DATED 8/8/08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!We got APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Ok I still have tears of happiness rolling down my face! I checked email at 9 pm eastern time last night and nothing....I told myself "Go to bed and maybe this day will have brought luck and Gareth will wake me with the good news" seriously I told myself that ......well phone rang at a little after 3 am here and sure enough APROVEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD and dated 8/8/08 how rad?! We got off phone and I began to pray and thank God the Lord anyone who made this happen finally haha.....tears of happiness just started flowing and I popped out of bed and had to get on the computer to talk with Gareth more and of course tell all of you my story too! It has been such a long journey I hope and pray the rest goes quick and smooth for us!!!! SIGH this feels so good.....my heart is racing and I could put all these tears of happiness into a bucket to water my plants there are so many heehee!




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CONGRATULATIONS, SUNNY!

I am so unbelievably happy for you! You really deserved it after all this time. Many congratulations. <3<3<3

Here's hoping NVC works faster than the CSC.

WOWEE!!!! BIG BIG BIG BIG CONGRATS TO YOU SUNNY!!! Your patience finally paid off!!! I am really happy for you.

THANK YOU BOTH!!!! I am just sighing over here it is like I finally can breathe..........now to get him in my arms or me in his arms or whatever arms will be wrapped about us both! hahaha.....

Congratulation

Brilliant news, kiddo!! One of the most popular apporovals on VJ, I'd wager.

Don't worry - things really motor now! NVC received my file 7 days after I was approved, and they dispatched it to London 2 days after that. Packet 3 will be on Garteh's doorstep in no time!!

Downhill?? lol, you do know that could actually mean that you hope it would go for the worse?

That is so awesome

guess the Chinese lucky number is lucky for you too

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long wait I know but well worth it!

So happy for you both!

Ohhhhhhhh my God!!!!!!! That day finally arrived!!!!!!!!!
CONGRATULATION FOR YOU BOTH!!!
I am so full of hapiness for you Sunny! may the rest of your journey be way much faster!!

It is exactly what's happening to me right now! I saw your message yesterday, right after I woke up from "my nap"!It felt funny to read that from someone else. Again, I woke quite early this morning....I am just hoping it will go away soon.


I am getting married on September, and also plan to get my SSN after my wedding. Why getting a card, and have to change the name on it a week after?
Seeing all you guys wondering about it, I wanted to make sure it is ok to do it that way, so I e-mail the SSN (from their website), and will keep you guys posted as soon as I get an answer from them.



Thank you all for your nice words!
So, we will get married on September 7th. Josh showed me the park where we will have the ceremony,and it looks amasing!!!
I then saw all the rentals (like tables, chairs, linens, forks, etc.), and went after that, filled for our wedding certificate.(for the ones wondering, they are asking for a SSN, but I didn't have it yet, the lady have me an addititonal sheet explaigning why I don't have one yet, and told me it should be enough, that I should not be worried.)
Our party is going to take place at his mom's backyard, and she had put so many flowers everywhere! It also looks amasing!
Otherwise, we still have more things to plan, and I am waiting my baby to be off, so we can keep planning, renting, buying.....

I agree, that after I year spent in Minnesota, it is getting hard to do not say "Yah" on every single sentences!!
I will try my best Blake!!
About rea-climate, I felt better right after I could unpack all of my stuff! We live on the resort where my fiancé works (and where I lived a year too during my internship), so it is easy on me, everybody was waiting for me, and I know almost all the faces. It is great to do not feel like a total stranger, and my manager is already asking me when I can go back to work!! so........yeah, I am doing great until now!

Congratulations Steph

CONGRATULATIONS STEPH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so happy for you two!!!!!

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[b]DATED 8/8/08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!We got APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


sunnybear...see i told you!!! congratulations!!!!!!! i'm really really really happy for you!!! now, off to NVC!!!!

YESSSSSSSSS!!! Steph, what wonderful news!!!!!!!! I teared up reading your post. What a HUGE relief! It will go by quickly now, you'll be together before you know it!!! CONGRATS DEAR!!!

Thanks again everyone I am on air for sure! Started making more wedding arrangements right away heheee! We decided we are going to try our best to have a couple 8's in our date haha.....what is even funnier is we also remembered that umm the first time we consummated the relationship was also on the 18th! So yeah 8 is our number haha!

Pam the park and backyard sound gorgeous!!! I would love to do outside but in fall here that is just too iffy haha! Cannot wait to see photos!!!

Ok now how do I know when it gets to NVC or leaves NVC and all that business I see people have posted before their loved one gets packet 3?

That's easy. You simply call the NVC (603-334-0700), give them the case number that you've had for sooooooooo long from USCIS, and they'll tell you when they recieved it, and when they sent it to London.

In my case, they only had it for 2 days before it was headed over the Atlantic!

That's easy. You simply call the NVC (603-334-0700), give them the case number that you've had for sooooooooo long from USCIS, and they'll tell you when they recieved it, and when they sent it to London.

In my case, they only had it for 2 days before it was headed over the Atlantic!

That's easy. You simply call the NVC (603-334-0700), give them the case number that you've had for sooooooooo long from USCIS, and they'll tell you when they recieved it, and when they sent it to London.

In my case, they only had it for 2 days before it was headed over the Atlantic!

That's easy. You simply call the NVC (603-334-0700), give them the case number that you've had for sooooooooo long from USCIS, and they'll tell you when they recieved it, and when they sent it to London.

In my case, they only had it for 2 days before it was headed over the Atlantic!

That's easy. You simply call the NVC (603-334-0700), give them the case number that you've had for sooooooooo long from USCIS, and they'll tell you when they recieved it, and when they sent it to London.

In my case, they only had it for 2 days before it was headed over the Atlantic!

That's easy. You simply call the NVC (603-334-0700), give them the case number that you've had for sooooooooo long from USCIS, and they'll tell you when they recieved it, and when they sent it to London.

In my case, they only had it for 2 days before it was headed over the Atlantic!

That's easy. You simply call the NVC (603-334-0700), give them the case number that you've had for sooooooooo long from USCIS, and they'll tell you when they recieved it, and when they sent it to London.

In my case, they only had it for 2 days before it was headed over the Atlantic!

That's easy. You simply call the NVC (603-334-0700), give them the case number that you've had for sooooooooo long from USCIS, and they'll tell you when they recieved it, and when they sent it to London.

In my case, they only had it for 2 days before it was headed over the Atlantic!

That's easy. You simply call the NVC (603-334-0700), give them the case number that you've had for sooooooooo long from USCIS, and they'll tell you when they recieved it, and when they sent it to London.

In my case, they only had it for 2 days before it was headed over the Atlantic!

That's easy. You simply call the NVC (603-334-0700), give them the case number that you've had for sooooooooo long from USCIS, and they'll tell you when they recieved it, and when they sent it to London.

In my case, they only had it for 2 days before it was headed over the Atlantic!

And just in case you didn't catch that the first time, I appear to have told you 10 times!!! How the #### did that happen??????

LMFAO over here Damian hahahaha! But THANK YOU!!! Will call NVC maybe on Friday to see if they have gotten it by then

Oh also Damian please post to me when u get your packet 3 as got you on my tracking for comparison list now hahaha

Will do, but I'm away from home for the next week on a course with work, so you'll probably know that Gareth has his before I know I've got mine!

Oh btw, when you call the NVC, you press '1' then '5' to speak to a person.

tsk tsk Damien... drinking again???

Actually, I am 6 days into a self-imposed, month-long detox: not one drop of alcohol or a single cigarrette in nearly a week.

Go me.

....that's really great! I'm all about being stubborn like that too. What's with the 'month-long' tho???? NO SMOKING!!!

Well, there's no way in hell that I'll ever stop drinking beer (I enjoy it waaaaaaaaaaaay too much!) but I just want to see if I can do without it for a reasonably long period of time without freaking out. I guess I'm just trying to reassure myself that I'm not an alcoholic, and if I can go a whole month without a drop, then I'll be quite satisfied that I'm not!!!!

Oh, I only ever smoke when I drink, btw.

you are a trip! good luck with that!

Spammer!! haha

I think you just clicked the submit button more than once?




ahhh... one more day of work (which is hard since I have been at home for 1.5 weeks) and I'll have my interview w00t!!

Gawd I'm so nervous already but I'm unsure if it is because of the interview or because I have to go to work tomorrow... I will have a not-so-fun talk tomorrow with some manager and, on top of that, I will give them my resignation letter tomorrow as well (I really can't stay there, if I get denied on the visa I will still leave there coz I'm so fed up with them) so yah, I reaaallllly hope I will get approved on tuesday.. can't wait to hear that I have to leave my passport with them

LMAO Gareth does the exact same thing from time to time! He just stops drinking for a month or more at a time to prove he CAN do it hahhaaha! He doesn't smoke though thank goodness....Damian I am telling ya for your soon to be wife's sake STOP IT hahahah!

GOOD LUCK!!!!on your interview tomorrow!!
I was nervous too before my interview, I knew I would be "probably" be approved, but I was afraid I would be missing a paper!
Well, my advice is to double check you have everything (with the VJ guides! ), and everything should go smootly...
And about your work, just be happy to give them your resignation, especially if you are tired of working over there!!
Sending you good thoughts for tomorrow!

Oh gosh - that certainly what I don't hope...i thought going downhill means it's going to be much easier (like when you're riding a bicycle going downhill!)

But anyways, congrats Sunny!!!! I hope for the best

Crossing my fingers for you!!!

I'm crossing my fingers for you

Yay Sunny! The number 8 is lucky indeed!

Good luck for tomorrow, Jeroen!

Pam - that's my fear, too. Not too nervous about the interview itself, but very very nervous about forgetting something!

Anyone know what your photo is used for? See, I have some photos but they are horrid ones of me! I can't bear to look at them. If they're just going to be kept by the US government for their records I don't really care, but if it's going to be put on my visa or in a file for me to keep I might think about redoing them.

Hello Everybody

I have a question regarding DS-230 form.

What do you checked for question 33a and 33b about SSN number?
If i follow the example in VJ I have to check : No and Yes for question 33a and Yes for 33b.

But everybody there said to wait for SSN... so i'm a bit lost about it.

Any help?

Well, you would check yes because you do, at some stage, wish to apply for a SSN. It doesn't mean you'll be given the SSN there and then.

I didn't fill out part 2 of that form, by the way, as the London embassy said not to. That might just be the London embassy, however.

Good luck today Jeroen!!!!

Thanks people

just 24,5 hours left





Same here, only part one of that form ^^

I agree with that, this is how I filled it out. But at the embassy they said they didn't need that part of the form.

Okidoki I start to be stressed even i don't have the packet 3 right now

Don't worry, once you receive it, it is going to be very easy. They tell you exactly what you have to do. It may be a little more complicated than it was for me because you had a daughter, but it can't be that hard either. I sent packet 3 back one day after I received it.

I already got all the paper I need for Gally, so I don't really worry about it.
I saw that Pam had to give them the DS157 which is normally only for men's. What's about you?