THE letter came today and I must admit to being too darned scared to open it so I gave it to Alan, it's his waiver after all and he is APPROVED.....WOOOOHOOOOO it's all over we are finally on our way.

We are going to book the flights this weekend for 2 weeks today (should give us plenty of time to get his passport back) arrange the shippers for the furniture and get the dogs booked in as cargo on the same flight as us and then off to sunny Florida

What a fantastic feeling, we are so damned happy today, did a "bit" of celebrating last night for the case complete and must admit to a "small" hangover this morning and now I have to go and do it all again for the approval

Good luck to all who are still waiting and waiting, hope you all get to be with you loved ones soon

Val and Alan

Now you can se you daughter
And same time I can sae my new son

Oh Thank the Lord!!!

I am so happy for you both...Congratulations

Just flat out wonderful news. Congratulations!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Good luck and best wishes in your new life together!

congrats and wish you the best

Great news Val i am so happy for you both. Good Luck in your new life in Florida, and I hope your dog is doing ok too.

Congratulations and best wishes!!!

We have to add our heartfelt CONGRATIONS

Val and Alan you so deserve some GOOD NEWS at last.


We know how you feel and its difficult to put into words - the wait is now over and your NEW life is just beginning. Just make the most of every minute. The next 2 weeks will fly and you will be there with your daughter and her family before you know it.

Have a safe trip and a wonderful life.

Jenny & Les

Val, that's just awesome news! We're so happy for you!

Congrats!

OMG!!!! Congratulations...... I'm very happy for you!

OMG Val and Alan

How can we both be so happy the same day.
It's now almost 2:30 in my morning and I am having so much energy that I can't sleep.
I opened a bottle of wine to celebrate it myself and called all my famely, friends and enemies to tell my approval LOL

I hope so for both of you to have a safe travel to Florida
My travel will be in marts because of things I need to finish first.
It's especially because of my son who has to finish his college a good way and need to have february done.

I can tell you that Mike and I maybe will travel to Florida in May 27
It's because he has his sisters there and they are celebrating one of their sons school examin-

Same time I can visit my aunt and cousins that I haven't seen since 1975 here in Denmark.
Very exciting year this 2007.

Love and congratiolations to You and Alan
from Mike and Anette

Got a bit smile on my face because I know how you feel.


So very happy for you both.

Vicky

Congrats!

It's hard to stay away from VJ isn't it? Good to see you back at it.

Congrats to Val and Allan. and to sweets and mike.

Thanks to all of you, really appreciated ,

Becca, good to see you and hope that you and Wes are OK, Cerise, long time no see, hope that you are also doing fine

Broma, so far Morgan is doing OK, his cancer is an aggressive type but he seems to be OK so far, only time will tell, god willing he will still be good to fly and will be able to come with us, our fear is that the cancer had already started to travel before they removed the lumps, or as the vet said, he could be the one in a thousand who beat this thing. We can only pray. He is coming with us and if we have him for a few more weeks or a few months it is better than not having him at all but we will not let him suffer and as soon as we see the signs, we will have him put to sleep. So keep your fingers crossed for us Broma that he can at least hold our for another month or so, I cannot bear the thought of him not coming with us.

I have finally come down to earth and following on from our celebrations this weekend, am slowly getting over one of the worst hangovers I have ever had But it was worth it

Val

Thank you very much.

I still can't believe it.
worries away in a split second.
It's a fantastic feeling.

Sweetie

Val your daughter must be so happy now.

We are Sweetie and yesterday my darling granddaughter was on the phone to me and telling me how she was really, really really excited and that she loved me more than I loved her, just a laugh we have together, I tell her I love her and she tells me she loves me more and then I tell her No I love you more and that is how we go on, could keep at it all day if we let her

Looking to book the flights for the 17th as long as they have the cargo room for the dogs, so only another few weeks and then it will be goodbye England and Hello America

I hope the immigration officer at Sanford says to me "Welcome to America" that is all I am waiting for now

Congratulations!

Congrats to you both !!

Just wanted to also add my heart felt good wishes!


fantastic news munchkins! I am so happy for you!! You were there for me when I was going through it, and I will always remember that!


I hope you have a great life in sunny Florida!


I am so happy for you!



Paul

Congratulations!!!!!

Congrats....we are so happy for you!!!

Karen & John

Thats wonderful news Munchkins,congratulations!!I have a few questions to pick your brain with if you don't mind.I as yet have not been approved but am under review so surely a decision is imminent.Question 1 is;When you saw that your case was completed,what kind of confirmation did you receive and how long after the vase was completed did you recieve it? Question 2 is;Did the passport have to be sent to the London Embassy and if so how do you make arrangements to do this,as i know you have to have some sort of courrier service.Any help would be graciously appreciated and once more many many congratulations,its been a long haul!

Hi reallyworried

I hope you don't mind if i jump in here and answer a few of your questions for you. I think munchkins is probably busy getting things ready to ship over.

Once you see you have been completed on the waiver list you end up having to wait until you receive a letter from them telling you if you have been approved or denied. My husbands was in Northern Ireland and it took about 5 days. I think we were completed on a friday and we got the letter on Wednesday the next week. No matter who or how you try to contact them, they won't give out the information any other way than the letter through the mail. Kind of nerve wrecking. lol
The letter you receive will tell you what service to use to ship your passport back to the embassy. I think that cost about $20 to ship it over and back. It then takes about 7 to 10 days for your visa to come back. You might want to ask them when they come to pick up the passport if you need to be there or if you can leave your information with someone else for them to pick up for you.

Best wishes and glad to see your finally making progress. your case had me worried. lol

Baileyj

Reallyworried, so sorry to have missed your post but I see that vicky stood in for me, thanks Vicky. Anyway, if this helps, here is what has happened to date

Alan was approved on the 23rd and the list was updated on the embassy website as of the 29th, which is when we found out, we received the official notification on the Saturday, so that was 4 days. The courier office is closed on Saturdays so I phone on Monday and they picked up Alan's passport on Tuesday, as of now, Monday 5th we are still waiting to receive the call that it is ready to be delivered. Hopefully that will happen sometime this week or early next week, as long as it does not take any longer than that because we are booked to fly with the dogs I might add, on Friday 16th

Paul, that is really sweet of you, thank you, I hope that your life is really wonderful now. Best wishes to you and your lovely wife

Vicky, as always a star, thanks for helping Reallyworried out, not been packing yet, all that was done a while ago and is now in storage seeing as how we had sold the house and moved out on the 9th jan. Only got a few things to go to the storage depot when the shippers come to collect all our stuff on the 14th and 15h, for some reason they need 2 days Just getting a bit p****d off now as the days seem to be dragging and with not working anymore (which funny enough I miss ) and living in rented accom with no real furniture and none of my ornaments or personal things about it only takes me about 10 mins to do the cleaning!!!!! really bored all day.

Still it will come eventually, and then we will be on our way

hi guys thx to both of you,Baileyj and Munchkins,your info and advice is highly thought of and welcomed.Yeah my case is certainly a worrying one,god alone knows whats going on with it,time just doesn't seem to apply to it.Anyways hopefully i'll get my approval soon and will be asking you both about AOS,until then good luck and take care.

Our pleasure Reallyworried but it will be no good asking me about AOS, we are going in as LPR from the IR5 and as such are legal to work immediately (well once we get our ssn) and as such have no further paperwork once we get there, which is just great.

Sincerely hope that you see some movement this week on the list I know I will be checking in to see if Dwar has got his, good luck to you

That's wonderful news- congratulations

I dont know if you will reply to me. But I kinda need some help. My husband was just approved his waviers (601-212) and I am trying to find out the timeline for him to go into the embassy for his visa. Can you give me some Ideal? Thanks and congrats on your approvel