Hey Byron! Nice to see you haven't forgotten about us

Congratulations, Step and Darren!!
Glad to hear your interview was quick and well....relatively... painless.

What's the next step? Have they issued the visa already?

Yaaaaayyy!
hz

Congratulations, Byron & Leidy!!

Mabruk!
hz

if you want your case to be transferred to vancouver, then you will have to contact vancouver consulate

our petition was sent to italy by mistake...my fiance lives in albania, so i had to contact the consulate in albania and have them speak to the naples consulate about the transfer...it didnt take very long at all...maybe a week tops

CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH OF YOU

Wow Byron, we missed you! Congrats and welcome back!! I am sure you and Leidy are having a great time together, may God bless your marriage.

I think Mirla is already in the states, i got my visa last week and i will fly to VA on monday!

Still continuing a slightly better approval rate.

As an aside, I said in my last post that I was starting my 4th waiting month... I meant 5th. Sigh. And it is still sobering to see the number still waiting before me. C'mon VSC...

Thanks for everyone's support and kind words! Darren arrives tonight!!!!!!!!

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Still continuing a slightly better approval rate.

As an aside, I said in my last post that I was starting my 4th waiting month... I meant 5th. Sigh. And it is still sobering to see the number still waiting before me. C'mon VSC...


I hear ya!! I'm in the same boat, I wonder if we'll be counting on 6+ months. It seems if you don't get it within 3, then you get stuck forever. Geeze, I hope I'm not right......somebody please prove me wrong.

Steph,

You must be soooo excited!!! I get to see my Darren at the end of next month!!!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just to let everyone know where we are now....still have our packet stuck in Montreal....we have emailed the embassy and still know reply...we emailed our embassy of Vancouver and they said we had to deal with Montreal....we have talked to the NVC center and so has our congressman and they said you have to deal with the embassy's...they will not deal with you by phone..we have tried....they said it must be by email.....

We are so frustrated with this process of not being able to talk to someone who can help us....VanCouver gave us a phone number which when we called it. it
said it was no longer a valid number....

THe problem with going to MOntreal to do the interview beside traveling 3000 miles is that the wait time is about 4 months and we had just rescheduled our wedding for May.......this was the NVC centers error...they admitted to it....yet why can't someone help us??????

Will the madness EVER stop!!!!!!!!!!

I am so sorry Charlene.......I am in indefinate processing and review at NVC and yes they are of no help.....I know that it is a pain but maybe you should just go to Montreal......Like me I am thinking it will be a year before we can get this visa done.....IT JUST SUCKS

I feel for you both and for all those who have been waiting for what seems like eons for their noa2 already.

I hope you will be able to hold your NOA2 soonest, as in really hold it physicallly.

God speed on our visa journey.

Lora & Charlene, im so sorry the visa nightmare is still not over for you both. It doesn't make sense at all. I can't help you guys, but I can always hold in prayer...This too shall pass.

God speed for you both.

Charlene, you would think after all the troubles THEY have caused throught your process they'd just hand you guys the visa! Is it even possible to use another Embassy in Canada that might be quicker? I'm so sorry for your troubles.

Lora, still keeping my fingers crossed!

6 weeks from Tuesday we can send our petition! I bet it sounds funny to all of you waiting for your NOA2's or interviews but we have waited for this decree for years and to us it's like Christmas!!!

Trinner, I can't for the life of me understand what the process might be like at VSC to see people getting approved in less than a months time while you, and others, sit waiting. Have you called anyone for assistance yet? I hope it comes soon.

fyi... I checked out a bunch of the timelines on your list. Many of those people have been approved but have not updated their timelines and some have just fallen off the face of the earth, well VJ anyway.

There are literally thousands of abandoned member profiles here on VJ. That really makes it difficult to get accurate info and averages, but it is very helpful when people make these charts.

I would send something to the VJ Admins. Recommend if the account hasn't been logged into in 6 months, delete it.

PRAISE GOD!!!!!!!!


I called the State Department today, went to the visa department of the state department and got to speak to someone.
She at first told me that it had not been sent to the wrong place that all visa go to Montreal for Canadains, (I have been told this
several times in the last two weeks....amazing that these workers don't know this is incorrect)....but anyway....I said that that was not correct
because I had been told by the NVC center that they had sent it to the wrong embassy.....
she asked me to hold on and after about 5 min. she came back and ask if I was still there and I said yes and she said she was
checking on it could I hold longer and I said yes of course, and another 5 minutes or longer went back....
This whole time I was on the phone I was reading my Bible and praying to God to please work this out....
she came back on the line and told me that I was correct....she called and talked to the NVC center and they told her that it had been sent to
the wrong place and that it was in Montreal.....THEN SHE SAID THIS....they are sending a CABLE to day and will have your case transfered to
Vancouver for you........I was so grateful I was in tears.....thanking her profusely for helping me......I got off the phone.....praising God and
crying.........I am so relived that she listened to me and didn't blow me off and that she kept working for those 10 minutes to see what could be
done!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have know idea how to know when it will actually get to Vancouver.....but I am so grateful that it will be moved to the right place!!!!!!

Lora....I will be praying for a quick check on your application at the NVC.....maybe we will both have things picking up on our behalf!!!!!!

Oh Charlene......Great news.....I am so very happy for you....Now I hope for a quick move then interview date for you......I just continue to hope they will finish soon but I have to be truthful.....I am loosing my energy and hope........I am hanging by a thread

Charlene, Thats wonderful news! Congratulations! Do you think Canada would use DHL since that's how it got there?

Lora, hang in there!

GOD is indeed GOOD!!! I am so happy for you.. and may the rest of your journey be smooth now. God speed.

Oh Charlene... I'm SO happy to hear this. It is interesting how much our hearts can hurt for people we really don't know... I've really felt so much for you (and Lora) these last few weeks. This is incredibly good news, and I just know that the door has finally been opened for you.





Lora... I'm incredibly sorry that your battle continues. I know that nothing anyone can say can make this better. I've been separated from my love for so long now... and when I start to feel the weight of depression pushing me down, I try to stop and think just for a minute how the reward is worth this pain...

Well... I have my own good news...

TODAY I got an approval email!



I just wrote another topic talking about it... but I had sworn off checking today to try to stop my depression - so of COURSE today is the day it comes. I could have saved myself a full day of worrying (and trying NOT to think/worry about it) if I had just checked my email or the status website like I normally do a bazillion times a day.

But WHO C