Congrats guys on ur visas!!!!

Congrats to those you got their visas this week

Congrats to all those who have received approvals and are making their way through the end of this process!!!

Just a lil update...

Steve arrived in the US about a month ago now, and everything is great!! He came in through JFK, so he got a work stamp (although it looks reallly dodgy!). AND, he already got a job working with a company called Australian Landscaping and Construction, which is actually owned by a couple Aussie guys so it is perfect for him! He manages groups of workers and sort of oversees different projects. He really likes it, and they gave him a company truck and fuel card as well. Plus, they are really easy about the work stamp stuff and getting time off for the wedding because at least one of them has been through this whole thing before. He also went in to apply for a S.S. number a couple weeks ago and all went well, so should be arriving any day now.

We're so excited to finally be together!!!! I'm loving every minute of this.

Good luck and best wishes to everyone - finally getting to be together forever

Take care

From a July filer...UPDATE

WE HAVE RECEIVED PACKET 4 WITH INTERVIEW DATE.....APRIL 8TH....YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats great news we hope to get our P-4 in about a month.

Gratzies on the interview date!! Hoping to post mine soon as well but am soo nervous about it!!

You have ESP? I've just started packing. Spent the last couple of days sorting through the last few bits and shopping

Haha - I'd be going crazy!!! I can't believe you are on here and you are going tomorrow!!!! OH! I don't think I have updated the spreadsheet... have I?

wow, that is so wonderful, congratulations to you both!!

i cannot wait for tuesday!!

If you've followed the items on the "checklist" from the Embassy where your finacee will interview you should be all set.

Yay!!! Charlene, that is such great news after such a long wait riddled with errors. Congratulations!!!

I'm only here because I posted a new thread about hand luggage requirements because I'm so last minute at everything. I even bought my flight through lastminute.com. I am starting to get grumpy now about how much I have to do and J is saying "you don't need to bring much, you have loads here already' but it's really hard paring down all your belongings to two cases. I think we will have to do a shipment at some point.

It's been a while since I checked the spreadsheet. I'm astounded at how much time I've picked up this last few weeks considering I was one of the last NOA2 recipients. What a crazy process!

Anyway, must go! sorry everyone who has had good news recently and I haven't congratulated you. Congrats anyway!!

If we don't see you before have a safe journey and we'll see you on the other side!!!

I am defo planning on shipping things out although I don't know how I will afford it - might have to use mum's garage for a while I have accumulated so many things I don't want to leave behind - mainly games and books!!! I am terrible!!!

Jes Have a nice and safe trip

Oh I am so excited and Jealous of babbles!!

2 weeks from today and Charry will once again be in my arms.
AAAAAHHHH!!!!! SO CLOSE!!! NEED TO PACK AND MOVE TO NEW APPARTMENT!!!!

I move in 3 days before she comes here . And I know we will not be unpacked yet LOL

Once she gets here we will go together and pick out a bedroom set. And, from the way my parents are talking, it may be their wedding gift to us.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are sooooo lucky I can't wait til my turn!!

If you can´t wait till you can unpack then you can pack you baggage and unpack it while you are waiting

Hahaha!! For three months??!?!!?!

Yeah let´s say once a week Would that do?

Haha - maybe when my brother brings back some boxes from work

wellp, adriano's flight from tirana leaves in about 14 hours and i can feel his nervousness from across the ocean!! poor baby has never been on a plane before...what an event it will be!! lol he told me that yesterday his sister was crying hysterically when they said goodbye, i feel so bad for stealing him away

at the same time, though, im really really really excited for him to come here...my house is clean, and ready for his arrival, i even bought him toothpicks (which i never use), because i know he likes them what a random item!!

well my sister is picking him up at the jfk tomorrow at 2pm...i will be at work, and the two of them dont have a common language...should be quite interesting indeed!! lol im so excited for him to finally see my city!!

Wow! Its alll finally happening! Poor guy though, first flight is International. Hopefully he'll do OK! Have a wonderful reunion!

Thank you!! Yea, I had him fly Alitalia so at least he can understand some of what is going on (he doesn't speak English yet)...I'm sure that he will be fine, but I am like a nervous mother here!!

I'm sure he'll do well! He has so many changes to look forward too, which I am sure will be exciting and overwheming all at the same time. But, he'll have you to help him through all of it and together you'll make the adjustments!

Make sure you join us in the thread Jeraly started in the Moving Her & Your New Life in America forum - July 2007 K1 Filers! A bunch of us post there now to keep in touch, discussing any and everything!

I hope the flight and everything goes amazingly well for you guys!

thanks again, and i will see you in that thread tomorrow when he gets here!!



thanks again, and i will see you in that thread tomorrow when he gets here!!

Haha - after all that time with the pic where it looked like you were flossing?!



Jeremy's first flight was west coast to the UK He was so cranky and tired the whole time he was here!!! Ahh - seems like a lifetime ago!!

Ahhhhh!!! i have *got* to get my packet 4 this week and I am soooooo nervous!!!!

hahaha yepp, im more of a floss kinda girl, toothpicks just aren't my thing




im sure you will, and then you will feel overwhelmed because the interview will be in like two weeks!!

I keep forgetting that you STILL haven't interviewed! You're such a veteran, it doesn't seem possible!

my first flight was at nineteen, alone, from Sydney to Frankfurt (almost the full twenty-four hours), to meet a penfriend I had never met before
upon arrival my baggage was stolen; within a week I had broken my ankle

seemed like a disaster when it happened - but for ages (and even at the time) I have felt I wouldn't change a thing; quite apart from bringing me right in close with the family, who are STILL great friends of mine almost seventeen years later, all of that taught me such resilience... you don't get through all that on your own, in a foreign language, with virtual strangers, and not learn some pretty decent coping skills

PS Marta, you're ribbing me about not being packed?! girly, I've been packed for months - the stuff stacked in the basement, that is - and for the rest - well, I've got more than a month

what an experience!! very, very true about the coping skills though

oh, I know... I remember a very specific moment, lying awake the night after breaking my ankle, feeling all distraught and thinking I'd have to go home, when I just decided that I was NOT going to go home; I was going to stay, and make it all work... I sometimes wonder if that was one of the defining moments of my life

of course, I then had to call my poor suffering mother... which was an adventure in itself, as this all happened in what had until very recently been East Germany, and there weren't any phones
I think I said something like 'I've had a few more problems...' and her 'yeeeeessss...' was very guarded all of a sudden

it sounds like a sitcom!

[size="7"][/size]I HAVE MY K1 in hand TODAY
Will be flying to USA the 30 of April yehaaaaaah

Congratulations lilou!

Abdul Rahman arrived on February 25th through JFK and received a 90 work stamp in his passport with no problems. We applied for his SSN on March 3rd and are still waiting. Anyone know how long that takes? I am so fliiping happy and just cannot believe he is really here. Wow! What a horrible time we have all had. What obstacles we have overcome and what emotional turmoil. Kudos to everyone for their patience and neverending faith in good things. Congrats to us all!

-Christine

...i just love him

Both Charry and I are moving so it is double trouble..
I'm finally moving out of the parents house. Although, at one point I was almost going to buy the house from them. That is until I found out how much they are paying in mortgage payments.
I am moving with my entertainment center, complete with home theater system . I have a computer and desk, a filing cabinet and a bookcase. There is no point of me taking my twin bed, yes thats all I have
My parents are giving me their old kitchen table that has been collecting dust in the basement, better than nothing. My God mother is giving me a wingback chair that she has never used. One set of grandparents gave me a pillow and a fleece jacket for Charry. The other set said they bought me some towels, I already have serveral sets.
My sister gave me a bunch of old winter clothes, not really old but she bought them and wore them once for a party or something and never wore them again. They all look nice. But if they are too big or Charry does not like them they will probably go to good will.

3 days after I move Charry is arriving.

We have no living room furnature, other than the entertainment center. We have no bed never mind a bedroom set. I do not plan on getting anything either until she is here so she can help pick them out.
I saw an inflatable bed on sale for $12.99 or something like that. That should be good enough for a few days while we decide.

I'm taking the entire week off after she arrives. We can pick out the furnature we do not have, I can show her the sites around here as well as show her how to get places of importance, although she won't be able to drive for a while. Then there are the things we all know will happen after being apart for 9 months or more.

Part of me is hoping it is that quick if not quicker - purely so I don't have weeks and weeks to get too nervous!!!!!



I know - but I thought the same as you when I first came here - I saw those little hearts and couldn't believe that you had only just filed!!! I feel like I *should* be a veteran - I have got so nervous and excited for everyone else who has gone through it all and part of me thinks I have done my bit now - surely I can bribe someone else to be nervous for me?!?! I am sure Debz is pretty bored!! Maybe I'll text her now I have her new US cell number - yay!



YAY!!! You still going through SEA? You must be sooo excited!!



Oh I am sooo happy for you both Don't be a stranger! I made a new thread in the "moving here" forum for all us July bunch so we can kinda go through AOS together or at least keep up to date on how we are all doing post-K-1



Oh Jeremy and I are going to be in much the same situation aisde from the fact that we are not going to have any money to buy any furniture for a while!! We have a second hand sofa that someone has given us and I am sure we can make do with sturdy boxes and cheap rugs etc until we can save up for other things It is nice to hear about other people starting from scratch as well! Jeremy doesn't even have a place for us to live yet!!

yayyyyy adriano is here!!

he is sleeping soundly in my bed as we speak

he got through immigration just fine, and even managed to get work authorization (i guess they do it automatically)...he said that the officer only spoke english and adriano had no idea what the man was saying...despite that, everything went smoothly!! im sooo excited to wander around the city after work tonight

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! Oh I am so glad he got through ok You must be soooooo happy

Now get on over to our graduate thread girly!!

Congrats Susie!! Can't wait to be in your shoes.
It is a beautiful day here today; perfect for walking around.

Congrats on the approvals

you bet it is!! you will be here soon enough rae, doncha worry best wishes!!

yay!!! Congrats!!! You'll have to let us know what Adriano thinks of the Big Apple!

Aww - sounds wonderful... hope I have nice places to walk... I know when I was in Cabazon it was miles from anywhere and there was nowhere to walk!! Bo-ring!!

haha, I had to map that; no clue where that was.
Well, even if it's miles from anywhere populated doesn't mean it isn't a nice place to walk, right? Looks like there are huge parks near there so that could be really nice. Is that where you and Jeremy are going to be living?


Thanks

... just impatient!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce that My fiance has finally been approved! We just got confirmation from the embassy saying he has been approved, but that they will call him to pick up his VISA!! I'm so glad they said VISA because the torture is over!! According to my fiance the last step is him getting on the plane and getting over here, which makes me oh so very happy!! Thanks to everyone for their support through all of this....by the way where are the July filers headed to now? the "moving to America" forum?? now I can officially to the dance!

haha...and now you have more hearts than me!!! I found this site long before we were able to file, so I spent a lot of time reading and learning in an effort to be ready once we could file. It definitely paid off!

How is debz? Does she not have internet access? I miss her! If you text her tell her she is missed!

Oh there prolly were but where we were was 100+ in the shade and the nearest store was 3 miles away - there is no way we could walk in the summer which is when I was out there as there just wasn't any shade!! It was a nightmare!! I think we will be living somewhere slightly more populated when I move out... here's hoping!!



Yay!! Yes get yourself over to the "Moving here..." forum and dig out our beanbag room Yay!! More people!!




I spend too much time on here for my own good prolly!!! Debz should have moved into their new place by now but she wasn't expecting any net access for about a month - she has access at Nick's parent's place but now she isn't there all day she prolly can't get on too much I think she said it still feels a bit like a holiday but I am sure things will settle down a bit more now they have their own space

I miss her