Dutch-American couple going to the US? Friends & help desperately needed
Jun 26th 2003, 1:34 pm
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Dutch-American couple going to the US? Friends & help desperately needed
I just discovered this website, have been going through it for hours
and hours and found lots of useful information. But what I would
really like is to get into contact with others in our situation:
Dutch male 21 years old recently engaged to American female 23 years
old, currently residing in the Netherlands but wanting to enter the
USA on a fiancee visum to move there in about a year afer his
graduation from Tilburg University.
We have just started to find all necessary information, we are new to
any of this and we desperately seek help in getting through this. We
have encountered many stressful experiences in the past but this time
we want to do it right. What we really need is good friends to help us
get through everything, my fiance is a passionate snail mail penpal
and I prefer e-mail.
We do hope to hear from anybody. Age/sex/country unimportant, as long
as honesty is your strong point!
Write to [email protected]
and hours and found lots of useful information. But what I would
really like is to get into contact with others in our situation:
Dutch male 21 years old recently engaged to American female 23 years
old, currently residing in the Netherlands but wanting to enter the
USA on a fiancee visum to move there in about a year afer his
graduation from Tilburg University.
We have just started to find all necessary information, we are new to
any of this and we desperately seek help in getting through this. We
have encountered many stressful experiences in the past but this time
we want to do it right. What we really need is good friends to help us
get through everything, my fiance is a passionate snail mail penpal
and I prefer e-mail.
We do hope to hear from anybody. Age/sex/country unimportant, as long
as honesty is your strong point!
Write to [email protected]
Jun 26th 2003, 2:37 pm
#2
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Joined: Jan 2003
Location: US/France
Posts: 316
Welcome and good luck on your journey through the K-1 process.
Many of us are going through or have gone through the process.
Alot of the wait you will encounter will depend on which of the service centers you must use. Where does the US citizen live? That's how they determine which.
You may find these links useful:
http://bcis.stephenpalik.com/faq/k1faq.htm
http://bcis.stephenpalik.com/faq/
This is my timeline:
3/18/03 Sent I-129F
3/19/03 Received by VSC per USPS tracking system
3/27/03 Receipt date 3/19/03 via phone
3/28/03 First NOA receipt date 3/19/03
4/10/03 Finally online at the BCIS
4/11/03 APPROVED
4/25/03 Eric sends for UK Certificate
4/19/03 NOA 2 via mail
4/22/03 NVC Status line says forwarded to Paris on 4/18/03
4/28/03 Eric received Packet 3
6/9/03 Eric calls the UK for the certificate...mailed 6/7/03 (let's hope we get it soon)
6/11/03 Still waiting for UK Police Certificate
6/12/03 Finally got the darn UK certificate
6/16/03 Eric sends checklist to Paris
Linda
Many of us are going through or have gone through the process.
Alot of the wait you will encounter will depend on which of the service centers you must use. Where does the US citizen live? That's how they determine which.
You may find these links useful:
http://bcis.stephenpalik.com/faq/k1faq.htm
http://bcis.stephenpalik.com/faq/
This is my timeline:
3/18/03 Sent I-129F
3/19/03 Received by VSC per USPS tracking system
3/27/03 Receipt date 3/19/03 via phone
3/28/03 First NOA receipt date 3/19/03
4/10/03 Finally online at the BCIS
4/11/03 APPROVED
4/25/03 Eric sends for UK Certificate
4/19/03 NOA 2 via mail
4/22/03 NVC Status line says forwarded to Paris on 4/18/03
4/28/03 Eric received Packet 3
6/9/03 Eric calls the UK for the certificate...mailed 6/7/03 (let's hope we get it soon)
6/11/03 Still waiting for UK Police Certificate
6/12/03 Finally got the darn UK certificate
6/16/03 Eric sends checklist to Paris
Linda
Jun 26th 2003, 3:41 pm
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Joined: Sep 2002
Location: Richmond Hill, GA USA
Posts: 38,860
Re: Dutch-American couple going to the US? Friends & help desperately needed
Originally posted by Paul
I just discovered this website, have been going through it for hours
and hours and found lots of useful information. But what I would
really like is to get into contact with others in our situation:
Dutch male 21 years old recently engaged to American female 23 years
old, currently residing in the Netherlands but wanting to enter the
USA on a fiancee visum to move there in about a year afer his
graduation from Tilburg University.
We have just started to find all necessary information, we are new to
any of this and we desperately seek help in getting through this. We
have encountered many stressful experiences in the past but this time
we want to do it right. What we really need is good friends to help us
get through everything, my fiance is a passionate snail mail penpal
and I prefer e-mail.
We do hope to hear from anybody. Age/sex/country unimportant, as long
as honesty is your strong point!
Write to [email protected]
I just discovered this website, have been going through it for hours
and hours and found lots of useful information. But what I would
really like is to get into contact with others in our situation:
Dutch male 21 years old recently engaged to American female 23 years
old, currently residing in the Netherlands but wanting to enter the
USA on a fiancee visum to move there in about a year afer his
graduation from Tilburg University.
We have just started to find all necessary information, we are new to
any of this and we desperately seek help in getting through this. We
have encountered many stressful experiences in the past but this time
we want to do it right. What we really need is good friends to help us
get through everything, my fiance is a passionate snail mail penpal
and I prefer e-mail.
We do hope to hear from anybody. Age/sex/country unimportant, as long
as honesty is your strong point!
Write to [email protected]
Welcome Paul! I lived in the Netherlands for four years and really, really liked it there. The people were great and I still correspond with my neighbors there from 11 years ago.
This NG is a good place for info and support, and sure enough you will find someone who has "been there, done that" to bond with.
Jun 27th 2003, 1:54 am
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Re: Dutch-American couple going to the US? Friends & help desperately needed
"Paul" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I just discovered this website, have been going through it for hours
> and hours and found lots of useful information. But what I would
> really like is to get into contact with others in our situation:
> Dutch male 21 years old recently engaged to American female 23 years
> old, currently residing in the Netherlands but wanting to enter the
> USA on a fiancee visum to move there in about a year afer his
> graduation from Tilburg University.
> We have just started to find all necessary information, we are new to
> any of this and we desperately seek help in getting through this. We
> have encountered many stressful experiences in the past but this time
> we want to do it right. What we really need is good friends to help us
> get through everything, my fiance is a passionate snail mail penpal
> and I prefer e-mail.
> We do hope to hear from anybody. Age/sex/country unimportant, as long
> as honesty is your strong point!
> Write to [email protected]
news:[email protected]...
> I just discovered this website, have been going through it for hours
> and hours and found lots of useful information. But what I would
> really like is to get into contact with others in our situation:
> Dutch male 21 years old recently engaged to American female 23 years
> old, currently residing in the Netherlands but wanting to enter the
> USA on a fiancee visum to move there in about a year afer his
> graduation from Tilburg University.
> We have just started to find all necessary information, we are new to
> any of this and we desperately seek help in getting through this. We
> have encountered many stressful experiences in the past but this time
> we want to do it right. What we really need is good friends to help us
> get through everything, my fiance is a passionate snail mail penpal
> and I prefer e-mail.
> We do hope to hear from anybody. Age/sex/country unimportant, as long
> as honesty is your strong point!
> Write to [email protected]
Jun 27th 2003, 2:04 am
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Re: Dutch-American couple going to the US? Friends & help desperately needed
Hi Paul
the fiance visa is the difficult route for DutchAmerican couples.
You have special privileges that can shorten and make easier your
immigration trip.
go to our website and click on 'other couples' on the left menu and see how
other couples made the immigration trip.
Find out about DCF....it takes about 6 weeks from first filing to visa in
your hand with full work and travel authorization. You must meet 3
requirements: no criminal record, no communicable diseases, and no previous
overstays in America.
check it out
I think you will be very happy you do not have to jump through the fiancee
hoops for BCIS.
stay in touch,
Eileen
www.usadutch.com
"Paul" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I just discovered this website, have been going through it for hours
> and hours and found lots of useful information. But what I would
> really like is to get into contact with others in our situation:
> Dutch male 21 years old recently engaged to American female 23 years
> old, currently residing in the Netherlands but wanting to enter the
> USA on a fiancee visum to move there in about a year afer his
> graduation from Tilburg University.
> We have just started to find all necessary information, we are new to
> any of this and we desperately seek help in getting through this. We
> have encountered many stressful experiences in the past but this time
> we want to do it right. What we really need is good friends to help us
> get through everything, my fiance is a passionate snail mail penpal
> and I prefer e-mail.
> We do hope to hear from anybody. Age/sex/country unimportant, as long
> as honesty is your strong point!
> Write to [email protected]
the fiance visa is the difficult route for DutchAmerican couples.
You have special privileges that can shorten and make easier your
immigration trip.
go to our website and click on 'other couples' on the left menu and see how
other couples made the immigration trip.
Find out about DCF....it takes about 6 weeks from first filing to visa in
your hand with full work and travel authorization. You must meet 3
requirements: no criminal record, no communicable diseases, and no previous
overstays in America.
check it out
I think you will be very happy you do not have to jump through the fiancee
hoops for BCIS.
stay in touch,
Eileen
www.usadutch.com
"Paul" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I just discovered this website, have been going through it for hours
> and hours and found lots of useful information. But what I would
> really like is to get into contact with others in our situation:
> Dutch male 21 years old recently engaged to American female 23 years
> old, currently residing in the Netherlands but wanting to enter the
> USA on a fiancee visum to move there in about a year afer his
> graduation from Tilburg University.
> We have just started to find all necessary information, we are new to
> any of this and we desperately seek help in getting through this. We
> have encountered many stressful experiences in the past but this time
> we want to do it right. What we really need is good friends to help us
> get through everything, my fiance is a passionate snail mail penpal
> and I prefer e-mail.
> We do hope to hear from anybody. Age/sex/country unimportant, as long
> as honesty is your strong point!
> Write to [email protected]
Jun 27th 2003, 5:59 am
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Re: Dutch-American couple going to the US? Friends & help desperately needed
Hi everybody,
Thanks a lot for all the help and support. We really feel for the
first time in years that we are not the only ones going through all
this fuss! What a relief! Eileen, your website got me started on this
so thanx so much! I am sure after this is all over we will try and
help others with this too.
My fiancee's parents live in the Milwaukee area and we will stay with
them at first so we will have to deal with the Chicago and/or (?)
Milwaukee officers.
Why on earth does it say on the INS website that this fiancee visum
would only take "several months" and the DCF 6-12 months if that is
not true? Are they trying to discourage DCF?
Well, anybody with experiences with the Dutch DCF please help out and
is there anybody out there in the Milwaukee/Chicago area?
Greetings to all of you!
Paul & Colleen
Thanks a lot for all the help and support. We really feel for the
first time in years that we are not the only ones going through all
this fuss! What a relief! Eileen, your website got me started on this
so thanx so much! I am sure after this is all over we will try and
help others with this too.
My fiancee's parents live in the Milwaukee area and we will stay with
them at first so we will have to deal with the Chicago and/or (?)
Milwaukee officers.
Why on earth does it say on the INS website that this fiancee visum
would only take "several months" and the DCF 6-12 months if that is
not true? Are they trying to discourage DCF?
Well, anybody with experiences with the Dutch DCF please help out and
is there anybody out there in the Milwaukee/Chicago area?
Greetings to all of you!
Paul & Colleen
Jun 27th 2003, 5:54 pm
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Re: Dutch-American couple going to the US? Friends & help desperately needed
first thing you need to do is learn how to say
Muh....waw....keee
there is no mill
there is no walk
Muh ...waw...kee.
Klaas loves Wisconsin cheese....so you are lucky!
stay in touch
e
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> Why on earth does it say on the INS website that this fiancee visum
> would only take "several months" and the DCF 6-12 months if that is
> not true? Are they trying to discourage DCF?
things change so fast and are different from area to area.....that they just
give a generic answer
In addition to that they don't always know what they are doing and are not
responsible for what they say so can say anything they feel like.
e
Muh....waw....keee
there is no mill
there is no walk
Muh ...waw...kee.
Klaas loves Wisconsin cheese....so you are lucky!
stay in touch
e
">
> >
> Why on earth does it say on the INS website that this fiancee visum
> would only take "several months" and the DCF 6-12 months if that is
> not true? Are they trying to discourage DCF?
things change so fast and are different from area to area.....that they just
give a generic answer
In addition to that they don't always know what they are doing and are not
responsible for what they say so can say anything they feel like.
e
Jun 27th 2003, 6:30 pm
#8
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 1,816
Re: Dutch-American couple going to the US? Friends & help desperately needed
Originally posted by Eileen
In addition to that they don't always know what they are doing and are not
responsible for what they say so can say anything they feel like.
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In addition to that they don't always know what they are doing and are not
responsible for what they say so can say anything they feel like.
e
Had to laugh!!! Welcome to the K1 rollercoaster, Paul, and all the best to you and your girl.
Kate. xxxxxx
Jun 27th 2003, 10:47 pm
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Joined: Aug 2002
Location: Washington State
Posts: 259
Paul,
I'm half of a Dutch-American couple who has been going through the K1 process since June of last year.
I'd be happy to give you our timeline and share our experiences through the process to help you make a decision on which way to file. You can e-mail me at: [email protected].
Good luck,
Heather
I'm half of a Dutch-American couple who has been going through the K1 process since June of last year.
I'd be happy to give you our timeline and share our experiences through the process to help you make a decision on which way to file. You can e-mail me at: [email protected].
Good luck,
Heather
