ISSUED!

[BeauteDLaVie 3]

My fiance's interview was January 2. The consulate was Kelly Lang, who was very pleasant and attentive. At the end of the interview she gave him a 221(g) requesting more proof of contact between us, showing that we were in continual contact from the time we met until the time of the interview. Also she wanted a different sponsor who had a higher income and 2013 taxes and W2. We had to wait for my brother's W2, then he had his taxes done on the 28th. I sent the info and affidavit of support via email in PDF on the same date. Our case continued to be "Further Administrative Processing" until last night 12:30am (8:30am in Algeria) it changed to "Ready". Soon as I woke this morning, I checked it again and it had changed to "Issued". I'm so excited, I feel nauseous! My fiance' doesn't know yet because he's working away from his phone. I'm counting the minutes until I know he's off work! Pinch me, I think I must be dreaming.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I am happy for you and your fiance. My fiance had his interview January 23rd by I believe the same Consulate officer. We were given a 221g also requesting form I-134, proof of taxes for 2012 & evidence of our relationship...We were sad to see that it was a denial until we can provide documentation.I am rather confused by all these because I had submitted all this information to my fiance in which the CO should have all the documentation. I am pretty sure that I submitted all 3 years of my taxes: 2013,2012,2011 and as far as proof of our relationship???...if I have to resubmit another set of conversations, phone bills, etc...this is 7 years worth...I have sent an email last week in hopes I can get some clarification of what was submitted for my fiance's file...but I did not receive any response and I doubt that they would look into the actual hard case file to research what was submitted. I know in the end that I may have to end up resubmitting all the documentation but to redo 7 years worth of proof?

[Aspen7 10]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I am happy for you and your fiance. My fiance had his interview January 23rd by I believe the same Consulate officer. We were given a 221g also requesting form I-134, proof of taxes for 2012 & evidence of our relationship...We were sad to see that it was a denial until we can provide documentation.I am rather confused by all these because I had submitted all this information to my fiance in which the CO should have all the documentation. I am pretty sure that I submitted all 3 years of my taxes: 2013,2012,2011 and as far as proof of our relationship???...if I have to resubmit another set of conversations, phone bills, etc...this is 7 years worth...I have sent an email last week in hopes I can get some clarification of what was submitted for my fiance's file...but I did not receive any response and I doubt that they would look into the actual hard case file to research what was submitted. I know in the end that I may have to end up resubmitting all the documentation but to redo 7 years worth of proof?

Somehow they may have overlooked your taxes for 2012. I'd submit it again, along with your W2 or 1099. If there is any other proof of your relationship that you didn't submit the first time, add that now along with all the contact proof you submitted before. Though we submitted proof of our relationship the first time, Ms Lang asked that we give her more evidence of our on going contact. She was specific. She said she wanted every gap in our "proof of contact" to be filled, to show her we were in contact every week of every month since we met. NO GAPS. It took a month of effort, every spare moment I had to collect at least one thing from EVERY day we had contact between us. I started with the day we first met on line and highlighted each date in order from that time up until the day before our interview. In 26 months of knowing each other, there were only 7 days in which I couldn't provide proof of contact between us. I put it all together in small font on 260 pages! She was apparently satisfied!

[BeauteDLaVie 3]

Somehow they may have overlooked your taxes for 2012. I'd submit it again, along with your W2 or 1099. If there is any other proof of your relationship that you didn't submit the first time, add that now along with all the contact proof you submitted before. Though we submitted proof of our relationship the first time, Ms Lang asked that we give her more evidence of our on going contact. She was specific. She said she wanted every gap in our "proof of contact" to be filled, to show her we were in contact every week of every month since we met. NO GAPS. It took a month of effort, every spare moment I had to collect at least one thing from EVERY day we had contact between us. I started with the day we first met on line and highlighted each date in order from that time up until the day before our interview. In 26 months of knowing each other, there were only 7 days in which I couldn't provide proof of contact between us. I put it all together in small font on 260 pages! She was apparently satisfied!

Thank you for your advice and it will leave me no choice but to redo or recreate the log of 7 years of contact. For example, I had looked at one year's worth of MSN online chat between my fiance and me and honestly, we would be online at least 1-3 times a week, sometimes our conversations would last anywhere from at least 2 hours to the whole day..( I also kept logs on Skype & yahoo...but some of my older chats were on my other computer which has not been working) I was able to retrieve some old conversations & save them to my new computer. 2 hours to the whole day of chatting and multiply that with 7 years will equal to many pages more. I have already submitted a log of weekly & lengthly conversations up until I mailed the log, I 134, and my tax info. to my fiance Nov. 2013 (initial interview but had to cancel and reschedule)I have read other posts in which one person stated that s/he had submitted at least 2 conversations for each week during the course of his/her contact with tne fiance...and did not submit everything and was approved...and I've read also many posts where the consulate officer did not evern bother looking at the log of conversations people had with them...if the consulate officer did, the most s/he would do is skim through the pages. It would be time consuming looking & matching the dates for every contact made..I don't know but I guess that our consulate officer is stringent to details. I still do question the I 134 and my tax information because if this was overlooked then maybe the CO might have overlooked the conversations...how? I really don't know but hoping to get clarification. Amother reason why I think that information may have been overlooked because my fiance was asked about a question of sponsorship

...specifically during the interview, if I had sponsorsored someone before...now, why would she ask this if she did not have the I 134? Is this a standard question for everyone and not case by case? or could it be she did research on the case prior to the interview? I just want to give her the benefit of the doubt and I understand where she is coming from as an interviewer. Anyhow, I will try my best...no push to do my best to get this done because we (my fiance and I ) have made it this far.

[gizzyboo 6]

Dear BeauteDLaVie,

Honestly, please feel very lucky you had Miss Lang as CO. She actually spent the time to understand the relationships. She may have asked something you already submitted perhaps to make it a little harder and more efforts on your part. But trust me and Aspen, just send her something even something you have already sent then you should be fine and approved in no time. We had the other male CO who didn't care much about our relationship and didn't take all the evidences we brought. Never asked for anything more and gave no explanation whatsoever. We were in AP for 2.5 months, just got approved today! Being asked for something is a GOOD THING! I wish we had been asked.

Best of wish and God Bless!

And congratulations Aspen!

[gizzyboo 6]

Congrats!! My fiancé was also approved on Saturday night. I was so worried when i saw they changed the creation date, I thought we were going to have to start all over. I almost got sick, so I googled it and found out they do that before they issue the visa, then in the morning when I saw it said issued, I couldn't stop crying and I thanked God for like an hour! Congrats and good luck on the rest of your journey! Now I just want to know how long until he has it in hand =)

Why did you need to google when you had me.

Congrats sister!!!

[gizzyboo 6]

Somehow they may have overlooked your taxes for 2012. I'd submit it again, along with your W2 or 1099. If there is any other proof of your relationship that you didn't submit the first time, add that now along with all the contact proof you submitted before. Though we submitted proof of our relationship the first time, Ms Lang asked that we give her more evidence of our on going contact. She was specific. She said she wanted every gap in our "proof of contact" to be filled, to show her we were in contact every week of every month since we met. NO GAPS. It took a month of effort, every spare moment I had to collect at least one thing from EVERY day we had contact between us. I started with the day we first met on line and highlighted each date in order from that time up until the day before our interview. In 26 months of knowing each other, there were only 7 days in which I couldn't provide proof of contact between us. I put it all together in small font on 260 pages! She was apparently satisfied!

I know how hard you worked on these! Great job!!!