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	Create New Topic   My Posts   My forum buddies   Invite friends   Private messages Russian brides > Main Forum > Fiance visa Author Post Frank Vans Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/3/2005 12:26:06 PM   Visas exist when two nations do not have a treaty in place to allow citizens of each country to visit without visas. Russia and the USA do not have such a treaty while most european nations and the USA do. GLTALLTOAD Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/3/2005 12:27:24 PM   Crash, Despite the seemingly unfair balance against those who process their entry requirements legally, I would NEVER trade places with those who come here easily, but ilegally. Their life in the US is not exactly a bed of roses. Although most of them come with the same basic goals any inmigrant over the last 200 years have brought, once here most of them are underpaid, exploited and abused besides living in constant fear of arrest and deportation every day of every month of every year they're here as 'wetbacks'. You and your woman will only have to go through process once (hopefully). And in most cases it does take less than a year to be reunited. NO, I would not look at the ilegals and think they have it easier than we do. toad GLTALLTOAD Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/3/2005 12:32:26 PM   Norge, Besides the obvious repercusions of 9/11, developed countries always need to regulate the influx of inmigrants from other nations to prevent overpopulation and maintain a productive balance of demographics. Norway is NOT an overpopulated nation....and it's too dam cold there to worry about being invaded by a citizens of moderate or warm climates. toad jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/3/2005 4:54:15 PM   Frank; So.... by inference if I did not need a visa to visit Latvia, then I am assuming that a Latvian does not need a visa to visit the US. If that is the case then Annika, who is from Estonia (I think, but I KNOW she is from a Baltic state that one does not need a visa to visit) can visit the US and her boyfriend's kids and exwife MUCH easier than a typical FSU woman from a country without such an agreement. This is only mentioned in reference to her comment in another thread about how easy it is for her to visit the US. OF COURSE IT IS - but her suggestion was that any FSU woman should put forth the effort to visit a US guy in the US - which clearly in most cases is nearly impossible. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/3/2005 5:31:55 PM   I REALLY feel sorry for you fiance visa applicants from the Texas region. In Vermont they are processing applications from December 23rd 2004 already. While in Texas they are only up to August 27th. They say that everything is bigger in Texas - guess they meant the wait as well. Another case of our government inaction. Frank Vans Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/3/2005 7:33:41 PM   Jetmba, Here are the countries under the visa waver program.Andorra Iceland, Norway, Australia, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Italy, San Marino, Belgium, Japan, Singapore, Brunei, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, Denmark, Luxembourg, Spain, Finland, Monaco, Sweden France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, New Zealand and United Kingdom. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/3/2005 8:11:08 PM   Okay - so even though I did not need a visa to get into Latvia - it is likely that a woman from Latvia would need a visa to get into the US. I stand corrected. Okay - actually I'm sitting corrected. But I AM corrected. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/4/2005 2:46:02 PM   A partial solution to lazy assed beauracrats who think nothing of holding up people's lives by postponing even STARTING on fiance-visa until they have had them in their possession fo five months or so. Pay checkes be held up for the same ammount of time that they put us on hold. Let them walk a little while in our shoes. Might get their butts moving with a little incentive. And if they get used to that - then hold up their mail for the same amount of time. Nothing like getting your MasterCard bill six months late. And after all it is another federal agency. Tie the benefits THEY expect to get from their government on a timely basis to the inconvenience and delayed service that they uncaringly dole out to the people who pay taxes. Bet they would get hopping when it was something THEY cared about. GLTALLTOAD Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/4/2005 3:01:19 PM   now you're reaching, jet...come back down to earth, mate jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/4/2005 4:41:42 PM   I didn't say it would be practical or that there was any real way to do it. But it would be fair. crashnsplash Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/6/2005 7:11:25 AM   Jet, I went through the Texas center and they received my paperwork 9/2 and I was approved 10/4. Then it took from 10/4 until 12/15 to go through NVA to the Moscow embassy. On 12/15 I got my interview date on 2/24. Right now the Moscow Embassy is into the beginning of April for interviews jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/6/2005 8:43:24 AM   Something must be screwed up then regarding the website that tell when I-129F forms are being processed. It claims that Texas is only now still processing petitions submitted on 8/27/04. But you say you sumbitted yours on 9/02/04 and it was APPROVED already on 10/04/04? Here's the official US government website as of 1/21/05 (the most recent posting available): https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/Processtimes.jsp?Sev iceCenter=Texas (you have to scroll down a little when you call up that page) Texas is reputed to be the SLOWEST - but I filed in Nebrask and have now been sitting and waiting longer that you were and I suspect I have TWO MONTHS TO WAIT for them to even LOOK at my application. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/6/2005 9:30:48 AM   But as I mentioned - if you look in the archives of the records kept for Texas processing times. That "current" date of processing applications hasn't budged from 8/27/04 since early in September. And, surely, they have processed some applications (including yours) since early September. Which, as I said, means no one is updating the figures. So Texas, then, is right up there with Vermont and faster than even California. which means that only Nebraska is ridiculously slow and torturous. Sure am glad I live in a state that the Nebraska Service Center "serves". Your United States Government inaction. GLTALLTOAD Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/6/2005 12:58:53 PM   Ppphhheewwww..... I'm glad to see you think Calif is a fairly fast processing center. Lena and I talked on the phone last night and the fiance visa subject came up (by me) I have this notion that after we meet and establish that essential part of our relationship (meeting...duuhhh), we must obtain paperwork from her nearest US Consulate to get the ball rolling. There is one in E-burg, she tells me. Is it worth it to stop by the consulate to get the paperwork? Or should I wait till I come back and let an attorney handle the whole thing for A to Z? Maybe even have it beforehand so we both can go over it briefly? I am almost 100% convinced her visa will be processed by an expert. Which one, I have no clue yet. But regardless of who does it, I want to be fairly familiar with the forms and process steps. suggestions? toad jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/6/2005 1:32:19 PM   Toad: The best website for fiance visa informatio I have found so far is www.visajourney.com Check out the site and play around with it. It is loaded with information. Now, regarding your question, I have seen two sources that refer to "direct consular filing" as being the "best kept secret in immigrations law". Some consulates allow it. Others don't. It is ALWAYS allowed if the petitioner (that's YOU in this case) has established residency in the country in question. ANd it is officially not-allowed if you haven't. But SOME CONSULATES WILL ALLOW YOU TO DO IT ANYWAY. Do so - ENTIRELY removes the first tediously long step and that has to do with sending your I-129F petition to one of the four regional processing offices (whay my fiance and I are going through right now....). If the embassy will allow it - you can immediately shave potentially MONTHS off of your waiting time. It certainly doesn't hurt to check - as long as you are there. I advise you to ask. It can't hurt. Of course you will still need all the neat things that the i-129F petition calls for - like your birth certificate, divorce decrees etc. There ARE case stories to be found at visajourney.com where the applicants WERE allowed to do "direct consular filing" and it worked out very well for them. Unfortunately, it was not an option for me. (Hell - WE can't even file at an embassy in her COUNTRY much less directly to the consular!) And for the record - California isn't as fast as Vermont (which almost seems to approve petitions before they are actually mailed (just kidding)). And Texas may or may not be faster. But California is a HELL OF A LOT FASTER than Nebraska. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/6/2005 1:36:32 PM   Toad: Check out this website on Direct Consular Filing. http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:R4x7s463fnIJ:www.usaimmigr ationattorney.com/DCFandnoDCFcountries.html+%22direct+consular+filing%22&hl=en jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/6/2005 1:40:23 PM   That is the website of an individual immigrations attorney - and unfortunately, on closer examination I see that he lists Russia as a none allowing country. But check it out in person anyway. Already talking fiance visa heh??? That little lady has her frog-spear in toad BIG TIME :) Frank Vans Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/6/2005 1:44:01 PM   Toad, You will discover she can apply for a tourist visa at E-burg, however ALL K-1 visas are done in Moscow and they do not accept consulate filling. I looked into this. GLTALLTOAD Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/6/2005 1:47:59 PM   Sure, jet... I always let them think they have me at the point of their spears before I slime them up, lol thanks for the tips. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 2/7/2005 5:55:52 PM   Yeah....It looks like Nebraska is BY FAR the slowest visa processing center. I haven't learned to like that but am reasonably tolerating it. Now I find out the Bucharest Romania has a reputation for being perhaps the least accomodating embassy when it comes to fiance visa applicants. I understand the sit down pleasant approach one might associate with an "interview" is nothing of the sort in Bucharest. When your turn comes you are called to stand before a bullet-proof pane of glass and to speak to your beligerant and uncooperative interviewer as he/she barks questions, refuses to explain procedures and is likely to send you off on a wild goose-chase for more documentation at a whim. Evidently Bucharest has had a lot of complaints and peope who are familar with the Ukrainian Embassy and the nifty way they explain everything and have even a website where you can download Packet 3 and Packet 4 documents (becasue Ukrain's mail system is unreliable) mention the stark contrast between it and the embassy in Romania. So how do I geet all the luck? I have to send my fiance and her Rusiian speaking mother there in a few months. There is no way I can make another trip to accompany her. And, it seems, that Bucharest officials are known for arbitrarily deciding that a fiance visa application is a sham, especially if the American fiance isn't there. My luck just keeps getting better and better. Your Reply: Your name:   New Registration Password:   Forgot password?   refresh Code:   Russian brides > Main Forum > Fiance visa
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