May 08 k1 filers ~ CSC

[DairyFarmer 1]

I'm hoping to leave here with £2500 in savings. I'm going to spend a little more to fly home via JFK to get my EAD stamp, just cause you never know what opportunities will come your way.

Even if I can only get a min wage job till I get my greencard, I want to be able to contribute.

But the overall cost for us will be around USD$6000 - $7000 flights, visa, app fees, medicals, vaccinations, phonecalls, insurance etc.

[cca 13]

Oh i was talking about the k1 visa, not AOS. I hope this is right otherwise i gotta go back to the drawing board for my expenditure list and move a few things round

Where bouts u from hannah and vito? Im from Bristol

Im going to my hen night on saturday. The wedding isnt planned till jan (we might not be able to even do it then) but i thought it would be best to do it in the summer so all my friends can make it. I cant wait...its gunna be messy haha. Will have a drink or for this stress

Ps u think its worth flying via JFK for EAD? Do u def get it on arrival?

[DairyFarmer 1]

Oh i was talking about the k1 visa, not AOS. I hope this is right otherwise i gotta go back to the drawing board for my expenditure list and move a few things round

Where bouts u from hannah and vito? Im from Bristol

Im going to my hen night on saturday. The wedding isnt planned till jan (we might not be able to even do it then) but i thought it would be best to do it in the summer so all my friends can make it. I cant wait...its gunna be messy haha. Will have a drink or for this stress

Ps u think its worth flying via JFK for EAD? Do u def get it on arrival?

From every thread I've read here and on other forums the consensus appears to be definately at JFK only. For me it will be worth it should only add about USD$200 to my overall flight costs. And even at min wage it would be worth it.

What I said above is what it will have cost John and I total for K1. Remember I added in the flight costs, insurances and phone calls etc. Not just app fees, the medical etc.

[Jason&Sarah 0]

is getting EAD worth it though? I thought it expires when you get married...so if you plan on getting married straight away it's not really worth it...or am i misunderstanding?

[Hannah+Vito 0]

the general consensus is that jfk is the most likely to give but not the only one when it comes to the ead stamp how ever its not garenteed.so basically theres a chance you could spend extra to go through there and not get it in the end.

and i belive it does expire with your k1 visa or i-194 i'm not sure which, to behonest i thought they were the same thing and expired threrfore the same.

the discusions on the bord here also seem to think its pointless because of its short validity, u need the ssn number before you can work and that would take time off the 90 day validity and trying to get your new ead before the first expires is a chalange in a half. well thats seems to be what i'm reading on here. thats why i prob wont bother with it. and i'm certainly not gunna fork out and extra few hundred pounds for something i may not get.

cca i'm in kent vito is in los angeles

check my last topic i started in my profile. i asked about the costs beteen aos and petiton for visa and got a reply from someone who went through london recently.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...p;#entry2022182

link to my last topic

[Hannah+Vito 0]

so far i'm at £410.50 not includding travel and expences incured by printing and putting together paper work. but i'm being overly caussious on what vaccinations i will need

[Jason&Sarah 0]

Hey Hannah and John+Melannie! you guys are gonna break into the 100's soon!

Good to see us going up on the list! 249 for us!

[Dominique and Roy 0]

Im in a bad mood also. Im handing in my 2 weeks notice today at 1 of my 2 jobs. I do 65 plus hrs every week (both jobs combined) Im going to go over full time to my other job and yea i loose hrs and therefore money but i decided i dont need any mre added stress and i might aswll try ans make myself as happy as possible this summer (even though its sometims hard -damn usics)

I had my 1st HPV jab the other day. Got another 1 in a month. I printed out the list the the us requie for jabs and the nurse said they dont do 1 of tem (cant remeber what it was) so i guess gotta spend £80 at the medical examnation but ah well....least vaccinaions are on a roll!

Question, and this may have been answered previously, I just haven’t seen it. When you leave your job did you have to do any updates through CSC? I called to ask and as always they seem to give a short answer that doesn’t help much and that is, "We will contact you and ask for more information if we need it." Understandable but if the income changes then wouldn’t it have an effect on the case?

Not sure if you would know, just seems people on here are much more helpful than those through CSC.

thanks

[Hannah+Vito 0]

Im in a bad mood also. Im handing in my 2 weeks notice today at 1 of my 2 jobs. I do 65 plus hrs every week (both jobs combined) Im going to go over full time to my other job and yea i loose hrs and therefore money but i decided i dont need any mre added stress and i might aswll try ans make myself as happy as possible this summer (even though its sometims hard -damn usics)

I had my 1st HPV jab the other day. Got another 1 in a month. I printed out the list the the us requie for jabs and the nurse said they dont do 1 of tem (cant remeber what it was) so i guess gotta spend £80 at the medical examnation but ah well....least vaccinaions are on a roll!

Question, and this may have been answered previously, I just haven't seen it. When you leave your job did you have to do any updates through CSC? I called to ask and as always they seem to give a short answer that doesn't help much and that is, "We will contact you and ask for more information if we need it." Understandable but if the income changes then wouldn't it have an effect on the case?

Not sure if you would know, just seems people on here are much more helpful than those through CSC.

thanks

are we talking about the benificiary or the petitoner leaving their job and at what stage in the process?

[DairyFarmer 1]

Hey Hannah and John+Melannie! you guys are gonna break into the 100's soon!

Good to see us going up on the list! 249 for us!

I was hoping and praying to break 200 this week, 215 is close enough that I am thrilled. Lets all hope for a few good weeks at CSC, and NOA2 soon!

John

[Hannah+Vito 0]

Hey Hannah and John+Melannie! you guys are gonna break into the 100's soon!

Good to see us going up on the list! 249 for us!

I was hoping and praying to break 200 this week, 215 is close enough that I am thrilled. Lets all hope for a few good weeks at CSC, and NOA2 soon!

John

we still have three days left of the week for people to remember to update their timelines.

and there are prob a load more that have been alocated today.

[Jason&Sarah 0]

As for the job question - I doubt it would matter much for the Petition stage, but it will matter for the I-134 form, and the interview, as you have to show proof of support...

[Hannah+Vito 0]

looks like melanie and john will get their wish about breaking the 200 mark or very near as we are due huge jump.

just looked at the uscis website for the current processing times and dates and it has gone from 18th dec to 17th of jan.

igors has yet to update this though but it should soon so a huge jump is due.

though i'm sure its not so great for those that are pushed to outside processing times.

[Hannah+Vito 0]

like i said big jump 221 to 210

[ErikaAndHamit 73]

I think it's the proof of meeting/relationship that gets me most anxious. I keep thinking of *new* things to add to the application, and then keeping scanning and sending Chris more documents and I'm all, "Check your e-mail! Print those documents! Life and death!" I feel really nervous that I'm not the one mailing it off to CSC because I've been reading up like crazy on the process and Chris really hasn't. I find all sorts of new things to worry about all the time.

You know what? I was too! Vito even had 130 pages of skype chat that he didn't know what to do with. But the others were really helpful and said that the petition is to establish that you have met within the last two years and at the interview is when you establish bonafide relationship. So in the end we sent photocopies of my tickets from the last trip, copies of some tickets for his train with my name on from said trip, I think he sent a reciept of his trip when we first met and photocopies of the stamps and picture pages of my passport. Then we sent some photos of us together and I think in the end he did sent a small selection of the chat but not too much. I must admit I did find other bits I wish we had sent but It was too late by time I found it. If they need more they can rfe us. Worrying just gives you an ulcer.

get him to sign up to here if you want him to read up more.

Yes, tell me about ulcers! Wow, the first month after I sent our I-129f out to CSC (May 29th) I kept thinking of this and that and even things I would need later in the process and I drove myself nuts. I have my moments when i feel like there is so much ####### to wade through that it seems impossible that there will be a day I am with him again. Then I have my days where I think "Erika, why worry 99% get approved you need not worry." Then the sad days, the blah days and some happy ones thrown in between. Then........it starts all over again.....stress stress stress.

Happy day when we can all look back and think "why did I worry so much?" Instead, we will be upset about the socks on the floor or how he keeps leaving the toilet seat up or her annoying friend or how she talks on the phone during dinner....whatever.... I look forward to the day he is with me everyday and all the annoying and wondeful things that come with it.

Happy day to all!