that was almost half an hour ago, and still no picture - how ya doing Heather?

Good Morning Everyone

I had a softball game last night and the after game celebrating went on a little late last night. Needless to say I am now a limping duck with a hangover. I'm not thinking I'll be very productive today. I saw that April approval it could be a cuban fiancee - very short approval times but very long time spent waiting for an interview. Or... it could be a mistake, but we'll never really know since timelines are not accessible for them. Oh well.

The mail from Monday should be hitting mailboxes today and tomorrow so this evening I am hopeful we'll see a revival in CSC approval postings. But, people should brace themselves if this doesn't happen. Monday is a holiday here and there is no work nor mail delivery so we could be in for a bit of a dry spell into Tuesday. I, like many of you, am also worried about being left behind. Looking at Mox, L&P and some of the other active posters I almost get a "Moses" complex - you can see the promised land but you cannot enter - feeling. It's not rational but since when did fears need to be rational. Having Cecile and Rachel approved has eased my mind a bit, and I don't carry a staff, nor wear a beard and long flowing robes (or look like Charlton Heston). Perhaps if I also avoid burning bushes and stop leading people through the desert for a while, all will be well.

The picture is saved to a file on my computer but can't figure out how to transfer it

Now do like Rachel said, go to My Controls which is at the top of the page, then click update personal photo and you should see a browse button. Click on that and go to the picture file you have on your computer and click on that. then just upload the thing and you're done.

Oof, hangovers are no fun! I had one...once. Never again! Fortunately I'd had the foresight to take the next day off work (it was after the Rocky Horror Show on a Tuesday night and I anticipated staying out late) and sat in a park on a gloriously sunny day eating a huge, greasy and very tasty burger from the park café.

hi people! hey i'd just like to tell:

GREIVIN & COURTNEY and JEROEN & MICHELLE

im watching our application since we were all touched at the same dates - JANUARY 29. 2008

im believing that if one of us gets that approval, the 2 will follow

about the uscis website...i cant get through the "log in" site..i click the go button and it says loading but its taking too long...

Isn't that perfect - the website for an arm of the US Department of Homeland Security has crashed. Unbelievable - time to call the plagues upon the CSC...... oops, can't do that either.

The one consolation I take from this process is that CSC is apparently quicker than VSC when it comes to AOS. Hopefully everything will even out in the end!

My head goes The only way to survive is to eat either a greasy hamburger or get some flaming hot mexican food. One smothers the pain, the other purifies by fire. Both effective. When's lunch.....

Well the site's up and working again - still no touch but that's for next week.

To keep everyone updated on our status......sent the RFE back and they received it on Monday 5/19/2008.

No action since then though........hope it gets acted on soon and hopefully not another RFE in the mail!.....ugh

Pulling for the rest of you too! Hopefully we will have all of January filers completed soon!

Cheers!

Maybe, but I really don't care for a long AOS process atm lol.. I wanna be with my sweetie... the AOS takes place while I am there








maybe its a good thing tho.. one of the plagues was about the first born sons... if that happened, we would never get our approvals because of all the leaves at csc :S lol

On another note, I just got home from getting my birth certificate...

of course, with everything else that we don't get... they didn't give me my birth certificate lol.. I forgot I had to get it in the city I am born and that is somewhere else lol. I did get the one for my daughter (even tho she is not joining me to the US, they still want to see a birth certificate for her). Im going to order mine online as soon as I finish this post (gotta love the information technology progress hehe).

Did you guys see the statement on the VJ News from the new "interim" USCIS director? No mention of our visas at all - just the naturalizations. This is definitely the worst year to do this...

Hey Blake... I mean Moses... no, I mean Blake,

Just wanted to point out that the April approval was an '07 not an '08. So in fact their wait wasn't such a lucky one.

By the way, I AM SO TERRIFIED OF GETTING LEFT BEHIND!!!!!!!!!! But like we've said, I think everyone is in that boat. I thought it was very gracious of Rachel to say a few weeks ago, that if anyone gets a slightly longer wait, it could be her cause she's not moving until later this fall. Very kind of you. However, I'm quite happy to see you got the NOA2 nice and early anyway. You sure deserve it! And NO ONE ever deserves to be left behind.

AH! I am so scared of being left behind, too...I just got more scared about it reading estadia's post. She said CSC was concerned about their age difference...there are 10 years between Dennis and me, I'm 27 and he's 37. I hope that doesn't cause problems. I think I'm just having a panicky, extra-stressed day today.

me, too! and i didn't realize that the age difference was a problem in estadia's case. (i pray she and all those waiting an extra long time get their approval soon!!!)

for what it's worth there are 12 years between david and me but we have never, ever had any issues happen as a result of the difference. i don't think it matters as long as two people are happy together.

ANYWAY, i hope your day calms down and the panic and stress fades away.

good vibes to all the january filers!

I'm not worried about it causing problems with us...I'm only worried about CSC delaying things because of it. I have seriously considered moving in with my Aunt Mimi for the summer because she lives in Rhode Island and it would mean I could transfer my case to VSC!

Well it keeps telling me I used an invalid file extension when I try to add my pic so guess no pics for me!!! Levi is 5 years younger than me but not really worried about that but was reading someone here was denied because the CO didn't feel they had enough proof of their relationship and that worries me a bit. Levi and I text constantly but don't talk on the phone much to keep the bills down and when we are together we're busy being together not taking pic's of us together. Did that make sense?

really age matters to the uscis? wow! thats kinda weird...me and my handsome are both 24 and we'll both be 25 on october. how i wish we will be able to celebrate our birth days together this year.

lets all be positive, we dont know how our application will be processed, only God knows and lets just wait with anticipation that our application will be approved this may.

Yes!! Dennis and I have the same problem with pictures...we didn't have any spontaneous pictures from our first several visits. But we have phone records and boarding passes...I realized we would have a bit of a problem there, so I started calling him a couple of times a week, even if it was just for 10 or 15 minutes so that we would have phone records. We have a lot of pictures from the last visit, including pics with my mom, brothers, and dad. So I really hope it's enough.

We have ton's of pictures of whatever we were doing... The museums... Aquarium... Stuff like that but yeah not many of us together because we were just busy enjoying what we were doing! Lol.. He'll be here next month so guess we'll have to make a point of getting some then. Did you send any with your application? I sent one.

re: pics - we sent 4 with our application and i believe i have 2 more so far. he really doesn't like having his photo taken so it's always a struggle. he jokes that i have to ask for 'clearance from his management' first. he is such a character

re: communication and ongoing relationship - david and i don't talk every night like we used to and the texting is at a minimum. we're both far too busy and we found that the constant communication was... well, it was unrealistic and not what we'd be doing when we're finally together. plus it made us miss each other even more. i have to say, i SEVERELY disliked the cutback in communication at first but now i'm finding that it's actually easier to get through the days and weeks... and hopefully months... i'm not there yet i do hope we're not shooting ourselves in the feet though. we hardly have any emails either. hmmm... hopefully they see us and realize it's quality and not quantity!

can i move in with aunt mimi for the summer, too? (obviously kidding... but heck, it sounds like a nice change of pace!)

Let my people go......

HEY now I was touched on Jan 27th 2008! Don't forget meeeeeeee!!!!

i was just doing same and got puzzled looks from my co-workers.

and geez... USCIS concerned about ages?? That would be the last thing I would be worried about, as long as it is legal. I wont have this problem tho (my fiance is 30 and im 31) but when I look to my parents.. my dad was 30 years older than my mom and they were married because of love and nothing else.. age is nothing but a number if you ask me :/

I agree about the missing each other more part and when we are both busy and don't text it does seem to make time go faster instead of sitting there feeling sorry for ourselves LOL

hi,
i read it with the age difference.
What would be with Cassi and me? She is 28 and i be 50 Years now?
But we love us and the age difference doesn't matter.

I don't think the age difference is a problem...but someone else who has been stuck in extended processing for months said that the CSC person she talked to on the phone said that their age difference might be contributing to their wait. She's 21 and he's 33. I am just hoping it doesn't cause a problem with us.

i have to admit, i was getting quite silly with the phone calls and text messages. i was even waking up in the middle of the night thinking that my phone was ringing! i guess i'm just not that used to constant communication from... well, anyone! not even my own brain keeps itself as occupied and david and i were keeping each other on the phone and through email for a while.

busy is good!

I am sorry you didn't received anything yet. I was almost sure our petitions would go on the same date, knowing they wait to get a lot of petitions to send them overseas...
Let us know if you have any news from NVC!


For all the other ones waiting, I am hoping CSC will finally be getting more approvals!
Not easy to say that when it is so slow, but still, have good thoughts for all of you!

There may be other issues there than just the age differential which are bringing estadia's file into a security review situation. The state of Kashmir has many issues regarding terrorism/seperatism and is a hot point between Pakistan and India so they could be running into a Name Similarity issue that the security clearance people are having a hard time resolving. As far as the age differential is concerned I don't think it matters - unless there is some question as to Sara's age when they met - (she says 18). Finally, there is the potential issue of how the reviewing officer views the prior K-1 her fiancee was on and the reasons why it was pulled - something that only the CSC may know.

Regardless, there are a number of items that might play into why the CSC has taken so incredibly long with her application - items that are unique to estadia's case. Personally I think it is insane what the CSC is doing to her. I say if security is an issue, then out with it and give them an opportunity to respond, don't just keep this thing bouncing from reviewer to reviewer.

Anyway, my point is that as long as there is proof of a bona fide relationship, then age doesn't matter.

Does anyone else get the phantom phone vibrations?! We text so much that sometimes I think I feel my phone vibrate when it really didn't...

I get these, too! Even when my phone isn't anywhere near me!

Yep me also... Pretty strange Lol... The timelines on our profile changed now. I liked the old dates better!!!

Oh please please pleaseeeee sweet Lord let me be in the next wave of CSC approvals!!! I am going nutso over here!

As far as age differs go I don't think it should be such a big deal at all BUT me personally when I see these ummmmm quite OLDER men marrying young women in early 20's I get a funny pervy feeling from it all....but that just may be me hahaah

Must be from that April'07 approval. I try not to even look at the timeline anymore...it was just causing me so much stress when it moved back and forth!



I like to tell Dennis that he's a bit of a pervy old man for marrying me.

HEY 37'S NOT OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know! I don't think it's old, either...but he's still marrying a woman 10 years his junior...so I like to tease him.

Lol.. I just said that cause I'm 37. Levi teases me that I'm robbing the cradle because he's 32.

So if i'm 38 and he's 29 what does that make me, eh??? Besides SMART I mean!

I'm with Blake in regards to sara's case. I think one uninformed secretary made a statement that she probably shouldn't have. Age means very little when it comes to matters of the heart and i'm sure the uscis feels the same. Now too much of an age difference ...with other 'noticeable' contributing factors does give me that pervy visa fraud feeling too but eh, who are we to judge who is in love and who is in visa-love? That's for the uscis to decide and hopefully they're doing their job! As Blake stated, Sara's SO is from a pretty rough part of the world and we know he was already stuck in security clearance. The problem I see with her case is that she gets a different answer depending on the day and the voice at other end. That's just not right. I mean, if they're in security checks then state that and stay with that...don't tell her it's with an adjuticator and about to be approved then tell her it's back in checks. I know there are several levels of database checks but this is really just ridiculous and my heart goes out to them both as i'm sure do yours.

We were touched today! I know it means nothing but it feels oooo sooo good!

That is exciting though! I've still never seen a touch! 38 and 29 huh? Yep definate craddle robber

...and loving every minute of it!

I'd like to extend my late BIG BIG CONGRATS to those who have been approved in the last 2weeks.

I'm back after a long period of going through medical and interview.... Our medical and interview was not the smoothest of smooth but I don't have any right to complain since we got approved.

Now that I think about it, the consul did ask me my age then he asked me ricky's birthdate... there's a 15year gap between us, Ricky being the cradle snatcher (if a 30yr old woman could still be considered in a cradle )...

kidding aside, the consul was more concerned about the authenticity of the relationship than the age difference and also the legal capacity of each party to contact marriage.

Congrats to you too in getting the well deserved visa I'm happy you got through the process ok ^^

You guys are cracking me up with your cradle robbing! Heeheee! But no I was not talking of anyone on this thread at all when I mentioned pervy peeps haha! Just some pics that stuck out to me in the gallery when I first came here etc....I don't think a 10 or 15 year gap is that bad especially if the people involved are in late 20's and older! It is the 40 and up crowd that then marry a 20 year old that bugs me a bit more....mainly cause I know even though I married at 18 my first time around I know through my early 20's I personally was still soooo young.....again a personal opinion etc haha!

I sure hope we see some CSC approvals tonight and tomorrow before the holiday weekend truly hits

Sooo that was another day without approvals... Sorry to say but I doubt we're seeing approvals today as it is the last day before the weekend.. I think we'll have to wait till tuesday or wednesday at earliest... :/