BINATIONAL SAME SEX COUPLES !! Show up!

[Blaga-Tina 15]

We are approved! yay So happy I will post a detailed review later how the interview went.

[sharky-rex 76]

Congrats to new approvals!

[USanCANlove 3]

Congrats!!

[FulanoDeTal 19]

Congratulations! All of the paperwork is definitely worth it once you're together!

[kpe0307 0]

Apologies for the late update. We have been approved!!! Interview was on 02/11 @ the Houston DHS. The interview was short and sweet. Neither of us were grilled at all by the IO. All she needed were extra evidence that we wanted to submit and the original copy of our marriage certificate. That was it. We ended up talking about the cold weather that day and our vacations in Europe. My card is on it's way and I am supposed to receive it tomorrow (02/18), according to the USPS site.
Good luck to everyone! Hugs

[zuluweta 250]

After many months collating documents, through emotional ups and downs, our interview for K-1 fiancé visa was approved at the US Embassy in Manila.

We booked our flight back to the USA on the same day the visa was approved!

I'll be a little sad to leave my friends and the life I have created in my home country while we waited for immigration equality to be achieved but at the same I am very happy to re-start the life I shared together with my partner for many years in America.

We were treated fairly and respectfully throughout the entire process. I never heard any snide or disrespectful remarks from anybody involved, from the notary for the letters of intent to marry to the staff at the medical clinic to the consular officers.

Equality is fabulous!

Congratulations to everyone else whose applications have been approved and for those still waiting, stay positive because your visa approval will arrive soon enough.

[ivanalex1980 34]

Congratulations to every one who got approved at their interviews

just want to say again that i got approved on the 26 December 2013 and i had my passport with the visa on the 30 of December 2013 (K1)

and i arrived in US on 31 of December 2013 we applied for our K1 in August 2013

best of luck to every one else who are still on their journey

[Cathymac 60]

Hi everyone, I'm in the UK and waiting to be reunited with my wife. We have spent one week of married life together

[zuluweta 250]

5 March 2014, CEAC visa status - ISSUED!

[GF1804 12]

Congratulations to everyone approved (you paved the way)

We are just waiting for our interview date DCF at London.

Fingers crossed!

[JerrySF 1]

After years of long-distance relationship, my fiancé's visa was approved on Mar 5, 2014 the anniversary day of our engagement 7 years ago! We had been able to meet a couple of months each year, but all that travel gets tiring. After DOMA repeal, we filed our I-129F petition in Aug 2013, and his K-1 interview was on Mar 4th. My fiancé has the FIRST same-sex fiancé visa issued in Pakistan! Embassy staff were curious and excited also, and were very considerate and helpful. Needless to say, my fiancé and I are exceedingly happy and I can't wait until he arrives in San Francisco!

[NYCruiser 423]

After years of long-distance relationship, my fiancé's visa was approved on Mar 5, 2014 the anniversary day of our engagement 7 years ago! We had been able to meet a couple of months each year, but all that travel gets tiring. After DOMA repeal, we filed our I-129F petition in Aug 2013, and his K-1 interview was on Mar 4th. My fiancé has the FIRST same-sex fiancé visa issued in Pakistan! Embassy staff were curious and excited also, and were very considerate and helpful. Needless to say, my fiancé and I are exceedingly happy and I can't wait until he arrives in San Francisco!

This is great news. Good to see the reception of the Embassy people. Could you elaborate on the reaction but also on what safety precautions were taken by the DOS so that local ie Pakistani employees of the Embassy did not get access to his records as a same-sex person applicant? When he left the embassy there could be issues of safety since it is illegal in Pakistan. My partner will be applying in another country similarily

There is a term for local employees at a US Embassy and I cannot remember what that is.

[JerrySF 1]

From what I know of Pakistan, having visited for 2 months at one point, and daily conversations with my fiancé, the notion of being gay in Pakistan is widely misunderstood by Americans and mostly incorrect. My fiancé has gay friends, and a gay couple lives near him. And, they don't hide it. Essentially, if you don't throw it in peoples' faces, no one cares. Since men in Pakistan grow up from age 12 without much contact with females their age, they form close friendships with their male friends which sometimes becomes intimate. It's natural to hold hands and hang their arms around each other in public, and no one thinks anything about it. There does not seem to be a bold line between gay and straight. The stodgy British tried to draw that line, but it only got written into law, which everyone ignores. The embassy in Islamabad even sponsored a gay pride day a couple of years ago. The embassy was very considerate and even took him to a room for his interview, so that he could speak freely about being gay. (In the public room with interview counters, everyone can hear what you're saying.) I don't think that was so much about protection as it was making him comfortable. I can't remember hearing of anyone being tortured in Pakistan for being gay -- I can't say that about America!

[NYCruiser 423]

From what I know of Pakistan, having visited for 2 months at one point, and daily conversations with my fiancé, the notion of being gay in Pakistan is widely misunderstood by Americans and mostly incorrect. My fiancé has gay friends, and a gay couple lives near him. And, they don't hide it. Essentially, if you don't throw it in peoples' faces, no one cares. Since men in Pakistan grow up from age 12 without much contact with females their age, they form close friendships with their male friends which sometimes becomes intimate. It's natural to hold hands and hang their arms around each other in public, and no one thinks anything about it. There does not seem to be a bold line between gay and straight. The stodgy British tried to draw that line, but it only got written into law, which everyone ignores. The embassy in Islamabad even sponsored a gay pride day a couple of years ago. The embassy was very considerate and even took him to a room for his interview, so that he could speak freely about being gay. (In the public room with interview counters, everyone can hear what you're saying.) I don't think that was so much about protection as it was making him comfortable. I can't remember hearing of anyone being tortured in Pakistan for being gay -- I can't say that about America!

Thank you for the insight. I appreciate it. Its good to know they took him in another room...I think that's what I was referring to. It has been about 5 weeks or so since submission of the I-129f, so a long way to go for us. I imagine we should ask for a separate room.

Regards

David

[JerrySF 1]

David, if you'd like to exchange emails, I'd be happy to expound on our experience. I think it might be helpful to you and your partner, since we started with our I-129F last August. jerryinsf@gmail.com

Jerry