Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Yes definitely i need to be there, i am used to see big bellies in the street and had never touched one. Now i have my own i want to feel the baby moving under my hand when i am touching the belly. These days i look at pregnant women in the streets more often trying to imagine how my wife walk, sit, lay down, drive, how she is when clothes on and bunch of ideas crossing my mind. This is the first time in my life i am gonna have a child, first time i got a woman pregnant for me, i missed most of the months as she is 6 months now i do not want to miss the 8th one That was BEAUTIFUL, Rujby! Edited by IslandLady, 11 April 2012 - 06:01 PM.	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 17:59:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	:star:AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CALLED DOS GOT INTERVIEW DATE MAY 21ST 7:30am. AFTER CALLED NVC JUS TO HEAR IT AGAIN and this is my 1st time callin DOS!! waw im so happi, i literally started shaking.... what a blessed day... i love you all on VJ, SAYLIN!! and everyone else who hae been a great support and help Yay!!! finally got it today Fantastic abg! What date & time did you get? Edited by IslandLady, 11 April 2012 - 04:05 PM.	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 16:04:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	I should be studying for an exam, but I did some research. It's taken me a few days, but, here is the reason why DoS can see things USCIS and NVC can not: .... Thanks for all that hard work, and thanks for sharing your research! Here's the most awesome t-shirt ever! FABULOUS t-shirts!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 15:23:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	In Dominican lingo GUAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! (MERENGUE DANCING HERE) MAY 7TH AT 6:45AM finally!!!!!! Best news ever!!!!!!! Steph and I are close dates so we better meet up that weekend! That's really good to know! OOOOOOH news! The congressman's written back to my husband...sounds like they're needling DOS and the Embassy to pony up with an expedite yee haw, y'all! Congratulations to you both! This is so exciting! Thanks... I also think it's high time to stop with the country music references...I'm fixin to break out in a twangy song any moment now Called DOS about 45 min ago...Interview May 4th 6:00am. Happy beyond words. Yay!!! for you!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 14:36:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	SAylin 2 GOOD news! 1.MY dad's situation is much better but still in ICU. 2.I GOT A CASE COMPLETE EMAIL YESTERDAY AT 11 am. PLZ update me.CASE complete on 04/10/2012. CONGRATS!!!!!!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 11:51:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	That's where we Canadians are spoiled. We're so used to just going across the border with no issues, that the immigration is a shock! That's why I'm SOOOO thankful for VisaJourney. All this information and support from strangers around the world... It makes this process a LOT easier to go through. If I didn't learn all the things I have from this website, we'd probably be still waiting on the DS-3032 packet to arrive in the mail from NVC... And being in a community like this reminds me that hubby and I are NOT alone... there are SO many other people who can identify with our journey!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 11:07:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	I like your fancy signature by the way Why thank you ma'am! (said in a Southern drawl while bowing) And that brings up a question Mr. Sheeshka and I discussed not too long ago. If we knew in the beginning how hard this was going to be, would we have continued the relationship? We both knew how hard this would be - we're Jamaicans, and the US embassy here is pretty strict. But we've been through very tough times before, and the Lord has ALWAYS brought us through. So we've been approaching this as we do every other undertaking - ONE step at a time (including my occasional bouts of panicked freaking out LOL). But yes, this relationship is TOTALLY worth this immigration journey!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 11:02:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	It IS true... i had no clue until after i got married and even then, i thought the USCIS step was the only step... silly me for not reading more into it at the time... and most people don't know that there is a process to coming here legally... the ones that have an idea, don't think it takes as long as it does... my mom was telling me that back when she filed a petition for my dad ~26 years ago, that it was just one petition she filed, submitted a bank statement, he had his interview, and he was here after only 2 months!!! talk about simple and quick!!! lol... i was telling her of all the stages there are now, the number of forms to fill, all the other documents and paperwork to submit, and then all the fees and she couldn't believe it... times have changed ALOT!!! my dad thought i was doing something wrong with the filing because it was taking longer than a couple of months...LOL Those were the good ol' days... before 9-11 and immigration fraud. Good thing is, we've got bragging rights: we're survivors of a much TOUGHER system!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 10:18:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Isn't that true?! When I started dating Trav, he had friends who would just say "oh, just come down here, get married and don't go back - that's all you need to do." Yeah, that's all you need to do if you figure you look good in prison gear awaiting deportation! ... hence the sometimes intolerant comments I see sometimes in response news articles discussing immigration, legal or illegal. Many people never think that one day THEY may be a stranger in someone else's country! LOL, so true. My mom knows someone who had a daughter-in-law from Brazil who was pregnant. They decided that the visa process was going to take too long and they wanted her to give birth in the US so they snuck her through the border with Mexico. I would never take that risk because I wouldn't want to have the threat of my wife and step-daughter being deported at any moment, not to mention it can be dangerous to make an illegal crossing into the US from Mexico. I agree - there are some risks not worth taking, because the consequences of failure are SO dire and FINAL. It's really best to try to prepare, present the best case you can, and settle down for the long haul knowing that the process won't last forever. WOW...that's a huge risk to take with a pregnant person! The dangers are real, and I'm sure they're far worse than what we read about in the news too. I'd say there's something to be said for doing this process, surviving it, and being fully able to live as a free permanent resident/citizen - with no fear of deportation unless you get stupid! It may take a long time, it may be painful, but being able to live a fully normal life with our spouses at the end is a huge plus!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 08:50:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	I've got no color, no bolding, no italics... and right now, no signature OK, got it. Here's how: I typed in my signature again, then selected all of it and removed all formatting (by clicking the AA icon on the top left of the post box). THEN separated out the resulting plain text paragraph back into lines. Got my signature back. Thanks Saylin!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 08:44:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Grats on all the progress recently! I used to get this error all the time back at NVC. It might look like it's under 40 lines, but you have to consider ALL the HTML that composes your signature. When you get the error about it being over 40 lines, look at the little box that appears and you'll see all the HTML. Try doing your signature over again without color or bolding or italics as that takes up HTML. I've got no color, no bolding, no italics... and right now, no signature	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 08:34:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Yes Definitely! Franck told me to call everyday, i said to my self:" how nice...lol. It seems they like when we are calling...lol LOL! Frank understands!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 07:29:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Hey, does anyone else have issues with the system saying your signature is too long, even though it is under the max 40 lines??? Driving me CRAZY!!! Hey people i just call NVC, Franck told me that there is no interview date yet for me but that does not mean there is no more date available. i felt so happy, there is hope, i will continue praying!!! That's great Rujby... Keep hope alive! Edited by IslandLady, 11 April 2012 - 07:03 AM.	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 07:02:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	and Jamaica Uh-oh... you've been waiting for a MONTH for your interview date???	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 06:46:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Morning to April NVC-ers! Again, so happy for all of you with CCs who are finally getting your interview dates! So here's what's been happening with our case. I'll be attempting to update my signature pretty soon. - Paid the IV bill last Tuesday, and that puppy was showing as 'In Process' for DAYS!!! - Finally, on Friday evening, an operator told us that he could SEE in the system that we had paid, even though the payment portal was still not updated to 'PAID' ...So hubby took a calculated risk and mailed out the DS-230 packet on Saturday. It was delivered on Monday... and my heart was in my mouth, because the portal was still showing... you guessed it... "IN PROCESS" Well we all know now that NVC has been in a FLURRY of action since yesterday. So yesterday morning the status finally showed up as 'PAID'... but they had not yet received my packet. This morning, when I called and asked about whether they had received it, Operator Nicky said "It's still under review ma'am (sternly) you have to give us 20 business days!" Me: "So you mean that my DS-230 packet was received and is now under review?" Operator Nicky: "Yes ma'am and you have to give us 20 business days." ... Calling them tonight. Operator Nicky should be home then So I'm off now to go FIGHT with the timeline in my signature... ===> Edited by IslandLady, 11 April 2012 - 06:45 AM.	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-11 06:42:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Wow, it's so great reading through the last couple of pages and seeing everyone getting their CCs and interview dates!!! Congrats to everyone!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-10 21:52:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Shell How are you?i wasnt in this forum since last Friday.My Dad is in ICU.Plz keep my dad in ur prayers. I will be praying for you and your dad. Blessings!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-10 13:14:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	ok so husband called lastnight and we got case complete, but do we get an official email or anything to say that it is officially completed? Congratulations!!! Forward march! And the advice I've seen from Saylin and this thread is: call the DOS as well as the NVC, for your interview date. Blessings!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-07 15:09:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Happy Saturday to all! So here's what's been happening: we paid the IV fee online on TUESDAY. $$$ taken from account on WEDNESDAY. IV checklist emailed to hubby and I on FRIDAY. IV Fee payment status still showing as 'IN PROCESS'. Hubby called NVC last night, 15 minutes to midnight. A very nice agent (oops, forgotten his name) told hubby: (a) ignore the checklist (b) IV payment has been received, the system is just still 'chewing' on it (???) © AOS reviewed and accepted (d) We're on our way and "it's all good". Just surprised that it's taking so long for the system to show the IV fee as PAID, even though an agent can SEE that it's been paid. At the same time, very happy and excited that the end of the NVC journey is looming larger and larger in view!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-07 10:39:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Click here! ---> epassportphoto.com Thanks Sheeshkabelle!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-07 09:19:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Yes, I am SO grateful for that site I found. Saved so much money for the pictures for the IV package, medical, and interview. Just wish I had heard of it for my I-130 petition before spending $30 And the bigger benefit than saving money, in my opinion, is that you can keep taking pictures until you're satisfied. I took probably at least 10 for my interview ones as I knew that was going on my green card, and I wanted it to look good And then I discover, on my green card, the picture is in black & white, not color. I don't see my pretty pink hair on it Yeah, but just consider this a preparation period. Have everything filled out and signed, scanned, and uploaded into a PDF format (if doing EP). Go over the DS-260 screenshots and make sure you have all information needed. Like others and myself say, once you get the case number, it typically goes very fast up until everything is submitted. What photo site is this please? (trying to mine through all these fast-growing pages of posts in this thread lol!)	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-07 08:00:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	May we all get our CCs and interviews over the next one week! Amen!!! AMEN! JUST RECEIVED CASE CLOSED ALL!!!! Thanks for the good vibes this morning Tango and Divs!! CONGRATS Dimples!!!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-06 08:11:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Good morning everyone! I'll be away from the board for a while, so in the meantime... while you PILE on the pages in this thread ... I pray that you all will get case numbers, invoice numbers, AOS & IV invoices, case closed notifications, and interview dates! The Lord bless you all and see you later!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-04 07:43:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	You must escape into Canada and have this gastrinomical delight. It's amazing. You'll turn, I swear - it's highly addictive. Hmmm... I may do just that... But what is it that you're all saying about its... uhm... gas-liberating properties?	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-03 22:30:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Oh wow agreed!!! You, dear lady, are awesome Aw shucks	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-03 21:19:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	LOL...ewwwww...that's a lot of poutine! Is there such a thing as too much poutine? OK, so I gave in to my curiosity and Googled "poutine". For all the other non-Canadians|non-poutine-savvy persons in this thread, here's a very informative link: What is Poutine? A Poutine Primer (Hold the applause, please. I do my best to serve mankind )	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-03 21:02:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	That's, what, page 342 of the Kama Sutra ??? [orgy of impatience]	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-03 20:56:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Hello Good folks at VJ! *shshhhh Let me do My Dance First ! Now time for the Good News:star: Got my CC today! Yup from Case# 3/8/12 to CC 4/3/12, that's 27 days, and thats 27 days with 2 Checklists. It's just like what Saylin always says, You Gotta Be On Top of it with NVC, like a Fly on a...... ummmm well that part i added but you get my point. Just want to say Thank you to Saylin and to everybody else for their time spent answering my endless questions. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! YAYYYY!!!!!!! (Sorry I had to delete all the emoticons... system said there were too many!!!) Saylin, please update the spreadsheet that I mailed my IV packet yesterday 4/2/2012. I also got a check list email in the afternoon, but that was just asking for the IV packet. Just dodged a few tornadoes here in North Texas, and more are on the way. We had to go to the stairwell for safety 3 times over the last 1 and 1/2 hours. I am afraid to go see how my car looks like after all the hail that passed through. So glad you're safe. The footage I saw on CNN was... amazing, to say the least... Got...and paid...MY AOS INVOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Saylin...turns out it was my name causing the issues, my file now reflects the last name Lowman ) Yay!!!!! Finally!!!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-03 20:43:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Hooray! Don't be ashamed - be VERY HAPPY!!!! Whew. OK, thanks. It's official. I'm HAPPY!!!!!!!!! LOL that's how it happened to me. I was getting so frustrated and then happened to check my email! I got both the AOS and IV invoices about 5/6pm-ish. Isn't life like that sometimes? Like God is saying "See? I TOLD you so!!!" Grats! Hope you've paid it already Yes ma'am, hubby paid it... he doesn't want me away from him 1 second longer than necessary! Great if you send it right away you can have a case complete next week!!! That would be SOOOOO wonderful... that's my next prayer!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-03 17:27:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	So... after my orgy of impatience today, I'm almost ashamed to report that our IV fee bill was generated. Wow. I'm very thankful. Wow.	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-03 16:29:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	It is frustrating. At first we cried a lot, then we started debating him just moving here, then we sat down and talked/prayed with his parents and all of us left with a very real sense that I need to be there. Now, we're taking action. the poor congressman won't know what hit them LOL... LOL for real. This process has done WONDERS for my prayer life!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-03 10:47:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	hhahaha ya I know the feeling. Last Friday NVC and I were rolling along. It seemed like a week until Monday! Finally Monday evening I got the IV bill. Now it seems like an eternity until it shows paid! Poor Shell staring at a SIF for two weeks. My heart breaks for her. Wow... SIF for 2 weeks must be SO frustrating... I pray she gets 'released' soon! Imagine if that you guys Im on the third week of waiting for an interview date... I flew pretty quick thru NVC and now this wait is the hardest....so close yet so far! this is exactly when i understood the famous saying" its better to look at the glass half filled rather than half empty" You're right about that... Perspective makes all the difference. Alright, I'm back to being PATIENT again... thanks guys!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-03 10:29:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Maybe all the NVC activity on my case last week has contributed to my feeling really impatient, but I feel like it's taking a really L - O - N - G time to generate my IV bill! Lord, grant me patience and peace...	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-03 09:32:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Y'all are HILARIOUS!!! Thanks for the early (ish) morning laughter! Saylin,Frank talks like a robot.My husband planed next time when he will talk to Frank he will ask question like a robot too. I reaally want to know his reaction Maybe try talking to him in binary 0011100110001111100001111...	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-03 09:10:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	After a 15 minute wait for NVC, operator Aiden took my USCIS receipt #, then without me saying anything, he began by asking for beneficiary's name and DOB (so I thought, hmm, that's new) then my name and DOB and finally both email addresses... Then I asked if there was a case # and IIN available and I got a yes... FINALLY!!! Woot woot!!! Yay!!!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-02 17:36:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Looks like you figured out that multiquote I'm now a multiquoting Ninja! Edited by IslandLady, 02 April 2012 - 05:31 PM.	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-02 17:31:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	I finally got my case number, IIN and BIN. Going to send of the choice of agent email now. Finally something is happening now. CONGRATS! Doesn't it feel GREAT to be able to update your timeline & signature? So I finally got through and was told the second week of the month bla bla bla So I told the person who answered that I knew that wasn't so cause I knew people who got their interview date last week. She then admittided that it wasn't exactly how the interviews are set but she did say that during the second week of the month they updated the embassies available time slots for the upcoming month and start to book them. So in april they will book interviews for may. Some embassies might have more open time slots one month because they might have fewer fiancee visa interviews and they will then release more slots to the nvc during the month and not just the second week... At least I got some kind of explanation, if it's true or not I don't know.. Has anyone else been givven this explanation? Well at least that's a clarification so we can better understand what's going on... Well sent of the choice of agent email and also logged in for the 1st time. When hubby comes back from training I can tell him the good news. I'm a military wifey not canadian like you guys. I'll join you in the happy dance	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-02 17:16:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	Well, you just click the 'Multi Quote' button under which posts you want to reply to. Once you've got them all clicked (they turn a different color), then you click the 'Add Reply' button at the bottom of the page, underneath the last post of that page. It'll then bring you to the editor, as if you hit reply, but it'll have all the quotes. Thanks! WHAAAAAAAAAAT ! April already on 24 pages ! So i guess, unfinished cases from March now we should post here or in March thread? Welcome to April! Don't worry you'll get it soon. Just be grateful you're not going through Ghana. The wait can be up to a year to get a date assigned from CC Wow... One YEAR???!!! That's crazy... Don't worry it doesn't apply to typical case. NVC gave Checklist for not having PCC from passport office. My situation is that it does not apply to my beneficiary since the beneficiary is a non-indian, residing in India, so the beneficiary does not have Indian Passport, only "Identity card" so therefore only PCC given is by Local district Police Station to the beneficiary. So we emailed NVC with explanation and they are still reviewing it. Read here: http://travel.state....L-0001-1112.pdf "Non-Indian immigrant visa applicants residing in India should obtain police certificates from the district police station serving their area of residence." The annoying part of all this is that this Checklist should not have come up because if the reviewer actually paid attention, they would have realized this, We even put a special note on the local PCC. Now looks like this unnecessary checklist will cost us extra 2 weeks of delay. That's annoying... But I hope you'll be over that hurdle real soon!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-02 15:16:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	OK, can someone please explain HOW multi quote works?	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-02 12:07:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	NVC Filers - April 2012	If his cuteness factor were raised any higher, no one could stand to look at him! I included a link to see his cuteness! Tiger the wonder Sheltie! He's adorable!!! Awwwww!!!	IslandLady	Female	Jamaica	2012-04-02 11:53:00