JenandJerry's US Immigration Timeline
Immigration Checklist for Jennifer & Jeremy:
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USCIS I-130/I-129F Petitions:
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Dept of State K3 Visa:
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USCIS I-485 Petition:
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USCIS I-765 Petition:
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USCIS I-131 Petition:
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USCIS I-751 Petition:
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USCIS N-400 Petition:
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K3 Visa
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| Event |
Date |
| Service Center : |
Vermont Service Center |
| Consulate : |
London, United Kingdom |
| Marriage : |
2005-08-18 |
| I-130 Sent : |
2006-04-14 |
| I-130 NOA1 : |
2006-04-27 |
| I-130 RFE : |
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| I-130 RFE Sent : |
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| I-129F Sent : |
2006-05-09 |
| I-129F NOA1 : |
2006-05-18 |
| I-129F RFE(s) : |
2006-06-28 |
| RFE Reply(s) : |
2006-07-10 |
| I-129F NOA2 : |
2006-08-21 |
| NVC Received : |
2006-08-31 |
| NVC Left : |
2006-08-31 |
| Consulate Received : |
2006-09-12 |
| Packet 3 Received : |
2006-09-15 |
| Packet 3 Sent : |
2006-10-23 |
| Packet 4 Received : |
2006-12-07 |
| Interview Date : |
2006-12-21 |
| Interview Result : |
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Second Interview
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| Second Interview Result: |
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| Visa Received : |
2007-01-04 |
| US Entry : |
2007-01-07 |
| I-130 Approval : |
2006-08-07 |
| Comments : |
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Processing
Estimates/Stats : |
Your I-129f was approved in 95 days from your NOA1 date.
Your I-130 was approved in 102 days from your NOA1 date.
Your interview took 238 days from your I-130 NOA1 date. |
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Port of Entry Review
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| Event |
Date |
| Port of Entry : |
Boston |
| POE Date : |
2007-01-07 |
| Got EAD Stamp : |
No |
| Biometrics Taken : |
Yes |
| Harassment Level : |
0 |
| Comments : |
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Employment Authorization
Document
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| Event |
Date |
| CIS Office : |
Chicago National Office |
| Filing Method : |
Mail |
| Filing Instance : |
First |
| Date Filed : |
2007-01-11 |
| NOA Date : |
2007-01-16 |
| RFE(s) : |
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| Bio. Appt. : |
2007-02-01 |
| Approved Date : |
2007-02-21 |
| Date Card Received : |
2007-04-27 |
| Comments : |
Our EAD was mailed on Feb 23, but for some reason was not delivered by the post office. It took us over 2 months to eventually receive the card after many, many calls to the USCIS. |
Processing
Estimates/Stats : |
Your EAD was approved in 41 days. |
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Member Reviews:
Consulate Review: London, United Kingdom
Review Topic: K3 Visa
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| Event |
Description |
| Review Date : |
January 3, 2007 |
| Embassy Review : |
Everyone else seems to only be marking the London Embassy for their performance on the day of the interview. Like others here, our interview was very fast and efficient, which is why we are giving them two out of five and not zero. As the London embassy took over the processing of our application from the NVC in August, we think it is fair to mark their overall performance since then.
We received our package three promptly, just two days after the embassy took charge of our case from the NVC. From this point on, things went downhill. After sending in our completed checklist, we waited nearly seven weeks before we got our package four. We would have been waiting much longer, had we not been advised by fellow applicants on this forum, to resend our checklist after not hearing back for four weeks. The embassy never acknowledged that they had lost our paperwork, but we believe it's too much of a coincidence that two weeks after resending the checklist, we suddenly had an interview date.
During this very stressful time we tried to contact the embassy and it is the nonsense we had to put up with trying to do this, that is the main reason for our poor mark. The only way to actually talk to a person is to call the Visa "Helpline" which is a premium rate number (1.20 per minute) based in Glasgow where they are absolutely no help whatsoever. The only thing they can do for you is give you a reference number which allows you to email the embassy. Without this number, the embassy will completely ignore your emails and even with it, will take around five days to respond (it took them 4 weeks for one of ours). When the embassy do eventually deign to answer your email it will either be a terse automated mail telling you not to mail them again or a useless answer to the effect that you'll just have to wait. In case you think we were bombarding the embassy with emails, we have in fact mailed them a grand total of five times in four months. Hardly unreasonable.
Eventually we got an interview and on Thursday 21st December, everything went swimmingly. Unlike other people here, however, I was not asked to raise my hand and swear to tell the truth and the guy did not welcome me to America, but simply said "Your paperwork is in order" (I really hope that isn't important). He then sent us to the Secure Mail Services desk, where we were told my passport would be sent to me within 5 working days. Today (Jan 3rd) is the 5th working day and SMS have not even received my passport from the Embassy yet, let alone delivered it to me. I've now been told by SMS that it can take 10 - 15 working days, but have no way of verifying that. Managing expectations is not really a strong point for any of the people involved in this process.
We have now had to rearrange our flights to America twice at considerable cost.
Altogether a pretty shoddy performance and we haven't even got my visa yet.... |
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Poor |
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Timeline Comments: None yet, be the first!
*Notice about estimates: The estimates are based off averages of other members recent experiences
(documented in their timelines) for the same benefit/petition/application at the same filing location.
Individual results may vary as every case is not always 'average'. Past performance does not necessarily
predict future results. The 'as early as date' may change over time based on current reported processing
times from members. There have historically been cases where a benefit/petition/application processing
briefly slows down or stops and this can not be predicted. Use these dates as reference only and do not
rely on them for planning. As always you should check the
USCIS processing times to see if your application
is past due.
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