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	Create New Topic   My Posts   My forum buddies   Invite friends   Private messages Russian brides > Main Forum > Fiance visa Author Post crashnsplash Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/17/2004 6:29:11 AM   Well guys, we FINALLY got our embassy date. Its in about 2 months and she will finally be here! What a journey this has been, were both so excited and alot of stress for us both is finally gone now that we can see an end to this process. I want to give you all an idea what to expect if you haven't started yet. Well from my first call placed to my lawyer to our interview date took 7 months. After you get all documents in order for you AND her and submit it to the USCIS it takes about 4 to 6 weeks to get approved. After that everything goes to the NVA and they begin background checks on you and her. You can expect another 4 to 6 weeks for this as well. If you don't hear anything in that time you have a approval notice from the USCIS with a special number and your code to call the NVA to see if your documents have been sent overseas to the embassy. From this point luck takes over. It all depends on when the embassy opens your file and sets an interview date. For me it took about 10 weeks from my approval date at USCIS to get our date at the embassy. Now that we have it we are waiting another 2 months. Now this is really a brief overview of what happens. Your lady has many docoments to prepare, get translated and notorized. Believe me its a bit of a pain but its worth it at the end. My advice is 3 words: Patience, Patience and MORE Patience! You will need it. In the beginning I wanted to do it without a lawyer, but after being through the process I can say that if you do it yourself, GOODLUCK, I think your crazy!! My best decision was hiring a well qualified attorney. Mine has staff in her city and in Moscow that will be there for her at the interview. It has been a TREMENDOUS help for her!! To all out there, GOOD LUCK and I hope this helps a little. nasfan6 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/17/2004 10:01:21 PM   Hey Crash Would you mind sending me the info on your attorney by my email, I also have looked into this and have decided to use an immigration attorney. Thanks Mike tgr Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/18/2004 8:19:13 AM   I must strees using an attorney too. It too abotu 5 weeks to esablish communications between the lawyer and tmy fiance' (had to get a phone installed and set upa private e-mai address). After that it took about 10 weeks from start to finish for me. That is because I live in a state where the system is not backed up. We are small and do not have a lot of immagration compared to other states. I agree CRASH, Patience, Patience and MORE PATIENCE!! If you can survive thru the red tape, likely your marriage will last too. Also keep in mind, If you live in the USA, there are some changes that will have an affect on Immagration. The new Homeland Security bill. I did not find anythign yet about these changes talked about. This is where your lawyer will come in. Glad you had one with people in Moscow, I did to. It made the process so much easier. The next day, I go an e-mail from mine with the "change of status" package for when we are ready to go thru that paperwoek monster. Good luck! my spelling sucks this morning. 3 days of celebrating for getting the visa! Asprin anyone? jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/18/2004 4:57:32 PM   My confidence is slowly slipping away as I read two posts form guys who hired attorneys and were glad that they did. I AM dealing with a different system of course, Moldova (visas are handled in Bucharest, Romania) as opposed to Moscow. And I have had some legal education with my MBA. I handled my own divorce entirely - both sides - meaning I also "represented" my exwife at our hearing - she was satisfied with the paperwork as I drew it up and decided against getting legal counsel of her own. (Lucky me.) I am also licensed to broker real estate (though I do not SELL real estate). Whether or not these broadbased skills will be enough to see me through the K-1 maze, we will see. And please - Nobody mention the old adage that says "A man who acts as his own attorney has a fool for a client." Frank Vans Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/18/2004 5:22:45 PM   Crash, My Elena got her interview date today too, perhaps they both are going to have the interview on the same time (2/28)? tradman Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/19/2004 8:02:39 AM   jet, are you sure they are handled in Bucharest, british ones use to be, but they are now handled in Chisinau, of course it may be totally different jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/19/2004 9:49:49 AM   Absolutely certain trad - we confered with a consolate representative in April (2004) and I received email just a month ago. As of that time (and evidently no plans to change it) fiance visa's are handled in Bucharest. As I mention above - she is not crazy about theidea of traveling there. She says she has never been to Romania. I gave her a choice - that I would either visit Moldova in January including her birthday - OR whenever the interview is - we could go to Romania together. She said she wanted to see me as soon as possible so she opted for January. German fiance-visas are also handles directly in Chisinau. Would be nice if the US would get up to speed. shaggy47435 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/19/2004 1:24:20 PM   Last I heard the US had a virtual site in Moldova. I do not think they have facilities there. I am not sure but I did find it on the web stating the Bucharest connection. I will be interested in things jet as I must say things are getting better in Chisinau... :-) shaggy47435 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/19/2004 1:26:28 PM   My girl there has her law degree but I think if things start I will have to consider the atorney and I really am not that much a fan but I do know several good ones here. Of course our idea of imigration is keeping out the folks from Kasas, Iowa, Illinois and Arkansas! jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/19/2004 1:42:36 PM   Shaggy: there is an actual US Embassy in Chisinau. I know there is. I spent a few hours in it, visiting it three times last April. And like I said they do process Tourist and Student Visas there at the Chisinau Embassy in Moldova. They just don't process K-1 visas. I told my lady that she would be visiting the US sooner than she thought. I reminded her that the embassy was officially US territory and it would be nice to hear another American English speaker (believe it or not I had only met one group of four Americans in thre weeks in Moldova - and we were out and about a lot). Wouldn't you know it that everyone at the US Embassy spoke was Moldovan and did not soeak English very well? While I'm sure that high level people speak Ameican English we did not meet them. My Moldovan had to translate for me at my OWN EMBASSY. By the way - do not assume that you can take pictures anwhere you want to in Moldova. And I am not talking here about military installations or anything of the sort. I was physically kept from taking a picture of the Russian language overhead menu at McDonalds in Chisinau (well I actually got a picture before they got me). In front of the Embassy I though it would be nice to get a picture of my lady standing in front of the sign saying US Embassy. I was quickly contfronted by a Moldovan military officer who had been standing on the sidewalk (they are all over the place) - and again my lady had to do some quick talking explaining that i was american and did not know. crashnsplash Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/31/2005 3:19:35 PM   Just ran across this older thread and seen I didn't respond to a question or two. Mike- I can't see your email address so I can't email you that info. If your still interested let me know. Frank- Our date is 2/24 Jet- I see everyone has an opinion one way or another about a lawyer but I would definitly recommend it. There are more than a few instances in our process that I was glad to have one. Plus my lawyer will be there when she is in Moscow for our big day. Frank Vans Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/31/2005 6:13:07 PM   crash, Elena's date is 2/24 also. Good luck to them both!! nasfan6 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/31/2005 6:17:00 PM   nasfan6@earthlink.net crashnsplash Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/1/2005 6:07:17 AM   Yes good luck to them both! Don't know about you Frank but I am going to have a sleepless night on the 23rd. Were both already excited and nervous and its only the 1st. I'll send you the info later today Mike. Frank Vans Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/1/2005 7:24:07 AM   Yes, I/m nervious, but elena seem to be taking this challenge as another day's duty. I'm worried too that something will emerge that we didn't ecpect. I can't be with her on the 24th so anxiety is emerging that she will forget something or not answer a question correctly. I have to trust she will do everything that needs to be done. We did everything without a lawyer. tradman Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/1/2005 1:09:35 PM   Oh dear, I took pictures everywhere crashnsplash Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/3/2005 6:44:39 AM   I wish you both the best of luck Frank. I'm glad to see someone thats done this all without a lawyer. Mine meets with our lawyer for the final time on the 21st in Moscow, goes for her medcal exam and everything will be set for the 24th. 21 days!! =))) What pisses me off now is that after approval they dont give passports back with the visa. They MAIL it back!! ANOTHER WAIT!!! It seems to me the american embassy gets their kicks out of just making this drag on as long as they possibly can. I have two words to sum it up...... they suck Frank Vans Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/3/2005 7:26:12 AM   Crash, I think the reason they don't give the passport back right after the interview is because the visa has to be made up and pasted into the passport. That is typical for any country that requires a visa. DHL will get her pasport to her very quickly. After all the time we have been waiting, a few days is a piece of cake. Wouldn't it be funny if our ladies met each ohter at the embassy. Norwegian Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/3/2005 7:55:27 AM   Sorry if I seem stupid, but what is this visa thing good for actually? Is it just another way to earn money on foreigners and citizets that want to go somewhere distant? We don't have this in Norway, only thing you need to visit here is a normal passport. I think you can stay for 6 months before you have to go out of the country, but you can apply for a longer stay I think. If I marrie a girl, it will be easy to get access for her to stay here because of family reunion rules. Same rule if the woman have a child. But if we are divorced within 2 years she will have to leave the country. After 2 years she can stay as long as she wants. I am just curious about what the visa is good for, the purpose of it.. My girl is from Estonia, I guess I was lucky, no visa needed at all :) crashnsplash Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/3/2005 8:30:54 AM   It sure would be Frank. There is probably a pretty good chance they will see eachother that morning. Norwegian, I agree it is a moneymaking issue but if you question it they throw 9/11 in our faces. That seems to be their justification for everything. Our ladies are granted a 6 month visa, BUT we have only 90 days to marry or they are deported. So actually the 6 month visa doesn't mean anything. PLUS, even after all the waiting and waiting we go through and the visa is finally issued, our ladies can still be denied entry to the US by customs. I sure hope the officer that stamps my fiances visa that day doesnt have a stick up their ass. If she gets denied entry I'm ready to kill someone. If you seen all the illegal immigrants here in the area I live you would be amazed. I can go on any of my jobsites and shout INS!!!, hold a fake badge up and you would see all these illegal mexicans and cubans running for the hills. It makes me sick how easy it is for them to get here, because they are ALL over the place. Their legal counterparts even have the balls now to create a movement here that the local police cannot single them out for that very reason. Crazy world. Your Reply: Your name:   New Registration Password:   Forgot password?   refresh Code:   Russian brides > Main Forum > Fiance visa
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