Past Year Successes & A Couple of Disappointments

We had many successes during the past year (some of which even surprised us). See our chart of uncommon victories below:

Interview Date	Visa Type	Case Issues
January 24, 2011	CR-1	1. Married on 1st visit 2. Petitioner was married and divorced five times previously 3. Petitioner filed prior immigrant petition for his ex-wife and her 2 children in 2004
January 13, 2011		1. Case was denied as K-1 2. Couple married 3. K-3 petition filed 4. Guangzhou Consulate sent K-3 back to CIS for revocation 5. CIS agrees and revokes approval of I-129F 6. We appeal decision 7. We win appeal 8. Case goes back to GUZ 9. We prepare beneficiary for 5th time, visa issued on first day
December 2, 2010	CR-1	1. Married on the 1st visit
November 1, 2010	K-1	1. Petitioner had 3 prior marriages 2. Beneficiary’s English was fair/poor when they hired us; we helped move it to above average by time of IV
November 1, 2010	CR-1	1. Married on the 1st visit 2. Petitioner only made one trip to visit fiancée/wife prior to the IV
October 6, 2010	CR-1	1. 32 year age difference
September 14, 2010	CR-1	1. Petitioner did not disclose all his prior divorces on I-129F petition
September 9, 2010 Blue Slip for financials (all other cases in this chart were approved on 1st day)	CR-1	1. Married on the 1st visit 2. Beneficiary’s English was fair/poor when they hired us; we helped move it to above average by time of IV
August 19, 2010	K-1	1. 19 year age difference 2. Petitioner was still married when they met
August 16, 2010	K-1	1. 26 year age difference
July 12, 2010	K-1	1. Petitioner did not disclose all his divorces on the initial petition
June 8, 2010	K-1	1. 19 year age difference 2. Petitioner only made one trip to China
February 24, 2010	K-1	1. Beneficiary was a member of the Chinese Communist Party at time of IV
February 3, 2010	K-1	1. 20 year age difference 2. Petitioner had 3 prior marriages 3. Petitioner filed prior immigrant petition for his ex-wife
January 26, 2010	K-1	1. 20 year age difference 2. Beneficiary’s English was fair/poor when they hired us; we helped move it to above average by time of IV

But we had a couple of disappointments, too.

We hadn't had a case sent back from the Guangzhou Consulate for almost two years, when, in one week in early November 2010, we had two sent back. In one case the fiancee had become nervous during the interview and failed to follow some specific advice we had given her prior to the interview.

The other case continues to mystify us. It had some challenges (petitioner had brought another foreign wife to the U.S. before; both petitioner and beneficiary had been divorced multiple times) but certainly no more so that the cases cited above. Interestingly, the couple broke up a couple of weeks after the interview, so maybe the Consulate saw some weakness in this couple's relationship that we did not.

John Roth