i jus wanted to know if ne one has gotten rfe or approval or heard nething on their k3 today?
i know dat 3 ppl have gontten rfe over the week end...........jus wanted to know if nebody heard ne thing today. other peoples good news keeps me going since i have heard nothing

Check out my other thread:

Just got email RFE, Probably IMBRA

Yes, I received and returned my IMBRA form today. There was no email or touch before it came. Hang in there. Your patience will be rewarded.

I got the RFE today and returned it. I wonder how long it will take from this point for this to be approved!!!

Congrats guys....!

Jersey girl I am so happy that you got yours..You are probably only few of the people who have retained their sanity in this turmoil ;-)

And by the way what was yr notice date ?

congrats!

Man I wonder when I get my RFE.

I.

JERSEY GRILD DONT PLAY SAME DAY!!!

Today's mail contained our RFE as well!

j

I got an email today that our RFE was sent July 1...should be here any day!

To elaborate, my 2-page RFE came from Missouri. It was dated June 28 and postmarked June 30. It had an A-Number, which is new, as well as the MSC Number. I simply checked the No box asking if we'd met through a broker, then signed and dated. I left the convictions blank because none apply.

timesnap, I work hard to keep my sanity, and picked up St. John's Wort on my way to the Post Ofice today. It helps guard against mild depression, which would be easy to fall into, since I've been unsuccessful in my job search for two months now. I talk to my husband in Toronto every day and he is my rock, reminding me that all will be well in the end, so I'd better make sure I'm well, too.

It's a big lesson in patience, taking one day at a time, and understanding what we can't control. Having a sense of humor helps because we get so anxious and ridiculous. It's also a big test of a marriage, since we're each called upon to do our part and support the other one. I'm glad I had a long relationship with my husband before we married because it's helping us weather this storm.

Hey, what a honeymooon phase we're all having! I've got a drawer full of red lacey lingerie and no place to wear it!

wohooooo . I got an email that our RFE was also send out on July 1st. That is great. Now I hope everything goes fast and we get approved very fast.

Isabel

Got my RFE today and filled it out and sent right back to the post office....am filing for a k3 the date ont the RFE letter is 6/28/06 but in the email they sent it they letters were sent out july 1, 2006...never thought i would be so happy to get an RFE but these days its the lil things i am learning to appreciate throughout this whole process! Godspeed! To all those who are waiting, no worries you will get it...

Got RFE today...no prior email or touch...just showed up like Jersey Girl's. RFE dated June 28 and postmarked June 30 from Lee's Summit, MO.

I'm kinda thrown off by question #2, since it's a yes/no question, but there's no place to answer 'no'. I'm tempted to write in "no prior convictions". Leaving it blank could look like I just didn't address the question. Am I being too anal?

J.

I was thrown off my question number 2 as well on the RFE..since they didnt put a space for yes or no I wrote in bold letters, NO... and on the third question i put n/a...hope i didnt screw that up by writing that..you can tell whoever compose that RFE IMBRA form did not proof it very well....lol

The instructions were to check anything that applied. There wasn't any place to check off No or N/A. Your signature may be enough to swear you're telling the whole truth.

FYI, I was touched an received an email AFTER I returned the form!

akatagirl,

glad to hear I'm not the only one confused by #2. I think I'll follow your lead on filling out the RFE...just to be safe.

J.

i strated this thread down but guess wat rfe came jus an hour ago

I also got my IMBRA RFE today along with two emails telling me that it was coming......I will overnight it back Wednesday.......

hello there,yr noa date is april 4th 2006,my noa date is march 30th 2006,i received my i130 approval,as well as rfe today,u will get yr i130 approval very soon,assume u get is in a week then what is yr next step,i130 or k3,i am confused..pls advise.

what the , i mean a , what did you say?

for folks who have already got there I130 approval, i would advice to continue with k3 cause that file(I130) takes a while at the consulate. But remember that the FINAL decision is yours to make.

got mine too.wll send it first thing wed morning....

Hi sudhirbathija. If the I-130 is approved first, I'll continue with the K3 as well. It's not clear yet if K3 will still be faster. I'd like to think that IMBRA did not add a great deal of time, but it remains to be seen. As hafiz30 says, it's a personal decision.

Personally, I'd like to have my husband here sooner, even though he would not be eligible to work. There would be more waiting, but at least we'd be waiting together. We understand that the CR-1 (I-130) is more valuable, and the ultimate goal, but it might mean being apart about a year instead of roughly 6 months.

Hey, I'm not getting any younger, and it was never our plan to be celibate during the first year of marriage!

lol i wanna see someone take that RFE from the mail person sign it and then run and give it right back to them. You could have a preposted priority mail envelope with tracking on it ready to go. Just be on the look out for that mail person(i would use mail man, but trying to be politically correct)



Mhmmmm

So the have to send you the IMBRA. How long does it take? I am applying right after my wedding in August for a K3.

The new I-129F form (available on the USCIS website) has the IMBRA questions already on it. As long as you use that form you won't get an IMBRA RFE.

Good luck.

JERSY GIRL. Both your and my cases time line is exactly the same EXCEPT that i dont know what "Touched" means ? I never got any email from USCIS but other than that our time line are the same. Can any body help me understand how can i figure out whether i was touched or not?

I sent out the new form and it was recieved on June 26th. It was touched on the 28th, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. What does that mean?????

Hi khattak. The best way to guesstimate your journey is to update your timeline and add that information to your signature. Comparing yourself to me may not be terribly helpful. The site collects statistics that help posters gauge wait times based on couples with the same Service Center and country where the foreign partner resides.

To build your timeline : Homepage > Immigration Timelines > Edit/Add My Entry
To do your signature : Homepage > My Controls > Personal Profile > Edit Signature

Being touched means some sort of action has been taken on your file. You'll know because you'll set up a customer account at https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/index.jsp Watch the dates. If they change, you've been touched. You can also choose to get an email alert when this happens.

I was so nervous about this RFE, I called the "misinformation" line this morning and waited on hold for darn near an hour, for them to tell me to write "NONE" beside ques. #2 and N/A beside ques. #3.

I really can't understand why the RFE was so poorly put together (deficient). For a place that doesn't like you to leave things "blank"......I wonder what the heck they were thinking when they didn't provide a proper alternative to leaving the ques. blank

Anybody notice that the signature box was kinda small??

Sometimes I wonder about that place........


Well anyways its over and done....on its way back to the NBC....hopefully things will get moving now.

Does anyone know what the "A" number is on the front of the RFE? Will that be our NVC number?

[quote name='hafiz30' date='Jul 3 2006, 10:56 PM' post='288592']
[quote]hello there,yr noa date is april 4th 2006,my noa date is march 30th 2006,i received my i130 approval,as well as rfe today,u will get yr i130 approval very soon,assume u get is in a week then what is yr next step,i130 or k3,i am confused..pls advise.[/quote]

I am in teh same situation, and I will continue with both and even when I get a K3 , it is cheaper for my husband to fly back and have his i-130 interview a few months later than go through process of AOS and EAD, pay all that extra money and wait another year or so to get a green card. Now that I moved to Miami , waiting time here for all this is obscene.
That's just my choice though. If my i-130 gets to embassy sooner, K3 will be abandoned anyway.

Good luck!

hi appreciate yr reply,i will defenately wait for my k3,but when in the world will i get my k3 approval, ,i have no clue what the uscis is up to,california processing date is december,17,2006,and i have my i130 approved,my friends noa for i130 is dated jan,10,2006,he has no clue where is his approval for i130,his k3 got approved in may2006,his wife had a k3 interview in june,they did not give her a visa,caus they feel its a sham marriage,and told his wife to provide more proof of communication,now he is n morocco with 200 pages of phone records,lets see what happens next..

hi,thanks for yr reply,i surely agree with u,k3 is my first option,when in the world my k3 will be approved,i will wait ..cheers.