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i think im just going to go do a small ceremony in March since is our aniversary too so just make it one thing, is not that im going through financial problem and i just want to be cheap; but i have a problem at work and is stressing me out and is making me nuts + this i-129f processing thing. I feel like is a lot everything in one and this situation at work is not making it any easy, don't think im getting fired im under a 4 year contract n havent even made one yet. doing a small wedding with our closest friends and doing the CR-1 would be best since if i get married im going to end up getting a huge rase at work a $1000+ a month which would be good for rent and even his papers.

The fiance visa is suppose to take like 2-3 months less, but honestly it all depends what service center your application gets sent and how lucky you get. California service center has been really slow recently while Vermont service center has been fast. For example I filed a CR-1 and my petition was approved in about 5 weeks. It's really the luck of the draw, and of course if you made any mistakes on your application that would also delay it.

The reason I THINK CR-1 is better is because it is about a grand cheaper, you don't have to go through the headache of adjusting status and getting married when your partner comes to the USA, andddd with CR-1 your partner will get here and be able to work in a few weeks. When your partner comes as a fiance he/she will not be able to work for a couple of months. For me it was an obvious choice, but everyone has their own opinion.

i think im just going to go do a small ceremony in March since is our aniversary too so just make it one thing, is not that im going through financial problem and i just want to be cheap; but i have a problem at work and is stressing me out and is making me nuts + this i-129f processing thing. I feel like is a lot everything in one and this situation at work is not making it any easy, don't think im getting fired im under a 4 year contract n havent even made one yet. doing a small wedding with our closest friends and doing the CR-1 would be best since if i get married im going to end up getting a huge rase at work a $1000+ a month which would be good for rent and even his papers.

Our Timeline

03/30/2012: Married

USCIS

07/18/2012: I-130 Sent

07/19/2012: USPS Delivery Confirmation

07/23/2012: NOA1 Text

07/24/2012: Check Cashed

07/30/2012: NOA1 Hard Copy

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http://www.consultoriosdevisa.com/precios.htm

This website tells you the price it also tells you the location for the clinic and what your fiance needs to have the day he goes to do it and also the days in advance he needs to do it before the interview and when he needs to pick them up. Is good to know this type of information but you do know that the wait is a little long.

I do recomend you to tell your fiance that when he goes and takes his 2x2 pictures to have at least 8 of them since he would need it and it would save him few trips to the photo studio ( la gasolina ta cara lol ) he'll use them for the passport if he dont have one and for the police record and the one to send with the l-129F + some he would turn in the date of the interview. && the pictures have to be the USA 2x2 pictures for visas, since if he says 2x2 without expecifying they would give him the dominican style one and if sent with the l-129f you would receive an RFE and your process would be delay a bit and i bet you dont want that to happen. I tell you this because i read a situation like that with the 2x2 pictures in the filling form and it was from DR they where the wrong size.

Thanks alot again! Yeah, I was a little concerned by those photos and their size. Ok, then, will have to wait and see. In the meantime, I will encourage him to take more. Man, this process is truly something else and definitely stressing me out.


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01/23/2012-Express Mailed I-129F
01/24/2012-Received @ Dallas Lockbox
01/28/2012-E-mail/Text for NOA1, hardcopy 02/02/2012
01/29/2012-Touched(file updated)
01/30/2012-Touched(file updated)
02/08/2012-E-mail/Text RFE, hardcopy 02/10/2012
02/22/2012-Mailed RFE response
02/24/2012-Touched(file updated), RFE Response Review
02/29/2012-NOA2 Approved E-mail/Text, hardcopy 03/20/2012
03/02/2012-Received at NVC
03/07/2012-Sent to Santo Domingo Embassy, Received notice 03/12/2012
04/12/2012-Picked up Packet 4 at SDO Embassy(Ugh!)
04/12/2012-Medical Done(Results to be sent to Embassy)
05/03/2012-Interview! APPROVED!
10/18/2012-Medical done AGAIN!!
11/17/2012-VISA FINALLY RECEIVED!
12/14/2012-Arrived in U.S., POE: Atlanta, Destination: California
01/01/2013-Became Mr&Mrs in Las Vegas!!!
02/04/2013-Express Mailed AOS/EAD/Travel Parole Applications to Chicago Lockbox
02/05/2013-Received @ Chicago Lockbox
02/11/2013- 3 E-mails/texts that applications were accepted and EAD/AP in Initial Review!!! Hardcopies received 02/20/2013. Biometrics 03/11/2013, done
03/19/2013-Text/E-mail that we are inline for interview!
03/22/2013-Text/E-mail that interview 04/26/2013, hardcopy 03/25/2013
04/01/2013-Text/E-mail EAD in production, AP name updated
04/04/2013-Another Text/E-mail EAD in production, mailed 04/05/2013, received 04/08/2013
04/26/2013-AOS interview....APPROVED...e-mails notifying card ordered, status of PR registered!!!!!

05/01/2013-E-mail card ordered in production, mailed 05/02/2013

05/07/2013-Received Green Card!!!!

Posted

Thanks alot again! Yeah, I was a little concerned by those photos and their size. Ok, then, will have to wait and see. In the meantime, I will encourage him to take more. Man, this process is truly something else and definitely stressing me out.

Stress is nothing just thinking about it makes me go nuts intop of all if the other things you have besides this. I want to go somwehere relaxing but i dont want to do it alone since i live so far from home and i have no family members where im currently living. damn this military #### (sorry i curse like a sailor) lol

Our Timeline

03/30/2012: Married

USCIS

07/18/2012: I-130 Sent

07/19/2012: USPS Delivery Confirmation

07/23/2012: NOA1 Text

07/24/2012: Check Cashed

07/30/2012: NOA1 Hard Copy

 
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