I'm so greatfull...now i really belong to your group .That's amazing.
Allright, january filers, who's ready for some CSC move?
Thanks again.

hello evrybody
We want join the lis too, we filed on december, got NOA1 mail on Feb,8. still waiting too for NOA2. Good luck to all the couples and hope soonw e hear good news.One question plz, how can we enter our processing timetable.?thanks.Bel&rach.

oh, that's grateful , i'm learning!

Well all you have to do is take a look at the first post in this thread to see what happens when you type faster than you think. "Hellow??!!??!!" I mean come on, I've been spelling that word mostly correct for the last 40 years (mostly). So I'm reminded everytime I check in here of that one (as is everyone else who posts here)

My problem's i'm trying to spell words intuitively.
You have no idea how weird it sounds sometimes: dump - dumb // greatFULL - grateful // mean - meen
I hope people have fun reading my posts once in a while

LOL most Americans don't even know how to use English properly Happy to be part of such a busy thread....and will be even happier once more Jan approvals start popping up

So very true!

If you use Firefox it comes these days with an automatic spellchecker that underlines misspelled words as you type. Now, I pride myself on being a pretty decent speller, but there are still times when I come across a word I've not used in a while or I make a typo. Since the spellcheck doesn't automatically correct words but merely underlines them I'm forced to go back and make the corrections myself, and I've actually learned how to spell correctly a couple of difficult words that way. I suppose spellchecks aren't always entirely useless!

Well, another couple who met on the same forums that Alex and I met on were married last weekend - they're going to file a K3! Actually, when we marry we'll be the third couple to have met on the forums to marry - the first couple moved to Canada where it sounds like the process was a lot easier.

Hellow fellow January filers at the CSC. There are a lot of you out there, but I don't see many of you posting in the regular January filers thread. I don't begrudge the wonderful speed at which the VSC filers are being approved - Congratulations to all of them - but it points out how different the experience is for CSC filers vs. VSC filers. While the January thread is full of great news about approvals and touches, etc. we CSCers have our own issues to deal with. For myself, I know it is difficult to empathize with a January filer who voicing impatience with a process that is so much shorter than the one I am facing - it may not be "fair" that our processing times are so different, but its also not fair to rain on their parade or dismiss the concerns of the VSC filers. There is also the relevancy - when the CSC side is talking about approvals the VSC group will be talking about interviews or weddings.

So how are you doing? Are you frustrated, concerned, or excited? Knowing the wait that sits in front of you, how will you use the next 5 months. If you think this is a valuable thread then please add to it. Regardless of CSC or VSC, I hope we can all support each other on this amazing journey.

Like I said there are a lot of January CSC filers, I have listed them below (based on I-129f sending date).

Thomas & Michelle 01-01
Cecile & Bryan 01-02
Janeth & Derek 01-02
Ten & DJ 01-03
Yuliya & Brian 01-03
Paola & Chris 01-04
Thanh & Cao 01-04
Zrinka & Eric 01-05
P & J 01-07
Shirley & Steven 01-07
Maria & Eric 01-09
S & KP&SS 01-09
Pamela & Joshua 01-11
Eliciana & Benjamin 01-11
Rachel & Alex 01-11
Bing & John 01-12
Erica & Scott 01-12
WW & MM 01-12
Stuart & Amy 01-14
jj & sh 01-15
Elena & Sergey 01-15
jen & jay 01-16
Agatha & Robert 01-17
VRP & SK 01-18
gabbie & erv 01-22
Chris & Therese 01-23
nr123 & nm123 01-23
Laura & Scott 01-23
yan & isa 01-24
199 a & o 01-24
Greivin & Courtney 01-24
Jeroen & Michelle 01-24
Olga & Blake 01-25
Lea & Ron 01-25
jennie & matthew 01-25
Paul & Joanna 01-25
Supida & Supida 01-28
Lena & Val 01-29
TS & BNR 01-29
Alexandra & Mark 01-29
Susan & Chris 01-30
Benny & Cassi 01-31
Ge & Haibo 01-31
Sapna & Dinesh 01-31
cheandcraig 01-01 ( waiting for NOA2)

Aww well congrats to them!!! I cannot wait for us to start getting married and post our pics etc! And yes me and Gareth have said repeatedly we BOTH should have upped and moved to Canada haha!

So very true!

If you use Firefox it comes these days with an automatic spellchecker that underlines misspelled words as you type. Now, I pride myself on being a pretty decent speller, but there are still times when I come across a word I've not used in a while or I make a typo. Since the spellcheck doesn't automatically correct words but merely underlines them I'm forced to go back and make the corrections myself, and I've actually learned how to spell correctly a couple of difficult words that way. I suppose spellchecks aren't always entirely useless!

Well, another couple who met on the same forums that Alex and I met on were married last weekend - they're going to file a K3! Actually, when we marry we'll be the third couple to have met on the forums to marry - the first couple moved to Canada where it sounds like the process was a lot easier.

Ooh hope today and tomorrow bring several or LOTS more approvals! I told Gareth I am hoping and praying we get ours by my birthday (June 8th) he said "I want it by mine!" (his is this Sunday LOL!). I am so ready to start seeing January approvals! Got so excited yesterday to see those even though they were expedited cases it was still exciting to see January 2008 approvals on the board! Well off to work I go! Have a great day everyone!

I'm the one crazy about the approvals. He never checks the USCIS website neither Visa Journey or Igor's list. He says that once we'll be approved we'll get the letter (NOA2) so there's no need to check all the time. Sometimes it almost sounds like he doesn't care when we get it But he's probably right anyway. As long as we get the visa before the end of the year, everything's fine.
On the other hand he really wants me to come to visit him before we get the visa. So it's not as if he didn't want to see me

I don't check the USCIS site for two very simple reasons...

I don't check the USCIS site for two very simple reasons - first of all, they'll let me know when its approved, and second, and perhaps more importantly, I've forgotten my password God has resolved my obsessive behavior by creating a little temporary amnesia on my part. He's also resolved my obsessions with Igor's list by making me incredibly busy at work - I've got a entire company move and a system conversion to pull off this weekend. I miss chatting with you folks on a more regular basis, but when there's work to do........

Anyway, I agree there will be a tremendous amount of picture sharing as the days arrive - and a few cocktails to boot! And now it's time to find Igor's list and see what happened today

i hope the january CSC filers start seeing approvals very soon.

i hope the january CSC filers start seeing approvals very soon.

Hey, we've already had two, kinda - the first one was in January and was a Cuban petition, and the second one was a January refiling of a petition originally submitted in September but screwed up by the USCIS.

So aside from the 1.68% of January filers approved, we're all waiting anxiously for Cecile and Bryan to get their approval. Those two are the proverbial canaries in the coal mine. When they go, we should know we're not far behind.

We all do but so far I think its a relative slow week again :/

Also, my timeline is getting scary.. the I129F approval date was July 3 or 4 when I signed up.. then went down even to June 20... now it is up at July 19

I think I'll stop to check the timeline. Its just too weird. No approval, and the date don't stop to go far... not normal. Maybe I'm paranoiac but I was thinking that maybe some bad peeps are playing with that.
So as I think that, now I don't care about the timeline, its really too wrong to take care about.
Now I come there to read some posts, not more.
I still make me busy with my blog and other things.

Hugs to you all

I usually have lots to do as well so I dont really need to be checking butttt... yah, theres this thing inside of me that wants me to check on stuffs still :S

I read on Sunnybear's blog that she likes scrapbooking, so now I want to know: for everybody on this thread, what are your favorite hobbies?

I posted about that on my blog yesterday.
Photos!!!!

but its a too expensive passion

True! I read it just before I read Sunnybear's blog but kind of forgot
I couldn't check your photography website because I'm at work though.
Bryan wanted to be a photographer, that's his passion too. But he realized it's really hard to make a living with it so he's now looking for new career plans.

So what is that proverb with canaries in a coal mine?

One of coal mining’s earliest systems for warning of the presence of methane gas, the canary in the coal mine, though low-tech, was
extremely effective and rather easy to read: if the bird died, miners had to get out of the shaft.

As coal mines became deeper, so did problems of ventilation. Gas was an eternal problem in the mines, without adequate oxygen in the air, the miner's would die.

The Solution: taking canaries into the mine. If the canary died, there was gas and the miners needed to leave the pit.

The bright yellow canary birds were an early coal miner's life insurance policy. Carried below ground in cages, the animals' highly sensitive metabolism detected methane and carbon monoxide gas traces that signaled potential explosions, poisoned air or both.

On their web site MSHA (Mine Safety Health Adminstration) says "Canaries were preferred over mice to alert coal miners to the presence of carbon monoxide underground.... For instance, when consumed by the effects of carbon monoxide, a canary would sway noticeably on his perch before falling."

Hobbies, eh? Since I no longer have piano, violin and tap lessons I suppose my hobbies consist of being social, cooking for friends and reading/watching films. Not terribly interesting, although I'm the go-to girl among my friends and family for DVD recommendations.

I suppose there's not anything I'm really passionate about. I like to draw/design and have done the odd painting/website. When I borrow a camera I like to take photos. But most people like to do that!

I love history; I did Ancient History at sixth form college and regret not doing it at university. But I'm lazy about reading it unless I have to, although I love historical fiction. I have a shelf full of Russian history books waiting to be read, actually.

ggeezz...may is coming...no january csc approvals YET ????????

I read on Sunnybear's blog that she likes scrapbooking, so now I want to know: for everybody on this thread, what are your favorite hobbies?

Correction.......no MORE january CSC approvals yet.

Cecile/Miss Yoko - I was having a conversation earlier about pet names and that reminded me of what my mother calls her children. You might get a kick out of this! My mother used to be very good at French and had a French pen-friend she saw regularly (and still does) but there are still many words she doesn't know. (Once, when she was 17 and staying with her French friend, she wanted to communicate at the dinner table that she was full. Unfortunately she used a phrase which was also slang for 'I'm pregnant'. Cue a shocked dinner table!) Anyway, two of the words she uses as pet names are 'poubelle' and 'chou-fleur'. Even when she discovered what they meant, she still continued to use them because she thought it was so funny.

i found this couple whos originally a september filer who got approved and made an " expedite request"..can anybody tell me wat this expedite request is? and is that some sort of a special request that a filer can apply for? OUR application was mistakenly sent to CHICAGO and i just wondered upon reading the post who was approved through that expedite thingy, does uscis makes a special processing for those applications that was mistakenly sent to a different SC?? then why the heck our application hasnt approved yet?

Blake and Cecile; we three have over 130 posts in this thread! That's 70 more than the next poster (dbears).

This is where I hang

Blake - I like your attitude towards books, too. I'm the same. I just love a large library! I can't comprehend how people don't have a large collection of books...there are so many fantastic stories out there; I can't imagine what my childhood would have been like if I hadn't had so many books to read. It's the best form of escapism and is great for improving language skills.

But my problem is that there are always 10000 things that interest me and I never go deep in any of them. I'd love to do so many things that I end up doing nothing.