Biometrics - shto eto?

[Steve S 2]

A truly beginner question: What is Biometrics and is it smth I have to worry about? It is not mentioned in the Visa FAQ or the flowchart, but a lot of people have it in their timelines. I am US citizen, filing for K1.

[Otto 83]

Biometrics is where they take fingerprints and photos. It is done at the beginning (sort of) of the AOS stage.

[Thomas-n-Elena 0]

If you follow the timelines you will see that after the application for k-1 there is a wait. Once received the SO comes to the US, then you marry, after you marry you apply for AOS(adjustment of status) this will involve an interview and applications, and paperwork. Before the interview you will get a Biometrics appointment, they take fingerprints, iris scan and photograph(this photo will be used for the 2 year green card). After 21 months you apply for a dropping of conditions, which will involve another biometrics appt, same thing happens.

[slim 1,528]

If you're asking - shto eto? - as a guy who just filed the K-1, I gotta ask, how have you been studying? (Or is shto eto? one of the eight phrases you know?)

[Steve S 2]

Thanks. Somehow I thought I saw one or two timelines that placed Biometrics between NOA-1 and NOA-2, but I see now that it is a remote consideration. Looks like I may be using this website for a few years!

About learning Russian, Slim -- I may be more hardcore than most. I have been taking private lessons for a year now, I have 3 books plus a dictionary. The learning is coming along pretty slowly, partly because I work many hours (trying to make my money now so I can cut back when I have someone to enjoy it with), there are many weeks when I do zero studying. I usually know when to use each of the six cases and can do a fair job of reading aloud, but my conversational skills suck. In Russia, I sometimes try to pretend by nodding my head and saying one of the following when it seems appropriate: "panyatna", "tochno", "da, kaneshno" or "prikolno"! [understandable, exactly, yes of course, or cool!]

[slim 1,528]

Steve, you're going to do just fine. I've been married for about 2.5 years now, and what you listed above is about the extent of my Russian language knowledge. Truth be told, that's all you really need anyway as most of the wives on here will tell you, "I wish my husband would just STFU and nod, maybe add a 'panyatna' here and there, but that's it! Now that would be prikolno!"

[Brad and Vika 129]

Steve, you're going to do just fine. I've been married for about 2.5 years now, and what you listed above is about the extent of my Russian language knowledge. Truth be told, that's all you really need anyway as most of the wives on here will tell you, "I wish my husband would just STFU and nod, maybe add a 'panyatna' here and there, but that's it! Now that would be prikolno!"

WHen we were in Lvov about a year ago, Vika got sick and went to the state clinic there. The doctor did a super job of consultation and diagnosis, spending a half hour just talking to us. I said nothing the entire time, just smiling once in awhile and laughing when they laughed. Vika said he had no clue that I didn't speak Russian, because many Ukrainian men in that situation keep silent.

[Thomas-n-Elena 0]

Steve, you're going to do just fine. I've been married for about 2.5 years now, and what you listed above is about the extent of my Russian language knowledge. Truth be told, that's all you really need anyway as most of the wives on here will tell you, "I wish my husband would just STFU and nod, maybe add a 'panyatna' here and there, but that's it! Now that would be prikolno!"

Amen Slim, I know when I need to reply when my wife smacks me on the head for saying uh-huh to much then I say "Yes dear you are right, I never thought about it that way"

[slim 1,528]

It's like that Geico commercial where the dude is reading the paper and the wife walks in - "does this make me look fat?" He doesn't even look up from his paper. "You betcha!"

[BTalley 0]

Truth be told, that's all you really need anyway as most of the wives on here will tell you, "I wish my husband would just STFU and nod, maybe add a 'panyatna' here and there, but that's it! Now that would be prikolno!"

Svetlana wants me to be able to speak with her mother. As long as the conversation is about 3 sentences, I'm OK.

The good news is, while she can be very strict about my pronunciation (I never seem to be able to produce the hard "L" sound they use), her family thinks everything I say in Russian is ''хорошо!"

[Steve S 2]

The good news is, while she can be very strict about my pronunciation (I never seem to be able to produce the hard "L" sound they use), her family thinks everything I say in Russian is ''хорошо!"

I have a hard time with soft vs. hard L too. It helped when I figured out I could push my tongue against upper teeth for hard L but keep it lower and relaxed for soft sound. Soft T, cut the sound off fast, hard T blow some air after it. Anyway, the important thing for most of us is to be understood not to sound like a native. There will be some English words that will be hard for her to pronounce correctly too!

[slim 1,528]

Ah.... there's a hard L?

[BTalley 0]

There will be some English words that will be hard for her to pronounce correctly too!

Not many, I'm afraid. She is so good at English that I am just amazed by her. She does struggle sometimes with the difference between conscience and conscious . . . and when she hears a black person speak she will sometimes give me a horrified look and say, "I didn't understand any of that!"

[Brad and Vika 129]

There will be some English words that will be hard for her to pronounce correctly too!

Not many, I'm afraid. She is so good at English that I am just amazed by her. She does struggle sometimes with the difference between conscience and conscious . . . and when she hears a black person speak she will sometimes give me a horrified look and say, "I didn't understand any of that!"

Sometimes Viktoriya gives me the same look. I tell her that ebonic is really a dialect (sort of) that can be tough for me to understand too, and there are people from the hollers in Eastern KY that I cannot understand at all, although we allegedly do speak the same language.

[Neonred 3,571]

There will be some English words that will be hard for her to pronounce correctly too!

Not many, I'm afraid. She is so good at English that I am just amazed by her. She does struggle sometimes with the difference between conscience and conscious . . . and when she hears a black person speak she will sometimes give me a horrified look and say, "I didn't understand any of that!"

Sometimes Viktoriya gives me the same look. I tell her that ebonic is really a dialect (sort of) that can be tough for me to understand too, and there are people from the hollers in Eastern KY that I cannot understand at all, although we allegedly do speak the same language.

LOL My daughter, now living in Louisville, is headed to Pikeville this weekend to work a dental clinic with the school. She's taking her boyfriend (he's from southern KY) to translate.