Issued a 221G Letter

[PoojaCh 56]

On 7/24/2019 at 9:52 AM, hpizzle said:

My spouse was unfortunately issued a refusal under Section 221G for her CR1 visa. The interviewing officer did not believe that I (American born) could agree to marry a girl in India within 5 months. Even though there was logs and log of Skype/WhatsApp/Facebook transcripts, letters, gift receipts, he denied the visa without even asking to see them. Has anyone else experienced this? We now have to submit more documents at a local office. Does anyone know how long the process takes once documents are submitted? The officer said they would not conduct another interview. 

 

 

I’m sorry if you’ve already answered this question, but, did you add photos together, travel stamps, insurance or anything like that? I’m very worried for myself after reading this cause I’m also from India and the evidence we provided are pics, stamps, insurance. We have not mentioned the dates in the pictures as well. I’m going to meet his family in a week in London and will have more pictures but from your experience, I’m really skeptical about them even considering evidence after submitting I-130.

 

i hope you get the approval soon and don’t have to wait for long. Even it’s getting delayed then try to come to India and work here if you can until your wife gets the visa. The main thing is to be with your spouse. The wait will be easier when you are together with your spouse.

[YasArr 24]

20 hours ago, ShreebhagyaK9 said:

Alright! They barely keep documents over the counter during the interview. I consider myself lucky that they kept my documents during the interview. Submit what they ask and wait to hear back. Keep tracking the status on CEAC. Good Luck! 

 

On 7/24/2019 at 9:52 AM, hpizzle said:

My spouse was unfortunately issued a refusal under Section 221G for her CR1 visa. The interviewing officer did not believe that I (American born) could agree to marry a girl in India within 5 months. Even though there was logs and log of Skype/WhatsApp/Facebook transcripts, letters, gift receipts, he denied the visa without even asking to see them. Has anyone else experienced this? We now have to submit more documents at a local office. Does anyone know how long the process takes once documents are submitted? The officer said they would not conduct another interview. 

 

 

Oh.. I am from India and my husband is American born as well. Your post has now made me worried as even we got married just withing 4 months of knowing each other. And why officer won't conduct second interview?? Does it mean that they only need additional documents?? And what documents were missing from your side?? 

[ShreebhagyaK9 321]

1 hour ago, YasArr said:

 

Oh.. I am from India and my husband is American born as well. Your post has now made me worried as even we got married just withing 4 months of knowing each other. And why officer won't conduct second interview?? Does it mean that they only need additional documents?? And what documents were missing from your side?? 

Don't worry! If asked why you married within 4 months of knowing each other, tell them the reason why. India is a high fraud country and scrutiny is normal.  All you can do is be confident and truthful. Good Luck! In my case he wanted to look through my album and some chats. I only took 6 pages of chat records. And he also kept my photo album which was really big so I couldn't pass it through the interviewing window. My interview was on the 16th of May and I recieved the letter requesting for my passport along with documents that I submitted on the 18th. 

[JeanneAdil 6,511]

11 hours ago, Nitas_man said:

Why

not sure but i think it is part of the State Departments warnings about marriage fraud when someone meets too fast and marries quickly

 

Some of the signs that an Internet contact may be developing a relationship with an American in order to obtain an immigrant visa through marriage are:

• Declarations of love within days or weeks of the initial contact;
• Proposals or discussions of marriage soon after initial contact;
• Requests to the American to visit the foreign national’s home country soon after the declaration of love or proposal;
• Responses to messages from the American friend are along the lines “I love you/Sorry I missed your call,” or similarly one-sided conversations;
• Once engaged, married, or an immigrant visa petition is filed, suddenly starts missing scheduled appointments to chat or call.

While chat rooms, dating and social networking sites are great ways to make friends across international borders, the U.S. government urges Americans who meet foreign nationals on the Internet to take the time necessary to get to know them well before considering marriage and to keep in mind the signs noted above

[YasArr 24]

1 hour ago, ShreebhagyaK9 said:

Don't worry! If asked why you married within 4 months of knowing each other, tell them the reason why. India is a high fraud country and scrutiny is normal.  All you can do is be confident and truthful. Good Luck! In my case he wanted to look through my album and some chats. I only took 6 pages of chat records. And he also kept my photo album which was really big so I couldn't pass it through the interviewing window. My interview was on the 16th of May and I recieved the letter requesting for my passport along with documents that I submitted on the 18th. 

Thanks for this. So you got approval in how many months?? 

1 hour ago, ShreebhagyaK9 said:

Don't worry! If asked why you married within 4 months of knowing each other, tell them the reason why. India is a high fraud country and scrutiny is normal.  All you can do is be confident and truthful. Good Luck! In my case he wanted to look through my album and some chats. I only took 6 pages of chat records. And he also kept my photo album which was really big so I couldn't pass it through the interviewing window. My interview was on the 16th of May and I recieved the letter requesting for my passport along with documents that I submitted on the 18th. 

Thanks for this. So you got approval in how many months?? 

[YasArr 24]

1 hour ago, ShreebhagyaK9 said:

Don't worry! If asked why you married within 4 months of knowing each other, tell them the reason why. India is a high fraud country and scrutiny is normal.  All you can do is be confident and truthful. Good Luck! In my case he wanted to look through my album and some chats. I only took 6 pages of chat records. And he also kept my photo album which was really big so I couldn't pass it through the interviewing window. My interview was on the 16th of May and I recieved the letter requesting for my passport along with documents that I submitted on the 18th. 

Oh.... I saw your profile and it approved after 5 months. That's good. Today my 5 months completed. So wanted to know whether your spouse too American born?? And you guys even married after knowing for just few months.. 

[Nitas_man 3,100]

1 hour ago, JeanneAdil said:

not sure but i think it is part of the State Departments warnings about marriage fraud when someone meets too fast and marries quickly

 

Some of the signs that an Internet contact may be developing a relationship with an American in order to obtain an immigrant visa through marriage are:

• Declarations of love within days or weeks of the initial contact;
• Proposals or discussions of marriage soon after initial contact;
• Requests to the American to visit the foreign national’s home country soon after the declaration of love or proposal;
• Responses to messages from the American friend are along the lines “I love you/Sorry I missed your call,” or similarly one-sided conversations;
• Once engaged, married, or an immigrant visa petition is filed, suddenly starts missing scheduled appointments to chat or call.

While chat rooms, dating and social networking sites are great ways to make friends across international borders, the U.S. government urges Americans who meet foreign nationals on the Internet to take the time necessary to get to know them well before considering marriage and to keep in mind the signs noted above

Oh

 

We married 1st visit.  That was my reason for asking.

[ShreebhagyaK9 321]

2 hours ago, YasArr said:

Thanks for this. So you got approval in how many months?? 

Thanks for this. So you got approval in how many months?? 

I was approved a day after my interview. 16th May I had my interview, 18th May I recieved the letter asking me to send the passport for Visa processing. 

[YasArr 24]

6 hours ago, Nitas_man said:

Oh

 

We married 1st visit.  That was my reason for asking.

Even We got married on our first visit. So it may be a big concern for them??

[Nitas_man 3,100]

Just now, YasArr said:

Even We got married on our first visit. So it may be a big concern for them??

Never an issue in our case

[YasArr 24]

4 hours ago, ShreebhagyaK9 said:

I was approved a day after my interview. 16th May I had my interview, 18th May I recieved the letter asking me to send the passport for Visa processing. 

Oh..I thought they ask to sumbit the passport right away at the interview once they are convinced.

 

[YasArr 24]

1 minute ago, Nitas_man said:

Never an issue in our case

So your case still under process?? And if not, how much time it took??

[Nitas_man 3,100]

46 minutes ago, YasArr said:

So your case still under process?? And if not, how much time it took??

Our case was a long time ago.  Nobody questioned us about or seemed to flag that issue.

[YasArr 24]

On 7/26/2019 at 12:02 AM, ShreebhagyaK9 said:

I was approved a day after my interview. 16th May I had my interview, 18th May I recieved the letter asking me to send the passport for Visa processing. 

Can you please tell me how the chats history you saved?? I mean like you took the screenshots and than what you did?? 

[ShreebhagyaK9 321]

5 minutes ago, YasArr said:

Can you please tell me how the chats history you saved?? I mean like you took the screenshots and than what you did?? 

Pasted it to Microsoft Word and printed it out.