TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2019
Visa for Victor!
Visa for Victor, finally!
We sent the last required documents, and then waited. Starting a few days ago, I've been checking the status daily:
- April 27: Administrative Processing
- April 28: Administrative Processing
- April 29: Administrative Processing
- April 30: Application Received
- May 1: Issued
I thought it would be in hand a day or two later, but that didn't happen. When it hadn't arrived on Saturday, May 4th, I was sure it would come Monday. But on Monday, I received an email saying they were only then giving it to DHL to deliver. Sigh.
Victor received it May 7th. I didn't want to say anything to anyone until he had it in hand. Not telling anyone for a week was difficult!
For unknown reasons, it has an expiration date of May 15!! Victor may come to Los Angeles next week! No one can tell me why it isn't valid for six months, as we expected.
It's been two years since we decided to apply for a fiancé visa, and it's been more than 25 years (!) since we first tried for a tourist visa. What an unnecessary ordeal!
P.S. We flew into Houston on May 14th. I could not accompany Victor to his interview, which took about twenty minutes. But it was successful, and he entered the U.S. !! We arrived in Los Angeles on May 15th.
And here is Victor in his first hour in the U.S.
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