Please Help - Really Lost

[Meriem_DZ 37]

Good luck Chris. I hope everything works out for you and your fiance.

Meriem

[Mrs. Forgetful 2]

Because of the influx of North African/African immigrants to Spain the government has made it extremely difficult for them to residency permits there. My fiancee overstayed his visa by about two years. They granted all the illegal immigrants amnesty a few years back, but he missed it. He recently applied for residency and met with a judge but was denied.

Sorry to hear that. I hope everything turns out alright and you two are together again.

[dawnnhatem 0]

I dont have any real advise...but talk to the embassy about this. You wont be the first and maybe the embassy will suggest getting police report from a different place. When my husband had troubles getting a police report from his city in Libya, the embassy told him to try getting it from Tripoli-the capitol city instead. That was unsucsessful so the embassy said to get it from his employer there. It was a frustrating time then but ultimately they had to accept his app without it ....so just let them know whats going on.

[iceyspots 0]

OK, I just went and read your old posts and I think it may have cleared something up. He was just denied Spanish residency, right? You have not yet applied for a US visa. That makes more sense.

Also, it seems his concern in returning to Algeria is that Algeria will then not let him leave for five years. This is just not true. My husband came back to Algeria after approx seven years of being in the US illegally. His passport had long expired so he needed a new one which he got after ony minor administrative hoops. We have traveled out of the country using this new passport and had no problems whatsoever despite there always being a police "interview" upon leaving Algeria.

DCF in Algeria is fast and painless. The bigger problem is doing the paperwork to be able to get married in Algeria. This will take more time than DCF will. Although, things being as they are here, if his father is a police officer things could move much faster.

I just have a quick OT question - how long did it take you to get your marriage license in Algeria?

[jpaula 20]

OK, I just went and read your old posts and I think it may have cleared something up. He was just denied Spanish residency, right? You have not yet applied for a US visa. That makes more sense.

Also, it seems his concern in returning to Algeria is that Algeria will then not let him leave for five years. This is just not true. My husband came back to Algeria after approx seven years of being in the US illegally. His passport had long expired so he needed a new one which he got after ony minor administrative hoops. We have traveled out of the country using this new passport and had no problems whatsoever despite there always being a police "interview" upon leaving Algeria.

DCF in Algeria is fast and painless. The bigger problem is doing the paperwork to be able to get married in Algeria. This will take more time than DCF will. Although, things being as they are here, if his father is a police officer things could move much faster.

I just have a quick OT question - how long did it take you to get your marriage license in Algeria?

We were actually married in the US. We did get our marriage recognized here which took a few months because we had to have any docs translated and then the powers that be had to write to the Algerian Embassy in the US asking them to verify our docs. They gave us no hassles, just took some time to work its way through the paper-based (LOTS of paper) system. Praise be the age of computers, I say, and may it arrive here soon. We do have friends who were married here. I do not know the entire process, but it took them a few months to get "permission." I am not sure what docs they had gathered in advance, i.e. how prepared they were, so maybe with a little fore knowledge and some preparation one could do it faster. I still think, given how fast DCF is here and that non-residents can do it, getting married here and going the I-130/CR-1 route is the way to go.

[chris4336 3]

Still freaking out...today I spoke with the US Embassy in Algeries, and multiple lawyers, and no one could really tell me anything except "Yeah that is going to be really difficult without a police certificate"

My fiancee still flat out refuses to go back to Algeria, no matter how many times I tell him that people here have done it. He swears they will take away his passport and not let him travel for five years. called the Algerian Embassy in the US and they told me that if he is an Algerian citizen he can enter in his country. I know my fiancee is nervous and scared...but to be honest I don't understand what his problem is.

Unless things change drastically by the end of the week I have no other option but to go through Spain and PRAY.

Thanks for all the help and advice. Please keep it coming.

Christina