I hope to see more approvals soon from CSC. I will be more excited once all the July people are finished and they get to work on the August filers. Then watch out the Sept filer thread will be going crazy. I am hoping to have our interview and visa in hand by May.

Oh man, I'm really hoping for April! That's still later than I thought it would be. I can't help but be a little bit jealous when I see September filers getting approved at VSC. There was an approval yesterday and they sent in their I-129F later than I did! Oh well, this is a huge lesson in patience I guess isn't it?! ~sighs~ I never was good at being patient!

Four October VSC filers have been approved in the past two days. How dare they! haha

This September filer is still waiting. How dare they!



I should check back here more often, clearly. I still have no idea what's been cashed, because a) it was a money order and b ) my fiancee isn't doing a sparkling job of tracking it. I'm not panicking, because I know of enough cases being processed without ever receiving NOA1, but it'd be nice to find out more and I'm still bugging her about it...


Keep your heads up, boys and girls - as has already been observed, time passes by faster than you realise.

When I read your thread, I checked my timeline, it move down 2 days. Anyway, it's a good news...Good luck to all of us.

I don't see any approvals since the 4th

Well it was nice thinking i was a september filer, but I doubt they'll back date my receipt. Good waste of 4 months i say.

Huh? What happened?

I received a letter instructing me to resubmit with no instructions regarding my receipt date. Its so bad I guess. She's coming over for 3 months in march and if they had back dated it then she would have returned early or schedule the medical etc. in the summer anyway.

I know this is a really pathetic question, but, the date that VJ gives on our time line. The date of adjudication. Is this the date that VJ anticipates we should A: Be in line at foreign embassy to (hopefully) pick up the visa? Or B: Is it the date that CSC or VSC will approve or deny our I-129F petitions and send out the NOA 2? Or C: None of the above. I have a feeling the answer is B,

Your feeling is right, it's the date that VJ is predicting that your case will be adjudicated, usually ending up with an NOA2.

(Edit: oh, and not a pathetic question at all. Lotta terms and acronyms and dates and timelines and other stuff floating around here, it's easy to get confused by it all.)

I dont wanna sound negative here but to be honnest, I doubt we will see any approvals for september fillers during januray...well atleast for those who filled with CSC....I've been going through the canadian portal just few days ago and some april fillers havent been recieving their interview date....and still nothing as of today....So we can only be patient and remind ourself that the only thing that matter is to be with our love one permanently very soon.



Somehow, i feel like we should have just get married "spontaneously" like many do. But I wanted to follow the 'us rules' even if as a canadian theres some easy way. I wanna be legal and proud to eventually become a citizen of United States. ( well dual because i will not give up my own country).


Anyway, i got a question?? if you would witness a "visa fraud" would putt your nose in it or would you just back off and let them deal with their business??

Another October filer was approved today from VSC, along with a July filer.

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list...ll&dfile=No

I know this is a really pathetic question, but, the date that VJ gives on our time line. The date of adjudication. Is this the date that VJ anticipates we should (A) be in line at foreign embassy to (hopefully) pick up the visa? Or (: Is it the date that CSC or VSC will approve or deny our I-129F petitions and send out the NOA 2? I have a feeling the answer is B.

My file apparently doesn't exist. My fiancee got back to me today, and says they can find no record of it being received. Happy happy joy joy.

Did she send it registered mail, and if so, does she still have the receipt? If she still has the receipt then all is not lost and they will honor the date you sent it, even if they lost it. It's trickier if you have no evidence of even having sent it. Did they ever cash her check?

So sorry to hear this. Let us know how things progress and the resolution. We're all pulling for you!

Thanks for the kind words. Despite repeated reminders, promptings and what have you, she didn't send it registered mail and used a money order. She also appears to have known about this for a day or two already and yet I've only just found out. I can't quite tell whether I'm angry, amused or upset at the minute.

She's apparently trying to trace the money order now, though she was apparently trying to do that some weeks ago too. As far as I can tell, mox, there's nothing to show when it was sent.

Well I'll let you know if they honor my old date when i get my noa1. But I doubt they will even though i'll be sending copies of my slips.

Well guys and gals, I am APPROVED!!!

Receipt Number: EACXXXXXXXXXX

Application Type: I129F, PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status: Approval notice sent.

On January 9, 2008, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E). Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service.


Woo HOO!!!

Congratulations on the approval. Good job.

thegreatgate, Mox answered your question.

Well dang. Is she working with a case officer right now to investigate? And did she make a copy of the entire file? I'm pretty sure I've read some posts where USCIS accepted a copy of the submitted file and then assigned the case in roughly the order where it would have been originally dated. Also, she should look to see if she's got any kind of evidence such as an ATM receipt or a bank statement or something that at least shows that she made a withdrawal in the amount of $455. The fact that she had to purchase the money order should have left some kind of money trail, and might be enough to convince them that there really was an initial filing.

I'll post more if I can think of anything else. Really sorry to hear about this, I hope it can be worked out quickly.

I was doing some reading........... ........
So basically I can take the adjudication date (March 4) and add 2 months to the date (May 4), and that is an accurate estimate of when the visa will be in my fiancee's possession? Or in other words, approximately 8 months from filing the I-129F petition the visa will be secured, 7 months if extremely lucky?

P.S.
I don't know how my post ended up on here twice. My cat was sitting on the keyboard and apparently she managed how to figure out how to type and do some editing.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great news Bobalouie, so happy to hear it!

She's not told me anything about a case officer yet, and she's got copies of "the entire file except your biographical forms, which I didn't copy." Can't entirely blame her for that, since they were my forms and I don't have another copy either. I did, of course, until someone mistook them for trash.



It might. The worry there is that I paid for it, with money that I had on a travellers cheque debit card, and I wouldn't imagine she transferred any money from there to her account before purchasing the money order - I'm sure all she'll have done is withdrawn the money from an ATM, which happened after I'd left for home. There's a real lack of ATM machines in her area, which came as a bit of a shock. Really, everything that could have been done badly has been done badly...



In happier news, congratulations on the approval Bobalouie!

To answer that question you're going to have to look at other Mexican approvals and look at the average time from NOA2 to interview date. If that works out to about 2 months, then yes you can add roughly 2 months onto your estimated VJ date. Of course, as you well know, none of these dates are written in stone. Heck, at this point they're not even written in...well anything. A couple weeks ago I thought CSC would be plowing through the August filers, and I based that assumption on how much ### they were kicking just before the holidays. And yet here we are going on 6 days (tomorrow) of no CSC approvals. So I guess what I'm saying is don't bet the farm.

Yeah, I've gotta agree with you there. Dangit.

The best thing for her to do now is to continue to work with USCIS. The fact that they have "no record" of your petition means, I hope, that she had USCIS initiate an investigation. If she's only getting this from customer service, then she needs to have them do a formal investigation. They will initiate an investigation if you haven't received NOA1 within 90 days.

The bad news is that there will almost undoubtedly be another filing fee involved. If USCIS didn't cash it, then they're going to want to be paid. Not much you're going to be able to do about that, unless her track on the money order is successful and it turns out USCIS did cash it. That's actually the best outcome because it proves they received your packet, and they'll just have you re-submit the copy and put you back in with the rest of the September filers.

It's a hard lesson to learn, but hopefully for the re-filing she will have learned to use a personal check and to mail with a tracking receipt. Don't despair quite yet though, it sounds like there's still a few threads of hope!

CONGRATULATIONS! THat is great, Bobalouie. Lets hope the next steps go quickly for you

Congratulations.!!! Good news.!

Does anyone have any idea what is going on at CSC?!?!?! I am begining to find it a bit ridiculous that it has been a week since new years and no one has heard anything!!!! But VSC is moving right along!!!!!!!!!!!!

No idea. This is purely speculation on my part, so don't get your hopes up, but it could be that CSC just haven't been updating the case status online, and so there are people who have been approved but haven't gotten their approval in the mail. It's the only thing I can think of that makes any sense.

I called CSC this afternoon and asked if this could be the case, and the guy denied it and said they were operating as usual and that nothing was going on that would be slowing or stopping approvals. Take that for what it's worth.

Sorry for my rant. It is just getting so frustrating! Things were looking so good before the holidays and now nothing! I was really thinking that we might get approval in January! I am trying not to give up hope, but it is getting harder everyday!

No need to apologize. You're verbalizing what we're all feeling right now. In fact I ranted the same thing in another thread--that CSC were picking up so much steam before the holidays, and then all of a sudden they just fall off the planet. I have to hope that they're not updating the online case status, because the alternative is just too depressing.

Don't give up hope. We're all in the same boat, let's just keep rowing...

What Mox says here about taking the VJ date with a grain of salt is correct. My estimated VJ NOA2 date was Feb 9th and I was approved today Jan 9th. So they were a month off. But I tracked nicely to my date estimation. My timeline I did in Excel had me being approved on Saturday Jan 12th, so i was only off 3 days (in a good way)

Strange to be quoting myself, but it looks as if my theory may be wrong. Jane & Jeff, July filers, approved at CSC today. Congrats to them!

Congrats bobalouie

Thought I'd mention that after my phone call I was "touched." I'm not kidding myself that it means anything other than the customer service guy looked at a row in a database and said "oh you're still at least 2 months out from being worked on," but I thought I'd mention it. Pokes another hole in my theory that CSC are approving but just not updating the case status online. On the other hand, the customer service people do a completely different job than the case officers so I suppose it's not such a big hole.

i've received USCIS (Application and Petition Receipting Update for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) updates so far on the 4th, 7th, 8th and today. kind of strange since it hasnt been updated since the 4th.

this is pretty painful just watching vermont plug along and CSC barely do anything.

I wasn't going to say anything, but your post has inspired me to post anyway.

Just a caveat: I'm firmly in the "touches mean nothing" camp. I have to admit that as my estimated approval date gets closer that my commitment to this stance grows a bit weak in the knees but I still believe that you can really only know what a touch means in hindsight, and therefore they are meaningless as a predictor.

Okay, caveats out of the way, I received a touch yesterday after I called for status on my case. (the real reason I called was to find out why approvals at CSC had slowed to nothing, but I got no information on that front.) I figure there's about a 95% chance that the touch was due to my call, and 5% that it had somehow wound its way onto somebody's desk. Well today I received another touch, and there's really no reason I can come up with as to why I would get it. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but it's intriguing.

So I shouldn't worry that I have not received any touches? Zilch. I don't even know what a touch would look like if I did get one. It always has said this when I check my online case status....

Application Type: I129F, PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status: Case received and pending.

On November 1, 2007, we received this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E), and mailed you a notice................

(I think I might call them soon to see if I get a touch)

I could really use a touch right now. Either from VSC or my SO!

Frank + Jocelyn: You should edit the USCIS picture to say California Service Center to make it a little more realistic. Then you could have a similar picture except everything nicely organized and labeled in color coordinated boxes by date and label it Vermont Service Center!

hmm... I thought about that but didn't want to get flamed from everybody on the left coast!

Heh, we're used to being slagged. On behalf of all left-coasters I say go for it!

Haha - I'd say that right about now that is pretty accurate - I love the pic - it is almost right up there with moxie's lolcats

I wonder why they placed my state at the CSC? Michigan is pretty far from California. If I "google map" my address it is 688 miles to Vermont and a whopping 2,452 miles to California. I guess they use a different logic than what a normal person would use.

CONGRATS Bobalouie.... you give us September filers a glimmer of hope <grin> even if you are a VSC filer....

I hear you Greatgat on the "ummmmm lack" of logic when it comes to which centre we should be at... I mean my darling USC is in OHIO for goodness sakes, California is like light years away from there - even further than Michigin <grin>

Mox, Mox MOX... DON'T go and become a touching fiend now will you... maybe CSC felt that you just needed a second tickle one to pull up your file and one to put it away .... BUT SERIOUSLY how cool would it be if those touches pay off (careful we are getting almost rude here)...

and nica19... so many touches ... WOW are you feeling the love - lets hope it is true love for you and not just someone playing games and teasing and tantalising...

Okay folks sorry - my post here has had inuendo in place, I think it is because my man was here for 2 weeks (and while CSC couldn't be bothered touching us) we made up for it but now he's gone and I am feeling the need for some contact... LOL...

have a GREAT day guys
Tracy
:-)

Well I need a cold shower now...

LOL - well in the 41+ (celcius) degree heat that has been here in Adelaide for the past few days...
cold showers... well they are becoming the norm...
So why not make everyone else feel the need for them too...


have a GREAT day folks..
Tracy
;-)

I hope I have more properly represented reality with my new USCIS desk images.