A Big Congrats to mondays approvals ! Lets hope this is the start of a special week

what wonderful news in this thread; a veritable storm of approvals

I'll single out Audrey for special congratulations; see how the world looks like a different place today?!

I'm SO happy for you

I'll be honest and say that it makes me a little sad to be on the inside looking out at some of the great friends I've made who I've spent almost 5 months in the same boat with. Starting tonight they've all (dis-)embarked on to a new phase of their journey. I'm ecstatic for them, but the boat sure is looking a lot roomier now.

I'm still here! Excited and nervous and everything all at once! I'm not gone yet! I don't expect to be for awhile. Hang in there mox! You're not the only one left!

Congrats to September filers Juliana & Brian, approved Feb 4!!!

I was either lucky or my approval was the last to be added to the shipment to NVC.

Received NOA2 on 1/23, NVC received it 1/26 and NVC sent it to Bangkok on 2/1. Confirmed it with a phone call to NVC tonight.

Good luck to the rest of you!!

it DOES feel weird when you're one of the ones 'left behind', but it's only temporary

Wow that was fast! I hope CSC are starting to send them out to NVC faster now.

Yeah. Waiting through all the months you sort of feel like a "Class of..." gang. Only not everyone graduates at the same time, and tonight as all those September approvals rolled in, it really hit home. It's not the approvals so much as it is the gang breaking up and going their separate ways. (Cue David Bowie's "Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes"...)

It actually makes sense. Seeing as CSC is on a roll now, they must be filling up those boxes for NVC pretty fast so they send them out at shorter intervals.

5 approvals in one day is fast. For a monday, it's incredible!

Isn't it though? At this rate all of October should be approved by close of business Friday.

Hey mox! I'll keep you company. Even though I'm one of those who have moved on to the next stage, I'll stick around here. Besides, I've got a vested interest in here.

You're too kind. Besides, the west-coast Russian community is small and our wives are bound to run into each other anyway.

(and when we do meet up...ixnay on the unibrow fetish, okay?)

I really hope you get approved soon Mox. It really does seem weird. 5 months of waiting and then boom its approved. Seems weird not to be waiting for my NOA2 anymore. We all may be going on our separate parts of our journey but we are all still September Filers at heart You guys are what made the wait bearable.

What are friends for!

And of course we could always make that happen sooner rather then later.

Gotcha. I gotta warn you though, my girl does read these boards And she just might understand en_US@piglatin.po

GRATZIES GUYS!!! What great news! We seem to be on a roll again!! Yippee!! I hope I haven't jinxed things now



I know how you feel - I felt soooo left behind, like all my friends were moving onwards and I was just hanging around. And I didn't even have the worst of it In fact going by our July spreadsheet I was actually approved in below-average time for CSC But we're not really going anywhere - besides, you have a free pass into our new July room - what more could you want?!



Oh damn you. I am going to have that stuck in my head all day now. I love Bowie!!

As an aside - yeah - it is weird not waiting for NOA2 but you soon get used to it

Well done to you all - I am delighted for you. Looking good for those dates of mine!!! Go CSC!!!

That's great news but (secretly) I knew she would get it today - so that's 8 for the day yesterday!!! Sweet!!!

Nah - it was her interview not NOA2... unless that is what you are talking about! I am just soooo happy for her!!

OMG its so wonderful all these people approved .......Congratulations to all of u

I got a touch on 2/4/2008!!!!!!!! I hope this is the magic touch!!!!!

Gratzies! Hope it brings good news!!

Congratulations to all of you, I truely feel much better now by seeing all these approvals coming and still praying to get mine soon too..I don't know what could have happened to me if there was no JVs and all those wonderful people whom share their weakest moments, depressions and their happy moments too not to mention how they cheer me up every time I read your replies when I'm totally down. I wish all the best for you all and may god make the rest of the journey much much easier.. <---- and don't forget

Another touch for today!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited that I am having trouble working!!!!!!!!

Meh, was there any doubt? I look forward to her return and a personal congrats!

Of course there was no doubt except in her mind!!!

And gratzies on the second touch!!

Moxie - how you feeling today?

I think it's finally starting to lift, but I took the day off anyway.

(really just milking sympathy so StP will read another juice box to me...)

Congrats to everyone that has been approved!
I've mostly been lurking and watching threads like this ( ), but there have been so many approvals lately and I've been so happy for everyone, I had to say congratulations and good luck on the next step to everyone
I hope CSC keeps this up and those of us still waiting get approved soon!

-Shan

Apple Juice: contents - apple, juice, apple juice concentrate, water, water concentrate, various chemicals, lead. May contain traces of nuts

Yay for Debz!! Can't say it was a surprise though. I'm just so glad she can relax a bit now

Yaaaay!

Read me the part about the apple concentrate again, pleeeeeeeaaaaaaazzzz? It's my favorite part!

Well, whoopee. DHL still has no clue where the shipment is, and I get this from C.:

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HOLA LOCO:

I am in Guala......this weekend is holliday CARNAVAL, I didn´t talk with my aunt and I will go back on Wednesday night and I will go to get if from my aunt.....I don´t like when you start to yell to people if they don´t know is maybe because here is holliday and nobody will work until wednesday.........That is what I don´t from you when you lose your head and acting like a rude pleople.

Think about loco I don´t wnat to heard anybody yellling to anybody also.

I will let you know about DHL

Thanks
Cristina

> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 16:35:40
> To: C.
> Subject: DHL?
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> Loca:
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> Did your DHL arrive on Friday? I have called DHL several times, and they cannot give me any information. They are stupid and rude! I have never been so angry, and I had to yell at them.
>
> Loco
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This relationship is snakebitten, and I have lost points instead of scoring any.

It's hard for an outsider to know what to make of an exchange like that. We all have our own little ways of chatting, and a red flag to one person would be just an idiosyncrasy of the relationship to another. The other night my SO, about 30 seconds into our phone call, told me she refused to talk to me any longer, and that I needed to hang up right away. But this is just her way of saying that she's concerned and wanted me to go back to bed and rest.

If you think it's run its course...you might be right. It really bites that this DHL thing had to muddy the waters though.

OMG!!! I'd kiss my fiance for that..and if he yelled at them..that would be extra scores!! ..how irony is our life

Well, she was favorably impressed weeks ago when I told her that I'd yelled at USCIS. I'll just write her back and tell her the truth -- I was most patient for 25 minutes with the stonewalling DHL airheads and then I spoke loudly with them. We'll see how she reacts. If she continues to react with irritation, that's The Sign (well-known to me throughout life so far) that It's Over.

WooHoo!!! Please pass on our congratulations to her!

Well, dig this!

I wrote the fiancee to explain my behavio(u)r, and I mentioned that I was eyeing a visit in February. She just wrote back thusly:

HOLA LOCO:

What about if you come on March you will have time to plan the trip and I will have time to receive you... because next week I was planning to go to Macas to see if I can make some business there and I will be very bussy in Febrary and I planned to make a lot things this month and I will have another test from my University at the end on February so will be easy for me and better to receive you on March and we can celebrate my birthday on 15th........do you like the idea?????..

Cristina

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I will write back with the standard reply: "Si, Carino!" ("Carino" = "sweetheart"). Or, should I play hard-to-get?

Maybe there IS a dog (said the agnostic dyslexic), si man?

And I thought waiting for NOA2 was a roller-coaster.

Do what your heart tells you to do. (how's that for rock-solid advice? well you do get what you pay for...)

For every act, service, or even the thought of providing same, my standard fee is $5,000.43. Si, man. The heart is leaping, the energy is back, and I might actually sleep tonight, si man. Could this be the arrival of my NOA3?

USCIS is SOOOO incompetent!!!! I haven't even gotten my NOA2 yet and already they are handing out NOA3 to May filers!!!! Someone needs to be fired! Write your congressman! Write the President! Light up the Bat Signal!

Uh... si, man... whatever you say, si man...

Where's my gat dang NOA3???!!! I filed yesterday!

"Our records show that you are within the 6-month processing time frame. Once you are out of this time frame, rest assured that you will be within the 8-month time frame, and if you are not within the 10-month time frame two months after that, you can file with our ombudsman so that you will not receive a response, but perhaps a form letter, 45 days after that, not counting the 13-year extension. But be assured of our flat promise that we process applications in the order we receive them! Sincerely, USCIS (CSC)."

*gulp* Will my congressperson be able to help at all?!

Good news about the visit, si man!

Gulp, man, and si, man!

Oh great, now July filers are starting to apply for NOA3. This is beyond fair. Don't they understand THEY ARE MESSING WITH OUR LIVES!

So yeah...congrats on your NOA3 TB. I guess.

*kicks puppy*

But, Mox, you (and only you) are the recent recipient of a handful of phlegm from the lovely & gracious Aly.

I wrote the fiancee back with a one-liner: "The idea [of visiting] depends entirely on how many ugly shirts I can wear." (She got mildly upset with me during the last visit because my shirts were loud & tasteless.)

what the heck is NOA3 now!!

Tongue-in-cheekily, it's the reprieve from the fiancee, si man.