That is great news for you.
I wish you a smooth processing from here.
please, repost when you receive a final decision to your application.
It gives me a ray of hope for an eventual good out come to my husband's somewhat different, yet sadly slightly similar immigration situation. I am a Middle aged American citizen married to a Moroccan man since 2011. Much of that time we were happy to be in Morocco together. Then my father died, and my mother need my help. Suddenly Morocco was far less attractive than going home. we opted to move. We expected to get an IR1 VISA.
But it hasn't been as easy as we expected. In fact, I had to take my elderly widowed (only English speaking) American mother from her comfortable home in the Tucson foothills to live in my crampt Marrakech apartment (in the third world) with my husband and me. So, here I am with my family stuck in exile in this North African country for God only knows how long.....nearly 2 years in hell now....no end in sight.
Unfortunately our situation was involving the production of my husband's criminal record report by the Moroccan police. American Homeland Security Administration at the American Consulate discovered the Moroccan error during the final stages of proccessing of my husband's application. As you can see, it is different than your situation as most importantly we are not in America.
I know it is because of a Moroccan internal bureaucratic paperwork error, but the way HSA handled it makes it a huge problem. We really had no idea we had a problem with his paperwork until the final interview. Instead of being handing my husband's VISA, we found an over zealous HSA agent rudely declairing all my husband's Moroccan documents to be suspicious. Of course that means he is inelegable for a VISA until we fix the error and can then apply for a waiver. IF that had been all this obnoxious agent had done, we would have been fine. it wasn't. We actually found the Moroccan police waiting for us outside the American Consulate after my husband's interview. We are ordinary middle-aged professional people. But to our flabergas, my husband was arrested over this stupid paperwork error. Of course they weren't going to arrest me because I was American and they could see the charge was pretty flimsy. My husband was later released (after a weekend in jail) because the court reviewed the papers and saw nothing wrong witn the documents we submitted. But we were prevented from reobtaining one document. Ironically, it is because we have a pending case (this case) in court that we cannot get it.
But this one document is the issue that started our living hell.
The documents that the Americans handed over to the Moroccan authority as evidence had one document that couldn't be determined. The original we sent in to the NVC went missing, all the consulate had was a poor quality photo copy. It was infact a copy of the Moroccan police record we sent. But the original was either lost or destroyed during the processing of our file by the American government. They deny they still have it, but in the packet of papers that were returned to me was a high quality scan someone put in the file inplace of the original we sent, so I know they had it at one time. The Moroccan court couldn't accept a photocopy as evidence, but because the complaintant in the case was tha American Consulate, they felt they couldn't simply render a verdict to dismiss the charge it either.
Here come the big issue. Apparently, the Moroccan police normally keep dupicates of originals of tbe documents they produce. You would think that good, but not if the person in that office is incompetent and is being kept in his possition out of what I assume is eitger coruption or favoritism. Hell, I don't know, but now no one seems to knoe who actually messed this up. we are told the clerks all disavow involvement.
During the arraignment of my husband the police were unable to produce their duplicate matching the document. From the accounting office they could see my husband had paid the fee for the document(actually paid twice), but they couldn't find the right file with his duplicates. Had the police been able to produce the duplicate, the case would have been over. But, because in the Marrakech office where my husband had gotten the Moroccan document, they were still procucing some documents by hand instead of using the newer automated system, things were a mess. Casablanca used the new system to verify the record for the Americans, this would have worked to end the case, but the language didn't match exactly, so the court asked the Casablanca police to get the Marrakech official duplicate. It was then discovered there was some "filing system error" in that office, and several duplicates of documents were lost too. The prosecution fully recognised they were going to have to conduct an internal investigation of the Marrakech office, but the Casablanca Police have been reluctant to investigate one of their own at the Marrakech police department. The case is caught in this never ending cycle of "continuance" requests for further investigation. We can't allpy for a waiver untill a verdict is rendered by the Moroccan court. in 3 years the case will fail to an administrative "death" on the docket of the Morocco court without a ruling. Although no ruling means the charge is dropped and good for my husband while we are stuck in Morocco, it may be crippling to us ever getting a waiver for his American VISA as Homeland Security is not held accountable to the regular American courts in regards to immigration case investigations so the charge of fraud may still stand with them even if Morocco drops the case.
We were actually packing our bags getting ready to go home to Arizona when it happened. Luckily we hadn't book our flight yet.
I would love to be allowed to someday return home to the USA. As time moves on, it looks less and less likely. With all the lawyers here and there, eventually we will run out of money, and then our going home as a family will forever just be out of our reach .
One thing is certian, the USCIS cares nothing about what we suffer.
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