Hondurans Speak Up!!

[wanaads]

Since we lost all our posts and PMs I've lost track of those of us who are going (or have gone) through Tegucigalpa. Would you mind just speaking up here so that our very little group can stay in touch and keep track of how things are going out of TGU. Thanks!!

[Pinkpig]

Here are the members of I2US whose waivers are adjudicated in Honduras. I hope this helps you reach them. The entire spreadsheet can be viewed here: http://immigrate2us.net/forum/showthread.php?t=61 and will be updated as needed.

screenname - location - status - Y=212 - date filed - date decided


jpitts512 Honduras Nicaragua Pending 2-Jun-06

jorge_morazan Honduras Tegucigala Approved 1-May-05 19-Apr-06

fabumd02 Honduras Tegucigala Approved 1-Jul-05 1-Jun-06

Patrick Honduras Tegucigala Approved 1-Sep-05 18-May-06

Celeste Honduras Tegucigala Den'd/Filed Appl Sept 2005 1-Jun-06

Thernand Honduras Tegucigala Den'd/Filed Appl 15-Nov-05 25-Jul-05

Thernand Honduras Tegucigala Approved 24-Mar-06 31-Jan-07

aquafria Honduras Tegucigala NYF

mdeasterday Honduras Tegucigala NYF

bpadilla88 Honduras Tegucigala NYF

jewell_diva Honduras Tegucigala NYF

wanaads Honduras Tegucigala NYF

[wanaads]

Thank you so much!!! That's very helpful - I didn't even know about some of these people.

[aguafria]

Hi. I'm filing for the K-1 from TGU. My fiance has his interview on 07/19/07 and and I'm soooo unprepared. I would like to fly down there for it, but finances will not allow me to be there.

[wanaads]

Wow, that's in just a few weeks! Will you be filing a 601? Or is this a visa pick up appointment? Too bad you can't go, but I completely understand about the finances. I don't know how we're going to deal with that when my husband goes back there to wait out the whole waiver process.

Anyway, I hope the appointment goes well. Do you know, if you were able to go, would they let you attend the appointment? Be sure to ask your husband about how they treated him, what kind of questions they asked, how long he waited, how many people were there, etc. and report back, if you don't mind. It will be so helpful to the rest of us who will be gong through TGU in the coming months.

Best of luck!

[aguafria]

Hi,
His appt is for the initial interview. Yes, I expect to file a waiver. The biggest problem is I haven't finished it yet (I'm such a procrastinator), so this weekend I'm locking myself in the house. I was always good at finishing my papers at the last minute in school, so we'll see what happens. I tell you, I'll be definitely counting on faith in God. My fiance has been in TGU for a few days for his medical (he said the doctor was old and kinda mean) and police report. I completely forgot to tell him that he needs to have all his birth and police certificate translated to English, so now he's working on finding those services. Our major problem is that he nor I received any appointment packet from the Embassy. I became concerned because it had been almost four months since the I-129F approved petition had been mailed to TGU and we hadn't heard anything. I was faithfully looking at the appointment schedules posted on the Embassy site, but nothing. My fiance called a number I located on the site, but no one picked up the phone. Lastly, I sent an email that never received a reply. So, in early June I contacted my Congressional representative for help. Her office contacted the Consul in Honduras and they sent an email back, w/ attachments, informing her that my interview was on 07/19. I told my fiance they probably have a backlog or could have mislaid his file, since you are supposed to have at least two months to prepare (according to the embassy's site). As far as attending the interview with him, the paperwork indicates that I could attend for a joint interview, but I never confirmed it. I will say that I did receive an email response from the Embassy when I called the number listed on the paperwork I received from my Congresswoman. Since no one picked up the phone the voice mail suggested I send an email; the address was slightly different from the one in the paperwork. I sent an email asking about rescheduling (yes, you can for two months later) and police certificate and received a reply withing a few hours. We'll this about sums up my adventure thus far. I'll be sure to let you know what happens on THE day :)

Here's the website for the US Embassy in TEGU. If you click on Visas on the left, you'll find some information.

http://honduras.usembassy.gov/english/index_e1.htm

[MegDan]

Good luck to you Aguafria! My husband and I are going through TGU as well. We're still going through the NVC process but will soon be complete with it and onto our interview.

I have the same problem with finances and have now started to save. I hope you were able to make the interview. Best wishes and best of luck on THE day! :thumbup: Let us know how it turned out if you can.


(If anyone wishes to know more about my situation since my previous posts were deleted due to the change of server, just ask!) :)

[catrachowife]

A few of you already know me from the thread I posted about the I601. My hubby is in Honduras right now awaiting his approval of our waiver. We met in May 2005, married October 05, started the whole process in 01/06, had our beautiful baby girl in April 07 and finally, without the aid of a lawyer, had our visa interview in Tegucigalpa May 29, 2007. Homeland Security received the waiver& letter around June 15. It looks like, from past experience of others, that it takes more like 9 or 10 months than the 6 that I was emailed my the embassy. Only time will tell, I guess....

[aguafria]

Here is an excerpt from catrachowife's thread regarding my fiance's interview experience.

Well, here is what my fiance told me what occurred on his interview date: He arrived on time and waited for his name to be called. During his prescreen, the lady requested the required documents and relationship evidence. He said she asked questions about who was in some of the pictures, how and when we met and if we lived together. We never lived together, so she asked how far apart we lived. She asked him the dates he entered and left the US a couple of times. He felt perhaps she was trying to confuse him on this question, but when you tell the truth there is no confusion . He also asked him if he wanted to marry me and why he wasn't requesting a visa for his son at that time. He has a son in Honduras and we decided to file for him in the future and he said the lady said "hmmm, must be the mother, huh?" She also asked for the receipts of money that I had sent him. After this part, he waited for about an hour before he was question by the second interviewer who basically asked him about his EWI dates and return to Honduras. He also asked him when we met. He then proceeded to tell my fiance that the law states he is banned from the U.S. for 10 years, but he is eligible for the waiver. He said the guy was really nice and said give your fiancee these papers to complete and she can send them to the embassy or you can return them. He even told him the waiver decision is about 6-10 months and at least that is better than 10 years. So, now I'm awaiting the receipt of the RFE, so that I can complete and return to the embassy w/ my hardship letter. I am also uneasy about the mailing system, but it's all I have at this particular moment. It took nine days for him to get the interview packet (via DHL). I will be using FedEx to send the waiver packet directly to the embassy. I'm praying that these new fees will cause the system to become more efficient as a whole and we don't have to be apart from our loved one for so long.

[wanaads]

aguafria, thanks so much for posting this. I don't know about the rest of you but I hang on every crumb of information I can get about what might happen at the embassy since there are so few of us. I will keep my fingers crossed for you that it's only six months!!

Do you know, if you had been there with him and had your hardship letter and everything all prepared, could you have submitted it then? Or would you have to wait for the RFE? Or is that only because you're doing a fiance visa?

[aguafria]

wanaads, I hope it's really six months too!!! I get excited just thinking about it!! I don't think the K-1 or K-3 visa differed at the waiver submission point. My fiance actually chided me because he said I should have sent the letter with the interview packet and he could have turned it in to the officer. Now, I'll have to pay the increased fee and wait for his mail. He was right, but I was so burned out I really couldn't keep my i's dotted and my t's crossed :).

[corazoncita]

jewell_diva Honduras Tegucigala NYF


I just thought that I would add that I am "jewell_diva." I changed my screen name when I had to re-register because I wanted it to be something en espagnol. I am definitely around and active these days.

[corazoncita]

A few of you already know me from the thread I posted about the I601. My hubby is in Honduras right now awaiting his approval of our waiver. We met in May 2005, married October 05, started the whole process in 01/06, had our beautiful baby girl in April 07 and finally, without the aid of a lawyer, had our visa interview in Tegucigalpa May 29, 2007. Homeland Security received the waiver& letter around June 15. It looks like, from past experience of others, that it takes more like 9 or 10 months than the 6 that I was emailed my the embassy. Only time will tell, I guess....

catrachowife! We have such SIMILAR lives... I met MY hubby in May of 2005, married in December of 2005, and our daughter was born in February of 2007. The only difference is that we haven't started our immigration process yet. :( Like I state in another post, we would have filed the I-130 in May of 2006 (had the paperwork ready and everything) but I actually discovered I was pregnant the day before I sent it, so I ended up not filing out of fear that he wouldn't be there for the birth of our child. Hubby is in jail right now, and will most likely be deported, so I am starting the process now-- which you probably read in another Honduras-related thread I started.

[Lachulagreeneyes]

sorry wrong thread