ChuckNTeresa
05-13-2008, 04:35 AM
We are hoping someone can give us insight or support. Here is our story.
Thank you for taking time to review our case. Please let me start out by saying that we were denied our K1 Visa so that way we could get married in the U.S. The U.S. Consulate officer denied our case because it was his opinion that we were already married. We are not married in fact here is our story and evidence that no marriage has taken place between my fiancée and me. We pray that you are able to help us!
I xxx xxx filed for a K1 visa which is the I129F form. I filed for the fiancée visa with the assistance of my attorney Gregory Bryl. We filed this form on October 16, 2007 and on February 28, 2008 this application was approved and followed with open appointment letter from the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez. We attended this appointment on April 16, 2008. We ran into complications there because my fiancé and I was planning to marry in the US.
Here’s what happened my fiancée and I went to the court house and got a marriage license on August 19, 2007 and planned to be married. At that time she was on a tourist visa. Then a friend of ours told us we should check it out that but she thought it was illegal to marry on a tourist visa and it could be considered as fraud. At that point we did not use the marriage license and returned it. Then we hired our attorney and applied for the K1 visa.
My fiancée then returned to Mexico to wait for the K1 visa interview. For our interview we brought a photocopy of that unused marriage license to show true intent to be married along with engagement dinner photos taken of both our families and emails to show we have been together with in the last two years, to meet the consulates requirements for the Fiancée visa. These documents were also included in the I129f packet for the fiancée visa that was approved by the FBI and at the NVC stage.
On April 16, 2008 when we had our open appointment interview the Consulate Officer told my fiancée that was not good enough evidence and with the marriage license he believed that we were married, even though the license was unused and just a photocopy of the original we sent back. He sent her back to our hotel and told her to come back the next day so he could review the case. The next day when she returned he sent her away again and told her to get a certified letter from the office we got the license from and it was to state that the marriage license was not used.
I then contacted the Jackson County Record and Deeds and talked with xxx xxx on how to obtain a copy of the document the consulate required. I did this by email and making phone calls. xxx xxx gave us a Government website as to look up names in that County and State that showed if you were married or not by just typing in a name. Here is that site,
( http://records.co.jackson.mo.us/sear...binet=marriage ). We obtained and had these documents Fed Ex to Ciudad Juarez for our appointment on April 21, 2008.
On April 21, 2008 she went back to the consulate with the certified letter as well as some emails from the Jackson County Web Site -Marriage License to show correspondence about the unused marriage license. Also we provided them with the Government website that xxx xxx provided us. This was to prove we were not married. The officer then told her that it was his decision to approve or deny any visas and he believed despite the evidence that he still believed we were married. He sent her away without written reason for the denial.
Today April 22, 2008 we tried to appeal this decision at the US consulates office in Ciudad Juarez and they told us to contact our attorney and our congressman to help us. The guy at the window there said that we could talk with the chief officer to see if he can review our case but he was not available. He told us we could come tomorrow and stand in line again with the other 500 people there and maybe he would be available tomorrow but he could not give us an appointment or make us any guarantees to be seen. It is our hope that with the evidence that we are providing you that you can help us appeal this decision.
I am outraged that any U.S. Government office would refuse look up a document that is from another U.S. government website! Or can ONE guy from the U.S. consulates office decide who comes or who goes to the U.S. based on his opinion and not by evidence that has already been approved. Is there a standard for approval or is it that of someone’s mood or opinion for that day. Is this HOMELAND security? If so I pray not only for me but that of our Country.
As a U.S. citizen since the time I was very young I was taught to believe that we were the land of the free and the Home of the Brave. Does this not include that we are free to find love and have the ability to receive love. Not only the love of another person but to stand for love of our country. Again my fiancée and I have been approved this Visa through the NVC and FBI backgrounds checks. However I believe the person at the US consulates office in Ciudad Juarez thinks he must be above the law and polices that have been put in to place.
My fiancée has had no infractions of the law and has never come to the U.S. illegally. She is free and clear to marry and has never had any children in fact her own parents reside in the U.S. Now because of one man’s opinion, my fiancée is denied the right to marry in the US and now to see her own Mother and Father who already reside in the U.S. Please help us with this matter as we believe the decision is unfound and unjust. Thank you for your time and attention to our issue. Thanks xxxx This was sent to our Congressman and Senator and our Attorney. We have also made front page news here is that link http://www.examiner.net/news/x182041...ed-in-paradise We our new to this site and if we have posted in the wrong thread please help us so we can post to the right topics. Thank you Chuck and Teresa
Thank you for taking time to review our case. Please let me start out by saying that we were denied our K1 Visa so that way we could get married in the U.S. The U.S. Consulate officer denied our case because it was his opinion that we were already married. We are not married in fact here is our story and evidence that no marriage has taken place between my fiancée and me. We pray that you are able to help us!
I xxx xxx filed for a K1 visa which is the I129F form. I filed for the fiancée visa with the assistance of my attorney Gregory Bryl. We filed this form on October 16, 2007 and on February 28, 2008 this application was approved and followed with open appointment letter from the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez. We attended this appointment on April 16, 2008. We ran into complications there because my fiancé and I was planning to marry in the US.
Here’s what happened my fiancée and I went to the court house and got a marriage license on August 19, 2007 and planned to be married. At that time she was on a tourist visa. Then a friend of ours told us we should check it out that but she thought it was illegal to marry on a tourist visa and it could be considered as fraud. At that point we did not use the marriage license and returned it. Then we hired our attorney and applied for the K1 visa.
My fiancée then returned to Mexico to wait for the K1 visa interview. For our interview we brought a photocopy of that unused marriage license to show true intent to be married along with engagement dinner photos taken of both our families and emails to show we have been together with in the last two years, to meet the consulates requirements for the Fiancée visa. These documents were also included in the I129f packet for the fiancée visa that was approved by the FBI and at the NVC stage.
On April 16, 2008 when we had our open appointment interview the Consulate Officer told my fiancée that was not good enough evidence and with the marriage license he believed that we were married, even though the license was unused and just a photocopy of the original we sent back. He sent her back to our hotel and told her to come back the next day so he could review the case. The next day when she returned he sent her away again and told her to get a certified letter from the office we got the license from and it was to state that the marriage license was not used.
I then contacted the Jackson County Record and Deeds and talked with xxx xxx on how to obtain a copy of the document the consulate required. I did this by email and making phone calls. xxx xxx gave us a Government website as to look up names in that County and State that showed if you were married or not by just typing in a name. Here is that site,
( http://records.co.jackson.mo.us/sear...binet=marriage ). We obtained and had these documents Fed Ex to Ciudad Juarez for our appointment on April 21, 2008.
On April 21, 2008 she went back to the consulate with the certified letter as well as some emails from the Jackson County Web Site -Marriage License to show correspondence about the unused marriage license. Also we provided them with the Government website that xxx xxx provided us. This was to prove we were not married. The officer then told her that it was his decision to approve or deny any visas and he believed despite the evidence that he still believed we were married. He sent her away without written reason for the denial.
Today April 22, 2008 we tried to appeal this decision at the US consulates office in Ciudad Juarez and they told us to contact our attorney and our congressman to help us. The guy at the window there said that we could talk with the chief officer to see if he can review our case but he was not available. He told us we could come tomorrow and stand in line again with the other 500 people there and maybe he would be available tomorrow but he could not give us an appointment or make us any guarantees to be seen. It is our hope that with the evidence that we are providing you that you can help us appeal this decision.
I am outraged that any U.S. Government office would refuse look up a document that is from another U.S. government website! Or can ONE guy from the U.S. consulates office decide who comes or who goes to the U.S. based on his opinion and not by evidence that has already been approved. Is there a standard for approval or is it that of someone’s mood or opinion for that day. Is this HOMELAND security? If so I pray not only for me but that of our Country.
As a U.S. citizen since the time I was very young I was taught to believe that we were the land of the free and the Home of the Brave. Does this not include that we are free to find love and have the ability to receive love. Not only the love of another person but to stand for love of our country. Again my fiancée and I have been approved this Visa through the NVC and FBI backgrounds checks. However I believe the person at the US consulates office in Ciudad Juarez thinks he must be above the law and polices that have been put in to place.
My fiancée has had no infractions of the law and has never come to the U.S. illegally. She is free and clear to marry and has never had any children in fact her own parents reside in the U.S. Now because of one man’s opinion, my fiancée is denied the right to marry in the US and now to see her own Mother and Father who already reside in the U.S. Please help us with this matter as we believe the decision is unfound and unjust. Thank you for your time and attention to our issue. Thanks xxxx This was sent to our Congressman and Senator and our Attorney. We have also made front page news here is that link http://www.examiner.net/news/x182041...ed-in-paradise We our new to this site and if we have posted in the wrong thread please help us so we can post to the right topics. Thank you Chuck and Teresa