dknoon3's US Immigration Timeline

Petitioner's Name: Dan Beneficiary's Name: Amna VJ Member: dknoon3 Country: Pakistan Last Updated: 2009-04-06 Add Comment to Timeline Register or log in to follow this timeline

Immigration Checklist for Dan & Amna:

USCIS I-129F Petition:       Dept of State K1 Visa:     USCIS I-485 Petition:   USCIS I-765 Petition:       USCIS I-131 Petition:       USCIS I-751 Petition:   USCIS N-400 Petition:

K1 Visa Event Date Service Center : Vermont Service Center Transferred? No Consulate : Islamabad, Pakistan I-129F Sent : 2008-08-29 I-129F NOA1 : 2008-09-04 I-129F RFE(s) : RFE Reply(s) : I-129F NOA2 : 2009-01-14 NVC Received : 2009-01-16 Date Case #, IIN, and BIN assigned : NVC Left : 2009-01-19 Consulate Received : 2009-01-26 Packet 3 Received : 2009-01-30 Packet 3 Sent : 2009-02-03 Packet 4 Received : 2009-03-09 Interview Date : 2009-03-27 Interview Result : Second Interview (If Required): Second Interview Result: Visa Received : 2009-04-06 US Entry : 2009-04-25 Marriage : Comments : Processing Estimates/Stats : Your I-129f was approved in 132 days from your NOA1 date. Your interview took 204 days from your I-129F NOA1 date.

Member Reviews:

Consulate Review: Islamabad, Pakistan Review Topic: K1 Visa Event Description Review Date : April 9, 2009 Embassy Review : Here is my fiancée’s experience with her K-1 interview in Islamabad on March 27, 2009 You go to the shuttle service place and wait in line for the shuttle. The women have a separate line and the men a separate one. The women's line moves a lot slower. The shuttle costs Rs. 200 for one person. You have to deposit your cell phone before you get on the shuttle. There is no charge for that you also have to deposit your bag, but only if you have a large bag, which she did. If they make you deposit it, make sure you double check that you take all you important belongings out of it like documents and your wallet. It is about a 10-15 min ride to the embassy. They drop you right outside. Only people who have applied for the visa are allowed to go in at this point. If it is an immigrant case, you do not have to wait too long in the line because there’s usually not a lot of immigrant visa cases. The guard then lets you inside, where you are directed inside a room for finger printing. You must have your interview letter out at this point because the finger print people take it from you. Once the finger printing is done you go wait inside the waiting room with everyone else there are tons of counters over there where you are interviewed. You are first called to pay the immigration fee, and at that point the person asks what language you want to take the interview in. After that you are called again at another window where the person makes you sign one of the forms and you take an oath. After that you have to wait for a few more mins until you are finally called for your interview. During the interview the CO was shuffling through the papers and asked where we met. He continued to shuffle papers and then started looking through the pictures she provided. He thought it was strange that I was a white American yet I had a Pakistani last name. My last name is actually Irish but apparently it is also the same as a family in Karachi (im sure elsewhere in Pakistan as well). He noted that she has a visa waiver in her passport (she was born in scotland so she is a british citizen). He then told her that she could have just come on the visa waiver and gotten married. Everyone we had talked to about this process advised not to go that path, as technically that is illegal and fraudulent. Funny now that we had to wait 8-9 months that the CO tells us we should have just done that. I think he asked her 1 or 2 other questions about what she plans on doing once she arrives in the US for work/school. Then he told her that she can pick up her visa in 7 days. By the time she got to the embassy until the time she left the embassy it took her about an hour and a half. Rating : Very Good

POE Review: JFK Event Description Entry Date : 2009-04-25 Embassy Review : Flight landed at JFK without too much of a delay but like others posted here said, there were long lines at immigration. i escorted my fiancee through the non-american passport lines. the IO took my passport first, no questions at all, just stamped it. then opened my fiancees packet. he was looking at her passport and noticed she had a visa waiver...he said she should have just come on the visa waiver and gotten married rather than go through the fiancee visa process. anyway, no questions asked of her except for fingerprints. after she put her hand on the fingerprinter the IO said Shookria (Thank you in Urdu). My fiancee was floored that the IO knew Urdu and this finally put her at ease. he stamped her passport and then sent us to another desk (not sure what happened here since i went to go get our luggage). they told her that she needed to go though a different customs line because they needed to check her luggage. she went through a seperate line but they didnt check her bags. the line at immigration took about 45 minutes, but once we got to the IO until we were out of the airport was about 20 minutes. Harassment Level : Low

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