I am raising money to help us be together! Ann and I were brought together by the Lord, and as we wait on her Fiancé Visa to be approved by USCIS, we are asking you to help us have a beautiful wedding when it is.
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Our Visa application has been approved!!! This means USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has passed off the processing and logistics to the U.S. Department of State CEAC (Consular Electronic Application Center). Here, I will pay the Immigrant Visa Application Processing Fee and Affidavit of Support Fee.
I want to be candid and truthful. I am a divorced father with primary custody of my 6 children. Throughout the years, the kids and I have toughed it out and relied on the Lord to take care of us. I don't need to explain how tough that can be, especially in today's economy, but we have made it and are hanging in there.
I really had no desire to remarry, and was not actively looking.
Some time back, I went on a missionary trip to the Philippines and got to minister to and fall in love with the country and her people. I also met a dear close friend of mine today from there. Many years later, talking to folks there, and supporting missionaries as well, I became more and more interested in the country and culture.
Not to give too many details, I woke up one morning last year about 2:30am and reached out to a lady there. She was attending a church identical to my beliefs, and I became very interested as I had not expected to see someone like this. Everything I "imagined" to be the perfect woman, she was, and still is to me. We began talking, and she was very hesitant for a while to trust me. But over the past year our relationship has grown to something wonderful.
I went to visit her and her family, and we had a wonderful time in Cebu City, and the northern part of Cebu region. We spent 2 weeks together with each other, family and friends, and attended church up there as well. I asked her to marry me while I was there at the Temple of Leah (If you haven't been there, it is a must-see), and she said yes!
I met her and her family, and her father welcomed me and gave me his blessing to marry her.
We filed our I-129F earlier this year, and have been waiting on USCIS to go through it. It has been more than 6 months since they received it, but we are still waiting for them to begin the process.
Ann and I talk every single day, and chat back and forth, and talk back and forth with each others' families' and my children. My children have grown to love her as well, and already call her "Mom".
I know the entire process has, and will cost a total of about $20,000USD, but I do not anticipate that much, and frankly feel bad asking for that much, so I know 5,000 will help offset what I have been able to provide so far.
If you would, please help us out and give whatever you can, it certainly would help us get ready for when the government says, "ok, you bring her here!"
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Our Visa application has been approved!!! This means USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has passed off the processing and logistics to the U.S. Department of State CEAC (Consular Electronic Application Center). Here, I will pay the Immigrant Visa Application Processing Fee and Affidavit of Support Fee.
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If you are interested in knowing more about the process of USCIS adjuticating, specifically, an I-129F, in a nutshell is this. There are 5 processing centers across the U.S. that files these. Once they receive the paperwork and items they need to begin the process, depending on which processing center receives it, will take between 6 months to 16.5 months to complete it, depending on the processing center to which it went. Ours arrived in California (you can tell by the 3 letters preceding your case #. As of this writing, it has been 200 days now since they received it, almost 6.5 months. If that is the case, and they are accurate, then they *should* have it complete by July 2024, but am praying fervently that it will go more quickly.
***Note, before COVID, and the influx of illegal aliens over our borders, it only took approximately 6 months to adjuticate a complete case, at any processing center.
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While we know where we are with USCIS, to let everyone know exactly where we are, USCIS filed our paperwork on I-129F on March 31, 2023, so we are 192 days since they have received it.
Thank you SO much for your support!!!
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