with this picture? (2008)

My wife was deneid a K3 visa in panama despite all the evidence and one hour of questions. The consular in panama was rude and made is on assumptions about our relationship before my wife even had a chance. (2008)

My husband and I have been married since 2004. We applied for the K3 visa since May 2006. Currently we are still waiting to be approved. I don’t understand why couples that applied after we did are already approved and have their spouses living with them already. Neither our I-130 or the I-129-F have been approved. It is very difficult to live apart from family and loved ones. It brings lots of physiological, emotional, physical and economical strain on both parties. It’s not easy to maintain our perspective household and yet be able to save enough money for all the expenses that are incurred while living continents apart. It’s not easy financially or because of work to be able to travel half way across the world just to be with your loved ones for merely days at a time. Travel is not cheap. And those of us who work to sustain our families only get no more that 2 weeks out of the year to be with our loved ones. Since our spouses are not allowed to come and visit us this complicates things even more. This process is very unfair. I don’t understand how I being AN AMERICAN BORN AND RAISED US citizen can easily be stepped over my NON US CITIZENS to bring their families to this country. There are many fellow people that I got to know while going to college who came here on international student visas. Upon graduating from university companies sponsored them with work visas and then these “new residents “ go back to their home countries like India and they are able to bring their new spouse to the US immediately. Now how fair is that to AMERICAN CITIZNENS who were born and raised here? How is it that because they are here on a work visa they can bring their spouses here with out a separation or a long and painful wait. Don’t we have more right to be reunited with our loved ones AS QUICKLY AND EFFECTIVELY than people that are NOT EVEN AMERICAN CITIZENS? (2008)

my case (I129f) was returned after the interview from the Dominican Republic to Vermont to be reviewed. according to the embassy, they said i did not bring them enough evidence. my case is being in Vermont now for about 19 months. i sent to Vermont and to the embassy all the evidence that i have. pictures,telephone statements,e-mail print outs,proof of every time i traveled to see my fiance, witnesses statements and much more. but nothing helps this process to move any faster. i am planing to go back and get married. i was told that there are chances to get denied again. i am very confuced now. in the interview, the officer just wanted to deny the visa. they lied and contradicted each other very much. also, they were asking most of the questions about sex and acused me verbaly and in writing that this relationship was a fraud. (2008)

Our case is pending a K-1 review since March 07, 2006. Most employers offer vacation time on average of 2 weeks. Since it can take 30 days to marry my employer would not approve this time off, leaving me without employment, creating financial hardship. I was present for the interview it made no difference...Our evidence was not touched. Neither were we informed why our case was returned. To date we are still unaware of the reason or reasons. USCIS and DOS does not work together , they are separate entities. Therefore creating confusion, multiple filings and many times a big let down at the consulate who demands these cases are reviewed. DOS follows a guidance for returned petitions. However USCIS does not consider these cases a priority or guidance, resulting in cases being stuck in pending status indefinitely, not counted as part of their backlog. There has been cases where communication with USCIS is difficult or non-existant. If a new case is refiled many time the consular officer may "hold" a decision pending a review decision from USCIS. So what are the options? Marriage has seemed to work for some who have returned K-1 petitions at some consulates. Other consulates may hold their decision until the returned petition is reviewed. (2008)

Yes. At both my wife's K-3 and CR-1 interviews the US Consulate in Lagos, the consulate personnel (1) point-blank refused to review the evidence we had been instructed to produce for the interviews (2)rudely accused my wife of not being married to me and just seeking a visa, without proof of such claim. For how long will US consulates abroad continue to use all this unfair and inconsistent bureaucracy to plausibly justify their attempts to limit legal immigration? (2008)

my wife immigrant visa was denied last july 23,2007 and her i-130 petition sent back to uscis califournia for review eventhough we provided sufficient proof of our relationship. the horrible thing is that no information was given for the reason no visa issued. 1- consular officers should not deny family petition if evidence has been given 2- consular officers should not make any pre-judgment or prejudices at any case 3- consular officers should act with professionalism not with their own desires. (2008)

My k1 fince visa just got denied last week in Chennai. They gave me a blue letter asking me to submit more proof of our relationship via the VFS. I took all the letters, emails, cards,phone bills, etc with me to the interview and they didn't even took a look at any of them. Now they are asking to send all those proof via VFS. WHat does this mean? The letter says that i was denied under the section 221g and tells me to submit more proof to overcome this and to complete the processing of my application.we have like 14 years of difference between us with she being the elder. Is this a reason for the denial? Is it possible still to get the visa after initial 221g? Our relationship is 2 years old and we have all the emails and letter we sent during these period.and phone call details. And all the recepts of the money she sent me, hotel bills with both mine and her name on it. And photographs of us together which we submitted with application. (2007)

My fiancee got denied after 2 interviews and now they are sending it back to USCIS. I have had multiple marriages before and they do not tell us clearly that but they use our unusual circumstances to deny visa and harass us this way so we drop the case. My case has cost me a lot of financial loss as well as aggravation. When they invited my fiancee second time, there was not fixed appointment. She was told to come any day at 8 am. Then they did not allow her to enter based on email letter they had sent us. Finally she got hold of some agent outside and she helped her get in. But now they started interviewing again. Their whole goal was to deny visa no matter what you have. I have decent income and asset and would not risk to marry someone for fraud as I would be the loser. I think, they use their power to deny unusual case, just because they can. (2007)

I Got Denied A K1 Visa Under Section 221g, Accordind To Embassy, I Did Not Bring Them Enough Evidence. My Lawyer Said That I Brought Them More Than Enough. He Also Said That My Bigest Mistake Was To Go With My Fiance To The Interview. He Said That When They See That Both Go To The Interview, That's When They Start Asking Hundreds Of Questions. If You Fail One, That's Enough Reason For Them To Deny.

My fiancee just got denied nder 221g. I heard that you cannot appeal. If thats true, lady who interviewed us lied because she said we have one year to appeal. I went to a lawyer, he told me that I cannot appeal until they send me the results from the administration or investigation. The USCIS told me that in 128 days they would give me an answer. Now it's been 200 days and nothing. (2007)

It is unthinkable what they get away with. it might sounds crazy, but i think they set people up to deny them the visa. for example, they told me that i did not have enough evidence. they said that because they ignored all what i brought to them. they were asking me questions about her grand parents and things that are not related to a relationship and things that they knew that i might didn't know. they could have given me at least 30 days to present more evidence,but they returned my case for investigation. one week after the interview, they sent us a leter accusing us of fraud. they are saying that our relationship was just for immigrate to US. i have nothing to hide and i have proof and thousands of witnesses of this relationship. in the other, they will find nothing to prove that this relationship of seven years is fake. (2007)

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