Herolmounia - yes. E_Dude had an RFE on the 7th May and was approved the 29th May. Sorry to hear that you have not heard back from VSC yet.

Thank u Rachel and yes i am still waiting any sign from VSC to go on!! it seems it's gonna take more than expected but who knows what destiny hide behind this delay :)maybe it's better to wait . you know Rachel me and herol feel much more closer from each other with this delay and we support each other to be more patient, and i think our love is very very strong now thank God!!
need ur prayers please do it for me

Well guess those CSC people went back to sleep again haha....either that or people just aren't posting their approvals ASAP over here I know I will be as cannot wait to stop my moaning haha!
Tomorrow is my birthday partayyyyy as my birthday is actually on Sunday this year so we all are going out tomorrow night for dinner at an Irish Pub and then to a club to see this group called Mega 80's who of course do all 80's cover songs heehee. Should be a fun time! I will be the big 3-0 ooooffffffffff
What does everyone else have planned this weekend?

is the csc processing number the RECEIPT NUMBER we use to log in to our uscis account?

Yepz



From what I've seen so far, I think they only send the petitions out every friday or every other friday to the NVC.. since you had your approval last tuesday, I think you should try again next monday

I really hope you will get your NOA2 soon, I think I know what you're going through atm as I had it as well And yeah, some people don't update their timeline right away,hard to believe indeed :S

To cover your question.. today my sis will be at my moms place, showing the DVD of the ultrasound of her baby, I will go there too to see it Then, after dinner and such, the European soccer championship starts woohoo!! So guess it will be mostly soccer for me this weekend lol

Hi Everyone, I know the CSC kinda ended with a fizzle last week but let's keep our fingers and toes crossed for a very active week this week. All those touches had to mean something.

Happy Sunday everyone and also a shameless Happy 30th Birthday to me! hahaha

Had a great night last night with friends and have a sore body and throat today from seeing this group called the Mega 80's that do you guessed it all 80's songs haha....we sang our hearts our and danced our bootys off! FUN times! Got home at 3 and was up by 8 oooofff not enough sleep for this old lady.

Off to my grandparents for a birthday steak luncheon/early dinner then bringing Gabby to see Wizard of Oz at the theater at 4 and then friends coming over later after that

My man got me a new digital camera I wanted, and then the 2 pints of Lager and packet of crisps season I needed on dvd to get my set up to date and also another UK show I love called Skins on dvd, oh and this little digital keychain with some pics preloaded into it that he did awwwww

Happy Birthday sunny!

Aw, sounds like you are having fun. And a digital camera - what a great present! And not entirely without use for your man.

Alex can't get the affidavit of support to me for at least another week. However, I can finally send off for the police certificate tomorrow (managed to corner my teacher friend to sign the photos and form for me) and I bought printer paper and photo paper so that I can download and print off the forms and also print out passport-sized photos (since I'm sure I can do a better job than the ones I had done 'professionally' )

Happy B-Day Sunny!!!!

Happy birthday sunnybear!!

Rachel, what is your fiance gonna fill for question 10. and 11. on the I134 affidavit of support?

hi all, hope ur continuing to have a good time and CSC is kicking alive. i am very intensely trying to get my documents to submit to the singapore embassy. had my medicals again last week (had wasted one in India). here in singapore vaccination is mandatory it seems so had MMT, TD and Vericella, one more shot of vericilla required but not mandatory for interview. I have to send back a checklist to the embassy before they schedule my interview. I have applied for police certificates at Indian embassy and Singapore police. I am goin to collect Indian Police cert tday from the embassy. Singapore takes 2 weeks

had a problem with my birth certificate, I have only copies. I guess the registarar in India only provide copies. I am trying again to get an original.

Anybody got any idea what a certified copy means? In the visa instructions sent t me, the embassy asked for "Certified Copy of your Birth Certificate." I called up the embassy and listened to a lady who exactly said whats on the instruction given to me, but refused to clarify anything.

One more problem is my fiance is working part time and paid hourly basis, though she earns around 30000$ annually, her employers say they can ony quote per hour rate on her employment letter. Though she has her time sheets from the company, we are really confused what to write for annual salary . Anyways her dad is co sponsoring and filling out for sme 100K$ annually which should help us out. He runs a consultancy firm, so another question is whether it is enough to show 3 yrs of tax return for him.

hope you guys can give me some suggestions

Thanks

He's going to copy what is on the example form here.


Well, no one ever actually has their 'original' birth certificate as this is the birth certificate that is kept by the government. What you are thinking of in terms of 'original' and 'certified copy' mean the same thing - i.e. a copy obtained from the registrar should be automatically a certified copy. A normal copy would just be a photocopy you yourself made of the certified copy. Does that make sense?


Hmm, I would probably work out how much she earns per annum, then write that figure down and perhaps include your working out in brackets? So '$29,120 (35 hours per week at $16 per hour)', for example.

I hope he's not gonna copy the exact name 'jane doe' or whatever it is xD

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! I had a great one! Dbears too darn funny and yes that was me on Saturday night

Happy Monday to all and hopefully a busy filled week of approvals for CSC! Please oh please fingers and toes crossed!!!! I have almost all our stuff ready to send to Gareth for the next step including my sisters papers as well for her being a co-sponser. Will get all sent to Gareth by next Monday so he has it ready to go!

Thinking positive and hope to see our approval SOON.

Today is my baby's last day of kindy awwww! We are gonna go out to lunch and then go see Kung Fu Panda Have a great Monday all!

Happy birthday sunnybear! Sorry, I'm a little late... It sounds like you had fun this weekend!
I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed for you! I'm pretty sure you're going to have your NOA2 very soon!

dbears -

sunny - my fingers and toes are most definitely crossed! And you're definitely doing the right thing preparing the affidavit of support now - I only wish I had asked Alex to sort it out earlier.

I spent quite a bit of money on printer and photo paper this weekend intending to appropriate my housemate's printer for visa purposes only to discover, after asking her, that her printer hasn't been working properly ever since she got a pen stuck in it. I knew I should've asked her about it before buying the paper! Oh well. I can print out the forms at work but I can't do photos as we have no colour printers here.

Apart from that the nurse at my doctors' surgery is most helpful and I should be getting the HPV vaccine and TDaP/polio next week no problem.

I also get to send off for the police certificate today!

By the way - Alex got a B on the essay I helped write - his highest mark of the course so far. Not bad for 3 hours' rushed work!

happy belated birthday, Sunny.

Rachel congratulations on your ...errr his B.

Happy B Day Sunnybear. All the best for your NoA2

Thanks Rachel

Anyways I applied for another copy of Birth Certificate.

Congratulations for the good grade!

RagSwat - more copies of the birth certificate are always a good idea! You never know when you may need them. I've personally got three copies of my birth certificate and I'm going to order three copies of the police certificate, but then I do always like to be extra-safe.

Cecile and Kat - hehe, thanks. At least now I know I can pass an American English class!

I ordered three copies of my birth certificate and of my police record too. As you said Rachel, you never know when you're going to need them.

We received Kurtis's EAD and AP today-- June 9th. WOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now we can officially start building our life together.

Congratulations

Good morning all and Happy belated birthday Steph!!! Sounds like you had a great weekend

Hey Heather. How are you today?

Hi Its a Monday for sure lol... How's your day?

Also definitely a Monday! I always get so much more anxious and impatient when I'm at work because I'm not as busy as when I'm at home. If I was at home right now I would be knee deep in my latest sewing project that has to be done on Saturday.

I was really busy this morning but now its slowed down...... Boring! Whats your sewing project? I haven't done that in forever! I enjoyed it when I did....

I'm a historical costuming geek...right now I'm making a Victorian costume for the tea party at my church this weekend. No...it's not Victorian themed...but it's a Mad Hatter Tea Party, with all sorts of hats competitions...and nothing says "Big, obnoxious hat" quite like Victorian clothing.

That sounds like alot of fun Victorian is a great era! Well Levi went paintballing this weekend and got pegged right in the forehead so now he has a huge black and blue lump there I'm like "you pay for that abuse?!" I should post the pictures here.

It's a lot of fun. I'll post pictures once I have it done. lol...you should definitely post pictures!

Yeah I'd love to see it! I had thought about sewing some of my twins summer clothes but not sure how much I'd actually get done and they looked at me and rolled their eyes when I mentioned it...Lol

hehehe...my kids are just going to have to get used to it! I do historical recreation in my free time...which means lots of sewing. When I was little my mom made me all of these little pinafores that she smocked with cute little scenes. I told her that she'd have to get back into the habit of doing them for my kids.

My mom did my clothes when I was little and some for my kids too but they reach that age and don't appreciate it anymore..... Historical recreation sounds very interesting... How did you get involved in that?

I got involved because I love costuming and I had gotten bored and starting making medieval costumes and I wanted to wear them somewhere...I had a teacher that was involved in the SCA, which is one of the biggest historical recreation societies in the world. Go to the SCA website and it has lots of information...it's an international group and I think this is your local group. If you want to get involved, just email...well, pretty much anyone listed on the website and they'll help you out. Around here there are lots of kids activities going on all the time...so your kids would probably enjoy it, too.

...I was the recruitment officer in my area for two years so I got really used to getting all of this information in a matter of minutes for people.

Thanks! I'll check it out... I used to do alot of gardening this time of year so I really miss that and need to find something else to keep me busy...

Oh they have archery which I absolutely love!!!!!!

Blah a slow Monday at CSC it is looking like.....hope some approvals start popping up tonight and tomorrow!!! Went and did more wedding planning today and measured tables for tablecloths etc....fun fun!

So much to think about when planning a wedding! Something like that wouldn't even occur to me...

Have you talked to Alex's mother about what you wanted/didn't want for the wedding? how did it go?

Not yet, mostly because at the moment the plans change from one day to the next - it might be better to talk when we both have a more concrete idea of what to do! One week we can't find anywhere and we're going to need to cut down on the number of guests, the next someone has offered us their garden and we can have as many people as we'd like. We still don't even have a firm date, yet, so that's also complicating the planning somewhat. That, and I've been worrying about Packet 3 and vaccinations these past few days.

Aww using the garden and having just a bbq or something would be wonderful! Do they have a nice huge lush garden? I can direct you to loads of ideas when you are ready for them hahaha....it is VERY overwhelming but I found once you pick a theme of sorts it helps!!!

True, you'd better focus on packet 3 and the next steps for immigration.
Doing it in a garden sounds very appealing to me! We thought we'd do it in Bryan's friends' backyard but we're not sure about that anymore. the house is always quite messy and there are so many animals there that we doubt it's going to be clean someday! I'd like an outside wedding.
Though if you get married around Christmas (if that's still what you planned), maybe being inside would be better? even though the winter in California isn't as bad as Wisconsin or Illinois winters, it's probably going to be quite cold, isn't it?

Ok getting a bit bummed and Gareth even more so now that we are seeing February approvals!!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Sunny, I noticed that someone whose dates are just like yours (I-129F sent 01-17 and NOA1 01-22) was approved last week. You were probably in the same cardboard. That's a very good sign!

I can relate to 'plan changes from one day to the next...

last month Ricky and I already agreed not to have best man, maid of honor and all that fuzz. We agreed that it will be a very intimate wedding with just me and him and our 3 kids plus his mom and sister and family of his sister..... today, he was talking about getting the measurement of his daughter's bf for the barong (a filipino formal wear for men) and he will be sending it to me so i could go ahead and have it done here.. I was like: "wait, i thought we wouldn't be having all those fuss?"

I just want to have an outdoor wedding with a bbq reception and just a licensed Christian minister to perform the ceremony and that's it... now I don't know what he will pop up again next time we talk... I told him we should set the budget and then plan around it and stick with it NOT plan ahead and then have the budget later.

sunny, hope you could share ideas for a wedding by the lake (it is actually a park)... but first, I hope you will get that NOA2 soonest. I'm rooting for you!!!!

rachel, I am with you.. when the medical and interview seems so close, it will be hard to think of other things... especially big things such as wedding.

I really hope that it is as Cecile says and that you'll receive your approval this week!


Sticking to a budget is good! I can fully understand your concerns...fuss isn't me, either! Good luck sorting everything out; I hope it doesn't cause too much stress.

sunny - I have NO idea what it is like! But I shall let you know when I do know.

Cecile - if it is anything like last December, it will be chilly but bearable outdoors in California if people wear jackets/long sleeves. The temperatures can drop quite sharply after the sun sets, but while the sun is out it is not too cold. It doesn't really rain in December, but later, in January/February, so hopefully it will be sunny. And it won't be as brown or desolate as England gets; this is the park near Alex's house last Christmas:

it looks like spring or fall, not winter!