US Immigration from South Africa

Hi there,

Has anyone else been requested to provide/send their unabridged marriage certificate ?

Our concern is that

1)After we submit this certificate, will it be all and then we will be granted a visa or will there be more documents requested or a second interview date? (The interviewer stated that there will be no second interview required)

On the pink form the lady gave to me whom conducted the interview there is only one box ticked (the long version - unabridged marriage certificate)

She said that after they receive this document they will then make the decision weather my visa is approved.

It seems this is the only thing that is still a issue, nothing else.

2)Is there anything we are missing, that we should take in to account that could delay the process more after this supposed to be final step? (anyone who as any experience of this situation)

3)My husband has dual citizenship (being both American and South African) we got married on his South African identity - will this course any issues or would they be able to prove the link without requesting the documents, given he went through the naturalization process 10+ years ago?

On our original short version marriage certificate it shows his identification as South African ID witch they have in their system and I had the original that was handed back to me on the day of the interview - they had no remarks about.

4) While we are in the unknowing of how long until the visa gets approved given (now that we have to submit a document we were not aware of , the unabridged marriage certificate that takes around 6 to 8 weeks minimum time, could take 1 year worst case) we are considering other options, I asked the interviewer if I could possibly apply for a holiday visa and carry out the process further in the US - she responded by saying that (yes I can but there is no grantee that I will be approved)

Firstly I can't without my passport that they have with them, but I'm not sure. Is there anyone who has experienced applying for a holiday visa after their interview and what was the outcome of that?

I highly apricate any feedback on these matters.

I have a issue please assist our plan has been let s do the k1 we won t start until sept this year. But there s 4 things in my pass that is bugging me that I am not able to get no records from police or Courts.

the below is the following

passing a school bus

Reckless driving (speeding)

driving with no license ( not suspended I just left it at home )

making annoying calls

in the state of va after ten years the records are purge and physical documents destroy. I got letters from a few court clerks offices saying pretty much the same thing, unable to provide records after 10 years .I did a criminal background Check on myself and nothing came back, I went to court for making annoying calls but I believe it was drop that was like 15 plus years ago .the dmv doesn t even got records of no traffic violations.since it s over 10 years.

to avoid this headache I thought about going CR1 route i mean they will know but at least it s not as hard to try searching for all this.

from reading stuff I heard the cr1 doesn t ask about criminal past on me (US petition) Is the CR1 form fill out by me or my foreigner spouse?

does any one has a link to the form to look at it ?

Thoughts

Good morning,

I am in the process of filing to bring my stepson to live in the US with us. Quick overview of my situation: I was living abroad with my husband for several years. We decided to move this side. Because I was not employed while living overseas my mom acted as a co-Sponsor for my husband. We arrived in the US just before COVID so we were not working until June of 2020. Our tax return obviously only reflects 6 months of employment, which wouldn t appear to be enough for sponsorship. My husband has received a promotion since and is now salaried.

my question is this, is a letter of employment with his salary amount enough evidence that we can indeed support our son or should we ask my mom to co-Sponsor again? If she does! Will we need to pay filing fees twice or would both affidavits be covered with one fee?

Thank you VJ for your help and support .

I was at the Embassy at exactly 1pm and my appointment was at 1.30, We were called in into the immigrant section.

Co; How dd you meet your wife

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Co. Where did you guys go when she visited

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Co. How long have you been married to your wife

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Co. When do I want to go meet my wife?

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Co where will you live with you get to the USA

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about 2 Questions and I was able to answer to the best of my knowledge. Meanwhile while I was been interviewed, they already placed a call to my wife, Well in all I was approved and asked to wait for couple of week due to backlog.

Thank you everyone .

I submitted an I-130 to begin the process of bringing my stepson to live with us here in the US. I filed Dec 2020 and this morning I got a text message and email saying action has been taken on my case but when I try to login, it says, Error retrieving case status. Try again later. Above that it says Case Closed. Is this a good thing or not? When I filed for my husband I was living abroad with him and everything went through the consulate, so this route is all new to me.