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K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNovember 2009 filers
Guys (and Gals)

Here are the stats for I129Fs on Nov 9 (200 through 700)

[Post-Decision Activity] => 41
[Request for Evidence] => 23
[Initial Review] => 28
[Acceptance] => 2
[Decision] => 2
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-03-04 19:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNovember 2009 filers
Can today be my day VSC? Please.... Posted Image
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-03-04 07:35:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNovember 2009 filers

Oh, men. Gotta love 'em.



Can't live with them, can't live without them. ;)

Although it has been me (the guy) that has done all the paperwork so far for our application. :P :D
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-03-04 04:43:00
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It's 09:02 in Vermont... Welcome to work Guys & Gals. Let's see what you can do today.

A special prize in store if i get my NOA2 today. :D
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-03-03 09:03:00
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Another day... and nothing. Oh well... Tomorrow is a new day. Maybe then. :rolleyes:

For now i thnk i'll just go to sleep. I don't get impatient when i'm sleepng. :D

Edited by arwilson80, 02 March 2010 - 06:40 PM.

arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-03-02 18:38:00
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BTW folks... Do you get an e-mail when the petition is 'touched'?
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-03-02 11:58:00
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Miss Jess and other Brit - just found this on another thread - London is currently taking an average of 101 days from the day NVC receives your case to the date of interview to give you some control over planning the date of your nuptials! (nuptials - that's such a strange word, don't you think, or is it just me?)



101 days... that gives me 20 days 'leeway' from now... and take out 1 week to get the visa back... i need NOA2 in the next week and a ½.
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-03-02 11:54:00
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My date is already set (with LOTS of flexibility in our venue contract!!) - but I have advised all of my guests that if they book flights before I give the OK, I won't be held responsible if we have to move it!!

I am going to tell them that they can start booking (at their own risk still ;)) once I've received Packet 3 from the Embassy. Much lower risk of anything going wrong by then...although obviously still a risk :) I have a LOT of Brits wanting to attend and a lot of them, like me, are still pretty cash-strapped from student days, so while I would love to make them wait til the visa is issued that could mean the flights get too expensive. So it's about finding the happy medium.



I keep getting asked about flights too and i keep putting them off... it's too 'up in the air' right now to tell them that they can go ahead book anything.
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-03-02 10:35:00
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Oh god, oh god, we got a touch!!! I think my heart is going double speed.

EDIT: WAHOO!!!!! APPROVED!!!! Oh happy day with joyous glee!!! :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:


Congratulations... :thumbs:

Shove my petition in under their nose... I want / need to be next before i end up losing it. :wacko:

Edited by arwilson80, 02 March 2010 - 10:20 AM.

arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-03-02 10:19:00
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I have been touched again today too. :thumbs:

Anyone else starting to think about setting a date.... :blush: I know some people have already done this but I have been holding out. I really want to start planning but I am unsure till the interview is all done, that being said when we could get hitched will fall right during high season and getting a date is going to be murder for getting a place quickly. X fingers would like June 17th 2010, I woke up one morning with that date in my head for some reason. :innocent:



We are 'scheduled' for July 24. Fits with the FL weather, MI vacation time and also the UK school & university holidays. VSC are 'taunting' us right now though.

It's hard to take comfort in 'all will be OK' knowing that the I129Fs either side of ours have both been RFE'd and ours hasn't been touched since Nov 13. :crying:
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-03-02 10:13:00
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Good Morning VSC... "Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine" you have a big day of approvals ahead of you... (and make mine be one of them)


We're waiting.... :clock:
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-03-02 07:24:00
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Can i have mine tomorrow...? Please? Pretty please...? :ph34r:
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-03-01 16:45:00
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I'd checked so many times this morning already that when I suddenly noticed the date had changed I almost fell off my chair (and I was on a conference call as well, try talking your way out of that one...)

I need everyone to think 'approval not RFE, approval not RFE...'!!! ;)



I hope you ain't jumping the line... :whistle:
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-03-01 10:26:00
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Exciting news folks...a fellow Disney alum of mine and November filer also got their approval today :D NOA1 date nov 24th....

Need everyone to think positive thoughts tonight!!!! LOTS of approvals this week...it's gotta be all our turns next...



I wonder is Nov the 'Disney Filers' month...? :)

You & Your guy
Your 'Disney Alum' & their partner
...and then Me & My Fiancee.

I hope we 'Have a magical day'. :D

Edited by arwilson80, 01 March 2010 - 04:38 AM.

arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-03-01 04:37:00
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A buddy of mine wrote a script to pull all the data from the public site for my day, he finished it right before he left to a different part of the company so unfortunately my day is the only day that he was able to make work :(



I MAY be able to tweak it and see if it'll run for the other days if i could see the code behind it as i'd like to be able to do it for my date too. :)
PM me the details if you want.

Edited by arwilson80, 27 February 2010 - 05:14 PM.

arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-27 17:13:00
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10 approvals on here yesterday... :dance:

Just 1 question now. Where is mine? :whistle: :innocent:
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-26 04:25:00
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And they're catching up on the "stragglers" from October, too!

Woo hoo! :dance: There's life in St. Albans!
Let's keep pushing that November bar up and up.



Yeah, 4 * Oct and 1 * Nov updated on the 19th. Maybe the 'thaw' is on and they can get at the boxes of 129-Fs. :)

Edited by arwilson80, 23 February 2010 - 11:55 AM.

arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-23 11:55:00
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Hello,

Where did you see the "lovely row of approvals from Oct and Nov" please share the link.



You can see that info here. This is for VSC.
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-23 08:57:00
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Jesus Christ. I changed my password on USCIS and got a password change notification to my email....

All I saw was 'USCIS' and 'change notification' and my heart just stopped.

Gutted!!

:dead:



Well at least you know one thing now... You know how you'll feel when you actually get the 'Approved' e-mail.
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-21 08:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNovember 2009 filers

I dunno if I'm just lucky or if VSC are getting on with it, but my fiancee received the following email this morning:

> The last processing action taken on your case
>
> Receipt Number: EACxxxxxxxx73
>
> Application Type: I129F , PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)
>
> Current Status: Approval notice sent.
>
> On February 17, 2010, we mailed you a notice that we have
> approved this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E).

My NOA1 date was November 5th and before I get verbally assaulted by some of the angrier members here, I can assure you there is nothing special about my case - no deployment, no asylum, no son of any deity - just a bog standard I129F petition for a normal Scottish boy and a normal American girl.

Hopefully this gives some of you hope - it's a great feeling to get the approval and get ready to move on to the next stage!



Woo Hoo...!!! :thumbs: My NOA1 date is the 9th so hopefully i'll hear something in a few days too. :D
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-18 09:29:00
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Oh that is your time-line sorry. I didn't recognize the name.



My bad... I thought those were the 'generic' pages with all the peoples dates on them. :innocent:
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-17 09:21:00
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NOA1 : 2009-11-04 VSC
http://www.visajourn...l...=0&id=77407


I compare both of them each morning. :blush: I like how mine is moving up the the list (at the URL above) though. Always a nice sign....
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-17 06:40:00
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Another Jan filer approved.... Bleh! :(
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-17 05:28:00
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And don't forget floating holiday too ;)


...and more guests. How could we forget them. ;)
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-15 07:29:00
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Holiday... what's a holiday? I work at Disney.



Holiday at Disney = Double time. Other than that i can't help. :D
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-15 05:09:00
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I created my own spread sheet. Its kind of a death clock if you will. So far cases 100 days old are being processed(with any consistency) and slowly the number of days is growing



Thanks goodness for that. The 100 day mark is just a week or so away for me. I'm still trying to convince myself that anything under 150 or so days is a good news. :blink:
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-12 04:14:00
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Got nothing to do but wait. It'll come. Just gotta wait.


That's the hard part as July isn't that far away... :wacko:
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-09 08:00:00
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30% complete for Nov @ CSC. About 5% for us at VSC. :crying:
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-09 04:43:00
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Some potential progress.

Teresa's local congresswoman has a liaison with VSC to demand to know why december is being processed before november, with a full release and copy of our NOA1.

Will keep everyone informed.

Regards,

Arch



:thumbs: I somehow expect an answer along the lines of "I don't know", but maybe that'll cause someone to dig a bit deeper.


Another 30 or so days and i'm ½ way between NOA1 and the wedding date. I need [would like] to have some movement very soon. :(
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-04 11:48:00
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We're all coming up on the three month "anniversary" of our NOA1 dates, but hopefully we won't actually make it to the day without our approvals. Fingers crossed!


Fingers crossed is right. I'm 8 days from the 3 month anniversary so i may possibly, might, could have by then. I'm not holding my breath though. I'm convincing (somewhat successfully) myself that it'll be at least a month before i see anything from them. :wacko:

Doesn't really help much when your mood is affected in a similar fashion to how the USD/GBP exchange rate is at the minute. :whistle:
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-02-01 10:04:00
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Somebodies working their stack :D
EAC1001750321 rfe January 28, 2010,
EAC1001750374 rfe January 28, 2010,
EAC1001750498 approve January 27, 2010,



Aaaragh... I got a little excited for a moment as one of those numbers looks almost like mine. Then i realized it's a couple of hundred petitions out! :crying:

Edited by arwilson80, 28 January 2010 - 12:14 PM.

arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-01-28 12:13:00
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this is exciting news!! I take the small victories :)



As will I, seeing our filing dates are close together. :)
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-01-26 16:47:00
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...and i have just gone through a few more 'codes'. Looks like VSC are working on / around case 'EAC1001750525'.
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-01-26 12:13:00
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Well i hope you don't have to go too far 'oop North'. Like Inverness or similar... :)
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-01-26 12:05:00
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fingers crossed that once the noa2 comes it's all gonna speed up...


Ditto to that...


Any suggestions on how to pass the time quickly?


Call him... Expensive i know but it always works for me. Already talked to my Fiancee for an hour this morning as she drove home from work (01:00 Eastern Time / 06:00 GMT) and it flew past.


I'm just a little down about it all at the moment espesh as it seems that now none of my family will be attending our wedding :(


That sucks... I'm not much better off though. Looks like just parents, siblings & 1 friend will be coming to mine. :( To be expected i guess when it's 3,500 miles away.
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-01-25 04:35:00
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Im still here in Virginia with the rain and now he is over in Northern Ireland with the rain, very depressing.



No rain here today (yet). ;)
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-01-22 08:46:00
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I'm curious where you got your information about the figures. Also are these cases that were processed in November or November cases being processed in January.



That will be all K-1 petitions that were completed in November from 'whenever'.
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-01-22 07:37:00
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2. Visa Journey is not gospel!! I do refer to it as the Bible quite frequently ;) - but those timelines are not a true indicator of absolutely everything that is going on....good OR bad. If we pin all our hopes on that timeline or our estimated approval date we will ALL go totally mad.



100% true. I'll be happy if i get a NOA2 in Feb, but at the same time it would also be nice to have it before the end of Jan. :)

Would help with getting flights booked - especially as it has to fit in with UK University holidays, US schools being off, UK schools being off & everyones vacation time schedules. Bleh! :)
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-01-22 05:48:00
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According to the list we could, maybe, possibly, might get an NOA2 as early as tomorrow (or as late as Feb 23). I like this...

Especially as 'planning' is going so well. :)

Edited by arwilson80, 22 January 2010 - 04:45 AM.

arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-01-22 04:44:00
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There were 3 updated yesterday. So we can only hope...


HAHA! Awesome! I say, curse them heartily! And a plague of non-working toilets, as well!


Please No... That'll only delay them even further as they'll be off 'on the sick'. :(
arwilson80MaleUnited Kingdom2010-01-21 05:01:00