Colombia Club

[BYRON-LEIDY 0]

..I have gone to see her 6 times in Colombia and i will be going to the interview, I flew her to Panama and met her there for a vacation...i have receipts for restaurants in Colombia, money transfers to her (about 15 for the last 9 months ranging from $100 to $350)....of course the stamps on my passport from the 6 times i have been there to see her...over 400 emails...over 170 pictures from different trips to her...Over 300 calling cards with the access numbers for the calling card highlighted on the house phone and the cell phone bills....letter from employer....3 years tax transcripts and w2's....

GOD I HOPE IM OK...IM GETTING NERVOUS..MY INTERVIEW IS IN 3 WEEKS!!!!

ANY SUGGESTIONS IF I SHOULD ADD ANYTHING THAT MIGHT HELP OUR CASE AT THE INTERVIEW???

[Bill y Bella 0]

Are you in Bogota or another city? Did Domesa deliver the visa or did you pick it up at the Domesa office?

We are in Cartagena, We Called this friday Morning to Domesa Bogota office, and they told us that Our Visa Package was on the way to Cartagena, that We could call back in 4 hours to the Cartagena Domesa Office, We did this, and We went Directly for Domesa Office to Pick up our VISA.

Thank you for the information. I am glad that you were able to pick up the visa at the Domesa office. Maybe that means that the visas can also be picked up at the Bogota office.

Good luck on your trip!

[Scott n Yenifer 0]

We are in Cartagena, We Called this friday Morning to Domesa Bogota office, and they told us that Our Visa Package was on the way to Cartagena, that We could call back in 4 hours to the Cartagena Domesa Office, We did this, and We went Directly for Domesa Office to Pick up our VISA. Then We booked our Flights Cartagena - Miami, and Thanks God we are flying together to the USA on Sunday Morning!...

We wish everyone Good Luck and happy and healthy New Year.

FELIZ NAVIDAD Y PROSPERO ANO NUEVO!!!

We will be saying our Prayers for Scott and Yennifer for their interview next week!

Thanks to everyone in this forum for their wishes to us, We appreacited it.

Brian and Yenys

CONGRATULATIONS BRIAN & YENYS!!!!

THIS IS GREAT NEWS THAT YOU RECEIVED YOUR VISA IN THREE DAYS...THIS MEANS THAT WE SHOULD HAVE OURS ON SATURDAY THE 15TH...THAT WILL LEAVE US PLENTY OF TIME SINCE WE ARE HERE TIL THE 19TH.

ANYWAY IT'S A LITTLE COLD HERE BUT I HAVE YENIFER BY MY SIDE TO KEEP ME WARM

TALK TO YOU GUYS SOON

Edited December 8, 2007 by Scott n Yenifer

[SteveSandyHill 0]

Scott, glad to see the two of you arrived safely! Hopefully Bob's accommodations are as nice as they look on his website. Still waiting for my interview date, hopefully by next week!

[Yazz 1]

We are in Cartagena, We Called this friday Morning to Domesa Bogota office, and they told us that Our Visa Package was on the way to Cartagena, that We could call back in 4 hours to the Cartagena Domesa Office, We did this, and We went Directly for Domesa Office to Pick up our VISA. Then We booked our Flights Cartagena - Miami, and Thanks God we are flying together to the USA on Sunday Morning!...

We wish everyone Good Luck and happy and healthy New Year.

FELIZ NAVIDAD Y PROSPERO ANO NUEVO!!!

We will be saying our Prayers for Scott and Yennifer for their interview next week!

Thanks to everyone in this forum for their wishes to us, We appreacited it.

Brian and Yenys

CONGRATULATIONS BRIAN & YENYS!!!!

THIS IS GREAT NEWS THAT YOU RECEIVED YOUR VISA IN THREE DAYS...THIS MEANS THAT WE SHOULD HAVE OURS ON SATURDAY THE 15TH...THAT WILL LEAVE US PLENTY OF TIME SINCE WE ARE HERE TIL THE 19TH.

ANYWAY IT'S A LITTLE COLD HERE BUT I HAVE YENIFER BY MY SIDE TO KEEP ME WARM

Today has been a very rainy day in Bogotá!!!, I am veryyyy cold (so..can you lend me Yenifer?) jajaja...ok, talking seriously...Scott I hope you have a very short and easy interview this wednesday! the best for you guys, at last the final step of this long and hard process...

Thanks a lot for all your support

Yazz

[Brian and Yenys 0]

GREAT NEWS !!!!!

YENYS AND I HAVE RETURNED TO MIAMI, The Immigrations process upon arrival was 30 minutes where they took us to a office and processed her k-3

and advised me, its now time to start the I-485 and EAD process, which we are told is another $1010.00 USD. But at least YENYS is here with me after waiting 9 months or 259 days since we first filed our paper work. This is gonna be a GREAT Christmas for us, Thanks to GOD !!! AMEN

We wish everyone else the best of luck and happiness and we MOVE ON TO THE NEXT JOURNEY....COLOMBIA CLUB AOS !!!

BRIAN AND YENYS

Scott and Yenifer, we say our prayers for you, for a easy process at the interview in the Bogota USA Embassy !!!!

[Bill y Bella 0]

GREAT NEWS !!!!!

YENYS AND I HAVE RETURNED TO MIAMI......

Congratulations and bienvenido!

[snoopy 0]

GREAT NEWS !!!!!

YENYS AND I HAVE RETURNED TO MIAMI, The Immigrations process upon arrival was 30 minutes where they took us to a office and processed her k-3

and advised me, its now time to start the I-485 and EAD process, which we are told is another $1010.00 USD. But at least YENYS is here with me after waiting 9 months or 259 days since we first filed our paper work. This is gonna be a GREAT Christmas for us, Thanks to GOD !!! AMEN

We wish everyone else the best of luck and happiness and we MOVE ON TO THE NEXT JOURNEY....COLOMBIA CLUB AOS !!!

BRIAN AND YENYS

Scott and Yenifer, we say our prayers for you, for a easy process at the interview in the Bogota USA Embassy !!!!

Congratularion !!!!! I'm very happy for you guys, lets hope everyone have the same experience as you guys.

[BYRON-LEIDY 0]

GREAT NEWS !!!!!

YENYS AND I HAVE RETURNED TO MIAMI, The Immigrations process upon arrival was 30 minutes where they took us to a office and processed her k-3

and advised me, its now time to start the I-485 and EAD process, which we are told is another $1010.00 USD. But at least YENYS is here with me after waiting 9 months or 259 days since we first filed our paper work. This is gonna be a GREAT Christmas for us, Thanks to GOD !!! AMEN

We wish everyone else the best of luck and happiness and we MOVE ON TO THE NEXT JOURNEY....COLOMBIA CLUB AOS !!!

BRIAN AND YENYS

Scott and Yenifer, we say our prayers for you, for a easy process at the interview in the Bogota USA Embassy !!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BYRON-LEIDY 0]

I have one question....God willing we dont have any problems and the interview goes ok....I have to come back the day after due to work, she is going to have to come alone...

What will she have to go through????

What will she need???

[Brian and Yenys 0]

I have one question....God willing we dont have any problems and the interview goes ok....I have to come back the day after due to work, she is going to have to come alone...

What will she have to go through????

What will she need???

GREETINGS BYRON !!

lEIDY WILL WAIT FOR THE VISA TO BE MAILED BY domesa, they will tell you it takes 6-8 days, but for us, we received in 3 days.

once she is approved she will call the DOMESA office in bogota and ask them for her to pick it up there at the office, not delivered, saves a few days.

Than, she will have a sealed package from the US Embassy which she will give to Immigration upon arrival and they will escort her to a office there and do a quick interview and review all the paperwork that is in the sealed package, NO ONE CAN OPEN THAT PACKAGE BUT THE IMMIGRATION OFFICER AT THE POE. They took only 30 minutes for us and were strictly business, they review the passport and documents and than, keep the package the Embassy give you and put you on your way. So the 2 things she will need are the PASSPRT WITH K-1 VISA and the big envelope that is in the Embassy Package mailed to you with the visa.

I am sure you will have no problems and my advice is Dont volunteer any info or questions, let the Consular Officer ask you and Leidy the questions and have lots of documentation, photo albums, I had 3, emails, chats, phone records, western union receipts etc. and you will do fine. I walked in carrying 3 notebooks, all organized and our wedding album and 2 big photo albums and the AMerican Consular female officer just smiled at me, looked at the stack of albums I was carrying and just smiled and never asked to see anything or talk to me, She did wave good bye to me and said Good Luck after, she told YENYS, she was APPROVED

Be there at the gate of the Embassy by no later than 5:45 am and you will enter early and be done early...

ALL OUR BLESSINGS TO YOU AND leidy !!!!

BRIAN AND YENYS

[MV-JR 0]

Hi, I am just dropping by to say good luck SCOTT hope everything turns up well. [/size]

[SteveSandyHill 0]

Brian,

Congratulations and thanks for all the information! I am preparing for our interview hopefully in January. I believe that I am very prepared as well. What I am lacking and I believe I can obtain are all my Western Union reciepts! I have used this service for about eight months now to send Sandy $$$ as needed. The Attorney that I wasted lots of money on, originally told me that I would not need them as it would show I was more or less supporting Sandy, and that would be frowned upon at the Embassy.

My question is did they even look or ask for this information? In any event I will contact Western Union today, I believe they will have records, they can forward to me.

[Brian and Yenys 0]

Brian,

Congratulations and thanks for all the information! I am preparing for our interview hopefully in January. I believe that I am very prepared as well. What I am lacking and I believe I can obtain are all my Western Union reciepts! I have used this service for about eight months now to send Sandy $$$ as needed. The Attorney that I wasted lots of money on, originally told me that I would not need them as it would show I was more or less supporting Sandy, and that would be frowned upon at the Embassy.

My question is did they even look or ask for this information? In any event I will contact Western Union today, I believe they will have records, they can forward to me.

Steve,

If you have the western union gold card, all your records will be available. I HAVE also heard your attorneys opinion from others. THE embassy's

job is also to protect you and they have had problems in the past with woman using the man for monetary support and wanting to come to the USA Obviously, not your situation, but has become a issue there in Colombia and elsewhere. There job is to see A VALID RELATIONSHIP EXISTS.

AS FAR AS THOSE THAT HAVE HIRED ATTORNEYS, my opinion is they waste your money and slow you down, I have close friends that have paid $2,000.00 USD for the k-1 and they did nothing for them that you couldn't have done yourself and follow all the advice in this forum is THE BEST ROUTE.

WE DID NOT USE AN ATTORNEY AND DID ALL THE PAPERWORK OURSELF (Although my wife is a abogada (attorney) and a expert in Colombian law and procedures) and we were approved first, before our friends, this is mainly due to going thru the attorney as a third party with mailings and notifications to you after they are notified. so THIS SLOWS DOWN YOUR PROCESS WITH A ATTORNEY...

Follow the procedures here and fax the embassy as soon as you know the BGT case number from NVC or DOS. That will save you 3 weeks time to get the interview. Faxes sent in before the 15th of the month will get next month Interviews. after that you will wait till the next month.

Good Luck and God Bless you and Sandy !!!!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR WISHES FOR US-we appreciate it

BRIAN AND YENYS

Edited December 10, 2007 by Brian and Yenys

[Brian and Yenys 0]

..I have gone to see her 6 times in Colombia and i will be going to the interview, I flew her to Panama and met her there for a vacation...i have receipts for restaurants in Colombia, money transfers to her (about 15 for the last 9 months ranging from $100 to $350)....of course the stamps on my passport from the 6 times i have been there to see her...over 400 emails...over 170 pictures from different trips to her...Over 300 calling cards with the access numbers for the calling card highlighted on the house phone and the cell phone bills....letter from employer....3 years tax transcripts and w2's....

GOD I HOPE IM OK...IM GETTING NERVOUS..MY INTERVIEW IS IN 3 WEEKS!!!!

ANY SUGGESTIONS IF I SHOULD ADD ANYTHING THAT MIGHT HELP OUR CASE AT THE INTERVIEW???

BYRON,

you seem to be well prepared with everything....You and Leidy will do fine....

Relax, breath and just be patient now, Good things will come for you.

You will be successful !!!

Best of Luck and our prayers are with you !!!

Keep the Faith my brother and soon , Leidy will be here with you !!!

Brian and Yenys