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APPROVAL OF YOUR FIANCE VISA PETITION BY THE CIS (INS)
Once
you have submitted your Fiance Visa application, the INS legally has
120 days to process your petition. If all of your documentation is
complete, the approval process is relatively speedy.
There are four INS service centers that process fiance visa
applications throughout the United States. The busiest service center
is the Laguna Nigel, California office, due to all the immigrants
coming into the west coast from the Pacific Region and Mexico.
For this reason, fiance visa applications through this office may take longer to process than through the other service centers.
Once you have filed your petition, you will be sent a Notice of Receipt
from the INS stating that they have received your application. Your
petition is now considered in pending status until it is approved.
Notice Of Approval:
When your petition is approved, you will receive another Notice of Receipt, commonly called the Notice of Approval.
On the Notice of Approval is a special number called a ‘receipt notice number.’
This approval notification will also have an ‘A’ number on it. The A number is the actual number of your fiance’s visa.
When contacting the INS or the US embassy, you should always reference
the ‘receipt notice number’ and your fiance’s ‘A’ number with regard to
her application.
By the time you receive the approval notice, the US embassy will have
received your fiance’s visa approval notice and will schedule an
interview with her.
Which Foreign Embassy:
If your fiance is from Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, or Uzbekistan, her fiance visas will be processed at the Moscow embassy:
U.S. Embassy
Bolshoy Devyatinskiy Pereulok Number 8
121099 Moscow, Russia
Tel. 7-095-728-5000
Fax 7-095-728-5203
Monday – Friday 9 AM to 6 PM
If your fiance is from Belarus, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, or Lithuania,
fiance visas will be processed at the Warsaw, Poland embassy:
U.S. Embassy
Al Ujazdowskie 29/31
00-540 Warsaw, Poland
Tel 48-22-628-3041
Fax 48-22-628-8298
If your fiance is from Ukraine, fiance visas will be processed at the Kiev, Ukraine embassy:
10 Yurii Kotsiubynskyi St.
Kyiv 01901 Ukraine
Tel 380-44-490-4000
Fax 380-44-490-4085
The Embassy Information Packet:
The embassy will send your fiance an information packet that will
contain instructions and a list of the documents she needs to bring
with her at the time of her interview.
Documents that she will be required to bring are originals of all the
documents she has submitted with the original application: certified
copies of birth certificates, divorce certificates, as well as official
translations.
She will also be required to bring employment documentation and an
official copy of a police report about her from her local police
department.
Good Moral Character:
One of the major requirements of your fiance is that she must be of
good moral character. If she has a police record, she has virtually no
chance of being approved for a fiance visa.
This requirement is well intentioned. It’s designed to keep the bad
apples out of the US. Pardon me for being cynical, but if she is
associated with the vors y zakone, she can probably arrange to pay
enough to get a ‘clean’ police record.
Many of the Russian Mafyia have managed to get documents to qualify
them for immigration to America; enough to recruit a full organization
in spots like Brighton Beach, New York and Los Angeles.
My personal belief is that the Russian Mafyia is not filling its ranks in the United States through the fiance visa process.
Your fiance will have to go through a medical exam by an approved
medical examination facility. The doctor will complete a Form I-693
Medical Examination Card, which your fiance must bring to the interview.
This exam is usually arranged a day or two before the scheduled
interview. At the time of the interview, they will complete a Form
FD-258 Fingerprint Card with her fingerprints. by John Kunkle John has been to Russia and CIS countries many times. He has been successfully married to his Belarussian wife for over five years. He will show you how to meet her, how to bring her home, and how to successfully survive marriage to a Russian woman.
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