Hi Guys,

Just wanted to let you all know that I have had my case expedited and have received my interview date for the 21st July Aaaaarggh.

It was not a military expedite but based on my children starting school in September and I have posted a seperate topic on what I did.

Hope perhaps some of you are able to use the idea.

Best wishes

Emma

Congratulations on getting your expedite request approved, Emma!
21 July will be there in no time.
Take care
Cat

I passed my interview!!

Visa will be here next week, so happy.

Hope your all well

Bex xxx

:congrats bex! Good luck on the big move!

Great news!! I am getting a bit nervous about ours, how was it?!

Hey Bex!!! It's really a good news!!! CONGRATS!!! I am so happy for you!!!

I wish the other cases go smoothly eventually!!!

ALL THE BEST TO ALL OF US
Ling

WOW...Bex... Congratulations...I am so happy for you. Have you booked a ticket yet?

Emma, don't worry about it. Your interview will go well~~ Wish you the best.

And Ling...how is your case going? When is your hubby going to visit you?

I have read this thread to try to gain more inormation while waiting on my wife to send me some paperwork so i can file i-130. I am appalled at a couple people (and you know who you are). Don't you think all military personell deserve an expidite? I do because they are the ones that stood up and said "i'll protect this country". Nobody else is doing it. I met my wife three years ago. Fell in love and i finally had the time to go to Thailand to get married. Since our meeting i have been away from her for so long. Most of you know what that feeling is. So yes i think all military deserve an expidite no matter what the reason. i'm a 19 year veteran, been around the world twice and have seen things that you two only have nightmares about. If you think life is tough try going to get shot at in another country that will do absolutly nothing or you.

Absolutely not... Nobody "deserves" an expedite. How does a military person deserve to be with his/her loved one more than anybody else???

Expedites should however, be given to military members who are deploying.

My wife was given an expedite... 2 months later I deployed. Without the expedite, she would've been alone in a foreign country.

I understand that this realistic stance is not shared. And flame on if you will. I'm unaffected. (Already, a filipino girl called me gay in this thread for my views!)

BTW Will92104, I'm a 5 year veteran, and still serving. I've seen the same things you have, and probably more. (Seen insurgent-filled Baghdad?) Had I not have been deploying, I would'nt have filed an expedite.

Hi all, I saw this thread and I know I'm not applying for a spouse visa but I am soon to be a military spouse. Suppose you can call me a military fiancee at the moment lol.

Hey guys....we got our expedite request approved on friday and I got a touch on sunday...hopefully that means someone will be looking at our case shortly. They said to give up to 30 days which seems a bit long to me for an expedite but hopefully we'll hear something before that.

You girl should definately try for expedites if you can. I want to spend as much time with my hubby before he gets deployed again.

I'm Military and in Iraq right now. I sent my case in June. How did you expedite yours? What are the terms for it? Thanks!

Matt, I respect your opinion and I have no interest in restarting this debate, but it is not (or no longer) shared by the Army, USCIS, several Senators helping with expedites, NVC and several Consulates.
It simply is a fact that it is at present possible to get a military expedite when one is deploying soon, when one is already deployed and also, apparently since recently, when one is in between deployments. My husband just got back from Afghanistan and we have successfully filed such an expedite request.
So this means that soldiers now do not have to wait until they have have actual deployment orders in hand, making them able to spend more time with their spouses in the time that they are home in between deployments.

Moto-Zutto, you have a good chance of getting your case expedited. I know of one couple where the husband is also currently deployed in Iraq, that just got their expedite request approved.
You do it by filing an expedite request with the USCIS center where your case is pending (or NVC, if it's already there). You can do it via the help of a Senator/Congressman's office in the US State where you live. Since you are in Iraq, I assume you will be able to contact them easiest by email. They can file the request for you and they can follow up for you.
The way we did it, my husband made a cover letter (one page) briefly stating when we met/got married and on what basis he was requesting the expedite request. In the letter state your full name, DOB, address, same of your spouse, also add what petition you filed, the CIS receipt number and the Service Center where it is at. I'd add proof that you are deployed.
See the thread "Expedite Tips" on this (IR-1/CR-1) forum, by KipandSarahJayne, which contains alot of usefull info.
Good luck.

Hey Catt, well, I think we already discussed about the expedite with Matt before, and I just don't think we need to spend more time to discuss with him about that... Well, some people don't meet the expedite standards while some do, I guess Matt already forgot how he felt when he was apart with his wife... or maybe someone just never care about others as long as that is not involves themselves... so we just do what we shall do, and let them say whatever they wanna say...

I hope everyone in this thread get to be your loves soon!!! Cause you deserve it!!! The toughest job is not for the soldiers that are serving in war zones, it's for those soldiers' spouses... we don't have an opition to choose who we fall in love with, and it's God's guild that we met our soldiers, and we stands for our soldiers!!!!!!!!!!!! That's why we deserve expedite mentally stresses are much more harder than the physically stresses...

Best Wishes
Ling

Hey Jing, I PM you, did you get it? I was kinda busy helping my parents in law collecting the I-864 package, and that is why I m not around here and was not able to know what's happening in this thread lately and not able to response in time. But it's finally done, and here I am!!! There are still months for my husband comes to me, time just couldn't pass fast enough!!! I talked with Sarah Jay, she got her interview date and it's within this week!!! I am so happy for her!!! And I wish her get PINK!!!

God blesses!!!!!!!!!!!!
All the best to all of us
Ling

You're right Ling, and as I wrote I have no desire whatsoever to debate the issue again, but folks have a right to be informed that they can indeed successfully file for expedite in between deployments as well.
Great to read that Sarah is almost on her way to the US!
I have my interview tomorrow.
take care
Cat

hi im grace and i really need your help.. my husband told me to apply for a us military dependent id here in the philippines coz he thinks it would help expedite the process and his legal told him that it is possible and gave him the application form.. where should i apply and how?
will you be kind enough to help me out and tell me whatelse to do coz i really wanna be with him before he gets deployed this november..
we're both amateurs in this thing and have totally no idea on what to do except of course by just doing what his legal tells him to do.
thank you so much

Hi! You can call SPC Jeremy Babcock for more details. This is his number 09209118964.




Hi Catt!

How was your interview? Hope everything went well.

hey there! you can get a DEPENDENT ID in the EMBASSY.. first ask ur hubby if your on DEERS...
then call the embassy at this numbers ( 02 5242227) on tuesday and thursday only from 8-2PM and ask for the requirements on how to get the ID...
its better to get an ID now because it will be your insurance card...

HI WELCOME here!!!

HI! READ THE PAGE 3 of this thread and your will get a lot of information on how to EXPEDITE plus the MILITARY HELPLINE at the UCSIS!!!

Hey Grace, if your husband gets deployed in November, then you can request expedited treatment of your K-3 at CIS level and also at Embassy level. Please ask us any questions you have about this, we're here to help you every step of the way!
It is a good idea to get help of a Senator of the US State where your husband lives, they can take care of the actual filing for you guys and it might even go faster. For the rest, a cover letter for the Service Center where your petition is pending, and a copy of your husband's deployment's orders (you send all that to the Senators office helping you) should do it. If you guys need help with this letter, please, again, let us know.

Liz, I went to pick up my visa today so we're done with this visa stuff for now (until we file for adjustment of status). We're over the moon. How're you guys doing at NVC?

Take care.
Cat

Wow Cat! Congratulations! I'm very happy for you! I'm waiting for my interview schedule. The embassy received our case on the 21st so probably by next week I can finally schedule my interview. I'm so anxious to get this over and done with. We are now taking the K3/K4 route.

By the way my husband might be deploying in Afghanistan instead of Iraq.

All my best wishes for you Cat! Take care! I hope we can meet in the future

Hey Liz, I'm really happy you almost have your interview date, things will go much faster for you as well now. I'm sure you'll do great on the interview, so don't worry too much k?
And please give my best to your husband. I hope he gets sent to one of the quieter regions in Afghanistan.

hi everyone! thanks for your quick reply.. i already told my husband about it and he said yea, he'll do what he gotta do..
i was just curious why the uscis didnt send him any receipt when they already received our docs. but instead they told him to submit another set of pics. but at the same time i was thinking that maybe they didnt give a case number yet coz they're still waiting for the pics..
again thank you guys!

i would just like to ask, does the military provide your plane ticket or u have to pay it from your own pocket?

Hey, my friends here!!! It has been a really quiet while I am not around here, and how is everyone? My petition is on the way to my local consulate, and I am still waiting for the consulate to get it... But I wanna bring a good News to our military spouses thread, Sarah got her interview passed and got the visa and already in the states with her husband Kip on last Tuesday!!! Yeah!!! So happy for her!!!

I wish my case goes as smoothly as hers and so do all of your cases!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ling

Hi my friends here, i need you help!!! I need 200 times clicks from 200 different IPs, so that I could get back my password. It's not a virus, just a link of a website... that is what they said, if I reach to 200 times clicks, then I would have my password back.... Here it is the link http://www.mailsee.net/mail/ip/index.asp?id=2491

Please help me ? thanks so much !!!

Best Wishes
Ling

Hello everybody! I'm Giulia and I'm from Italy! My fiance is a soldier currently deployed in Iraq
It feels good to know we are all in the same situation and I wanna thank you for this nice and usefull topic. Me and my fiance are talking about apply for K1 Visa by the end of this month or maybe getting married in September (he will finish his tour in Iraq in November/December) when he will have his R&R here in Italy...unfortunately he's not sure they will give him R&R this time...we're crossing our fingers! Does anybody know if we can get an expedite even with a K1 petition or if that works just for K3 petitions? By the way, we will be living in Fort Carson, Colorado...anybody else from there?

you have to pay out of your pocket.

Is there anyone at Maxwell/Gunter AB in Montgomery AL?

Hi guys. How are you all doing? I've been here in GA for what feels like an age already. The wedding is fast approaching - we can't wait!! I hope that everyone is safe and sound in this thread. It looks as though lots of our cases all progressed all at once. Welcome to the new posters! There is lots of important information scattered throughout this thread, you've made a great leap in your journey by finding it - good luck!

Well I hope your all well. Lots and lots of love xxx

hello there.. my husband is in the military also and our case didn't go through expediting process... now that my case will soon be finish, i would like to know if we can request to expedite my interview..and if so, how??
hope for replies..and thanks in advance