Christian Testimony - March 2022

I'm an American and my husband is Indian. Between COVID hitting right after we met online and immigration, we finally got married two years after meeting.

God was definitely in the middle of the whole thing. So crazy.

I think I came across Bobby's profile on January 15th, 2020. I winked at him :) He immediately sent me like 5 separate emails!

So we began chatting more and more and after I think a week he was sold on me. I wasn't fully sold because I've had a few long distance relationships and this would be the furthest relationship I would be in if I chose to do it.

I remember telling Bobby after he explained he was wanting to pursue a relationship with me that I wouldn't move forward until we met. He was in London, England by the way and I was in California.

So I was pretty bold to say that to him. He was even bolder to make the decision to get a visitor visa two weeks after that first wink was sent! He was approved for the tourist visa and came to visit 3 weeks after that.

So I think our timeline was 6 weeks after meeting on Christian Cafe he flew to see me. I remember the entire process of our relationship was so peaceful.

I remember asking God like why are there no red flags with this man. Most of my relationships were horrible and full of red flags I ignored so this particular man was the most peaceful man and it was funny to experience the peace and be like "is something wrong? This feels weird that nothing feels unsettling about this."

The peace is was kept me in line and kept my heart safe. Not rushing into anything but letting this man pursue me. It was beautiful.

And the timing was IMPECCABLE! He literally flew back home after being with me for two weeks, and the day he flew back, they closed international travel two days later due to COVID.

I often think about how God had us meet and actually meet in person all before the world blew up with COVID. That was a miracle in itself.

We spent months and months apart because of the pandemic and it honestly was so hard to walk through this process of separation and failed meeting up attempts.

But somehow we just kept giving it to God over and over again. And through the process of waiting for each other God grew us in ways that I don't know if we would have grown had we had been in the same town the whole relationship.

Being separated most of the relationship caused our trust in God to grow a lot. It was so painful and honestly I personally was so angry at God throughout it. Like "You bring me this man and I can't even have him? WHYYYY?" Lol.

After that March meeting we decided to start the immigration process of the K1 Fiance visa in July of 2020. We weren't engaged officially at that time but we knew we wanted to progress.

I went to England for two weeks to be with him in December of 2020; just being able to travel then without hiccups was crazy. I literally was there when the Delta Variant started in England and more travel restrictions came into place right after I got there.

Little windows of time that God opened for us we're miraculous every time it seemed.

That December vacation, we spent special time together. Bobby proposed to me on December 23, 2020.

After I got back home the next year of our lives and our relationship was the TOUGHEST part. We found out our petition for our visa was approved, which means they deemed our relationship valid and then next part of the process was the US immigration sending our petition to the London US Embassy where Bobby would eventually interview and then come here. BUT if only it was that smooth lol.

Our petition was approved in Feb 2021. We thought this meant that Bobby would be here in April or May of 2021. But no. We found out, kind of accidentally that the US embassy in London was still closed from the pandemic and had been closed since March of 2020, thus halting all but emergency immigration situations.

We were so disappointed and frustrated. So hurt and mad at God like why is this happening. We had no control over the situation.

I mean the scariest part was all the backlog in front of us from a year of being closed. We actually joined two different group lawsuits after we heard success stories of people doing this. Because basically what the embassy was doing was illegal. Anyway, so many details I'll leave because it's already a lot.

Our relationship was hurt on commitment and God's timing and our trust in Him and in each other. We had several setbacks through the next ten months of waiting, like painful ones, but Bobby FINALLY had his interview in November 2021 and moved here at the end of that month.

We were married two weeks after that. Even the wedding itself was planned in faith because we had no idea for sure if it would happen.

My family flew from Zimbabwe, and Texas and Canada for the wedding, like they all planned to come and had faith with us that it would happen. And it did.

God came through time and time again and it definitely didn't always look of feel like He was in the middle of our love story but looking back, His faithfulness sustained us.

Our love for each other is special because of this process. I trust my husband and he trusts me. We love each other and because of what we went through I feel like we could go through anything and it would be fine.

We are currently still doing immigration stuff haha. Bobbie has applied for his Green card and all that and wiring for his work authorization. At least we are together for the rest of the immigration process.

We are adjusting to marriage and just being around each other. It's been fun and weird.

But I'm so in love with him.

I refer people to Christian Cafe all the time :)

Tandi-hopefullove577 {California} & Bobbie-bobbyjacob453 {England} March 2022

We met on your site March 2020.

Thank you for bringing us together.

Every prayer answered every time. God is Good!

Yes it's it's been an amazing experience blessings everywhere we turn everything has been made so easy for us.

Things that even the government usually makes extremely difficult were done very quickly and very easily.

Wedding is set for May 27th in the Philippines.

Brian-wildwoodca215 {California} & Kitchie-babyk694 {Philippines} March 2022