Hi everyone,

I am rather new to this site. My fiance and I will be filing our 129F petition this week. I was thinking that it would be great to get in touch with people who are filing for their K1 visas at pretty much the same time. How about we share our experience and frustrations until we finally make it through all those endless weeks and months of hoping and wishing?

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Welcome to VJ!

My suggestion is use the "Similar Timelines" feature. That will allow you to see those that are "in the same boat" as you.

Hope your journey is turbulence free!

Good luck!

Welcome aboard and best of luck with the process!

Welcome and good luck!!

Thanks everyone for your replies. Keeping my fingers crossed for all of you out there as well. The day will come when we can be with the one person that we want to spend our lives with.

I'm filing for dec just getting all of the papers together and making sure everything is correct!! If I file in dec do you think i'll get him over here to stay before may? I really want him to be here for my birthday he has never been there for any of mine ! *fingers crossed* lol

There is no telling. May is "just" 6 months away. I am not sure whether the holidays will impact the processing times. I was thinking about several scenarios with regards to the processing times. . He can always come over on a tourist visa to be with you on your birthday. Let's hope everything will go smooth and fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is unlikely based on the current processing times. It is more realistic to expect around 8 months.

YAY US!!!

We're December filers (2006)...

Good luck on your visajourney, Stephanie!!!

My Notice was dated Nov 30, 2007 so we are close. I suggest we all meet in Vegas when this is done and have a reception/party

We finally filed our petition last Thursday, December 6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now the waiting begins!

Steve came to Bermuda for a long weekend. He also brought along our Engagement Photos that we had taken in November in Atlanta. It's so good to be together again, even if it's just for 4 days. He'll be coming back for a long week over New Year's

Meeting up in Vegas to celebrate sounds good. Steve and I are planning to get married there anyway. I wonder whether other K1-couples have had get-togethers in the past once they completed the process. I think it would be fun sharing our happiness after these rough times.

My thoughts are going out to all of you going through this process. We'll make it through!!!!!!!!!!

I wish I could see my significant other. Unfortunately he lives in one of the countries where it is nearly impossible to get a visitors visa to the US and I have work and childern so have to be careful with my vacation time. Good luck and maybe we will see you all in Vegas

NEW to VJ. Good Luck on the process! I just filled today. Hope the holiday will bring us luck. I prep the application myself, a little worry about the mistakes that I made that I didn't see... Also worry about the process time will be longer than average due to the flood of application back in July.

btw, I love VJ, this community is great!!

Congrats hon!!!



Welcome to VJ!!!

Yeah, I sent in my petition on November 30, and got the NOA1 receipt on December 10th.... we filed in the Vermont office, and our interview consulate is Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

I m a december filer too.
i hope we all get the visas done soon...

Welcome and good luck to all of you! Let's hope for speedy processings!!!

Our check was cashed today!!!! YIPPEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!
Nick hasn't checked in 2 days...he doesn't have online banking yet.
Maybe!!! *fingers crossed!*

Good Luck December filers!!

Hoping you guys will get some good news very soon as well. Was so overjoyed when Steve told me about the check yesterday, even though I know this is just the start of the entire process. Not sure how I will react once we get NOA2 in a few months (hopefully). Might have nervous breakdown from all the happiness.

Have a good weekend out there!!

Congratulations!!!

Call your bank and ask to see the back of your check.
There should be the receipt number starting with WAC-, this is NOA1 (I think...).
If you have online banking, you can do this online, but usually the image is not that clear.
You can use that number to check your status online on USCIS website.

Yeah December 3rd here - And it is funny the things you hang on to - we were over the moon when we found out the cheque cleared lol - I mean there is only a zillion steps to come. Vegas is looking good - We are marrying on the West coast at this stage - Teresa's family are all there. So depending on finances, you might be on

WOO HOO!!!
Nick got our NOA1 in the mail today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!

QUOTE(~Laura and Nick~ @ Dec 15 2007, 09:25 PM)

WOO HOO!!!
Nick got our NOA1 in the mail today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!

Wonderful!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm so happy for you guys. Let's hope the rest of the process will move as smoothly.


Our NOA1 will most probably go to our attorney and he'll forward it to us. Fingers crossed.

Have a great Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You too!!!
I hope you get yours soon!!!

Congrats and welcome to the club!

Mox, thank you my dear friend

Just wanted to share with all of you that we were 'touched' today!!!! Hopefully that's a good sign.

Still waiting for NOA1 hardcopy, but we're confident that we'll receive it soon.

Just a word of advice (ok - apologies if it's already been mentioned but missed the beginning of this thread and am too lazy to read through it!! )

The projected timelines you have at the moment for when you will receive your NOA2 are based on a lot of cr@p that went on with the fee increase/increased number of petitions/moving petitions to two service centres instead of the original four. many of your timelines will show predictions of around about six months which is what it was taking - things seem to be speeding up however so hopefully things will even out a bit more for you guys and you will start to see shorter processing times in general

Now I don't want to build false hope and I am no expert but if you expect a six month wait to get your NOA2 then you may be pleasantly surprised Of course advising you to believe you will get it in 90 days would be... silly... But you can always hope

Good luck in your journey and I hope you learn from it and takes as much from it as I have so far

Thank you Jeraly, this was awfully kind of you.
It made me smile.

We're December filers too (package got taken to the post office yesterday so should be on it's way today!).

Hoping for a Fall / Autumn wedding 2008, so fingers crossed!

*lol* we were touched yesterday too!!
I bet our files are in the same box!!!!

The check was cashed yesterday and I got our case number off the back. Hopefully will receive the NOA1 in the mail soon!

Congrats to all other december filers!

We filed on december 12 ...already received our NOA1 so hoping for a summer wedding

my boo is here with me...my baby's I-94 is good for 6 months so the next few months will be MUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHH easier to bear

Good luck to every one

x

12/21/2007 Mail the I-129F USPS next day delivery I paid $16.25 tracking number included.
12/22/2007 Recived delivery confirmation signed by: P NOVAK at 1:02pm

YAY that's awesome!! Shouldn't be long to get it!



Congrats!



Best of luck!! Hoping for a quick NOA1 for you!

NOA1 received (January 02 2008)!!!! Yay! Silly to be so excited, since it's just the first step, but we still are

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!! It's not silly at all, it's exciting!!!
Have a wonderful visit in Feb!

Hi StevesGirl!
I just filed Dec 27 and have confirmation from USPS that was delivered on Dec 29. Nothing new yet but expect something soon. It was a relief just to get the K1 filed, 1 major step of many. Congrats and best of luck with your process!!!!

- tim / alena

Congratulations guys!!!

Thanks and congrats to you as well....
I see they cashed my check - that's something at least. I did lift the case # from the back of the check so am waiting for NOA1 in the mail, maybe today hopefully.
Cheers -

First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you!!! (i know, it's a bit late for that but I hope it still counts).

GOOD LUCK to all the other December filers. Let's hope our cases will be processed fast and without any problems/major delays.

Steve was here over New Year's for a long week and just left today So today it's back to 'reality' after living in a wonderful bubble for the last 9 days.

Hope all of you had a good start into 2008. This will be [b]our year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [/b]

How are all the December filers doing?!?
How often are you checking the site?
I'm doing it every couple of days even though I'm not expecting anything...lol
2008 will be our year!!!

Congratulations!!!

You're really going out on a limb there, huh? You go girl!

you are kidding right? I'll be there before 2009!!! COME ON!
lol
It's your year too!!! WOO HOO!