K-1 Travel Help

flames9
Senior Member



Joined: 08 Mar 2007
Posts: 114
Location: Falls Church VA

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:29 am

 

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Dont trying to be negative in any way, i hope it works out for ya Ireally do, and most likely it will. There are many people that have gone ur route and have been successful. I was told my a USA immigrtaion lawyer to go that exame same route, but at the time was still inthe CDn Forces and it dint sound right.
Just because one spoends $$$$ on travelling doesnt give one a right to be accepted into any country. Many of us have done that. The longets my wife and I were apart in 3 years was 5 weeks, airlines loved us,lol
My only advice is to to know the process and blidnly follow ur lawyers advice! Read far too many horror stories regrading lawyers. like any profession there are good and bad. We used a lawyer( wish he had found Visajoureny earlier,lol) she was ok, but noth worht the $2500 to double check our work! Oh well live and learn. Best of luck in the journey.

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waterwaterwaterloolooloo
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Jersey Shorin All Day

Joined: 10 Jul 2007
Posts: 69
Location: Roselle Park, NJ

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:09 am

 

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Thanks, flames. And my comment about spending money wasn't me trying to say they have to accept me because I have spent all this money traveling to the US for the past three years. I was more or less saying, I hope it all doesn't go to waste! I couldn't techinically afford to be away from my husband anymore because with full time jobs and school, I could hardly get time off/afford to travel after a certain point. Since you went back and forth, you can understand how hard it is after a certain point.

Yes. As Reba told me there has been some crappy lawyer stories out there and I have read some experiences. However, I will cross my fingers that I don't become one of those and my lawyer does a good job. I only got a lawyer because I'm young (23) and didn't know if I could handle the process by myself without a professional. Now I'm sure we could have. Let's hope for the best!
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Dante
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Joined: 27 Jul 2007
Posts: 8

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:19 pm

 

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Thanks all for the replies.

I suppose I should've given a little more background. I myself am from Toronto (still not the Centre of the Universe), Ontario. My fiancee resides about half an hour outside Dallas, TX. So, driving across isn't really an option, unless I want to lose half my vacation time to travel. Unfortunately, since she currently only gets 1 week in vacation a year, we're going to have to wait until we get a bit of a better idea of how long the visa process will take. If it's definitely next year, then we'll look at having her visit this year. If not, we'd prefer to save her vacation time for our honeymoon.

That really does seem to be the easier way.

Thanks for the advice. It's very much appreciated, as is anything in the future. I'll try keeping you up to date on how things progress.

~J

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flames9
Senior Member



Joined: 08 Mar 2007
Posts: 114
Location: Falls Church VA

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:45 am

 

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I guess 1 way of speeding up the k1 process would be if you could do the interview at the vancpouver consulate, they appear to be much much faster than Montreal! Of course 1 has to reside I think in Saskatchewan and west of SK to utilize Van. I know at 1 time people that were going through Mtl, were contacting Van and Mtl to get their cases transferred to VAn. They would say they were "working" in the Vancouver area, and both consulates were happy to make the switch! But they seemed to catch on to the decoy,lol and from my readings on VJ, VAN was no longer accepting those that tried to get their cases switched. 1 even had thier congreeperson enquire on their behalf and VAN still said no. BUT if one hasn't started the process and you have someone whoem u can completely tryst in 1 of those western provinces, you could use thier addy as urs, thus then being able to go through VAN. But then u have to count on them receiving the Immigration mail and mailing it to you, but it would be faster. VAN was scheduling the intewrview like a month later after the final package, where as Mtl is like 4-6 months (sometimes longer).

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