It is starting to feel a long time since our 192F was sent to Vermont.

It sure does!!! Vermont has completely gone to sleep...

I too am waiting on Vermont. Wonder whats going on up there?

Hopefully they will kick into gear in both centers. I'm missing all the NOA2 approvals I read.

Big Congrats!

hey everybody!
So how far are the most Feb.filers?

Well I am kinda concerned, my Fiance got the letter from NVC the 12 of Arpil saying that it will be sent to my consulate in Germany.
so far I am still waiting to receive the packet! Ate the embassy guide here on visajourney it says that my embassy will take to 1 month untill they sent
the packet to me...but it is allready more than a month! Well I'll prolly write an email to the embassy to find out whats going on. I mean it happened that mail disappeared and files totally got lost...
good luck to everybody!

You can call the Department of State to find out whether packet 3 has been sent or the current status of the petition, thier number is 202-663-1225.

Good luck

Thanks for you help Sal and Jay!
I just got in touch with my consulate here in Germany! I found out that they sent packet 3 to my old address in Georgia and not to my german address. But they are really nice and I asked them if they could send me another package to my address here. And they replied they'll send out another package tomorrow! Now I finally know what is going on...so I hope this won't happen to anybody else who is filing! I review the copy of our petition if made a mistake and forgot to put in my foreign address but I didn't, I wrote it in there twice! I guess mistakes just happen! Good thing we're still in time since I won't be able to leave my country til the end of August!

If u guys don't receive anything from the foreign consulate within 2 weeks, get in touch with them!!!!!

Thats good glad you sorted it, good luck with the final stages of your visa.

Called USCIS today to see if they were going to put me in queue of the date the originally received my I192F. They could not answerer the question so I sent a letter to my congressman to see if he could find out. Hoping just the inquiry will move the visa ahead.

Dale

Hey Guys..

I am patiently waiting for my husband to return from Romania. We filed for I-130 or IR/CR-1 visa in February and no answer yet I bet that many people understand what Im going thru. I have a question though:

Why does everyone have their case touched? Where do you see if it has been touched? I have an account online w/USCIS and everytime i log on it says my case is received and pending. Am I supposed to do something in order to find out if it has been touched?


Please let me know...I'd appreciate it
God Bless! and Good Luck

I-130 Sent out- Feb 16, 2008
NOA 1- Feb 25, 2008
NOA 2- (Keeping my fingers crossed)

hi,
since you have a uscis account you just need to log in and look at the date of update , if you see it changed since the last time you looked at , it means your case was touched, and touched means they'r working on it .hope i could help. you can check my topics on my profile for more explanations if you like caus i posted that question before too.Good luck .

NOA2 Dated 5/29/08, paper copy received today. We're so excited.

I'm sure it's been addressed before but I don't know what to look under to find the answer. What are the validity dates under the Approval Notice type?

Congratulations!
Good luck

Still waiting, and waiting, and waiting

C'mon Vermont, lets get moving!

hello!!! Got our NOA2 already....just wondering how long will it take for NVC to submit our case to the embassy...do you think there's a chance for us to have an 8-8-8 wedding? God Bless!!!

who knows? but it could be possible and it will surely be a dream come true. CHeck out and keep on updating.. as soon as you get your case # pay the document verification so you will not be in hassle of it. I payed mine a month before my interview and thank God its worth it. I got my visa already.

YOu can check out my timeline to have an idea how long it takes to NVC coz I am a february filer as well.
Good luck!

vida

Hello Vjers,
I am so lucky for having done with the K1 journey in just 4 months and 2 days! Yeah, I got my visa already last june 13. To all my felow Vjers February filers hang in there... good news is on its way.

GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME!!!



vida

Wow!! Good job!!! Aaaw you'll get an 8-8-8 wedding Congratulations!

hi alizeyah...congrats sa noa2 mo.....and welcome sa july interview makakahabol ka....goodluck....godbless

I didn't receive a notice but Benny received the letter from Frankfurt today saying they got the packet from NVC.

When does he actually receive the packet?

[color="#FF0000"][/color]Hi im a feb 06-08 filer also..ill already paid my visa application at the BPI last may
and still waiting for my schedule for my medical and interview...it took me forever..anyways do you have any idea about k3 and k4 packet?
look forward for youa answer..tnx!

madz

Hi,

I filed a 1-129F Petiton for my fiance on Feb 28, 2008 and the paperwork came back because I failed to check the criminal history box (which I still am shock about because I poured over the paperwork again and again before sending it). Now, just to be clear, I wasn't trying to hide anything--my fiance and I don't have any criminial history--I don't even have a speeding ticket to my name. So i sent back the paperwork corrected.

The next touch was April 29, 2008 saying Vermont Service Center received the paperwork and that I should expect a written decision within 60 days. I understand that's well within the overall 6 month processing times allotted.

Well, 60 days has passed and when I called the Customer Service, they said they'd request for a status from the service center but center has at least 30 days to respond to that request for status.

I haven't heard anything back yet and I'm just curious as I've seen some of these quick TAT on the timelines, how much did I set my paperwork back when I needed to resend it with a revision? Does it just get tucked back beneath the pile or should I be worried that I have some serious issues with whatever the service center does on this initial approval round? I can't fathom what those issues might be but I'm becoming more and more dismayed with the whole process (and I know from reading this forum, I'm not the only frustrated person so I do have perspective). Nevetheless, it's just really tiring....

HI. I AM A FEB FILER. I SAW THE SCRIPTURES YOU POSTED HERE. YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN, FOR SURE. HIT ME UP. liza_v23@yahoo.com.ph...or my yahoo ID liza_v23. LET'S TALK. I AM A FELLOW BELIEVER.

I did the same exact thing, got the RFE, responded (would have been sooner if I wasn't in the Philippines for 3 weeks when it was sent), the 60 days have passed and called the Service Center. All they told me is it hasn't been seen yet by the adjudicator who requested the RFE, and they couldn't give me any timeline about when it might get looked at again. I hope your outcome is different than mine so far. Good luck.

Hmmm. So how did you even get the information about your case not being reviewed by an adjudicator? I have called that national number a handful of times and gotten absolutely no information of value on my case. I'm actually wondering why they even have a phone number to call in the first place.

My biggest problem is that there is no transparency. Why not just keep an updated case progress for each file online? Tell me what steps are being taken and how far along I am--and I mean more detail than what we get right now.

Anyway, I'll just keep calling periodically and checking online each day but good luck to you as well........I am truly kicking myself for not ensuring that the paperwork got filled out correctly the first time around...That was a big mistake.

I got that information because I was fortunate enough to have a very nice lady answer my call and did more than the usual unpleasant people manning their phones. Also, she was at the VSC, not the customer service center, who can't tell you anything about your case that you don't already know.

Hello everyone...we applied feb 12, and my fiancee just had her interview with visa approved. She could have had the interview maybe 3, 4 weeks ago, but we took our time in filling out papers, and then she had to go out of town for work, but the process was not as long as we expected it to be. Good luck to all February filers!

Benny's interview was scheduled so quickly! We thought it'd be about a month out. Instead it's only two weeks! Hopefully they don't have problems scheduling his medical in this short period of time.

That's wonderful!! Good luck!!!!

Benny went to the medical exam today but they're not sending his stuff to Frankfurt. His blood pressure was 160/105 so the doctor says he has to see another doctor. He was nervous, running late, and had gotten lost. Would they seriously hold up a visa for high blood pressure????

They can hold back the medical results as they see fit, they did that to me which delayed the issuance of my visa, but I got it eventually and all is well now.

How long did it delay your visa?

I had to have a ct scan, so had to wait 3 weeks for that appointment then wait for the results, once they were clear the hospital wrote to the medical centre and they released my notes to the embassy a few days later, my visa was then issued within a day or so of the embassy recieving them.

The new doctor put him on medicine and gave him the 3 immunizations he didn't have (DTaP, MMR, & Varicella). At the medical exam they took blood but the new doctor did also. We're not sure why. They gave him an EKG and want to see him back after the interview. Maybe they're exhausting the tests they can do all on the free insurance program they have in Germany. It's all so much for Benny since he hasn't been to the doctor in so long.

Benny called from Frankfurt this morning. Odd that the caller ID said Utah call.

He'd brought a birthday card from my son for part of his proof of the relationship. However, because of the song device (Star Wars music) they wouldn't let him take it in. They said it was an electronic device. Funny they wouldn't let a birthday card through.

They made him take more photos (so he lost his place in line) because his ears weren't showing in the ones he brought with him. Benny said he saw nowhere that his ears had to show.

He forgot to bring the picture of us but the agent signed off on the visa anyway. We just have to wait for the medical to be done. It appears the doctor wants to use all that the free insurance allows, mostly because Benny hasn't been to the doctor in so long.

Hello K1 filers!

I had my final interview yesterday and after 4 hours of sitting around and waiting, I had the interview. The officer wasn't the nicest one but I challenged
his questions and at the end he told me they'll issues the Visa!
I still think that everything went pretty fast in our case, regarding to the mistakes that happened.
I can only say be patient and everything will work out!

Good luck to everybody!

What mistakes happened?

The embassy in my home country sent Packet 3 to the old address in the US. It took a while to figure this out!

It sounds like the embassy doesn't really know what they're doing....or at least aren't consistent about anything. When Benny went to Frankfurt the lady up front told him that he needed to have his picture with his ears showing. But when he went to the next station the guy asked Benny which picture he wanted to submit - ears or no ears.

Benny received his visa today!

conmgratulations, hope he has a easy trip over

There can't be too many of us left in here by now.

We have had ANOTHER delay. Pete called the embassy in London to see about his interview date and they told him he needs an I-134. We don't have it because our lawyer said we didn't need it. I am sponsoring him with a co-sponsor and all of that is in the long form -- if you just look at the I-134, it would look like he wouldn't pass.

Soooo, the lawyer has made up an 1-134, emailed it to me to sign, I will send it to her to notarize and DHL to him -- then finally he can send it off to London (where it will probably get lost....at the rate we're going.) His paperwork expires in late September so this is getting scary.

Hi, Are there any other Feb filers at VSC still waiting for their NOA2? I'm at a loss here as the six month time is almost up. I called customer service to follow up on a request for status that I put in for 60 days ago and they haven't heard anything so they re-issued a request for status from VSC (and they've asked me to wait another 45 days for the VSC to respond even though I waited 60 days for the first request for status and got nothing). I mentioned to the woman on the line that I'm at the six month limit and she responded that the processing is at least up to one year for a I129F.

I don't know what to do. I've signed up on the website and I haven't seen any touches since early May when they processed a change of address. My fear is this thing is lost in the mix.

Does anyone know of any other way to contact VSC without going through that customer service line?

Thanks,

Bumping this up for you. Can you call your state congressman about this? That's what I would do unless anyone comes along with a better idea. Good luck.

I agree. I absolutely would have involved my State Senator by now.

Okay. I'm going to do that tomorrow first thing. Thanks for your feedback.

I got my NOA1 in February at CSC and am still waiting for NOA2.

Have you called them? Maybe you are in security check??