Omg, u too Shrewdie? The same thing is happening to my husband too. Even ppl from here are saying .. ohh it dosent take that long! I brought my wife she was here in two months I said.. when was that????? Things change! His brother got married and expecting and my husband still waiting.

THANKS EVERYONE. Now I just have to figure out what to do next. My local office is Montreal for the interview so who knows how long i'll have to wait for that to be scheduled. But at least I'm one step closer!

Good luck to everyone else!!

There is James' Shortcuts if u want to start familiarizing urself with them and the process itself. You can then decide if you'd like to use them or not. Also there is the NVC threads, it will be a few wks for NVC to get ur case.. so this is how u can start getting ready. Good luck on the rest of your journey

Don't you just hate when people are all up in yuh business and have no idea what they're talking about. ((kissteet))

that was supposed to say "isnt that annoying"

hi i read ur post here..i have applied for I-130 also but then it took so long compared to what u have here. they received our petition nov. 20, 2007 and we got NOA january 23, 2008 but thats it nothing more...how did u do it to expadite it???

ok guys..
my congressman called vermont and told them that I should expect 6 months from my petition date and they have my petition date as january 17 (my receipt date). now. we all know (and my receipt says) I petitioned in October. so. now what?
my congressman told me they cant take any more action until July when I have reached 6 months.... but really it will be nine?
do i just ignore what she said? or do I curl up in a ball and cry?

[quote name='hannyperez' date='Apr 15 2008, 09:14 AM' post='1757072']
hi i read ur post here..i have applied for I-130 also but then it took so long compared to what u have here. they received our petition nov. 20, 2007 and we got NOA january 23, 2008 but thats it nothing more...how did u do it to expadite it???

Hi, hannyperez

My CR-1 timeline is very similar to yours. I have not had a touch since 02/19/2008. I had a few touches in Feb, but I think there was due to K3 receieved. I'm beginning to worry as more and more Nov filers are getting approve. I hope ours will come soon.

hey shrewdy... ur congressman prob called USCIS and not VERMONT service center.. we already hit our 6 months. and in their system at uscis they prob have u as OCT filer.. so u try callin vermont.. and askin wats up...? dont rtely on what ur congressman said.. ur 6 months started in oct not january...

well, she specifically said "kim at the vermont service center"

I will try to call again this afternoon
when I check my case online it does say "received" january 17
is that what yours said? your receipt date instead of the REAL date?

mine online shows received jan 11 when they actualy received it oct 16. but oct 16 is showing in their system as received date.. thats wat the oficer at vermont said... she looked up my case in their system...? im sure urs shows also but the lady who spoke tour congreman prob was a uscis person.. im thinkin.. why dont u call again..and get thry the RFE way to talk to soomeone at vermont.. (thats what id id good luck.. let me know wat hapens)

To be honest I dont know what to tell you, Its strange how they have their filing system. Maybe thats why the FIFO system isnt working, who knows. I have been told by an officer that the in date shows the 24th of January but the date they use for processing is Nov. 19th. If that is what they told your congressman though who knows whats going on. Very frustrating indeed. Dont get to worked up over it though. The one thing that they are consistent about is inconsistency. But it would be very difficult to make the leap to them using the in date as the process date. Some people are just luckier than others. Maybe when you hit that 6 month mark you can send in your NOA1 to your congressman and show that they accepted your pettition in Oct. At the same time perhaps send them a printed page from the USCIS website saying that they will use the accepted at date VS the NOA1 date. While we can not do anything to assist ourselves in this situation sometimes its better to think that we are doing something. Besides it doesnt hurt to try again with your congressman making sure to show that you are at the 6 month mark. Yesterday you asked a question "how do you guys do it?", you already know the answer because your right here with us doing it. Your stronger than you think and we are here to help you become stronger in knowing your not alone. And if your going to cry dont curl up and cry , have one of those good walking around the house cries, you know the one where you cry so much your still doing the dishes, laundry, taxes, and making a birthday cake for a relative because you know it will be a couple of hours before you stop crying . Might even feel a bit better

thank you. I needed that.
and I didnt even think of mailing my receipt (that I think they have already) WITH the printoff from the website about accepting the first date!
Thanks. thats a great idea!
I was really praying today was our day

hey shrewdie.. dont be sad or depressed... try callin urself and explain us situation to them... i think they dont know what theyre sayin.. so we r all going thru the same thing.. its ok ur not alone... but i was hopin today would be our day also...

Shrewdy.. I aggree with Jason.. u need to fax a copy of your NOA1 to ur congressperson. This will show them the "received date" which is the date u filed back in October and this is the date that USCIS is honoring too. I dont know why or if its not reflecting on the system or simply they just passed the buck and gave the january date. But u know when u filed and u will show your evidence. Also I want to point out another thing... Your filing date is Oct 30.. technically you have not passed the 180 days (6 months) yet. They might get technical on u, as there is 12 more days to go. Maybe u might wait a few more days b4 faxing ur noa1. I am on my 181th day.. so im getting ready to do something here...
Don't forget about your dream... something might just be around the corner

Hiya every body.
Hope every one would be fine. Marlita can you update your time for NVC? and .My wife has posted DS3032 through DHL on 5 th april and yet i did not get any thing from them( NVC).
what is the next step. plz share.
zorro khan

I will def. do that! Thanks for the great suggestions you guys. I know...my dream seems a distant memory now hahahahahaha

did yall see the approval today! from VSC.. a december 07 filer... WAT?? this is not fair at all now.. we r pased 6 months!! i dont know what to do.. i wana call bak!!

There have been a couple of December approvals from VSC.I wonder why is that.VSC surprises me every day!Come on VSC surprise me with an approved I-129F for K3!!!

ya me too i want to see a k3 approval@ that would be a miracle!!!!

they are evil.

I dont understand USCIS at all, but on the other hand congrats to the Dec. filer, they only had to wait 4 months. I wish that was the case for all of us. And USCIS says backlog, well i fyou have so much backlog where did you get the Dec file from . Atleast some people dont suffer as much as others. This process can be very detrimental to the people going through it. In fact it is one of the hardest things I have had to do and I have had some tough things to deal with before.

Well besides that how is everyone today? Anyone else have this strange attraction to their email, VJ.com, and USCIS and by attraction I mean addiction?

hahah I do. I am totally addicted. and it doesnt feel good.. If I am addicted at least I wish it could be an addiction that makes you FEEL good.

i am addicted. im at work from 630 am til evening. so i alwyas keep chekin every time iget a chance to browse the internet.. sometimes i end up stopin my work jus to see whats up with VJ.. and uscis LOL!!

i hope this addiction will sooon feel good..

Yeah I have to admit my production at work has gone down since I started this process. Started when I didnt get my NOA1 for a long time so I would always check their delay updates to see if I should be looking in my mail for NOA1 or not. Then after Feb. 24th when I could see my case online and signed up for email notification I was checking email ,USCIS, and VJ atleast 20 times a day Not sure why I even bother to look really, never had any touches at all. Same update day of 2/24/2008, **Sigh** Our day will come, and when it does I hope I dont have a heart attack, I never get email so the other day I had 2 messages and I was like please be USCIS, please be USCIS, darn youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu best buy!!!!!! Oh wait bonus certificates.......I Dont care, darn you best buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL ur story is so funny!! ya it makes the day go by fast while at work when browsing VJ HAHA! but then i do make sure to get the work done........

but also i never get email on the email id registered for USCIS.. and that day i had 2!! darn that shutterfly! free pics.. i dont want free pics i want an approval !!L OLLL

I thought I was the only one that every free moment I get I log on to VJ. I am getting so discouraged that I have tried to log into VJ once or twice per day. Now I see that a DEc filer got approved. I am wondering if they have misplaced the OCt applications. I do not understand. I want to call some one... but who do I call and ask at USCIS. I can only be patient and pray...It is soooooooo fraustrating.
Pecky

hey PECKY... I KNOW I FEEL THE SAME TOO..

I CALLED VSC LAST WEEK THE OFFICER TOLD ME TO WAIT ANOHTER MONTH FOR THE APPROVAL.. I AM AN OCT FILER ALSO.. BUT HOW DO THE DEC FILERS GET ARRPVOED THEY SAID THEY R ON AUG 19 NOW...

The only way to get any information the correct way (no RFE line calls) seems to be making and Info pass appointment. Who knows if or what information they have but that seems to be the only way to get information about your case. I am curious to know what happens in an infopass appointment , do they know what stage you are in on your application, can they see what has been done already and what is still needed, or do they only see a screen that says you filed an application on such and such date. I have 2 offices that are about the same distance for me, one in D.C. and one in Norfolk. I would have to take time off from work to go but if i thought they might be able to provide some more information other than what the 1-800 number has i think i might be tempted to do it.

I HAD AN infopass appt in sept when i relaized i sent the wrong fee ( at this point no noa1) so went to infopass in houston and oficer said we have to start over there was realy nothin he looked up ( maye cuz i wasnt in system yet since itw as takin 90 days to get noa1) so she gave me new forms to use to refill out after receivin the rejection notice for my incorrect fee... so i waitied got it in oct and started again in oct.. no help

but maybe if u r far along in ur time and u have receopt numebr prob they can see somethin.. i have no idea..

And as with all of the service centers, they do not take phone calls, all calls need to be transfered from the USCIS 1-800 number so I cant even get an answer as to what they do or what they can see to know if it is worth missing a day of work to go. USCIS really does like to keep everyone in the dark on things. I suppose they have their reasons.

One other thing while im thinking about it, I think I may have a way to know if your application is being looked at by anyone. The color of your application numbers. If you use the same pc day in and day out to check your application your application number is always purple I never delte cookies or anything also . When something has been looked at or accessed the numbers turn blue. I check my application on my work pc and on my house pc, the numbers are always purple. I just called uscis to see if maybe they have any new info other than blah blah blah Jan 24th we blah blah blah , right after the call, my application number was blue. Any thoughts? Anyone else ever notice the color change? Oh and my application has never been "touched"/updated since it was entered in the system but at random times like after calls, the application number turns blue.

ya i see the color change also..itts b/c my husband and i both aces it and look at it.. i chek at owrk its purple then when i log in after getin home its blue..
but urs turned after ur call? r u sure it wasnt u accessing it before ur cal.. cuz if its not u then thats weird...maybe they r lokoin at it

This is a function of your browser, not of USCIS. There is a color for links you haven't access and links you have and the color is based on your windows settings.

I check USCIS about 20 times a day, no lie. And its always purple, it was purple before i called. And im using the same pc, did not delete anything, no cookies , history, etc. And no matter what pc i use its always purple home and work. And yes it was right after i called.

I had a COLOR dream today that my 130 got approved.... looked at web site it still says PENDING.... .....then I was going through VJ.....realized ...How can mine be approved before ....hyd and all other oct, nov and dec filers ...........lol

Felt that at least dreams make us happy ....and reality make us sad ....I wish you good luck hyd ...you are next in line ..........DONOT SAY NO ...lol

I feel better when i browse VJ ...forums be patient .....but some stories make me sad tooo.

By default, purple means you've accessed the page and blue means the link has not yet been followed. But since you're accessing a web page that does a query to a database, it has no knowledge of the underlying data. Meaning, there is zero connection. (And when I say "by default" I mean if your system is using the default Windows settings.) The color has everything to do with Windows and browser cache and nothing to do with the actual status of your application.

(How often does your browser clear the history? Clear your history and watch the link change back to blue.)

Oh well maybe im wrong, still dont understand why if i always use the same link day in and day out and its always purple. My settings never change, I thought perhaps the link changed because there is no reason for it to show it not being used when all the other links around it are still purple. Oh well.

hey guys... read ur posts.. so funny!! Im so hooked, i forget if i checked uscis so i check it again. All this happened after Feb 24 when they updated and I was able to see my case online There is too many of us sept/oct filers still anticipating that "touch" or better yet.. our approval!!!
About the Infopass... you might want to research it a bit b4 attempting to do that. I was told that the case can get requested to be mailed to the site u have ur appointment with thus causing further delay and possibility of ur case being misplaced.
On the purple/blue thingie... mine has been blue since the feb 24!!! Never an update.. everytime I check it there is that FEB 24 date I hate that day now!

oh and it never clears, I know why a link goes back to blue for those reasons, that is why i said i never delete my history or cookies, the cookies are the reason why it is purple because my browser is storing the information of that page but none of the other links changed only the application link.

LOL sgr.. ur dream must have been funnyy... i had a dream i got approved april 5th LOL!! but nothin hapend on april 5... im stil waiting... the lady told me to wait another month..if nothin hapens in a month then i know somethin is wrong.. i wana go to hyderabad to visit my husbanddd so bad... but im still hangin loose
sometimes i feel like laguhin but then sometime i get sad lookin at VJ also..

oh by the way,

its been 6 months since i filed today im so sad. i defintaley had my hopes us of being approved before my 6 monthss

There is an automatic setting of N days which clears the history.

Lol i know, sorry if i made myself look stupid when it comes to computers, the number it is supposed to use is after 20 days. Sorry guys Just a hope from a retard. Just didnt understand why only that link changed colors when none of the others did. My bad.

I can understand that hope.

I was very patient with USCIS and accepted the 3 month wait just for them to open the darn envelope. I accepted the wait for the NOA1. I accepted the wait for online status.

But now I'm getting irritated. People who have filed recently are getting approved and there are September and October filers, myself included, still waiting w/o so much as a touch.

Yess Ms Z, and we payed the increased fee for that too !!

yup msZ im in the same boat as u and feel exactly the same WAYYYY

But it is a great excuse to use that angry devil icon and for that, I am grateful. Thanks Vermont!!!!

LOL ...hyd your dream is earlier than me ...I pray to god it get fulfilled sooner and faster.....I wanna my wife to be here in my hands badly too...prolly thinking I ever get that dream ....before my approval dream ....lol

any wish you a safe trip ....if you are vising