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100518 Apprentice

100518   2

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  So how do all of you stay sane while waiting through your process? I know I just want to bang my head against the wall wanting to be with my wife. I'm going crazy here.

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TBoneTX Grand Master

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One answer:  Violent physical exercise.

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01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.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

Carpe Vinum   2,310

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21 hours ago, 100518 said:

  So how do all of you stay sane while waiting through your process? I know I just want to bang my head against the wall wanting to be with my wife. I'm going crazy here.

Soon....Someday all this will just be a distant memory. Hang in there. During my bogus RFE period I even had to take a month off of VJ out of neurotic frustration)))

Not a newbie but lost my old info years ago) I have been through this process before --all the way through naturalization-- This site has always been a great help to me. 

 

 

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JFH Grand Master

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Keep busy!

Timeline in brief:

Married: September 27, 2014

I-130 filed: February 5, 2016

NOA1: February 8, 2016 Nebraska

NOA2: July 21, 2016

Interview: December 6, 2016 London

POE: December 19, 2016 Las Vegas

N-400 filed: September 30, 2019

Interview: March 22, 2021 Seattle

Oath: March 22, 2021 COVID-style same-day oath

 

Now a US citizen!

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Do things you like doing, try to distract yourself.

I found out I shouldn't spend hours daily on VJ, because despite feeling I get a lot of support here and the information being super useful, reading the stories and ppl's experiences every day drives me crazy, too! I talk to my fiancee every day, I work, I try not to watch too much 90-day fiancee :p 

When I feel like I can't take this anymore, I turn on the music, put on my old jeans and clean the house for hours, till I'm starving. Then I collapse into bed and am ready to start repeating the whole process the next morning :p 

Good luck!

"Life is a journey." At this moment, it's taking me to the USA to the woman I love.

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100518 Apprentice

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On 7/21/2019 at 1:40 AM, joanamber said:

How long is it now? I’m waiting for 11 months and no update since January. 

One month waiting... but have been together longer, married for 10 months. 

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On 7/21/2019 at 6:26 AM, jeaniecz said:

Do things you like doing, try to distract yourself.

I found out I shouldn't spend hours daily on VJ, because despite feeling I get a lot of support here and the information being super useful, reading the stories and ppl's experiences every day drives me crazy, too! I talk to my fiancee every day, I work, I try not to watch too much 90-day fiancee 😛

When I feel like I can't take this anymore, I turn on the music, put on my old jeans and clean the house for hours, till I'm starving. Then I collapse into bed and am ready to start repeating the whole process the next morning 😛

Good luck!

Well I daily video my wife every spare waking moment. Even while sleeping, breaks at work, talk on the phone while I work...

That IS what I like doing most. 

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On 7/20/2019 at 3:51 PM, JFH said:

Keep busy!

I do.

 

Video call, sleep, work, phone, video call on my breaks, video call when I get home until I sleep then we even video while I sleep/while she sleeps... I know,... we are obsessed haha

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