US Immigration from Morocco

Hey everyone,

My fiance lives in Turkey and has a scholarship for school. That is the only way she has residency there as she is originally from Morocco. Will it look bad for her to stop going to school there and continue the residency? She is only a year into her 4 year program and it is not something she wants to continue or that will be related to her future US job potentially.

I know that visa interviews can sometimes ask about situations like this. If she was living in Turkey for the purpose of school and stopped going while living there then I'm worried it could raise red flags. She would have to do internships that would be time-consuming and pointless for hospitality jobs and they would be completely unpaid if she continues school. We met while she was still living in Morocco and she came to school about a year later in Turkey.

Her attending school now creates unnecessary work, doesn't have an end goal, and takes time away from our schedules and potential other career internships she would actually be interested in. I know she could move back to Morocco but our interview will be scheduled in Turkey as the paperwork is now (still waiting on the NVC, our initial petition did get approved though)

Advice is appreciated

Hello, our initial petition was recently approved after over a year.

My fiance is a Moroccan citizen who studies and lives in Turkey. She has been there for a year.

We still have to hear from the National Visa Center. Our interview is not scheduled yet. Our main concerns would be being denied or waiting longer.

Our relationship is strong, we only had visited once at the time of our application but have since went on 4 trips total together to different countries (about 3 months in person). We are the same age.

The potential things they may judge on is her living in Turkey to study while being a Moroccan citizen. Maybe they would look at the cultural or traditional religious differences of America and a Muslim country. She will likely have her interview in Turkey which I heard can be hard sometimes if the person decides to be.

Also, we are wondering how much time it will take since the petition was approved on Sept 30. We have waited over 460 days now.

Any advice would be appreciated, I researched a ton on this but it's always good to learn more.

Is there a time of the day that USCIS updates our statuses? Are they updated as they are approved or at the end of the day or something ? I need help with this new unhealthy obsession with checking all day long

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