****DREAMS****

[lion_lioness 0]

angilla, ROFLMAO........i needed that!

So you see we're not alone. Wait, brb, checking my case status....

[AngelD 0]

How bout "Nightmares" instead of "Dreams"?

I am having the opposite delusion (or at least hope it is just in my head!)

I am thinking every worst case senario possible. After painstakingly checking, rechecking, and oh!-checking again all of the paperwork to go out, THinking it was perfect - I will have forgotten something as silly as not signing a form, or forgetting to put the check in, or leaving out the entire I-129f form completley. Or the entire package is eaten by the hungry FEDEX monster and never makes it there. So there is never an RFE because they don't even know we are applying!! Oh yeah--I hope that with thinking I am pleasantly surprised and the process goes much more smoothly....maybe I am just playing a bit of reverse pychology on myself!

I guess we all have our coping mechanisms!!

Rock on VJers! And best of luck on all our jouneys!

[RosaMystica7 0]

How bout "Nightmares" instead of "Dreams"?

I am having the opposite delusion (or at least hope it is just in my head!)

I am thinking every worst case senario possible.

Oh just wait til the interview rolls around! What will they ask? What will they think of his responses? What if he says the wrong thing? What if I forget to mail him something? What if the ORIGINALS that I have to mail across the ocean get lost? What if they don't like my affidavit of support and demand a co-sponsor? What if they determine our relationship as fraudulent because we haven't seen each other in 14 months? Ok ok, our interview should be totally smooth. But... I'm worried anyway.

But ya know what? I was that worried, if not more, about the I-129F submission - and that got approved hassle free. This process is just one thing after another to worry about, things that could go wrong, more stress added to our already burdened shoulders... the government is playing with the most fragile part of us here - our soulmates. So you (we) have got to find a way to channel all the energy running through you positively NOW or else it's gonna eat you alive over the next 2 years. Don't focus on the nightmares. Don't even focus on the dreams. Focus on the reality, and put all that energy in you into researching the process and making sure you two are the best prepared you can be so you can just wham your way through this process as quickly as possible! That said, I have work to do perfecting some stuff that needs to be in the mail to France no later than Wednesday!

Edited February 12, 2007 by Angilla

[msu17 0]

Ya, my dream was that they would see I'm from OH, think "oh she's close enough" and send me to Vermont instead Nope, that dream is smushed, so now it's onto I did everything so perfect, they cried at my story and will send me that NOA2 ASAP I need a better hobby than obsessively checking VJ and USCIS...

[featherB 1]

That's more my style, AngelD... after we sent the package off, I was utterly convinced that it had met some terrible fate, perhaps spontaneously bursting into flames during transit or something equally likely. I just *knew* it would never arrive at its destination, the Nebraska Service Center. Until our NOA1 arrived, that is, at which point I had to find something else ridiculous to worry about. I'm so glad we took copies of everything we sent, because the number of times I'd wake up in the morning and my first thought would be something like 'I got my own date of birth wrong! I just KNOW it!!' or something dumb like that... well, I would say that being able to pull out the copy and check saved me from going insane - but I'd better change that to more insane, as constantly doubting whether you filled in your own name correctly on a form is not really a mark of sanity!

How bout "Nightmares" instead of "Dreams"?

I am having the opposite delusion (or at least hope it is just in my head!)

I am thinking every worst case senario possible. After painstakingly checking, rechecking, and oh!-checking again all of the paperwork to go out, THinking it was perfect - I will have forgotten something as silly as not signing a form, or forgetting to put the check in, or leaving out the entire I-129f form completley. Or the entire package is eaten by the hungry FEDEX monster and never makes it there. So there is never an RFE because they don't even know we are applying!! Oh yeah--I hope that with thinking I am pleasantly surprised and the process goes much more smoothly....maybe I am just playing a bit of reverse pychology on myself!

I guess we all have our coping mechanisms!!

Rock on VJers! And best of luck on all our jouneys!

[lion_lioness 0]

FeatherB I'm with you on that. I used the older I129F and the new form has check boxes now in teh IMBRA section. Of course I panicked one night around 2am that I forgot to write in something - thank God for the copies lolol.

At least tomorrow is Monday and my obsessive checking of the USCIS case status may not be a waste! I hope to see some approvals rollin' in for us this week.

good luck all.

[featherB 1]

Ahh yes, I had a few of those middle-of-the-night moments as well - I was staying with my fiance in the States (he's the USC) when we sent our petition off, and there were a couple of times I'd suddenly wake up and have to tiptoe out of the bedroom (he had to go to work in the morning, whereas I had nothing more pressing to do than sit around drinking tea and lurking about on VJ) and rummage through our file of papers to reassure myself about some detail that had me in a panic!

Fingers crossed that your NOA2 comes quickly... and good luck to everyone else who's waiting. I'm at work right now (night shift) and will be rushing straight home to book my medical and send my Packet 3 stuff to the Embassy... at which point I'll start with the panicking-about-forms thing all over again. I might as well just keep the file in my bed, I think, it'll be much easier to double-check when I wake up worrying about something stupid!

FeatherB I'm with you on that. I used the older I129F and the new form has check boxes now in teh IMBRA section. Of course I panicked one night around 2am that I forgot to write in something - thank God for the copies lolol.

At least tomorrow is Monday and my obsessive checking of the USCIS case status may not be a waste! I hope to see some approvals rollin' in for us this week.

good luck all.