Visa Approved!

[Bradinator 0]

Hello everyone!

My wife had her interview Thursday, August 2nd 2012 in the morning and was approved! I wrote a review that can be found at: http://www.visajourney.com/reviews/view-dos-cis-reviews.php?entry=10120 which lists the questions she was asked (very few).

I'm going to share some background information about us in order to perhaps show why she had a relatively easy interview (although apparently it varies wildly at the HCMC consulate.) The two of us met at a University food court we both worked at in August of 2008 (nearly 4 years ago now) and talked to each other as coworkers and were friendly. The next summer 2009 we had a class together and towards the end of the summer we started dating. After nearly a year of dating we decided to move in together and several months later got engaged. We were married in December of 2010 at the county courthouse, with just one of my friends as a witness and she graduated at the same time. She filed for an OPT in order to extend her stay and live in the US for a little while longer, and at this point we had no idea how the immigration progress worked. By March of 2011 we were running out of funds and she couldn't work so she moved back to Vietnam.

By the time August of 2011 rolled around I finally had a job that met the 125% poverty guidelines and was able to file the I-130. In December of 2011 I visited my wife in Vietnam for two weeks and we had a large reception where practically all of her family came to congratulate us on our marriage. In February we received the NOA2 and went through the NVC process. The whole immigration process from filing to interview took almost exactly a year, which is a terribly long time to be away from your loved one, but soon we'll be back together. After reading through these forums I didn't see anything that stood out as a red flag ,except perhaps the small initial wedding we had, which was mostly because we were broke college students. My wife didn't have any relatives in the US and neither of us had previous marriages or any of the other issues that I have seen.

The people on this forum and on this regional forum have been very helpful and I want to add what little I can to those that are going through this confusing process (immigration forms make tax forms seem super simplistic). Thank you all very much!

[Que Saudade 284]

Congratulations....

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

Congrats!!!

[jac_chappin 24]

Congratulations! Best wishes to you and your SO.

[Dan_P 5]

Congratulations!

[Kevin and 10]

Congratulations!

[Anh map 2,098]

Congratulations to the both of you