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K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsJune 2008 Filers!
hello guys,

finally things are moving! Yay...

I had my medical today in Berlin. Pretty easy, no problems at all.

And...I already got pack 3 today. I'll send it back tomorrow and then hopefully I'll know next week when my interview will be. We are excited!! I hope you are all well.

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panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-23 11:37:00
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Our case was received today in Frankfurt!! We are so excited. If all goes well we will have package 3 by the end of next week which means that I will be filling out forms this weekend. We hope for an interview mid-February! Uhuhu...

Finally things are moving really fast it seems!!! Thanks for all the continuous support here on VJ!!!
panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-16 15:38:00
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She didn't mention it here but Skeez& Titanic got approved as well yesterday!!! Woooohoooo!!! All of us that were late are finally out of the waiting room and can go these last steps together. yes.gif

Congrats to everyone!!!
panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-15 03:39:00
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Great news for all of us!!!

Skeez: Your approval must be right around the corner!!! smile.gif
panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-14 11:46:00
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QUOTE (symbiosis @ Jan 13 2009, 02:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Noi is getting everything together to fly out of Bangkok tomorrow. The biggest problem seems to be winnowing down her luggage so she's not over the 20-kilo limit. I told her not to worry, that she could buy new clothes here. That made her feel better.

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That is so funny. Could be me. I already gave my fiancé one big piece of my luggage with him last time, this time another one...And I still worry I won't get evreything over there!! Girls!
panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-13 09:16:00
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Skeez: I cannot often enough tell you that I know how you feel. I used to cry a lot lately myself. I really hope that your congressman can do something. It seems to me though they can once you have waited way over processing time and are NOT stuck in security checks. But if then your congressman may find that out for you at least.

I am with you out here praying for you and Chadherm!
panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-10 04:15:00
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Krystle& Tiago: I would suggest you marry a little bit before the 90 days are over as it might take a few days to get the marriage certificate which you will need for teh AOS. If you prepare the AOS well before, you should have no problems... This paperwork makes me go nuts...

Skeez: I know. Keep up your hopes. You are probably very very close to getting approved!!!

I'll try and contact NVC at the end of next week. Hopefully, I will have my pack 3 at the end of this month!
Oh and....yes I got the CRIS Email the night after our approval dancin5hr.gif
panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-09 18:00:00
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Congrats to Mike and Gracey!!! That is great news esp. since I have heard that the interviews over there are rough!

Slowly our approval becomes real. I couldn't believe it last night. Dan and I just always looked at each other saying "wow, we got it!". And then we had to call our whole family. Everybody was sooo relieved.


panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-09 08:05:00
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Thanks guys!!! We were really pushing USCIS and I could well imagine that they pulled it because they got contacted from three different congressmen. And obviously they must have waited to send our congressman that email just long enough so they could tell him we got approved. I mean, he inquired about our case already right before christmas and they let him know yesterday like max. 3 hours after we got approved (it was still morning there).

We all have to keep praying for Chadherm and Skeez so that they will get approved very soon too!!!! mad.gif
I am almost sure you will have good news this month!! Keep the faith.
panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-09 04:52:00
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Guys!!!!!

We just got an email from our congressman telling us we got approved today, January 8!!!!!!!!!!!
I cannot tell you how happy we are. Sitting here crying and drinking champagne. There is still no end on the road but we probably made the hardest part!!!

I love you guys and thanks to everyone who prayed and supported us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-08 14:56:00
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People, we got a touch today!!!!!!! The date changed from 07/10 to 01/08 dancin5hr.gif

Please pray that this is it!
panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-08 11:49:00
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I don't have any hope left.

Congrats to you guys. We just calle donce more these useless USCIS call center agents...

No we are getting high on wine. Cheers!
panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-07 15:36:00
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Congrats guys!!

I honestly can hardly believe that you guys will be with your loved ones in the US while we are still waiting for NOA2. This is ridiculous! helpsmilie.gif
So last week someone got approved with the same NOA 1 as Skeez and myself. I am hoping, hoping, hoping we are next! And Chadherm right after this the next day. ;-)
panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-06 02:55:00
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QUOTE (stevew158 @ Jan 3 2009, 10:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
We got a fligt booked for Radz she leaves Manila on Jan 14 flighing to San Fran.


good.gif Good news! Congrats you two!!
panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-04 09:42:00
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Congrats Krystle&Tiago!! That's is good news!!!! I know how anxious you were!!!
panterchenFemaleGermany2009-01-02 02:57:00
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Hello,

yeah, I guess everybody is enjoying their holidays. I will too when Daniel is here tomorrow night. Gosh, I just cannot wait. He is already on his way now so I will track his flights until he flies into Berlin. :-)

I probably won't be around much either during the next 4 weeks. I just really hope we get NOA 2 during these weeks as well. If not, I really won't know what to do anymore... dead.gif

Enjoy your time off everybody! I have had a bad cold but also ate and drank a lot. That was the best food in ages my mom made..hmmmm jest.gif
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-28 11:49:00
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Congrats to your passed medical, Gracey!! Enjoy your holidays guys! I will put up our christmas tree tomorrow. Only 6 more nights without my sweetheart wub.gif
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-23 13:06:00
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We got the same answer too. I think they don't actually transger you to a second level support but just another call center agent. devil.gif
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-22 02:36:00
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Just a little booster; another June filer got approved and updated just now. They had an RFE but still... Maybe hopefully if we are lucky I dare to wish that we will be next....hahahaha
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-21 15:06:00
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You are probably right, Steve!!! I am just wondering. Right now whenever we call their excuse is that we shouldn't complain since they are working on March 7. And whenever we aks if they don't notice that this is 3 months ago, the become silent and stumble...IDIOTS
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-21 14:59:00
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QUOTE (stevew158 @ Dec 21 2008, 04:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I am so sad reading that panterchen maybe have to reset there wedding date if no Noa2 by end of Jan. I wish we all had a answer to get her and others in june waiting approved. The only thing I can think of now is praying even more for them. Only request i have is that panterchen please post some wedding photos here once you are married, I think that would be a special treat for all of us here to see that. Thanks in advance. Good Luck and maybe some mad smileys for noa2 sad.gif sad.gif sad.gif that works for some a while back maybe there is some magic left. And this is for panterchen for aways being so pleasant even though I know she has to be stressed with this all rose.gif



QUOTE (jeffmelody @ Dec 21 2008, 04:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
unfortunately i am one of those late May early june filer who still haven't received NOA2. We might be in one same file case which has been ignored ever since late June and July. no RFE, no any touch since then. Jane&Keith might be one of those. good luck to all of us!!!


Thank you!! I will for sure post wedding pictures once we make it happen. Getting married is the biggest struggle in our so young relationship but I am sure it will be all worth it at the end. And I know we will get there one way or another. We would even move to India or China (not that that's any bad, just distnce wise) together if that's the only way to be together.

@Skeez: As far as I know it takes a few more weeks at the embassy in Great Britain to get an interview date set up. Hope you won't have any problems but I guess the prerequisite is our approval good.gif

@JeffMelody: Have you already received an answer from your congressman? Do you know if you got assigned to an officer yet? We got assigned mid November but haven't heard anything ever since and USCIS keeps telling us noone even looked at our case yet. Wonder what's going on. blink.gif
I can't believe you are still waiting too. This is ridiculous. I am hoping for NOA 2 every day but then when I see people from April/May still waiting I think we might have to wait some more crying.gif
I hope too that JaneKeith are somewhere close to our timelines. But I am sure they almost have to be. The two late april/ early May filers that got approved last week had to wait around 220 days. I hope we don't have to wait longer than that.

Another thing; the last USCIS update is from Sep 30 and said March 7. Shouldn't they now not already be working on clearing out early June filers?? Wonder what the next update will say. "working on January 2008"? headbonk.gif
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-21 14:52:00
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Thanks to everybody who is still praying for us and letting us know they are with us.

Skeez: Don't know if I ever asked you, but when did you intend to get married?
We were planning on the beginning of March. If NOA 2 comes in before the end of January we can still make this date as the embassy in Germany is usually pretty fast.

My dad said this morning to me that if we cannot make the anticipated wedding date, that I will have to marry then without them. Their flights are booked for beginning March. God, I don't even wanna think about this. It feels like a nightmare to have to marry the love of my life without my parents being actually there. We had to fight so long for my parents to accept our love, to actually wanting them to contribute to our wedding and now we might not even be able to have a real celebration with them. I think if that happens, I don't even want a big wedding anymore. A small civil ceremony is all I can imagine if my family cannot attend.

Often lately, I just feel like running away to a different place until all this is sorted out. I know, how childish would that be.
I won't give up hope until it is the end of January. But until then I will mainly live on VJ and be only half of who I am without this visa stress. I will have to reschedule my flight today as originally I wanted to leave Dec 26th. crying.gif
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-21 03:50:00
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Yeah, I know.

I mean I didn't really expect anything new from this appointment. We just wanted to make sure that nothing is really wrong yet before he leaves the US end of next week to be in Germany for the whole month of January.
All they tell us now is "it could be any day now"...woohooo. Only god knows...I mean USCIS will probably be on vacation for the next two weeks just like everybody else.
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-19 16:17:00
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Dan went to another infopass appointment today.

No news. We got assigned and our case got scanned in Dec 16 for audits which they said is just for inventory reasons...SO no officer really looked at it yet. :-( Oh well, the case is at least still lingering around there.
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-19 16:06:00
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Congrats everybody!!
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-19 10:37:00
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QUOTE (stevew158 @ Dec 19 2008, 04:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Radz just called its 21:50 hours 12/18/2008 12/19/2008 in manila, She finished her interview at embassy and is approved. Thanks Mike and Gracey for all the support. Radz is traveling back to graceys place now to celerbrate Then flying back to Gensan tomorrow.

I am so proud of Radz I knew she would do great. I would just like to say that I love Radzney very much and Im so happy now.

Good Luck to everyone else waiting.


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Congrats!! You two will be together very soooooon!!!

Another June filer got approved yesterday....Yeeeehyeahhhh star_smile.gif
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-19 02:54:00
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An early June filer got approved yesterday...Yeah, that is awesome news for all of is still waiting. tongue.gif
VSc is on the right track. I can start smelling my NOA 2- even though it is hard between all these stollen and cinnamon cookies... tongue_ss.gif

Merry christmas everybody! I am so glad to have you here.
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-18 15:24:00
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QUOTE (skeez&titanic @ Dec 17 2008, 11:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yes another week and still no NOA2. I dont even look anymore i dont even like to come on here cause I get to upset. At least my fiancee is coming to visit me next week for two weeks but still doesnt change the fact that I still dont know what is going on with my case. If I dont hear anything by monday the 22nd Im going to start calling and try to actually talk to someone everytime I call I get a recorder asking for my receipt number and says the same thing case received and pending. Grrrrrr. Anyway I hope everyone has a great holiday and that the ones that are waiting for their NOA2 that we hear something real soon.


What number do you dial? Dan always speaks to the call center agents. But it's so worthless.
He tried it again yesterday. One first level girl basically said they don't know anything and will transfer us to the second level (hahaa, man I can imagine how frustrated those people are). The second level lady, he said, was very rude and just tried to find excuses. Basically she said we don't have any reason to complain since we are still within 180 days. And when he said yeah but that ends this weekend, se just said "well, cases are processed on an individual basis." blaaaahhh
Dan even doubts that there is a difference between first and second level support staff by now (the lady didn't even see whether we got assigned to an officer or not). Maybe they just redirect you to another normal call center agent devil.gif

We are probably all in the same box. I just hope that we don't have to wait 220 days like those poor april filers from last week.aaaaahhhhhhh
Keep your heads up! As long as we are all together still waiting I seriously doubt there is anything wrong with any of our cases. Our dates are just too close together.

Edited by panterchen, 18 December 2008 - 04:06 AM.

panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-18 04:02:00
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I hope Santa brings them too.

By now I am going insane. I had a few weeks when I felt better because I know we got assigned to an officer.
But now that I see that nothing is moving, I am just frustrated. I don't have an appetite anymore and I can't even talk with Dan about it anymore because it makes me sad, mad and angry and just depresses me even more. Thank god, he will be here right after christmas.

I know that if we don't have our approval by end Jan/beg Feb we won't be able to have the wedding like we anticipated. Man, really I don't get it. We planned for this visa 9 months in advance. I wouldn't have thought this could possibly take that long as people got approved within 3 months from filing when we sent our petition in. But...I didn't know VJ yet and I didn't know there are people waiting more than 8-9 months.

Dan already asked the congressman to inquire about our case again from next week on (yeah and half of USCIS will probably be on vacation) as well as our senator. My life is placed on hold as long as we are waiting.

Oh yeah, I forgot because of me venting...

Merry christmas everybody!!! I hope you were nice last year so that Santa stops by. tongue.gif
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-17 16:38:00
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Thank you, Steve!!!
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-17 07:42:00
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Steve,
3 active June filers are still waiting for no obvious reason. Chadherm, Skeez&titanic and myself. Skeez even has the same NOA 1 and last touched like me.
This week, two April filers got approved without having a RFE in between. I hope we don't have to wait thaaaaat long.

Good luck to all you guys!!! energy.gif
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-17 03:08:00
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Congrats on your passed medicals and your soon interview dates!!

No update on our case. DOn't know how long it is to take after you get assigned to an adjudicator. Hopefully not much longer.
We are having another infopass appointment this friday and will contact our senator next week (after 6 months have gone by).
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-15 08:35:00
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Congrats, Chibby!
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-10 17:57:00
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What is a clearance delay? Seems like it is not some kind of security check that the NVC is performing as your package already left NVC, right?

Good luck! I hope you will have good newsvery soon!
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-09 02:23:00
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@ Chibby: Sag mal, schläfst du nie?? Die Zeiten deiner posts sind ja hammer.

@Skeez: We do keep praying for us still waiting. I believe we will be ok. I figured last night that actually most of the people still waiting are from within +1 or -1 week of us filing.

@ all: Good luck on your upcoming interviews this week!! I know you will all be alright. Thank you for your ongoing support. Daniel decided to only go to infopass appointment from now on to find out something. Call center agents are just a waste of time and make you feel bad. So...we do what we have to do. We are already preparing for day 180 to start bugging USCIS. jest.gif

Oh and I advanced planning our wedding today. I just decided to go on come whatever. I picked out bridesmaids dresses and contacted the wedding planner...hmmmm :-)
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-07 10:35:00
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Sweety,

I know how you feel. We are still in the same boat. If you can make an infopass appointment to make sure it isn't lost and you can ask them directly if you are stuck in some kind of security check. Maybe that will give you some peace of mind. Even though we seem to have already been assigned to an officer nothing is moving. So...we can only drink tea and wait. Try to relax a bit. We will both see our SOs very soon. We should be happy about getting married.
Don't allow USCIS to take away that joy!
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-06 18:07:00
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Sorry for the German in here. huh.gif
We were just talking about the HPV vaccination required for women- very controversial issue over here.
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-06 07:13:00
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QUOTE (Chibby @ Dec 6 2008, 01:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
HPV hab ich überlebt, erst war nur der Arm abwechselnd taub und schwer, nachts bißchen Fieber, nach zwei Tagen Kopfweh, aber ich lebe noch wink.gif Komischerweise hat es nun auch die Kasse (Barmer) bezahlt. blink.gif Ich überlege ob ich mir die zweite noch geben lasse oder nicht, Nebenwirkungen sollen dann schlimmer werden unsure.gif Hast du schon HPV gemacht?


@ Chibby:
Hab bereits 2 der 3 HPV Impfungen. Nummer 2 war bei mir eher weniger schlimm als die erste. Da tat mir nur der arm weh, hatte aber keine körperlichen Begleiterscheinungen. Kopfschmerzen und ein wenig unwohl-sein hatte ich nach der ersten auch. Geht mir aber generell so nach Impfungen.

Ist doch super, wenn es die Kasse bezahlt. Willst du dir die 2. und 3. eigentlich nicht geben lassen?? Ich meine, nun hast du schon angefangen und ich dachte, wir müssen die sowieso beim AOS dann wieder vorzeigen?

@ all:No news this week from us. Guess the officer is using our photographs as a dartboard. wacko.gif

Does aybody know how long it takes from being assigned to an officer to some NOA 2 or RFE? whistling.gif

Happy St. Nikolaus!! I hope you all have cleaned your shoes to get some chocolate?
Does this exist anywhere else than Germany today??
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-06 02:26:00
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QUOTE (Stinky Monkey @ Dec 2 2008, 10:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Thats such great news, I am so happy for you both yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Cant wait to see you post that you have your NOA2
Just a bit of information for you, as of June the 1st for AOS you nees to have the TST scratch test, I know somone who had his medical after that date had the jabs but was not told he had to have the tst, so now he will have to have another medical in the States just so he can have the TST, so will have to pay for it all over again
Just thought I would pass this informaiton on to anyone having the medical, well this is what happened in the UK, I have my medical on the 19th so I will give them a call tomorrow to see if they are now doing it.


Hey, thanks for sharing this information.
What exactly is TST? helpsmilie.gif

Will they do that test with me anyways at the medical since I guess they should know that it is required?! Anyone else here who knows anything about it?
I already got so many shots lately that I should be immune against everything right now! star_smile.gif (didn't want all of them at once at the medical that's why I already did them)

@ Chibby: Und? HPV Impfung überlebt?! hehe
panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-03 04:16:00
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We have good news!

Dan went to the infopass appointment yesterday and they told him that we got assigned to an officer on Nov 13!!!
She said realistically we should hear something within the next 2-4 weeks.
That is great news for us! Let's hope it is going to be an approval so that the rest of the journey goes smootly.
I am so excited. It might mean that I will be able to leave when Dan leaves Germany again Feb 2 or at least shortly after. I can already smell our NOA 2. yes.gif

I am sooo relieved that our case is still there tracked and that we seem not to be in additional security checks!
So all June filers still waiting, keep hanging on! Hopefully we will hear something before Christmas, my friends!

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Edited by panterchen, 01 December 2008 - 10:34 PM.

panterchenFemaleGermany2008-12-01 22:33:00