Need suggestion for K1 Interview 16yrs age Diff.
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Originally Posted by tomasbo
No, I'm just applying common sense....
Given 9-11, and considering security, I'm willing to concede that some additional checks need to be made, just to be prudent. Having saidf that, I have to ask what the heck happened to this process?
We now have 4, FOUR service (an oxymoron) centers and a foreign service that, given some of the circumstances I've read about in these forums, is running amok.......We have a huge bueracracy that "service's" us.
Now I see a convoluted non-sensical process whereby we have bureacrats into our "skivies" and "evaluating" our relationships.
Given 9-11, and considering security, I'm willing to concede that some additional checks need to be made, just to be prudent. Having saidf that, I have to ask what the heck happened to this process?
We now have 4, FOUR service (an oxymoron) centers and a foreign service that, given some of the circumstances I've read about in these forums, is running amok.......We have a huge bueracracy that "service's" us.
Now I see a convoluted non-sensical process whereby we have bureacrats into our "skivies" and "evaluating" our relationships.
For most people going through the process 911 has nothing to do with the delays. Nice excuse though.
If we had gone the other way, US-UK, 4 weeks would have been ample. Taken us 2 1/2 years to get to the same point.
They do not serve you, they serve the system that has been created by your Representatives.
I have actually found all the individuals I have dealt with fine, the system is the issue.
All countries, well all western countries, check marriage validity. Even then fraud is rampant.
Welcolme on board!
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Originally Posted by tomasbo
Common sense says to me that these people do not have the unilateral power that you and you ilk here purport they have.
I have been through this process once before. I was married to a foreign national ...
We have a huge bueracracy that "service's" us.
I'm 54 tears old, an engineer, a veteran of two wars and a person that deals with government on a daily basis and so I apply what I know.
So sorry if that upsets you.
Ian
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