Is this horrible feeling in my gut justified?

[JoanBill 0]

While reading your post I felt exactly like you. I was going crazy seeing everyone else get their NOA2 while I was still waiting. I had been touched on May 1st and 2nd, I called using the RFE "trick" but still had no news whatsoever. I stopped reading the forums and became a very nasty person to those people who are around me.

BUT then I got a letter in the mail a few days ago from the NVC saying they had received my APPROVED petition. If you got touched a few weeks ago my guess is that you're approved its just that the USCIS is so behind they're not sending email or letter approval notices.

So is that feeling in your gut justified? Yes it is justified. But do whatever you can do to not go crazy because you're most likely approved.

That's the one thing I really don't like. I am usually a pretty mellow easy-going guy. But lately I have lost patience with everything and everyone around me. I've turned into a real SOB. I don't even like being around me.

I'll call USCIS again shortly and see if I get farther. I am hoping internally they have access to more timely information that we on the outside do. But I am not getting my hopes up. I have lost faith in the system.

Mahalo for the kind words and support. They are appreciated. It's nice to know I have somewhere to go where people understand.

Bill

[ladykelia 0]

Relax, I'm sure the petition is soon to be approved or is already in the pile to be sent to the NVC. I've heard that lots of people haven't been getting their NOA2s due to some system glitches on the USCIS's side. And besides that, you aren't that far behind, if behind at all. My petition just reached the NVC last week and I had an NOA1 date a good 3 weeks before yours. That being said, I (and probably most people here) have felt the same worry and panick at at least one point in the process. But it's no time to panick yet.