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Hi everybody, I've been lurking around for quite a bit and asked plenty of questions through personal messages since I joined. I felt it was high time for an actual introduction.

My name is Nick and I currently live in the Netherlands. I met Kristen at my university in Utrecht (the Netherlands) that she was visiting on holiday. We started talking and we had an instant connection. I didn't ask for her number because I was afraid I would be too forward, and of course after a while we had to both go our separate ways. I felt stupid, all I knew was her first name. Luckily, there is such a thing as facebook, but I wasn't the only one thinking about that because as soon as I logged in I already had a friendship request from her.

The next couple weeks we kept talking over skype, whatsapp and facebook-chat nearly every hour that we were awake. I fell for her, hard. And she started to like me more every day too. We decided to become an item in June.
But of course it was a bit odd since, well, she's American and across the globe. So before long we booked the first flight, and started visiting each other as often as we could. Every time we'd see each other our feelings would only be confirmed; this is the real deal.

Fast forward to December, I won't hand out all the juicy details but I proposed! And she said yes!! I thought I couldn't be happier than right there and then. -But I could.

Last February we tied the knot. We got married in this cute little church in Ohio, it was amazing.
But.. I had to go back to the Netherlands quite soon afterwards since I was still in school and so is she.

We decided we would really want to live together, so we sent in the I-130 and we just got our NOA1 today.
Now the waiting starts, unfortunately haha!

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Our journey so far:
May '13: Met at university in the Netherlands
25 Jun '13: Became an official couple!
28 Dec ’13: Proposed to her

12 Feb '14 Visited my wife for 12 days in Ohio (12 through 24 February). POE Chicago, harassment level very low.

24 Feb ’14: Got married in Ohio.
25 Mar ’14: I-130 sent to Chicago Lockbox.
27 Mar ’14: I-130 NOA1 (text & email)
04 Apr ’14: I-130 NOA1 (letter)
18 Jun '14: I-130 NOA2 (text & email)
26 Jun '14: Case received by NVC

10 Jul '14: Case# assigned (received along with the INN and BIN on the 15th via phone)
28 Jul '14 Received DS-261 & AOS Bill

29 Jul '14 Submitted DS-261 & paid AOS bill
02 Aug '14 AOS fee shows "Paid"

05 Aug '14 Sent AOS package

06 Aug '14 AOS package received (scanned) by NVC (eventually confirmed by Arthur on 07 Aug '14)

14 Aug '14 Visiting my Wife in Ohio for 64 days (Until October 17th). POE Philadelphia, harassment level low.

08 Sep '14 IV bill received & paid

10 Sep '14 IV shows up as paid, IV package sent

12 Sep '14 DS-260 submitted

20 Sep '14 IV package returned to me by the US postal service Great *sigh*

22 Sep '14 Re-sending IV package (Priority Mail 2-day Delivery)

24 Sep '14 IV package arrived (USPS tracking confirmed)

24 Sep '14 IV package received (scanned, 60 day email sent)

05 Oct '14 AOS package accepted (60 days after 06 Aug) Stupid NVC now reviews both packages together, using the last scandate.

23 Oct '14 Checklist received for AOS, missed a couple checkboxes and now I'll have to miss my wife an extra 2 months

05 Nov '14 AOS-Checklist scanned in

23 Dec '14 Case complete!

21 Jan '15 Medical
24 Feb '15 Interview -Approved! (issued as of 25 Feb '15)

27 Feb '15 Visa in hand, feels good.
07 Mar '15 POE at DTW, easy as pie.

17 Mar '15 Got my SS card in the mail --Elis still says 'Optimised' though

21 Apr '15 Got my Green Card in the mail!

--To do:--

07 Dec '16 File I-751 (Removal of Conditions)

07 Mar '18 File N-400 (Naturalization)

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Hi Nick, welcome to the forum and good luck with the wait! I'm in the Netherlands too and waiting for my NOA2. Hope the Dutch embassy is not too hard on us :)

Our journey so far:

27 Mar '09: Met at work in Holland and started dating.

30 Nov '13: Got engaged in Scotland!

10 Jan '14: Sent I-129F package to Dallas Lockbox.

22 Jan '14: NOA1 received.

29 Jun '14: Congressman Lobiondo inquired at TSC about our case.

16 Jul '14: Senator Menendez inquired at TSC about our case.

21 Jul '14: NOA2 approved!! (180 days)

23 Jul '14: Case sent to NVC.

01 Aug '14: Received NVC case number.

07 Aug '14: Case sent to Dutch consulate.

13 Aug '14: Packet 3 received, completed the DS-160 form.

15 Aug '14: Sent Packet 3 back to the consulate.

21 Aug '14: Packet 4 received with interview date.

02 Sep '14: Medical examination.

16 Sep '14: Interview --> APPROVED!!

20 Sep '14: Passport with visa returned.

12 Oct '14: POE, entered the USA!

14 Nov '14: Married! <3

24 Dec '14: Filed AOS/EAD.

31 Dec '14: AOS/EAD NOA1's received.

29 Jan '15: AOS RFE received for 2014 tax return.

23 Feb '15: AOS RFE response sent.

13 Mar '15: EAD RFE received for legal married name affidavit.

17 Mar '15: EAD RFE response sent.

29 Apr '15: Filed InfoPass to find out why I still didn't get biometrics appt.

06 May '15: Biometrics appointment.

14 May '15: Received EAD (finally!)

22 July '15: Interview waived.

08 Sep '15: Got my Green Card!

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Welcome to the forum.

Completed: K1/K2 (271 days) - AOS/EAD/AP (134 days) - ROC (279 days)

"Si vis amari, ama" - Seneca

 

 

 

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Welcome, Nick!

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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Hi Nick, welcome to the forum.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat

- Sun Tzu-

It doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you don't stop

-Confucius-

 

-I am the beneficiary and my post is not reflecting my petitioner's point of views-

 

                                       Lifting Condition (I-751)

 

*Mailed I-751 package (06/21/2017) to CSC

*NOA-1 date (06/23/2017)

*NOA-1 received (06/28/2017)

*Check cashed (06/27/2017)

*Biometric Received (07/10/2017)

*Biometric Appointment (07/20/2017)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hello NickTijs! (And AlissaCarly!) I hope that you have a smooth and quick ride through the USCIS and NVC. I wouldn't worry too much about the consulate in Amsterdam. I've dealt with them on multiple occasions when I lived in the Netherlands, and they're pretty awesome. (Also, you get to sit inside an old Dutch fireplace while you wait! Fun times!) Come say hi in the Dutch couples thread!

3/25/2006 - Got Married

3/20/2013 - I130 Priority Date
11/6/2013 - Transferred to Nebraska
1/3/2014 - NOA2
1/6/2014 - Petition shipped to NVC
1/21/2014 - NVC Received
2/24/2014 - Case # & IIN
3/3/2014 - DS-261 Available and Submitted
3/4/2014 - AOS Fee Available and Submitted
3/5/2014 - AOS Fee Paid
3/6/2014 - Received AOS Coversheet and Payment Receipt
3/7/2014 - AOS Package Sent
3/10/2014 - NVC Receives AOS package
3/12/2014 - NVC Acknowledges receipt of AOS package
3/21/2014 - Triangle of Doom appears for IV package
3/24/2014 - IV Fee Available and Submitted
3/25/2014 - IV package overnighted to the NVC
3/26/2014 - IV Fee shows PAID
3/26/2014 - DS260 available & submitted
3/26/2014 - IV package delivered to NVC
3/26/2014 - False checklist for IV fee.
3/26/2014 - AOS documents accepted w/no checklists!
3/28/2014 - IV & DS260 logged into NVC System
4/10/2014 - Case Complete!

Interview Date: June 17, 2014

Approved at Interview!

POE Newark on 6/28/2014! He's finally home!

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Hi, my name is Veronique Paul, I'm new at visajourney.com.

I met my fiancé 2 years 7 months ago, I filed fiancé visa K-1 for him on February 19/2014 and received at USCIS on 2/21/2014 and received the Noa1 on February 27 2014.

I still waiting for the Noa2.

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Hi, my name is Veronique Paul, I'm new at visajourney.com.

I met my fiancé 2 years 7 months ago, I filed fiancé visa K-1 for him on February 19/2014 and received at USCIS on 2/21/2014 and received the Noa1 on February 27 2014.

I still waiting for the Noa2. Did somebody knows how long it take to receive the NOA2 please?

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Hey Nick!

Another Dutch member right here.

Lets hope for the best, because I really don't like not being with my husband!

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Hi everybody, I've been lurking around for quite a bit and asked plenty of questions through personal messages since I joined. I felt it was high time for an actual introduction.

My name is Nick and I currently live in the Netherlands. I met Kristen at my university in Utrecht (the Netherlands) that she was visiting on holiday. We started talking and we had an instant connection. I didn't ask for her number because I was afraid I would be too forward, and of course after a while we had to both go our separate ways. I felt stupid, all I knew was her first name. Luckily, there is such a thing as facebook, but I wasn't the only one thinking about that because as soon as I logged in I already had a friendship request from her.

The next couple weeks we kept talking over skype, whatsapp and facebook-chat nearly every hour that we were awake. I fell for her, hard. And she started to like me more every day too. We decided to become an item in June.

But of course it was a bit odd since, well, she's American and across the globe. So before long we booked the first flight, and started visiting each other as often as we could. Every time we'd see each other our feelings would only be confirmed; this is the real deal.

Fast forward to December, I won't hand out all the juicy details but I proposed! And she said yes!! I thought I couldn't be happier than right there and then. -But I could.

Last February we tied the knot. We got married in this cute little church in Ohio, it was amazing.

But.. I had to go back to the Netherlands quite soon afterwards since I was still in school and so is she.

We decided we would really want to live together, so we sent in the I-130 and we just got our NOA1 today.

Now the waiting starts, unfortunately haha!

Hi Nick welcome to the forum and good luck as well.

U kind of like me waiting for the great day!!!

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Hello NickTijs! (And AlissaCarly!) I hope that you have a smooth and quick ride through the USCIS and NVC. I wouldn't worry too much about the consulate in Amsterdam. I've dealt with them on multiple occasions when I lived in the Netherlands, and they're pretty awesome. (Also, you get to sit inside an old Dutch fireplace while you wait! Fun times!) Come say hi in the Dutch couples thread!

Oooh I only just saw this now, sorry! Thanks Kaylara :D I found the thread. The fireplace sounds gezellig!

Our journey so far:

27 Mar '09: Met at work in Holland and started dating.

30 Nov '13: Got engaged in Scotland!

10 Jan '14: Sent I-129F package to Dallas Lockbox.

22 Jan '14: NOA1 received.

29 Jun '14: Congressman Lobiondo inquired at TSC about our case.

16 Jul '14: Senator Menendez inquired at TSC about our case.

21 Jul '14: NOA2 approved!! (180 days)

23 Jul '14: Case sent to NVC.

01 Aug '14: Received NVC case number.

07 Aug '14: Case sent to Dutch consulate.

13 Aug '14: Packet 3 received, completed the DS-160 form.

15 Aug '14: Sent Packet 3 back to the consulate.

21 Aug '14: Packet 4 received with interview date.

02 Sep '14: Medical examination.

16 Sep '14: Interview --> APPROVED!!

20 Sep '14: Passport with visa returned.

12 Oct '14: POE, entered the USA!

14 Nov '14: Married! <3

24 Dec '14: Filed AOS/EAD.

31 Dec '14: AOS/EAD NOA1's received.

29 Jan '15: AOS RFE received for 2014 tax return.

23 Feb '15: AOS RFE response sent.

13 Mar '15: EAD RFE received for legal married name affidavit.

17 Mar '15: EAD RFE response sent.

29 Apr '15: Filed InfoPass to find out why I still didn't get biometrics appt.

06 May '15: Biometrics appointment.

14 May '15: Received EAD (finally!)

22 July '15: Interview waived.

08 Sep '15: Got my Green Card!

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