attion please Detail Timeline not timeline

[ScottThuy 140]

Here is a good example... Andy's Timeline

OMG is that a Vietnam K1 thing or what. I never heard about a timeline.

Yep its a VN thing... They ask a great deal of us.. The attitude in HCMC is .. all K1's are frauds until they prove otherwise.

[johncali9 6]

Here is a good example... Andy's Timeline

OMG is that a Vietnam K1 thing or what. I never heard about a timeline.

That was requirend CO @HCMC and Cambot Too

[luckytxn 2,265]

My timeline was very spartan and to the point. Do not make this harder than what is needed. Never volunteer info.

[John & Nan 0]

Here is a good example... Andy's Timeline

OMG is that a Vietnam K1 thing or what. I never heard about a timeline.

Yep its a VN thing... They ask a great deal of us.. The attitude in HCMC is .. all K1's are frauds until they prove otherwise.

mmm, I would not think Vietnam is high with frauds.

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

Here is a good example... Andy's Timeline

OMG is that a Vietnam K1 thing or what. I never heard about a timeline.

Yep its a VN thing... They ask a great deal of us.. The attitude in HCMC is .. all K1's are frauds until they prove otherwise.

mmm, I would not think Vietnam is high with frauds.

It's hard to say where it ranks, since the only statistics are the one's who get caught, but I'd guess it's in the top five highest fraud countries. There have been a number of organized visa fraud rings which have been busted in the US. Many of these were operated by Vietnamese immigrants, and focused mainly on bringing members of a specific family to the US by marriage with a US citizen. In some cases, the US citizens were paid handsomely for their role. In other cases, the US citizens were duped.

But, for all of the fraud perpetrated by organized fraud rings, there are many many more that involve just a few members of a family. For example, a girl divorces her husband in Vietnam, and hooks up with US citizen she meets on an online dating site. She plays him for a year or so, and finally talks him into coming to Vietnam to meet her. They get engaged, and he files for a K1 visa. She comes to the US on the K1, perhaps bringing her kids with her, marries her USC fiance, and adjusts status. After three years, she gets her US citizenship, and promptly divorces the USC husband. Now, she applies for a K1 to bring her Vietnamese ex-husband to the US. Now the entire immediate family is in the US, and the process begins to bring the parents, and brothers and sisters. To expedite things, the sisters might pursue their own US citizen pigeons, and so the chain continues. The girls are just as likely not to have ever been married, or even not to have immediate family in the US. The only common thread is that they have family members in Vietnam who want to immigrate to the US, and they need a family member to become a US citizen to provide the portal for them.

The US government bears some responsibility for this. The US helped 125,200 Vietnamese come to the US just before the war ended in a program called "Operation New Life". President Ford signed the Indochina Migration and Refugee Act in 1975, which moved these Vietnamese from refugee camps, and into mainstream American society. The communist crackdown that followed the war resulted in as many as 50,000 Vietnamese per year fleeing the country starting in 1977, and continuing into the 1980's. Under the Refugee Act of 1980, over half a million of these Vietnamese refugees were settled into the US. The result is that there are now over 1.2 million Vietnamese in the US, and many of them want to reunite with family members still living in Vietnam. Vietnamese are the 5th largest Asian immigrant group in the US.

Personally, I don't fault these people for wanting to come to the US with their families, and escape the suffocating poverty of Vietnam. I think their motives are a helluva lot more noble than the individual greed that motivates fraudsters from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states. They are also one of the few groups that adapts completely to American culture, while keeping their own culture and traditions. But, I can't condone that they are abusing US immigration law to get here, and I think it's horrific that they are, in many cases, ruining the lives of American citizens who gave of their time, money, and love.

[toddandhien 2]

My timeline was very spartan and to the point. Do not make this harder than what is needed. Never volunteer info.

luckytxn, I know that you are in a different place on this issue. But to offer another viewpoint to balance the argument, I would advocate giving them the details, both with the petition and in a timeline. It isn't the details that seem to get you denied, its having your story and your SO's differ that creates many of the problems or if she does not know the answer at all to something that you provide. Good prep will take care of that. Of course, you don't have to give every detail of your life, but telling the history and evolution of your relationship with dates, names, etc, I am not at all sure how that can hurt. Again, just be sure that the two of you say the same thing.

I did not find the creation of the timeline hard at all...it was my relationship and I knew the facts. My goal was to get approved at the first interview and not get blue-slipped. Everything that I did was to achieve that goal. Sometimes I may have done more than was necessary but I was determined not to have done too little.