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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Pakistan
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Thanks MARM, aniomaman, n jpcanon.

yeah 38 days was short.. I am glad it's over :-)

Marriage January 23, 2005

USCIS

August 14, 2006- I-130 Sent

September 22, 2008- NOA 1 Received

September 17, 2008- Became a USC

September 18, 2008- Upgraded I-130

March 20, 2009 - NOA2 (email)

March 25, 2009- NOA2 (hardcopy Received)

NVC

April 3, 2009 - Case Number Assigned

June 5, 2009 CASE COMPLETED AT NVC

June 9, 2009 Interview Date Assigned

July 16, 2009 Interview AP

August 24, 2009 DOS Operator said "VISA HAS BEEN ISSUED TODAY" Alhamdulillah

August 26, 2009 call from embassy to PICK UP THE PASSPORT :-)

August 27, 2009 Picked up the passport... woohooo!!!

September 9, 2009 US Entry InshaAllah

October 13, 2009 SSN and green card in mail DONE WITH USCIS until husband applies for his citizenship!!

The journey of 4 years, 8 months, and 3 weeks has ended!!!

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Iraq
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SIBTAIN

:dance::dance::dance::dance::dance: CONGRATULAIONS :dance::dance::dance::dance:

waiting4approval :thumbs::thumbs::thumbs: congratulations

Pakistan Embassy is on a roll maybe they will keep it going

paciencia

we are waiting to hear from you :whistle::whistle::whistle:

Marriage : 2008-01-26

I-130 Sent : 2008-02-06

I-130 NOA1 : 2008-02-20

I-130 Approved : 2008-03-19

NVC Received : 2008-03-25

Received DS-3032 / I-864 Bill : 2008-04-07

Pay I-864 Bill 2008-04-17

Receive I-864 Package : 2008-04-21

Return Completed I-864 : 2008-04-22

Return Completed DS-3032 : 2008-04-07

Receive IV Bill : 2008-04-20

Pay IV Bill : 2008-04-21

Receive Instruction Package : 2008-05-01

Case Completed at NVC : 2008-05-12

NVC Left : 2008-05-23

Consulate Received :

Packet 3 Received : 2008-05-01

Packet 3 Sent : 2008-05-01

Packet 4 Received : 2008-05-31

Interview Date : 2008-07-15

result AP

2009-05-15 case returned to USCIS

2009-06-29 case received at USCIS

2010-03-12 letter from USCIS stating reason for case being returned and asking for additional info of a on going relationship

2010-03-29 sent next day air-2010-03-30 10:30 USCIS signed for package

2010-03-31 USCIS updated accoun

2010-04-10 received email case reaffirmed

2010-08-18 2nd interview

9/2/2010 Visa Received

9/16/2010 Entered USA

10/15/2010 received 10 year GC

:http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pGV...s4pIA&hl=en

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: India
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congrats waiting! you are waiting no longer :dance:

Give Generously, Live Fully, Laugh Often, Love Completely...AND PRAY ALWAYS!!!

He is home!!!

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Pakistan
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L-179 - Ur next :)

Divorced - could you please add me to the tracker as well - Interview was on 21st August - AP -

Seriously Feisal....i can't believe it.

Thanks for all the prayers.

Divorced - take us off the tracker.......waitingforapproval and us are on the same boat together!

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Iraq
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Fesial is the beneficary male or female?

L179 i removed you from the tracker I am assumming you have the VISA is there a date I can put in

congrautlations for all the short lived AP's for you not so lucky people hang in there it will not be much longer

Marriage : 2008-01-26

I-130 Sent : 2008-02-06

I-130 NOA1 : 2008-02-20

I-130 Approved : 2008-03-19

NVC Received : 2008-03-25

Received DS-3032 / I-864 Bill : 2008-04-07

Pay I-864 Bill 2008-04-17

Receive I-864 Package : 2008-04-21

Return Completed I-864 : 2008-04-22

Return Completed DS-3032 : 2008-04-07

Receive IV Bill : 2008-04-20

Pay IV Bill : 2008-04-21

Receive Instruction Package : 2008-05-01

Case Completed at NVC : 2008-05-12

NVC Left : 2008-05-23

Consulate Received :

Packet 3 Received : 2008-05-01

Packet 3 Sent : 2008-05-01

Packet 4 Received : 2008-05-31

Interview Date : 2008-07-15

result AP

2009-05-15 case returned to USCIS

2009-06-29 case received at USCIS

2010-03-12 letter from USCIS stating reason for case being returned and asking for additional info of a on going relationship

2010-03-29 sent next day air-2010-03-30 10:30 USCIS signed for package

2010-03-31 USCIS updated accoun

2010-04-10 received email case reaffirmed

2010-08-18 2nd interview

9/2/2010 Visa Received

9/16/2010 Entered USA

10/15/2010 received 10 year GC

:http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pGV...s4pIA&hl=en

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Filed: AOS (pnd) Country: Afghanistan
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I have a question, did the DOS update their website on administrative processing? I remember them saying most AP resolves within 60 days, and the applicant should call after 90 days. Now that I checked the website, I'm seeing something new with teh IMPORTANT NOTICE

http://travel.state.gov/visa/a_zindex/a_zindex_4353.html

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Whoever said if the embassy keeps the passport, the AP is shorter...that is definitely NOT the case.

We are a week and few days short of hitting the 4 MONTH mark with my fiance still in AP.

And they kept his passport with them.

And he is undergoing AP in London...so definitely NOT a high fraud country or embassy...

When will this ever end...

London wrote this to my fiance most recently:

While we understand that you wish for this matter to be resolved as quickly as possible, your application is subject to additional administrative processing which cannot be expedited. Please be assured that as soon as we are able to take further action on your application, you will be notified.

Sincerely

Consular Information Unit

Oh and is it just me, or as I see it from the trackers, the general pattern is that the K-1 cases are the ones that endure the LONGEST AP?

Visa Journey completed, but we are still here to provide support! :)

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I have a question, did the DOS update their website on administrative processing? I remember them saying most AP resolves within 60 days, and the applicant should call after 90 days. Now that I checked the website, I'm seeing something new with teh IMPORTANT NOTICE

http://travel.state.gov/visa/a_zindex/a_zindex_4353.html

I like how they say, "Import notice....wait 60 days before making inquiry." LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I waited 24 hours and then called EVERY single day!!!!! It worked for me.

VISA JOURNEY

USCIS Journey

02/23/09 ............I-130 sent

03/27/09.............NOA2

TOTAL 32 DAYS

NVC Journey

04/15/09.............Case # Assigned

07/10/09.............Interview assigned

TOTAL 105 DAYS

Embassy Journey

07/14/09.............Forward the case to Embassy in Dakar, Senegal

09/28/09.............Visa in Hand

TOTAL 80 DAYS

VISA GRAND TOTAL 217 DAYS

US CITIZENSHIP JOURNEY

Conditional Resident Journey

09/29/09.............POE New York PIECE OF CAKE!!!

10/27/09.............2 year Green card received

TOTAL 29 DAYS

Removal of Conditions Journey

07/18/11.............I-751 packet sent

03/23/12............10yr GC Received

TOTAL 249 DAYS

Naturalization Journey

07/03/12.............N-400 packet sent

07/23/12.............Resent N-400 packet (husband FORGOT check!)

08/23/12.............Biometrics done

09/12/12.............Interview letter received

10/16/12.............Interview scheduled

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Colombia
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Whoever said if the embassy keeps the passport, the AP is shorter...that is definitely NOT the case.

We are a week and few days short of hitting the 4 MONTH mark with my fiance still in AP.

And they kept his passport with them.

And he is undergoing AP in London...so definitely NOT a high fraud country or embassy...

When will this ever end...

London wrote this to my fiance most recently:

While we understand that you wish for this matter to be resolved as quickly as possible, your application is subject to additional administrative processing which cannot be expedited. Please be assured that as soon as we are able to take further action on your application, you will be notified.

Sincerely

Consular Information Unit

Oh and is it just me, or as I see it from the trackers, the general pattern is that the K-1 cases are the ones that endure the LONGEST AP?

Marm,

We seem to be in the same boat- sounds a lot like my timeframe and situation....

Joe

K1

11/11/2008 - I-129F Sent

11/13/2008 - I-129F NOA1 issue date

11/17/2008 - Received NOA1 hard copy in the mail

1/23/2009 - Received email stating I was approved (NOA2) on 1/22/2009

1/26/2009 - Recieved NOA2 hard copy in the mail

4/29/2009 - Embassy interview date - was put into AP (given a form with 221(g) box checked)

12/25/2009 - Still stuck in AP- almost 8 MONTHS and counting... :(

12/28/2009 - Embassy finally called my gal for another "interview"

1/14/2010 - VISA APPROVED at the second interview- took about 8 1/2 months of AP

1/21/2010 - Visa delivered by courier- BUT, she opened sealed envelope that was for U.S. Immigration at POE.

Now embassy in Bogota wants us to do the medicals all over again.... nightmare continues.....

2/22/2010 - She went back to Bogota to get labs and medical re-done. Then back to embassy where they finally

re-issued the visa. Is valid until July 13th

7/3/2010 - She made it to the U.S. finally!!! I filed on November 11th 2008 and went thru 8 1/2 months of AP

AOS

12/16/2010 - Sent in packet by Fed Ex to Chicago

1/7/2011 - Notified by email from USCIS packet was received

1/25/2011 - Notified by email we are receiving an RFE

2/4/2011 - Sent translated birth cert in (RFE)

2/9/2011 - Biometrics done

3/1/2011 - EAD/AP card received

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Marm,

We seem to be in the same boat- sounds a lot like my timeframe and situation....

Joe

The whole process is so ridiculous--couldn't be said enough. I don't want to put out names, but there ARE members on this forum that have had criminal/law-breaking convictions in the past (regardless of their severity scale) and were NOT put on AP and given their visas immediately after interview. How the hell does that happen? I don't get it.

Both my fiance and I have clean records, we are decent, educated people that want NOTHING except to be together forever...we followed all the rules, did everything the right way, and yet here we are...with no answers and waiting...

I am at the point now that I need to contact anyone and everyone possible to find out what the hell is going on. AP in London, according to their website is completed usually within 30 days and MAXIMUM 90 days. In the first place, my fiance was not EVEN TOLD that he was being put on AP at the time of his interview, he was told he was approved pending the submission of his passport, and then they tell us he is in AP a month later and then just SIT there on their bums and do NOTHING until about 75 days AFTER his interview they decide to do an investigation via phone to me and interviewed me. Then we thought, ok, now everything seems to be in order so we should hear the good news of his approval any day now...even the lady CO from London who called me for the investigation told me that she would contact either of us if there was anything further to verify, otherwise she would forward the case to the head CO and a final decision would be made...we NEVER heard back, so therefore they were satisfied and then we kept being told the file is in review with the CO and now we are being told he is in AP. I don't even understand the reason for the phone investigation...both my fiance and I share the same culture, the same religion, both have the standard age difference, he is older than me, both don't have kids, single, nothing bad ever happened in our pasts, we are good law-abiding citizens of the world, and it seems that they just pick on whoever they want...or should I call it discrimination based on religion or racial profiling...

No, I do not want to hear anyone tell us to be patient, especially those that have not endured such a long time-line. And yes, I know that immigration is not a right, it is a privilege, but just because it is a privilege doesn't mean we have to go through all this, especially when there is NO reason for this to happen. I am just forced to think that it is pure discrimination and racial profiling that is causing my fiance's AP.

And we not only have to deal with the inconsistencies of the US immigration system, but we had to endure a nightmare with the UKHO (UK immigration) for my fiance earlier this year...we have done everything the RIGHT way, everything within legal laws, not so that they can treat us like this! We have contacted numerous congressman, senators, made numerous inquiries, sometimes DOS doesn't even answer, sometimes London doesn't bother to give an answer, sometimes a senator's staff worker blames her interns for not being able to get the response from DOS mailed to me...I am SICK of all of this!

Thanks to a fellow VJer, gogo, I have found the list he posted for the USCIS Contact Numbers and I have also found this list via the DOS website: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/111812.pdf (page 62 for London).

If I have to contact every single person on both the lists, I will, but I need to know which ones I should contact...I guess I should just pm gogo for advice...

Sorry for the vent, but we have had more than enough!

I am sorry Joe that you too are enduring this hell, hope it ends soon!

Visa Journey completed, but we are still here to provide support! :)

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