I probably set a record in this forum for the longest timeline or at least close to it. Here is the breakdown. The application was filed on October 27 2008. Apparently, the following month the Accra embassy had contacted my wife without any of us knowing that. This was on November 28 2008 .They had sent a letter to my wife requesting for additional documents and pictures about our marriage but my wife did not receive that letter which was possibly because of the unreliable postal system. And, that’s just one of three letters from the embassy she did not get. Anyway, by the time I found out about the embassy’s request with the assistance of my MP and sent the required documents and pictures 7 months had elapsed.
Getting the embassy to comply with simple directives at times is futile and an exercise in frustration. I have sent them email twice trying to get them to use my wife’s email address all to no avail.
After all these fiasco, 10 months later the interview was scheduled for April 29 2010 but she was in the end denied a visa.
Then came the toughest stretch of the journey with its moments of emotional turmoil. At certain times I often wondered if our marriage will even survive this period. It didn’t break us so perhaps that will make our bond stronger.
I filed for an appeal in May 2010. It took almost a year for the hearing to take place. After winning the appeal in March 2011, she had to wait another 7 months before the visa was finally issued on October 11 2011. It was a long difficult journey but in the end the desired result was achieved.
I feel mostly indifferent about her visa. The long wait and the agonising experience of going through the appeal process mostly ruined the excitement for me. Though, seeing my wife for the first time at the airport is the only excitement I see in the immediate horizon.
Getting the embassy to comply with simple directives at times is futile and an exercise in frustration. I have sent them email twice trying to get them to use my wife’s email address all to no avail.
After all these fiasco, 10 months later the interview was scheduled for April 29 2010 but she was in the end denied a visa.
Then came the toughest stretch of the journey with its moments of emotional turmoil. At certain times I often wondered if our marriage will even survive this period. It didn’t break us so perhaps that will make our bond stronger.
I filed for an appeal in May 2010. It took almost a year for the hearing to take place. After winning the appeal in March 2011, she had to wait another 7 months before the visa was finally issued on October 11 2011. It was a long difficult journey but in the end the desired result was achieved.
I feel mostly indifferent about her visa. The long wait and the agonising experience of going through the appeal process mostly ruined the excitement for me. Though, seeing my wife for the first time at the airport is the only excitement I see in the immediate horizon.
