221(g) "not clearly eligible"

[NatashaW 0]

Ann,

Thank you for sharing your Tbilisi experience. After you got married, did your husband file a I-130? How long did it take you to get your second interview (your first being based on the K-1 application) at the consulate?

NatashaW

[Ann 26 1]

Ann,

Thank you for sharing your Tbilisi experience. After you got married, did your husband file a I-130? How long did it take you to get your second interview (your first being based on the K-1 application) at the consulate?

NatashaW

My situation is very much like yours, it seems that there is NO way young people can travel to the US with tourist visas.

I got turned down twice for tourist visa, my husband came to Georgian 4 times, during this whole process, we filed K-1 and got denied, then he came after 1 month of this even and we got married and we immediately filed I-130 from Tbilisi, Georga, but at the same time, we asked the senator to send inquiry about our K-1 treturned petition, we also filed FIOA (that's important) , and thanks GOD my second application was approved in 2 months in USCIS, it was very exciting, so I had my interview in January, and my husband was there with me, if he had not been there they would have truned me down again, but luckily he was there, and we got like 80 questions to answer seperately, very detailed answers they needed, the investigator was a guy, and we were invited in e little room to answer the questions and after 10 minutes he came and said that he was happy to inform us that the petiton was approved and I would get my visa in 3 days. I almost started to cry, it was unbelievable that after 2 and a half year of seperation I would be flying with my husband to USA.

I am curious, by whom your fiance was turned down? And what did they say, the reason I mean?

[morocco4ever 63]

I wish I would have seen this earlier. What service center approved your petition? The latest on this is that they are expiring the I-129f petitions. That can be good new IF it actually gets sent back, but bad news because you have to start over again.

Has your representative had a chance to talk to them? The best scenario would be if they agreed to accept more proof of your relationship, and I have seen a small handful of people that have been successful at that. But once it has left the consulate you are in for a long wait.

The FOIA is a waste of time. They don't give you any information that resulted in denials, it is confidential information. And this takes more than a few weeks. We filed one, and it was several months before we got a reply. Don't waste your time.

They may have said something about the age difference, and perhaps that is part of the reason they looked over your case with more of a critical eye, but 3 years is a bunch of hog wash. I agree that it is the answers about how you met that is the problem. If you can get these people to write a statement on how and when they introduced you, this could be beneficial. If you can get your representative to supply the consulate with this before it is sent back that would be the best. But have it no matter what the situation, it could come up later, and you will want to be prepared to explain why the discrepancy before.

BTW, my husband and I were denied. We were not successful in keeping at the consulate, but there were not a lot of people here at the time that had been through it. By the time we figured it out it was already sent back. Ours was the CR1, and it took an additional 15 months past his interview to actually get the visa. It was a nightmare that I am glad to say is over now. I am older than my husband as well, and by far more than 3 years. He has his 10 year GC, and could walk away, and hasn't. So although there are some schmucks that use older women for the GC, I am glad to say that not all do. So any consulate that bases a denial on that could be denying a valid couple. Again, 3 years is nothing. But it wouldn't do any harm to keep record of this, and address this as the silly issue that it is in case it comes up again. Although I highly doubt it will.

Best of luck to you, and you were given a link several pages back by someone that is going through this now. That link is full of resources. Don't ignore it.