jleo1's US Immigration Timeline

Petitioner's Name: Jeff Beneficiary's Name: Len VJ Member: jleo1 Country: Philippines Last Updated: 2018-05-14 Add Comment to Timeline Register or log in to follow this timeline

Immigration Checklist for Jeff & Len:

USCIS I-129F Petition:       Dept of State K1 Visa:     USCIS I-485 Petition:   USCIS I-765 Petition:       USCIS I-131 Petition:       USCIS I-751 Petition:   USCIS N-400 Petition:

K1 Visa Event Date Service Center : Texas Service Center Transferred? California Service Center on 2017-09-13 Consulate : Manila, Philippines I-129F Sent : 2017-09-09 I-129F NOA1 : 2017-09-13 I-129F RFE(s) : RFE Reply(s) : I-129F NOA2 : 2018-03-15 NVC Received : 2018-04-03 Date Case #, IIN, and BIN assigned : 2018-04-03 NVC Left : 2018-04-03 Consulate Received : 2018-04-09 Packet 3 Received : Packet 3 Sent : Packet 4 Received : 2018-04-20 Interview Date : 2018-05-14 Submit Review Interview Result : Approved Second Interview (If Required): Not required. 1st appointment was at 6:40am. Approved and back at the hotel before 8:00am. 😁 Second Interview Result: Visa Received : US Entry : Marriage : Comments : 01-24-18 - Called USCIS to ask about criteria for requesting Expedited handling. 01-29-18 - Received correspondence from USCIS requesting evidence of meeting Expedite criteria. 02-03-18 - Faxed 11 pages to USCIS. 02-13-18 - Called USCIS to verify receipt of my Faxed info.; Was advised the Fax was received and the request was forwarded for processing. All we can do now is wait. Officer Caldwell said it could take up to 2 months to even decide. Wow! Our petition should be processed by then anyway without the expedite request. Oh well. :o( I received an email from the USCIS on March 17, 2018 stating that my petition was approved on March 16, 2018. I still haven't gotten a written copy of an NOA2 in the mail but I received an email already from the Dept of State (NVC) on April 3, 2018 with an attachment dated the same in which they stated that the NVC received my approved I-129F from the USCIS and that they have sent it to the US Embassy in Manila. Almost nothing has happened the way it should have in our case! Many letters and emails were delayed or sent to the wrong address. They must have entered my email as my fiancee's at the USCIS because I received all of my fiancee's emails and she got none. They told me to follow attachment instructions but the attachment was addressed to my fiancee. When I called the NVC, they said oops, and told me to just forward all emails to my fiancee and it would be fine. I scheduled our interview over the phone as the website wouldn't let me add our 2nd child to our family Visa application. It was quite stressful. I stayed up all night and took the next day off of work but the girl told me we were now all registered and ready for the medical exams so that was good. Then when we showed up at the clinic in Manila for the medical exams, guess what, they told us that we weren't registered at all online and therefore we had to complete all of the paperwork at the clinic which took some time with 2 kids. OMG!!! We did it all and at least we got the medical exams done in 2 days, no problems. Our oldest boy is a PWD and I'm sure that probably helped some however most of the time they would separate the PWD son and do his thing but then they would still make us all sit and wait in the regular line for my fiancee and our other boy so that kind of defeats the the whole PWD/SENIOR priority benefit anyway. The website said the next available interview appointment was April 23 so I got a leave of absence from my work and bought a flight to Manila for April 22nd but when I called to schedule the appointment the girl told me the first available appointment was May 14th. So now I am here in the hot, humid Philippines. I am receiving no paycheck. I have no medical benefits from my work while out on a leave of absence and we are waiting for 2 1/2 weeks for May 14th. We never received an appointment letter at my fiancee's address, instead a coworker called her and told her she just found out letter from the NVC in the mail at her work. It was the letter telling us we could prepare for and schedule our interview appointment now. We already did that 2 weeks ago. Lol I'll just be happy when this part of our journey is over. Good luck people!!!! Processing Estimates/Stats : Your I-129f was approved in 183 days from your NOA1 date. Your interview took 243 days from your I-129F NOA1 date.

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