RFE!! How long until FINALLY approved?

[David-and-Mae 15]

Thanks to ya'll to try to cheer us up. Today is another day and I accepted the fact, that we have a RFE!

I hope too, that we will get approved right after they receive the papers they asked for (which we don't know yet).

@Froggie I don't know, if we received an e-mail?! On the USCIS page, we saw that our case was updated and that they sent the RFE out. I guess we will have it by friday. Our guessing is the birthcertificate too, since we just sent the short version in. So we are prepared for that to send the stuff right back, to not cause any more delays!!!

So if you were to get a RFE, you should check on your case status, that's where you'll find it.

As my fiance already stated, we just miss each other sooooooooooooo effin much, that every delay is a slap in the face and we already waited soo long. Sure we are in the time frame, that's what I keep telling my baby. But when you see other people passing by, especially the Vermont people (no offense) who filed a way after us. It just gets frustrating!!!

Well....we will see, how fast we'll get approved! I just hope it will be soon, because I start getting depressed!!!

Diana

There, there Diana... come here and I'll give you a hug

Mae

[Marina + Dave 0]

Please keep us in the loop on the specifics behind the RFE ... my friends got one for not providing a Circumstances of Meeting letter and not having dates on the proof of meeting photos. They say it stalled their process by about 3 months (CA Service Center).

3 months!? Scary! I didn't attach a circumstances of meeting letter... I just wrote a few sentences in the box where it said to. Should I have elaborated more? I said "I first met Ombeni while I was studying abroad in Tanzania in April 2006. He was a server at a restaurant where I was eating. I then returned to Tanzania from 12/06 to 03/07 to visit him."

We didn't attach a circumstances of meeting letter either. :/

John and Diana! I'm SOO SORRY! But it seems that once you get the right docs back in, it goes pretty fast.

As for the circumstances of meeting letter, we didn't do one either and we were approved. I just wrote really small in the little box providing saying how we met and that we'd visited each other after the meeting and that more information about our meeting and about our visits could be found in the other docs provided (like in boarding passes). So don't stress. Based on our approval, I'd say a letter isn't necessarily required. but it might depend on who looks at your case.

Good Luck guys!

Marina

[CALU 0]

I'm sorry for you guys. But I've heard from many people , after you got the RFE send what why ask you right back and won't take that long until they give you the approval!

Cheer up! I know it's hard to handle with all the wait and then find out you have to wait even longer, but everything will be fine!

[GrenadianCrix 2]

Keeping my fingers crossed for ya!

Sounds like it will prolly be just the BC...since you are prepared with the right form, this might only be a week delay.

Good Luck!

Sue

[Almi and Randy 0]

Hello John and Diana, I am sorry to hear that you got RFE. But need not worry, just accomplish the needed requirement the sooonest possible. They will approve your petition right away.

[E&R4ever 6]

John and Diana,

I am sooooo sorry you received an RFE, but don't worry it will pass too! I understand you missing each other too. I will have to offer you my thank you for keeping up the spirit here on VJ! I log in and am rather quiet, but I read to learn and understand this process we all are going through. Thanks for keeping our hopes up too and I know we are all pulling for a speedy approval for you!!

Sincerely,

eff

[Rob and Melinda 0]

What was the RFE for? IMBRA or some documentation missing?

Hope you get an answer soon, I know how hard it is to wait.

Rob and Melinda

[Udella&Wiz 325]

So is it obsessive compulsive if I am tracking the overnight delivery of the RFE back to USCIS?

[J&D_anon 0]

So is it obsessive compulsive if I am tracking the overnight delivery of the RFE back to USCIS?

I'll be doing the same, but we've already confirmed that I'm Obsessive Compulsive.

Hopefully it's speedy for you!

- John

[J&D_anon 0]

Also, thank you everyone for your kind words and thoughts. Its one thing to try to explain this to friends and family who are not familiar with the process or the lonely feeling of being so far away from your loved one. But, you guys are in the same boat, separated from your loved ones for an uncertain amount of time while battling the restlessness and anxiety that the process causes. To receive well wishes from you all means a lot to us.

Thanks, again.

- John

[J&D_anon 0]

The confusion is perfect!

We got touched again this morning....I thought they wouldn't do anything anymore, until they receive the RFE!!!

Hmm....that better was a 'good' touch and not that they found out: ooops....we need something else too....let's send another RFE!!!

Then I'd fly to CSC and show them how to work in an office from the government!!!!!

Diana