I sent my fiance documents so she can file the K1. It left the UK last monday and arrived in New York at 12:18pm Wednesday. I was expecting her to get the docs at the very latest Friday. She still hasnt got it, so she phoned USPS and they say its still in customs at New York, WTF is that all about? All thats in it is a copy of my birth cert, divorce decree, letter of intent and my biographic. Why on earth would it be in customs so long?

Unfortunately, USPS doesn't control the customs process - can't blame this one on them!

Maybe a back log of stuff for Customs to clear.

Maybe not blame them. But why do customs hold documents for so long? All thats in it is a few papers in a big envelope.

At least they are not lost... that has been my experience with USPS... they just lose my packages and letters all together!

Back log at xmas i can understand but its April. It's taken long for this to send than the presents i sent at xmas. Im just cheesed of cause i spent that extra few pounds so that it could be there ASAP. I sent it by airsure.

get the number and call them........sometimes it can help other times not.......but at least it is something to try my mom has to do that sometimes with her medication that she gets from over seas

My fiance has called them today. USPS say its been sitting in customs since Wednesday.

no no i mean call customs office they have numbers u can call........

Sorry, picked you up wrong there. Cheers, i think i might just do that.

I don't think it's a matter of what's in your particular package, but how many other packages are sitting there with yours waiting to be cleared. I'm sure there are literally thousands.

If US is anything like the UK end there is always a backlog waiting to be examined.

Most stuff goes through without being checked but if something is pulled out to be checked it takes several days. Last box I sent to the UK got held up for 2 weeks. Why yours should have be singled out, if it has been, you may never know. Might just be random or someone in Customs didn't like the look of it.

USPS lost our first I-129f package en-route to VSC. It delayed us by 5 weeks and still hasn't surfaced 3 months later. Think incompetence of the UK Post Office times 50, talk about the right hand not knowing what the left one is doing. USCIS are a well oiled machine in comparison. (Although I agree for a change this isn't actually USPS's fault.)

I hope you get a result soon!

Bex xxx

I have just found out that USPS have it in hand now. Bit of luck it will be there today.

For time sensitive documents if the extra cost doesn't put you of, you might consider Fed Ex or UPS.

When we purchased our US house the papers had to be signed in front of a US notary public, so we had to go to the US Embassy in London. We did that on a Wednesday morning walked to the nearest Fed Ex office and the signed documents were delivered to the title company in Oregon 10.30am the next day.

Lol. I live in the back of beyond in the far north of Scotland. 1 post office is all we have. Wishful thinking of having Fedex up here.

Price you have to pay for living in one of the more beautiful parts of the world

That is what I love about Scotland...lots of gorgeous wide open spaces. My lovely lives in Berwick upon Tweed (technically on the other side of the border) and I love visiting and getting out into the rural backwoods.

I take it all you have is the postbus eh?

Lol not quite the post bus but they do on the west coast. We only have 1 main road to the south and a small airport. I live near John O Groats so it aint too bad. Nearest biggest town is Inverness. 110 miles south. If i remember im sure i seen a UPS van in Inverness.

Wow up by John O'Groats? I've always wanted to go there...is there much to speak of (enough to warrant a visit for a day or two)?

I'm pretty sure UPS is in Inverness. Lovely city...a few years ago I accidently left my handbag at the bus station there while boarding a bus to Eilean Donan. It had everything in there...my passport, credit cards, camera, and my phone. I didn't realize I lost it until we got to the west coast, and when we got back at night it was gone. The next day, just as we were about to board a bus to Edinburgh to go to the US embassy, my fiance gets a call on his cell. Well one of the bus drivers for Rapson's had found my bag and turned it into the company, and the receptionist was smart enough to turn on my phone and see who I last called. We went straight there, and my bag...and all the possessions therin...were in good order.

Since I've had a rather high opinion of the highland people. If I'd lost that bag in Glasgow the first ned to have come along would have taken it!

Eilean Donan Castle, lovely place. Thats where i proposed to Lara. Inverness is a lovely town, the gateway to the Highlands, even though its classed as a city now. Lol Glasgow wouldnt be the best place to leave anything. The city is over run by Neds and pain in the backside youngsters.

As much as I despise neds, they do crack me up all the same.

Neds Fighting

This video always slays me. It's really the worst fight ever recorded...the one ned runs around like a ninny half the time.