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Yesterday ceac website went to administrative processing, today early on the morning it's showing VISA ISSUED, 2 visas, my fiance K1 and his baby K2, we are waiting for it to be sent to dhl place to pick it up.

I am not in this world now, still can't believe it, surprised and confused, it was a very hard bumpy road going toward each other, I need time to process it or better him here and shaking me at the airport, wake up Tasha, we are here

Tasha

Congratulations !

Yes, that is what I meant by don't freak out if ceac goes to AP because it will go to issued in a day.

Happy reunion.

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I-129F Sent : 3-31-2014, NOA2: 4-6-2014

NVC Received : some dinkelsberry yehoo in the house of clingons send our petition to the wrong consulate.

Consulate Received : July 30,2014 Transfer to right embassy complete.

Interview Date : Oct 22, 2014

Interview Result : AP , requesting another PC (not expired) and certified divorce decree (was submitted)Stokes interview via phone for petitioner 4 hrs after interview.

Oct 23 email notification visa approved.
Visa Received : Nov. 3 , 2014 VISA IN HAND.

US Entry : Nov. 21, 2014

Marriage : Dec 27, 2014

AOS send : May 12, 2015, received May 14, 2015 USPS priority

Email &text : May 18, 2015, check cashed May 19,2015, return receipt May 21, 2015 stamped USCIS Lockbox, NOA1 (3x) May 22,2015

Biometrics : June 1, 2015 letter received for appointment June 8, 2015, successful walk-in June 1, 2015

RFE : June 12, 2015 for income not meeting guideline. Income does ( ! ) exceed guideline.

RFE response : June 26, 2015 returned with a boat load full of financial evidence.

UPDATE: July 5, 2015 updated on all 3 cases, RFE received June 30, 2015.

Service request : Aug 12, 2015, letter received that it will be processed within 90 days from receipt of RFE.

UPDATE: Aug 24, 2015, EAD card being produced/ordered. ( 102 days from AOS receipt day and 55 days from RFE response received.) Thank you Jesus !

Emails : Aug 24, 2015, EAD approved, EAD card ordered.

I-797 EAD/AP approval notice received : Aug 27, 2015

EAD/AP combo card mailed : Aug 27, 2015, EAD/AP combo card received: Aug 31, 2015

Renewal application send for EAD/AP : May 31,2016 (AOS pending over 1 year). Received June 2, 2016,Notice date June7, 2016, emails,texts, NOA1 hard copy

Service request for pending AOS April 21, 2016, case not assigned yet.
Service request for pending AOS June 14, 2016, tier 2 said performing background checks.
Expedite request for EAD/AP Aug 3, 2016, Aug10 notification >request was received, assigned, completed. RFE letter requesting evidence for expedite, docs faxed Aug18

*Service request for I-485 Aug 3, 2016, Aug11 notification> request was assigned. Service request Dec 2, 2016.
AOS Interview letter received Aug 12, 2016

AOS Interview September 21, 2016.

Second Biometrics appointment letters received for EAD and AOS on Aug 15, 2016 for Aug 17 ( 2 day notice).

Second Biometrics completed Aug 17, 2016

Third Biometrics appointment letter received Aug 19, 2016 for Sept. 1, 2016. WTH ?!

EAD/AP (renewal) approval Aug 22, 2016, NOA2 received Aug 25, 2016

Renewal EAD in production notification text and online, expedite successful 4 days after RFE request response was faxed, Aug25mailed,Aug29received.

Sept. 21 Interview, 2 hour interview, we were separated and asked about 50 questions each for an hour each. IO was firm but professional, some smiles.
Several service requests made, contacted Senator and Ombudsman. Background checks still pending.
July 21, 2017 HOME VISIT.  Went well. Topic thread in AOS forum.
Waiting to skip ROC and get 10 yr GC due to over 2 year while pending AOS
AOS APPROVED Oct. 4, 2017 * Green card in hand Oct 13, 2017 !!!!!

First K1 denied after 16 month of AP. Refiled. We are a couple since 2009. Not a sprint but a matter of endurance.

 

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MeAlone
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Thank you for all your good wishes, we need them so much! My fiance not working now, in the hotel with a 18 months baby girl and so depressed, he still can't believe we can get visa, Nigeria is not ea

Deeplove11111
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He has to communicate to avoid this sort of delays in the future,my fiance made sure we wrote how we met together in details concerdering the time difference i was up until 5am nigerian time before g

soulstriker
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well now it makes sense i can see why a CO would be scratching their head about that , its odd you and your fiance didnt go over this lack or preparation and communication results to this , Deeplove

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Thank you for sharing. Did you send the missing document right away? How do you know they processed it and the date 18th? How do you know you are in AP? Was it saying Administrative Processing in your letter? or did they communicate with you after 18th saying you are in AP?

Tasha

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We we're not able to give them the information right away I had to mail him the documents at his house. So to give you an idea his interview was on the 2nd according to the tracking number that he got when he mailed the papers the consulate they got it on the 14th of December our status on our visa on the ceac website did not update until the 18th of December. 10 business days later which was December 2nd we were updated to ready then we had a day of administrative processing on the 5th and on the 6th it was changed to issued. He is not going to receive his Visa until the 13th according to the tracking number for local mailing of his country.

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We we're not able to give them the information right away I had to mail him the documents at his house. So to give you an idea his interview was on the 2nd according to the tracking number that he got when he mailed the papers the consulate they got it on the 14th of December our status on our visa on the ceac website did not update until the 18th of December. 10 business days later which was December 2nd we were updated to ready then we had a day of administrative processing on the 5th and on the 6th it was changed to issued. He is not going to receive his Visa until the 13th according to the tracking number for local mailing of his country.

Ouch, yours is taking long time, sorry

Tasha

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https://ceac.state.gov this is where you should be able to enter in your NVC number and you can track to see what your Visa is doing at the consulate
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Congratulations !

Yes, that is what I meant by don't freak out if ceac goes to AP because it will go to issued in a day.

Happy reunion.

Yes, your advice helped me not being scared about AP, all good, today my fiance got passports with visa, him and the baby, we are so happy! thank you

Tasha

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Yes, your advice helped me not being scared about AP, all good, today my fiance got passports with visa, him and the baby, we are so happy! thank you

Tasha

Tasha,

Did you receive any notification to pick up visa from DHL?

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Tasha,

Did you receive any notification to pick up visa from DHL?

my fiance got an email because he registered in this website asking for to notify him by emai, I was checking periodically this website and we saw it the same day, he was notified by email faster.

Check your passport number and you will see when it goes to ready to pick up

http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ng/ng-niv-passportretrieve.asp#passporttrack

Tasha

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my fiance got an email because he registered in this website asking for to notify him by emai, I was checking periodically this website and we saw it the same day, he was notified by email faster.

Check your passport number and you will see when it goes to ready to pick up

http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ng/ng-niv-passportretrieve.asp#passporttrack

Tasha

my fiance got an email because he registered in this website asking for to notify him by emai, I was checking periodically this website and we saw it the same day, he was notified by email faster.

Check your passport number and you will see when it goes to ready to pick up

http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ng/ng-niv-passportretrieve.asp#passporttrack

Tasha

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I didn't register online CO just took name and number and circled location where to pick up visa on Nov 28th still no word..ceac site says Issued/printed on 29th and track site says no status update for passport number. I went to DHL location twice this week and they say it's not complete so I'm tryig to figure out what's the problem

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I didn't register online CO just took name and number and circled location where to pick up visa on Nov 28th still no word..ceac site says Issued/printed on 29th and track site says no status update for passport number. I went to DHL location twice this week and they say it's not complete so I'm tryig to figure out what's the problem

Always use this to check if it's ready to pick up your passport

http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ng/ng-niv-passportretrieve.asp#passporttrack

but if 10 days passed, you need to contact them and ask

+234-1-440-6218

support-nigeria@ustraveldocs.com

Tasha

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https://ceac.state.gov this is where you should be able to enter in your NVC number and you can track to see what your Visa is doing at the consulate
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Always use this to check if it's ready to pick up your passport

http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ng/ng-niv-passportretrieve.asp#passporttrack

but if 10 days passed, you need to contact them and ask

+234-1-440-6218

support-nigeria@ustraveldocs.com

Tasha

Ceac site says issued/printed since Nov 29th went to DHL location and check site both said no update available. I'm now on my 9th business day. So I guess next step is calling the Embassy

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