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Immigration Info
Immigration Status
Removing Conditions (pending)
Place benefits filed at
Vermont Service Center
Local Office
Manchester NH
Country
Finland
Our Story
We met online in October 2004. I wasn't seeking company, she was. I originally thought that she was a male, because she seemed so smart – my first mistake in the line of many in this relationship :). We moved quickly to real time chatting and I made a visit to Kansas in order to meet her for the first time in March 2005. She made her first visit to Finland in May 2005. After the two visits we had some serious fights and we almost broke up during that summer. Somehow we stuck together and agreed to meet for two weeks in Kansas during October 2005. The visit was wonderful so we began a serious discussion about engagement. I returned to Kansas in December 2005 with an engagement ring and proposed. She said yes :).Rochelle travelled to Germany as an exchange student in early 2006. During that seven month period we more or less lived together, mostly in Finland but also in Germany. We tied the knot on June 6th 2006. We tried a DCF on August 2006 but the Helsinki consulate was on vacation, so we didn't get an appointment and my wife had to fly back to Kansas. As we were in no hurry with the visa, we didn't bother trying again for a while.My wife moved from Kansas to New Hampshire in October 2006 and I spent the Christmas 2006 there with her :). We agreed to do a DCF in early February 2007. Two weeks before our filing date the Adam Walsh Act became law, denying us a DCF option :(. Since my wife couldn't cancel her flying tickets she visited me in Finland for the last time. We sent in an I-130 during mid February. I have visited her once since then, during our visa process in June 2007 :).
