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Have a good trip, TheSahlis! Enjoy with your sweetheart
I was in India for 2 weeks in May and last December as well. I'll take a short trip during her interview time beginning of the next year to come back together (unless she gets AP!). Re: pic, That's our daughter

Loto

If you dont mind my asking...whats her name

I have a son Jimmy
and my wife has a son and daughter , Jack and Molly. Jack will be moving with his mom and molly will follow after she finishes University.

TheSahlis

Male

Australia

2010-09-10 14:01:00

Hey TheSahlis, the IT group is expanding here

BTW, when are you reaching Aus to meet your honey?

Loto

ill be there thursday night, which will be friday morning there.

the baby pic is beautiful, im amaized your keeping your patience not being with your family.

TheSahlis

Male

Australia

2010-09-09 19:55:00

Oh, thank you! Yes, we had a blast! His whole family traveled from all corners of Nigeria just to meet his American wife! It was very a very traditional Nigerian wedding and party...when he gets here, we will have a traditional Jewish ceremony with all my people...should be very interesting!

Thanks, Loto...yes, I'm a software developer for a technology company in Long Island....am admittedly a computer geek...lol

I get to join the Geek club also.....Sr Network Engineer here and admitted geek

TheSahlis

Male

Australia

2010-09-08 22:02:00

Adam...why is your case taking so long?

I like your wedding video, very nicely dome. looks like a wonderful time.

TheSahlis

Male

Australia

2010-09-06 20:54:00

welcome to all the new people...ive been a bit busy lately and havent been able to post. Im thinking that we should start seeing some NOA2's by end of Oct. Sure hope so...missing my wife lots. But good news is im flying down to Australia to spend 9 days with her. Thank god for web cam though its a life saver...ill never know how people before internet managed to cope with the seperation.

TheSahlis

Male

Australia

2010-09-03 07:01:00

I was just reading the March Filers Topic and it looks like the USCIS is up to the begining of April. So if they keep the pace up looks like we have about 90 days or so.

TheSahlis

Male

Australia

2010-08-12 19:32:00

yes the new update to the uscis site now shows only the steps that are relevant to your particular application.

TheSahlis

Male

Australia

2010-08-10 14:25:00

congrats LOTO....hope they move fast on your case.

TheSahlis

Male

Australia

2010-08-10 07:41:00

the K3 takes as long as the CR1/IR1 now and the Govt will close the K3 in favor of the CR1/IR1. also after the CR1 is complete you have ssn green card and right to work while with a K3 you then have to do an AOS at an extra cost between 1000 and 1500 if i remember right. so as has been stated many times and I have come to believe the standard IR/CR visa route is best and most economical way to go.

TheSahlis

Male

Australia

2010-08-09 11:36:00

K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures

another July filer. NOA1 for wife and step-son recieved on 7/5. Hope all of our cases get approved quickly and with little hassles.

TheSahlis

Male

Australia

2010-08-08 19:57:00

Shocked

We must be blessed with the same processor. I was approved today as well. It was 12 days for me. I got all excited and started e-mailing everyone!!!!! Best of luck to you!!!! All of you!!!! B)
Oh, by the way. What should I expect next?

U.S. Wendy

Female

Albania

2006-11-01 19:26:00

K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures

This case has been approved

*** DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL ***

The following is the latest information on your case status

Receipt Number: WAC

Application Type: I129F , PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status:

This case has been approved. On November 2, 2006, an approval notice
was mailed. If 30 days have passed and you have not received this
notice, you may wish to verify or update your address. To update your
address, please speak to an Immigration Information Officer during business
hours.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case
status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision or
advice from USCIS within the projected processing time frame*, please
contact the National Customer Service Center.

National Customer Service Center (800) 375-5283.

*The projected processing time frame can be found on the receipt notice
that you received from the USCIS.
*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message.

Sincerely,

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! You won't sleep a wink tonight. I was having INS dreams and visions of running toward my fiance on a beach, arms stretched out, like in the commericals!!!
God speed to you both!!! B)

U.S. Wendy

Female

Albania

2006-11-02 21:33:00

Question about I-130 Question D,2

thank you guys for all your help! I will include all details!

Carmi

Female

Paraguay

2010-11-02 14:50:00

Question about I-130 Question D,2

Hello all,

I am currently in the process of gathering information to send out I-130 packet.

I have a question under Section D, Other Information, question 2:

Have you ever before filed a petition for this or any other alien?

I previously filed K1 Fiance Visa for my ex-husband. He did not received legal permanent residency since we got divorced. So I am not sure if I should still add this information on this question, even though it was a different type of Visa.

Any input would be greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!!

Carmi

Female

Paraguay

2010-11-02 13:40:00

GOT NOA2 YEPEY!!

congrats!!

Carmi

Female

Paraguay

2011-02-10 11:54:00

K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures

NOA2

Filed around the same time as you did, same last touch date of 10/03/2010 and still waiting in the dark guess no news is better than an RFE .. hope somethng comes through soon

Ty & Nanda

Male

2010-11-24 10:14:00

Touched

Yes got a touch today SATURDAY the 24th...appears they are working on the weekend. I cant complain a lot of action for me in June considering I filed May 23.

This may seem like a dumb question, but how can you tell your file got 'touched'? Mine is now at the NVC and I'd love to find out if they've looked at it.

Thanks,

Joel
Gaithersburg, MD

mdfeldm

Not Telling

Romania

2006-06-25 00:49:00

Timelines, VJ'S, USCIS ,Vermont's

Congressional inquiry is where you contact the constituent services office of your Representative or Senator(s) and they file an inquiry with USCIS as to the status of your case. It is NOT a request to expedite, as someone mentioned. It is simply the best way to get the most information about your case possible-they will often be more willing to speak with the Congress people than with you.

I'm that someone,you can quote me...i have no problem beeing corrected..for the best info...But i said that because i have seen some that have also requested to expedite their case...so maybe they do both..But ultimately...if digg more deep, in short, i just wonder why we can not communicate more freely with USCIS, without being necessary to ask Senators for help...if they say we can contact them...that's so contradictory...I can speak for myself and give the arguments..i don't need to ask another God to do it for me..lol..well ok...just a thought...maybe too naive

If you want to do it yourself, more power to you. I've already been through this entire process for a K-1 that we didn't get so I'm a little familiar with the way things work with these people. I would never waste my time making an inquiry on behalf of myself. Let the elected officials do what I'm paying them to do...

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-01-18 12:11:00

Timelines, VJ'S, USCIS ,Vermont's

Congressional inquiry is where you contact the constituent services office of your Representative or Senator(s) and they file an inquiry with USCIS as to the status of your case. It is NOT a request to expedite, as someone mentioned. It is simply the best way to get the most information about your case possible-they will often be more willing to speak with the Congress people than with you.

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-01-18 10:14:00

Timelines, VJ'S, USCIS ,Vermont's

Just my thoughts on the March thing...I think I read somewhere that if you go 6 months without so much as a touch or anything, you can do a Congressional inquiry. I know our 6 month mark will fall in March, so that's what I was planning to do.

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-01-17 10:09:00

I-130 Approved

Thanks for the congrats! It took them 8 months-back when we tried the K-1 it only took a month and a half! I thought we would never get out of Vermont.

Congratulations! And good for you, there is a ton of us who got approved over 2 weeks ago and still haven't received our NOA2s.

Was wondering how you found out when the NVC received your stuff?

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-05-21 09:49:00

I-130 Approved

Our I-130 was approved on May 15. The web site is messed up though-our last touched date is May 16 and it still says the case is pending (hence why we never received the e-mail). However, the NOA2 arrived by mail on Saturday.

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-05-21 09:14:00

I tested out MD's new Senator...Ben Cardin. At least he tried! Here's his response to me:

Thank you for your letter regarding the delay in processing of applications filed on behalf of your husband. I was sorry to learn about this matter and appreciate your concerns.

The Vermont Service Center reports that the lengthy backlog in the processing of certain petitions has been caused by numerous situations. Initially, the Service Center had to address Congressional mandates to timely process those applications filed for those seeking or continuing Temporary Protective Status (granted by the Congress to those foreign nationals who cannot return to their country of citizenry due to natural disaster or war, etc.), and then routine retirement of experienced adjudication officers and training of new officers has impacted the Center. I am enclosing the processing times for various applications processed in the Vermont Service Center. You may access the same information on the web site for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services at www.uscis.gov.

Additionally, I have made an inquiry to the USCIS, Headquarters, Washington, D.C. to express my great concern of the significant backlog of immediate relative petitions filed by U.S. citizens on behalf of their family members. I will forward the response to you when Headquarters responds.

Sincerely,

Benjamin L. Cardin

So there you have it...maybe he'll get something back from DC...I'll keep you all posted.

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-03-23 09:17:00

They touched my case today guys. I'm trying not to get too excited though-it was probably just my address change finally going through. But it was our first touch since Sept. 12.

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-03-09 10:48:00

Well I hope we've all learned the valuable lesson that you don't get anywhere calling VSC (if I weren't so nice I'd say I told you so LOL). PLEASE friends, as I had suggested a while ago, once you hit the 180 days mark go to your Senator. Don't call VSC, it's a waste of your time. Niagara, don't worry about what they told you-just contact the Senator and let them deal with it. To the rest of us-our day is coming in NO TIME! Get those privacy release forms filled out LOL!

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-02-23 10:31:00

I've just been looking through this thread and I can't believe what I'm seeing. My 130 has sat at VSC since July 12, 2006 with no movement at all and people with dates in August, September and October have approvals?? I'm glad for them but this is getting a bit ridiculous. And what's this about calling USCIS after 6 months have passed? I reread my paperwork and it only refers to them having to complete it in the processing time posted on the web which still sits in March 2006. My wife called the info line and they said the same thing. Am I missing something?

Tom

Hey Tom! This is where it gets a little iffy...technically, we should defer to the processing date that they post on the website HOWEVER sometimes you'll get one of them on the phone who will actually tell you, it normally takes 180 days to process an I-130. It's sort of an unspoken guideline that 180 days is how long you should wait before doing any inquiry whatsoever, and I don't recommend continuing to try and do it yourself-you'll only keep getting the same answers and not much info. Your Senator can get much better info for you-I would recommend requesting an inquiry with them asap.

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-02-15 11:12:00

my 180 days are almost up...16 more to go. but what then? will they tell me that they have so many cases? but if so why do other cases with NOA1 after august are getting approved while mine all the time seems to be put back under the stack of files?

They will tell you that each case is processed differently.

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-02-06 14:35:00

I know since we're all in the middle of a seemingly never-ending process right now, the tendency is to think that they are going "so slow" but here's some food for thought...I was told last week by our attorney that just a few years ago, a couple filing an I-130 could expect to wait up to 3 years for it to be adjudicated. Just recently have processing times for I-130's gotten much shorter, and I can even remember when I was new to this site (in 2005) people would wait 6-12 months and that was considered normal.

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-02-05 10:30:00

No matter what, once that 180 days mark is hit, I'll be contacting my Senators and I would recommend the same for you.
Heina, good idea. I'll do it immideatly. I can't wait any more. I don't think that Senators will answer so fast, so it's time to do it. Good luck to all of us.

You may be surprised. Even though I haven't always had the best luck getting GOOD info from the Senators (all the times I've contacted them so far have been for really complicated issues), they have always been rather prompt, relatively speaking. What will hold them up is getting a response from USCIS.

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-02-02 10:20:00

All I can say to everyone is wait until it's been 180 days out from your last touch (we're getting real close) and contact your Senator. Maybe if they get enough inquiries they'll start moving their hynies...at any rate, with that long of a time frame out they at least owe us an explanation.

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-02-01 14:45:00

We have been waiting since 9/11 too on our I-130 in VSC. I'm here in Maryland too. Glad at least to see I'm not alone in a stagnant state. Hopefully they will pull their heads out soon and get back to work.

Good gracious, aren't we I-130 Marylanders a popular little bunch...LOL

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-02-01 13:29:00

Do you all think that maybe if you also filed a K-3 that they put your I-130 at the bottom of the priority listing?

No, actually I think the opposite. It just so happened that there were several members who filed both I-130 and I-129F around the same times that we all did (and some even later, into November I think) who had both petitions approved on the same day. I think that actually serves to speed up the process. If we could get any benefit out of it, I would file the I-129F to force them to speed up, but since we have a ban anyway, I would much rather Javier come in on an IR-1 than an K-3...

Hi!! Which part of MD are you from? I also filed the I-129F and VSC doesnt have a list of processing dates for that as it was transferred there. The lady from the customer service said to visit the local office for processing date. The hubby just got back from visiting me here in Australia a couple of days ago, so hopefully he can follow that up soon.

What kind of ban do you have?

Goodluck with your journey!

I was getting lonely being surrounded by red in that I-130 thread tracking approvals lol.

I am from Laurel, MD. It's a little bit closer to DC than to Bmore. We have a 3 year ban that we didn't earn. Basically, when Javier went for his medical for the K-1, the physicians were (and actually still are) zealously seeking to apply the title of drug addict to everyone who comes into the office. So we got it for him having experimented in his teenage years (which was almost 10 years ago) and for an incident a few months before the interview when he stuck his finger in a baggie of cocaine and tasted it (it's a long story, but his purpose was to identify it, and to keep the guys who might have attempted to solicit his younger siblings off the property). The law says you have to be free from any drug use for 3 years, which we clearly are, but they decided to consider the tasting incident a usage. Our ban is up in August, 2008. In the meantime, he has to undergo re-hab for a drug problem that he doesn't have in order for them to be satisfied.

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-02-01 11:39:00

Do you all think that maybe if you also filed a K-3 that they put your I-130 at the bottom of the priority listing?

No, actually I think the opposite. It just so happened that there were several members who filed both I-130 and I-129F around the same times that we all did (and some even later, into November I think) who had both petitions approved on the same day. I think that actually serves to speed up the process. If we could get any benefit out of it, I would file the I-129F to force them to speed up, but since we have a ban anyway, I would much rather Javier come in on an IR-1 than an K-3...

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-02-01 11:18:00

I have also been waiting in VSC since September 11. I have already called them once and was told that they are still working on cases from March 12, that every case is processed differently, and that they usually like us to allow them 180 days to process these cases.

I am also waiting in VSC since 9/11, my hubby is from Bmore, MD too! I called them about a week ago, and I got the same spiel about waiting until the date on the website changes to September. Fingers crossed they catch up with the rest of the SC, as they are processing July 06 applications.

The number I called was the USCIS Customer Service Center 1-800-375-5283

Hello! Always love to meet other Marylanders (and future Marylanders). That's the same number I called and that's when they told me that thing about March 12...and I asked her, the processing date hasn't changed for several months, does that mean they're making no progress at all? And she basically said that they probably got a lot of cases in on that day. Imagine how long we're going to have to wait if it takes them 3 months to do 1 day's worth??? But I can't imagine that the date won't change this month. It has to change. No matter what, once that 180 days mark is hit, I'll be contacting my Senators and I would recommend the same for you. They have to at least let us know what the hold up is.

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-02-01 11:14:00

I have also been waiting in VSC since September 11. I have already called them once and was told that they are still working on cases from March 12, that every case is processed differently, and that they usually like us to allow them 180 days to process these cases.

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2007-02-01 10:25:00

Timeline on I 130 Approvals

That's so pretty I don't want to mess it up, but please someone feel free to add that we are in VSC to my line. Thanks!

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2006-11-27 10:10:00

Timeline on I 130 Approvals

Name --------------- NOA1 ----------- Approval (NOA2)--------- Case Complete --------- Interview
BradyVicky ---------- 6/22/2006 ---------- Approved
MarocAmer------------7/17/2006-------------Pending
knowledge-----------28/08/2006------------Pending
dougyceci ------------ 9/13/2006 ---------- Pending
Arpita & Deven-------9/19/2006 ---------- Pending
Dennis & Ezgi -------- 9/21/2006 ---------- Pending
StarProg ------------- 10/18/2006 ---------- Pending
Heina------------------9/11/2006-------------Pending

Tried to clean up just a touch...

Name ---------------- NOA1 ----------- Approval (NOA2)--------- Case Complete --------- Interview
BradyVicky ------- 6/22/2006 ---------Approved
MarocAmer---------7/17/2006----------Pending
knowledge----------8/28/2006----------Pending
Heina----------------9/11/2006----------Pending
dougyceci ----------9/13/2006 ---------Pending
Arpita & Deven-----9/19/2006 ---------Pending
Dennis & Ezgi ------9/21/2006 ---------Pending
StarProg -----------10/18/2006 ---------Pending

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2006-11-15 10:36:00

VISA DENIED IN PERU HELP ME!! CONFUSED

Just to clear up a few things, because we are also going through a similar situation where the Visa was denied and we were not even given the opportunity to file a Waiver. When the Visa is denied for some other reason, that's pretty much the end of the road. They won't even allow you to file a Waiver, regardless of what the circumstances. The CO's decision is final. The Waivers can be filed only by those eligible to file. It appears that the CO found the OP ineligible to file. The only way to overcome a CO's decision is to file either 1) Advisory Opinion with the Department of State...or 2) Motion to Reconsider with the Consulate.

Traviesa

Female

Guatemala

2006-02-16 09:32:00

Form I-693

Thanks Ray & Luke.

I too saw that a full medical was not needed if less than a year but every civil surgeon I called told me they have to do a full medical.

LadyC

Female

Jamaica

2010-01-12 12:26:00