package complete :)

[cranehand 0]

With a little over 3 weeks to go we have gathered all docs and had medical done. Flight arrangements have been made, train tickets have been purchased and now we wait Man I wish it was August 10th already

Questions for you ppl. Is a updated intent to marry a requirement ? I did not see that it was, its not a problem. I have a blank from the origional package that we submitted with petition.

Also is the fee for K1 now paid at the embassy and not procredit bank ?

26 days to interview WOOOOOO HOOOOOOO

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

With a little over 3 weeks to go we have gathered all docs and had medical done. Flight arrangements have been made, train tickets have been purchased and now we wait Man I wish it was August 10th already

Questions for you ppl. Is a updated intent to marry a requirement ? I did not see that it was, its not a problem. I have a blank from the origional package that we submitted with petition.

Also is the fee for K1 now paid at the embassy and not procredit bank ?

26 days to interview WOOOOOO HOOOOOOO

I would say "update the letter of intent" just to be sure. we did not need it, however I went to the interview, I guess our smiling faces were enough. It costs nothing to update it and have it. As I understand, the fee can now be paid at the consulate OR partially at ProCredit Bank ($131) and the rest at the consulate. I am not sure why someone would do that.

If I am wrong, someone will correct me, but that is how I read the instructions now.

Edited July 17, 2010 by Gary and Alla

[slim 1,530]

Is a updated intent to marry a requirement ?

Intent to marry is never required at any time.

However, as Gary said, why not update it? It's a free document, so just change the dates, fire off a copy or two and sign it.

[tom&tanya 48]

Tanya paid the whole fee at the consulate. $350. per visa.

[cranehand 0]

Tanya paid the whole fee at the consulate. $350. per visa.

Excellent!! thank you Tom.

BTW how did her POE @ JFK go yesterday? Hope all is well and congratulations on continuing your lives together

[1HappyGuy 45]

This is directly from the U.S. embassy web site in Kiev: On the date of the appointment your fiancée should come to the Immigrant Visa section of the Embassy in Kyiv. Minor children under 14 do not need to attend the interview. Your fiancée and each dependent child must pay a $350.00 non-refundable machine-readable-visa fee in U.S. dollars at the Consular Section. In case a part of the fee is paid at ProCredit Bank ($131 or $140), the corresponding difference must be paid in dollars at the Consular Section. 

I hope that clears up any confusion.

[Casper&Diana 0]

We paid the $700 (for Diana and son) in cash at the consulate. After you check in at the window in the immigrant visa section inside the consulate and they go through the document check list they will send you down the hall to pay the money and return to the visa section with the receipts.

Diana and I did have updated letters of intent to marry but like Gary, maybe our smiling faces were enough as we were not asked for them either. But I'd take 'em anyway.

[cranehand 0]

Thanks everyone for the helpful information. Better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them, I think. With all the other docs I will be taking, what is 2 more sheets of paper? I just DO NOT want any surprises, no off the wall request's for evidence. I am happy to be able to attend the interview with her. I have been blessed with a generous employer who puts family first.

She thought it strange that I could take so much time off work and still have a job when I returned and I made an attempt to explain employee rights to her but I got the deer in the headlights look so I simply said, Do not worry my love, all will be o.k. I have a feeling that will be a mantra for me over the next few years

Thanks again everyone for the info

T-minus 21 days until we continue our life together under the same roof

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Thanks everyone for the helpful information. Better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them, I think. With all the other docs I will be taking, what is 2 more sheets of paper? I just DO NOT want any surprises, no off the wall request's for evidence. I am happy to be able to attend the interview with her. I have been blessed with a generous employer who puts family first.

She thought it strange that I could take so much time off work and still have a job when I returned and I made an attempt to explain employee rights to her but I got the deer in the headlights look so I simply said, Do not worry my love, all will be o.k. I have a feeling that will be a mantra for me over the next few years

Thanks again everyone for the info

T-minus 21 days until we continue our life together under the same roof

You will not regret going to the interview, and when it is approved, the celebration is not to be missed!

Oh, and the "deer in the headlights" phrase has been replaced with the Russian equivilent. "Boiled fish. Eyes open but nothing there" I witnessed it the first time Alla went to the deli counter and ordered "500 grams of roast beef Pazhalsta"

[cranehand 0]

You will not regret going to the interview, and when it is approved, the celebration is not to be missed!

I agree, it was the plan all along I believe visa approval will be celebrated with my first trip to Yalta Her ,I and a few close friends I am very excited for this portion of our journey to come to a close.

Oh, and the "deer in the headlights" phrase has been replaced with the Russian equivilent. "Boiled fish. Eyes open but nothing there" I witnessed it the first time Alla went to the deli counter and ordered "500 grams of roast beef Pazhalsta"

Thats good stuff right there

[slim 1,530]

Do not worry my love, all will be o.k. I have a feeling that will be a mantra for me over the next few years

Mantra, yes. But, "don't worry my love" it won't be. It'll be "no dear, I can't take off another month of work, I just did that six months ago."

ordered "500 grams of roast beef Pazhalsta"

That's like ordering a liter of cola or a hamburger with no spit.

If you really want to baffle the average American, ask for something in grams or liters. Or, when strangers stop by to ask directions, tell 'em "it's about 7 kilometers up on the right."

HUH?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Mantra, yes. But, "don't worry my love" it won't be. It'll be "no dear, I can't take off another month of work, I just did that six months ago."

That's like ordering a liter of cola or a hamburger with no spit.

If you really want to baffle the average American, ask for something in grams or liters. Or, when strangers stop by to ask directions, tell 'em "it's about 7 kilometers up on the right."

HUH?

But in this neck o' the woods, most of the strangers speak French AND fluent metric. Most of them are riding bicycles. I never figured out what the appeal is for all the Quebecois to come here and ride bicycles. Go figure. But I will give 3 to 1 odds that if they are riding a bike, they speak French. We would get them stopping by our old place nearly every weekend in the summer asking to camp out in our "forest" (as Alla called it), the wooded part of the property on the west end. Being Canadians, they never left a mess or said any bad words.

The upshot of the deli experience was her first awareness that most Americans have no clue what a "gram" is...unless maybe they are cocaine addicts. This really shocked her. "You mean she REALLY doesn't know? But she looks old enough to have finished high school!" She assumed that this whole "English system of measure" was just some traditional BS and we REALLY, actually, used metric for everything but didn't tell anyone. I think it was when she first realized she had stepped off into the abyss.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Thats good stuff right there

Hey, I am no good at that multiple quoting stuff either. Slim is the expert at that. If I knew technical things like that, maybe I could get the round out of the chamber and lower the hammer on this .45...it scares the bejeezus out of me.

Actually, I wasn't referring to a trip to Yalta. I've been to Yalta, and I have been to a rented Kiev apartment after a sucessful K-1 interivew. Yalta loses. (I would say "sucks", but...it doesn't do that either)

[slim 1,530]

But she looks old enough to have finished high school!" She assumed that this whole "English system of measure" was just some traditional BS and we REALLY, actually, used metric for everything but didn't tell anyone. I think it was when she first realized she had stepped off into the abyss.

It's like we're making stuff up until they see it first-hand. Then it turns into "why Americans so stupid?"

Hey, I am no good at that multiple quoting stuff either. Slim is the expert at that. If I knew technical things like that,

There's a button that says "mutiquote" - use that. If you want to chop up someone's post, all you have to do is copy the bracketed info that says quote name = 'Gary and Alla' date=.... and then put another bracketed /quote at the end of it. You have to make sure you have the right number of open and end quotes.

Trust me, I'm no tech whiz when it comes to this computer stuff. I know enough to function, but I'm not going to be working the helpline anytime soon. I'll also never claim to know "technical stuff." Multiquotes I do know... but that's about the extent of it.

maybe I could get the round out of the chamber and lower the hammer on this .45...it scares the bejeezus out of me.

Use two hands.

[Tanya and Barry 59]

Mantra, yes. But, "don't worry my love" it won't be. It'll be "no dear, I can't take off another month of work, I just did that six months ago."

Tanya asks me at least three times a week when we start to get out of bed.."Stay home work today?"...