Another approval today...filed in October.

BS

I don't mean to start a fight here, I really don't. But this is getting old. You know, when your NOA2 finally arrives there are going to be a lot of VJ'ers congratulating you and expressing genuine happiness. Some of those people are going to be people who waited longer than you did. Those people are going to be feeling bitter and unhappy, but they will still support you and be happy for you.

The process is screwed up, we all know that, and we are all upset about it. Horse. Dead. Beaten to an unrecognizable pulp. Let's at least express some solidarity.

Completely agree, Mox.
Everything happens for a reason and everyone's time will come. Some times things are just faster for people than others.
Such is life.

I was very much like you 4 months ago.....and granted I would love to of been one of the lucky one who filed after me and had my Noa2 in hand and merrily been on my way with my life but the reality is that now after almost 8 months one starts to have issues with the process and bitterness follows.....sorry.......I am sure if people who file in September or October or November are still waiting in June July or God forbid August that charity may not be extented as far out as it is now....so not to say they do not deserve there Noa2's but in order they are recieved is a lie unless the calender has changed to run backwards

I'm sorry
I know you must be just dying. So so hard.
I don't get it either. I don't understand why some people are processed sooner.
Perhaps they have a more straight forward case, perhaps someone picked up the wrong box by accident and just started processing them by mistake...I really don't know how they work.
I hope you get your approval very very soon.

Hang in there

Horse? Dead? No. This is still a MAJOR issue for people and this is the forum to vent those feelings.




That isn't what our letter says. We bring all of our paperwork to London. We do not mail it in. Once we make a medical appt we call to get a interview date.

I'm not saying that we have to be cheerleaders and all wear happy fake smiles on our faces. I am also unhappy with how things are progressing. CSC should have completed all the July filers and been well through August but they only approved 5 files all of last week and don't seem to be trying any harder this week. I called CSC and got completely blown off. I am angry. I am infuriated. I think the system is broken and I think the people running it should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town. But I also support my fellow VJ'ers, and I'm not about to rain on their parade when they have happy news. Ask me again in 4 months if I'm still waiting and I'll tell you the same thing.



When every single post a person puts up is vitriol about yet another person jumping the so-called queue, then yeah, that horse is dead. Venting is only helpful if there's substance behind it. When it's just repeating the same thing over and over it's just tedious.

You guys can feel free to start your own Waiting on VSC thread if you don't want to see me voicing my displeasure in the one I made.


You're not even a VSC filer, so why are you even in this thread? I don't care what you think and that is the bottom line.

That so-called queue is a statement made by USCIS that petitions will be processed in the order they are received.

You know what? I can still complain about their f*cked up process!!! When I was almost 3 months this guy told me that I would be hearing something soon and if I hit the 6 months mark, there was no way they could give me a RFE!!!! And more cr@p like that!!! We all know that some employees are not well-informed!

YOU ALL KNOW MY STORY SO THERE YOU GO!!!!!!
They make the waiting very very difficult as the days go by!!!!

Again, as people have stated, isn't this an open forum for everyone to share? If he wants to post about being dissatisfied, who cares? No sense in causing troubles, everyone is unhappy with this system, it's a place to vent.

You are correct, it is an open forum, and I didn't say he couldn't share his opinion. I have an opinion to share also.

For the record, I'm not criticizing anyone for venting at USCIS. My point was that the poster (and it's not just him) was taking shots at VJ members who have been approved, rather than sucking it up and either congratulating them or doing what mom always said and not saying anything if you can't say anything nice.

Just as people have the right to vent how bitter and completely unhappy they are with the process, others have the same exact right to voice that it isn't exactly the most productive or healthy thing to do, over and over and over ad nauseam.

Hey guys..I just heard back from our congressmans office and they received an email back from their
inquiry and it said that our file was in the "processing unit"....has anyone ever heard that term used and
if so....do you know what that means?

Of course, that statement was followed by the statement that they (the congressman) could call back and check
in....are you ready for this....."30 to 60 days"....YEP....I know all of you are totally and completely shocked by that
statement!!

Maybe you didn't get his point. I think he is not pissed off at the vj member cause they got approved. What bothers him and still bothers me is the way employees at VSC work cause it is not fair at all to make you wait over 200 days while they are approving 3-4 months old petitions, you know what I mean?
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for them but it is not the way things are supposed to work.....

Who was attacking them? I sure wasn't. I was attacking the fact that they are being approved before all of May is even dealt with. I'm sure my being pissed about that has not changed their joy over being approved. In fact, I would be happy as hell if they were bitching about me getting an approval. That said, I have every right to be pissed, as does Lora, Mirla, Scott, and everyone else that was overlooked.

The "processing unit" sounds like a new brand of the same old bullshit to me.

I didn't see anyone taking shots anywhere. I have no idea who this mystery October filer is.

Whenever we have been pissed with the process we have prefaced with "We're happy with the person who got approved, just mad at VSC".

Billy, along with Lora, Virgil, Ric and until lately, Mirla, have waited WAY longer than a lot of people out there. Not everything they say is negative. And they hang around and we all commiserate. Like many others I have stuck around to lend support to those still waiting.

I think at this point we are all fed up with the process. That is what is being voiced here, not the fact that someone else got approved. Those of us who have been here reading know this.

If someone went into a congratulations thread and vent his frustrations there, I would have a problem. That is not the case here. The frustrations were kept in an environment where a majority of the people reading/posting know and understand the feelings of the poster.

I got approved.. I got approved.. I am crying right now!!!

Congratulations!!!!

It's not blatant, but it does happen. It usually goes something like "Congratulations! Only 89 days, I guess they forgot about us <enter your month> filers." That's not a congratulatory note, that's sour grapes with a painted on smile.

Posting a message that says "Another approval today...filed in October. BS." right after that filer posts their approval is a slap in the face, even if it's not a direct response to their approval message. We should all be here supporting one another, not raining on each others' parades when we get good news.

The person didn't even post here. I took it from the statistics. Seriously, I will congratulate every person that is approved here, even if they filed 3 days ago. I'm not angry at them, I'm angry at the process, or lack thereof.

I want everyone in this thread to know that if you filed before I did and I am approved before you, feel free to be pissed off. I will still be happy, but you have every right to be angry and voice that displeasure. In fact, if I'm approved before Lora, that will be total BS.

There are many ways of finding out when people get approved besides reading what they say in their own threads, or monthly filer threads.

I highly doubt anyone here still waiting is scouring other threads to see which filers are getting approved faster.

That is besides the point. Billy did not mention anyone by name.

And while we need to support one another, not everyone is going to be happy for others all the time, especially if they have been waiting this long. People have gone from supportive to sad to angry (depending on how long they have waited). They have a right to feel the way that they do. And not everyone is going to be happy all the time. We all break down sometime.

Coming here and saying he shouldn't have done that does not help.

"Coming in here"?

Topics are separated into threads so there is not a cacophony of multiple discussions going on at the same time in a single thread. Nobody (with the probable exception of CE) owns these threads, not even the OP. We are all VJ members, and nobody should be discouraged from posting in any particular thread. There are plenty of non-September filers who post in the September thread, we even have Canadian filers drop into the Russian forum from time to time. I could list dozens and dozens of other examples. Of course, I really didn't expect a big hug and open arms from some of the regulars when I posted my criticism (although I have posted in this thread before and was never asked to leave), but as a VJ member I wanted to voice my opinion on a trend I was seeing in this particular thread. I did so in a respectful manner, and I was as non-confrontational as I could be given the circumstances. I don't expect everyone to agree with me, and I certainly knew it would rile the poster I was addressing. But I think we're all adults here and hopefully we can take a little bit of criticism. What we do with that criticism is our own choice, either ignore it or accept it. But let's not get into the whole "get out of our thread intruder!" mentality. Disagree with me if you will, that's cool, but respect my right to post within the guidelines of the TOS and I'll respect yours.

Yup Charlene....I heard that same statement from the Senator's office which she said came directly from Very Stupid Center....VSC......and that I should hear something in 30 days......wahoo...........I am floored by there progress

CONGRATS SOFIA!!!

When you wait 6 months....nothing can make you happy....to see other approvals only gives you hope that your could be on its way.....Like Zee said, we are here to support each other! To read each others opinion and give them advices whenever they need it. We are all on the same boat...waiting and waiting....some longer than others and we should try to put ourselves on their positions too and try to feel what they feel. Everybody es free to say whatever they want here on this thread, right?

O.K.. dude we heard ya.....lets move on.........or if you really want to continue to incite a riot....your choice....no one is stopping you but just be prepared to deal with the ramifications

Yeah, let's move on!!!! WE GOT A NEW APPROVAL TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CONGRATS......rapid sailing to the visa

I said "coming here' not "coming in here"

I fly all over the place and I think I have posted in every forum. I post everywhere and put in my $0.02. In no way was I implying that you should not post here. I am one of the last people to say you should not post where you choose.

I think my choice of words was poor and that is my mistake.

Let me rephrase: Saying that he should not say what he did does not help.

Wow that is neighborly of you to be pissed off for me.......


Thanks for your point of view........I know you understand mine

Ah, gotcha. Fair enough, my mistake also (and first). I'll agree to disagree with you on the rephrase.


You're the one that wants to move on. I'm willing to move on. So drop it already. Or not. *shrug*

Haha

Congrats, Sofia. Hopefully you'll hear from the embassy soon. Go to the light!

Congratulations Sofia!

well considering this had nothing to do with you just how he was being so nice for understanding me and how I understand him.....and sharing a little light humor.....Oh well sorry for you misunderstanding

Help!! I just read on IRS this: If you need an actual copy of your return, you should complete and mail Form 4506 (PDF), Request for Copy of Tax Return, along with a check or money order for $ 39.00 per tax year made payable to the "United States Treasury". Allow 60 calendar days to receive your copies.

Within two weeks for transcripts...which is fine....but 60 days for the other ones?!?!!?!? Is that true??? Do I really need them? I have photocopies.....can I take those photocopies and transcripts???

Mirla, you only need the transcripts.

Mirla,

Tax transcripts will work just fine.

CONGRATULATIONS GUESS YOU HAVE TO BE NICE TO vsc NOW

awesome! awesome! Thanks guys! you're the best!!! We were gonna spend 117 bucks for nothing!!!

Oh. No, I'm not surprised at all. When I hit six months I asked my congressman to look into it and they said that I'd been with an adjudicator as of 11/28. (i'm unclear if that means that the crate was simply checked out, or if it was being worked). That was followed by the statement that if I hadn't heard by January I was welcome to call back. This was right around the 29th, or so. I called January 9th because I still hadn't heard and she said that I should really expect the NOA1- NOA2 process to take a YEAR, but if I hadn't heard by mid-February I could call back again. I'm sure if I haven't heard by Mid-Feb and I call them back again I'll be told to call back again in March.

Bah I tried to edit this and it got eaten.

We're gonna get approved eventually Charlene, just you wait! And, its worth it no?

And extra to everybody here that's offered suggestions, tips, commiseration, encouragement, and shared lots of laughs as we all wait. You guys have all been wonderful and I'm grateful that I have all of you to share this time with. If I was going it alone I'd have gone stark raving crackers by now!

You are so funny!!hahaha ..Nah!!I don't think so..until the USCIS have some improvement, i will stay the same.. Virgill I really hope you will get urs pretty soon..I know it is very devastating on your side for taking that so long..Keep updated!

Yeah I was afraid that it meant nothing....but I was just curious....I guess everyone is down it seems and quiet the last few days...I totally relate...
I have got to focus on something else...or this is going to take its toll on me....

I hope the next time I pull this up there will be better news!!!!!!!!

Congrats Sofia, now things gone move fast!

Many thanks!!

I agree. I have to take breaks or I get a little overly upset about it. But, its also good to have support. It's a fine balance I think.

I re-read what I wrote last night.. 'just you wait!' and it made me laugh this morning. Yeah, that's what we're gonna do, unfortunately. wait.

But we will have good news soon. I have faith that Lora will at least get a reply soon. She's gotten touches! they can't be bad

my fiance can't get to speak to someone on IRS. The number he is dialing it's not working. 800-829-1040. He cannot the transcripts automatically. When he press get transcripts from 2005, it doesn't work. Does someone has another number?

I got it! The stupid machine wasn't working. In two different call I got two different messages!

I had to download the form and fax it because the automated system was not working. It sounds like you solved the problem but if you need the form you can download it here. Click on IRS Form 4506T (Request for Transcript of Tax Return) to get the form from the website.