My case was not his area of specialization. He went to school on me.

Secondly, I frequently knew more about how to get things done than he did. I knew about the problems with mail in CIS countries. We spent months while important documents went back and forth and got lost in the mail.

He made mistakes in the details. I had to proofread the forms he was submitting and make corrections. They weren’t horrible mistakes, but there shouldn’t have been any mistakes.

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Third, instead of having me garner documents for the next phase of the operation, he always waited to the last minute to tell me what I needed to get. There was always a waiting period to get the documents from overseas, when I could have already had them in hand.

I ended up generating my supporting documentation three times! One time with the original application. Another time for the embassy package to be presented at the interview.

And another time because our attorney said that the embassy couldn’t find our file. Of course, when I got to the embassy they had found all the missing documents (probably in their filing cabinet).

Of course I was the one doing all the donkeywork, getting the supporting documentation together. I had to badger him to keep the process moving. When we didn’t get an invitation from the embassy, he didn’t know how to resolve the problem. My fiancé kept calling until she got through and solved the problem.

He tried emailing and writing letters to the embassy, but he didn’t know how to effectively get their attention. She was the one who found out what the problem was and resolved it.

All in all, it took me nine and a half months to get my fiancé to America under the K-1 Visa provisions. I have never had anyone who I talked to who took longer to get to America under a Fiancé Visa.

Everything that could go wrong went wrong. And this is with me being as conscientious as I possibly could. I hired an attorney because I didn’t want anything to go wrong in the process.

Of course, a large part of the problem was the Belarusian post office, on whom I blame about two to three months of delays, my attorney who I blame for two months of delays, plus a whole lot of extra work and unnecessary stress, and of course, the INS and the US embassy, who are exactly what we expect – government agencies.

With the Belarusian Post Office and the US Government Agencies I expect delays. After all I wasn’t paying them any money.

But my attorney was the guy who was supposed to go to bat for me. I paid him eighteen hundred dollars for first class travel and got a second-class mule ride.

The delays almost led to the break up of our relationship. When my fiancé had waited nearly six months without getting any documentation or substantiation from the embassy or anyone, she started doubting my word.

Her friends were putting words in her ears like, “you know how American men are?”

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