Interview in Kiev

[PhilC 5]

Keep my wife and stepson in your thoughts and prays. She has her interview Tuesday Nov.27 at 8am (1am est.). We are in the finial stretch. They should be here before Christmas. Thanks, Phil

[Bumbero 130]

Good luck!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Keep my wife and stepson in your thoughts and prays. She has her interview Tuesday Nov.27 at 8am (1am est.). We are in the finial stretch. They should be here before Christmas. Thanks, Phil

Good luck Phil. If you have prepared all the documents they need, everything will be fine.

[PhilC 5]

I hope I have. She is very clever as she says. Smart and much more organized then me.

[Phil & Alla 26]

I hope she has her bags packed, maybe we were lucky, but I had Alla here in five days from the interview date Good luck and it will be a merry Christmas!!!

[jimnlena 8]

Good Luck!! Everything should be ok!! Though I thought you had approval ahead of us?? Why was interview so far out?? Anyway make sure they have original birth certificates! Seems interviewer's are requesting them all the time. Also they wanted original permission info from father if you are required to have! Again not to worry interview is usually the easiest part!!!

Edited November 27, 2012 by jimnlena

[james&olya 1,121]

And right about now or in the next hour or two you should be one happy man!

[PhilC 5]

Not good news. My wife had applied last year for a tourist visa and on the application stated she was married to her son's father. She was never married to him. They asked her about this and said they will give her a answer in ten days. We will have to wait and see.

[james&olya 1,121]

Not good news. My wife had applied last year for a tourist visa and on the application stated she was married to her son's father. She was never married to him. They asked her about this and said they will give her a answer in ten days. We will have to wait and see.

Ouch!! Even an 'easy' consulate like Kiev is not going to like seeing bold evidence of any attempt at misrepresentation! They must have liked everything else on your app to have been able to not get an outright rejection. I hope for your sake that she is for real and that the embassy will look past this 'transgression'!

[PhilC 5]

I hope they will look past it too. She said all the other paper work was fine. I wish she had told me about this before maybe we could have done something about it.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I hope they will look past it too. She said all the other paper work was fine. I wish she had told me about this before maybe we could have done something about it.

Oh bummer.

I am guessing they WILL overlook it but they need to sort something out. They have one document saying she is married and another saying she is not married, but no divorce certificate. Things are not jiving and for consulates they MUST jive.

They will probably have to verify that she was, indeed, never married and that her present marriage is, therefore, legal and valid. Once that is determined it will be OK, I think.

The only bad news I see (other than than the delay) is that it is far easier to prove a divorce than to prove "never married". The only thing is they will not be able to find any record of a marriage and that is about it.

If it is a matter of checking and nothing else, I think they would have done that anyway. They need to put something in the file to adjust for the incongruity.

[james&olya 1,121]

The worst part of all this is that it establishes that she was willing to try and 'game' the system using falsehoods to get her desired result. This obviously can be considered an intentional fraudulent misrepresentation! Hopefully she won them over with her sweet disposition and her explanation and apology for why she did what she did earlier. For your sake, have you given careful consideration to this? This could be considered a 'red flag'!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

The worst part of all this is that it establishes that she was willing to try and 'game' the system using falsehoods to get her desired result. This obviously can be considered an intentional fraudulent misrepresentation! Hopefully she won them over with her sweet disposition and her explanation and apology for why she did what she did earlier. For your sake, have you given careful consideration to this? This could be considered a 'red flag'!

Worst case yes. However, if she did not get the tourist visa OR she did get it and returned as promised, then she really did no harm. I am not saying it is right, just that it did no harm because the claim to be married, itself, is not material to a tourist visa application EXCEPT as evidence that she will not immigrate illegally...she did not.

Now, if it is determined that she is telling the truth, she IS married, the marriage IS valid, yada, yada. Then I think they will overlook that. They WILL need to get their papers all in order and insert official documentation to cover the discrepancy and they WILL need to determine that she is not gaming the system NOW. But I think ultimately they will issue the visa. This is not the first time I have seen basically the same thing here, some sort of falsehood discovered between a tourist application and a fiancee/spouse application and the majority of those get issued eventually.

Question...did they keep her passport?

[PhilC 5]

Thanks Gary for chiming in. I value and respect your input. I am not sure if they kept her passport but I think they did. I didn't have long to talk to her. I will talk to her more in the AM about 4am when I wake up. She said they would give back all her documents later.

She has never been married but did live with her son's father for a few years. I think she put on the tourist visa she was married to make it look better.

It might be a red flag I guess time will tell.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Thanks Gary for chiming in. I value and respect your input. I am not sure if they kept her passport but I think they did. I didn't have long to talk to her. I will talk to her more in the AM about 4am when I wake up. She said they would give back all her documents later.

She has never been married but did live with her son's father for a few years. I think she put on the tourist visa she was married to make it look better.

It might be a red flag I guess time will tell.

They do not do what I say, of course, but I have followed several cases where they had similar issues, most often lying to get a tourist visa and saying they had "no boyfriend" in the UsA then later coming up with evidence for the fiancee visa of that "visit" to her fiancee. Oops. Again, immaterial except to establish ties. IF she had lied about it to get a visa and THEN overstayed the visa, that may be different. I just don;t think this is going to be more than them getting their ducks in a row and verifying the current information is correct.

After all, if she WERE married and NOT divorced your current marriage would be null and void and that is the basis of the visa. They just need to docuemtn that she has never been married as best they can. It is easier to do in Ukraine than here where we do not have central marriage records.