Bad News...

No I do not know you, I was merely trying to point out that this is not the place to solicit business.  I will not respond to any further posts on this matter.  I don't judge you or anyone else, I am in no place to judge.  Just stating the obvious.

@Immigrationconsultant...you say you are legit and want to offer free advise, but why in the other post did you say you would charge her a reasonable fee (not your words exactly but this is basically what you said).  People on this forum are here to offer and recieve adivse and support free of cost.  When someone is going through a rough time, I do not think they need people coming out of the woodwork charging them money.  If she requested your help, that would be a totally different scenario.  If someone had given her the number or name of someone to contact, that would have also been a different scenario.  You on the other hand are looking for money in my opinion and could care less how she makes out. Again, this is only my opinion.  I just know there are many people out there that are indeed naive, good honest people that are easily taken advantage of.  I would hate to think this is what is going on. 

I have to agree with eastcoastgirl. these forums are for those who are going through the process and we are here for each other to help if we can. I feel it is not the right spot for consultants to be.

Hello
I want to first tell you that i am sorry about the outcome of your file
I am a immigration consultant and would like to talk to you about it and help you with you appeal
at a reasonable cost
Contact me anytime
Nancy
[email protected]

I largely agree with PMM.

However, there does appear to be an unwritten or unofficial tendency toward, if not a relatively defined threshold imposed upon, certain kinds of applications being processed in a few specific Visa Offices. And this is probably based very much on practical realities and probabilities, not cultural or ethnic bias (even though perhaps the impact has a disproportionate impact on certain cultural and ethnic groups, and of course it appears that too often some cultural and ethnic bias does encroach into the process). As a result, especially relative to applications to sponsor persons from particular third-world, economically disadvantaged countries, and involving applicants (from such countries) with whom the sponsor has not had a lot of physical contact, the applicant probably faces a more difficult burden of proof . . . again, probably based on empirical data . . . which of course is probably exacerbated by the simple reality that the absence of a lot of personal, physical contact itself attenuates the capacity of the sponsor and applicant to fully and intimately know each other (many are "fooled" or misled by someone they spend large portions of most days with, let alone by someone who they rarely have spent physical time with), making it more difficult to "prove" the genuineness of the relationship.

It is worth remembering, it is not a Visa Officer's job to abstractly discern whether or not a relationship is genuine. It is the Visa Officer's job to determine whether or not the applicant has PROVEN that that relationship is genuine as well as all the other elements of the application.

Thus, just because a relationship is indeed genuine does not mean it qualifies. It must be genuine, AND the applicant must PROVE it is genuine. This seems to be oft overlooked; it appears many tend to present what might be called a "prima facie" case thinking that is sufficient (and I had an acquaintance who obviously approached the sponsorship of his Russian wife this way, with predictable results). It isn't.

Edited by dpenabill - 02 Jul 2010 at 4:39pm