january filers!

[Alex & Rachel 78]

Welcome!

We included:

- Stamps in passports

- Plane tickets and train tickets from 1 1/2 of the 3 trips (I hadn't kept anything from the first trip, and we completed the package while I was in the US and didn't have return tickets)

- 5-6 photos of us together

- Mobile phone bills (3 of them, to show a cross-section)

- About 6 e-mails (again, a cross-section)

- 4 letters

Fortunately I managed to get Alex to write 'none' in blank spaces on the forms before he sent it out, although I'm still terrified of getting a RFE for whatever reason!

[IrieCat 2]

Hi!

I had:

passport stamps

Plane ticket receipt

pictures of us in St Lucia, including my daughter and SO

Receipt from apartment

Receipt from daughter's school

HUGE phone bills

Phone card receipts

Oh and a copy of my St Lucia driver's license

I have a positive outlook on this but also am thinking I will get an RFE for something. I cut off International calling from my phone (bill was out of control!) so for future proof I have set him up with an e-mail account and we have written each other a few letters. I only use a calling card now so it is hard to say who I am calling only that I am using the card. We wrote each other letters 2 weeks ago and neither have received.. St Lucian mail is iffy! :-)

I guess if I dont have enough proof of relationship both my mom, aunt and his mother and friends will write affidavits. It will just set us back a week or so. In the long run the week or too will be nothing.

Good luck and speedy NOA2s to all!!

:-)

Irie Irie Irie

Cat

Edited January 31, 2008 by IrieCat

[Brian&Mel 0]

Hi!

I had:

passport stamps

Plane ticket receipt

pictures of us in St Lucia, including my daughter and SO

Receipt from apartment

Receipt from daughter's school

HUGE phone bills

Phone card receipts

Oh and a copy of my St Lucia driver's license

I have a positive outlook on this but also am thinking I will get an RFE for something. I cut off International calling from my phone (bill was out of control!) so for future proof I have set him up with an e-mail account and we have written each other a few letters. I only use a calling card now so it is hard to say who I am calling only that I am using the card. We wrote each other letters 2 weeks ago and neither have received.. St Lucian mail is iffy! :-)

I guess if I dont have enough proof of relationship both my mom, aunt and his mother and friends will write affidavits. It will just set us back a week or so. In the long run the week or too will be nothing.

Good luck and speedy NOA2s to all!!

:-)

Irie Irie Irie

Cat

Have you tried using Skype? They kept the history of calls and SMS. Or have you tried using Gmail talk? Like Skype, they also archieved all the conversations.

By the way, just thought of sharing this with January filers!!!

As of January 4, 2008, USCIS had completed initial data entry and issued receipt notices for applications and petitions except for I-130s (Petition for Alien Relative) which are being receipted at the Chicago Lockbox facility, as noted below:

Chicago Lockbox (as of 1/30/08)

Form Number Date Received

I-130 12/18/2007

It's getting closer!!!

[KitEEgirl 0]

Sorry guys.. sometimes my obsession gets the best of me.. forgive me, I'm an engineer so I had to crunch some numbers..

Mind you this, this data is ONLY from visajourney database.....and ONLY for Vermont Service Center

On VJ, 70 applicants have applied for K1, of those 70, 25 have reported receiving their NOA2. The last shown date was someone who filed 10/23/07..

With this in mind, there were 38 November filers, 38 December filers, and 46 January filers...

Hopefully logic will hold and there were less applications in November and December and we can move on rather quickly!

[IrieCat 2]

Hi!

I had:

passport stamps

Plane ticket receipt

pictures of us in St Lucia, including my daughter and SO

Receipt from apartment

Receipt from daughter's school

HUGE phone bills

Phone card receipts

Oh and a copy of my St Lucia driver's license

I have a positive outlook on this but also am thinking I will get an RFE for something. I cut off International calling from my phone (bill was out of control!) so for future proof I have set him up with an e-mail account and we have written each other a few letters. I only use a calling card now so it is hard to say who I am calling only that I am using the card. We wrote each other letters 2 weeks ago and neither have received.. St Lucian mail is iffy! :-)

I guess if I dont have enough proof of relationship both my mom, aunt and his mother and friends will write affidavits. It will just set us back a week or so. In the long run the week or too will be nothing.

Good luck and speedy NOA2s to all!!

:-)

Irie Irie Irie

Cat

Have you tried using Skype? They kept the history of calls and SMS. Or have you tried using Gmail talk? Like Skype, they also archieved all the conversations.

I have Skype and use it daily for work etc... I telework. However. the only place Louis can use e-mail is at work. His home doesn't even have running water and electricity isn't reliable. :-) He wouldn't be able to use all the "extras" at work. I am lucky if I get a couple e-mails a week from him. We talk on the phone about 3 times a day though - I just need the "paper" for proof. I am sure it will all be fine though.

Oh and trying to teach him how to use e-mail over the phone - hahaha! That was funny! Poor guy! He can't wait to get here and take some computer classes - he knows you have to have that skill here in the US.

Sorry guys.. sometimes my obsession gets the best of me.. forgive me, I'm an engineer so I had to crunch some numbers..

Mind you this, this data is ONLY from visajourney database.....and ONLY for Vermont Service Center

On VJ, 70 applicants have applied for K1, of those 70, 25 have reported receiving their NOA2. The last shown date was someone who filed 10/23/07..

With this in mind, there were 38 November filers, 38 December filers, and 46 January filers...

Hopefully logic will hold and there were less applications in November and December and we can move on rather quickly!

Hey thats great! We can all keep are fingers crossed! :-)

[SMASHROX 0]

I have Skype and use it daily for work etc... I telework. However. the only place Louis can use e-mail is at work. His home doesn't even have running water and electricity isn't reliable. :-) He wouldn't be able to use all the "extras" at work. I am lucky if I get a couple e-mails a week from him. We talk on the phone about 3 times a day though - I just need the "paper" for proof. I am sure it will all be fine though.

Oh and trying to teach him how to use e-mail over the phone - hahaha! That was funny! Poor guy! He can't wait to get here and take some computer classes - he knows you have to have that skill here in the US.

I had to laugh at this. Teaching Aidan how to do emails and instant messenger was funny. He never had a computer before he met me so that was a necessity after I moved back to the states. And trying to troubleshoot his internet connection can be maddening at times!

As far as evidence goes, we sent in A LOT, but I wasn't sure how much was enough, you know? We sent in:

Full copies of all passport pages

15 or so photos

Phone records from the date we met through December

2 Letters from my co-workers when I worked in Ireland

Copy of the engagement ring receipt and confirmation letter from reception venue

Copies of tickets for most trips back and forth

Receipts for cruise we took in December

Copies of cards sent to each other

Copies of engagement cards

I think there was probably some other stuff we added that I'm not thinking of....

[SusieLuvsPaul 0]

I didn't put in emails and stuff from skype should I have or just instead wait till interview? and when you print out the skype calls you just go into the history and take a screen shot or something? I put everything elkse like hotels when we were in uk together and boarding passes and pics just wondering about skype, and how many emails do you use?

[greeneyedgirlfl 0]

I feel like a underachiever...

Tickets for him to Orlando

Passports stamps for those trips

5 pictures of us on the trips (Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, my parents' house, at the airport)

admission tickets to attractions with his name and mine

2 cell phone bills (I am obsessive when it comes to bills...him not so much; when they're paid, they're gone...)

Skype transcripts

I hope it will be enough!!!

[greeneyedgirlfl 0]

Also a question...

How do you know if you have a NOA1? Cashed check, letter, or something else (I wouldn't even guess...)?

Just my curious and OCD self...

Dawn

[SMASHROX 0]

Also a question...

How do you know if you have a NOA1? Cashed check, letter, or something else (I wouldn't even guess...)?

Just my curious and OCD self...

Dawn

When you have the little piece of paper in hand! I'm still waiting for mine although money order was cashed yesterday. Hope it comes in the next day or two.

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

Also a question...

How do you know if you have a NOA1? Cashed check, letter, or something else (I wouldn't even guess...)?

Just my curious and OCD self...

Dawn

They mail it to you

It looks like this

[Cecile and Bryan 0]

I feel like a underachiever...

Tickets for him to Orlando

Passports stamps for those trips

5 pictures of us on the trips (Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, my parents' house, at the airport)

admission tickets to attractions with his name and mine

2 cell phone bills (I am obsessive when it comes to bills...him not so much; when they're paid, they're gone...)

Skype transcripts

I hope it will be enough!!!

Well, we sent even less than you. Only passport stamps, copies of all the plane tickets we had and some pictures of us. I hope it will be enough too!

[BlakeandOlha 0]

I took a quick tally of our thread and it looks like there are about 20 of us January filers. Good luck again!

Don't forget Us!

I sent off the application on a friday to the CSC - which scared me since they seem to be so slow about everything. But they cashed the check right away and I was able to get my case number and set up on the USCIS website on the 30th. Amazing. Congrats to everyone on making it through the nerve wracking process of putting together such an important and life altering document - only to let it go into the hands of Uncle Sam.

[SusieLuvsPaul 0]

I got a touch today I wonder why!

[BlakeandOlha 0]

Congrats - I don't think it can be a bad thing..... probably just moved you to the front of the line LOL