Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	Yep, I see that ....and those are good posts so two thumbs up for you. It's another lonely night to go thru... darn it! Hang in there... We will get through this. If your situation is anything at all like mine, then you know that it is well worth the fight	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-03-23 12:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	How you guys handling this? ... Im starting to feel nervous with the way CSC works. I am ranting and raving.	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-03-23 12:21:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	The estimated time for California Service Center is about 7+ months to get NOA2. The Vermont Service Center is about 6 months/.. I would just relax until June, then start looking for it. Good luck To think that when we started it was the other way around	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-02-24 21:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	How's all my November filers doing? Hopefully we hit the halfway point til NOA2...I hope? It's kind of like autopilot now for me and sometimes are harder than others, but honestly every time I go to bed, I feel happy tha another day is under my belt. Anyone else get like that? I WOULD feel like that, but there is absolutely no movement in CSC. That does not bode well I feel like I am on hold.	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-02-12 23:15:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	I really have to stop looking at August threads and Igor's List	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-02-12 18:16:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	Sounds great Mark! Only one question, what does PM mean and how do I do it? Thanks for the invite, I look forward to a celebratory time with all of us!! Juan Enrique I just PM'ed you PM == Private Message.	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-01-29 01:03:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	Cool, great to connect with you. My finance is from Peru, living in Costa Rica. Good luck on an expeditious NOA2!! If you are interested, PM me and we can stay in contact and get together once our loves are with us. What say you? Mark	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-01-28 01:48:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	First one in the group to receive a NOA2, buys the first round! I will drive up to Everett and buy you that drink if it will get me my NOA2 Mark PS. I am down in Olympia, BTW	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-01-27 17:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/220499-k-1-petition-information/ There you go... Thanks	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-01-25 23:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	Can you post a link to the post in question, pretty please?	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-01-24 22:40:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	Unfortunately for me it looks like VSC is cooking and CSC has stalled.	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-12-17 12:59:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	Spoke too soon. Text message and email today NOA1 date is officially 12/03/2012... I am assuming California Service Center (since I am in Olympia, Washington), so it looks like 04/08 to 04/20 for me	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-12-03 18:50:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	Well, no NOA1 yet, but they cashed my check today	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-12-03 14:43:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	Thank you. We are pleased as punch	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-11-28 13:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	I included our son's birth certificate, registration of birth at the embassy in Lima and his passport (among a bunch of other stuff). I figure there is no greater proof of our relationship than a tiny little breathing bundle of joy	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-11-28 12:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	Okay. Thanks. May we all just cruise on through	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-11-28 12:26:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	How will we be informed about this fabled "case status site"? Is that mentioned on one of the notices we receive? Mark	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-11-28 12:24:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	Woo Hoo: Delivered Signed for by: K.ERICKSON USCIS has it now Mark	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-11-28 11:45:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2012 filers	I am joining in here too Mailed mine on 11/26 and am staring at the FedEx site trying to make it go faster	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-11-28 10:06:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	2-year proof for I-129F, with child in common	Don't have my boarding passes any more However, I do have loads of entry and exit stamps in my passport In my original post, I meant to say "fiancee" Just sayin'	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-10-29 23:45:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	2-year proof for I-129F, with child in common	There will be photos of me cutting the little guy's umbilical cord I did not wish to imply that you guys were who I was trying to please. I was really trying to get an idea of shared experience. But please keep any ideas you can think of coming. I definitely get the impression that I should err on the side of too much than too little Mark	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-10-29 23:41:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	2-year proof for I-129F, with child in common	Thanks for the advice. I will take it to heart. Luckily, we preloaded the case when we registered my son's birth at the consulate. I can always continue to preload, we got loads of stuff I will check out the regional forums for more advice. Congrats on your Giants win. Even though I am now an American League fan (Seattle area, so Mariners), I was raised a National League fan back when my team in the far East was a NL West team and the Giants were always troublesome for us (Atlanta Braves fan back in the 1970s and 1980s), so I will always have an unshakable fondness for NL teams Mark	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-10-29 21:07:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	2-year proof for I-129F, with child in common	Thanks for the quick reply. I will try and put as much together as we can. I was mostly trying to gauge experiences of others here, as opposed to getting approval. Sort of sticking my toe in the water	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-10-29 00:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	2-year proof for I-129F, with child in common	My fiance and I are just starting out on the K-1 route. Working on gathering proof of meeting within the last 2 years. Our son was born on 04/17/2012. I signed his birth certificate in Lima on 04/20/2012 with her as co-signatory. We also registered his birth and and applied for his passport at the US Embassy 08/26/2012 (passport and citizenship document issued 09/17/2012). Do we really need to pad the I-129F with more proof, or is this more than sufficient? Thanks in advance. Mark	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-10-29 00:15:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Scans of Bio form and letter	It's all good. They arrived today	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-11-23 20:45:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Scans of Bio form and letter	My fiancee sent the biographical information and the signed statement agreeing to marry within 3 months. It has been a significant amount of time and nothing has shown up. My question is: are scanned versions of these documents acceptable for initiating the process or do we need the signed orginals? Thanks in advance. Mark	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-11-22 02:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Question On Back Child Support	Okay. Even if they just started deductions, contact them and find out what your standing is and make sure you are in some kind of arrangement. They will know exactly what your standing is. FYI for most suspension actions there is generally some sort of threshold (X number of dollars in arrears and Y number of months of non-payment) before actions are taken. These issues tend to vary from state to state (unless specifically mandated by the feds). So contact them and put your fears to rest. Mark	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-10-31 01:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Question On Back Child Support	Disclaimer: I work for Child Support... (albeit the IT section) Please contact your Support Enforcement Officer and make arrangements with him for arrears payment. Even if the house bills you mention were to pass, they are likely be like the license and passport suspension programs. As such, if you are in cooperation with your child support agency, you would not be referred and this would be a non-issue. If you are already in cooperation, you should have nothing to fear. Your Support Enforcement Officer is also your best resource for this type of question than those of us here on this forum. I hope you have a helpful one... if not, respectfully and politely request to speak to the agency's costumer relations unit... they will be really helpful (given they are approached with the right attitude). Good luck. Good luck. Mark	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-10-30 23:31:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	December filer	They cashed my check first, but in the afternoon of that same day I got a text message and an email confirming acceptance. My packet made it to them on 11/28 and my check cleared 12/03.	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2012-12-13 12:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	USCIS to update their online system on Sunday 16th March	In all likelihood they were updating server software, database software, or some software used internally to run the website. This was not likely to be an update which would add or change features as it was termed "maintenance". Sounded pretty routine and can be safely ignored. (nb: Christopher is a software engineer) Another software engineer here. I concur. Content will be handled by some other unit (policy, community outreach, etc). Their maintenance is some back-end stuff that may or may not cause feature changes. Any feature change would most likely affect how the online case status, or the infopass stuff, work, but not actually update any of the data (unless the maintenance is addressing some flow in how that data is batched from the back-end).	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-03-18 12:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Contacting Col. Paul Cook, Local Congressmen	Well, then it should be stated as such. But their "goal" is 5 months, so? And there is a thing called tact, Mr 3 1/2 month NOA2er and 9 month POE'er. Let me pile on The K1 visa was set up by congress to avoid lengthy family separation. As such, in my opinion, 5 months is already too long (cause we are looking at 8 or so total months of separation... almost a whole year!). Expanding the window to a year would be inexcusable. So, USCIS is failing at their mandate. They seam to be callous to the affect this situation is having on the families of American citizens. They have set up a system that is opaque and unaccountable. So, you can't even gauge what is going on or not. They act as if they are above any kind of regulation or oversight. They appear to be flush with resources, yet fail to use those resources in a responsible manner. This has got to stop.	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-03-22 12:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Contacting Col. Paul Cook, Local Congressmen	This. I think the most important thing for getting your letter taken seriously is to show that you really understand the problem, that you aren't just asking your congressperson to chase your own personal rabbit down a rabbit hole, and that you expect your elected officials to take action on your behalf when a government agency is failing you so horribly. To that end, I suggest devoting two or three paragraphs to meticulously explaining the problem. Talk about how, based on the USCIS's published data, there has been virtually no review of K-1 visas for at least three months at the CSC. Further explain how the USCIS is obviously manipulating their processing time frame in order to avoid accountability for creating this backlog. Finally, talk about how it all seems to be related to the DACA program and possibly political pressures that are forcing the USCIS to let DACA petitioners jump in line against citizen petitioners with no end in sight. Be sure throughout to emphasize how the USCIS has become completely unaccountable for and opaque about all of these problems and is in desperate need of oversight. Next, I'd add some words about your personal situation and how the delay is negatively affecting you and your spouse. Talk about financial and emotional impacts. If there is some special hardship (medical, etc.) you are facing, be sure to highlight it. Remember, the USCIS is a service run for the benefit of US citizens, not a service that is supposed to cause so much unnecessary frustration. Everyone deserves better than this and its up to us, who have firsthand experience, to tell our representatives, who likely do not, all the ways in which it is broken. And we have to make clear that we expect them to fix those problems on our behalf, one way or another. The reason, by the way, that I don't just provide a form letter copy of what I wrote is because I think these types of requests need to be personalized. I'd hate for a single form letter version to get spread widely so that congressional offices came to recognize it and discount it. This is exactly the approach I have taken.	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-03-22 12:45:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Contacting Col. Paul Cook, Local Congressmen	No offense but you don't know anything about how federal agencies work or how they are funded. Getting a few hundred dollars a pop per case "does not a budget make". They get most of their funds from the big budget that Congress votes on, which comes from all of our federal taxes and a few other places. There have been big waves of layoffs the past several years from many federal agencies, USCIS included. Look at ICE having to let over 2000 undocumented people in jails across the country go free because they couldn't afford to conclude their cases. It is about to get worse despite the sequester "stop-gap" measures. If you really want to rant then all of you should be complaining to your Congresspeople to stop cutting federal programs. If you want your government to function better then use your voting power and get all those free market, libertarian, laissez-faire politicians out of office. These folks dominate both political parties, by the way, so lots of work to be done. This issue is way, way bigger than USCIS and all of your individual cases or mine. There's a lot of things to be outraged about these days that affect our whole society so do yourselves a favor and keep perspective. You starting out with "no offense" means you meant to offend me; that's cool. "Getting a few hundred dollars a pop per case does not a budget make"??? Really??? Look just run the numbers. K1 alone. 340 a case, 1500 cases a month for CSC alone. This is one service center and only one visa type. That is half a million dollars a month. That does indeed a budget make. And we aren't even looking at AOS, CR1, IR1, the other K visas, DACA, etc, etc, etc. We have more than a budget going on here. USCIS is self-funded and it would appear they are flush with money. They need to use it for the purpose it was intended. FWIW, I have also ranted to my congress critters and to the DHS ombudsman. I hope everyone else does the same.	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-03-22 12:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Contacting Col. Paul Cook, Local Congressmen	I am sure your congressperson is well aware of the immigration timelines, USCIS is under staffed, and there is nothing a congressperson can do or say to anyone to change that. Even if you do go beyond what is normal processing times, the only thing he can do is inquire on your behalf. You still have a few months before you even need to worry about it. As much as everyone hates the fact that they have to wait, USCIS processes millions of visa petitions every year. It is what it is. Good luck on the rest of your journey. Email your congressman. Why is everyone so complacent? They are understaffed?? Really? Then they are wayyyyyy over-funded. With all the fees they are raking in, they need to get better management to address workload processing, which includes using those funds to hire more people. Simply saying that they are understaffed is only playing USCIS apologist. That being said, if the OP would like me to post what I sent (a general complaint letter, since I am only 111 days in and can't really start moaning about my own case, yet... I am mostly outraged for July and August -- and now September -- folks). We all need to whine and moan and complain. Only by voicing our outrage will things ever have any hope of changing. Stop making excuses for a federal agency that is failing in its mandate. Sorry for the rant....	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-03-21 00:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	K1-visa applied, moving with a kid. Experiences ab moving with a kid?	Thanks Oregon Bound! I thought I saw someone somewhere telling the kid was participating to the interview. What comes to the permission from kid´s dad, I have sole custody, I don´t need his permission. Whether you need to do this and how you do it will depend on the country. For example, the US has no requirement for you to obtain permission before leaving with your child (although both parents do need to sign for the passport... but once your passport is in hand you could roll right on out). Peru, on the other hand, requires a signed authorization to exit if the child has a Peruvian passport (my little guy has an American passport, so my fiancee could just walk right on out with him). These are only examples of what you need to do. Check with a lawyer or a notary or whatever your country's version of border control is for the steps you need to take. Same here. Our son is a dual citizen too. He shouldnt need a medical as he is already a U.S. citizen. Yeah. American citizens require nothing to come here, so your child is ready to come right now, just like mine is	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-03-22 21:35:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Sequestration and the K1	See this.... http://www.morganlew...n_05march13.pdf So, in short, we worry about this problem when we get to the NVC/Embassy stage Right now we have enough to do with trying to get CSC back on track...	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-03-23 12:37:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Interview - Embassy in Lima	Hello guys, We have our interview date at the embassy in Lima Peru for the K-1 visa; however, I was wondering how necessary it is for both parties to attend. A plane ticket is ~ $700, and I'd rather save that money for the interview cost, medical examination, or my fiancee's flight here. So my big question is this: how much does the presence of the petitioner aid in the approval of the visa? If i DONT go, will We be rejected? If i DO go, is it guaranteed that we'll be approved? Ughhhh! Any insight would be great! I have heard that it is not necessary, but that it depends on the embassy. Some embassies apparently won't let the USC in. I don't think Lima is this way. When we went to do the CRBA for my son, they had both of us talk to the consular officer, then the consular officer wanted to speak to me alone (due to my sordid past ). I hope to go when my fiancee has her interview; it can't hurt and it has to put a positive spin on it... besides my fiancee will need someone to take control of our little rugrat while she is be interrogated So, don't sweat it. If you can go, great. If you can't, don't fear... it should not negatively affect the process. As a fellow Perucho filer, feel my envy No, seriously, I am happy for you and wish you the best of luck.	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-03-23 16:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Who waits more	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals http://www.uscis.gov...aca-13-3-15.pdf http://www.visajourn...and-vsc-noa-2s/ And even with transferring cases to TSC, there has been no significant shift in processing at CSC. It's been 2 weeks and I would have expected some tectonic shift, but nothing. The good news is that not even the CSC can get away long with such blatant failure. As the cases to continue to back up, pressure must necessarily mount for them to do their jobs. We, however, are key in this shift. Write, call, complain. It is our civic duty.	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-03-23 23:13:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	Senator	So we send a letter to the senator of WA and he received it but my question is now, do we wait until they contact us or do we call? I told my fiance he should call the senator but he doesn't know exactly what to say, because we send a letter explaining all.. so its awkward. Any suggestions? Did you send it to Cantwell or Murray? Doesn't really matter, both of their staffs are pretty helpful. When you get ready to call, sit down with your fiance and make some notes of what you want to get out of the conversation. FWIW, I think you may get even better service working through your congressman's office. They seem to take a more personal interest in your case, but that may just be luck of the draw. Viel Glueck	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-03-23 12:33:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Process & Procedures	H1B and K1 concurrently??	Just curious. I may explore the possibility of getting my fiancee an H1B tech visa. I am okay with incurring extra cost, but not having to start over (even if the H1B is less time). She is a project manager and there is the possibility that I could get her a job offer, then get married and do the AOS permanent residency. The question is: do you have to abandon the K1 process to do this? It is not the same as starting over CR1 and having to abandon K1 (i.e. the marriage has not occurred and the criteria for K1 still exist). If this topic should be passed to a different forum, dear admins, please do your duty Edited by pachacuti, 27 March 2013 - 12:05 AM.	pachacuti	Male	Peru	2013-03-27 00:05:00