Difficulties with getting visa

[anya&kevin 0]

Hey everyone!

I am just so annoyed by the work of the US Embassy in Russia. I had my interview on November, 1. And it took like 5 minutes, at the end the interviewer said that I was approved but i needed to provide my fiance's W-2 forms (i guess the other financial proove wasn't enough). I didn't know whether i should be happy that i was approved or wait until i have my visa on hand! So My fiance sent the forms at that day, a week later a girl from the Embassy called and said that it wasn't enough and we need a co-sponsor. My fiance is in entertainment business so of course the forms didn't show alot. He just gets his checks all the time.

So okay, we had our co-sponsor send all the required documents by e-mail. I am caling the Embassy a week after, they said they haven't recieved anything and it may be a technical problem! I was histerical! I am waiting here like crazy, packed everything, can't think of nothing but the f.....ng day i am finally getting my visa! And they just say it is a technical problem!

I am still pissed by their work!!! such a beurocratic establishment, they can't just be nicer and make the petitoners' life easier. So now i spamed them with the forms in 3 different e-mails, i also faxed the documents. Now i am waiting again as i am so used to already! It's just so not fair, just give me the visa! That's all i need, or i am going to lose it here!!!!

[Satellite 1]

It's just so not fair, just give me the visa!

Getting a visa to the US is privilege and not a right. And nothing compares to the Russian bureaucracy! Edited November 17, 2007 by Satellite

[mox 298]

Hey everyone!

I am just so annoyed by the work of the US Embassy in Russia. I had my interview on November, 1. And it took like 5 minutes, at the end the interviewer said that I was approved but i needed to provide my fiance's W-2 forms (i guess the other financial proove wasn't enough). I didn't know whether i should be happy that i was approved or wait until i have my visa on hand! So My fiance sent the forms at that day, a week later a girl from the Embassy called and said that it wasn't enough and we need a co-sponsor. My fiance is in entertainment business so of course the forms didn't show alot. He just gets his checks all the time.

So okay, we had our co-sponsor send all the required documents by e-mail. I am caling the Embassy a week after, they said they haven't recieved anything and it may be a technical problem! I was histerical! I am waiting here like crazy, packed everything, can't think of nothing but the f.....ng day i am finally getting my visa! And they just say it is a technical problem!

I am still pissed by their work!!! such a beurocratic establishment, they can't just be nicer and make the petitoners' life easier. So now i spamed them with the forms in 3 different e-mails, i also faxed the documents. Now i am waiting again as i am so used to already! It's just so not fair, just give me the visa! That's all i need, or i am going to lose it here!!!!

How sad this all must make you feel. Is it possible that you can just get a sponsor and be done with it? It's insane all the hoops that they make you jump through, but sometimes it's just best to jump through those hoops and be done with it. If you can at all get a sponsor, you might want to try that. Once Visa is in hand it won't matter anyway.

Best of luck to you both!

[slim 1,530]

I am still pissed by their work!!! such a beurocratic establishment, they can't just be nicer and make the petitoners' life easier.

I pay a lot of money in taxes every year to the folks that run that beurocratic establishment and they didn't even try to make my life easier. So, to think you'd get better service because you paid them a measly little $100 fee is probably where you're off here. Try paying taxes for a few years, then maybe you'll be able to breeze right through this visa process.

On second thought, it'll probably just get harder for you when you start paying taxes because then you'll have to provide your own forms too.

In the mean time, may I suggest doing all the "Russian" stuff you're not going to get the chance to do here anymore. A nice steambath, cheap "woman's stuff" (hair, nails, massages etc.), eat as much caviar as possible, enjoy fresh kvas and pilminy, etc., etc., etc. Once you get to the States, you're going to have to make applications at beurocratic establishments once again just to enjoy those things.

[Nancy2015 2]

And nothing compares to the Russian bureaucracy!

Amen to that...

[Satellite 1]

If you thought your embassy experience was bad, just check out what kind of POE experience you can have with that attitude:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...48&hl=taser

[KGSodie 0]

Hey everyone!

I am just so annoyed by the work of the US Embassy in Russia. I had my interview on November, 1. And it took like 5 minutes, at the end the interviewer said that I was approved but i needed to provide my fiance's W-2 forms (i guess the other financial proove wasn't enough). I didn't know whether i should be happy that i was approved or wait until i have my visa on hand! So My fiance sent the forms at that day, a week later a girl from the Embassy called and said that it wasn't enough and we need a co-sponsor. My fiance is in entertainment business so of course the forms didn't show alot. He just gets his checks all the time.

So okay, we had our co-sponsor send all the required documents by e-mail. I am caling the Embassy a week after, they said they haven't recieved anything and it may be a technical problem! I was histerical! I am waiting here like crazy, packed everything, can't think of nothing but the f.....ng day i am finally getting my visa! And they just say it is a technical problem!

I am still pissed by their work!!! such a beurocratic establishment, they can't just be nicer and make the petitoners' life easier. So now i spamed them with the forms in 3 different e-mails, i also faxed the documents. Now i am waiting again as i am so used to already! It's just so not fair, just give me the visa! That's all i need, or i am going to lose it here!!!!

It's got to be tough waiting and waiting and then getting the request for more information right at the end of the process, when all we want is for the wait to be over. It's easy to think "and what exactly were they doing during all the time I was waiting?!" Natasha and I still wait for our NOA2, and I dread getting any RFEs or anything else that would slow down the visa in even the smallest way. But I feel your pain, and you will find a way through. Oh, and listen to mox - he's got a good head on his shoulders. Good luck!

[anya&kevin 0]

It's just so not fair, just give me the visa!

Getting a visa to the US is privilege and not a right. And nothing compares to the Russian bureaucracy!

As i wrote before i was approved, but now i have to wait more and more to get my visa, and i want it very soon. Just imagine that you were assured to get something but wouldn't be able to get it for some rediculous reasons! That what pisses me of and my fiance too! I just really want to be with my love finally after all that time of waiting...

[anya&kevin 0]

If you thought your embassy experience was bad, just check out what kind of POE experience you can have with that attitude:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...48&hl=taser

That is really mean to post me this kind of link, I am not some sicko and can control myself, i am saying i am just very tired

[anya&kevin 0]

How sad this all must make you feel. Is it possible that you can just get a sponsor and be done with it? It's insane all the hoops that they make you jump through, but sometimes it's just best to jump through those hoops and be done with it. If you can at all get a sponsor, you might want to try that. Once Visa is in hand it won't matter anyway.

Best of luck to you both!

Thank you MOX! We have a co-sponsor, we sent everything needed from him to the Embassy, and the Immigration Unit a week later says that they haven't received anything. I was like WHAT? i guess they just lost it. So i resent the documents again and now I have to wait for a hopefully good outcome

[anya&kevin 0]

I am still pissed by their work!!! such a beurocratic establishment, they can't just be nicer and make the petitoners' life easier.

I pay a lot of money in taxes every year to the folks that run that beurocratic establishment and they didn't even try to make my life easier. So, to think you'd get better service because you paid them a measly little $100 fee is probably where you're off here. Try paying taxes for a few years, then maybe you'll be able to breeze right through this visa process.

On second thought, it'll probably just get harder for you when you start paying taxes because then you'll have to provide your own forms too.

In the mean time, may I suggest doing all the "Russian" stuff you're not going to get the chance to do here anymore. A nice steambath, cheap "woman's stuff" (hair, nails, massages etc.), eat as much caviar as possible, enjoy fresh kvas and pilminy, etc., etc., etc. Once you get to the States, you're going to have to make applications at beurocratic establishments once again just to enjoy those things.

I really understand that I will not have easy time there with the continous paperwork!!! But the most important thing for me(and nobody could "hear" my pain in my post) is to be with my baby, that is what I need most of all, the visa keeps us apart..........

[Kotenochek 0]

Make sure you are strong enaugh to go through this,because its whole different story.As slim said here all is expensive,stuff like nails and hair is considered as a luxory.

Moreover people here are way different than in europe..another problem adjustment time going to drive you nuts because you will not be able to work,which for most busy russian girls is worst punishment ever!

stay strong zaika,nikto ne govoril chto budet legko:(

[Nancy2015 2]

Make sure you are strong enaugh to go through this,because its whole different story.As slim said here all is expensive,stuff like nails and hair is considered as a luxory.

Moreover people here are way different than in europe..another problem adjustment time going to drive you nuts because you will not be able to work,which for most busy russian girls is worst punishment ever!

stay strong zaika,nikto ne govoril chto budet legko:(

And as time goes by, it gets even worse

***just kiddin'***

[Kotenochek 0]

Make sure you are strong enaugh to go through this,because its whole different story.As slim said here all is expensive,stuff like nails and hair is considered as a luxory.

Moreover people here are way different than in europe..another problem adjustment time going to drive you nuts because you will not be able to work,which for most busy russian girls is worst punishment ever!

stay strong zaika,nikto ne govoril chto budet legko:(

And as time goes by, it gets even worse

***just kiddin'***

Hehe that depends on people i guess:)))

I have times when i hate everything and only thing that keeps me here is a man i love.

[slim 1,530]

I have times when i hate everything and only thing that keeps me here is a man i love.

My wife has times where she hates everything, especially a man she loves.... but, thankfully, they're getting fewer and farther between.