Amyyduck

Thank you all again for your support. It does make me feel at least a tiny bit better to know that I have so many friends and supporters all over the world. I really appreciate it.

Nik+Heather,

Thank you for the advice. I think you may be right, and that our waiver concerns may have had something to do with all of this. I don't really understand how or why, but he seems to think that it was some sort of wake up call to make him realize what he "really wanted." He said that he's been lying to himself the whole time, that he never should have proposed to me in the first place. He said he wants to be on his own for awhile to do something for himself and have an independent life. He said so many different things, some of which were hurtful (though not deliberately) and I don't know which things he really meant or which things he just said to make himself feel better. Some things I think he even said just to make sure that I knew there was no chance of changing his mind. He said he can't marry me out of guilt and I asked him if he ever really loved me in the first place and I guess he was unsure. I just don't know what to believe.

I'm not going to close out his petition just yet, I can't bear to give it up. Part of me has a tiny smidgen of hope that he'll realize this was just a mistake, but the rest of me is pretty realistic about the fact that I'll probably never hear from him again. It pains me to say it, but that's likely the truth.

Thank you again everyone, for all of your kind words, support, and advice.

how long have you been together,as a couple?

Officially we'd been together a year and a half. But we'd been friends since we were 10 years old.

Much as I wish to ask what happened, I know it's a personal matter.

Mel I would gladly tell you what happened, if only I knew for myself..

Thank you all for your kind words and support.

I tried to talk to him about it, I said everything I could think to say to get him to reconsider, to take more time and to talk it through with me. He didn't want to hear any of it. We were supposed to see each other in 3 weeks for Thanksgiving and he wasn't even willing to wait until then to see me in person and work through things. I even offered to give up my life here and move to England to be with him, but he didn't want to hear that either.

I guess I will call USCIS when I am calmer. I don't think they'd be able to even understand me right now through the sobs.

jrmejia, please don't let a small argument come between you two. Give her some space for a day or two and then apologize and talk it out. You'll get through it. Do everything in your power to make sure this is not the end. Hopefully you will be more successful than I.

I'm heartbroken. I don't know what happened. He called it off, says he doesn't want to be with me. Maybe he never loved me, but I sure loved him. My life feels like it's in complete shambles. I wish I could just wake up and this would all have been a bad dream. But unfortunately it's not.

I need to know what I have to do to close my k-1 petition. It's still at VSC waiting to be adjudicated. Please tell me I don't have to wait for my NOA2. I don't think I could stand to see it in the mailbox after all this heartbreak.

She posted this in another thread, if it helps.

Hello,

I just wanted to know others experiences with bring a fiance with the K-1 from mexico, I can read the process times and all but i wont get a sense of how it is unless i ask someone with experience.

Heres mine,

My fiance is a illegal citizen caused by his mother bring him here as an infant, not by choice, i met him in high school so he was under 18 when he decided to do something about it. We filed july 22 2010 before his 18th birthday, they received it on july 23, and we got the receipt that the office received it Aug 3. Since he is already 18 he is leaving the states at the end of october. We do have a daughter together so i am hoping this goes by fast and he is safe in mexico.

My questions are how long from the time you received the receipt to the appointment date, from appointment date to receiving a O.K. to flight back did it take? What happens at the appointment?

Thank you

Have you checked out the UK forum? You're likely to get London specific answers there.

Also check out the UK wiki, this page in particular is probably going to be most helpful for you right now.

Best of luck on the rest of your journey and congrats on your recent NOA2!

202.663.1225

Good luck to fellow Brits Amyyduck and Lucy NY. Hope you have your NOA2 by the end of the week

Thanks! And to you as well! But I filed in August so I'm not expecting anything until at least mid November.

Hey everyone! Got an email from the embassy this morning--our interview is set for Nov 19th at 7am!! Woo hoo! I really hope they give us the visa in time to be home for Thanksgiving I'll be traveling in 3 weeks...can't wait to see him <3

Congratulations! That's super awesome and so soon! I hope your interview goes well.

You're totally going to have your visa before we all get our NOA2's!

From that particular poster, I didn't expect much more.

And for the record, nobody here is saying that people can't ask whatever they'd like. But when they see a question where the answer is very easily found in instructions, it gives off the impression that perhaps other things could have also been missed in the filling out of the forms, so to save the OP some time and worry, it's not bad advice to recommend reading the instructions again.

Thank you Coconuts, for backing me up, because that was exactly my point and I appreciate the support. Hopefully the OP got whatever he needed taken care of and the rest of us can go back to our lives. No harm, no foul.

you simply asked a simple question that need a simple answer all the rest was not warrented.

All the rest? What you mean like you responding to Coconuts with the ever-so-polite exclamation of "WHATEVER.." Right. I would just like to point out that I DID answer OP's question with a simple and succinct answer. You're the one that came along and contributed to the "all the rest."

TRUST me when i say i read those instructions 5 times at least. ive read countless forums and guides and w/e else u can throw at me. thats the problem ive see it 2 million times, and couldnt find it when i actually was doing the petition. next time i wont ask lol ill just breath and be a day late. sorry for all the headache.....

Please don't over react. No one said that you shouldn't have asked the question. I merely suggested that it seemed possible that you hadn't read the instructions because there are some people out there that don't read them and expect the rest of the VJ community to spoon feed them all the way through the process. If you say you're well-read and prepared, then I believe you and I'm glad to hear it. If you have any more questions along the way, please feel free to post them in the forums. Likely someone will be around to answer them promptly.

Best of luck to you on the rest of your journey!

thank you

No problem

im the beneficiary,i just noticed the " last residence " part of it,got a heart attack for about ten minutes,this is what not reading properly gets you

Ok so if you're the beneficiary and you listed your current address where you live as long as it's outside the US and you've lived there for more than 12 months you're all set. That was exactly what they were looking for. As for the OP, what I said still remains true. If he's the petitioner, which I would presume he is considering he's been here for the past 20 years, then he still needs to list his last address outside the US of more than one year. Wherever the last place in the USSR that he lived for more than 12 months before coming to the US is what he needs to write in that space. Hopefully it works out for him

2 questions,what if you are in OPs shoes?you cant remember the address and/or it doesnt exist anymore?

i personally stated none(as far as i can remember ),because i read the question wrong and didnt get it correctly,would that cause an RFE?or get considered a misinterpretation?

PS1: IF i stated the address,it was the last address ive been residing in for the past 6 years,would that be enough?

I honestly don't know. I was 2 years old when I moved to Scotland with my family so I obviously didn't remember the address. I had to have my mom do some serious digging to find some old records or bills or whatever with our address listed on it. It's possible that it would somehow come up as an RFE if it was listed in some database that USCIS came across. It's also possible that they would have no way of knowing where you lived 20 years ago when you were a minor. I can't say either way for certain but what I can say is that if you knowingly put that you never lived outside of the US when in actuality you have, it could be considered a misrep if they find out about it. Your best bet is to attempt to correct the information somehow, I know there has been a thread about this recently although I don't know if it had any useful information because I didn't actually read it. Try here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/277686-can-correcting-mistakes-be-considered-as-misrepresentation/

Best of luck!

Edited to ask: Just to clear up some confusion, are you the USC or the beneficiary? I'm the USC so when it asked me my last address outside the US of more than 1 year I listed it, even though it was a long time ago. If you're the foreign beneficiary then your last address outside the US of more than one year is your current address if you've lived at your current address for more than 12 months. Hopefully that helps..

none,you have been there for 20 years,thats more than one!

This is incorrect. The question is asking if you've lived outside of the US for more than 12 months at a time, and if so, where? Even if it was 20 years ago you still must disclose it. I lived in Scotland with my family between the ages of 2 and 5 years old. That was 20 years ago as well but I still listed it because it definitely happened.

Ook, I have just pressed it for both of your posts.

If you're interested in staying more than 21 days, you can stay up to 59 days with a tourist visa which can apparently be applied for ahead of time or while in the country.

See here: http://manila.usembassy.gov/wwwha006.html#Tourist

I stapled the plastic baggie that held my passport style photos to a piece of paper. I know it says not to use staples but they really mean not to use massive heavy duty staples to put the whole packet together. You can use a paperclip if you're worried about it.

Heres a link to some helpful assembly instructons: http://www.visajourney.com/content/assembly

I would have loved to have a button called "Like" such as that one on facebook because I really like your post, Amy!

Actually there is a +1 button down in the right hand corner. It doesn't do a whole lot but if enough people "+1" a post, it gets a star next to it and a label that says "popular" or something like that.

If you don't mind me saying... Thanks for what? I was just saying Coconuts has a point. I think you misunderstood, but you're nice.

But Coconuts was saying to take my advice because I had a good point. So really it was just a chain of thanks..

She has a point!

Thanks

Hey guys, quick update:

Another July VSC filer was just approved today, well he found out today but the approval was dated for the 18th.

At this point any progress is good news so I'm very happy about this!