Visa Denied, Devastated, Please HELP!!!

[Negrito Landrau 2]

Hello everyone, I am writing this post with tears in my eyes. Today was my fiance (beneficiary) interview in the Dominican consulate. I (petitioner) was there with her and they slaughtered us. We arrived there at 6:00 am and they finished with us arround 4:00 pm. From the beginning I knew something was wrong. The attitude of the consulate officer was horrible. The reason for the denial was that they assure that we are related. They say that we are cousin just because my fiance's mother last name and my mother's last name are the same. I new from the beginning that this could be a problem, but since we ARE NOT family related I was confident on the truth. The same last name is just a mere and unfortunate coincidence. Every time the consulate officer asked a question he never believed our answers. When we were going to answering a question he immediately started moving his head side to side in a gesture of denying our answers; just that was frustrating. They interviewed us together and separate and we always gave them the same answers because we were telling the truth, but he said to my fiance that our answer were the same because she had memorized everything. He asked us about everything!!! they even asked us if we have had sexual relations. Questions like asking my fiance in what airline I traveled. She answer Delta and then they asked what airline I used to go to Dominican Republic the first time. She said she did not know and he said that she should know that...what!! Not even I remember that. They tried to force me to "confess" that I was lying. Of course I refused to because I was not lying. Then they threatened me to send me to jail and fine me with $10,000. We provide tons of evidence of our true relationship but they did not pay attention to it. They just insisted that we are family related and they just got stuck with that. The officer was very sarcastic the whole time. Now I don't know what to do. Please help me I already have everything ready for our wedding on December 25, I was not expecting this. Please tell me what can I do now. Any advise will be much appreciated.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Hello everyone, I am writing this post with tears in my eyes. Today was my fiance (beneficiary) interview in the Dominican consulate. I (petitioner) was there with her and they slaughtered us. We arrived there at 6:00 am and they finished with us arround 4:00 pm. From the beginning I knew something was wrong. The attitude of the consulate officer was horrible. The reason for the denial was that they assure that we are related. They say that we are cousin just because my fiance's mother last name and my mother's last name are the same. I new from the beginning that this could be a problem, but since we ARE NOT family related I was confident on the truth. The same last name is just a mere and unfortunate coincidence. Every time the consulate officer asked a question he never believed our answers. When we were going to answering a question he immediately started moving his head side to side in a gesture of denying our answers; just that was frustrating. They interviewed us together and separate and we always gave them the same answers because we were telling the truth, but he said to my fiance that our answer were the same because she had memorized everything. He asked us about everything!!! they even asked us if we have had sexual relations. Questions like asking my fiance in what airline I traveled. She answer Delta and then they asked what airline I used to go to Dominican Republic the first time. She said she did not know and he said that she should know that...what!! Not even I remember that. They tried to force me to "confess" that I was lying. Of course I refused to because I was not lying. Then they threatened me to send me to jail and fine me with $10,000. We provide tons of evidence of our true relationship but they did not pay attention to it. They just insisted that we are family related and they just got stuck with that. The officer was very sarcastic the whole time. Now I don't know what to do. Please help me I already have everything ready for our wedding on December 25, I was not expecting this. Please tell me what can I do now. Any advise will be much appreciated.

Too late to change that now. Since you knew it could be a problem, why not bring birth certificates of both your mothers and even their parents if necessary? If you suspect something will be a problem then PREPARE for it.

Your best chance now is to get married in the Dominican Republic and apply for a spouse visa. Be prepared to show you are not related to get a marriage license.

[Anh map 2,098]

Were you denied or were you asked to supply additional evidence proving that you are not related?

[Henykat 16]

. Please help me I already have everything ready for our wedding on December 25, I was not expecting this. Please tell me what can I do now. Any advise will be much appreciated.

Try making your font bigger so we can see

[Negrito Landrau 2]

Too late to change that now. Since you knew it could be a problem, why not bring birth certificates of both your mothers and even their parents if necessary? If you suspect something will be a problem then PREPARE for it.

Your best chance now is to get married in the Dominican Republic and apply for a spouse visa. Be prepared to show you are not related to get a marriage license.

[Negrito Landrau 2]

How does their birth certificates prove we are not related? Here we are talking about a Latin country where over there they use two lastnames. The last name we have in commom is the 2nd last name (last name from your mom side) This will appear in my mom's BC and on the BC of my fiance's mom. Please explain me how this would have saved us. Thanks.

[Negrito Landrau 2]

Were you denied or were you asked to supply additional evidence proving that you are not related?

I was denied

[Anh map 2,098]

How does their birth certificates prove we are not related? Here we are talking about a Latin country where over there they use two lastnames. The last name we have in commom is the 2nd last name (last name from your mom side) This will appear in my mom's BC and on the BC of my fiance's mom. Please explain me how this would have saved us. Thanks.

It is like creating a family tree. You would need to go back as far as necessary to demonstrate that you are not related.

[luckytxn 2,264]

What does the Blue slip say? Usually when I have seen this in the past one is allowed to provide a family tree. Some countries at least of the names are the same and common.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

How does their birth certificates prove we are not related? Here we are talking about a Latin country where over there they use two lastnames. The last name we have in commom is the 2nd last name (last name from your mom side) This will appear in my mom's BC and on the BC of my fiance's mom. Please explain me how this would have saved us. Thanks.

Are you seriously asking this question? I understand how you were denied. Genetics lesson follows....

YOUR mother and father and HER mother and father would have DIFFERENT parents listed on their birth certificates if you are not cousins. I don't know how it works in your country (I thought the same) but MY cousins have at least one common set of grandparents with me (DUH!!!!!!!!!) ALL of my cousins have a common set of grandparents on one side of the family or another with ME, regardless of what their last name is. MY grandparents are listed on MY parents birth certificates, as I am sure yours are. If you do not have at least ONE common set of grandparents you are NOT cousins.

The fact that you present a common 2nd last name as a reason to be denied is preposterous anyway. there is something you are not telling us, I do not know what it is but denying a visa because of a common last name is a lame excuse. There are WAY too many people with the same last names for a consulate to deny a visa for that reason and it is way too easy to prove you are NOT related. Had you been asked to provide evidence you are not related, that would be one thing. You say you were denied outright because they "think" you are cousins. No way.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Are you seriously asking this question? I understand how you were denied. Genetics lesson follows....

YOUR mother and father and HER mother and father would have DIFFERENT parents listed on their birth certificates if you are not cousins. I don't know how it works in your country (I thought the same) but MY cousins have at least one common set of grandparents with me (DUH!!!!!!!!!) ALL of my cousins have a common set of grandparents on one side of the family or another with ME, regardless of what their last name is. MY grandparents are listed on MY parents birth certificates, as I am sure yours are. If you do not have at least ONE common set of grandparents you are NOT cousins.

The fact that you present a common 2nd last name as a reason to be denied is preposterous anyway. there is something you are not telling us, I do not know what it is but denying a visa because of a common last name is a lame excuse. There are WAY too many people with the same last names for a consulate to deny a visa for that reason and it is way too easy to prove you are NOT related. Had you been asked to provide evidence you are not related, that would be one thing. You say you were denied outright because they "think" you are cousins. No way.

I should also mention I noticed the common Grandparents when I was 6 years old at Thanksgiving dinner. "Hey...my COUSIN calls the same people Grandma and Grandpa that I do! Holy Moley!"

[Rebecca Jo 1,962]

Gary, really, what do you know of the caribbean consulates?

Give the dude a break.

[Negrito Landrau 2]

Are you seriously asking this question? I understand how you were denied. Genetics lesson follows....

YOUR mother and father and HER mother and father would have DIFFERENT parents listed on their birth certificates if you are not cousins. I don't know how it works in your country (I thought the same) but MY cousins have at least one common set of grandparents with me (DUH!!!!!!!!!) ALL of my cousins have a common set of grandparents on one side of the family or another with ME, regardless of what their last name is. MY grandparents are listed on MY parents birth certificates, as I am sure yours are. If you do not have at least ONE common set of grandparents you are NOT cousins.

The fact that you present a common 2nd last name as a reason to be denied is preposterous anyway. there is something you are not telling us, I do not know what it is but denying a visa because of a common last name is a lame excuse. There are WAY too many people with the same last names for a consulate to deny a visa for that reason and it is way too easy to prove you are NOT related. Had you been asked to provide evidence you are not related, that would be one thing. You say you were denied outright because they "think" you are cousins. No way.

Ok, I failed on not thinking about the BC of our mothers but I am NOT hiding anything here. I am telling the truth. And if I do not put more attention to this was because like YOU, I also thought that that was a preposterous reason to be denied. No, they did not ask me to provide evidence they just told us we were lying and they did not even wanted to hear what we had to say. And, yes way, we were denied just for that. I even told him to have a DNA test if he wanted. And when he said he had evidence that we were family I asked him to show me those evidence and his answer was: "I am not going into that", you know why? Because he had NOTHING!, because WE ARE NOT related!!!

[cookieandcream 10]

can you appeal? take a DNA test + your mom and her mom birth certificate and it should be it!

don't freak out but I agree it s very unfortunate.

[Boiler 45,525]

DNA?