APRIL 2021 I-129F K-1 FILERS

[leviiathan 206]

Just now, SouthBound2022 said:

^^ exactly this. 

We are Alberta and Mississippi. 2450 miles apart. Flights are difficult due to covid, and now the increase in flight prices. We see eachother every 6 months the last few years but now its been 3 months and we have no idea when we will see eachother again, not u til our move. Our NOA1 was April 23 2021 and we have yet to hear a word. We have 2 children eagerly waiting to move and be with Dad and in our new home. Its incredibly difficult and just as long distance as any other. If only it were so simple between Canada and the US. 🙄 It's not... and now it's being held back because of Ukraine expedites etc as well from what I've seen. 

My reasoning is a bit similar, we just cant afford it. We could if he came here but his PTO was used up when he got sick with covid

 

And I cant afford to go because we'd have to pay hundreds in accomidations

 

so just to see eachother again its the same, we have to wait on the totally unpredictable USCIS times and hope we aren't one of the few left behind. very taxing

[Mike20090622 45]

2 minutes ago, To_the_moon said:

I think what he meant is that getting to Canada to the US or vice versa is just easier: 1) physically; sometimes you don't even have to fly, you can just drive there. 2) financially; because transatlantic flights are much more expensive. 3) legally; getting visas is not always easy. And also due to covid some countries still haven't resumed issuing any types of visas. 

 

But of course no one can relate to other couples' relationships. Being separate is tough no matter the reason 🙂

Yes, at least you have 6 months living together without much cost. My fiancé and her 10 year old daughter traveled 35 hours from her Russia hometown to mexico, and I need wait hours in the Mexican America border every day crossing the border to work in America, we lived two times altogether for 3.5 months in Mexico, and I goto Moscow to meet her for Christmas and new year’s holiday, with Covid, I lost 3000$ for flight tickets and hotels, I already spent 50000$ on this K visa related issues, and at least 20000$ more to bring them in, they need goto Warsaw to do the interview and Poland refuse to issue Russia any visa, so we need spend in Greece for sometime and then goto Warsaw, they need fly to Moscow to Istanbul to Athens and to Warsaw and I don’t know if she can get the package 3 or not since she lives in belgorod which was attacked by Ukraine helicopters. Everything is suffering 

[DSBeijing 303]

12 minutes ago, SouthBound2022 said:

^^ exactly this. 

We are Alberta and Mississippi. 2450 miles apart. Flights are difficult due to covid, and now the increase in flight prices. We see eachother every 6 months the last few years but now its been 3 months and we have no idea when we will see eachother again, not u til our move. Our NOA1 was April 23 2021 and we have yet to hear a word. We have 2 children eagerly waiting to move and be with Dad and in our new home. Its incredibly difficult and just as long distance as any other. If only it were so simple between Canada and the US. 🙄 It's not... and now it's being held back because of Ukraine expedites etc as well from what I've seen. 

Rookie numbers :D. Beijing - Washington DC 7000 Miles

[leviiathan 206]

1 minute ago, Mike20090622 said:

Yes, at least you have 6 months living together without much cost. My fiancé and her 10 year old daughter traveled 35 hours from her Russia hometown to mexico, and I need wait hours in the Mexican America border every day crossing the border to work in America, we lived two times altogether for 3.5 months in Mexico, and I goto Moscow to meet her for Christmas and new year’s holiday, with Covid, I lost 3000$ for flight tickets and hotels, I already spent 50000$ on this K visa related issues, and at least 20000$ more to bring them in, they need goto Warsaw to do the interview and Poland refuse to issue Russia any visa, so we need spend in Greece for sometime and then goto Warsaw, they need fly to Moscow to Istanbul to Athens and to Warsaw and I don’t know if she can get the package 3 or not since she lives in belgorod which was attacked by Ukraine helicopters. Everything is suffering 

We cant just live together for 6 months though. I have never gotten to experience a long visit with my fiance as there is not a single path we can afford. In fact I havent even been with my fiance for more than 2 months of time in person, less than you. If we visited during the pandemic it would've also cost us upwards of 2000-3000$ due to canadian hotel quarantine policies.

 

Every situation is different, and people will suffer and find things difficult to their own tolerances. My fiance and I are still long distance regardless of your relationship being further in distance. Comparing never helps anyone because there's always one thing that remains true and that is that...

 

Distance is hard regardless of how far apart you are. Regardless of the variables against you or with you. Regardless of the two countries you're from, its hard for almost everyone

 

 

 

 

[SouthBound2022 32]

8 minutes ago, Mike20090622 said:

Yes, at least you have 6 months living together without much cost. My fiancé and her 10 year old daughter traveled 35 hours from her Russia hometown to mexico, and I need wait hours in the Mexican America border every day crossing the border to work in America, we lived two times altogether for 3.5 months in Mexico, and I goto Moscow to meet her for Christmas and new year’s holiday, with Covid, I lost 3000$ for flight tickets and hotels, I already spent 50000$ on this K visa related issues, and at least 20000$ more to bring them in, they need goto Warsaw to do the interview and Poland refuse to issue Russia any visa, so we need spend in Greece for sometime and then goto Warsaw, they need fly to Moscow to Istanbul to Athens and to Warsaw and I don’t know if she can get the package 3 or not since she lives in belgorod which was attacked by Ukraine helicopters. Everything is suffering 

Living together "without much cost" -- what does this mean? You realize for Canadians we need to continue to have not only an income of something to pay our bills, but also an address up here. Meaning for me to go stay for 6 months, I have to still pay the bills here as well. Which is unreasonable. Everyone has it rough in the K1 situation. 

If yours has cost you 50,000 you may want to consult a lawyer.... sounds steep, perhaps you would be better off if you moved to them? 

 

Edited April 7, 2022 by SouthBound2022

[SouthBound2022 32]

3 minutes ago, DSBeijing said:

Rookie numbers :D. Beijing - Washington DC 7000 Miles

Haha OK you got us beat 😄 

I can't wait til the distance is gone!

[leviiathan 206]

1 minute ago, SouthBound2022 said:

Loving together "without much cost" -- what does this mean? You realize for Canadians we need to continue to have not only an income of something to pay our bills, but also an address up here. Meaning for me to go stay for 6 months, I have to still pay the bills here as well. Which is unreasonable. Everyone has it rough in the K1 situation. 

If yours has cost you 50,000 you may want to consult a lawyer.... sounds steep, perhaps you would be better off if you moved to them? 

 

I figured it was a typo or currency difference but your response has me laughing too much

 

just the thought of having 80k of disposable income and it costing that much for a k1, thatd be an AMAZING down payment on a house instead

[SouthBound2022 32]

1 minute ago, MissLadyRea said:

I figured it was a typo or currency difference but your response has me laughing too much

 

just the thought of having 80k of disposable income and it costing that much for a k1, thatd be an AMAZING down payment on a house instead

Right??? 

 

$80,000 is a LOT of money OMG. I get that it must be hard dealing with the distance etc but at that point I think I'd be looking for a country we could both pack and move to. 🤷‍♀️ 

 

[Mike20090622 45]

5 minutes ago, SouthBound2022 said:

Right??? 

 

$80,000 is a LOT of money OMG. I get that it must be hard dealing with the distance etc but at that point I think I'd be looking for a country we could both pack and move to. 🤷‍♀️ 

 

Flights for her and her daughter is 2800$ from her hometown to mexico, 2 times is 5600$, living in mexico for 3.5 months, including 5 star hotels is on average 60$ per day, 6000$ for home rental, meals is, on average, 80$ per day, 8000$ for 3.5 months, amusements and gifts 3000$, I drive with my dog all around America and Mexico, gas, hotels and meals, 5000$.

28000$ Is all costs for  3.5 months mexico related spending.

Moscow trip, I lost flights and hotels due to Covid, his two daughters and her sister, at least 10000$ Expenses, I give her monthly family expenses support from last March on average 1000$ through WesternUnion, and I send her 4000$ one time before the sanctions, I didn’t count the visas fees and the lawyers fees, maybe 2000$ altogether, looks more than 50000$ already 

[slavaskii 886]

39 minutes ago, SouthBound2022 said:

Haha OK you got us beat 😄 

I can't wait til the distance is gone!

To interject some well-needed humor here, perhaps we can beat @DSBeijing's numbers if we just measure the distance it takes to go the other way around the Earth...  

[leviiathan 206]

2 minutes ago, slavaskii said:

To interject some well-needed humor here, perhaps we can beat @DSBeijing's numbers if we just measure the distance it takes to go the other way around the Earth...  

Maybe we can also combine them, got to get it as high as possible too.

 

So if we all calculate how far itd take to go the other way around, and then add them, we might just be close

 

 

 

 

[Mike20090622 45]

1 minute ago, MissLadyRea said:

Maybe we can also combine them, got to get it as high as possible too.

 

So if we all calculate how far itd take to go the other way around, and then add them, we might just be close

 

 

 

 

From Washington DC to Beijing is just 12 hours flights, from Moscow to Tijuana is at least 28 hours flights 

[leviiathan 206]

1 minute ago, Mike20090622 said:

From Washington DC to Beijing is just 12 hours flights, from Moscow to Tijuana is at least 28 hours flights 

failing to see the point

[S I A N 98]

1 minute ago, MissLadyRea said:

failing to see the point

Lmaoooo I’m dyin! Please stop replying to that weirdo. Enough is enough.

[leviiathan 206]

6 minutes ago, S I A N said:

Lmaoooo I’m dyin! Please stop replying to that weirdo. Enough is enough.

March thread has 147 pages we have to catch up somehow /j 😂