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K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Welcome Gela! It is always nice to have some company on the journey! Glad you found the website.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-20 05:24:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Congrats! Now you can call the NVC and be more likely to have them already have your petition and maybe it is already on its way to your consulate!
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-19 19:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
I can't understand why they aren't in the automated system. Glad to help and good luck on hold. It actually told me to call back between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. and after 6 p.m. or so. but since I was calling at 8:07 a.m. I just stayed on hold. I can't wait to hear when my package is on its way to Montreal! The lady asked for my fiance's email address, I am figuring so the consulate can send the packet 3 via email to my fiance'. I can hardly wait!
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-19 13:36:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
The national visa center number I have called is 603-334-0700 and because it is a K-1 you need to press 1 and 5 to get a human to talk to because for some reason they don't put the K-1's into the automated systerm. This morning I waited for about 5 minutes before I got a human to talk to and she was really nice and gave me the information I needed. Yeah! Now I have my MTL number!
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-19 12:13:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
My petition arrived at the NVC on Thursday, Jan. 14. I called the NVC this morning and it was in their system but wasn't finished completely. I will call again on Thursday to see when it gets DHLed out to Montreal.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-19 10:27:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
I can't wait to call the National Visa Center this morning. I hope they have our petition since we got our hard copy NOA2 on Friday and that it is ready to be forwarded to Montreal. Yesterday, I bought the material to make my wedding dress. I have a friend sewing it for me. I keep praying Montreal will have an interview for my fiance' by June with their 4-6 month wait.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-19 06:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
I went in put in my comment. I hope my fiance' and I can get his interview done before the increase but it am not sure how likely that is unless Montreal seriously speeds up its processing/interviewing time.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-18 07:50:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
We are planning a July 11, 2010 wedding as long as our interview at Montreal and subsequent visa in hand process gets processed in time. With the backlog at Montreal, if we don't have an interview date by May, we will likely push the wedding date back. His Canadian relatives are very excited and want to come to the wedding that will be in Michigan. They have to get passports and such for travel so we want to give them as much time as possible to process there paperwork to travel "internationally". I put down the deposit on the church yesterday! The pastor understands though that although July 11 is the date we want it could be August, September, or later if the consulate interview is delayed further than their 4-6 month projected wait time. I will get married in 2010. That much is pretty sure!
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-18 07:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
My fiance' is visiting this weekend :) We are going to make our wedding registry, start the required pre-marital counseling to be married in my church, and go to a banquet put on my workplace. AH, it is a good weekend. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and it is NOT a TRAIN! I wish NVC was open tomorrow but I will wait until Tuesday to call and see if my package made it out to Montreal, Canada yet.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-17 07:38:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Your embassy should send you a letter with documentation you need to send them (and return) and a list of other documents to collect and bring to the interview. That is my understanding so far, having not gotten to the embassy yet. But I am hoping come Tuesday when I call NVC they will tell me my package has been DHled to Montreal, Canada.

BTW, I received my hardcopy NOA2 yesterday. It had a postmark of 1/10 (which is a Sunday, how odd). Took longer than I expected to get the hard copy.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-16 07:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Congrats Krilii! Isn't it exciting!

TaiwanLover, I only had pictures with a type written date (not on the picture) and explanation of where we were. I also included a copy of an announcement from my school about our engagement (but it was on regular paper, not anything special, but it did have a date and a web address to go get "the real thing") and my petition was approved. I had no boarding passes, receipts, or anything. I didn't learn about this site until about a month after my petition was in the hands of USCIS.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-15 05:29:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
I hope the touch means good things!

I was hoping for my hard copy NOA2, but no such luck. Only one piece of mail that had to do with tax season. Maybe tomorrow.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-14 17:27:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Wow that was fast! My file last got touched on 01/09/2010 so I figure it probably didn't go out until Monday's mail. I hope it is in the mailbox this afternoon when I go home! I will definitely be calling NVC again tomorrow morning though.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-14 12:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Got a nice lady at the NVC today who told me, that no, my petition wasn't in their system yet and that it could take 4 weeks to 90 days for it to be processed. I am sure hoping it happens faster than that. Has anyone else from NOA2 on Jan. 8 gotten their NOA2 hardcopy yet?
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-14 10:23:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Just a reminder for everyone as we jump through the National Visa Center hoop.

What you want to do is call NVC at (603) 334-0700 press 1 then 5. They will ask you the following:

Case#
Benificiary's date of birth and name
Petitioner's date of birth and name

Ask them if they have received your case and an estimate of when it will be forwarded to the Embassy of your fiance. Also ask for your NVC case#.

I would call NVC about a week after receiving your NOA2.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-14 08:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Congrats to all the new NOA2s! Aren't those emails the best: Approval notice sent!

I am going to call the NVC to see if my petition has gotten there yet! I hope it has and has gone on to the Montreal consulate.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-14 08:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Congrats gs619! Yeah, it seems that the embassy will be the longer wait for me (although probably not as tough as the New Delhi embassy will be for you and your loved one). But we can be thankful for each forward step, right!
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-13 15:35:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Now that I have downloaded the new Adobe Acrobat Reader and CHINESE TRADITIONAL FONTS package I can finally read the I-864p.pdf file. Crazy. Took me 10 minutes just to get to the place where I can view it! Chinese Traditional Fonts? Why exactly do I need that to read this USCIS document? I guess I will never know!

Your NOA2's are coming! Each day brings you and your loved one closer to having the first approval in the process! Then on to NVC and the consulate of the country your loved one is in! Just a little while longer!
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-13 11:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Thanks for posting the "poverty guidelines". I wasn't sure what level of money they were looking to see us petitioners make in order to bring our fiance'/fiancees to the U.S.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-13 10:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Congratulations thekatocat! Getting the NOA2 is exciting news! I have been telling anyone that has any inkling that I am going through the immigration process to get my fiance' here about the news since I got my NOA2! I can't wait to find out if my package has gotten to NVC and left to Montreal. I know there is a big backlog at the Montreal Consulate and the sooner it gets there, the better! I want to marry my fiance'!
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-13 07:16:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Moving pets is important. They are devoted to their owners often (especially a cat or dog). My fiance's father keeps saying my fiance' needs to take the cat that has lived at my in-laws house for over 15 years and NOT with my fiance'. My fiance' loves the cat but thinks such a dramatic change of living space (the country to the city) wouldn't do well for the elderly cat. I hope you are all able to get your pets where they will be loved.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-12 13:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Haven't seen that message. Hopefully you get a response soon.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-12 10:47:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Welcome, welcome! We are all in for an exciting ride! Waiting is made better when we can share the time with others in the same spot.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-11 07:16:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Maybe Vermont got too much snow and they couldn't get to work? Seems like both centers go in spurts. A few approvals then an avalanche of them all at once. Your NOA2 will come soon enough. I was just happy that my approval happened before the CSC processing time estimate.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-10 12:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Ok, Leenie, I thought it was some sort of weird particular to NVC information I should know before I called. I will definitely wait a few days before calling. Since my approval was emailed to me at 8:15 p.m. I can hardly imagine that it went on in Jan. 8's mail. It will probably go out on Monday and once I have the NOA2 hardcopy in my hand I will call the NVC. My fiance' was so shocked that we were approved on Friday night that he called back twice. "So this isn't like a pre-approval. They really approved us. We don't have to send any more evidence that we met and intend to marry." I told him, "Nope." We were both in tears from the happiness of it all by the end of the second phone call because it was starting to sink in that that process is really moving forward!
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-10 07:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
What, Leenie, does this mean anyway? "OK?!!1!?!?!!1eleventy" (her words)

Well I guess we will just have to wait then. I thought the case number from USCIS followed the case all the way to completion. I guess I will have to wait and see. I will wait until later this week though. I am praying things will proceed quickly before the Martin Luther King Holiday on Jan. 18 when all federal offices (and I assume foreign consulates as well) will be closed.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-09 15:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
I saw this on the September thread and I thought it is good information to know for us with our NOA2s!


What you want to do is call NVC at (603) 334-0700 press 1 then 5. They will ask you the following:

Case#
Benificiary's date of birth and name
Petitioner's date of birth and name

Ask them if they have received your case and an estimate of when it will be forwarded to the Embassy of your fiance. Also ask for your NVC case#.

I would call NVC about a week after receiving your NOA2.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-09 07:45:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
I GOT MY NOA2!

Okay, I am addicted to checking my email. My fiance hung up with me at 8:41 p.m. I turned on my cell phone to pick up my email messages just in case there was an update. I tried to call him back but he took the phone off the hook so he could sleep, I think, since it drops me into his voice mail right away. He will get some surprised messages tomorrow morning before he calls me back.

THERE WAS! AT 8:15 p.m. my notice of approval of my I-129F was sent out. That was about 5 hours after the "touch" I had. I am so excited but man am I tired. Shoveling wasn't too bad but it at least kept me from bouncing off the walls at home.

I can't wait to know that my package clears the NVC and then goes on to the consulate in Montreal! GOD is SO GOOD!
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-08 20:59:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
The time your case will be adjudicated is based on other peoples approvals. There haven't been many this week, so the proposed dates have gotten further and further away from today. On Wednesday the time was between Jan. 11 and Jan. 17. Then it was Jan. 17 to something. Then it moved back further.

Once other people update their timelines when they receive their NOA2s, then our dates will change to be "next" based on when our NOA1s were. It can change in an instant so don't stress too much about it.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-08 17:04:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
I am just going to go outside and shovel snow. I can hardly stand the suspense. I had been praying at the beginning of each class I teach "Please be the adjudicator in California. Let him or her process my application quickly." Hopefully tomorrow I will wake up to an excellent email. For now, MUST SHOVEL SNOW and GET AWAY FROM COMPUTER.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-08 16:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
OOOOOH! My account was updated today. I went away for 5 minutes and when I came back, it was updated on 01/08/2010. I am excited. It won't be long now. Someone has my file on their desk. The box has been opened.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-08 15:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
OOOH!!! Rito, your NOA1 is after mine too. I went to the portfolio and it was last updated on 10/19/09 with my NOA1 date of 10/15/09. I sure hope my box might be close at hand to some wonderful adjudicator that is spending Friday afternoon finishing up entering paperwork updates into the computer. :)
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-08 14:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Thanks Macaroni. I am even more excited that soon my petition will be approved. I want to see "post decision activity" when I log into the uscis site. I hope all of us will have our approvals soon.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-08 13:57:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Macaroni, did your status go to "post decision activity" or to "Document production or Oath Ceremony"? I was just curious.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-08 13:40:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Yahoo, Macaroni! You applied after me. I hope mine is soon!
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-08 13:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
Yeah, I hope it means it is moving from desk to desk. Your date is after mine for NOA1 so it may mean good things for my application as well. I am praying often that the adjudicators out in California will be in good health and able to get through lots of work quickly.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-08 10:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
No action on my petition yet. Congrats Macaroni! Hopefully that means the boxes of October are in full swing.
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-08 07:00:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
I hope the trend of cleanup first then approve the next months worth of petitions is true to form. It seemed like what was it Dec. 17 or so and all of a sudden a mountain of approvals poured out of CSC. I had just left for vacation to Canada to see my fiance' and when I next checked Igor's list it was completely covered with people that weren't there a couple of days before. I am praying that happens with us October filers too. I would love a NOA2 for Martin Luther King Day :)
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-07 19:27:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
No news yet for most of us. I think 2 people so far from October have been approved according to Igor's list. We all want to see those NOA2's in our hands (even if it is only the email version at first). I want to be able to get through the NVC and then it will be the long wait for an interview in Montreal for my fiance'. Go CSC Go!
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-07 14:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 2009 K-1 Visa filers
And it seems like things have slowed down. Yesterday my timeline was Jan. 11 to Jan. 17. Now it is Jan. 13 to Jan. 23. I am sure hoping it will be closer to Jan. 13 because with the long wait for an interview at the Montreal Consulate (right now it seems to be about 4 months) and I really want to have my wedding on July 11, 2010 because all the important people can come then. Ugh. Please CSC process as quickly as you can! I want to marry my man!
lilacvioletirisFemaleCanada2010-01-07 10:50:00