Well today makes the 120 day mark for me so far CSC has not touched my app except for me calling alot.LOL
Im hoping i will here so good news today. I hope they will put it in gear since they have such an influx. I hope today is the day.

For me today is the 98th day and you know what?... still nothing, no touch since june 6 (we received our NOA1 in june 1st).

My timeline shows september 25 as the day as NOA2 could possibly be issued

But the worst thing is that we´ve all the day in mind that we´ll receive a RFE before, because we sent the wrong size passport photographs .

So...I don´t believe this month we´ll gonna get it....

Both of us are in the wrong size because by the time we sent it we were together in Spain, and there, and usually in all the European Union photograph´s sizes are a little bit smaller than 5x5cm...

We think that the RFE is unavoidable because we suppose that on the NOA2 they will put at least the beneficiary´s one right??

Yeah, I think so, but even if you get and RFE i feel confident it will not take to long to get your approval if you send it back UPS express or something. Atleast at that point you know the only thing that was wrong was your pic size. So I shouldnt be that bad. Good luck to you and im sure everything will be ok.

I'm at 121 days....And the only touch that I got was 7 days after they got my app......
Still waiting....


--MIRLA.

Well were comming to the end of the wait hopefully, we are alot further in the process than we were 4 months ago. I hope that either this week or next will be the week of good news. No matter what though we will be with our loved ones. Whether the US goverment sees it fit or whether i move to a third world country, i will be with the one i love.

I realize some of you guys are at a 120 plus days and still no NOA2. Timeline on VJ for time between NOA1 and NOA2 for CSC is showing 93 days. I am at 101 days myself and am really starting to feel the stress of waiting big time. I am trying very hard to not go crazy but as you all know somedays it is difficult!

I do not understand why if we filed in May our petitions would be affected by the mass filings that came at the end of July. Wouldn't our files have been towards the head of the line by this time? Maybe I am not seeing the big picture! Maybe I have gone crazy and do not even realize it yet!

Hopefully the next couple of weeks spell relief. Good luck to all!

I am right on the edge of making that decision to move. Living in the Philippines with my wife was actually my 1st choice, but we convinced each other to try the fiance Visa route. Now time has passed, precious time I will never get back, lost memories that I will never have. How much longer will I wait? I am not getting younger and I can't turn the clock back!!

Ken & Marife

cheer up my friend a lot of things happens on Fridays. Now is a good time to start gathering evidence for your fiance. 121 days put you within the next couple of days, as usual i'm praying for you. Don't worry about the lack of touches.
I have a feeling the May filer's board will be coming alive next week. so keep faith.

We got RFE because I sent the the wrong size of the passport picture
Still waiting...

salmon

Hope you get good news soon

Try to keep in mind, that good things DO come to those that wait! And wait we do! Hopefully, next year at this time, most of us will be thinking that the wait wasn't really that long. We are all just watching that kettle trying to boil!

The rush that happened the end of July really should not affect early filers. I don't understand that at all. Welcome to the world of USCIS.
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Oh..no...I didn't write our names on the back of our pictures...will that warrant a RFE too? I will move to the Philippines instead then...if the waiting is too long.

Hey Ken and Marife, you must be reading my mind because that is EXACTLY how I feel about the lost time. I realize the time I have missed is only counted in months but like you said, " it is precious time I will never get back".

Which one was the wrong size?
yours or hers or both.

We sent both wrong...(and without our names on the back), we discovered all this tricks here weeks later from our sent to Vermont so.... RFE ¿?

If you got a RFE Bluesalmon I´m even more sad now..., but on monday I opened a post writing about this and some people told me that sometimes they don´t play so much attention to the size in this part of the journey (some people sent wrong size and they were approved), but they do when you go to the embassy where you´ve to take the correct size when it´s imperative for getting your visa. That´s why we still pray for that...

But whatever, if you sent your RFE on september 5, and I suppose to a specific USCIS person who is on your packet...., it should be done in the next week, because the only thing he has to do is check the new sizes and if are correct (sure they are), then approve your petition. I think it will take longer the RFE to arrives to the USCIS than they to approve it. Good luck body!!!

My guess is its because you did not write your names and sign on the back. very few people send the correct size with I-129f as its difficult to get that size in most countries. If its close and the face is the correct size its not normally a problem.
It looks like it is avaraging around 110 day at the moment for NOA2, but its creeping up more towards 120 for the may folks. i predict most people will be looking at 120 + days soon.

WHAT!?!?!?!!?!?!? You have to write your names on the back of the passport pictures?!?!!?!? You're kidding right?

yes print names and sign, and maybe date as well

Im not sure if my lawyer wrote our names on the back but he did put them in a zip lock bag with our names and social printed on the front attached to the file. Im sure that is his standard way im not sure. Now all the pics that we took when we were together we labeled and wrote the dates on the back.

Give USCIS a passport-style color photograph ofyourself and a passport-style color photograph of yourfiancé(e), with both photos taken within 30 days of thedate of filing this petition. The photos must have awhite background, be glossy, un-retouched and notmounted. The dimension of the full frontal facialimage of you and your fiancé(e) in separate photosshould be about one inch from your chin to the top ofyour hair in 3/4 frontal view. Using a pencil or feltpen, lightly print the name (and Alien RegistrationNumber, if known) on the back of each photograph.

the instructions include writing on the reverse side of the passport photos. they even ask that you write lightly so that it will not damage the photo. Always read the instructions 3 times.