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[Katz 0]

Thanks guys! Ohhh... The relief! Haha.

[jodee 30]

Congratulations Katz, Awesome news about the visa!

[Possum 0]

been lurking around VJ for a while and didn't even know there was an aussie forum! stumbled upon it quite by accident.

hello everyone!

[aussie angel 0]

Hi Possum

welcome to the aussie thread good luck on your journey and feel free to ask any questions, everyone is so helpfull and friendly in here

angela

[joyjoey 0]

Hi~everybody..My name is Joey.. I am orginally from Korea settle down in Australia as Australian citizen..

I met my fiancé on Yahoo chatting and clicked right away..I have been with him for a seven years..I visited him couple of times and he visited me once..we were going to settle down in Australia but changed the plan due to interesting rising, etc..ANYHOW...we are going to file for K-1 visa soon..and here are the questions for ya...if can please please please reply!!

2. I came to Australia as a student 10 years ago do I still need a birth certificate form Korea, if so, should I certified it after translated?

3. When my fiancé file for all documents do they have to be certified??

4. I am currently working as childcare worker and have been working in this field about 5 years..I also, going to complete Bachelor of Teaching (Early childhood education) 3 years degree which allow to teach 0-5 yrs old in early childhood education..does anybody working in this fied in North Carolina? You guys reckon I can able to get a job as early childhood teacher without having a teacher’s license?

* I have settle down Australia for quite some time and it is scariest thing to move to overseas again..I am especially, frighten about getting a driving license. And possibility of racism since my fiancé lives sunburn where low percentage of Asian people lives…

[Liam and Sam 2]

Hi everyone, I'm a newbie to the Aussie forum as well.. although, I'm the American. Just wanted to drop in and say hi and ask a few quick questions. We received our NOA2 recently and our case made it to NVC today - hopefully it'll be on it's way over the ocean within the next few days. In an effort to get things ready beforehand I was going to have Liam get the police record check done next week. I know that QLD sends the records straight to the Consulate but I saw someone mention they had to put the Consulate's address on the form. This is a dumb question but should he use their main address?

U.S. Consulate General

MLC Centre

Level 59

19-29 Martin Place

Sydney, NSW 2000

Just wanted to double check - knowing my luck there would be a "special" address or something and it'd get lost. Ha. Also, how long does it generally take them to submit the clearance to the Consulate?

We are crossing our fingers (and toes) that we can get an interview scheduled during my visit in May so we could fly down there together. Thus why we want to get the checklist back to them asap.

Also, he'll be scheduling his medicals with one of the doctors in Bris - any tips I should know about? Does he have to wait for packet 3 to call them up? I've already let him know to schedule vaccinations with his usual doctor and claim on MediCare (is printing results on letterhead good enough or do they need to use a special form?)

Thanks in advance for answering my many questions!!!

[Kath 0]

hiya all

sorry havent been in for like forever..ya seem to get busy around this place your either working sleeping or relaxing with hubs..

first off i would like to say hi to angela..good to see ya.. doesnt seem like yesterday i was posting you the sheets and sheets of stuff to fill in to get over here an now your doing removal of conditions...all is going well here no complaints..missing family quite a bit now...i have family coming over in august so that will be nice to see them..my sis inlaw and my niece so looking forward to that...

congrats to you katz ..wont be long before your over here with your loved one...

hi susan...how u doing..will have to give you a ring soon miss that aussie accent of yours...

hi joyjoey

welcome to the forum

get your birth certificate certified for sure..i would be inclined to get a copy of the orginal and the translated one too..just to cover your back...in doing my documents i was a stickler for over information for them and i didnt receive anything from them regarding more information..read the guidelines for K1 on vj to what needs to be certified ... i dont think we have anyone from north carolina here in this forum ..i have a friend in north carolina who is an aussie in raleigh....dont be too scared about the racism mate...you will have the support of your future hubby and im sure people will greet you with open arms over here...what were they like when you came here for visits?

hi poss

welcome to the thread..i know its a bit hard to find us..i usually send new aussie's a message telling them about the thread but i have slacked off..might have to talk to the admins here to see if we can get our thread to stand out more...what ya reckon guys and gals...

hiya liam and sam

welcome to the thread

before liam gets any vaccinations you can check what he needs on the australian consulate website for his age group..alot of us aussies go to our local doctors with our lists of vaccinations and ask the doc to do a blood test to see what we are ammuned to first this can be put on medicare...the results are to be on offical letterhead of the doctors office...tell him also to keep a record for himself also for future visits to the docs over here in america...

also take a look at the embassey information page on VJ .. its at the top of the page its packed with information about the medicals the doctors u can go see ....it also has the address of the consulate on there too..

i would like to say hi to all my mates on here...promise will be in here more often to help out..waves to all...

take care u lot

kath

[aussie angel 0]

I have my biometrics on the 16 april quicker than i thought

Jayde heres hoping you get yours soon

angela

[kaffy 2]

Hello all, newbie here!

I am cross-posting this from the DCF forum, hope u dont mind

I am a dual Australian-Taiwanese citizen.

I moved to Japan in August 2005 for work and met my husband (USC) there.

In February 2007 we were married on paper in Japan (wedding ceremony was held in July in Hawaii)

In March 2007 we applied for his Aussie spousal visa through the Tokyo embassy and it was a fairly quick and painless process, if I remember correctly we received his visa around 8 weeks after filing.

In August 2007 we both finished our work contracts in Japan and he moved to Australia with me.

We initially wanted to settle here, raise a family, etc but have now decided we would like to be closer to his family and so we're looking at applying for my US spousal visa and moving over there.

My husband will obtain his Aussie PR in May 2009 so we would be looking at moving over sometime after July/August 2009.

How early would I need to start the application process? and is there anything I can begin preparing now?

thanks in advance!

[Possum 0]

hi kath (and others)!

good idea about finding some way to make the aussie forum a little more apparent...i seriously only found it by accident cause it came up under a search topic that was totally unrelated! i'm so glad to have found it...i wonder if there are other aussie/US couples floating around that haven't found us yet....

glad to be here!

[Chocolot 0]

Although the cashed cheque had numbers on it I was unable to use them to track the application. I called USCIS and they put me through to an immigration officer who gave me the other file number and told me the application entered the system on the 17th March. I immediately added the number to my USCIS account to find a notice there saying it was transferred to VSC (Vermont). Finally on the Ninth of April the letter for biometrics appointment on the April 22.

No NOA with the extension

After a couple of tries I managed to snag an Miami infopass appointment for April 17, where I hope to get the stamp in my passport. Otherwise I am sunk because my greencard

 expires while we are in Australia.

Seems like a lot of the Texas 751's have been transferred and not too many of us have got the NOA to extend out greencard by a year.

Good luck to all the Aussies (and others on this journey)

Jayde I will post in here when I hear more on my removing conditions but I think it will be another 5 or 6 months before I hear anymore. When does your greencard expire? If it expires before you travel back to Brisbane then you need to take your expired card and the NOA1 with you to be able to re-enter the USA but you are probably already aware of that. Lucky you going back for a holiday...............have fun!

Hope everyone else is doing well,

SUSAN

[hawaiiandreams 0]

Hi all,

It's been a while since I havce visited VJ. Just been settling into my first month in the US. It has been really relaxing not having to go to work each day but now I am starting to get ready to look for that extra something to keep me busy.

I'm anxious to start work and have been keeping an eye on the local job postings in Hawaii, only issue is that I am STILL waiting for my SSN, it's been almost 4 weeks!

The letter given to me on entry said I should wait for 3 weeks and call the office if it still hasnt arrived. I called them after 3 weeks bu they were not able to give me much info over the phone but recommended I wait for another week before going into thesocial security office in Honolulu. I am reaching week 4 and still nothing.

Just wondering how long on average it has taken people to get their SSN?

Take care all and good luck with your jouneys!

HD.

[Chicago_dreaming 0]

* I have settle down Australia for quite some time and it is scariest thing to move to overseas again..I am especially, frighten about getting a driving license. And possibility of racism since my fiancé lives sunburn where low percentage of Asian people lives…

Hi Joey, I visited North Carolina last Jan/Feb as my now fiance (half Korean but born in the US) was living in Charlotte at the time. So I spent a few weeks there, visited Asheville (NC), Charleston/Hilton Head in South Carolina. Whilst yes there are few asians there (even downtown), I didn't face any animosity or racism or anything of the sort nor did my fiance. His Korean Mother also stayed with him for a few months and I didn't hear her face anything of the sort either. He was living in a gated community and his neighbours kept to themselves, but even going to the supermarket, eating out, watching a movie, going to a bar, etc things were fine. But discuss this w/ your partner as he'd be more insightful than I on this matter. Perhaps you can look into Aussie/Korean groups in the area. I'm sure they exist and would provide an excellent support network once you begin settling there.

But definitely do get your driver's license, you'll need it! So far to walk anywhere! So hopefully you'll overcome your fear

[Chicago_dreaming 0]

Airfare to the US

Folks, many of us would have faced the costliness of a one-way fare to the US vs. a return entering the US on the KI visa.

Rather than fly direct ie. SYD>SFO or LAX > Chicago, I was thinking of flying non-direct to try save some money ie. SYD>Honolulu on Jetstar>SFO or LAX on United> Chicago

BUT

Assume HNL would be my Point of Entry. Does it matter which is my POE flying in on a K1 visa? Should I best fly direct through SFO or LAX to avoid any trouble (this is tempting esp. since I will be lugging around my wedding dress!!)

Any tips on airfare, routes to save $$ to get me from A to B?

Thanks!~ We could all benefit!!

[herself 0]

Hi there- I am posting this in response to a personal message- I can't seem to figure out how to upload an attachment to a personal message, so I am uploading it here. For anyone else who may be interested, I am trying to attach a template of the letter I faxed to the Sydney Consulate to request the opening of a provisional file once I learned our case was approved and sent by NVC. We never received official notice that a provisional file was opened, but my fiance received his packet 3 within 2 days of our case leaving NVC, so I believe it did speed up the process. Hope this helps!

P.S. Does anyone know how to attach a file to a personal message? Thanks!

provisional_fax_template_2_.doc