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K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsSeptember 2009 filers
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We got our hard copy first notice today......
Sept 23-- sent docs
Sept 28--delivered to VSC
Sept 29--- received VSC
Oct 2---- Encashed cheque
Oct 6--- HARD COPY NAO1 smile.gif

THANK YOU GOD



i told ya,you will get it,you just have to wait. good.gif are you happy now? laughing.gif


YEA YOUR RIGHT, VERY MUCH HAPPY GURL biggrin.gif



Be sure to fill in your time line. It will help you track your status and give you an estimated time when you think you could be approved. Then, you can have fun watching your name go up and down on Igor's list. Well, it's no fun seeing it go down.. but it gives you a smile to see your name go up on the list. Yesterday, I was #301 waiting for approval at VCS.. today I'm 297..

Of course, that does not include all the people who filed that are not on VJ or have not filled in time lines.
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-10-07 09:56:00
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Hi guys

September 2009 Filers here --VSC

Now the first stage of waiting begins for September Filers


We sent docs Sept 23 to VSC-- received Sept 28--- encashed Oct 2......
till now no first noticed from VSC sad.gif
still waiting , hope this week ..........


Lets share our thoughts in this Forum!!!!!!!


I'm sure you'll get your hard copy by today or tomorrow. Mine was dates 9/24 but I didn't get it until 9/30. Have you checked your case status at USCIS? It will show you the date of the NOA1

Edited by Jenn and Fuat, 06 October 2009 - 08:04 AM.

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-10-06 08:04:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsGod called him
My heart goes out to you. (F)
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-02-12 20:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsStill no packet 3 and expired NO2

Hi MattHeartCass, Thanks for your response.

Did the NVC provide you with a new notice of approval?
Problem is, the receipt number from our NO2 isn?t showing up anything with the NVC and when I contacted the USCIS the only record they have is our NO1 from May 2009. Right now we are anxiously waiting to hear back from the emails we sent out over the weekend. :(



This is a long shot..since you probably already know this... but when you are calling NVC are you speaking to a real person? K1's don't get entered into the automated system so every time you call the system will tell you there is no information.

I think in a previous post you asked about the receipt number. The case number will be a new number, not the same as the receipt number on the NOA1. Most likely starts with the first three letters of your Consulate and has the year after it.. then some other numbers. For example: Our new case number started with ANK2009.. It did not start with EAC or WAC like the NOA1 receipt ( I think another poster told you it would start with this).

I suggest calling DOS. Something is obviously wrong.

Edited by Jenn and Fuat, 17 March 2010 - 07:05 AM.

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-03-17 07:04:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2 after 4 weeks

No Way!! That's unbelievable..!! :o Must have been a military expedite.

Well, Hope everyone gets their good news soon. Cheers



Maybe.. maybe not. We had ours in 25 days. At that time we were the fastest approval on here that was Non-Military. Looks like someone could have beaten us :)
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-03-15 11:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAugust 2009 CSC filers....
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does anyone know how to track the package from nvc to the consulate? i tried the instructions, but it's not working. my package left nvc 11/4/2009



I found one going to Lebanon. REF # 8808537183

To find it I put in the following: EXP 03 NOV 2009A with a ship date between 11/3 and 11/4. It was on the third page of today's shipments.

Maybe this is yours?


how did u do that? and it says it went to boston, ma do u think it will get picked up from there, then sent to it's destination?


When I was tracking packages I thought might be mine it seemed the go to Boston, then to Cincinatti then on overseas. Mine stopped in Germany on the way to Turkey.

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-11-04 21:59:00
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does anyone know how to track the package from nvc to the consulate? i tried the instructions, but it's not working. my package left nvc 11/4/2009



I found one going to Lebanon. REF # 8808537183

To find it I put in the following: EXP 03 NOV 2009A with a ship date between 11/3 and 11/4. It was on the third page of today's shipments.

Maybe this is yours?
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-11-04 19:48:00
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anyone call nvc yet?



I just received our NOA2 in the mail yesterday, so do you think it's too early to call????



Call where??


NVC



Not too early.. it took almost 6 days from the the actual NOA2 to get my hard copy in the mail, and I didn't get the hard copy of my NOA2 until after it had already been to NVC and sent on to the consulate.
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-11-03 20:52:00
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Update: they do have my case in the system, but it's in administrative processing. not too worried about that yet, since it only went in today. hopefully not "indefinite" administrative processing. :P



I think most of us were told we were in AP.. unless it had already been sent to the consulate by the time we called. Seems to be a standard response. I wouldn't worry about it too much.
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-02-13 07:19:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsSeptember 2009 Filers! CSC

We passed too! :D


Congratulations to everyone who has recently passed their interview.

Kizza.. if you haven't called NVC yet start calling :) We were there just a few days after NOA2 and I called multiple times a day until they told us we were on our way to the consulate.
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-02-11 08:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsSeptember 2009 Filers! CSC

Yayyyyy!! thank you! Matt was jumping up and down at work when I told him!! hehehe
He cracks me up!

Congrats to people who got approved and good luck to people with interviews!!

Good luck Rosie! Are you going there for the interview?


FINALLY!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!! :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-02-08 21:59:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsSeptember 2009 Filers! CSC
Was just checking in to see about Kizza! The last of the VSC thread finally got hers.. Kizza, you can't be far behind.

Not many of us post in here.. but we are watching.. and pulling for you!
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-02-03 21:10:00
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Kizza, was just checking in to see if you had any news yet. :( I think I'm starting to get more anxious for yours than I was for mine. And then, as you said, you've got Montreal to deal with and I know the frustration the VSC Montreal people have right now ( right Kayla :) )

One person recently wrote that they thought their interview would be in a few weeks..but that it was looking like a few months. I think it definitely depends on the consulate. We waited almost 2 weeks from the time the consulate had our packet to the day we found out when our interview was.. and then found we would have to wait another three months ( Yes.. Kayla.. I know you've waited more than a month and still don't know your interview date :):)

Many of us have decided that fate is playing a hand in this to make everyone equal. The faster you get your NOA2 the longer you have to wait for your interview :) I got NOA2 in 25 days.. by some freak chance.. but am then having to wait 4 months from NOA2 to the actual interview. Others have waited 3 months for NOA2 and had their interview within a few weeks. I've even seen some of the CSC people on here who had such a terribly long wait for NOA2 and they are done already :)

Kizza, if our theory is correct and the longer you wait the faster you end up getting an interview then your interview is going to be a Montreal miracle and scheduled within a few weeks :):)

Here's hoping!
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-01-22 22:18:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsSeptember 2009 Filers! CSC

Are we all suppposed to get letter from nvc? I haven't receive one yet. All i know is that they sent our case to embassy on jan11.


We never got a letter from them. Most people I have talked to said they didn't.
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-01-16 17:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsSeptember 2009 Filers! CSC

I just saw this on the VJ homepage about a proposal to raise the K visa fee up to $350.
http://www.visajourn...previously-131/



Wow! I am sure I don't have to worry, but that would be aweful if it was put into place before our interview next month. That's pretty steep considering what we already pay for filing the petition, the medical and everything else.

Not surprised though.

Thanks!
I know... it is ridiculous. Next Friday, it will have been 4 months.
It's just so frustrating that they are approving october files now when there are still a good bunch of September filers and even earlier waiting.

B.S. :ranting:


Kizza, I was just checking in to see if you had heard anything yet. Please.. once you hear something, drop over to the VSC thread and let us know!!

Well, I guess it's really the September filers main thread, but VSC seems to have taken it over and we don't even go to the VSC Specific thread anymore. We get the occasional CSC person in there.. which is nice. We like to hear how it's going over on this end too!!

Anyone from September CSC filing for Turkey?? I'm all alone over at VSC.

Edited by Jenn and Fuat, 15 January 2010 - 08:12 PM.

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-01-15 20:09:00
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If I'm understanding your question right, most of the time (and I'm not sure about your specific embassy) the fee is paid during your interview. Again, I dont know if this is the same for every embassy.


Definitely depends on the embassy. We have to pay ours ahead of time and show a receipt to get into the interview. I would check the information for your particular embassy.
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-01-10 16:29:00
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what's AP?



See answer two posts above
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-12-23 16:10:00
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Ok cool. I just posted to the September forum, I guess I'll get the same answer there. Its so hard not to get nervous when I see my time line deviating from the norm.




What's AP?



Administrative processing.. or Additional processing or something like that. We were in AP for two days.. some people have been in AP for weeks.. I think it's a generic answer for them to tell you that you are in AP and you should only worry if you are in AP status for more than a few days. If you are in AP longer than that then it is something to with the USC background check or they found something USICS missed.

Don't worry if they tell you that you are in AP. I got all stressed, but it was nothing.
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-12-23 14:38:00
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so has this happened to anyone i got a touch on the 21st and another touch today !!!!!! why the extra touches anyone know?



yes, it happens to most people. Your signature shows you got NOA2 on the 19th.. the touch on the 21st was probably when they had your file to mail you the hard copy. The touch today was probably when they mailed your file to NVC.
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-12-23 14:36:00
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For those of you that said you called NVC and you aren't in their system yet, make sure you are talking to a real person. NVC does not put the K1 petitions in their automated system and it will always tell you that you are not in the system yet.

I think I read someone got NOA2 on 12/16 and NVC doesn't have it yet? That is defintely strange. Did you talk to a real person? If not, call back.. you are probably already on your way to your consulate or already there.

yes that was me. I talked to a real person both yesterday and today. did you guys get anything in the mail or did you call and they told you that they've received it?



Nothing came in the mail from NVC. I called them four days after I got NOA2 and they said I wasn't there.. I called them later that night and they told me I was there but in AP. I called them two days later and they told me I had already been sent to the consulate. They are open until Midnight EST... call several times a day and you could get a different answer each time smile.gif

Edited by Jenn and Fuat, 23 December 2009 - 01:02 PM.

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-12-23 13:02:00
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Glad to see so many September approvals coming out of CSC. Kizza... yours is the one I am waiting to see now!!!!!!!!!!

For those of you that said you called NVC and you aren't in their system yet, make sure you are talking to a real person. NVC does not put the K1 petitions in their automated system and it will always tell you that you are not in the system yet.

I think I read someone got NOA2 on 12/16 and NVC doesn't have it yet? That is defintely strange. Did you talk to a real person? If not, call back.. you are probably already on your way to your consulate or already there.

I hope the rest of you get approved quickly and I hope everyone has a great holiday.
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-12-23 12:26:00
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OMG. Such fantastic news. Congratulations! Maybe now they've moved on to September for good... one can hope. smile.gif

For the people who got notified via text at 7:30ish or so, what timezone are you guys in?


Garfield's in central, so 7pm here (same town as him) would be 5pm at CSC -- quittin' time, I'm sure.

Yeah...central time. I am guessing that the adjudicator may have multiple files that are finished and then does "the magic" just before quitting time. Pure speculation, but who knows! smile.gif



Not that I want to keep people up all night looking at the USCIS page or waiting for text messages.. but when I got my text from VSC it came at 9:15pm EST.

I was suprised by that, but was then told that they have contract workers who work in the evening on some nights.. updating stuff that was done during the day. There are a few of us who got our notifications between 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST.

OK.. now that I have said that, people will be watching thier phones all night smile.gif




its 7:30ish pacific standard time...

I was so excited - i already called NVC, they haven't got my papers yet. i have to wait 2-4weeks they said.
I'm not quite sure what is the next process after getting NOA2 in mail, i will get it either monday or tuesday


They told me to wait 2-4 weeks as well.. I was in and out of NVC in just a few days. Keep calling smile.gif

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-12-06 12:01:00
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I also saw somewhere where some people work from home. they stop in and pick up a box of files input it all at home then come back and scan them as complete and take another box. I never did conferm this but it sound possable.


This is unlikely due to the sheer amounts of personal information that they, by law, are obliged to keep confidential, and the background checks that revolve around it. It's more likely due to a delay in the relay or update system.



In the thread, on the main page, where Gary has the chat with the VSC Director, he states that employees do work from home and take files with them. To be honest, I was extremly bothered by this just for the reasons you stated.
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-12-05 12:23:00
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OMG. Such fantastic news. Congratulations! Maybe now they've moved on to September for good... one can hope. smile.gif

For the people who got notified via text at 7:30ish or so, what timezone are you guys in?


Garfield's in central, so 7pm here (same town as him) would be 5pm at CSC -- quittin' time, I'm sure.

Yeah...central time. I am guessing that the adjudicator may have multiple files that are finished and then does "the magic" just before quitting time. Pure speculation, but who knows! smile.gif



Not that I want to keep people up all night looking at the USCIS page or waiting for text messages.. but when I got my text from VSC it came at 9:15pm EST.

I was suprised by that, but was then told that they have contract workers who work in the evening on some nights.. updating stuff that was done during the day. There are a few of us who got our notifications between 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST.

OK.. now that I have said that, people will be watching thier phones all night smile.gif
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-12-04 19:39:00
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Well Mitch! You must be getting anxious! I just noticed you were sitting between two approvals! I bet it will come soon! good.gif
Hopefully we havent reach the approval quota for the week yet!!
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Has anybody been touched today?



LOL anxious isn't even the right word!!!!! All I want for Christmas is a NOA2!!!!! screw my two front teeth! LOL!!!

and no touches for me...


I would be surprised if you didnt have your NOA2 by christmas, seeing as you are more towards the beginning of the month.


We all know touches dont mean much.... Hopefully CSC will pick up the pace a little.


Touches really don't mean much... they did yesterday... but time will tell!!!

I'm pretty confident I'll get it by Christmas... I just hope I'm not one of those freak cases that take months and months and months... We're planning for a May wedding... I won't be a happy man though until I get that stamp in my passport... sigh...


My take on touches is that some agents are probably pretty systematic in using the wand, and others/most aren't.

Not to be a downer worrywart, but after reading about the guy who got denied at POE in the Canadian forum, I wont be letting my guards down until I have crossed that border.


WOW..someone got denied at POE? WHY? I'll have to see if I can find that thread.

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-12-04 14:14:00
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ok wee i dont know if this is good news for us or bad news ......but i read in another post where a couple called for their interview appointment and the earliest date she could get was january 5th and she called them on 11/28 ......so do you think my hopes of having her here next month will be realistic?


If you get NOA2 soon, and get through NVC quickly it COULD happen.. depending on how quickly you get the info to the consulate and they can schedule your interview.

Not to be negative, but with the upcoming holiday I don't think it would happen unless you got NOA2 this week and got through NVC, etc. by the end of next week. I could be wrong though.

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-12-04 09:34:00
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I think I just peed my pants while driving home....I just got a text message from USCIS....woohoo!!!!! NOA2!!!!!!! kicking.gif kicking.gif kicking.gif kicking.gif




Nice!! Congratulations!

That's awesome news.


Thanks so much! I can hardly type I am so happy. I checked the USCIS website every 20 minutes today....so terrible. At 7pm I knew they must be closed so i gave up for the day and left work. And then BAM! My phone goes off..hahaha



I got mine too!!!!! text and email @ d same time around 7:31pm kicking.gif kicking.gif kicking.gif


CONGRATULATIONS! It's so nice to finally see some approvals for the CSC group!!!!!

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-12-04 08:44:00
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We got the first sept approval!!!!!! Wohoo!!! kicking.gif



CONGRATULATIONS!!!! FINALLY!!!

Let me be the first from VSC to say THANK GOD and CONGRATULATIONS!

We'll be looking for more good news coming out of CSC


Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-11-23 18:46:00
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Does anyone know what fees have to be paid in the foreign country to the US embassy? It looks like $131 for the ds-156, but there's this DS-230 too, and it's not clear if there's a fee to that.

Any day now we'll start getting those Sept noa2's!



Ok, I finally got to a page that helped me. I went to the US Embassy in Bogota page and that gave very good information specific to getting prepared for the interview there. It listed medical exam fees and document delivery fees, and also listed the $131 fee (ds-156). I was worried for a second when I saw on another page that there was a few hundred dollar fee for the ds-230, but that must be for another visa.

I also read that any documents in Spanish or English do not need to be translated. That's a big yay! because I figured that was another expense.

The point being, check YOUR foreign embassy website and look at the instructions for the K1 packet. Here's the Bogota one, just in case you want to see what I'm talking about. http://bogota.usemba...ctionsfeb09.pdf



I dont think the fees are related to the forms per say. I believe the $131 fee is a "visa production fee".


That is correct, you pay for the visa not the forms. You will also have to shell out for the medical which will run another $100 or so.


The $131 is the interview fee.. you have to pay this before going to the interview and is not refunded if you are not issued the visa. Medical fee differs by country, as someone already said.. in Turkey it's arund $200 plus the vaccinations

There is no fee for the production of the visa itself.
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-11-09 22:21:00
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OK... so my contract is sent in and now I have nothing to do ... so here are some stats:

April 87%
May 90%
June 79%
July 79%
and August 31%

August has gone up 24% in 5 days.



They have processed quite a few in just the past couple days. Not being nasty but I sit here giggling a little bit because the VSC filers are all either freaking out because they haven't got their NOA2 or they are freaking out because they are stalking their file to the appropriate embassy. Here us CSC people sit and we are just happy to see that some are being processed we dont even care what the NOA1 dates are of the approvals as long as they are approving. Looks like VSC may be slowing down a bit. What are the Septembe filers that haven't been approved yet gonna do when they have to wait the normal processing time of 4-5 months when the others around their date have been approved...I think they will go nuts!


HA! Yes.. they will go nuts! The October filers will be worse, because they are watching us and thinking they will also be approved as quickly. I was one of the lucky ones, but felt a little guilty about it because of all the people ahead of me who are still waiting after several months.

The VSC group is waiting to throw a party.. we are watching for our own approvals.. but the thing most of us are really watching for now is an approval from CSC. I think when I see that I am going to be more excited than when I saw my own!!

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-10-29 09:49:00
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Woohoo! Five more August filers got their NOA2 yesterday. I was so excited I think I wet myself a little!


Everyone from the VSC September filers is waiting for the day we see one from CSC. Come on.. CSC.. we're ready for some really great news!!


hi jean and fuat

the date u put on your NOA2 is that where u received the hard copy?
thank you


No.. that's the date I got the email notification and the date the USCIS web page shows the NOA2 was issued. The hard copy is probably sitting in my mailbox now, but I have been out of town and didn't pick up my mail yesterday smile.gif Your NOA2 date should be the date it was "issued" not the date you received the hard copy in the mail..

Some people have been listing it as the date they got the hard copy, but they actually got the approval several days before it arrived.

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Woohoo! Five more August filers got their NOA2 yesterday. I was so excited I think I wet myself a little!


Everyone from the VSC September filers is waiting for the day we see one from CSC. Come on.. CSC.. we're ready for some really great news!!

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-10-27 10:24:00
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VJ estimates are highly inaccurate. At least after New Years they aren't. It's showing mid-November for VSC, while we are not seeing any November pretty much at all.

Ballparking (highly over/under estimated). VSC takes 3.5-4 months for NOA2. CSC 3-3.5 months at the moment. With some outliers there if you were to plot a trend on the curve



I wondered how accurate the "individual" timelines are that appear on people's profiles. I know it's showing November for VSC, and I know that is pretty far off the mark. But when you go into your personal time line and it shows when it is estimated that your case will be adjucated.... how accurate are those?

I know it keeps changing as people join VJ, or as people get NOA2, but I always wondered how accurate they are. Ours was not, but we were one of the weird, lucky ones who got approved very, very quickly ( and then have to wait forever for the interview.. we got NOA2 in 25 days.. but it was 4 months from NOA2 to our interview date).

Edited by Jenn and Fuat, 09 February 2010 - 08:48 AM.

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-02-09 08:44:00
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Late October Filers wait longer than usual. Is there a specific reason why that might be? It has been more than 3 months for us and we still havent heard from them. The operators are not useful at all. According to VSC, there is nothing they can do because the application is within the normal processing time (which is 5 months). I just hope that i dont receive a letter explaining that they lost the application. The average processing time increased from an average of 50 days to 80+ days.



Hey, saw you had posted here and was checking for good news. I see you don't have the good news yet, but if the timelines are at all accurate then you are estimated to get your NOA2 by the end of this week. I have no clue if the VJ estimates are accurate, since ours was so far off the mark, but I'll be watching.. and hoping.. and praying!!
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-02-09 08:04:00
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QUOTE (EasternDE @ Nov 4 2009, 02:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hello October filers,

What I plan on doing about Skype (because I have the same issue, it's pretty much our only communication way) is to take screenshots of the calls logs, if you go in the display tab then history, you have all the logs of all your calls, date, hours, how long...
Copy pasting into Word is no proof as it can be modified very easily. I strongly believe screenshots are the only way to go.
Same for emails, the screenshots should show the interface which somewhat proves where the file comes from.

Good luck.



Yes, I've been doing this too.. in addition to the word document.. but forgot to mention that. A word document is not enough, since it can be altered.
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-11-04 14:11:00
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QUOTE (Engineer06 @ Nov 2 2009, 10:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (gsxjoey @ Nov 1 2009, 04:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (Engineer06 @ Oct 29 2009, 07:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Wow, just got a text from the VSC saying my application is approved. No way did I think it would get approved that fast especially since it seems like it takes 3 months to get the NOA2. I thought at first it was a mistake, but seeing other people's timelines now it appears I am not alone. I didn't even start preparing for the next step since I thought I had more time and was going to begin in November. Guess I know what I will be doing this weekend. laughing.gif

Woot!


Wow congrats man, you must have luck on your side! whats the next step now after you get approved?


According to the guide on this website I now need to send a copy of the I-129F to my financee, along with an affidavit of support. It also says to send more proof that we continued the relationship since sending it in but it was less than a month ago! I guess the process has sped up recently. Don't really have much proof, all our communication is pretty much through skype and we really only text/email eachother to let the other know we are online (we usually talk online before I head to work in the morning).

I am really glad now that I waited until I did to send it in. The earliest she can come is in May and if I sent it during the summer it would have happened too fast. Now it is time to get in touch with HR to get some proof of employment.


You might want to consider doing video calls on Skype, but actually typing messages to each other instead of talking over the microphone. This is what we started doing.. then, every day, I take a screen shot of us talking on the web cam and the put it into a word document.. when we are done talking I copy and past the entire conversation into the word document..

We were only talking on the mic, but started doing this the minute we filed, so that we had conversation proof to send. We also send an email to each other at least once a week.. just to have something to add to our pile of "relationship proof"

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-11-04 13:27:00
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QUOTE (sanish @ Oct 27 2009, 05:28 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hi All,

I am a October filer as well. Took me a while to find this thread. Good to have people share their experiences together.

We sent the 129f on Oct 7 and received our NOA1 on 13 October.

How do I paste my timeline with my message?

Good Luck to All!



Go to your "signature" and type it in there...you have to enter it yourself. It doesn't transfer over from your time line.

Edited by Jenn and Fuat, 27 October 2009 - 11:25 AM.

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-10-27 11:24:00
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QUOTE (Engineer06 @ Oct 7 2009, 02:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I got delivery confirmation from USPS on Monday but I have not received an email saying anything about the NOA1 from the VSC. Is this normal? I see in many signatures something like:

Day 1: sent
Day 2: delivered
Day 3: NOA1
Day 7: NOA1 hard copy

I am probably worrying too much, but the fact I have not even gotten an email yet makes me concerned.



You won't get an email for NOA1. The only way you will get an email on updates is if you go into USCIS and set your account to send you info via email. You can't do that until you have your NOA1 and set up your account.

Edited by Jenn and Fuat, 07 October 2009 - 01:14 PM.

Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2009-10-07 13:12:00
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There's a line on the form, that says: has anyone filled it out on your behalf?

Just sign your name and date it. Indicate you are a fiancee. That's all



I didn't sign the form as having completed it for him. Was told that was only for lawyers, translators. etc. We had no problems at all.
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-03-12 09:06:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNovember 2009 K1 CSC Filers

I got my NOA 2 on March 4th and have called the NVC no. all week and the pre-recorded recording still says no record of my case no? How long does it normally take NVC to get your NOA2 and have the voice recording changed etc?


K1's are not put in the automated system at NVC. You have to speak to a real person. If you check the automated system it will always say your information has not been received. You are probably already through NVC and on the way to the consulate.
Jenn and FuatFemaleTurkey2010-03-12 09:04:00