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By Pet37 in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

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*** Thread moved from CR-1 Process forum to the Case Progress subforum. ***

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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Pet37 Apprentice

Pet37   0

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Jamaica
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Congrat and see you soon in the States,

You applied for the visa few months after your marriage and it falls under CR visa category and that s what the NVC,USCIS approved so the embassy cannot change it.

Now that you are entering with a CR visa and you meet the IR requirement (married more than 2 years before the visa is issued or enter US with an immigrant visa after 2 years of marriage ) you have to signal that at the POE...the officer will eventually ask you when you were married and blah blah while looking at your brown envelop files.

The poe officer is going to stamp your passport and write your A number and an expiration date inside your passport .that will be what is gonna be on your green card so if you didn't see IR1 and expiration date higher than 2 years,tell the officer you supposed to be IR1 not CR1 ...many people are intimidated and let it be and you have to pay about $500 and plus to remove condition and wait about 6 months to get your new card ...so it is in your advantage to claim the 10 yrs residency now.

Safe flight

Thx everyone. ProudAfrica I think maybe that's what happen. I got marrried July 21,2009 and I filed in February 2010 so it was definitely less than 2 years that I filed. I had delay my filing due to tne fact that my grandma who raised me became sick and die december 2011(may her soul rest in peace) and I wanted to take care of her. I will most definitely point that out to the POE officer.

One more thing what does the "annotation **" means? I see some visa has only one * after annotation and some have **

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