Hi all,

i was wondering how may people were in the same boat as me? i know carin123 and redkitty are and i think there are a couple more? so how many people are actually married and applying for green card via DCF I-130 etc out of curiousity and so we can keep an eye on each other. I received NOA1 on the 4-4-08

Anyone else?

I am doing I-I30 DCF. Filing date was 29th January and we recieved our RFE on saturday 10th April. This was for affidavits from hubby and 3 others.We are organising them as i type.
However we are not planning to move stateside for around another 12 months so trying to drag it out......

We are (I, the UKC, Amanda the USC) we just got our interview date confirmed after almost two months of anguish
May the 15th here we come!
now to sort out err.. everything!

Milena and I received a RFE just after submitting the I-130 in mid-February. Sent it back immediately and credit card was finally charged on the 25 of February. Looking forward to getting our NOA2 in the next few weeks!

i sent mine upfront and they sent them back saying they didnt want them sent em straight back. Nice to see some 2008 filers hope we all go smoothly

Sweet im kinda Jealous im ready to leave already

We are also DCF'ing. Ready to file in the next few weeks

Cool, there certainly alot more people DCFing than i thought

I'm just finished, but best of luck to you all!! I'd say since I'm not moving till at least August, quite a few of you will be there before me!

Yeah i saw you were done which is sweet and im Jealous. We arent planning on leaving until the end of the year so you'll be there before me definitely.

Whereabouts in Ireland are you? i was living in Cork City for Four years.

I'm from Mayo, but I live here, in London right now.

Well it is nice that we've finished, but we've been doing paperwork of all kinds for almost a year.

I sent off the first UK application for my OH to be here on an EU family members permit last June, and was preparing that paperwork since the April before, so.... it hasn't exactly been quick. We needed that permit for him to stay here, and also to be able to get married without paying the Home Office £500 just so they can issue a 'Certificate of Approval' to say that we are allowed to get married. Rip off merchants!!! Really the CR-1 was just the last of a loooong paper trail.

I know the feeling about the paper trail I tried for the EU family member thing in Ireland took the 14months to say no ridiculously illegal and other such things. we took a break from the paperwork but got right backk into it. Filed all the I-130 stuff and now we are getting all the other stuff together 864s 230s all that type of stuff its not fun and im heading for a vent due to my impatience.

Corcaigh Abú

yeah, I heard that the EU Family Member thing was a total mess in Ireland. It's just such a new thing in Ireland for any large numbers of people to want to immigrate there that there's nothing set up, no proper procedures, no appropriatly trained staff, in appropriate numbers. So a lot of people's lives were in a mess. I'm sorry you had such a crappy experience with the Irish immigration service.

At least in the UK, they have a fully realised system, even if it is a pain in the @ss.

You know what really bugs me most, is there seems to be no consistency with the embassy. Some get RFE's for affidavits, some don't. We have been married for over two years, I have lived in the UK over two years. I sent a copy of both my visa's (my first FLR and my second FLR) showing dates I have entered the UK. You would think between that and copies of bank statements, council tax bills and our rental agreement that is all the evidence they need! They returned all the bills/statements btw! If I get an RFE for affidavits I will scream!

Yes i agree and ive been curious to see if you will get an RFE for that or not having seen alot of people get theres sent back, Although when they RFE'd me for the Time i had lived in the UK they had stapled all of my affidavits together with the I-130 G-325a's saying they wanted it all back and then i got all of the stuff back after they billed me so i reckon they scanned the lot.

I know what you mean
I didn't supply much (if any actually) evidence of a 'bonafide' marriage in my I-130.. just got the forms and stuff it asked for on the check list and sent it in
no RFE, accepted etc

then reading some of the stories here I am now really worried at what to bring to the final interview next month.. we dont have a shared bank account or rental agreement, but do have lots of mail coming to the same address and plenty of people able to write affidavits if required, but the level of disparity between cases is quite significant!

They specifically ask you not to send evidence with your I-130.

I think they just RFE people if there's any question over it. I think we probably got one cos we'd only been married 2 minutes before we filed!! But they turned it around in no time, and sent us all the paperwork back besides the affidavits.

They didn't want to see anything like that at the interview. I suppose if they don't ask for it by the time you've got your interview, then they're probably pretty satisfied with your case. It definately doesn't hurt to bring some, in fact I would advise to bring anything you have, but don't stress about it

So i heard from a freind who filed Feb 1st and she has her NOA2 through. Any body else had any good news?

Hey guys, no specific good news from me, but I've done a DCF London wiki entry, that may be useful to people starting out doing DCF in London, feel free to add and edit:

DCF London

Her name is Poiteen, she's the DCF queen!

Seriously, good job there.

awwww thanks Maven,

now, there's something i'm missing, and I wanna put it on the wiki to save you repeating it a million more times....


it's the DOS number

I'll try to get it done this afternoon, and then you will be freeeeee!!!!11!!!

How did you know I was going to add that?

Hi All

Posted our I 130 for Hubby and Daughter in March 14 2008 and then they charged the CC a week later. No word back from them. Not the NOA1 or NOA2...

Hope it all happens sometime soon. Although the timeline on this site changed drastically and will not look at that anymore because I Know we will hear from them by next month...

Did you not get an Email giving you the file date?

Hi All,
We are DCFing. Filed the initial I-130 in Jan and got our NOA2 this past Tuesday. Going to send off for his police cert. this week just so that its done and at the same time talk to his GP about his jabs and see where he stands with those. She is going to sign his picture and the statement for the police so we might as well do it all at the same time.

Good luck to everyone.

Cool you will have to keep us posted with how everything goes. I have a slight problem with my picture being signed having been living in Ireland for four years and only having been back in england for just short of a year and nowhere near where i used to live so i have a trek to get the photos signed off. :S

I think the picture thing can be a problem for a lot of people. The only one that Glyn has on that whole list is his GP or the dentist.
I think the hoops that everyone has to jump through to get their visa is really unbelievable (although part of me understands it). When I came here on my spousal visa, all I did was send in the money and a bunch of paperwork to the UK Embassy in NY. I got my visa in the mail within 4 days.

The thing that really doesn't add up with the ACPO cert is that you need it even if you've only lived in the UK for 6 months. Yet they need someone to sign it that has known you for more than 2 years

Does that mean that your doctor from another country could sign the photo??

No i have received anything and i did include my email address on the forms so i have no idea what to think.

I wouldn't worry to much. I have heard of a number of people who received no NOA1...only that their credit card was charged. I am in the same boat...filed late Feb....we are waiting for NOA2 and Packet 3...maybe as soon as two weeks!!! We have our DS-230, checklist, police certs, and sponsorship forms all ready.

By the way, another helpful profession to sign the back of the photos for the UK police cert (APCO) is lecturer....any university lecturer will do!!!

I just moved here a little more than 4 months ago but the countdown is already on for when we do DFC to move back to the states together after I become a British Citizen.

I guess it will be a little bit after I become a citizen since I'm sure that's going to cost us an arm and a leg in 3 years

Very Cool. Hull the land of Bob carvers fish and chips white telephone boxes the humber bridge chip spice the tigers ahthe Hull Fair

This is great! thanks

As well as half of Eastern Europe, pretty much my whole neighborhood and surrounding blocks in fact I've even spoken a little Romanian since I've been here

I'm just wondering, you all filed in the UK right? I noticed you did the medical and police report requests after filing the I-130 form, is that usual? I'm not married yet. My fiance and I want to marry in the USA and file there afterwards. Can he get the medical and police reports before we get married and before we fill out the I-130? Or does he have to wait until we marry and file the I-130? Please respond asap...we plan on him moving here in August and we marry then fill out the report. I've gotten no data on it from my embassy or consulate and have read the threads and the guides but am not sure still of the order of the steps. Can you fill me in on these questions above? Thank you all so much!

oh dear... please read the guides again. You cannot knowingly move to the US intending to marry and file for your spouse legally. Where do you live? If you both live in the UK then you can marry in the US, but you will have to return to the UK to petition your then husband, and he will have to wait in the UK till it's issued. Alternately if you are in the US and he is in the UK, then you do not file a I-130 and instead a I-129F which means that your a petitioning him as your fiance. He can come to the US and then you guys can marry.

You should go back to the 'Home' page of this website, and where it says 'new members click here' click there. By going that way, it's much easier to navigate through all the info in the guides because you get the info in the right order

Uhm Yes what Poiteen said you will need to double check your method as doing things the way you have suggested will cause alot of problems for you.

Anyone heard anything? im bored with waiting now i want to book flights and moving boxes

Finally got an email back after i had to bother them with an email and my process date is March 27th.. of course they are moving as slow as snails and are just on 22nd Feb...

Also.. when it says adjudicated does that mean finished or looked at in their terms??? This is on the timeline site here...

thanks

From the word i think it means they have viewed the details in order to make a decision

That's good news, since I was in the same boat as you...credit card charged, but no email.

How did you get through to them via email? Did you have to call to get that code thingie? What email did you use?

Just out of curiosity, what day was your credit card charged? I'm trying to figure out my process date!

My credit car was charged on the 27th... so that date would be your process date.


I just emailed them at... USCIS.London@dhs.gov
I got a reply back saying it was deleted but then later got an email with an attachment with the date. They said that they do not always give an NOA1.

The crazy thing is that I don't know whether to believe that timeline page cause then i would not be hearing anything til September... but if you check their site they are still on Feb.

Our file date is 4/4/08.......all we've got from them so far was the email confirming that. Waiting....waiting....waiting.

I'm flying home end of June and my husband is staying here until September. Can't wait till this is all over!!!

Well they must have reached my filing date (26 February), because we got an RFE in the mail yesterday. Starting a new post on that.....

I'll bet you'll be approved within days of sending back your RFE, that's certainly the pattern this year.

If you get it in the post by Monday, I would bet you'll have your approval by the following Monday

Hey Thomas, how did you get on with your RFE did you send it back yet? any news?

Finally posted our I-130 yesterday! Only 3 years later than we wanted

Nice one welsh you can join us all in the waiting room

Got my police clearance from Ireland

Hi Red Baron,

Thanks for asking. We have actually been on the road the last couple of weeks in Spain. A friend is checking the mail and should forward our Packet 3 when it arrives. We are hoping to have it this week and return all the materials we collected over the past three months. Returning the checklist of course at the same time, and judging from the other timelines, we hope to have an interview date in about 5 weeks!

We'll see! I wish I could go ahead and post the Packet 3 materials...i downloaded all of them, but someone said i needed to send back the originals that we receive. Something about them having our case number on them. Can't we just fill in a case number to the ones we get off the internet? They seem to all be on the embassy website...

Just a thought. Being on the road might set us back a week or two!