Here's a nice easy set up that's good to your eyes. Haha.
A Bit About Us:
Name: Stephanie C.
Sex: Female
Age: 21
Birthday: November 27th, 1987
Location: Ontario, Canada
Name: Matthew J. Though, he prefers Matt.
Sex: Male
Age: 34
Birthday: September 2nd, 1965
Location: California, United States of America. Had previously immigrated from Taipei, Taiwan about 15 years ago.
A Bit About Our Relationship:
We met online iRO Ragnarok Online, Sakray server. We both ended up in the same guild after a while. I had an Acolyte named Rhiann. (Hence my screen name xD) He had an assassin named Sin Kazuma. I can't remember the guild's name for the life of me though. I wasn't really that active in guild activities, since it required higher level characters.
I'm not exactly sure how we started talking, but I do remember some of our first conversations. Not the exact words or anything, but I do remember what was going on more or less.
We had started talking on RO for a bit, then we gave eachother our MSNs. I remember staying up late the day before we moved out of our house to a new one in the countryside. Damn I was exhausted. Once I got settled into the new house, it was hard for us to talk. I had dial up (Yes, it still exists) and I could only be online 2 hours a day.
October 3rd, 2003 is when he asked me to be his girlfriend. To be honest, I wasn't sure if he was being serious or not, but I said yes anyway.
That was 6 years ago.
Over the years, stuff happened. My parents would tease me because I was always talking to him online, but one day they went over the top and I reacted a little too much. They got suspicious and ended up breaking one of those sacred things that you just should not do. They took my laptop and read the MSN conversations between us. Talk about invasion of privacy. For the longest time, my parents thought he was a stalker, haha. That was the one and only time (So far in my life) that my father has ever scared me. Eventually my mom talked with him online and said he was okay.
Eventually, I went off to college. We decided to meet without my parents knowing, and it went off fine.
I'll never forget that meeting. I was in North Bay and it was midnight. The airport was tiny and the plane had just come in. I was hyperventilating out of nervousness and I swear people were staring at me. He was one of the last ones to come off the plane. I remember hesitating slightly (the nervous thing again, what do you expect for someone who's never had a boyfriend) and hugged him. The whole time I ended up staring at the floor. I didn't really want my first kiss to be a public affair xD
We ended up going to the hotel and the rest is history really. I'll never forget he wore all white and it just doesn't match his skin tone, haha.
He later met my parents on a trip 6 months later. I'm not sure if my parents ever found out about it, but I'm sure they know.
Over the years, I visited him 6 times and he visited me 2 times. This was before we decided to start this immigration thing. He's visited 2 more times since then, making 10 visits over 5 years. Yes, 5 because the first year I was still at home with my parents.
Hm, hard to believe it's been that long.
We were engaged on September 1st, 2006.
What Made Us Start The Immigration Process:
Well, Matt was down for a visit, and I was planning to go back with him. Had a whole engagement party, met my family and everything. Everyone thought I was leaving and not coming back... well. SO MUCH FOR THAT. Little did I know, me crossing over to the US to marry and adjust status to permanent resident through marriage is "Visa Fraud". I got caught at the border and turned away. I didn't even get to see him after we got into the customs line. Wow that was a depressing night.
About a week later, we were researching the K-1 Fiance(e) visa. My fiance was still a permanent resident in the US at the time due to lawyers messing around with his green card process. Thank god I got him to apply for citizenship when I was last in the US visiting. We had to wait for him to be sworn in as a US citizen to start this. He was sworn in April 22nd, 2009.
Us Now:
Sitting here, waiting. Haha.
Montreal's a really slow consulate.
Hm well. Yeah.
Next post will talk about what exactly a K-1 Visa is.
Steps of a K-1 Visa:
US Petitioner and Foreign Beneficiary Collect Needed DocumentsI-129F Package SentNotice Of Action 1 Received by US PetitionerNotice Of Action 2 Received by US PetitionerCase Forwarded to the National Visa CenterCase Forwarded to the Foreign Beneficiary's US ConsulateCase Received by Foreign Beneficiary's Local US Consulate- Forms and Checklist Sent to Foreign Beneficiary
- Foreign Beneficiary Compiles Needed Forms
- Foreign Beneficiary Sends Completed Forms to US Consulate
- US Consulate Issues Interview Date
- Interview Conducted at the US Consulate
Legend: Strikethrough + Blue show past steps, Bolded + Red shows current step
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