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OK guys.....I am really in happy tears and freaking out.......WE JUST GOT OUR NVC CASE NUMBER....aggghhhhhhhhh ok...trying to calm....I am here with my hubby and we are out of our minds with relief and happiness. PLEase god let evERY ONE have the best of luck !!!! jUST SHAKING HERE,.....WE ARE OUT OF TEXAS.......\HAPPY HAPPY HAppy......excuse the typ o's......so happy

peace and love to everyone

You two give me so much hope!!!

Congrats!!!!

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-18 15:47:00

Try to send an email to Angela. We did the same last Friday and she let us now Tuesday that will have the decision in few days. And we did have the approval in 3 days.She is a real angel. We emailed the representative as well and useless, same answer from them just wait 90 days.My wife for shore will not vote any more with Loretta Sanchez since she did not helped at all.

I got to a point that I'm scared to ask for some help...I fear to get even more disappointed and hopeless.

Thanks for your advice anyway

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-18 09:43:00

I hope that all 3 of you will be approved today or tomorrow I will pray for your approval. Also Taylormadecouple , hope that you will be next on the approval list.

Thanks, Feeling so lonely in this nightmare :crying:

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-18 09:24:00

good afternoon everyone

Good night Xelance, me I'm about to go to bed...It's 10:14 pm in Paris

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-17 16:14:00

I am also left!!

You're not the only one left behind :crying:

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-17 15:37:00

Alright, Lidia And my hubby rarely comes to VJ either.

Have you got any update on your daughter's case yet?

I didn't even get an update on mine, yoou remember I had a 1st RFE on mine on Jan 27, we sent what they requested and still nothing. I'm losing hopes, this is so ridiculous. We're in the hands of people who have never touched ICR, K3 files.

Yesterday I called TSC, I hope they will release us soon, I really feel like if I was in prison, in prison at home. Prisoner of the USA and at home Paris :crying:

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-17 15:02:00

Jeez so much happened while I was away from this thread!

Congrats on the approvals: txant, carty, and bookcat1!

And rpratt, congrats on finally getting an NVC case number!

As for taylormadecouple, I couldn't believe that your cases were separated and that your daughter was classified as an alien worker I hope you can get everything fixed with that cause that is absolutely ridiculous!

Thanks Saylin, you can call me Lidia, my hubby never comes VJ

Thanks Saylin, you can call me Lidia, my hubby never comes VJ

I meant to VJ

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-17 14:48:00

People you haven't seen the incompetence yet, here it is,

They separated my dougther's from mine, and guess what? My daughter's became : " Petition for Alien Worker" that's in the RFE letter. BTW my daughter is only 13 years old.

Gary thanks for your help, I was on the phone with an officer, tier 2 when I got your reply. I'll follow your advice this pm, am in Texas.

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-17 05:12:00

Did you email David.badger@dhs.gov Lidia? Point this out to him, he may help you.

No we didn't, we're about to send the response. I got the new certificate, official documents are easy to get here in France, most of the admin services are electronic.
I'll see what will be their answer... :blink:

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-16 16:35:00

Dear God

Make them look into my petition and see that the birth certificate is multilingual. I promise I will never critizise admin employees!!!
:blush:

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-16 16:27:00

congrats to all the approvals

Val, Gary you made it :dance:

I'm so so happy for you!!!!!

thanks for the reply,,, wow thats a long time to wait not knowing what it is that they want waiting is the killer,,, I wish I knew what they wanted

The 1st RFE took 7 days :wacko:

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-16 01:42:00

Unbelieveable! Are they blind? Don't they see the English there? Sometimes people are so careless that they don't see the other language there. I wonder what my RFE will be. I called USCIS and even a tier 2 doesn't have a clue on what my RFE was about. How long did it take your RFE to arrive in your mailbox? I am just tired of this whole process.

Congrats to all those who got approved. Sorry I'm not in a cheerful mood since yesterday. Hope everyone gets approved this week.

It took 5 days to have the hard copy

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-16 01:29:00

I do not want much from TSC

Just: 6 approvals for June, 31 for July, 41 for August and just 1 for September TODAY!!!!

Thats it, not much

They don't know what they're doing. My exemple is the evidence of their lack of knowledge regarding the US spouse visa process.

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-15 14:48:00

Utter nonsense!

Is this incompetence coming out of the TSC or CSC?

You're not alone... you're in the company of other good people whose lives have also been placed on hold- just like I tell my wife, any day now, we'll either be approved or get an RFE- either way, we'll be another day closer to being together

Keep the Faith

I don't even know if my daughter's petition is still in TSC, I hope so, cause mine is still there

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-15 13:30:00

I am stunned. Can this get any more bizarre?

They're no limited on errrors so anything can happen.
We got an RFE for my petition Jan 27, RFE for my daugther's Feb 9. They are working on a family petition separetely which should never happen :bonk:

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-15 13:28:00

That is so crazy! I really hope nothing is wrong and that you can get it all sorted out soon. It's just so ridiculous though... and I may be missing something about the situation, but why do you even need to send a birth certificate at this point?! Anyway, good luck, and I hope you get through this all quickly. It's insane.

Thanks Jennie Ann.

At the time being I don't know what to think :crying:

They are messing up my life :crying:

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-15 12:55:00

That's ridiculous.

I'm getting scared with this mess :blink:

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-15 12:48:00

2nd RFE, this time my daughter's petition, and guess what they don't claim for the passport but for a TRANSLATED birth certificate. In Europe we have multilingual official documents, and it's exactly what we submitted, they are askeing for an english version of something which is already in English :bonk:

People I've never, never seen such a nonsense.
Do you imagine me going to see a translator and tell him to translate something from English to English???? :bonk:

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-15 12:38:00

Well we were transferred back to Cal few days ago. Hopefully wont be another 4 months before anything is done to it. I know they say to speed it up but that's what the last one said as well.

Hi dvs98, what's going on? So now they re-transfer the files back to CSC? Is it a joke?

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-13 11:09:00

Hey guys, is there a way we could merge the 2 threads? It's hard enough to cope up with one!

By the way its moving now, all of us will be in the NVC thread, and we could help each other out better.

Good idea ezzie, then Saylin can update us with the NVC journey :thumbs:

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-12 13:14:00

We understand how you feel! We were in the same situation a few days back & it feels really bad when you see others going beside you & you being left back. I know soothing words won't help..but an APPROVAL will! Praying for each one of our bro's & sis's on this forum.

Sometimes I ask myself why John has to be USC and me Portuguese living in Paris, like if my origins caused this whole mess...but #######, we love each other...Period, who are them to judge us??? :angry:

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-12 07:25:00

Congrats to everyone that got there approvals today!

And for those still waiting, we're all in the same corner, we're all pulling for you. I promised you that I wasn't going anywhere till this is all said and done. And I'm still going to be here until the last person in this area is approved. We're with you all. And when the last person is approved.. we're going to organize that reunion somewhere. And that night, after meeting each other, and several drinks later.. it will be time for a picture of many moons, and send that off to the TSC so they can see the light as it were.. LOL.. the bright moonlight of what has happened to us for the last 7 months.

Thanks ThomasJones, we feel somehow abandoned :crying:

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-12 07:02:00

Back to the battle field!!!!

Round 2

We will Survive TSC!!!

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-02-12 06:15:00

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Need Help DS-230

To be determined, then. Thanks for the quick reply!

To determined to work! Whatever professional skills you have!

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-07-04 08:55:00

DHL Tracking From NVC to US Embassy

Happy to know it helped you..The best of luck in your continued journey

Good luck for your interview.
And best wishes to your upcoming new life in the "Land of Free"

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-06-21 06:33:00

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DHL Tracking From NVC to US Embassy

Hi, I was going crazy calling NVC everyday and I had given up when I had saw this on a post from another person and decided to give it a try. I went to www.dhl.com clicked Express then Tracking, then Track by Shipper's Reference, on this page you add your search info..You change the day and month to what you think your's might have left NVC

EXAMPLE:
* Shipper´s Reference : EXP 24 MAR 2011A
* Date range for shipment - From: 23 - 03 - 2011
* Date range for shipment - To: 26 - 03 - 2011
Account Number - Leave this blank
Shipment Destination: Egypt / You Choose your Country

The day I was trying this I saw a package had left for Egypt. I thought could that be our's? I called the NVC and I was told our package had gone out. The one I had saw was our's I was so happy. I just checked our's it's at the Sorting Center in Egypt now, it's moving fast
Someone with the example date I made up above for the country of Egypt has a package going to Egypt now as you will see if you try this.
The best of luck to everyone

This is amazing Posted Image

Got mine too
Thank you very much Posted Image

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-06-18 14:32:00

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DS156 Printing issue

Hello everyone,

I am having problem with the DS156 to print it. As I saw many time, I get the pdf file but only the answers and the barcode appear, not the questions. I have been trying so many times but nothing always the same result? I couldn't find any solution, Does someone have one? I get my interview thursday!!!
PLEASE NEED YOUR HELP!! THANK YOU

Indee you have to have the last version of Adobe. If you still have the same problem, print the file as pdf, not to a precise printer, you safe it then you can send it to a printer.
Good luck Posted Image

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2011-06-22 12:12:00

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Hi everybody,

Sorry I should have updated my status on May 17 when I receide the GC!!! Yes it took 5 days to be delivered, we were approved May 12, May 13 email and text msg, May 17 GC in hands :joy:

Good luck, and see you soon at the citizenship forum!!! :joy:

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2014-05-26 11:38:00

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Congrats Lidia & JB!! I am gathering my RFE response and hope to send it in by the end of this month. This is encouraging news.

Requested 3 years of tax transcripts from the IRS online about a month ago and still nothing in the mail. Am guessing the IRS is particularly busy this time of year

Thanks qoqisha! Patience is not only a virtue but also our best ally!!! BTW we added a few copies of our family cell phone plan statement, it showshe 3 names (mine, hubby and daughter)

Good luck!!!

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2014-05-15 11:23:00

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Hi everybody,

Yesterday, May 13th we received a text msg as well as an email informing us that our GC was ordered and it will be mailed to us within 30 days :joy:

Actually we responded to the RFE on May 3rd, the package was delivered to USCIS on May 5th, I don't know exactly when we were approved, but the GC was ordered on May 12th.

What a journey!!!

Thanks for your support!! And good luck to those it may concern!!!

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2014-05-14 08:24:00

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Don't panic everything is going to be ok. It also killed me when I got the RFE, so I called them, and actually I had someone very kind and helpfull. If you decide to call them, ask for a supervisor.

Good luck!!

:idea:

Hey Folks,

I have been following the July filers thread for quite some time to get ideas on timelines and am finally joining since there hasn't been much activity on this thread for some time

My wife and I got married in March 2010 and we did not file an AoS until mid 2011 since I was on H-1B status till Sept 2011. We finished the Aos process and I received my conditional GC in September 2011.

We had filed my I-751 to VSC on July 19, 2013 , the case got transferred to CSC on Sept 17, 2013, and had not heard anything from USCIS since. So I filed an eRequest on March 25, 2014 and got an email saying they would respond by April 9th. I received an RFE yesterday from CSC dated April 10th

RFE states that 'the documentation submitted is insufficient because little to no evidence of joint ownership of assets and joint responsibilities for liabilities has been received and little to no evidence of communal residence has been received'. I was dumb enough to think that sending only the latest bank statement from our joint account would suffice, instead of spamming all 2 years of statements (did not discover VJ until after we had filed the petition). Here's a list of what we had originally sent in:

· Copy of our lease agreement

· Joint bank account statement for the month of June 2013

· Joint Federal and State tax returns for the year 2012

· Joint Federal and State tax returns for the year 2011

· Copy of life insurance policy listing my wife as a beneficiary

· Utility bills (electricity) year to date, 2013 (January ? June 2013). Water is included with rent

· Copies of our drivers? licenses showing our current address

· Signed affidavits from three of our friends

· Some pictures we had taken over the past years (10 pictures)

I am assuming whoever had my case was just sitting on it without even looking at it for the 7 months since my transfer. Since I had filed the eRequest and their deadline to respond was April 9, the IO simply rifled through my file and generated an RFE just to respond to the eRequest....but that is just my assumption, I will look towards other seasoned VJ members for more experience based speculation

In responding to the RFE, along with everything I had already sent, I am planning on sending them an IRS transcript for our last 3 years of tax returns, 3 years of bank statements, car insurance docs, utility bills (is it okay if they are in either one of our names but not both?).

How uncommon is it to not have heard anything for 8 months and then get slapped with an RFE, what can I do if I really don't have much more documentation that what I had already sent in ?

VJName............Date of I-751....NOA1 Date.....Biometrics......Approved...
QOQISHA...........07/19/13........07/23/13.......08/22/13.......(RFE received 04/10/14)(Trans from VSC 09/17/13)

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2014-04-17 17:41:00

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The main thing is the tax returns (which I hope you filed jointly). Don't sweat over the utility bills. Use a highlighter to highlight the English part of the daughter's birth certificate. Don't waste your time calling them, just send documents.

Thanks buddy!!! You are absolutely right about the tax returns, due to hubby's travels we were late to submit them, now we are finally good to go!! Regarding the birth certificate I'm sticking a post-it note to it. I want to believe that the new home makes the utility bills irrelevant...we'll see.

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2014-02-21 00:05:00

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Hi everybody,

Got a RFE today, they want additional evidence, including my daughter's birth certificate which is going to generate another RFE as it is a multilingual one (English is on the 2nd line on the header of it, but they only read the 1st line in French, I'll then call them to invite them to look at the 2nd line I did that like 4 times when you were going through the immigration process in France)

Here's the list of docs:

Joint bank account (got it)

Insurance policies (got it)

Utilities bill on both names (red flag, they're under hubbie's name like they've always been)

2011 and 2012 state and federal tax returns (we finally have them)

BTW we had included our new built home docs in both names in the package, we thought it would be more than enough to prove our bona fide, looks like it's not

Any advices/suggestions are more than welcome!!!

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2014-02-19 12:11:00

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Wow, Thanks for posting this. The fact that I could have another 4 months of waiting is crazy, but I guess it is what it is.

I try not to think too much about it, it will happen eventually!!!

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2014-01-29 00:18:00

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I just called USCIS, it looks like the case processing time restarted from zero the day it was transferred to CSC, we'll have to wait till May 15th to call them back, unless and hopefully we are approved by then.

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2014-01-23 15:07:00

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yea I guess we are in the same situation, I don't know if i'm supposed to be worried or not and I don't know if calling them will make it better or worst for me.

You shouldn't be worried, it will happen, just keep the faith. Positive attitude is our best partner

I will call them Jan 20th firts thing in the morning, I know I will feel much better than right now, regardless of what they will tell me!

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2014-01-06 13:13:00

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Does anyone know how long the wait could possibly be? I've seem some people get the green card in 2 months and others longer. I'm working on my 6th month waiting, last notice i received was a transfer notice in November i believe

I guess I'm in the same situation as you .... Nothing since the transfer from VSC to CSC.

I read somewhere that we can call them after 6 months, mine is Jan 20th, I hope I'll have something from them before that date.

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2014-01-06 11:06:00

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Again - what makes you think it is going to be Stokes ? People do get interviewed for their ROC routinely and it has nothing to do with Stokes.

Sorry Kzielu, I felt I should say something about this. Nothing says it's a Stokes interview, but what about if?!!! I think we should all wish for the best and be prepared for the worst. This site's purpose is to help, support and share information. Ivriesling posts are among the most accurate ones, and he/she is a very supportive, helpful and generous person. The link he posted is very helpful to me as I always wondered what kind of questions, environment, etc I would experience if I am to be interviewed.

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2013-12-02 11:24:00

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Either LO or CSC I hope it won't take too long to see some kind of light in this "tunnel"

Lidia & JB

Female

France

2013-11-18 10:53:00