Yardies, at home and a farrin' (Part 3)

[darlene 0]

What in the world is wrong with these people? I know it was bad before but it seems 100 times worse.

You got through, it is over and done with. All I can say is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

[Shemmy 4]

Anyone E-file the AP? Do you complete the form and sent the requested information later? How does it work?

Dee - did you e-mail the EAD?

Yes. but it didn't state I had to send in any documents.

Don't worry..there'e no need to mail anything...I was just wondering.

[Shemmy 4]

Ricardo they really put him thru the ringer!! It sounds like she was definately trying to make him slip up. That must have been both embarassing and scary!! I think when they decide to grill you to death and ask such personal questions that they should take you into another room. Well that is now behind you now CONGRATS AGAIN

Ditto. Congrats

[Dwarf_Ogress 0]

CONGRATS to Ebonysean, Lovinja, and Ricardo!

[Sonshyne 2]

CONGRATS to Ebonysean, Lovinja, and Ricardo!

Hey Sarah!!!

Long time no hear, where have you been?? I was going to PM you later to check up on you.

Edited March 29, 2007 by Sonshyne

[Ricardo 0]

CONGRATS to Ebonysean, Lovinja, and Ricardo!

Hey Sarah!!!

Long time no hear, where have you been?? I was going to PM you later to check up on you.

FutureMrs- Thanks. Where HAVE you been? How was your trip to JA?

Eric - Where are you? Didnt you have an appointment for a new medical on the 19th? Come back and tell us what's going on?

[Dwarf_Ogress 0]

I am well ladies! Just trying to catch up on 2 major paper projects. I will be done on Saturday (I hope!) lol Then I will attempt to post pics as well as give a trip report! I have just been checking in for good news and thankfully there has been plenty! to my VJ Yardie family and *hugs*

[jlvr 1]

She cannot get an answer from them. She has since contacted her Congressman, sent a letter as to what happened and also the 2 RUDE e-mail responses from the Embassy.

You would think they would have seen a problem before. But not to tell him what the problem is.

They screwed up and won't admit it. And it is not like he lives around the corner. He lives on the other side of the island.

I'm sorry that she has to deal with this.

Airpak said they did get in some pink slips today!!! Please pray our visa is in there. I am dying here!!!!!!!!

I do hope all others will get theres sooner than later as well.

Yours should be one of them Are you guys having it delivered or is he going to pick it up?

Pick up across from the Embassy. Im scared to call back?!!!

Ok, so I called Airpak!!! Nothing is there. They were at least nice & said that they were notified of a backlog from the Embassy since February. They said the K-1 packets are very large and take longer than the other Non Immigrant files. %$#Whatever!!!!&%

Then I took a chance and called the Embassy, requesting to speak to anyone who can assist me. Lady said that our visa was in its final stages was approved at national & is expected to print tomorrow. I asked a timeframe for Airpak she said no sooner than Friday.

I told her that I have been communicating with them for many months now & have been lied to, hung up on, dropped in anonymous voice mail boxes, put on hold & just plain treated badly. You guys there must be some form of accountability there. Something. Many times when Ive asked for a name of the person Ive spoken to for future reference, they say that they cant provide one due to security reasons. Heck even the IRS gives a name & ID number before you even get a word out. I have never endured an organization that is so crippled such as this one. I cant imagine if this is another untrue answer to get me off the phone. I know yall are tired of hearing me whining, heck Im tired of hearing myself.

Be Blessed & thanks for lending your ear. Stay tuned this story gets richer by the day.

Wow. That's so frustrating and depressing.

[jlvr 1]

I emailed the embassy to ask what should be brought to the appointment that is scheduled for next month (just to make sure) and this is the response I got:

Dear Sir/Madam;

Unfortunately we have not reached your priority date as yet. As soon as we get there, an interview will be scheduled for you and you will be notified of this.

What's the priority date? This is the first I've heard this.

I believe the appt. are system generated by the time your DS-230 is turned in. Give it another week & call back they will likely have a date for you. Youre lucky they responded to your email. Soon enough they will start opening them and not responding. Dont stop keep emailing & checking. It will come through.

He has to turn in the DS230. That appointment is scheduled for a few weeks from now. Actually, the appointment is for him to pick it up. I think. I don't know and whenever I email them I can't get a straight answer. I'm just assuming it's to pick up packet 3 since that's the next step. I just hope that they will take the DS230 from him right then instead of making us wait longer.

[jlvr 1]

Texasbound - I feel your pain. After what I just experienced at the embassy nothing surprises me. I DO hope you hear from them soon.

Okay. Here is brutal ordeal of our interview:

We arrive at the embassy early. We are let in 15 minutes before our appointment and there is no line. We are seated in Section A. We are called after about 10 minutes. We hand over the forms, his certificates and what she doesnt want she "throws" back at us. She asks for the Affidavit of Support I hand her everything. She takes the 134, bank letter, employment letter one years tax return and all three years of IRS transcripts and "throws' everything else back at us and tells us to go to section B.

We are called before we can even sit down and Ricardo is fingerprinted. We are told to go to section C.

We sit down and there are about 4 couples ahead of us. After the last couple if finished we are not called. More people from section B are coming over and they are being called before us. We wait for 30 minutes. We are finally called. We are sworn in and the woman tells me to go and sit in the the last row while she interviews Ricardo.

She interrogates him for 30 minutes!!!!!!! She calls him a liar 5 times, she asks him how we met, where we went out together and when we sex! She asks him if he knows how old I am (I am much older than he) when he says yes and tells her my age she says, "what is your problem? Dont you like women your own age?" When she asked him what I did for a living and he answered her correctly, she then asked him how long I had been a teacher, and then she made a comment about how he was just a little boy when I first started working. She told him that she didnt believe a word he was saying. She asked him why he loved me and when he gave her an answer she said that that wasnt good enough, try again. She asked him about MY phone bills for 10 minutes, why some of the calls were only one minute long and others were an hour. No matter what answer he gave her she wasnt satisfied. She grilled him and grilled him about everything. She even grilled him about his own family! She doubted how many siblings he had. She yelled at him and told him that everything that he was saying was being written down and she was going to catch him. All I could do was put my head in my hands and shake. When I did look around at the other people who were waiting to be interviewed their mouths were open and they looked more terrified than I felt.

The last thing that I heard her ask him for was pictures, then she told him to tell me to come up to the window. I just shook my head at her and asked her if she wanted pictures and she smiled this sweet, friendly smile and said, "no". She told him to sit down where I was and she asked me about 5 questions. She started with, "I dont mean to judge you but you are a lot older than your fiance. We see a lot of that here, these young Jamaican men just want a greencard. So, I want to ask you why you are doing this?" I gave her my answer very curtly because I assumed we were done. She asked me when he proposed and I said, he didnt, I did. She seemed surprised. She asked me if I had met his family, their names and where I worked and for how long. She then told me to tell him to come back to the window. She asked him if he had ever smoked ganja and he said, "no" and then she said are you sure you never smoked ganja, not even once? He said no again and then she reached for the pink slip and told us to go across the street to Airpack.

I still dont know if it is real. I am assuming that we were approved because we went to airpack but the joy of the approval was never there because we were still reeling from the interview.

I hope that no one has to go through what we went through.

Wow, Ricardo, that's rough. Must have been hard for you to just sit there and not curse.

[Sonshyne 2]

I emailed the embassy to ask what should be brought to the appointment that is scheduled for next month (just to make sure) and this is the response I got:

Dear Sir/Madam;

Unfortunately we have not reached your priority date as yet. As soon as we get there, an interview will be scheduled for you and you will be notified of this.

What's the priority date? This is the first I've heard this.

I believe the appt. are system generated by the time your DS-230 is turned in. Give it another week & call back they will likely have a date for you. Youre lucky they responded to your email. Soon enough they will start opening them and not responding. Dont stop keep emailing & checking. It will come through.

He has to turn in the DS230. That appointment is scheduled for a few weeks from now. Actually, the appointment is for him to pick it up. I think. I don't know and whenever I email them I can't get a straight answer. I'm just assuming it's to pick up packet 3 since that's the next step. I just hope that they will take the DS230 from him right then instead of making us wait longer.

The appt is for him to pick up packet #3, but if you guys already have the DS230 pt 1 filled out, he can turn it in they will take it. That will save you a little time, you won't have to make another appt to go back and turn it in.

[EBONY_SEAN 1]

HEY YOU GUYS I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THAT YOU COULD HAVE THE CHOICE OF DELIVERY OR PICK UP? WHEN YOU SAY ACROSS THE STREET FROM EMBASSY WHAT PLACE IS THAT?

Airpak said they did get in some pink slips today!!! Please pray our visa is in there. I am dying here!!!!!!!!

I do hope all others will get theres sooner than later as well.

Yours should be one of them Are you guys having it delivered or is he going to pick it up?

Pick up across from the Embassy. Im scared to call back?!!!

[EBONY_SEAN 1]

My friends fiance went to the Embassy yesterday for the second interview. First one he did not have his police record so they did not get past that. She could not go back again so he went alone. Got in, made it past the first window, the second window, got finger printed, basically interviewed but was told there was a slight error with his file and to come back on May 8th. He asked what the error was and he was told not to worry that he would be approved but they needed until the 8th to correct the error.

What is that all about? No one would tell him what the error is.

My girlfriend e-mailed the Embassy today and asked what the error was and rudly they said only the interview has that information and it will be passed on at the May 8th interview at his "final" interview.

Final interview!!!!

Anyone hear of such a thing?

WOW SEAN WENT YESTERDAY AS WELL AND HE GOT THRU AND DIDNT HAVE ANY OF THE INFO.. IT WAS HELD UP IN CUSTOMS. BUT THEN ALL THEY TOLD HIM TO BRING BACK IS THE AFFIDAVIT OF SUPPORT. YOU KNOW THERE IS ALWASY AN INTERVIEWER WHO IS A ####### AND SORRY FOR YOU THAT THAT IS THE ONE YOU GOT. SEAN SAID HE HAD A PLEASANT MAN TO DO HIS INTERVIEW.

Edited March 29, 2007 by EBONY_SEAN

[EBONY_SEAN 1]

RICARDO THAT INTERVIEWER WAS A TERRIBLE REPRESENTATION FOR AMERICA

Anyone E-file the AP? Do you complete the form and sent the requested information later? How does it work?

Dee - did you e-mail the EAD?

Texasbound - I feel your pain. After what I just experienced at the embassy nothing surprises me. I DO hope you hear from them soon.

Okay. Here is brutal ordeal of our interview:

We arrive at the embassy early. We are let in 15 minutes before our appointment and there is no line. We are seated in Section A. We are called after about 10 minutes. We hand over the forms, his certificates and what she doesnt want she "throws" back at us. She asks for the Affidavit of Support I hand her everything. She takes the 134, bank letter, employment letter one years tax return and all three years of IRS transcripts and "throws' everything else back at us and tells us to go to section B.

We are called before we can even sit down and Ricardo is fingerprinted. We are told to go to section C.

We sit down and there are about 4 couples ahead of us. After the last couple if finished we are not called. More people from section B are coming over and they are being called before us. We wait for 30 minutes. We are finally called. We are sworn in and the woman tells me to go and sit in the the last row while she interviews Ricardo.

She interrogates him for 30 minutes!!!!!!! She calls him a liar 5 times, she asks him how we met, where we went out together and when we sex! She asks him if he knows how old I am (I am much older than he) when he says yes and tells her my age she says, "what is your problem? Dont you like women your own age?" When she asked him what I did for a living and he answered her correctly, she then asked him how long I had been a teacher, and then she made a comment about how he was just a little boy when I first started working. She told him that she didnt believe a word he was saying. She asked him why he loved me and when he gave her an answer she said that that wasnt good enough, try again. She asked him about MY phone bills for 10 minutes, why some of the calls were only one minute long and others were an hour. No matter what answer he gave her she wasnt satisfied. She grilled him and grilled him about everything. She even grilled him about his own family! She doubted how many siblings he had. She yelled at him and told him that everything that he was saying was being written down and she was going to catch him. All I could do was put my head in my hands and shake. When I did look around at the other people who were waiting to be interviewed their mouths were open and they looked more terrified than I felt.

The last thing that I heard her ask him for was pictures, then she told him to tell me to come up to the window. I just shook my head at her and asked her if she wanted pictures and she smiled this sweet, friendly smile and said, "no". She told him to sit down where I was and she asked me about 5 questions. She started with, "I dont mean to judge you but you are a lot older than your fiance. We see a lot of that here, these young Jamaican men just want a greencard. So, I want to ask you why you are doing this?" I gave her my answer very curtly because I assumed we were done. She asked me when he proposed and I said, he didnt, I did. She seemed surprised. She asked me if I had met his family, their names and where I worked and for how long. She then told me to tell him to come back to the window. She asked him if he had ever smoked ganja and he said, "no" and then she said are you sure you never smoked ganja, not even once? He said no again and then she reached for the pink slip and told us to go across the street to Airpack.

I still dont know if it is real. I am assuming that we were approved because we went to airpack but the joy of the approval was never there because we were still reeling from the interview.

I hope that no one has to go through what we went through.

Anyone E-file the AP? Do you complete the form and sent the requested information later? How does it work?

Dee - did you e-mail the EAD?

Texasbound - I feel your pain. After what I just experienced at the embassy nothing surprises me. I DO hope you hear from them soon.

Okay. Here is brutal ordeal of our interview:

We arrive at the embassy early. We are let in 15 minutes before our appointment and there is no line. We are seated in Section A. We are called after about 10 minutes. We hand over the forms, his certificates and what she doesnt want she "throws" back at us. She asks for the Affidavit of Support I hand her everything. She takes the 134, bank letter, employment letter one years tax return and all three years of IRS transcripts and "throws' everything else back at us and tells us to go to section B.

We are called before we can even sit down and Ricardo is fingerprinted. We are told to go to section C.

We sit down and there are about 4 couples ahead of us. After the last couple if finished we are not called. More people from section B are coming over and they are being called before us. We wait for 30 minutes. We are finally called. We are sworn in and the woman tells me to go and sit in the the last row while she interviews Ricardo.

She interrogates him for 30 minutes!!!!!!! She calls him a liar 5 times, she asks him how we met, where we went out together and if we had sex that first night! She asks him if he knows how old I am (I am much older than he) when he says yes and tells her my age she says, "what is your problem? Dont you like women your own age?" When she asked him what I did for a living and he answered her correctly, she then asked him how long I had been a teacher, and then she made a comment about how he was just a little boy when I first started working. She told him that she didnt believe a word he was saying. She asked him why he loved me and when he gave her an answer she said that that wasnt good enough, try again. She asked him about MY phone bills for 10 minutes, why some of the calls were only one minute long and others were an hour. No matter what answer he gave her she wasnt satisfied. She grilled him and grilled him about everything. She even grilled him about his own family! She doubted how many siblings he had. She yelled at him and told him that everything that he was saying was being written down and she was going to catch him. All I could do was put my head in my hands and shake. When I did look around at the other people who were waiting to be interviewed their mouths were open and they looked more terrified than I felt.

The last thing that I heard her ask him for was pictures, then she told him to tell me to come up to the window. I just shook my head at her and asked her if she wanted pictures and she smiled this sweet, friendly smile and said, "no". She told him to sit down where I was and she asked me about 5 questions. She started with, "I dont mean to judge you but you are a lot older than your fiance. We see a lot of that here, these young Jamaican men just want a greencard. So, I want to ask you why you are doing this?" I gave her my answer very curtly because I assumed we were done. She asked me when he proposed and I said, he didnt, I did. She seemed surprised. She asked me if I had met his family, their names and where I worked and for how long. She then told me to tell him to come back to the window. She asked him if he had ever smoked ganja and he said, "no" and then she said are you sure you never smoked ganja, not even once? He said no again and then she reached for the pink slip and told us to go across the street to Airpack.

I still dont know if it is real. I am assuming that we were approved because we went to airpack but the joy of the approval was never there because we were still reeling from the interview.

I hope that no one has to go through what we went through.

[EBONY_SEAN 1]

CONGRATS to Ebonysean, Lovinja, and Ricardo!

THANKS FUTURE MRS

GOOD LUCK LOVINJA AND RICARDO

TEXASBOUND MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YA