Soliman56@Hotmail.Com

Al salam alaykum

I am muslim egyptain husband that married usa citizen woman ,and she
applied petition for immigrant visa for me in usa embassy in cairo ,we
did the interview 04jan2004 but really the interviewer asked for my
fingerprint and then after 20 days he transfered my case for
ADJUDICATION in INS Office in ATHENS Greece.my paper work in the file
is complete.

any one can help me please and tell me why this happen ???????????
by the way my wife is 8 years older than me .but i married her for
love .and i met her two years before our marriage .

PLease helpppppppp

salam alaykum .

Hebapotamus42

I believe that a case is forwarded to Athens if they feel they cannot
approve it. It can stay there up to six months according the old info
on the consulate website. (It's not there any more.) There is one
person on this newsgroup who also had her fiancee's case transferred
to Athens. BTW, what type of person cpnducted your interview?

Originally posted by

    > Al salam alaykum
    >
    > I am muslim egyptain husband that
married usa citizen woman ,and she
    > applied petition for immigrant
visa for me in usa embassy in cairo ,we
    > did the interview 04jan2004
but really the interviewer asked for my
    > fingerprint and then after
20 days he transfered my case for
    > ADJUDICATION in INS Office in
ATHENS Greece.my paper work in the file
    > is complete.
    >
    > any one
can help me please and tell me why this happen ???????????
    > by the
way my wife is 8 years older than me .but i married her for
    > love
.and i met her two years before our marriage .
    >
    > PLease helpppppppp

    >
salam alaykum .

Khadija

Alaikum Assalaam,

We need more info to help you. When did you marry?
When and where was the paperwork filed? From the States? At the
Consulate? What kind of visa are you applying for - the I-130 or a K3?
Do you have any "red flags" such as meeting online and only meeting face-to-
face once, or children from a previous marriage or did you overstay a
student or visitors visa here ever? Who conducted your interview? What
did he/she say during the interview?

If we're to help you with any
insight into your situation, you have to give us a few more details on
which to go.

Patty Khadijah

Soliman56@Hotmail.Com

Khadija <member10682@british_expats.com> wrote in message news:<>...
    > Alaikum Assalaam,
    >
    > We need more info to help you. When did you marry?
    > When and where was the paperwork filed? From the States? At the
    > Consulate? What kind of visa are you applying for - the I-130 or a K3?
    > Do you have any "red flags" such as meeting online and only meeting face-to-
    > face once, or children from a previous marriage or did you overstay a
    > student or visitors visa here ever? Who conducted your interview? What
    > did he/she say during the interview?
    >
    > If we're to help you with any
    > insight into your situation, you have to give us a few more details on
    > which to go.
    >
    > Patty Khadijah

Thank u for ur reply ,ok i will give u all the details ..
i met my wife on the internet about two years ago then she traveled to
me 2003 april we lived togther in egypt about three months and we got
married during this time in egypt ,then she applied for me for
immigrant visa petition in usa embassy in cairo ,it was about in
october 2003 then i received letter of finla visa interview for me and
my wife to be attended in this interview in usa embassy 04th jan 2004
, in the interview this white american man asked me and her simple
questions annd then he asked my wife for any letters that i sent to
her,but really he ignored all the emails ,photos,telephone
bills,flight tickets,then he asked for my fingerprint then i did ,i
asked this man how long it will take to know the result ??? he said
that may be ti will take one or more than three months ,But really i
waited more time till i sent the consulate email to know what is the
update of my case? then they answered me that they transfered my case
to ATHENS .by the way my wife has one kid from her previous marriage.i
did not travel to usa before ,and also this man did not even look at
me .he only kept looking at his computer.

Please helppppppppppppppppppppppppp

al salamu alaykum

Soliman56@Hotmail.Com

Khadija <member10682@british_expats.com> wrote in message news:<>...
    > Alaikum Assalaam,
    >
    > We need more info to help you. When did you marry?
    > When and where was the paperwork filed? From the States? At the
    > Consulate? What kind of visa are you applying for - the I-130 or a K3?
    > Do you have any "red flags" such as meeting online and only meeting face-to-
    > face once, or children from a previous marriage or did you overstay a
    > student or visitors visa here ever? Who conducted your interview? What
    > did he/she say during the interview?
    >
    > If we're to help you with any
    > insight into your situation, you have to give us a few more details on
    > which to go.
    >
    > Patty Khadijah



Salamu alaykum

ok i will tell u more information ,we got married in egypt 12/06/2004
and we filed the petition in usa embassy in cairo ,immigrant visa for
spouse,i never traveled to usa before.my workpapers are in order and
correct ,we had the interview 04jan 2004 and it was not good as this
white american man kept looking at his computer screen most of the
interview time .at the end of the interview he asked for my
fingerprint and i did it .then he did not ask for any of me and my
wife pictures or emails or bills .....,he only took one letter .also
the embassy notified me that my case transferred to INS ATHENS for
adjudication on 20jan2004
,,,whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy??????????????????????
Also i like to let u know that my wife lived with me in egypt three
months and also one more month after the interview so like this she
traveled two times and i guess that this man checked my wife passport
as he asked for it .i like to tell u something about my wife ,,,she is
older than me ,and she hs one kid.and her family and my family and her
kid accepted our marriage ,she was married before long time ago and
she got divorced by the law i mean legelly and we gave the immigrtion
copy of the court decree.

i hope these are helpful details

please helpppppppppppppppppppppppp

Khadija

While there are others a little more knowledgeable than I on the
possible reasons for the transfer of your case to Athens, I would
speculate that it is due to the fact they are short-staffed in Cairo.
On the surface, your case doesn't sound that different than the other
Egyptian husbands & wives currently on this NG who are having their
cases adjudicated in Cairo. Since you and your wife did DCF (Direct
Consular Filing), fingerprints are the normal course of events as well.
I'd do a search on "Cairo" on the NG and read a bit of our experiences.
While the wait seems eternal, in the grand scheme of things you are well
within the limits of what's "normal" in this viisa world. As I said, my
guess is your case was transferred for pragmatic reasons and not for any
suspicious reasons.

It can't hurt to call or email the Consulate again
and inquire about the reasons for the transfer. Ask them is it for a
specific reason or because of a backlog. In the meantime, read some of
the other Cairo-related threads here so you can realize a) you're not
alone and b) this is not so unusual.

Hang in there,
Patty Khadijah

Noorah101

Could you also possibly contact the consulate in Athens and ask them
about your case? Perhaps since it's now in their hands, they would be
the contact for your case. Maybe they can now give you a time frame
when it will be finished....

Good luck and best wishes!
Rene

Khadija

Or at least confirm why it was transferred. Good thinking, Rene!


Originally posted by Noorah101
    > Could you also
possibly contact the consulate in Athens and ask them about your case?
Perhaps since it's now in their hands, they would be the contact for
your case. Maybe they can now give you a time frame when it will be
finished....
    >
    > Good luck and best wishes!
Rene

Meauxna

Originally posted by Noorah101
    > Could you also possibly
contact the consulate in Athens and ask them about your case? Perhaps
since it's now in their hands, they would be the contact for your case.
Maybe they can now give you a time frame when it will be finished....

    > Good luck and best wishes!
    > Rene

Rene et al,
for an FYI,
if a case has been sent to Athens, it's not there for Consular
processing. There is an "INS" office at the Embassy there, and they are
the overseas office of USCIS (as opposed to DoS). When doing my DCF
(which technically wasn't) in Athens, I was confused about whether or
not my petition would have to go to Rome for approval. I was curtly
informed that Athens had its own (then) INS office and those workers
would pass my petition on to the Consular folk when it was ready.

I
keep referring to INS because I know these overseas offices have their
own new name now, I just haven't seen *what* that is.

However, for the
OP, I think it was rachel212 who had some dealings with her case getting
transferred to Athens from another post (for "INS" review). It may be
worth looking up her posts to see who/how she contacted there.

Noorah101

Originally posted by meauxna
    > Rene et al,
    > for an FYI,
if a case has been sent to Athens, it's not there for Consular
processing. There is an "INS" office at the Embassy there, and they are
the overseas office of USCIS (as opposed to DoS). When doing my DCF
(which technically wasn't) in Athens, I was confused about whether or
not my petition would have to go to Rome for approval. I was curtly
informed that Athens had its own (then) INS office and those workers
would pass my petition on to the Consular folk when it was ready.

Thanks for the info, Mo! :)