LAND DOWNUNDER

[David A. 0]

Hey Everyone,

I just want to know if you were this nervous before your interview?? It is only Monday and I have to wait until Friday but everytime I think about the interview I get butterflies in my tummy. It didn't help last night with some people partying until 3am in our street. Anyway, trying to keep busy and double checking every little thing in my pack to take with me to Sydney. I am going up Thursday morning so am just going to hang around the city and try and have a relaxing day beforehand. Can't wait until this week is over!

Poin J, I hope you have a speedy process. Good luck!

Goodluck! My wife left for Sydney this afternoon. She's still attending her final interview tomorrow. Hopefully the Consulate will have some knowledge on what will happen to my I-130. I hope it goes very quickly. If not, my wife will be coming to the US to wait out the process, or up until her 90 days is up... whichever comes first.

Goodluck again.

You should be fine.

[girlfrmoz 1]

Hi David,

Good luck to you and your wife for tomorrow too. I hope it all goes well and she is able to get some of the paperwork processed whilst she is there. Please drop in and let us know how she goes. I will keep her in my thoughts tomorrow.

Fingers crossed for you both!

[hampster 0]

To David and Wife (Stephanie)

Good Luck to the both of you, and your interview in Sydney.

I hope that Sydney will give both you and Stephanie,

some good news in regards your I-130.

Keep us in the know after your wife gets through the interview.

Again Best of luck and best wishes to you both.

Cheers

Paul and Cheryl (NorthernGirl)

[CarolineM 0]

I wasn't even the Aussie and I was so nervous. I went with Stewart to the interview and we were BOTH just soo nervous. Even though we'd been told 100 times how easy it was, and how fine we'd be...we were still so nervous!

Everything worked out.

David, you and your wife are in my thoughts!

[Kath 0]

hi everyone

although i havent been posting i have been reading all your posts

good luck to those going for interviews...

david i hope all works out in your favour and you at least find out more about your petition heavens knows you deserve a great outcome..and if you dont at least you will have your wife with you until you hear something more positive for you two...

girlfromoz....we were nervous at all...to us it was such a waste of time and money with us being in melbourne...wasted a week of packing and saying goodbye to everyone in oz..there is nothing to be nervous about as long as you have everything in the correct order...the only thing i did wrong was not bring my british passport along with me i only took my australian but we still got approved...enjoy the day and the new mate...you probably even meet someone less knowledgeable than you and be able to help someone...take it easy mate and think of that plane you will be getting on....good luck

on an other note we got our first bit of snow...2 inches lol...had a lovely day yesterday walking in the park here...its our first decent snowfall for 13 months...

once again good luck to all who has been caught up in this new act that has come about and speedy approvals to all..

take care

kath

[Poi_n_J 0]

Thanks Girlfrmoz and goodluck with your interview. Is natural to be so nervous; everything that means something to you rests on that outcome but as long as you've done all you can do, that's all you can do so just relax and try to enjoy the process.

Goodluck also to you David and Stephanie.

Cheers,

Priscilla

[David A. 0]

Wife had her final interview today at the Sydney Consulate. They took Packet 4 from her including my affidavit of support, which totally met the poverty level. They told her that everything is fine and that my I-130 was pending approval and that it would be sent to Bangkok for final adjudication. After she submitted everything, Rose gave all her forms to the interviewer and my wife was asked a few questions. He tried to throw her off by mixing up the answers to her forms. I guess he wanted to be sure that my wife was telling the truth. After that, he said everything was ok and made my wife sign some form. My wife then asked if he was going to have a look at all the evidence of relationship like emails, letters, photos, etc. He said that he didn't need to do that since he already saw it when I filed my I-130 back in November. My wife then asked him what would happen to my I-130 and he said that it would now be forwarded to Bangkok for final approval. He said that he couldn't tell us when it would be completed, he just kept saying to check the Australia Consulate website for updates.

So, if it weren't for this law that was passed last year but not told until last week... we would have been done and my wife would have recieved her green-card within a couple weeks.

Oh well

[David A. 0]

Lyndel,

Don't worry about your interview, you will do just fine. The guy will ask you simple questions and may not even ask for evidence of relationship. But, be sure you bring plenty of evidence anyway, you can never be too sure.

Be sure you have everything in order, from the list that they gave you. Rose will ask you for them one at a time. The organized you are, the faster you'll get through it.

BTW... my wife woke up a bit late... she forgot to reset her phone to Sydney time so she woke up 30 minutes late. She made it on time, except that she didn't make the first lift, so everyone made it up ahead of her.

We weren't in no rush anyway, where was she going to go... my I-130 isn't approved yet.

Goodluck! And if you need anything just let me know.

Edited January 30, 2007 by David A.

[Poi_n_J 0]

David: Oh I hear your pain/frustration... at least you have some comfort knowing you're almost there and this is at least just procdural B.S.

Thanks for sharing is good to know that they let you in on povety level as Joshua is studying so we definitly won't be above that. We were thinking of the parental support to support that...any other ideas?

Cheers,

Priscilla

[David A. 0]

David: Oh I hear your pain/frustration... at least you have some comfort knowing you're almost there and this is at least just procdural B.S.

Thanks for sharing is good to know that they let you in on povety level as Joshua is studying so we definitly won't be above that. We were thinking of the parental support to support that...any other ideas?

Cheers,

Priscilla

If you don't believe he would make the poverty guidelines you do have the option of using his parents to sponsor. The directions are on the affidavit of support, I don't see why that would be a problem, as long as his parents are ok with it. Anybody else have any suggestions?

[Moonie 0]

Hello all

As you all can see me and my sweetie started our K-1 in November. I have known him since around August 2004 we met via the musician Prince on his fan site. When I would first see his posts I thought he was a butthole. But then we became friends and much more. We got to physically meet eachother in Melbourne in May 2006. I have missed him terribly ever since. I am really hoping to hear good news by the end of Feburary or early March. I filed my paperwork before reviewing this site so I hope that we don't get any RFE's or any other snap poos! We are just so ready to start our lives together and we are just in limbo now. He calls me every day The sucess stories that read on here helps me get through the days of being away from him. It helps me to see that their is light at the end of the tunnel!

[girlfrmoz 1]

Hi David and Stephanie,

So glad the interview went well. It's such a shame that the legislation has changed. I hope the

I-130 gets processed quickly for you! Keep us posted. Oh and thank you for the information on the interview too. I will pop in here after my interview and do a review as well.

Thank you to everyone for your support during this nerve wracking week. We've all got to stay tough cause the end goal is so worth it!

Hey Priscilla, Do you have any assets car, household goods, etc? That would help but it sounds like parents are your best option.

Hi Moonie, I know how you feel but hang in there. I know it's tough but keep coming in here, we will talk to you when you are feeling down PLUS you have a lot of reading to do for the next part of your fiance adventure!!!

[ausqueen 0]

Congratulations to the newlyweds, Poi_n_J!

Well done for the interview Steph and David!

Jelaous of your snow, "Cool Kath" :-) It was a scorcher today in Sydney!

Mooney... welcome to the best thread on VJ!

Girlfrmoz... GOOD LUCK on Friday. I wish it was my day off, I would come as a moral support But I will be thinking of you and wishing you well.

Funny you should ask about my interview :-) Stupid consulate sent my packet 3 to Aaron in SF!!!! He had to Fedex it to me. Then yesterday they "attempted delivery" while I was at work, of course, and didnt' think of calling my mobile 10 minutes before arriving. I could have come home from work (I live 10 minutes away). Well, I spent my lunch hour today picking it up from Fedex office and will mail it tomorrow. Then my wait for interview starts.

Everyone else... xoxoxo from Parramatta!

I went on VJ candle page and lit a few for all of us

[aussie angel 0]

Hey Moonie and welcome

Everyone here is really friendly and helpfull if you need to know anything just ask or if you need a bit of support we are all here. We have all been where you are now

good luck in your process

angela

[Kath 0]

hi ya all

auqueen good to see ya ...yeah the snow if lovely we got 4 inches of it on our balcony lol will see if i can post some pics for ya hopefully they turn out ok...

hope everyone else is copeing ok with all these changes my thoughts are with you all...

take care

kath

Edited January 31, 2007 by kath&rob