InLove4ever's US Immigration Timeline

Petitioner's Name: NLove4ever Beneficiary's Name: NLove4ever2 VJ Member: InLove4ever Country: Morocco Last Updated: 2011-05-09 Add Comment to Timeline Register or log in to follow this timeline

Immigration Checklist for NLove4ever & NLove4ever2:

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 : Texas Service Center Transferred? No Consulate : Morocco I-129F Sent : 2010-09-17 I-129F NOA1 : 2010-09-25 I-129F RFE(s) : RFE Reply(s) : I-129F NOA2 : 2011-02-07 NVC Received : 2011-02-11 Date Case #, IIN, and BIN assigned : NVC Left : 2011-02-25 Consulate Received : Packet 3 Received : 2011-03-14 Packet 3 Sent : 2011-03-31 Packet 4 Received : Interview Date : 2011-04-12 Interview Result : Approved Second Interview (If Required): Second Interview Result: Visa Received : 2011-04-21 US Entry : 2011-05-31 Marriage : Comments : Date of POE is tentative. Please see my consulate review and timeline for details of our journey. Processing Estimates/Stats : Your I-129f was approved in 135 days from your NOA1 date. Your interview took 199 days from your I-129F NOA1 date.

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Consulate Review: Morocco Review Topic: K1 Visa Event Description Review Date : May 9, 2011 Embassy Review : Interview at the Casablanca Morocco Consulate Unfortunately I could not be present for my Fiancé’s interview (on April 2011) because I had just spent a few weeks in Casablanca Morocco two months earlier and had to get back to work. But my Fiancé called me on my cell phone immediately after his interview to tell me how it went. I will share with you as much info as I got from my Fiancé. My Fiancé had arrived at the consulates office at 9:00 a.m. While I was in Morocco visiting my Fiancé, I had prepared for him a thick folder with the I-134 and the I-864 as well as a current letter of intent to marry, lots of photos of both my trips to visit him, emails windows live screen shots of the two of us talking to each other, etc. I signed all the documents but did not date them as I didn’t know at the time when he would have his interview. Also, I prepared a letter of intent to marry for each month starting from Feb thru Sept and just placed the month and year at the top of the letter that way he’d be covered if his interview was scheduled in any of those months. In short, my Fiancé was the last person to be interviewed and by an older gray haired Caucasian man. The CO was very short with my Fiancé in that he would ask him a question then cut my Fiancé off when he tried to answer the question. I had read somewhere that sometimes the CO wants to see if the beneficiary seems like they just memorized the answers to questions that they might ask, but I didn’t care about that because I wanted my Fiancé to know how to answer certain questions so I gave him a few mock interviews before the interview date to be sure that he would not fumble, be surprised by the questions, or answer them incorrectly. It turned out that this method paid off because 90 percent of the questions that I tested my Fiancé on were asked during his interview. Still, the CO was very suspicious about the sincerity of our relationship, and to sum it up told my Fiancé that he didn’t like the fact that we meet on the Internet and that he didn’t think that we knew each other long enough and that my two visits to Casablanca weren’t enough for my Fiancé to know me. He told my Fiancé that our case was a “NO Approval” case. The CO repeated this several times throughout the interview that our petition was a “No Approval” and that he felt that he should issue a “denial without prejudice.” Now, it is my understanding that a case should not be denied based on someone else’s opinion about how well or how long you know the beneficiary, but unfortunately at the Moroccan Consulate, this is often used as a factor for denying Fiancé visas. Also, I have heard about Visas being denied based on the racial makeup of the couple. Well, my Fiancé does not have any hang-ups about race, but he felt that the CO had also expressed some feelings of disapproval due to the fact that I am African American and Christian. My Fiancé kept his cool during the whole interview (or interrogation) because my Fiancé is a very calm and respectful man that thinks things through before reacting. Also, my Fiancé and I had discussed in advance the possibility of denial for reasons beyond our control like those being use by the CO. So we had already prepared, as much as possible for what happens if we get denied. In any case, the CO said that he would check my Fiancé’s immigration status, as my Fiancé had been in the US several years earlier on a Student Visa. The CO said that if his status checked out alright he might approve the visa. My Fiancé said he answered all of the CO’s questions accurately and without hesitation. Additionally, our paperwork was in order, the affidavit of support (I-134), current letter of intent to marry, a copy of the offer letter from my new employer stating my salary information, etc. The only thing that was holding us up was the CO’s opinion that my Fiancé and I hadn’t known each other long enough. My Fiancé left the consulate with no approval and not much information about when he would be contacted again regarding his visa approval status. After talking to my Fiancé on the day of his interview, we decided that I should call the consulates office to show support and check to see why he did not get approved on the day of his interview. Also, I had heard so many horror stories of how the CO just sat on the petition until it expired and I didn’t want that to happen to us. So I waited three business days after the interview and called the consulate on a Monday morning. I had a really hard time getting through, but when I did get through I spoke to what sounded like an American lady and she was very nice. She looked up our petition and told me that it had been approved, but was just sitting there. She stated that she didn’t know why we had not been contacted about the approval. I did not reply to this information. I let the lady do all the talking and she said, “It says visa approved, but I have to check to see if it’s alright to release it to your Fiancé.” “Can you call me back in five minutes?” Of course I said, yes and thanked her for looking into the status of our petition. When I called the consulate back, in about twenty minutes, a Moroccan man answered the phone this time and he said with a heavy accent, “Yes, your Visa was approved, and you can tell your Fiancé to come pick it up after 3pm today.” “We will call him and let him know as well.” The Moroccan man had expressed more excitement about the approval then I had. I just remained calm, and said thank you with a tone of gratitude. In fact, I was so calm that I probably seemed to be sedated. Honestly, I just didn’t want to get excited about it and have something else come up at the consulate. Further still, my attitude was that “I will believe it when my Fiancé has his visa in hand.” To conclude, the consulate did call my Fiancé on the same day that I got the notice, and they told him to pick up his visa in three days. My Fiancé has picked up his Visa, I have seen it, and now I’m excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VJ Member: InLove4ever Rating : Good

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