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2 weeks ago we were finally asked to send in my fiancé’s passport and updated ACRO. Finally thought we were in the home stretch. Today, the CEAC site states the following: You have been notified that your registration for an immigrant visa was cancelled, and any petition approved on your behalf was also cancelled. We informed you that your application might be reinstated if, within one year, you could establish that your failure to pursue your immigrant visa application was due to circumstances beyond your control. Since you have failed to do so, the record of your registration and any petition approved on your behalf and all supporting documents have been destroyed; any Department of Labor certification has been returned to your prospective employer. If you are still interested in obtaining an immigrant visa, the petitioner should contact the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) regarding filing a new immigrant visa petition. Has anyone been through this? Quick history: Interview was 19 March 2024 and was refused due to medical. Waited a year to go random alcohol screens and the new, approved medical, was sent to the consulate 07 March 2025. We were asked to send the passport and ACRO 28 March which we did within a week and it was stamped receipt 7 April 2025. The receipt was by mailboxes etc. I can’t get confirmation on the documents actually making it to the embassy other than they were sent. Today, the status sends this. After a 3 year wait since inputting the app, you can understand what this message is doing to our mental state. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hello! In March 2024, my husband failed his K1 medical in London due to a DUI from 2006 (apparently the law changed and it doesn’t matter how old the charge is- it usually fails you). He was put into a mandatory year long program where he was to take 3-4 random alcohol screen at Visa Medicals in London. Complete pain as he lives in the north and it cost £150, train travel, and a day’s pay. Anyway, I can’t find anything about what to expect now that we are coming to the end of this and I’d love to speak to someone who has been through this. When he failed his medical March 9, he stated his last drink was Feb 15 2024. Does his year start from his last drink, the date of the failed medical, or when they decided to call him for his first test which wasn’t until Mid-April? Can we expect any sort of “front of the line” privilege for the consulate interview since this is round #2? Any insight in this would be so helpful! I will be happy to share everything we’ve been through as well. thanks!

Fiancé was told he failed his medical yesterday due to the fact that the Dr. felt he had a problem with alcohol based on a 2007 conviction of DUI. He was told the exam would be sent to the embassy in London. His interview is 3/19- is the failed medical an automatic visa rejection? I can’t find any concrete answers to my question or anyone who has been through this. We have a lawyer who is researching but just wondering if anyone has been through this?

Thank you, W199! This is exactly what we're doing. An annulment in FL takes 30-45 days and I filed today. We have until 1/8/24 to respond.

So, I have no idea how to reply to each responder (this is like a forum from 1995!) Anyway: 1) My first husband and I got a LEGAL divorce last year 2022 after my lawyer suggested our first Mexican divorce was invalid and just to be safe. This documentation was submitted with the K-1 application. 2) After some research since the RFE, we have established that the Mexican divorce is in fact invalid. See Mexican Embassy Guidance. My first husband and I were never residents in Mexico nor were we in Mexico when the decree was issued. It was all done online. 3) The UK, when contacted regarding my partner's marital status, of course saw that he is listed as married as THEIR government allowed me a spousal visa when I lived there. We submitted a lengthy explanation for all of this with the K-1, but the RFE is demanding proof that my partner is legally permitted to marry. 4) An annulment is allowed as proof that the marriage is null/void and in FL where I live, this takes about 30-45 days. I'm hoping this resolves the issues and satisfies their requirements. Who knows? Maybe I will end up in jail for bigamy. Only time will tell.

I am the petitioner...my fiance is the beneficiary from the UK. We hired an immigration lawyer last year after a horrible issue with Boundless that set us way back. I won't go into it because it has nothing to do with this. Anyway- in 2014, my first husband and I filed and were granted a Mexican divorce because we were both living in the UK and it was the quickest way to get it completed. I was sent the divorce decree in Spanish and in English. After the divorce, I met and married a British man. The UK granted me a spousal visa based on the Mexican divorce which THEY deemed legal. My "husband" and I lived there as husband and wife for 7 years and then I moved back to the US for work thinking we could just submit a greencard application. After our lawyer went through all of the paperwork, he advised us that it was very likely, "almost certain" that the US would not consider the Mexican divorce legal especially considering we did it all online and we're present in Mexico. He advised that I get a divorce from my ex husband in the state I live, re-marry my (what I thought was my husband) and apply for the greencard OR apply for the K-1 and marry once granted. We chose the K-1 route because it is quicker (or so we were told) Our lawyer submitted the K-1 application in October 2022. Over the weekend, we received an RFE for proof of my husband's divorce (TO ME), which of course we don't have. My lawyer has not gotten back to me yet with anything other than, "I will respond and discuss with you before I submit." Is this just a matter of explaining as I just did? I cannot get divorced because the UK sees me as having been married up until last year to my EX and in the UK, they show me as being married to my current partner for 7 years. I guess the good news is that I have a (very expensive) lawyer, but I'm just worried of the person reviewing our file. Do you think we are doomed and will be denied?