Any word on I-129f if filed in August?

[av8or1 246]

don't pay attention to wbeem. He/she is the most depressed, negative member of them all. They can't even be happy for others. Patience is important, something they obviously lack.

Eh back off of wbeem Jabl2rom, I understand what he/she is saying. I too am tired of pep talks from others who haven't waited as long. That said, it's not the wait that is the determining factor many times. What you, KatieKay and others who spout off such tribe fail to remember is that patience isn't always the sole factor at work in a particular couple's situation. Hell, if it was just a matter of patience and waiting it out, I'd have no trouble at all, for example. And really I'm still doing fine, no crumbling cookies here. However in my case there's a pregnancy involved and that complicates things, for reasons I won't go into. When you couple such external factors with the unfair processing time differential with the CSC, it's little wonder that some of us are on edge. So cut wbeem a little slack and take your own advice: be patient with such people KatieKay and Jabl2rom! Or does your patience only extend so far and apply to certain things? LOL

Look, sarcasm aside, what I'm saying is to be more sympathetic and possibly somewhat empathetic to everyone, including wbeem. Not everyone has your same situation; there very well may be external factors at work and not everyone handles such situations as perfectly as you two seem to be capable of. Some folk just get tired of the rah-rah BS after a while, that's all. So have patience and tolerance of such folk.

I'm just sayin'....

Edited February 27, 2015 by av8or1

[Jabl2rom 54]

Eh back off of wbeem Jabl2rom, I understand what he/she is saying. I too am tired of pep talks from others who haven't waited as long. That said, it's not the wait that is the determining factor many times. What you, KatieKay and others who spout off such tribe fail to remember is that patience isn't always the sole factor at work in a particular couple's situation. Hell, if it was just a matter of patience and waiting it out, I'd have no trouble at all, for example. And really I'm still doing fine, no crumbling cookies here. However in my case there's a pregnancy involved and that complicates things, for reasons I won't go into. When you couple such external factors with the unfair processing time differential with the CSC, it's little wonder that some of us are on edge. So cut wbeem a little slack and take your own advice: be patient with such people KatieKay and Jabl2rom! Or does your patience only extend so far and apply to certain things? LOL

Look, sarcasm aside, what I'm saying is to be more sympathetic and possibly somewhat empathetic to everyone, including wbeem. Not everyone has your same situation; there very well may be external factors at work and not everyone handles such situations as perfectly as you two seem to be capable of. Some folk just get tired of the rah-rah BS after a while, that's all. So have patience and tolerance of such folk.

I'm just sayin'....

I get that, but the general observation is that USCIS is processing August applications, thus he/she and other August filers are close to being approved. (Something they won't accept.) I understand being jaded and impatient with the situation, but acting like this process will take an additional 5 months for those that filed in August is unecessarily conservative. It will not take them a year to get their NOA2. From the outset we are told to hope for 5-6 months and be ready for 10 months - wbeem, like many others, are STILL within that time frame. There is no reason to be raining on the other TSC filers parade. I personally have my own reasons to be frustrated with the speed of this process, but I take comfort in the fact that we are all closer to the end than the beginning.

[wbeem 567]

Eh back off of wbeem Jabl2rom, I understand what he/she is saying. I too am tired of pep talks from others who haven't waited as long. That said, it's not the wait that is the determining factor many times. What you, KatieKay and others who spout off such tribe fail to remember is that patience isn't always the sole factor at work in a particular couple's situation. Hell, if it was just a matter of patience and waiting it out, I'd have no trouble at all, for example. And really I'm still doing fine, no crumbling cookies here. However in my case there's a pregnancy involved and that complicates things, for reasons I won't go into. When you couple such external factors with the unfair processing time differential with the CSC, it's little wonder that some of us are on edge. So cut wbeem a little slack and take your own advice: be patient with such people KatieKay and Jabl2rom! Or does your patience only extend so far and apply to certain things? LOL

Look, sarcasm aside, what I'm saying is to be more sympathetic and possibly somewhat empathetic to everyone, including wbeem. Not everyone has your same situation; there very well may be external factors at work and not everyone handles such situations as perfectly as you two seem to be capable of. Some folk just get tired of the rah-rah BS after a while, that's all. So have patience and tolerance of such folk.

I'm just sayin'....

Thank you for understanding. We still make calls, we check with USCIS and our Congressman. We've signed petitions, complained to the OIG, and recently listened to the USCIS conference call. It's not as if we aren't trying to move our case forward. Yet we keep seeing others who haven't waited as long either getting approved or telling us some cheerleader story. It gets old.

Like all of the other couples here, we just want to get through this process and be together. When we started, the approval time was 4-5 months. Now we're nearly 7 months with nothing from USCIS. We've heard people "it's coming soon now!" for months. To be honest, we'd rather not hear such platitudes from people who have no inside information.

We'll get our notice when we get it.

[Shauneg 762]

Also 7 months. No word.

Please do not tell people to be patient. When you get to 7 months, feel free. Until then, don't.

Please dont tell people what to do. Due to two deployments and a mandatory remote tour in Asia I have had to wait four years. When you get to 4 years, feel free. Until then, don't.

Edited February 27, 2015 by Shauneg

[Shauneg 762]

Thank you for understanding. We still make calls, we check with USCIS and our Congressman. We've signed petitions, complained to the OIG, and recently listened to the USCIS conference call. It's not as if we aren't trying to move our case forward. Yet we keep seeing others who haven't waited as long either getting approved or telling us some cheerleader story. It gets old.

Like all of the other couples here, we just want to get through this process and be together. When we started, the approval time was 4-5 months. Now we're nearly 7 months with nothing from USCIS. We've heard people "it's coming soon now!" for months. To be honest, we'd rather not hear such platitudes from people who have no inside information.

We'll get our notice when we get it.

The problem is that you feel they aren't qualified to pep people up because they haven't waited as long as you ...."Please don't tell people to be patient. When you get to 7 months,feel free. Until then, no." What makes 7 months the magic number? Additionally no one forces you to come in a read the posts. This is a place for support and guidance including words of encouragement.

[katiekay 28]

don't pay attention to wbeem. He/she is the most depressed, negative member of them all. They can't even be happy for others. Patience is important, something they obviously lack.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/509972-august-2014-k-1-filers-tsc/page-50

Thank you!

Eh back off of wbeem Jabl2rom, I understand what he/she is saying. I too am tired of pep talks from others who haven't waited as long. That said, it's not the wait that is the determining factor many times. What you, KatieKay and others who spout off such tribe fail to remember is that patience isn't always the sole factor at work in a particular couple's situation. Hell, if it was just a matter of patience and waiting it out, I'd have no trouble at all, for example. And really I'm still doing fine, no crumbling cookies here. However in my case there's a pregnancy involved and that complicates things, for reasons I won't go into. When you couple such external factors with the unfair processing time differential with the CSC, it's little wonder that some of us are on edge. So cut wbeem a little slack and take your own advice: be patient with such people KatieKay and Jabl2rom! Or does your patience only extend so far and apply to certain things? LOL

Look, sarcasm aside, what I'm saying is to be more sympathetic and possibly somewhat empathetic to everyone, including wbeem. Not everyone has your same situation; there very well may be external factors at work and not everyone handles such situations as perfectly as you two seem to be capable of. Some folk just get tired of the rah-rah BS after a while, that's all. So have patience and tolerance of such folk.

I'm just sayin'....

everyone will not agree on everything because if that was the case we'd all be living in a perfect world. You may agree with wbeen about not wanting to hear other people's "pep talk" but quite frankly if you don't want to hear it, you could always avoid the comments or stay off the website. If I remember correctly we're here to check on the process and also support each other as we go through this long journey. It doesn't matter if im currently waiting 4 months or going on 7 months because the frustration is still the same. You may not want to hear any encouragement, but i'm sure other people could use it.

You guys aren't the only ones who are frustrated or missing your fiancé. Sitting down waiting 6-8 months for an approval is ridiculous, but as I said before if you guys have any way of speeding up the process then by all means go ahead because im sure we'd all love to be done with this, but unfortunately we cant do anything about it except to wait until USCIS inform us of our approval.

I will not be wasting my time going back and forth with neither of you so if neither of you want the members support then there is always a sign out button up top. Good luck to both of you on your journey

[av8or1 246]

I get that, but the general observation is that USCIS is processing August applications, thus he/she and other August filers are close to being approved. (Something they won't accept.) I understand being jaded and impatient with the situation, but acting like this process will take an additional 5 months for those that filed in August is unecessarily conservative. It will not take them a year to get their NOA2. From the outset we are told to hope for 5-6 months and be ready for 10 months - wbeem, like many others, are STILL within that time frame. There is no reason to be raining on the other TSC filers parade. I personally have my own reasons to be frustrated with the speed of this process, but I take comfort in the fact that we are all closer to the end than the beginning.

Yeah I understand you Jabl2rom, and in a way you're correct. However, please recall that not everyone will receive their NOA2 in the same rough time-period that others with approximately equal NOA1 dates will. Said another way, just because other August filers are receiving their NOA2s now and more are to come, doesn't mean that they'll receive theirs. There are still June filers who are waiting, for example. So it actually is possible that it might be an additional 5 months for a given filer, depending on their circumstances. And that is why some of us fight. I know in my case that the possibility of my petition requiring longer to adjudicate than other September filers is a large part of what has me motivated to do everything I'm doing, for example. And I have a reason to fear this possibility with a divorce (I mean will they REALLY need to read ALL 17 PAGES of my decree???) and previous filings. Please remember that some filers will take longer than others who filed at approximately the same time and that is a disturbing reality. Finally, whatever your reasons are to be frustrated, we support you too, hope you and you're fiance are holding up ok.

Anyway, just a thought....

Please dont tell people what to do. Due to two deployments and a mandatory remote tour in Asia I have had to wait four years. When you get to 4 years, feel free. Until then, don't.

I think you missed the point that you tried so diligently to make yourself: someone telling you to be patient IS someone telling you what to do. Therefore if your position of advocacy is that folk shouldn't tell other folk what to do - which you made clear in your two posts - then you must support the notion of not telling someone to be patient too. Else you go the way of hypocrisy. And in the end I think that is what a lot of us who rebel against such rah-rah stuff are attempting to convey: "don't tell me what to do and don't tell me how to feel." You can't have your cake and eat it too Shauneg.

I'm just sayin.....

Thank you!

everyone will not agree on everything because if that was the case we'd all be living in a perfect world. You may agree with wbeen about not wanting to hear other people's "pep talk" but quite frankly if you don't want to hear it, you could always avoid the comments or stay off the website. If I remember correctly we're here to check on the process and also support each other as we go through this long journey. It doesn't matter if im currently waiting 4 months or going on 7 months because the frustration is still the same. You may not want to hear any encouragement, but i'm sure other people could use it.

You guys aren't the only ones who are frustrated or missing your fiancé. Sitting down waiting 6-8 months for an approval is ridiculous, but as I said before if you guys have any way of speeding up the process then by all means go ahead because im sure we'd all love to be done with this, but unfortunately we cant do anything about it except to wait until USCIS inform us of our approval.

I will not be wasting my time going back and forth with neither of you so if neither of you want the members support then there is always a sign out button up top. Good luck to both of you on your journey

So many flaws with that logic and argument. Eh, I won't even delve into it all. Let's just agree to disagree. You can choose to click on the sign out button up top too.

[kql1975 0]

its seen to be phillipino they proccess faster even they at TSC .....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shauneg 762]

Yeah I understand you Jabl2rom, and in a way you're correct. However, please recall that not everyone will receive their NOA2 in the same rough time-period that others with approximately equal NOA1 dates will. Said another way, just because other August filers are receiving their NOA2s now and more are to come, doesn't mean that they'll receive theirs. There are still June filers who are waiting, for example. So it actually is possible that it might be an additional 5 months for a given filer, depending on their circumstances. And that is why some of us fight. I know in my case that the possibility of my petition requiring longer to adjudicate than other September filers is a large part of what has me motivated to do everything I'm doing, for example. And I have a reason to fear this possibility with a divorce (I mean will they REALLY need to read ALL 17 PAGES of my decree???) and previous filings. Please remember that some filers will take longer than others who filed at approximately the same time and that is a disturbing reality. Finally, whatever your reasons are to be frustrated, we support you too, hope you and you're fiance are holding up ok.

Anyway, just a thought....

I think you missed the point that you tried so diligently to make yourself: someone telling you to be patient IS someone telling you what to do. Therefore if your position of advocacy is that folk shouldn't tell other folk what to do - which you made clear in your two posts - then you must support the notion of not telling someone to be patient too. Else you go the way of hypocrisy. And in the end I think that is what a lot of us who rebel against such rah-rah stuff are attempting to convey: "don't tell me what to do and don't tell me how to feel." You can't have your cake and eat it too Shauneg.

I'm just sayin.....

So many flaws with that logic and argument. Eh, I won't even delve into it all. Let's just agree to disagree. You can choose to click on the sign out button up top too.

You're were just ridiculously rude about it bottom line and you've missed that point entirely.

[av8or1 246]

You're were just ridiculously rude about it bottom line and you've missed that point entirely.

Rude? Nah, I don't think so, wasn't trying to be, that's for certain. Anyway, let's you and I also agree to disagree peacefully.

[Gill&Grant 5]

Really. Sad to hear August filers are still waiting!!! I'm an October filer so I'm hoping to heR good news for you guys and September soon!!

[wbeem 567]

. This is a place for support and guidance including words of encouragement.

Yet you're offering neither right now.

[Shauneg 762]

Rude? Nah, I don't think so, wasn't trying to be, that's for certain. Anyway, let's you and I also agree to disagree peacefully.

Yep didn't mean you sorry about that. I didn't feel you were rude.

[wbeem 567]

Please dont tell people what to do. Due to two deployments and a mandatory remote tour in Asia I have had to wait four years. When you get to 4 years, feel free. Until then, don't.

Your timeline says you filed in January. Maybe you were doing other things for those four years, but it doesn't really count for the purpose of waiting on USCIS.

Edited February 27, 2015 by Penguin_ie

[wbeem 567]

Wasn't....just trying to find out why someone can tell another to be patient at 7 months but not when they've been waiting 4. Why 7?

Maybe if you have to wait longer, you'll understand. I brought this up in a previous post, but I'll spell it out for you because you asked.

When we started, the process took 4-5 months to get an approval for a petition. The expectations were set. Then USCIS started gradually moving the goal posts. When we were at four months, we thought an approval was coming soon, but it didn't happen.

Calling USCIS makes you realize that the only objective their customer service has is to get you to hang up. They stonewall, offer outdated information, no insight to the progress of your case, and sometimes they outright lie to you. Some agents are nice, others are abusive.

After you bang your head against this wall and other methods of trying to figure out what's happening, you get frustrated. The longer you do it, the more frustrated you get. That's why seven months is worse than four. It should seem obvious to anyone else who has been waiting as long for a petition. The problem is that people who haven't waited as long just don't seem to get it. It's something that you experience, which is why others who have shared this experience understand it better than those who aren't as far along.