March 2011 Filers..

[LookyWhatIFound 38]

So, I'm finally leaving tomorrow morning! :dance:

@Looky: I hope everything goes well with this AP. You guys did nothing wrong, so you will get through this. My thoughts are with you. And I really wish all the best for you, you have been nothing but supportive with me, and I really appreciate that You'll see time will fly until you're reunited with Loreta. Tell her to take care of herself, so she can stay healthy.

Thanks a lot Geor, yes we did nothing wrong and Loreta is doing well and accepts that we will have to wait, as she says, what else can we do? I imagine you're in America now so your moment has finally arrived, congratulations and enjoy!!! :

[LookyWhatIFound 38]

I called DOS this morning to see what status they have on our case and wether it was actually in AP. All they knew was about the March 30th interview, and if she didn't have the interview how could it be in AP. She just said the embassy could be doing some processing and don't always notify DOS.

The lady from the embassy had basically said in email that they don't know how long it will take, they're short on staff and full of cases and to 'be patient please'. Its been 3 weeks so I think I will have to wait another 2 months and try emailing this lady again.

If it wasn't for this 'agent' guy we wouldn't be having this investigation. Sometimes I wonder if he wanted to force an investigation so that maybe he would get some more investigative work for himself to do?

[Dante & Geor 36]

Awww, I'm sorry Looky. I hope everything solves in a timely manner. Wish only for the best, and it'll happen

Best wishes for you!

[LookyWhatIFound 38]

Awww, I'm sorry Looky. I hope everything solves in a timely manner. Wish only for the best, and it'll happen

Best wishes for you!

Hi Geor, thanks! We're making the best of it. Loreta's gotten much healthier, more energetic and I think back to normal or better than normal. She's even back to taking dancing lessons and gymnastics, which she had stopped doing almost a year ago. That pneumonia vaccine she got was a big deal and probably a game changer for her, cause she's been quite susceptible to it since childhood. No more pneumonia for her, that thought she never before could have imagined!

Her dance instructor recommended this energy drink recipe. Mix together in a normal glass of water, 2 teaspoons of Aloe Vera, 1 teaspoon Apple Cidar Vinegar, 3 teaspoons of lemon and 1 teaspoon of honey. Mix that well. The instructor said you can drink that every morning about 20 minutes before you eat breakfast.

Loreta and I have both been trying it for the last week. She likes it and says she feels a lot of energy after she drinks it. Well for me, it definitely makes me wake up. I don't know what that Aloe Vera does for you, but I know one thing if you put a lot more of that stuff in, you may have a bunch of trips to the toilet coming your way!

I'm starting to think about my trip to go see her, I'm thinking early June.

Hope everything is working out good for you and Dante, Geor.

Best Wishes!

[MatthewNCarolina 73]

Looky, Aloe Vera cleans your whole body pretty much. It kicks out of your body all the bad things and yes, that would include making a couple trips to the toilet. LOL

Glad she is doing better, I miss gymnastics! Stopped doing that when I was 12 after an accident I had during the class, my knee have never been the same again but oh well! Go see your woman, take some dance lessons lol

About us here, we are really close to closing with the perfect house! Little cute house with a great property, halfway to where we live right now and to work so it works perfectly fine for us. We love it, praying we can get it! How's everybody doing? Hope all is well! Keep in touch people!

[RK_and_Inday 10]

@Looky,

Sorry to hear about investigation delays [& I opine it was not an attempt by "agent" to generate more work; 95% or more of the population avoid generating more work, especially guys like that plus from what you's told us sounds like this guy and his female accomplice had someething more nefarious in mind]. Anyway, I hope things move towards some kind of resolution in reasonably short order. Glad to hear you are considering a visit in June. Most of all, am very very glad that your fiancee is doing amazingly well healthwise. Thanks for keeping us posted!!! --RK

@Carolina,

That's great about the house! Hoping and praying will work out for you!!! Thank you for the condolences. Inday is feeling much better now. So, we are back to tackling AOS. Yes, been reading guides & instructions, visiting VJ AOS forum and I see now AOS seems comparably straightforward. "Comparably" I write because I suspect experience of I-129F prep combined with interview prep makes AOS seem a bit less intimidating. For me, anyway. Inday still has an enormous aversion to paperwork; she literally cringes when she hears the word :-). [inday had already--for many years--been working in an international government office when I met her in Singapore so I think there and then she got more than enough paperwork to last a lifetime!!] Still hard to find time, AOS-wise but I figure if I can gather one support item/document per day or work on part of one form, even at least for a few minutes then at least moving forward. [have drafts done of AOS, EAD, AP forms now--just need to check/proof a number of items.] Praying and hoping to be finished and submitted this month, May 2012. --RK

Edited May 10, 2012 by RK_and_Inday

[LookyWhatIFound 38]

@Looky,

Sorry to hear about investigation delays [& I opine it was not an attempt by "agent" to generate more work; 95% or more of the population avoid generating more work, especially guys like that plus from what you's told us sounds like this guy and his female accomplice had someething more nefarious in mind]. Anyway, I hope things move towards some kind of resolution in reasonably short order. Glad to hear you are considering a visit in June. Most of all, am very very glad that your fiancee is doing amazingly well healthwise. Thanks for keeping us posted!!! --RK

@Carolina,

That's great about the house! Hoping and praying will work out for you!!! Thank you for the condolences. Inday is feeling much better now. So, we are back to tackling AOS. Yes, been reading guides & instructions, visiting VJ AOS forum and I see now AOS seems comparably straightforward. "Comparably" I write because I suspect experience of I-129F prep combined with interview prep makes AOS seem a bit less intimidating. For me, anyway. Inday still has an enormous aversion to paperwork; she literally cringes when she hears the word :-). [inday had already--for many years--been working in an international government office when I met her in Singapore so I think there and then she got more than enough paperwork to last a lifetime!!] Still hard to find time, AOS-wise but I figure if I can gather one support item/document per day or work on part of one form, even at least for a few minutes then at least moving forward. [have drafts done of AOS, EAD, AP forms now--just need to check/proof a number of items.] Praying and hoping to be finished and submitted this month, May 2012. --RK

Hi RK, yeah you are probably right. I still get angry at what went on, but it won't help us a bit for me to be angry cause we need the embassy to give us the Visa. The lady from the embassy admitted they did send someone to her previous residence about 5 months ago. She wasn't there cause she was stuck in Germany, but a man came over there and asked for her, her neighbor and friend told the man she wasn't there and had gone to Latvia. This man was crazy he went and started questioning, intimidating and making people at these community type residences feel threatened. Loreta's friend said why don't you just ask Loreta she'll tell you everything, and his response was a sarcastic, threatening...Oh she will tell me, she will tell me everything!

Cyprus has a problem, they've got people coming in from who knows where, selling drugs and stuff like that. Russian speaking women also have gotten a very bad reputation there. The cops are on edge, and treat people like they are guilty before proven innocent. The UN patrols the border between North and South Cyprus to keep the Turkish and Cypriot (basically Greek) people from battling each other over their forever ongoing dispute over the island.

I'm just going to give this embassy lady a chance, her last response was sort of nice as opposed to the previous one where she started off like I was accusing them for what happened.

She was saying we don't do those kind of things. The kicker was that nobody knew Loreta's new address until we faxed the new DS-230 to the embassy, and that this man knocked on her door just a week and a half before the interview.

Its been a month so I'll probably give them a month and a half or two before I email this embassy lady again. I can tell rushing her is not a real good idea. We're fine and as long as she's happy everything will be good. Actually now we're thinking early July meeting in her home country of Latvia. Cyprus is kind of a boring island, and we have so much more fun in Latvia!

Good luck with AOS and everything RK!

@Carolina, congrats on your new house!!! Oh by the way thanks for confirming, but on the first day I tried that drink, I decided to put a quarter glass of Aloe Vera in, and you'll be happy to hear, I helped prove that it can make you take many many trips to the toilet!

Edited May 11, 2012 by LookyWhatIFound

[MatthewNCarolina 73]

Geez took me a while to find this group, lol How's everybody doing? I hope is all good, just waiting on GC and to close with the house here! Updates people!

[Dante & Geor 36]

Waiting to get married in the middle of June!

And going to the Veteran's Appreciation Day this Sunday on Playland!!! :dance:

[RK_and_Inday 10]

@Carolina -- Hello & thanks for checking in. Things for Inday and myself have gotten, well as calm as they can be. A bit stabilized now. Even though extremely busy. Still been plugging away at AOS any spare minute can. Barring any unforseen circumstances, looks like we should have it all "wrapped up" and ready to drop in the mail early next week. Eager to hear if you closed on house OK. How is all else going? --RK

@Looky -- interesting about Cyprus. Not sure I would want to experience that environment first hand! Yes, your strategy of patience with lady at embassy is a wise one. Hope your plans for a visit in Latvia will work out. --RK

@Georgina -- Enormous congrats to you on (very soon!) upcoming wedding date!!! -RK

Edited May 31, 2012 by RK_and_Inday

[Stuart and Thea 95]

We got our greencards today!

[LookyWhatIFound 38]

@Carolina -- Hello & thanks for checking in. Things for Inday and myself have gotten, well as calm as they can be. A bit stabilized now. Even though extremely busy. Still been plugging away at AOS any spare minute can. Barring any unforseen circumstances, looks like we should have it all "wrapped up" and ready to drop in the mail early next week. Eager to hear if you closed on house OK. How is all else going? --RK

@Looky -- interesting about Cyprus. Not sure I would want to experience that environment first hand! Yes, your strategy of patience with lady at embassy is a wise one. Hope your plans for a visit in Latvia will work out. --RK

@Georgina -- Enormous congrats to you on (very soon!) upcoming wedding date!!! -RK

RK -- Thanks alls going well, Loreta already has tickets for Latvia for about 10 days in Latvia for July 29th and I'll be doing the same. We're both excited about it! She's my best friend so we always have so much fun when we're together, and I still talk to her every day. She's happy cause she gets to take yoga, gymnastics and dancing lessons, which she hasn't done in 2 years or more cause of these health things, but no sign that they're coming back.

About Cyprus, I guess I left out that its relatively quiet and not crowded at all, its warm and beaches all around. It was the warm weather, beaches and ability to get jobs there which attracted her to the place. But these days with the Euro crisis and all I think some places are starting to only hire native Cypriot people.

It'll be two months in about a week, so I might email that embassy lady just to let her know we're still here and make sure they haven't forgotten about us.

Glad you're getting you AOS going, enjoy!

Carolin -- Hope you're enjoying your new house!

Georgina -- Conratulations, when is your baby due!!!

Thea -- Glad you got your Green card!

[RK_and_Inday 10]

Thea - Wow! Congratulations on receipt of green card! Way to go!!! -RK&Inday

Looky--Wow, already two months--time flies. Yes, good idea to "check in"; hope they don't give you any grief or might have good news for you. Meantime, sound like the Latvia trip plans are coming to fruition which I am glad to hear. Will be staying in touch here! --RK

[MatthewNCarolina 73]

We haven't closed with the house yet, waiting on the slow appraiser! After that we will hear the closing date ... Hope everybody is doing well!

[LookyWhatIFound 38]

Thea - Wow! Congratulations on receipt of green card! Way to go!!! -RK&Inday

Looky--Wow, already two months--time flies. Yes, good idea to "check in"; hope they don't give you any grief or might have good news for you. Meantime, sound like the Latvia trip plans are coming to fruition which I am glad to hear. Will be staying in touch here! --RK

Yeah RK it did go by pretty fast even for us, I guess mainly cause we totally took our minds off it. I did email the emabassy lady, didn't notice before but she's the visa unit chief. It was a holiday over there but she still sent me a brief response. She seemed very nice about it and said she'ld check the status when she gets back to the office and if she doesn't get back to me by Wednesday of Thursday, to shoot an email to her. So actually she made me feel good about it like our case is still on track.

Thanks, and yes it'll be great to see her in Latvia!!!