Hello everone. Hope you had a Happy Holiday Season. As some of you know, i am still having problems getting my fiance here from the Philippines.She took her physical at St. Luke's and submitted all paperwork in April of last year, but has not yet had an interview. I call every 2 weeks and my Congressman even wrote them to ask what was taking so long. So far, i have had no luck.

Since my fiance is a nurse she can work a one year nursing contract in the UK (England). She wants me to first go to the Philippines and for us to get married. Then she will go to the UK. At the end of the year she was told by some of her nursing friends that she could then come to the United States much faster and easier than she could if she stayed in Manila, because the Embassy in the UK is much faster than the Embassy in Manila, and she will be my wife at that time.

My question for the board....Is this a good idea?? She seemed excited about it. But i am skeptical.

I guess it would change everything, but i don't know if it would be for the better. We are both frustrated at this time, and i am at my wits end with this whole thing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated by both of us.

Best Regards
       Red

... in response to Question  for board about my fiance visa..., posted by red on Jan 25, 2003

Not a good idea...

     For all I know there's no more interview for
fiance visa since 2000 or 2001, you should know this if you
are reading the rules at http://usembassy.state.gov/manila/

    After taking medical and submitted all the paperworks,
you will only have to wait for the visa.My best friend gets
her fiancee visa after 3 weeks.

You should keep calling the embassy in Manila and check your case, try to make these people rush your papers you have all the right,it's your embassy. Spousal visa is the one that takes so long for some more than 2 years,1 years but ours less than a year. We've tried to contact
Senators,Congressman all they say is balahhhh...blah....
blahhh......well nothing helps really, some even contacted
the President of the Phils.

    Esiang

... in response to Re: Question  for board about my fiance ..., posted by Esiang on Jan 25, 2003

I feel for ya man. We were @ the same point as you around the same time and Angie is here with her PR card, SS # and is curently in the living room studying for a GED she has to have to get financial aid for school. We are going to get her into an accounting program as business seems to be her calling. She ran the family business in Manila and is very sharp,she spent most of her secondary ED in a chinese school, very demanding although she had to quit her final year to run the store.

Anyway, I think I'd be makin a nuisance of myself @ this point if I were you. Im not sure what the hold up is, kids, documentation or whatever but i dont think I would accept anything that wasnt  a good explanation for the protracted hang up. Even then i would still push harder than once every two weeks. I'd be buyin into a call plan and makin my very polite and well intentioned needs known on a daily basis. Damn you'd think with the need for nurses over here they'd be rollin out the red carpet.

... in response to Fiance visa, posted by Ray on Jan 25, 2003

Thanks for your response Ray. It was before Christmas that my Congressman contacted the Embassy. I will write and call him again this upcoming week to have him follow-up.

I always called the 6 dollar number, but will now call the Immigrant Visa Unit as per your advice. I did fax the Immigrant Visa Unit twice at 011-632-338-4129 and they did not even have the courtesy to respond to me.That was once last year and then again just 2 weeks ago. I guess i will fax them again next week. I have always been so polite, but maybe i need to be a little nasty.

Her physical and NBI will expire in April. This is a damn mess. Will she have to get another physical and NBI, if she is not approved by then? I dont understand what is the problem, and why they refuse to even respond to my simple questions.

Anyway, thanks a lot to you and to everyone here.

Best Regards
       Red

... in response to Fiance visa, posted by Ray on Jan 25, 2003

Ask your fiancee to get you the trunkline number of the embassy or get it online.  You'll not get anything from the paid service line. Ask the operator for the  non-immigrant visa section  and they'll help you.
YOU have to do the calling and bugging and showing them your exasperation.    Believe me, it works.
Call from 10-12 noon Manila time.