US Immigration from Morocco

Hello guys, hope you re all safe.

The past couple months have been very stressful to say the least. USCIS approved our petition back in October and sent it to the NVC. A few weeks later my fianc received an email that the petition was forwarded to the embassy in China (where I had been working but left months ago) instead of Morocco (where I m from and the actual embassy we specified in the petition). Our lawyer immediately emailed them in order to get our petition sent here but we got no reply, until late November where the Chinese embassy noticed the mistake and contacted us instead. So our lawyer emailed the Moroccan embassy in order to ask for a transfer but it s been a month and we haven t heard from either and it s taken a toll on us. We tried calling the Moroccan embassy but all they kept saying is send an email and wait. Has anybody been through the same? Thank you.

For a little background, my Moroccan sweetie and I met as language exchange partners through HelloTalk in February 2020, and have spoken nearly daily since then. We are both Muslim, and conventional dating isn't really a thing for us, but we realized that we really had begun to care for each other and began to talk seriously about courting in January of this year. During the three weeks that I was visited last month (my first visit; COVID squashed my plans to visit last year when we were still friends), I met his parents and sisters and stayed with his very traditional Amazigh family for much of the time. At the end of the three weeks he proposed to me so that we could continue to develop our relationship in a halal way, and a way that respected his family customs and our mutual beliefs. To celebrate, his family threw us a little engagement party, and we took a lot of pictures of us, the engagement rings, and the family. It was a lot of fun, and we were both so happy.

I wanted to include those photos in our package as we build our case for a bona fide relationship for a K-1 visa (I will be visiting again early next year, and we'll most likely submit after that), but I am a little concerned now because I see that some people have been denied for including photos like this because the consular officer suspects that the marriage has already taken place. Does anyone have any experience with this? Please share any experiences that you have had specifically with the Casablanca consulate, or other MENA consulates. (I appreciate your willingness to give advice from other places, but I think it may not be relevant to my situation.) Thanks in advance for your help

My fiance was denied in his interview, what are our options

Hello everyone,

My moroccan fiance is currently going through the k1 visa process. He had his examination last week. When the doctor asked him if he had ever had depression, he answered he did back in 2011 and sought therapy. We are a little worried that might be a reason for his visa denial. Has anyone gone through something similar and still got accepted? Thank you so much.

After waiting for close to two months on Administrative Processing, my fianc received a call from the consulate requesting a " short" second interview. This was a total shock to us. Why would a second interview be necessary? Does anyone have any experience with this? Any ideas what to expect?

Any help is very much appreciated.