Why a K-1 visa was revoked after being issued

[baron555 934]

Wow is right. What a strange tale.

Congrats and best wishes.

As VV posted, your case ended up being very unique and with the final information being disclosed one can see why the Embassy had doubts.

Not much else you could have done unless you knew about the ex filing at the same time.

Glad you stuck to it and now you're over it. Congrats.

[elya 17]

I don't remember this story but maybe I was not paying attention. Not sure what good your posting is for others. What's the lesson? Don't file for a K-1 visa at the same time as your ex wife (husband)? Well, DUH!

Or is the lesson our agents are looking for dubious and "red flag" filings and doing their job?

I always wonder about "out of the blue" postings.

Whatever...

I feel pretty confident that there is enough Internet left for you to fill the RUB forum with other topics containing valuable lessons...

I just decided to fill in the final details for those who did follow my story. Thanks to all those who offered their congratulations :-) We are happy to have our lives together at last and this 2.5 year saga has certainly left us with a journey we will never forget!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I feel pretty confident that there is enough Internet left for you to fill the RUB forum with other topics containing valuable lessons...

I just decided to fill in the final details for those who did follow my story. Thanks to all those who offered their congratulations :-) We are happy to have our lives together at last and this 2.5 year saga has certainly left us with a journey we will never forget!

Hopefully now you will never forget all you went through to be together. You already have a "history" and I think such things do more to glue a family together than anything else. Hopefully it will be a valuable component of your marriage and you will come to see it for what it was, a supreme effort by two people to acheive something together. Never forget what you can do if you work together.

Sometimes, though it makes me uneasy to do so, I think about any one of 1 million things that could have changed and my life would be...who knows what? Quantum physics. Oh well, it is what it is, which is always my conclusion anyway. Make the best of it.

[Misha & Ira 113]

[visaveteran1 33]

I feel pretty confident that there is enough Internet left for you to fill the RUB forum with other topics containing valuable lessons...

I just decided to fill in the final details for those who did follow my story. Thanks to all those who offered their congratulations :-) We are happy to have our lives together at last and this 2.5 year saga has certainly left us with a journey we will never forget!

Your problems go back to 2009. You joined Visa Journey in 2010. You seem to have started posting in Oct. 2011 So...who's been following this from the beginning? Who needs closure on this?

If you want to use RUB to lay out your story to get some attention and congrats, that's your call. I just don't see how it helps anybody as you seem to suggest.

Life is tough for many people, Join the club.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Your problems go back to 2009. You joined Visa Journey in 2010. You seem to have started posting in Oct. 2011 So...who's been following this from the beginning? Who needs closure on this?

If you want to use RUB to lay out your story to get some attention and congrats, that's your call. I just don't see how it helps anybody as you seem to suggest.

Life is tough for many people, Join the club.

Actually she did post earlier than this year, I think about the time her first visa was denied/held/whatever. I remember a lot of speculation as to why, etc.

While it is true that this experience, due to its extremely unusual nature, is not something that the average person needs to avoid, but it is interesting anyway. In a "HOLY #######! Are you kidding me" kind of way. I also admire people that stick to it when times are tough. We are not tested by easy times.

Life is tough it is true and that which does not kill you makes you stronger.

[slim 1,525]

I would be pretty upset over this. The ex-wife is of no relation anymore, right? Then why are their cases connected?

[baron555 934]

Anyway....your relationship is stronger due to this mess.....you are so over with the Kiev Embassy.

[visaveteran1 33]

I would be pretty upset over this. The ex-wife is of no relation anymore, right? Then why are their cases connected?

I don't want to drag on about this OP's thread even though it seems a bit gratuitous...but to answer your question, we are all tied to our divorces. That's why we have to furnish divorce documentation and take oaths that we're not married any longer. And if our ex spouses have some dubious history or criminal activity, we may carry that in our files too...especially on the Russian side of the immigration process. Additionally, just like there can be phony marriages, there can be phony divorces.

Specifically looking at immigration problems revolving around Russian ex spouses, and speaking hypothetically, if a couple were scamming the US Government to immigrate, they could stage a quickly Russian divorce, find cooperative American or American/Russian fiances and come over and get "married." Then after 10-year Green Cards are in hand, divorce and remarry each other. If this were the case, both scammers would want to file for fiance visas and get remarried around the same timeframe. Thus, the coinciding K-1 filings. Yes, it's a roundabout way, but people have done more difficult things to get into the USA. Phony marriages are probably a key way to immigrate to the US and this scenario just adds the spin that a "divorced" Russian couple was pulling it off together.

So, f I were a immigration officer, I might have some suspicions. I say this being as frustrated and unhappy with the immigration officers as anyone.

I am not, of course, saying this is the actual case here. This is all hypothetical.

Frankly speaking, I would say it is more of an oddity when an American women facilitates the immigration of a Russian man. This alone probably raises the alert level on such visas. Russia is still able to get spies over here. Witness the recent round up and deportation of a number of Russian spies. They all got over here with visas...somebody didn't catch them in the process. It still happens. The Russians are clever people. Never underestimate them.

[YSRBC 0]

Im Living the Same Experience Right now got my visa issued last mounth ! and got called 3 days ago to come back to th consulate ( casablanca) for a correction ... got here this morning ... went inside and then ... got called even tough there was a lot of people waiting to be interviewd . Then the Co said ... wich time u hv apoinment ( it is 15:00 but i was so worried and couldnt wait til 15:00 ) i answerd at 15:00 and he said give me ur passport and come bac at 15:00 thats it .... now waiting on the coffe! outside ... and living the worst and terribly Hours of my life ... How can they do that .. i mean If they will cancel my visa !!! We had plans ... we had almost book for my flight .. we hv weeding plans ! ITs just so streesing to think about the visa got canceld .... Please pray for us ... i'll keep u updated when i go back at 15:00 ...

[Codeblue009 3]

WOW!!!!!!! What an amazing story! I am glad you both got that worked out. Who would have thought that could happen exactly like that. Just amazing!

[Nick_Moscow 2]

For me, the interesting part of this plot - divorcing your spouse then applying for fiance visas simultaneously in order to circumvent the US immigration system - is how much value the consulate placed on verifying the divorce.

I remember when I got married in Russia, the Russian ZAGS (wedding palace) required me to get a document signed by the US Consulate stating that I wasn't currently married/had never been divorced (A "certificate of no impediment to marriage"). I thought-how the heck can my consulate prove this?? But I printed the document, brought it to the consulate, and sure enough, the worker told me "yeah, we have no idea if you're currently married, and we have no way of checking this, but the ZAGS wants us to sign this document so we sign it to facilitate your marriage."

Did anyone else who got married in Russia find this "certificate of no impediment to marriage" requirement silly, given how it's nearly impossible to verify this? (thank goodness lack of table manners and propensity for passing gas don't count as impediments )

And let me also say towards visaveteran's comment (and thank you for your service) - what would peeve me the most were I in the OP's situation is that the consulate is so strictly scrutinizing my fiance's documents. People come to and stay in the US illegally all. the. time. Beyond the divisive Hispanic part of the illegal alien debate, think of how many visa-bearers come to the US and never leave? (I'm thinking of all those work-and-travel visa recipients). If I were the OP, I'd be upset with the double-standard of highly scrutinizing spouse and fiance visa applicants while doing absolutely no follow-up on people who overstay their visas. Of course lax visa overstay enforcement doesn't justify weak verification of spouse/fiance visa applicants, but it does at least justify the OP feeling peeved and wanting to vent!