here another april filer. we never got a NOA1 so we called and they told us all was fine and they would send a message to the CSC to send us the notice. well that was a few weeks ago... no touches, no NOA1, but a case number. WRAAAAAHHRRG!!!
so frustrating to work on the petition for so long, send the money and then ... nothing. give us something! anything! but im so happy to see some april filers getting approved, maybe its picked up again.

Goos Luck to all! Im hoping on some more approvals next week!
x

Aww your case has not been assigned yet?? Awww awww awww

I've seen the letter you posted here btw, good job!

I'm thinking, if we don't get approved this week, my fiance said he's gonna look into asking for help from his Congressman. This is getting to be a bit too much. Feb and March filers all got approvals pretty quick, but for April filers, it's like our petitions are in a hole or something. It has been more than 100 days for quite a few of us here.... geez....

Really, what the heck is CSC doing??

We just need to get Sydney and Dixon to take care of business haha eh?.

Awesome letter!

WIOOMBEEN! You crack me up dude! For a sec, I thought I was in AllAlias.com instead, then I scrolled up, and saw, hey this is VJ! Then, I noticed your avatar.... hahahaha... Though, I totally agree with you....Syd and Dixon to the rescue pls! They need to kick some butts at CSC, and give them a really huge shove....

Again I want to reiterate, I HATE THOSE MF"N SPAM EMAILS WITH THE WORD APPROVAL IN THEM.

I have my yahoo messenger always on so when I get an email it pops up a little message tab on the lower right of my screen. Like 10 times now I have received an email that says APPROVAL in title and it always makes my heart skip.

Especially the ones that are from a credit card company, so they say "YOUR VISA HAS BEEN APPROVED" GAH

HAHAHA


Wiombeen.

I would seriously not even open them. As soon as you see a title a mail from CRIS saying "Case status Information" thats what your looking out for.

Chapter 37 - The case of the phantom touches.

Ok, so I Called CSC again today and spoke with a amazingly kind woman. I told her I have had two touches one Mon and another on Tuesday but had not heard anything since. She said "There has been no action taken on your case yet."


Refusing to let this all so familiar dissapointment slow me down I asked, "Hmmmm, these touches are kind screwy things, are they not?" She laughed.

I continued, "But regardless, my petition has been touched, so I am assuming it has been given to a case worker?"

she said "Let me check." I can hear a choir of keys clicking and clacking in my brain as my future happiness is accessed via her keyboard. Then she says these sweet sweet words "Yes, It was assigned yesterday."

I the calmly asked "So, what is it now 10 cases per bucket."

She laughs again and asks, "Have you worked here before? You seem to know an a lot about how things work around here." And followed that each officer receives about three buckets with about ten petitions to each bucket."

I said "Nope, I have not worked there, Just been waiting about 104 days now. Thats a lot of time to learn how things work. haha"

So, Rambaldi my friend, I have been assigned to a case worker. Perhaps you have been too. How long now until I can become approved? It all depends on what bucket I am in i guess. So we wait longer, but at least we know some of the grease from someones Kentucky Fried Chicken/Burger king has dripped onto the gears over there.

Join us next week for chapter 38 - Attack of the NOA2 announcements.

Yeha I know haha. I just saying i hate those other spams. Cause they make my heart flutter for a brief second no matter what haha. I am so jacked up to see that "CRIS" that anything saying approval on it makes me briefly explode hahah


wioombeen

congrats on being assigned!

now the anxiety of checking your email will be even more accute - but surely
good news in soooo close.

also - thanks for keeping this thread alive and kicking. i have gotten to the point where i
compulsively check this thread so frequently it's absurd, and it's nice to see your postings.
your sense of humor has calmed me down more than once!

Clever post, I like the SW titles. If it takes much longer I have a feeling that Chapter 39 will be Revenge of the Petitioners...

Congrats on getting assigned, you should be on your way to NVC soon!

Thank you for the compliment. And OMG, I know the compulsion. If I could have a nickel for every time I hit refresh on this forum and my USCIS portfolio page....well lets just say I would have the worlds largest collection of nickels.

It is usually slow at my work in the morning so I am glued to my laptop all morning. SAAADDD I KNNOOOWWWW, But it's what we do. I wonder If I can sue USICS for giving me eye cancer or Carpal Tunnel syndrome. Any seedy lawyers in the house?

Wioomeen





Glad someone caught that haha

I'm glad to hear you are in a bucket. I hope I'm in a bucket too? Wonder if they put CSC/TSC/NSC together or if they are processed by different adjudicators in different parts of the CSC building?

This thread is my lifeline, now that I can't compulsively check my time line anymore since the "approval" date has already passed. =( Can't help but check in hopes that a familiar poster will receive an approval.

My fiance and I were discussing calling sometime next week if there is no news today. Not sure that I care to endure those false touches that would result though. For the record, searching "RFE trick" caused a whole lot of frustration for me last night and I can understand why the question is asked on a near daily basis on VJ. Not so easy to actually find a clear, step-by-step explanation of it, even though it is referred to often enough. If anyone has a link and can post it without a "read the guides" emoticon, I'd be a happy camper.

Also, this is a long shot, but what are the chances that petitions that weren't processed before some arbitrary cut off at CSC will be sent to VSC, if that is where they would be handled under the new rules? Anyone heard mention of that sort of thing? Keep on dreading that after the petition went from TSC to CSC that they will turn around and ship it to VSC, since petitioners from NC will now be processed there instead!

This long wait allows too much time to contemplate such things.

Really hoping to see a burst of approvals before they close up shop for the week. *sigh*

~ Eka

RFE TRICK

Call 1.800.375.5283

1,2,2,4,2,1 then enter your receipt number then press 1 to verify that is is correct,1.

This will transfer you to the Service Center your petition is at.


Wioombeen

Woot! Thanks a bunch.

I'll pass the info to my fiance should he decide to make the call.

~ Eka

Though wioombeen, any particular reason as to why it's Chapter 37?? Shouldn't it be47? *coughaliascough*

Anyhoooooooo, glad to hear that your case has been assigned!! Finally man!! I'm hoping that ours get assigned too....guessing we'll know next week huh? Thanks for typing out that long post for the rest of us, you're amazing...hehehe

Eka, I know how you feel, I hope you get assigned already too. Well, in my opinion, I think they just put all the CSC/TSC/NSC petitions together, since once they arrive at the CSC, they become part of the big CSC family....

Oh well, CSC is now done working for this week now, so let's all hope that they approve all of us next week. It really has been a long wait for April filers....

7/20/07

WE GOT OUR NOA2 today everyone. Well it was actually approved yesterday while I was talking to that nice woman haha. Just wasn't updated until sometime last night. weeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!



So chalk one more up for last week. Which makes 4 approvals.



Wioombeen

Next week really will be Attack of the NOA2 announcements I think.

awwww....congrats! hopefully we can have ours soon...come on CSC....give us our NOA2!!!

Well its about time!!! Congrats to you,now the next step is NVC. Should not take too long really,mine took 21 days from the approval.

There were 12 VJ approvals last week.

NOA1 NOA2
Donna & Eddie Philippines NSC 2007-04-09 2007-07-20
ODUNOLA & KUNLE Nigeria VSC 2007-05-07 2007-07-18
Uyen & Jay Vietnam CSC 2007-04-06 2007-07-18
JR & Sonia Canada TSC 2007-04-05 2007-07-18
April & Nate Philippines VSC 2007-05-07 2007-07-18
Doni & Liz Yugoslavia NSC 2007-04-09 2007-07-17
LeeAnn & Eric Ireland NSC 2007-04-06 2007-07-17
Daria & Steve Russia CSC 2007-04-12 2007-07-17
Sheryl Ann & Robert Philippines CSC 2007-04-02 2007-07-17
Sachi & Brian Japan CSC 2007-04-03 2007-07-17
Santon & Morath Bahamas CSC 2007-04-04 2007-07-17
pk & rr India CSC 2007-02-27 2007-07-17


Lets hope for a good week next week

WOW RoseMarie, you really are keeping your eye on the April Filers! Thanks so much!

Annette

WOW MY GOODNESS.

great work on that list. I bet it makes a lot of people feel good for next week. Looks like 10 of them are CSC as well. WOW

Congratulations! *crosses your name out*
Since you have the same NOA1 date, I HOPE they're now working on ours!

Yuibi

Make that 13 approvals :-

Kemerly & Scott Peru Nebraska Service Center 2007-04-13 2007-07-20

Hmm ... don't see any TSC action on that list. Perhaps next week.

~ Eka

That is not necessarily true since Isn't TSC transfered to CSC as well? So some of those CSC'ers could be TSC'ers.

Side note: today in the mial I received 2 NOA1's One dated Monday 16th and the other dates Tuesday 17th. Weird? I wonder if this was a result of the Receipt problems they have had. HMMMM.

Wioombeen

oh well well well, CONGRATS AGAIN!! Hope next week will be a good week for the rest of us!

You are amazing. Thanks again for letting us know these things.

Yar, I think there is some misunderstanding too from people who list CSC instead of TSC in their time lines, knowing that their petition will be transferred. I was always under the impression that we're supposed to use NSC/TSC because cases are processed in the order they are received at their first stop, rather than at CSC. *boggle* Who knows though, there is so much misinformation floating around.

Anyways ... next week - many NOA2s! Have to make their quota for the month, right?

~ Eka

Yeah, I don't know about this either. Originally I had CSC listed on my profile, but i kept hearing people say that we should put the place we originally filed at, even tho they all get transferred to CSC. Then I noticed that my processing time was significantly lower when i used NSC as my filing location, so I left it cuz it made me feel better!

I put CSC because I knew our petition was transferred from TSC to CSC. Ive wondered for a while if all the TSC petitions are grouped together though. If anyone knows it would be of great help.

This has been a running theory for some time now. I still am not sure if they are grouped separately or not, but I have asked people at the main USCIS help line and the CSC about this. They always tell me that all petitions are done in order they are received at the CSC, whether they are a transfer, or a direct CSC filer.

Wioombeen

I just got a touch today. Sunday! Is that weird?

I'm jealous. I don't even get touches on normal business days

Same here! I even get tired of checking my online status. so frustrating!

That's what I thought too, once they arrive at the CSC, they just become CSC petitions, regardless of whether they were transferred from other service centers or not. But I put TSC in my timeline just because we sent ours to TSC. Though I think in VJ, whichever service center you put in your timeline does make a difference in your adjudicated date. Perhaps the programming was done when NSC and TSC K1 petitions were not transfered to CSC yet??

Oh DeeZee, we have the same NOA1 dates, I believe we'll get approved next week!! Keep the faith!!

There is a school of thought that says they are still processed separately once they get to CSC, tho I don't know why they would do that...oh yeah, it's a government organization whose goal is to increase the bureaucracy...but, as that owl in the tootsie pop commercial said: the world may never know.

Anyway, wish me luck! I'm taking the bar exam Tuesday and Wednesday! Good thoughts! I'm trying my best to keep the anxiety at bay. Everyone cross their fingers that there's no Federal Taxation question and that civil procedure question is about jurisdiction! Better yet, everyone cross their fingers that all the essay questions are similar to this: "Are horseys pretty? Explain your answer"

Yeah! please CSC give us our NOA2s next week!!!!! need to stay positive so as not to go insane here!

Hi everyone. We filed the I-129 in April but I just found this site last night. It is great to share information and encouragement with so many people going through the same thing. We tried and failed twice with a tourist visa last year and with a student visa earlier this year, so we are getting married! We have known each other 7 years and have gotten together 4 times in the last year, so proving a relationship shouldn't be a problem. We filed the I-129F April 23, 2007. We were disappointed to see that they report that they are now only processing applications from last December, but I was very encouraged to see on this site last night that they are already completing some April applications. Ours was sent to the California center.

My hope is that Nichaphat will have her visa in November. Does that sound reasonable? I don't anticipate any problems with police, medical, etc. Thanks for any guidance or encouragement!

Oh well, somehow I don't really want to know now...I just want my NOA2!!

Quinn, best of luck for your exams! Don't worry, you'll be able to do it even though if that horsey question didn't come out... hehe

Hi there PK&NN,

Welcome to the April filers thread! Yes, VJ is indeed awesome. Don't worry about the date you see on the USCIS website, it only means that the oldest petition dated they're still working on right now is filed in Dec. As you can see from the many VJer's timelines here, usually a petition filed at CSC takes about 90 days to be approved from the date of the NOA1, though I have waited more than 100 days, and still no NOA2 yet....

If you can fill out your NOA1 date in your timeline, that'd help us all out. Thank you!

we send our petition at TSC but was shocked in the received letter they said they will process our petition at the CSC.i dunno why they transfered.kind of confusing too, on USCIS site I-129F's are only processed at Vermont and California...

Good luck on your exam, Quinn, and fingers crossed for all the April filers still waiting on NOA2s - this has to be our week!

~ Eka

Welcome to VJ, the awesome place for plenty of support and useful info...

you can ask your questions in a main board and will surely receive answers from the people here. but if something is specific to Thailand, you may want to go to a thread specifical to Thailand called "Sawasdee 2."

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...dee&st=2025

that link will lead you to the last page of the thread.

Good luck.

hope this is our week fellow April filers.......Goodluck to each and everyone...

Wlcome to the April filers PK&NN

Knock em dead at the bar exam Quinn

Tiss Monday now. Bring on them NOA2's....... NOW!!!!!!!

Wiombeen

Happy Monday my fellow April filers. If CSC stays on the same pace as last week, we should get to NOA1's up to 4/12 or so this week. Almost all filers up to 4/6 have been approved, so here's hoping that this is the week for us early-mid month filers. I done my best not to think about it or get excited since CSC put on the brakes last month, but last weeks performance from CSC was encouraging. Please CSC, try to continue and accomplish at least the bare minimum...I'd like to take my life off standby.