MrBr

Hello all,

I just had my I129F petition approved.

The next step I will start to do the medical examination/tests.

I have a question.

Before anything, I'm not a drug user, I had smoked weed a couple times in my life (no problem with who like to smoke :-))

This last Febuary, I was in a party, what I drank a little bit more that what I suppose to and I did a few hits in a weed cigarette.

I hear that the one of the medical exams is the drug addiction test. I was reading that exists few types of test, from urine/blood to the DNA (hair test).

What I hear that the hair test can show if you have in touch with some drug to longer than 6 months (in some times).

Do you guys know what kind of drug test do they do? Is the hair one?

Thanks again for all help,

MrBr

Oh guys..

Thanks so much for the advices, I really appreciate....

It's what I had in my mind, just show them that it doesn't turned in a close relationship after I get my visas denied, that it always was a real relationship.. what is true.. so no fear to proof

We just don't have too much photo in US, it because it was kind of our day by day life... but I think a few letter from our friends telling how they met us and how we use to be in US and show our trips together may help..

Thanks for advice to I consider front-loading the petition with all evidences to be part of the official records. make sense! :-)

One thing that always I don't know if I can or I can't say...

"Living in US" with a non-immigration visa is unlawful... I say that i wasn't, but at the end of the day, none stay 90% of the year in a country and is not really living there, so at the end of the day I was living there, even I was coming back and forth all the time to renew the visa stay...

They asking if "I was living" in US that time, if I saying YES, in fact the main reason that "I was living there was her", does it count at negative, positive or doesn't matter? (since [i think] they can't punish something that in the "paper" you didn't do])

I mean, I didn't overstay, but at the end of the day none in the officer are fool, they imagine that i was living there.

Attaching all my entries to US and the time that I staid there in the petition (before get my visa cancel) do you guys think that it counts to show a "bona fides"?

Or is better to forget this subject and just bring up if they ask?

She's coming for new years.. it will be kind of double celebration... new year + engagement celebration so we will start everything in Jan...

I will keep posting news. :-)

If anyone already passed for something similar what I'm going to, I will love to hear about! :-)

Thanks again for all help..

Cheers,

Hi all!

Here I'm again.

The last time I posted about my situation and get a good feedback and some insights, but I didn't hear none that had some experience like mine.

Now I've decided what we're going to do (i was thinking betweek K1 and K3 before), so I'd like to see if anyone had any experience like that before and could help us.

Sorry for the long history, but maybe you guys can have a clear understanding what is happening and if someone can help me.

Well, in 2007 I went to US to get "long vocation" [5 months] after working 7 years non-stop.

I had a B1/B2 visa so I went to US to stay few months (nothing more that they allow me) and have some fun..

Well I did and in the 4th month, I found a woman (and I didn't know that that one will be the woman of my life)...

After our first date we start to see each other everyday, hanging out and enjoying the time...

But my stay limit in US was getting close to expired (i-94) and I had to fly back to my home country, so I did, but instead forget her and stay in my home country forever I decided to go back to US and keep the life running there. (I had a company in Brazil, so I was doing consulting work on behalf of my company in US, so I could get money without problem and keep my life running).. [ok im not the fact that I could or not could be doing this kind of consulting for a while and if is right or not].

Well, the life was great and we were kind of living together, each one had your apt but we were almost living in the same place.. So always before my stay expires I came to my home country, spend some time with my family (usually short time.. 1 month) and come back to US.. [but never overstay]

No magical, I knew one day if I still doing that i will get caught when I try to get in US... yep.. so in Dec '08 it happened, when I was trying to getting in US after my trip to my home country they said that i was spending to much time in US so looks like I was living there so they couldn't allow me to get in and they will cancel my visa.. well they did.. [i didn't get ANY ban, but for sure some giant red flag]

After that, after just 4 months I applied back again for B1/B2 visa to go back to US [that time I really had a meeting there], but again, it's logical, they denied the visa saying that in my history look like I was planning to immigrate to US...

After that the pain in the #### situation started.. I really wanted to see my girlfriend and didn't have how... well we went to Canada together spent a 3 days there... after a little bit she went to Brazil to stay with me a few days.. so that time i wanted to go back to US to stay with her... so I company in US offered me a J1 (exchange program) to go to US.. for me it sounded great.. i could get back together with her..

No big deal, in the interview day (just after 8 months after the B denied), the guys just looked at me and says: "it's getting worse, it's clear that you're trying to come back to US.. cyaa.." denied.. little frustration but I understood, it was clear, I just didn't tell him that was because my girlfriend, for me it could get worse...

Well, she came back again to Brazil and we decide that we really want to live together and we want to marry.. I asked her to live in Brazil for a little bit, but the language will turn our relationship in a nightmare.... we both parents know about our relationship, she has met my parents and my family, sure I didn't meet her parents because I can't go to US...

The point is, she just left back to US this week, and she's coming back again next month to we spend the new years together and after that we will apply for K1 visa..

We're together since Dec '07, i know all her friends in US and she knows my friends over here, and she will be in Brazil 4 times in 12 months, and we also went to Canada together... my worry is in the interview.. (if I was the officer, def i will suspect like this guys is back again here trying to get in US... but the point is.. ok i was trying to get in US to see her.. )

Do you guys think that for this history for many denies, "living" in US that time (going back and forth, even never overstaid), have B visa denied and J visa denied could we have too much trouble trying to get our K1 visa?

We already talked that she fly here to the interview day, to we do together..

But have you guys hear about any case like that? Any advice?

Thanks again for all help!!

Cheers

Rings -

Thanks for your reply...

Make completely sense what you wrote.

Thanks for your guys help!

Me and my girlfriend will talk and I'm thinking to hire I lawyer so I will figure with the lawyer the right way to do.

Anyway now I have some hope that we can be living together in US.

I will post news soon!

Cheers,

Bob -

Usually how long takes the Option 1 and Option 2?

Thanks

Guys!

Thanks so much for your reply...

We will talk this weekend and decide what we gonna do!

My last question... should I think in the possibility to apply or k-1 visa? (fiance)

Or will it be more tough?

I was wounder if they take this point if it's a real or not real marriage (but at the end of the day, is important that I know.. and if comes to they denied we move together for someplace else).

Marring first in Brazil instead ask for K-1 visa looks better that it's not a fake marriage? or it doesn't matter in this case? What do you guys think?

PS: Tks again!!

Hello guys!

I was reading a few topics in this forum and I get encouraged to write down my case and maybe you guys have some advice.

Oh, I hoped my case was easy like the title that I wrote down...

Well I will try to be short and I will tell a little bit about the past:

I'm from Brazil and in the last 1 year and half been "living" between US and Brazil, (for me) logically I wasn't living in US it because I have a company in Brazil and I was doing business with a company in US, so I was traveling to US stay 2 months (or sometimes 5 months) come back to Brazil do my stuff down here in Brazil (short period) and return to US to continue the business. (representing my Brazilian company)

Well, in Nov '08 I made a trip from US to Brazil, short trip, I just came for do a meeting with client down here and sign off a papers and came back to US (one week later) to finish the project that we were taking care in US.

When I got in US the immigration officer started to do a ton of research in Internet about me and the end of the day they says: for us looks like you're living in US and not really making business, it because if we count all your stay in US you have 300 and somethings days and we found a couple stuff on internet that says that you live in US. (PS: I NEVER overstay ONE day under my I-94's, I always left weeks before it expires). [things like facebook]

He told me that he could withdraw my application, cancel my visa and I return to Brazil, that this way I understand that the visa that I was going that time wasn't the right visa for I was planning to, but they wasn't banning me or nothing, I just will have to apply for new visas. (he told me that if I didn't agree with that they could do a quick judge or something like that, but if get proved something else I could be BAN, so I did prefer to take option.. lol )

Well I came back and after 2 months I applied for the same visa B1/B2 because I really really had to do a meeting in US (I had the invitation letter, bank statement of my Brazilian company etc), well they guy denied my application and said that I didn't have binds with Brazil and was looking like I was trying to go back to US to live.

After that I forgot about US but I had (still have) a American girlfriend, that I like her and we really wanna stay together, so she came to Brazil couple times and we went for other country together as well.

Well this same US company that I was doing business before called me and asked me if I wanted to try a J1 visa, that I could stay in US for 18 months do a training and then come back to Brazil... I thought that was great idea 'cause i could stay a little bit in US and stay in my girlfriend.. but after I applied for all papers, i got approved by the sponsor in US, but when I went in the interview in the consulate in Brazil, guess what! boom!, denied, same thing, told me that for her (officer) looks like that I was trying to immigrate to US, and the history looked like I lived in US before and it's getting to look bad for me because I was applying back again and now different visa (like many applications).. (well i told them, I needed to go to a meeting, i applied for business visa, now they offered me a training plan, i just applying for the visa that I suppose to, and the history i never overstay, but ok.. i know that is their job and I'm ok that, was ok)...

Well, after this time I just gave up and I saw no big deal, I'm good down here, but the problem is my girlfriend because, she doesn't wanna to live in Brazil because of the language, and want to stay together.. she comes often to Brazil, and we're planning to marry down here, maybe live couple months here in Brazil and then go back to US together.

My worry is, marring in Brazil after all this my history with US Consulate / Visas, will I be able to get a K visa or apply for green card to go back with her, our biggest concern is she has to live outside of US (where is all her family).

Do you guys have hear any case similar like that?

Thanks for any advice,

Sorry for the long history.