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	Create New Topic   My Posts   My forum buddies   Invite friends   Private messages Russian brides > Main Forum > My K-1 Visa process thus far Author Post jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/27/2004 4:24:05 PM   Just received notice that they have received my Fiance Visa petition on Nebraska. Am I elated? Hardly. that just mean it has been given a place in the great eternal (seems that way anyway) queue. It means that the application, like fine wine, is being given a chance to age, until they consider it to be sufficiently ripe enough - in six months or so (okay really cheap wine) to pop the cork. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/27/2004 4:33:24 PM   Okay - I am feeling a little good about the whole thing today. The engagement ring, the visa receipt announcement and my airline tickets all were delivered in the same hour. Gotta admit anticipation is creaping up on me. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/31/2004 12:14:57 AM   The Visa receipt announcement is a big deal - even though it only indicates that they actually received the petition (application) and opened it up. (They had to - the letter of notice contained both her name and mine). Now we wait MONTHS for anyhting substantial to happen. Last I looked (today) they were working on apllications received still on August 31, 2004. (Five months ago.) Hoo boy....our government in quick rapid fire action..... I'd like to ask Van (who started this thread) where he found a "certified translator" in the US? And did you bring your lady's passport etc. back with you to have them translated? Exactly which documents did you have transalted of hers? Frank Vans Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/31/2004 9:22:49 AM   Jetmba, I brought copies of her birth certificate and divorce decree with me after my trip to Russia, looked in the telephone book for language translators and found one. If there are none in your area, go to the closest university and speak with a Russian professor and ask that they do ir. They need to state on the translated copy that this is an accurate translation, why they are qualified to translate it and then get it notarized. Actually, I have discovered last week that Moscow will send your Russian lady a applcation in Russian and the instructions state she does not need to have her documents translated. I am concerned though when she arrives in the US and she goes through customs and immigration. There they do not speak or read Russian. Besides her divorce decree and birth certificate need to be translated for the marriage certificate. She does not need to have her passport translated. I wonder where you thought she might need that? She is also getting her DMV record and having it translated because without it when I add her to my auto insurance the insurance company will treat her as a new driver and the rates will go up. With her DMV translated record they will treat her as an experienced driver and my rates will decrease because now I am rated as married. Go figure. She is aso getting all her college transcripts translated so she can show future employers that her educational experience makes her qualified. Then there are letters of reference that also need to be translated. I hope this helps. shaggy47435 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/31/2004 10:43:13 AM   Thanks Frank that is a good list of items that I had not even thought of yet. It would seem that there will be much tranlation going on. Never would have thought about the insurance deal...wow. wmferg Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/31/2004 11:24:13 AM   Frank, I am curious; do you think that translation done by the head of the agency that my lady is with would be acceptable? I have met her and she speaks fluent English. Bill Frank Vans Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/31/2004 12:20:03 PM   wmferg, If she has notiable credetionals perhaps. The person doing the translation has to make a statement under oath when the document is notarized that they are an expert or an official translator of some sort. Just being able to speak and read Russian and English does not make one an official translator. I think if you are translating for some place in the US you need better credetionals than being able to speak excellent English.At least that is my opinion. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/31/2004 4:25:26 PM   Frank: My lady has not been divorced - so that is no problem. But I will certainly bring back a copy of her birth certificate when I return from Moldova. I believe that I will need a copy of a police report showing that she has not had any trouble with the law from anywhere that she has lived since the age of 16 as well. Interesting to note that from what I've read - records can be in English or in the native language of the embassy where she is to be intervieweed. She is Russian and all of her records are in Russian. But she had to apply at the American Embassy in Bucharest Romania - wher of course they speak...Romanian. Being a Citizen of Moldova she does speak Moldovan, but not especially well and not as her primary language. Moldovan is essentially the same as Romanian - but again all of her records are in Russian and not Moldovan. Did you have to have a police report translated as well? Or is that not a requirement in for a k-1 Visa for a woman from Russia? Frank Vans Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 12/31/2004 6:23:26 PM   Jetmba, Yes, the police record was translated as well as her medical record. You have an interesting and more complex situation than I and Elena. I would guess you have to have her documents translated in what ever language they speak in Bucharest. I suggest you Email the embassy there and get the correct answer. This way there will be no mistakes. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/3/2005 3:23:51 PM   Just really pissed off. As of December 17th (the latest report available) the VERMONT Immigration office was already working on K-1 Visas, for people in that district, submitted on DECEMBER 1, 2004!! As of December 17th (the latest report available) the NEBRASKA Immigration office was working on K-1 Visas, for people in that district, submitted on AUGUST #!, 2004!!! In Vermont - you wait SIXTEEN DAYS!! In Nebraska - you wait THREE AND A HALF MONTHS!!! What the hell is wrong with those people in Nebraska????? Dale E Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/3/2005 3:29:08 PM   They are cornhuskers not visa specialists. I will have the same problem as you Jet. Even though I'm closer to Vermont, I must file with The Nebraska District wtrav02 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/3/2005 5:51:56 PM   Same thing here guys, closer to Vermont, but had to file in Nebraska. I went through the very same frustration, called my lawyer, asked him if we could apply through Vermont since I had family living in NYC (to claim one of those addresses as mine), apparently you must not only have your living location but also your work location at the same place (kinda tough to explain how live in one place and work in another). I even started a thread on this board bitching on the goverment (I bitching? can you imagine?). Nebraska apparently receives a lot more applications for immigration. Too many midwest loners I guess not being satisfied with the local women's physique, attitude, etc. Hang in there, it's going to seem longer than it is, a couple visits in-between may do the trick. wtrav02 Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/3/2005 5:55:17 PM   jet, is it really three and a half months, are you sure? in my case it ended up 6 months. Is the three and a half months actual time or the INS estimate? if actual time is three and a half months, that's pretty good, you should be very happy. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/3/2005 10:31:50 PM   Trav: Regarding the 3 1/2 months (and the 16 days comparison in Vermont) I'm just talking about the wait between when they receive your visa petition and when they actually START working on it. Of course it takes MONTHS more than that as the visa application begins to go through all of the required steps. And if Nebraska actually receives all that many applications then say ALL OF NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK AND THE ENTIRE EAST COAST - then they should hire more people to take care of it!! Seems to me that the Federal government has never been reluctant to expand for anything ELSE they want to do. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/3/2005 11:01:11 PM   ust another case of our Federal government "inaction". izifaddag Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/7/2005 6:57:41 PM   This is terrifying!! I am going to have to use the Texas office and I know them of old. I had 3 go rounds with them. The last time I merely applied for my citizenship. That whole thing took a year. Jet Great website. I am not a wealthy guy and will be essentially sucked dry by this whole process. I will prepare the documents myself. I am glad of this warning though because it is making me rethink my timeline. I can see the middle of 2006 being realistic !! I mean screw romance the paperwork comes first right? If I propose in June I will accompany the ring with the appropriate forms and request (in triplicate) for those records and certificates. This is going to be fun I can see it now. Nil Desperandum. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/7/2005 11:55:23 PM   Izi: Glad you like the website. It is one of the best finds I've ever stumbled on and answers nearly every question I can imagine about tht fiance visa process. As of the newest Homeland Security report (formerly INS) on January 6, 2005 - the Nebraska center seems to have processed a LOT of fince visas in the last two weeks or so. At the middle of December they were processing visas submitted on August 31, 2004 - now already they are processing visas submitted on October 4, 2004. Nice litle jump there. Of course since my offical filing date was at the end of December - it will still be a while. Meanwhile - the Texas center, which was processing visas submitted August 27, in mid-December - is not processing visa submitted on....August 27, 2004. Texas hasn't budged an inch. Even worse than Nebraska. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/10/2005 10:24:14 AM   A call to anyone here - even a casual reader to this forum - who is American and has recently done a fiance visa with a Moldovan. I'd like to pick your brain - and find out which papers (can vary from embassy to embassy I am told) are part of the infamous Packet Three - which is curiously the second packet that Immigration sends - and actually sends it to the foriegn fiance through the local embassy after the K-1 application is approved. izifaddag Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/10/2005 2:34:21 PM   Jet I am going to make a decision on the lady I have been in contact with in June. I visit in March and in June I am hoping that she will either come to the States as a tourist or I will meet with her in Europe somewhere, probably England. If at the end of the 2nd meeting I feel as strongly as I do now I will ask her. Along with the ring will definitely come the paperwork. Fortuntely she is a lawyer so it might go a little smoother. However there is no getting around that office in Texas. They truly are bastards. They take forever. They handled 2 x resident alien application processes for me and my citizenship paperwork. This is really bad news. jetmba. Member send PM   block PM add to buddies Send: 1/10/2005 6:48:30 PM   Izi: She may be a lawyer in Moldova - but since this is strictly corn-fed US Government paperwork - she will not be able to do anything at all to help speed the process up. Your Reply: Your name:   New Registration Password:   Forgot password?   refresh Code:   Russian brides > Main Forum > My K-1 Visa process thus far
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