Mistakes that cause visa denials down the road.

[ellis-island 6]

Thanh Nhien published an article of mine. USC Petitioners might find it helpful.

http://www.thanhniennews.com/2010/pages/20130725-mistakes-that-applicants-for-fiancee-and-spousal-visas-make.aspx

[NikLR 13,232]

***Moved to general immigration from K1 process and procedures***

[TBoneTX 46,123]

Good to see you here again, Mr. Ellis!

The article is very helpful, with good insights and reminders. It didn't come up when I clicked your link, so I went to the www.thanhniennews.com site, searched for your name, and found it. Perhaps this link will go directly to it:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/index/pages/20130725-mistakes-that-applicants-for-fiancee-and-spousal-visas-make.aspx

[NickD 203]

Where is the ex was sure our problem, left the country some seven years prior to avoid being arrested, and even though my wife to be had a divorce with full custody, still had to get his permission for his biological daughter to leave the country. Took a great effort to locate him. Then she needed his permission again for his daughter he didn't give a darn about with the exact flight number before his daughter could board the plane.

Then my stepdaughter's Venezuela passport expired so we went down to the Venezuelan Consulate with her divorce papers showing she had full custody of her daughter along with the court order showing he gave his permission for her to come to the US and even his arrest papers showing assault and battery charges against his wife;. They refused to renew her passport without his permission again, but if they did and she flew down to Venezuela, they wouldn't let her leave unless she had his permission again with the exact flight number and date. But we had no choice, he refused to sign that permission slip.

So we had no choice but to wait until she turned 18, then she finally was free of him, this was like 11 years since he seen her last. Had a change of heart, but his daughter wanted no part of him.

A real good piece of evidence would be his death certificate, and was temping the misery he caused her and us. But the only interest on the part of Venezuela was to protect his rights. But they were willing to put charges against him for something like a total of eleven years of child support payments. We exchanged that for his permission for his daughter to leave her country.

Yes, that ex can be a problem in particular dealing with a country with laws that want to protect the rights of that very irresponsible parent. If this isn't bad enough, had to hire powers of attorney, if he came back to Venezuela, would have been arrested.

Seems like when dealing with countries that are extremely poor, rotten health care, terrible food, extremely poor education, those are the worse countries to get a child out.

Friends adopted a baby girl from Ethiopia, child was in extreme poor health and if wasn't adopted to get good health care, would have died. But cost my friends something like $55,000.00 to get her out of that hell hole. Kind of gives a hint of some terrible corruption in these countries.

[NickD 203]

Oh, my major source of dealing with the USCIS was proving I had a good source of funds to bring my wife and stepdaughter here. But with dealing with exorbitant fees of the USCIS and corrupted courts in both Venezuela and Colombia, that put quite a dent in it.

It took quite a bit of extra work to build up those funds again, can only laugh when I read on the Statue of Liberty, bring me your poor. True in a way, if you are not poor before, will be after.