Jordanian Bride

Exactly. Now you can pay the fees, wait for them to go through, fill in the DS-260 on behalf of your wife, and upload all the documents. Make sure the civil documents are correct based on the country of issuance of each document here: nvc.state.gov/find

Your I-551 stamp acts as a temporary green card from the date it was stamped up to one year (Dec 12, 2023).

Congrats on getting approved. Neither of you creates the account — the NVC creates it for you and sends you the login info in an email. Wait for this email to come from them.

Congrats!!!! 🎉 I will. I also tend to post the IL updates on this thread.

Then that is great news for everyone else going through the same thing!

I think our interviews will simply be scheduled 30 days ahead instead of 60 days ahead, as long as they keep up the same pace. IL in Jan — Interview in Feb IL in Feb — Interview in March They could also send out ILs in two batches in January, and they’ve done that before I believe this August or September.

Congrats!!!!!!! The email is all that matters, but surely it eases the mind to see the portal updated too. Do you think it’s the congressional inquiry that helped?

Congrats!!! So happy for you. I recommend you make a timeline on VJ so others can benefit, especially since you say 500 days at USCIS.

Lucky you for having been able to travel all over Jordan together before the wedding! We met in university so have many years of pictures together where we look much younger, but it’s just the two of us. Hope it suffices. I’ve seen people say if both spouses are of Arab origins, then the immigrant can totally have the interview in Arabic. It becomes a problem when the American spouse isn’t Arab. In that case, the immigrant can request to be asked in English and to reply in Arabic. I wish you guys the best, and a blast in the Maldives 🏝!!!!

My husband says it’s likely that the second girl just doesn’t have enough proof/pictures together with her spouse. It does make sense, as many people do Katb Kitab in Jordan and the American spouse leaves, scheduling the wedding to be after visa issuance. A traditional couple would struggle to come up with evidence of a bona fide marriage, and I think that’s all it is. Plenty of people were too poor to host a wedding party at a time in their life, but they have a child for example at the time of the interview, so the CO is convinced.

I think it is because they understand the culture in Jordan that they were 221G’d, as the marriage is considered not consummated. That being said, not everyone gets delayed because of the lack of a wedding reception. It depends entirely on the CO. So here goes…. One of the girls got legally married 8 years ago but hasn’t had a wedding yet/didn’t start living as husband and wife, which is outrageous to me and I’m not even sure what that’s about. So it MAKES sense. The other case was a recent legal marriage but their wedding is scheduled later this year. She was told to send in the wedding photographs with her passport. I have seen a third girl in the group that got the visa this month but supposedly lied and said they just canceled the wedding due to a death in the family and simply went to honeymoon in Aqaba, explaining the lack of travel itinerary evidence. I don’t want to do what this girl did as lying to the government gets you in deeper trouble than having to wait a few more months. We DO have our venue booked, however I’m not going to volunteer the information unless I am asked.

It’s for the better that you’re doing that because I saw two women got served a 221g this month because they haven’t done a wedding ceremony at the time of the interview. It’s something that worries me too, as I expect the interview to be a month before our wedding ceremony.

They did not send them out this month yet, unfortunately. They might not at all.. But either way, February is still open, so it might just be that Aug-Oct get ILs next month to be interviewed in February.

Submitted Oct 5 and DQ’d Nov 17. Expecting the IL in January or February. Hoping you get DQ’d soon!

Check your case status. https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/landing.do Probably says your application is being actively reviewed. If it is, don’t get your hopes up — it doesn’t mean much.

It’s best that you do if you are filing your taxes jointly. It’s a good precaution to avoid delays if you are filing separately.

Better phrasing than mine

@Simplytex It’s pointing more and more to this not being an anti-Russian conspiracy but a “bolstering our case review stats” conspiracy. Or simply a chaotic employee 🤔

I was going to say it makes sense because AskEmma always asks for the I-130 petitioner’s DOB, but I remembered they don’t even ask for the beneficiary’s DOB. In the NVC it’s the applicant’s DOB that matters… The people processing public inquiries are often incompetent, unless they are super common/straight forward requests such as - Upgrading F2A to CR1 - Requesting not to be upgraded to F1 after petitioner naturalization - Changing interview post

I’ve come to believe that with the NVC, “or” just means “you’ll eventually have to submit everything”.

Neither am I. I would be doing the same!

Resubmit inquiry with more details this time and hope for the best. Don’t give up just yet 👍🏻

We have one like it in Jordan, and it is just a CBC (Complete Blood Count) test — used basically to exclude thalassemia. I don’t think Morocco regularly tests for STIs before marriage.

I just think if they were trying to be weird on purpose, they would not touch your case at all, and you wouldn’t have gotten an email to check your case. Not to invalidate your experience of course, because I do think there’s something off with how they handle Russian cases, but that’s mostly regarding their insistence on their chosen post of Warsaw despite the increasing obstacles. If the response to the public inquiry is a generic reply, you should contact a congressman’s immigration liaison. I’ve heard about them sorting out NVC issues that otherwise used to get generic replies through the public inquiry. Hopefully there’ll be no need for that.

It took 3 business days for us.