I don't get telephone connection, all lines are jammed! Can we all open a new telephone company ???

Hot news !!! USCIS accepts direct deposit

Paychecks Monthly pay outs:
Mental health therapy cause of USCIS: Will work rest of my life to pay off.
USCIS fees: Lots of overtime retirment date: 3000 A.D.
Phone bills: Way too much minimum $300.00 per month Working on smoke signals to France.
Airline tickets: Get 2nd job at Wal-mart to pay for.
Food: None no wonder I lost 70 pounds quickly.
Gas: One arm and two legs, promised 1st born when it arrives. ride bike for transport
Paris Heart

Another day, another non approval, vermont is awesome...

$450 for June 6-July 21
I win..
Btu this isnt the part I WANTED to win





I know, right!!!
I am probably at about 40%

so much for a budget and saving. sheesh

All this talk of money is quite depressing .... funny how one of USCIS's expedite criteria is financial hardship, yet does anyone ever ask for that expedite ????

we dont email and I only use a callign card for calls. so.....
we never do mail b/c jamaica mail system is JACKED up.

I guess I am depending on my pictures, my visits and cards to both of us at around Christmas time..what else do yall think?





I know, arent they?
about as awesome as a poopie baby diaper in the hot sun.




hahahah no..b/c then they would deny you based on being able to support anyone else! hahahaha

My I-130 got touched today!!!!!Come on VSC!!!

Wow, you get to be with your Husband for 6 weeks, that's great! ... you must be so excited
I'm hoping mine will be able to come for a little while in July, if the Army doesn't require him





Jeca, that's fabulous news!! I wonder how the other guys are doing with their touches??? maybe we'll get 4 more approvals soon ??

That's great Jeca!!!!!
It is a rush when those dates change, isn't it?
I've been sending positive touch me vibes all day (to the USCIS people of course) but so far nada (then again I'm a recent filer).
Anyway, good for you!
Cat

I am a sep 15th filer and my NOA1 Date is Jan 4th , today i got a first touch ever , I am quite happy , i hope i get approved soon

I got a touch yesterday as well. I am 12/31 filer for I-130. NOA 2/6. Visible online on 2/24 (like most people).

Wonderful!! another January NOA1 is obviously being processed .... well done VSC!!!




A February NOA1 being processed is truly super news ..... this week hopefully should bring more approvals if VSC pull their finger out

Yeah Well Done VSC!
..............

I hope this means more approvals soon!!!I was so excited when I saw the date changed!But I also know that Vermont approves petitions without a single touch so those who haven't got any touches yet shouldn't worry.Good look to everyone!!!!

Jeca, Inky, Iceman... good luck hope u get ur approvals in a few days!!! Comeon VSC!!

Shrewdy were NEXT!!

WE MUST BE
and let me tell ya kitty..when we get it we are gonna get it with a bang

Start banging VSC, IM READY !!!

You would think with so many of us being touched in the last 2 days, someone has to be approved by VSC by end of week. I pray we are all approved.
Paris Heart

What does touch means? Can someone please tell me.

Thank You,
Rahul

When USCIS touches your file, do you receive any emails if your signed up on USCIS website? Thanks

Dave, when you say your second touch was an RFE, how did you know? Did you get an email? Status change on the USCIS website? My I-130 was touched on 5/4 and 5/5, and nothing today. Online status still says "Case received and Pending"...
I'm wondering if I got an RFE...

Thanks!

Waiting for the gates to open. Day 202

Just to let you guys know, that another February NOA1 for I-130 has been approved .... Rajee.
He tends to roam the K3 forum so probably won't post on here ..... but that's good news folks .... more VSC approvals are coming.
Looks like they are working all three months together December/January/February NOA1's

ckone - We got almost the exact same thing, we were toched on 1st and 2nd May, then nothing but it still says 'case received and pending'. Still hoping its not an RFE...!

guess that just sucks for the rest of us in september, oct, and nov then, huh?

Put it like this, If they are going by NOA1 dates then there is only a 2 week difference for Oct and Jan filers and the same thing for Nov and Feb filers, so pretty much even though we sent in our applications months before there is a good chance we will be approved the same time as the people who sent there applications in Jan and Feb. Really a horrible picture to paint if you ask me

Well I guess it would if you were one of those in that bracket, but as your NOA1 is dated 01-17-08 thankfully that puts you in the January group .... remember, your filing date is irrelevant.

At this moment, I'd be doing this and cheering VSC along .... I sure as hell am .... I'm a February NOA1 and keeping my fingers and toes crossed right now as I've got someone Stateside I need to get to see before she dies of terminal cancer.

C'mon VSC, you can do it ..... spit the NOA2's out this week!!!!




The picture may be horrible, but sadly that's the way it is and there's bugger all we can do about it

I dont care that we are all grouped together.. I just want us ALL APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is nothign we can do about it taking so long for us to get approved and I dont want others delayed but I WANT TO BE APPROVED

I try to think positive but if they are indeed going by filing date then according to their processing times they will not have to process our applications until Oct or Nov of this year, there is no more 6 months, USCIS states that their estimated time for applications is 9-10 months for form I 130. And im sorry if I am a bit unhappy that I will processed at the same time as people that sent their applications 3 months after me but I just dont see how it is fair. Shrewd is at 7 months almost and all those people before her are at 8 or 9 while people who filed 3-4 months later will have a wait time of 4-5 months. Its great for all of you who most likely will not have to wait as the rest of us have but its just wrong that the system is working like this.

yeah eric..its totally unfair..and still yet it can take a long (longer) time..but HOPEFULLY..... it wont

when do you get to see her again?
what makes me mad is that there is no accountability system that vermont even has to change their processing dates. ya know? waht the crap if we stayed at the same spot for 3 months in ANYTHING we would get fired....

its all bull ####, their system sucks they lie,
Fvck VSC!




okay i feel much better now!

Im going to Brazil on June 11th, its only for 1 week though, but if things dont go any faster she will insist I move there, she refuses to wait 1 year or a year and a 1/2 to start our life together. I cant blame her at all, I dont want to have to wait so long either, I like it here and I really dont want to live there but if it keeps my marriage together then I will. No one wants to spend years apart from their family and I am sorry for those on this forum that have had to. The worst thing is I cant say well if we wait a bit longer you will have your interview and you will be here, the only thing I can say to her is what USCIS tells me, which pretty much means sometime in early 2009 Jan or Feb she will have her interview. When we first started this we were under the impression that it would be about 6-9 months now its turning into 9-18 months. I feel as if i lied to her, made her think things that were not true, maybe she even thinks that way. Her whole family thinks that I dont want her here because they always tell her that things shouldnt take this long , so and so did it an it only took them 6 months. Heck one of her cousins filed their application in Oct and they already had their interview date at the start of April but changed it because they had to wait for something or other. Its just so frustrating that Aug-Nov filers are the ones that have to go through this hell.

hahah the 6 months story happens in Jamamica too. It burns me up!

Think about this..... If we get approved by May 30... then in about 2 months (with online payment) we are finished with NVC...THEN about 2 months later (it has been for JA anyway)...an interview...
we could STILL get interviews in Sept
I am praying for September for my husband to be home. God has moved bigger mountains than this...
It kills me..but it is too heavy a burden for me to carry.

With all those touches I'm thinking about that, too.But you are an October filer and you should have been approved already!

I feel your pain bro. Hopefully our voice will be heard. Maybe Karma will come in to play? Who knows, all I know is without a little adversity good things just dont happen.

I think mixing the K-3 130 touches/approvals with the IR/CR1s doesn't give us a true picture. It appears that K3 130s are approved before IR/CRs. So I have a hard time getting giddy because another K-3 applicant gets some attention regardless of when they filed. I suspect they have different queues for people who have both a 129F and a 130 than for those w/just a 130.

I was thinking that too, most of the approvals have had a K3 attached to it, but Vermont still treats it as an I 130 and makes the K3 null.

true. I didnt think abuot that pattern...BUT maybe its just b/c more people do K3 and not as many do ONLY CR-1...????

If they'd at least go by the NOA1 date but some of these folks have NOA1s after us!

Trying to make sense of the USCIS approval process is like nailing Jello to the wall...

Amen to that one. Its another mystery which will remain un-solved.
Paris Heart

I also noticed this pattern as most I-130 getting approved had filed for k-3 too. Very few straight i-130 filers are getting approved and they are usually way behind others. Another place that made me think about this and start noticing was here: http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/
on the right side look at what is listed under: Approximate Processing Dates for Common Forms
there you won't find a straight I-130 listed. Its VJ.. so I dont know why they would not list it and they haven't got anything to do directly with how files get processed.. but this is what got me to start noticing the pattern.

I wonder what the latest you can file a 129F and reap the benefits of seeing your I-130 approved quicker.

If I had to do it all again, I would have gone K-3 and said that he doesn't need to work for 3 months or whatever.

hahah mrs.Z...nice signature....
I know we really just keep seeming to get the crappy end of the stick, right???

LMAO! Maybe its the late hour...but geesh I read this and died. You made my night....put a smile on my face for sure.

What is up with this touch date of 02-24-08 that I see all kinds of Vermont people with...myself included. Was this a mass data entry day? This is the one and ONLY touch our I-130 has ever gotten. Every time I log onto USCIS and see the same date listed I want to pull my hair out.

Amastar was CR1/IR1 only.

Delicia's spreadsheet only deals with CR1/IR1 not K3 filers.

Here's is her updated spreadsheet which helps even more

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pUr...KbwRg&gid=5

It's Vermont sorted by NOA1 ...... CR1/IR1 only remember

December NOA1's appear to be finished, unless someone has been ommitted accidently.

January NOA1's are half finished.

February NOA1's are a quarter done.

Delicia suggested and I agree that they are not going by NOA1 dates. They are taking a random approach. WIWO is their motto -- "whenever in, whenever out".

That a CR1 gets done here and there doesn't mean that K3s aren't getting priority.

yeah. agree with delicia too about the NOA1. I mean it shows SOME kind of pattern..but not enough of a solid one to believe that is the way they are approving them

I was very encouraged about all the touches people were getting on their petition at Vermont but seems been nothing more than resorting or something. Somwthing really weird is going on at Vermont because California keep cranking out approvals. It is sad that we have to wait without any kind of legitimate information on what they are doing.