Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	December Filers..	congrats! VSC is so fast. we got ours last week after filing mid-December!	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-02-29 22:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Wow! Just Got Approved!!!!	Congrats! Me and my fiancee recently got approved in about the same amount of time. The VSC is awesome!	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-02-28 16:47:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Smiley generator	I used the daisypath but only the text would appear when I pasted it into my signature. What am I doing wrong?	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-03-14 14:10:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Do I (USC) need to send my fiancee two 2x2 photos?	Does the letter from the petitioner's employer have to be sealed, on company letterhead, recent? Wouldn't recent pay stubs prove that you still have a job?	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-02-29 14:01:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Do I (USC) need to send my fiancee two 2x2 photos?	. Edited by Jack and Barbara, 29 February 2008 - 02:05 PM.	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-02-29 14:01:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Current Status: Approval notice sent	Best wishes!!!	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-03-22 21:46:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Off to New York!	Congrats to the both of you! If you are ever in the northern va area I could give you some advice on places to go and see	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-03-24 11:24:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	USCIS customer support	That's one of the downsides of having the forum/timelines to see when others are approved before you as well as the USCIS website which some people check on a daily basis for updates...	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-03-31 15:05:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	I hate to gloat...	Congrats! VSC is doing their job though I wish it could be said of the other service center	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-04-09 11:41:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Getting married after K-1 approval...	A question I have wondered about and was unsuccessful googling was what does the judge/court official say at the civil wedding? Regardless of whether it's at a courthouse, church, or home (I'm planning having my friend's dad who is retired judge do it in a church), what does that person say? "Do you ... marry ...?" Is that it or something more?	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-04-15 12:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Getting married after K-1 approval...	Me and my girl planned getting legally married immeadiately when she would arrive in the U.S (so we could start the AOS process). However, we waited until after her NOA2 was approved before we really started getting things prepared (though we did preliminary research before such as where the reception would be, how big/small, etc). It was easier for us because when we saw how fast the process was going (VSC - we had our NOA2 approved in 2 months) and we knew it was best for her to finish her semester at college, we knew she would get the visa 2-3 months before she would come (and she has 6 months to enter). So, we have already set a reception date (not real big) at a restaurant and are now just looking for a judge to marry us on that weekend (shouldn't be difficult). We have already informally invited all of our friends (formal invitations will come out closer to the event). We are so confident there will not be a problem with the visa that her parents have already bought tickets for them (not recommend this for everyone though) in the summer (prices will continue to increase due to summer travel and Delta-NW merger). We have already decide a timeframe for our religious ceremony in her country about 6 months after our legal wedding here. That way, both sides will be able to celebrate with us. Two parties are better than one right? Edited by Jack and Barbara, 15 April 2008 - 09:40 AM.	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-04-15 09:38:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	Next step completed !!!!!	QUOTE (CHeCraig @ Apr 23 2008, 09:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi! Our 129F was still pending that's what USCIS site tells me: can you please tell me, how will you know if it was approved already! Thanks! Cheandcraig USCIS website will tell you...you will also get it in the mail. Congrats LLoyd and Marilu	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-04-23 21:21:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	ANOTHER K1 APPROVAL!!!!!!!!!!	Best of luck to you both!	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-04-26 23:28:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	e mail	Congrats and good luck on the rest of your journey	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-05-14 19:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	K1 - December Filing	Congrats Laura!	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-03-31 19:41:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	K1 - December Filing	I hope everyone gets their petition approved as fast as we did (only 69 days!). Good luck to everyone and theirs.	Jack and Barbara	Male	Brazil	2008-02-29 22:48:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 February Filers, 2013	I know how you feel Miss Jess.... I also got an RFE too!  Mines said my supporting evidence does not sufficiently establish that we didn't enter this marriage in good faith & continue to share a life together....   Yep, that's pretty much identical to the one I got. They want to see "co-mingling of financial responsibilities and residence".   The problem is...all our finances are separate because the other half's credit is less than awesome, to the extent that he is not even on our lease. So I have to figure out what we're going to do about that.	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2013-07-10 07:36:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 February Filers, 2013	Got an RFE today, insufficient evidence of bona fide marriage annoying.	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2013-07-09 18:34:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 February Filers, 2013	Updating...had to reschedule biometrics as I was in New Orleans on the original date they sent. VJName...........Date of I-751......NOA1 Date......Biometrics......Approved.... LAURA&LEO..........01/30/13.........02/04/13........--/--/13.......--/--/--.... CHELSEAKATE........02/01/13.........02/05/13........03/01/13.......--/--/--.... SALJOY.............02/02/13.........02/05/13........03/05/13.......--/--/--.... NA123..............02/03/13.........02/05/13........03/05/13.......--/--/--.... SPELAD.............02/04/13.........02/07/13........03/14/13.......--/--/--.... WEESCOTLASSIE......02/06/13.........02/08/13........03/15/13.......--/--/--.... MRS ABENETO........02/08/13.........02/12/13........03/07/13.......--/--/--.... TOUFIQ.............02/08/13.........02/14/13........03/13/13.......--/--/--.... CECE...............02/11/13.........02/14/13........04/08/13.......--/--/--.... REDDSTARS..........02/11/13.........02/26/13........03/25/13.......--/--/--.... MEDTAV.............02/12/13.........02/15/13........03/18/13.......--/--/--.... TASH24.............02/13/13.........02/19/13........--/--/13.......--/--/--.... MARIZHELL..........02/14/13.........02/19/13........03/19/13.......--/--/--.... HALFNHALF..........02/19/13.........02/25/13........03/26/13.......--/--/--.... WOODEN TULIPS......02/19/13.........02/27/13........03/22/13.......--/--/--.... LINDSAY1811........02/20/13.........02/22/13........03/19/13.......--/--/--.... MISS JESS..........02/20/13.........02/25/13........--/--/13.......--/--/--.... QASHA..............02/22/13.........02/25/13........03/26/13.......--/--/--.... RICKY+VANESSA......02/23/13.........02/27/13........--/--/13.......--/--/--.... MATT N SHANNON.....02/24/13.........02/28/13........03/29/13.......--/--/--.... J E N N Y..........02/25/13.........02/28/13........04/04/13.......--/--/--.... YANKEPEACH.........02/27/13.........03/04/13........04/02/13.......--/--/--.... VARYAG.............02/28/13.........03/04/13........--/--/13.......--/--/--....	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2013-04-03 11:52:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 February Filers, 2013	Check posted at 4am this morning so I'm going to assume an NOA1 of 2/27 California Service Center (12 applicants) VJName............Date of I-751......NOA1 Date.......Biometrics......Approved.... INLOVE4LIFE.........01/28/13.........02/04/13........03/04/13........--/--/--.... RELEY...............01/31/13.........02/01/13........02/28/13........--/--/--.... TMGKOHLER...........02/01/13.........02/??/13........02/27/13........--/--/--.... VISCACHA............02/05/13.........02/07/13........03/12/13........--/--/--.... BWANA57.............02/05/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... SAMY AND I..........02/07/13.........02/11/13........03/15/13........--/--/--.... NADJA&CURTIS........02/08/13.........02/11/13........03/15/13........--/--/--.... AMBERLM.............02/08/13.........02/11/13........03/14/13........--/--/--.... SUNDROP.............02/14/13.........02/19/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... BHEBE...............02/16/13.........02/19/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... VRS.................02/19/13.........02/20/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... XXTINAXX............02/22/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... Vermont Service Center (19 applicants) VJName............Date of I-751......NOA1 Date.......Biometrics......Approved.... LAURA&LEO...........01/30/13.........02/04/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... CHELSEAKATE.........02/01/13.........02/05/13........03/01/13........--/--/--.... SALJOY..............02/02/13.........02/05/13........03/05/13........--/--/--.... NA123...............02/03/13.........02/05/13........03/05/13........--/--/--.... SPELAD..............02/04/13.........02/07/13........03/14/13........--/--/--.... WEESCOTLASSIE.......02/06/13.........02/08/13........03/15/13........--/--/--.... MRS ABENETO.........02/08/13.........02/12/13........03/07/13........--/--/--.... TOUFIQ..............02/08/13.........02/14/13........03/13/13........--/--/--.... CECE................02/11/13.........02/14/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... REDDSTARS...........02/11/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... MEDTAV..............02/12/13.........02/15/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... TASH24..............02/13/13.........02/19/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... MARIZHELL...........02/14/13.........02/19/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... LINDSAY1811.........02/20/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... MISS JESS...........02/20/13.........02/27/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... QASHA...............02/22/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... RICKY+VANESSA.......02/23/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... LLAMAINVASION.......02/27/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... YANKEPEACH..........02/27/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... IMPORTANT! * Make sure that your VJ Text Editor setting is set to Rich Text Editor. * Go to the MOST RECENTLY POSTED VERSION of this list (go to the last post and scroll UP) and "Reply" to it, deleting the "quote" tags in your reply. * Please DO NOT change the font, font size, add colors, stuff like that. * Please PREVIEW before posting to make sure it is properly formatted. * Please check that you have not deleted anyones NAME & DATA. Date of I-751 = The Date you sent your application NOA Date = The Receipt Date on your original NOA letter Biometrics = The Date of your biometrics appointment Approved = The Date your case was approved * Please Capitalize your VJ Name when adding it to the list. * When you're on this list, please come back to update your information accordingly. * If you cannot add your information yourself, please ask another VJ member to help you do so	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2013-02-28 08:15:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion	I-751 February Filers, 2013	No idea if I'm doing this properly but here we go! California Service Center (9 applicants) VJName............Date of I-751......NOA1 Date.......Biometrics......Approved.... RELEY...............01/31/13.........02/01/13........02/28/13........--/--/--.... TMGKOHLER...........02/01/13.........02/??/13........02/27/13........--/--/--.... VISCACHA............02/05/13.........02/07/13........03/12/13........--/--/--.... BWANA57.............02/05/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... SAMY AND I..........02/07/13.........02/11/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... AMBERLM.............02/08/13.........02/11/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... SUNDROP.............02/14/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... BHEBE...............02/16/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... VRS.................02/19/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... Vermont Service Center (13 applicants) VJName............Date of I-751......NOA1 Date.......Biometrics......Approved.... LAURA&LEO...........01/30/13.........02/04/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... CHELSEAKATE.........02/01/13.........02/05/13........03/01/13........--/--/--.... SALJOY..............02/02/13.........02/05/13........03/05/13........--/--/--.... NA123...............02/03/13.........02/05/13........03/05/13........--/--/--.... SPELAD..............02/04/13.........02/07/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... WEESCOTLASSIE.......02/06/13.........02/08/13........03/15/13........--/--/--.... MRS ABENETO.........02/08/13.........02/12/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... TOUFIQ..............02/08/13.........02/14/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... CECE................02/11/13.........02/14/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... REDDSTARS...........02/11/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... MEDTAV..............02/12/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... MARIZHELL...........02/14/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... LINDSAY1811.........02/20/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... MISS JESS........02/20/13.........--/--/13........--/--/13........--/--/--.... Edited by Miss Jess, 20 February 2013 - 04:08 PM.	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2013-02-20 16:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2009 K1 Filers, VSC	Well...we'll play that one by ear I think. I think it's easier to make things go slower than make things go faster...once our application gets to the VSC we have 4 months within which to have the visa issued, so we can delay the interview or the medical or whatever to make sure that it falls within our timeline I'm aiming to go out there beginning of November i.e. right before the wedding, so for that to happen will have to have the visa issued no earlier than May. If it comes a little earlier, guess I'll have to head out a little earlier, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2009-11-14 04:14:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2009 K1 Filers, VSC	QUOTE (Kristin&David @ Nov 13 2009, 03:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> We just filed our I-129F last week at the Vermont Service Center and I got the NOA1 hard copy yesterday, very exciting! Just wondering if any other November filers have a wedding date in mind? We are planning ours for August 2010, hoping that's enough time... Good Luck Everyone! We are filing our paperwork on Monday, arrrrrgggh!!! (we did all the papers while I was over on my last visit and post-dated everything to the 14th November for timing's sake!) We've already booked the wedding though, for Nov 27th next year. We've obviously got a lot more leeway than the dates you are looking at, but find somewhere that has a good postponement policy. Almost everywhere we spoke to were willing to be flexible and if they weren't, we went elsewhere. The place we've booked with allow us to postpone for up to a year without losing our deposit, so lots of leeway	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2009-11-13 17:53:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	I-129F address listings	I'm not sure what the rules are on Infopass... but perhaps you could make an infopass to get them the new info? Does anyone else know if that's okay? https://infopass.uscis.gov/info_en.php that's the website for infopass. I don't think this is a HUGE error to be honest. I would fill out a new one though and send it to your USC so he can make an infopass and hand it over (if you're allowed infopass at this stage.. i honestly don't know...). Can't hurt to try though. I think you're right...at least if we get an Infopass they can at the very least tell us what to do, even if they won't accept the G-325a...	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-02-22 06:02:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	I-129F address listings	You can see it asks for the police checks at that stage. As you now know, if you were staying somewhere, and working there too, then you DID live there. Listing that you worked in France shows that you must have lived there too (unless you were commuting from your home in the UK) so it honestly depends on the person checking your file. So here is what I would do. When sending in the paperwork for P3, I would include another G-325A with a letter explaining that you did not consider that you technically "lived" there but now realise that was an error. You should start obtaining the police certificates for ANY place you've lived for over 12 months. If it was less than 12 month then you don't need a police certificate from there. Honestly the only way to know for sure is to wait and see. You could get through now, but hit a wall once you're in the US, or at some other stage. I personally would start getting all the stuff together. You MAY get an RFE and you equally might not. I personally would try my best to fix it so it doesn't come back to bite you later. Good luck. Maybe someone else has an idea too I'm the foreigner. I didn't live anywhere longer than 6 months, so a police cert not required. I knew that already and yet somehow I can't fill out a sodding form correctly. Thank you for the help. Just struggling to come to terms with the fact that something I did is probably going to delay things even more and may put our wedding date in jeopardy. My friends call me 'Calamity Jess' because of my ridiculous bad luck, so I have very very little faith in this ending well unfortunately.	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-02-21 17:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	I-129F address listings	So I was filling out some of the Embassy forms I'm going to need when I get to that stage and noticed something on my I-129F that I can't believe I didn't notice before. On my G-325A it asks for previous employment and address the past 5 years. For my addresses I listed where I live now and my parents' address. I have lived in several other places (including the USA and France) but my credit cards, driving license, etc i.e. everything important, remained registered to those 2 addresses. However in my employment listing I included my employment at Disney when I met my other half and when I worked in France. But I didn't provide addresses for those periods. Whenever I've applied for background checks etc in the past I've never listed my addresses abroad, so it didn't even occur to me that the two pieces of information didn't add up. Aside from the fact that I am absolutely kicking myself for being so unbelievably stupid (and the fact I didn't even notice til now) - are we totally screwed? Is this going to mess up our application? From a very distressed Jess Edited by Miss Jess, 21 February 2010 - 05:22 PM.	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-02-21 17:21:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	im a nov filler and im sad	Our case has had a touch before 8am EST today...looks like they're still on it!!! I am crossing my fingers for you (and for me )	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-03-01 08:11:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	October 2009 Filers	Congrats Gela! But they've been at the December pile again. A 15th Dec filer. Good for them. 39 days from NOA1 to NOA2. And to top it all for me, Mr Doghandler was coming over to Scotland today, we've not seen each other for 4 months (cos we have those baggage items, he's got kids (total single parent dad) and dog and I've got dogs so we can't just pop over as regularly as we'd like so every trip has to be planned with military precision for child and dog care for both of us), but as I'm clearly cursed, there just had to be a 48 hour ice storm in the Carolina's today of all days and he just got a call from the ariline - flight cancelled! A total awesome week my end! Let the good times roll I say! Hope you're all having a better weekend than I am! x Mate that sucks. I was flying to Orlando during our "big freeze" at the beginning of jan to see my boy and my flight got cancelled twice. I was actually only a day late in the end but it felt like the end of the world having not seen him for 4 months, so I massively feel your pain. And I never want to see the inside of gatwick airport EVER again!!	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-01-30 09:00:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	October 2009 Filers	Just to add a little something into the mix here, our fellow and very proactive November filer Arch actually rang the vsc yesterday to ask what was up. Of course all manner of reasons were givn including that one adjuticator may just have finished his pile and got to the December cases. Can someone feed the other adjudicators some caffeine/speed please?!	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-01-26 05:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	October 2009 Filers	Miss Jess! We is honoured to have such an eminent professor of the statistics on our thread! x I prefer that title to the more commonly used 'slightly obsessed with not enough work to do/too much time on her hands'!!	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-01-25 11:07:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	October 2009 Filers	Helloooo Hopefully I can clear this up a bit! I got the stats from: http://dashboard.usc...amp;charttype=1 It is a chart, but if you hover your mouse over the dots you get the numbers. The cases pending is the number of I-129F cases awaiting a decision at VSC in November - so that is the total number. Completions is the number of decisions made in November. Receipts is the number of applications received in November (so me and Megger and a whole load of other people are in that pile!) Although the numbers are daunting I take small comfort from the fact that it just goes to show that us lot on Igor's list and VJ are a very, very small proportion of the cases being looked at. It's quite extraordinary really...overall for all case types USCIS has over 1,000,000 cases pending.	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-01-25 07:28:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2009 filers	Passport / Visa scheduled to arrive tomorrow. You booked the flight?!	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-08-27 03:52:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2009 filers	Hello strangers!!! Sorry I've been AWOL for a while...work are getting their pound of flesh out of me while they still can Mr. Jess has just landed in Manchester and is waiting for his train to Leeds!! I am so excited!!!! We have our blessing ceremony this Saturday and it's going to be amazing...hope the weather holds out though I will post photos!!! I am slowly beginning to pack up my stuff...handing in my notice next week which will definitely be the scariest part. 'Hello, I am voluntarily giving up my nice well-paid job in the middle of the worst recession in history.' Yikes! But I have my American bank account all set up and working and checked the debit card was working by buying a couple of hairpieces for the wedding to check out Anyways, back to the grindstone for me...I miss you guys!!! And arwilson...my heart bleeds for you, truly. What's the word from the Embassy? xx	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-08-16 04:09:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2009 filers	ugh, my international driving licence (which is a translation of my frnech driving licence) wasn't enough for them, they want an original french translation >.<, where am I gonna find a stupid french translator here now >.< I'd offer, but I don't think I count as 'official'	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-07-14 15:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2009 filers	yay gratz about time @ Jess : Lovely lovely cute superb little flowery dress . I love it As for the shipping, depends if you are shipping furniture or not, I only took like 1 extra luggage and 2 boxes with me on the plane. American Airlines allows you to have 9 extra luggage of 22kg each with you. You pay 50$ for the first one, and 100$ for each extra one. My mistake was the boxes, 12 kg each, would have been better if I bought extra cheap luggage to fill them up . had to leave over 1000€ of stuff back in france, but oh well, what's done is done. You can have more info on their website, but it's really cheaper then shipping them via a shipping company (i've been quoted 700$) Off to the DMV today to see if they can just switch my french driving license to an american one without having to drive Good luck - I know that in Florida if you have a French license you can swap it straight out for a FL one, so hopefully it'll be the same for you (alas, for us Brits, we have to do the full theory and practical tests in the sunshine state - but I'm hoping that as I still have my Florida license that expired in 2008 they might just let me renew it...) Miss Jess (glad to see you survived Glastonbury, that place is not for the faint hearted!) - shipping I used John Mason as I had furniture - and I wish I hadn't. They are one of the top companies and are not cheap, but as I was travelling the day before my removals because of my dogs and I had to have a friend stay over night at my flat and do the removals for me, I didn't want any hassle for her and I didn't want any cheap cowboys being a total nightmare. £2,400 for the contents of my whole flat, including packing it all.....but that's not what happened. John Mason contracted out the job without telling me. If they had, I would not have paid so much. So, I was waiting in line at immigration when my phone rang and it was the contracted company asking me how much stuff did I have, cos John Mason hadn't bothered telling them! My friend told me 3 elderly men from Blackpool (still cowboys!) turned up to do the job but had been told they wouldn't have to pack anything! Scathing, emails of complaint being fired off by me to John Mason as we speak. Naddy - good luck on the driving licence, let me know what happens there. At least you are used to driving on the same side of the road! I am not and am terrified of taking to the roads, and also of getting lost as I live way out in the country, but the sooner I get driving the better as I will be a prisoner in my own home and small town! Not good! Thanks for the shipping advice both Needless to say I won't be using John Mason!! I don't have any furniture (save a small jewellery chest my bro gave me for my 18th birthday), but my problem is all my childhood stuff. I have hundreds of photos in boxes, as well as things like cards and baby items from when I was small, and as my mum/stepdad are in the middle of divorcing and therefore downsizing to smaller places I've been told that if I don't take it with me its safety can't be guaranteed So this, annoyingly, leaves me with too much weight for excess baggage and not enough for it to be worth a full removals service. I have found somewhere that claims to be able to ship a tea chest and 4 book boxes for £170 though, so it may be doable. My one hope is my dad and stepmum who are knocking about in a massive house just the 2 of them...maybe they can keep my stuff temporarily and I can get it shipped further down the line. Bloody nightmare!!	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-07-13 03:32:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2009 filers	APPROVED............... TOLD TO PICK UP THIS FRIDAY..AMOR HERE I COME HEISABLE....YOU DID IT!!!! All those months of waiting and you're finally there. Congratulations you must feel fantastic That is great news heisable. Was thinking about you. We know you were dealing with one of the toughest embassies in the world. Just Crissie left (I think) from our gang now to get through! Happy Sunday everyone x Mrs. Dog, quick Brit question for you - did you ship much stuff and if so who did you use? Gonna post in t'other forum about this but Parcel Monkey quoted me £200 for a single box!! Admittedly a v heavy box but still struck me as a bit rude... Been at home with the parentals this week going through my stuff in the attic deciding what to take and what not to take...quite tough, as because my parents are separating what I leave behind may not be kept it was a good trip down memory lane though and I'm quite a sentimental soul so I'm keeping all my hundreds of photos - even if they make up most of the weight!! My 'my first haircut' certificate with a lock of my hair from Feb 85 was a particular highlight... Oh and thought you'd like to see a pic of the dress I've bought for me and Jason's blessing here in the UK on August 21st...it's SO girly it practically needs a health warning http://picasaweb.goo...feat=directlink Hope you're all good lovelies!!	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-07-11 14:24:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2009 filers	Well as one of the few Brits still in the UK I am delighted to report it's absolutely glorious here - and I'm off to Glastonbury tomorrow where the forecast is 26 and sunny over the weekend, huzzah!!	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-06-23 08:36:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2009 filers	Depends on the dry vs. humid heat, I reckon. In Miami, 85 F is "walking through soup, wishing for death after one block" whereas in the southwest, 85 F is "wow, what a lovely day!" Heat index, as they call it... Yeah I'm basing mine on Orlando in August - damn.... Hong Kong's pretty interesting too. I went to see my cousin there last June - cooler than Orlando but 10 million % humidity - I went for a run for half an hour and came back looking like I'd actually gone for a swim in the harbour...nice	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-06-18 11:39:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2009 filers	There's something I'm kinda getting used too, when they say hello here, they are like "Hey, how you doin?" "Fine thank you", and chat about the weather and stuff , like, everywhere, to everyone, even if you don't know them (like restaurants, shops). We don't have that in France >.<, they barely say hello over there lol. I'm still shy, but I'm getting used to that, barely Hehehe...totally agree...the last time I was in Paris I spoke to the barman in English (cos I was being lazy) then French, then he called me "vache" (a cow) for having the nerve to try to make his life easier by speaking to him in his own language. So Naddy, I hear ya (as a disclaimer I would also like to say I know and love some very nice French people, you just don't meet that many in the server industry )	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-06-17 04:37:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports	November 2009 filers	Oh, you must be so excited!!! Congratulations! The funniest thing is when people here don't know you are a foreigner and ask you the simplest questions, and you have no idea I walked into a bridal shop and couldn't tell them my dress and shoe size Am slowly learning to convert kg-s into lbs, cm-s into inches... but I still don't know my shop sizes... they seem to change every time I try something on. LOL I know that feeling...all I know is that to convert UK sizes to US you subtract 4...so a UK 10 is a US 6 and so on...and my understanding of farenheit goes like this: Temp in deg F: Description 0 : Basically dead unless you're a husky 10: Practically dead 20: 10 layers and a convection heater 30: Baltic 40: Chilly 50: Jeans and jumper 60: Jeans and t-shirt 70: British summer 80: Hot 90: Roasting 100: Jump in a vat of ice cubes It's crude but effective	Miss Jess	Female	United Kingdom	2010-06-16 15:19:00