Most of the NVC crowd are K1 so I will try a post here...

We got NOA2 two weeks last Wednesday.

Everyone else from Columbia etc etc got their NVC number within a few days - we are still drawing a blank despite /autoline/speaking to the operator/emailing

I know the US govt is having extra security problems with the UK and wants to impose visas on Brits with Pakistani backgrounds - with this change pending, do you reckon ALL Brits are having extra checks and hence the delay ?

how many days is normal at the moment for I-130 victims ?


alan

Two weeks doesn't seem to be way out there. Sometimes it is just the way it goes in this process. I had to stop looking at the k visa threads personally. The K visas tend to move much faster in all stages of the game, but you have to remember you are going for the Cadillac of all visas and they do take a bit more time in processing. Watching that calendar never helps. Hang in there! I bet you will know something soon.

You are right... and with Carolyn back in Milwaukee for a week, I am sat looking at the wall figuring out what happens if we get a 2 year administrative review as some do...

YesterdayI gave my daughter my anti-ice spray so I am comitted to go before 5 november now...
Ok time to think positive


Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof !

I see you guys were a couple of days under 2 weeks and I am a couple of days over so far........

It's a good job the call charge is only 1 p per minute... I use 0844 861 2121 in the UK if anyone wants to call for that price....

ok back into the lotus position

alan

I remember those days. It is easier for me to tell you not to worry about it than it is for you NOT to worry about it.

My wife is a UKC and we got thru the NVC in less than 2 months for the I-130 and the I-129F from NVC to her letter fom the embassy in about 3 weeks. I don't think they are slowing anything down it is just that there really isn't any "normal" time for this process and no way to predict? It is frustrating, all you can do is use James's shortcuts for the I-130 and call the NVC a lot to keep track of where things are. The voice response message is often way behind so don't hesitate to call an operator. Good luck and a safe journey! Ray

Hi Ray - you were 16 days from NOA2 to NVC number which is about what we are - so that's reassuring
I wondered about the auto thing and whether it updates overnight or real time .

I called twice today and the human is overloaded and they bounced me out to the auto system- so I will try tonight before I go for my Timothy Taylor's Landlord liquid nerve tonic !
http://www.timothy-taylor.co.uk/llordfr.htm
alan

Finally got through to an operator...told her CIS approval was 2 weeks last wednesday - she gave me the standard 90 day answer and I said thank you and that was that...
I will try again next week just in case it isn't lost or into review
alan

hally - chuffin' -looyah !

just got an email from NVC >>>>

Good Afternoon,

The National Visa Center (NVC) recently received this petition. We are
in the process of entering the petition information into the computer
system and assigning a case number. Upon completion of this process, the
appropriate agent (applicant, petitioner, or attorney) will receive
instructions for the further processing of this petition.

Regards,
National Visa Center
AKD

yabberdabberdo!!!!!!!!!!1 I needed this for a friday night - the beer will go down well now and I might even smile serenely at screaming kids...
by sunday I will be fretting about 'generation' of forms but I will give that 2 weeks or so before coming out in an anxiety rash...

onwards and upwards !

alan

YAY!
It's not lost, or stored or fallen off a cliff!
Onwards and upwards indeed!

I really hate when unsubstantiated rumor becomes absolute fact just because the f*cking BBC covers it.

Our case landed at NVC on the 9th May and I rang today and got our case #. Yours should be there soon

How crude ! - anyway the BBC covered your Mr Bush's WMD's - and they didn't become fact...
The rumour that foreigners (aliens) would be fingerprinted and photographed at points of entry became fact
etc etc

If you need to get the facts as the story unfolds, you can still get the BBC on line when you are back in Dallas - just because you couldn't hack it here in the UK doesn't mean you have to be vitriolic about the UK in general and the BBC - one of the word's finest institutions.

When I am in Florida and living it up on half priced dollars, I will still tune in regularly to see what is really happening on the grassy knolls around the world

alan

I think HA may have been referring to this recent "news" item: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=66316

It was a very shoddy bit of reporting, and the BBC was not alone in misinterpreting the situation. I am fairly agnostic on the subject of the BBC -- I think their good reporting can be excellent indeed, but so much of what I see on the TV news is, well, tabloidy. Have you even tried to watch the Breakfast News recently? Sheesh. The radio division is much harder-hitting and incisive, with truly though-provoking and original content. I'm a big Radio 4 fan, especially From Our Own Correspondent and Crossing Continents. I tend to shy away from the BBC website for any type of news beyond what Girls Aloud are up to -- I find the FT.com and the New York Times websites have the space to report more fully on topics and present analysis of issues. The BBC website is a victim of what appears to be a policy of brevity, and as a result, the nuance and depth you might expect from other BBC services is lost.

But on a happier note...congrat on getting to the NVC!

I agree that BBC TV isn't a shadow of what it was and I too am addicted to BBC 4 radio.. I like public radio in the US too and it was a real eye opener to hear how many intelligent, quiet , thoughtful , knowledgeable and moral Americans there are.

Many people in the world are not aware that very many Americans are not the crude, torturing, militaristic, uncaring empire builders that has become the image recently ......

HA says my 18 months in Wisconsin was not enough to learn anything about America, but I hope she won't deny that part of what I learned.

All Americans refer to the lower rear part of the human body too readily though- as translated by basil fawlty 'Manuel, I will break your bottom'

But I have the right to sprinkle my compliments with criticisms and many Americans can't take that from a would be immigrant - and it's that blind, patriotism induced intolerance which is the most un-American of all.

I digress and get off topic

Yes thanks for your congrats - knowing someone personally who's file was lost twixt USCIS and NVC really got me worried - I got the number this morning so i am busy with my bar codes !

I do try to wind HA up I know - and I shouldn't - it's not good being homesick- it's an anxiety just like waiting for a file number and I hope she finishes all her selling up and stuff and doesn't think too badly of what Tony Blair calls 'The best country in the world'


alan

Guys,

I know it can be frustrating, but your lucky yours went through the USCIS so quick I applied in at beginning of November and have only just been approved a month ago. I also got and email from NVC saying they have received petition and are in process of assigning case number over a week ago but everytime I speak to them they say no record on our system yet and they can't say if they have petition or not but if the emails says they do then they do but it's just not on there system as yet and to wait another 2-4 weeks so it's been over 6 months for me since I started this whole process. And to cap it all off I had a baby in March who hasn't seen any of her American family. So I really feel your frustration and I do understand this horrible waiting game absolutely sucks. So please let's get through this together and keep each other updated.