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Can I just say that I flew in from England last night and I took one look at the U.S. Immigration people and it took everything in my power not to start ranting. I know they have absolutely NOTHING to do with my process, but it didn't matter. I realized I just hate all of them for being associated with it. :blink: Actually, it was quite funny. They asked me if I was in England for business or pleasure and I told them it was none of their business. HELLO-I LIVE HERE!

hah! I remembered they asked me that when I came back on the 2nd. Didn't even look through the pages of my passport or seem like they were trying to assess anything. USCIS is king when it comes it to useless procedures, eh?

Maybe it was because the flight was so long that the venom just stayed in the back of my throat. But you're my hero for that 'none of your business' line, haha!

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Colombia
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.....OK....more new news......After finding out yesterday bout the RFE i called my lawyer right away.....I let her know that i knew for a fact that it was sent on the 18th and that there is no way it would take more than this week to arrive...I left that on an aswering machine....well today first thing i called her again and explained everything...she said "well i have a huge pile of mail which i will try to get to today or tomorrow" i told her i want news by friday the latest.....Well late this afternoon she left a message on my cell telling me that the RFE letter was in the pile....And to top it off...the evidence that they want...your going to laugh!!!! She forgot to have me sign one of the forms...that is all they asked for... :wacko: .....NEVER EVER DEPEND ON A LAWYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well tomorrow im going to her office to sign it and im sending through my Fedex account right away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Bill B........like i have said so many times before ...if i knew what i know now....i would have never had a lawyer!!!!!

C'MON MIRLA PLEASEEEE GIVE ME SOME NEWS ABOUT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2/17/07-Met in Bogota

4/20/07-returned to Bogota to see her

5/18/07-sent out I129f

5/19/07-returned to Bogota to see her

5/21/07-received at VCS

5/28/07-Received NOA1

5/30/07-touch

7/4/07-returned to see her

10/17/07-Met Leidy in Panama for 5 days

10/26/07-RFE

10/27/07-Sent back RFE

10/29/07-Touch due to RFE arriving

10/30/07-Touch

10/31/07-Touch

11/15/07-NOA2 Sent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11/16/07-Touch

11/19/07-NVC Received

11/21/07-Left NVC for Consulate

11/22/07-Returned to see Leidy after her stay in the hospital..

11/23/07-Consualte received

11/26/07-Packet 3 sent to Leidy

12/04/07-Packet 3 received

12/04/07-Packet 3 sent

12/31/07-Interview date!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!

1/9/08- Leidy's overnight flight will arrive to JFK airport!!!!!!

Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: England
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Folks,

I am getting quite tired of waiting and waiting. I wish I could take time off and visit my fiance, but can't because of work.

She does have a tourist visa and has visited the US 4-5 times in the past, before we were engaged. Can she use that tourist visa to visit? I have read the forums/guides.. but wanted to find out from this tight knit group as we have communicated frequently and I have a particular level of trust in this support group.

Your perspectives would be highly appreciated in maintaining my sanity.

Thanks.

I visited about three weeks ago on the VWP and got in without a problem. As long as the visit isn't too long (mine was 9 days) and your fiance can show proof of ties back home (I had lots but wasn't asked for any of it) you might be ok. The worst that can happen is that your fiance will be turned around at the POE and have to go home, it won't affect your K1 application in any way.

Gillian

Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Philippines
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.....OK....more new news......After finding out yesterday bout the RFE i called my lawyer right away.....I let her know that i knew for a fact that it was sent on the 18th and that there is no way it would take more than this week to arrive...I left that on an aswering machine....well today first thing i called her again and explained everything...she said "well i have a huge pile of mail which i will try to get to today or tomorrow" i told her i want news by friday the latest.....Well late this afternoon she left a message on my cell telling me that the RFE letter was in the pile....And to top it off...the evidence that they want...your going to laugh!!!! She forgot to have me sign one of the forms...that is all they asked for... :wacko: .....NEVER EVER DEPEND ON A LAWYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well tomorrow im going to her office to sign it and im sending through my Fedex account right away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Bill B........like i have said so many times before ...if i knew what i know now....i would have never had a lawyer!!!!!

C'MON MIRLA PLEASEEEE GIVE ME SOME NEWS ABOUT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry about the RFE you got Byron but be glad cuz they're working with your case and you'll get approved very very soon!!!! Mimi, please please give us some news girl!!!! VSC!!!!!!! We order you to get these may filers approved asap!!!!!!!!!!!! :bonk::protest::ranting:

mami and dada's little baba...

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Filed: AOS (apr) Country: Croatia
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.....OK....more new news......After finding out yesterday bout the RFE i called my lawyer right away.....I let her know that i knew for a fact that it was sent on the 18th and that there is no way it would take more than this week to arrive...I left that on an aswering machine....well today first thing i called her again and explained everything...she said "well i have a huge pile of mail which i will try to get to today or tomorrow" i told her i want news by friday the latest.....Well late this afternoon she left a message on my cell telling me that the RFE letter was in the pile....And to top it off...the evidence that they want...your going to laugh!!!! She forgot to have me sign one of the forms...that is all they asked for... :wacko: .....NEVER EVER DEPEND ON A LAWYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well tomorrow im going to her office to sign it and im sending through my Fedex account right away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just don't tell me you have to pay her for that? At least not the full price, is there any kind of a discount on incompetence?

K1 TIME LINE

05/21/2007 - I129F sent to VSC

05/25/2007 - NOA1

10/10/2007 touch (change of address)

10/11/2007 touch

10/12/2007 touch

10/15/2007 NOA2 (Approved)

10/18/2007 NVC received

11/02/2007 NVC left

11/06/2007 embassy received the petition

11/07/2007 package 3 & 4 sent out

11/08/2007 medical

11/26/2007 INTERVIEW

11/30/2007 US entry POE Washington DC

12/15/2007 Wedding

01/06/2008 AOS filed

01/14/2008 SSN received

01/12/2008 Drivers licens obtained:-)

02/05/2008 biometrics appointement

03/26/2008 approval notice for EAD

03/31/2008 another approval notice for EAD (confused)

04/04/2008 EAD received

04/09/2008 Notice mailed welcoming the new permanent resident!!!!!!!!! I guess I'll be getting my green card in the mail soon.

04/16/2008 AOS approval notice sent

04/16/2008 Green Card received!!!!!

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Germany
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I can not believe this! :ranting: If you had not called and was informed of the RFE, your letter would have sat at your lawyers desk til who knows when?!!!! You forced her to check her mail, unbelievable! I am soooo glad you callled.

Mirla, I hope your lawyer is checking his or her desk for letters!

5/14/07 Mailed K1 VSC

10/19/07 APPROVED on 10/15

10/26/07 Packet 3 rec'd

10/29/07 Packet 3 sent

11/14/07 Interview (I am off to Germany 11/9)

11/30/07 VISA rec'd!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12/25/07 POE JFK

1/25/08 Wedding day

2/11/08 Mailed AOS/EAD/AP

3/13/08 NOA1 for AOS/EAD/AP

04/04/08 Biometrics for AOS/EAD

04/15/08 EMAIL APPROVED EAD & AP

4/24/08 Receiveed EAD card in the Mail

6/16/08 Email AOS: Welcome notice mailed

6/23/08 Email AOS: Approval Notice Sent

April 2009 FINALLY received card!

3/11/10 Sent I 751

3/19/10 Rec'd NOA1

Filed: AOS (apr) Country: Russia
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I guess lawyers really do belong at the bottom of the ocean. ;)

22 Jun 05 - We met in a tiny bar in Williamsburg, Va. (spent all summer together)

27 May 06 - Sasha comes back for a 2nd glorious summer (spent 8 months apart)

01 Jan 07 - Jason travels to Moscow for 2 weeks with Sasha

27 May 07 - Jason again travels to Moscow for 2 weeks of perfection

14 July 07 - I-129F and all related documents sent to VSC

16 July 07 - I-129F delivered to VSC and signed for by P. Novak

20 July 07 - NOA1 issued / receipt number assigned

27 Sep 07 - Jason travels to Moscow to be with Sasha for 2 weeks

28 Nov 07 - NOA2 issued...TOUCHED!...then...APPROVED!!!

01 Dec 07 - NVC receives/assigns case #

04 Dec 07 - NVC sends case to U.S. Embassy Moscow

26 Dec 07 - Jason visits Sasha in Russia for the 4th and final time of 2007 :)

22 Feb 08 - Moscow Interview! (APPROVED!!!)..Yay!

24 Mar 08 - Sasha and Jason reunite in the U.S. :)

31 May 08 - Married

29 Dec 08- Alexander is born

11 Jan 10 - AOS / AP / EAD package sent

19 Jan 10 - AOS NOA1 / AP NOA1 / EAD NOA1

08 Feb 10 - AOS case transferred to CSC

16 Mar 10 - AP received

16 Mar 10 - AOS approved

19 Mar 10 - EAD received

22 Mar 10 - GC received

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Why am I not surprised :wacko: ?

I know. Its a long time. But in Ghana the wait is 4-6 months.

I'm so frustrated with this tonight. Just returned from visiting my fiance and wish I had just stayed. It bums me out to think even if our NOA2 arrived tomorrow, we still have 6 months on the other side of it. Stupid "Ghana time" - it's an American Embassy, it should run on American time (better: New York time :yes: ). Hang in there Zee, as bummed as it makes me, it gives me hope to see your time line moving towards the entry date.

Hey! I'm with you. And I"m in NY too....Upstate NY that is.... :crying::crying::crying::sleepy: going to bed now.

Ladies, I know how long and frustrating this so-called 'system' is but ever since we got the interview date a weird kind of calm has come over me. I know that it is still far out but at least I know it is there. We also chose to have him come in July after we have the 'wedding' in Ghana so it works out well for us. If it had been earlier (like December) we would have had to go through the hassle of rescheduling and all that.

As for the Ghana embassy :wacko: . When it comes to dealing with them you have to be firm, persistent and polite. I wrote a post about it in the Sub-Saharan Africa forum. When you get your NOA2 and are waiting on the embassy I would strongly suggest not waiting on them as they can be very slow and inefficient. Neither Inusah or I took no as an answer from them. He did some fast talking there to the point that the woman he spoke with offered to move up the date to December or January if we completed the medicals and all in time. When you get to that point let me know and I will see if we can help you in any way we can :)

Zee

Mama to 2 beautiful boys (August 2011 and January 2015)

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.....OK....more new news......After finding out yesterday bout the RFE i called my lawyer right away.....I let her know that i knew for a fact that it was sent on the 18th and that there is no way it would take more than this week to arrive...I left that on an aswering machine....well today first thing i called her again and explained everything...she said "well i have a huge pile of mail which i will try to get to today or tomorrow" i told her i want news by friday the latest.....Well late this afternoon she left a message on my cell telling me that the RFE letter was in the pile....And to top it off...the evidence that they want...your going to laugh!!!! She forgot to have me sign one of the forms...that is all they asked for... :wacko: .....NEVER EVER DEPEND ON A LAWYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well tomorrow im going to her office to sign it and im sending through my Fedex account right away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK.....im off to my wonderful lawyer's office right now .....im going to try to keep my cool and look at the bright side, at least the process has life and is moving....EVERYBODY thanks for everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2/17/07-Met in Bogota

4/20/07-returned to Bogota to see her

5/18/07-sent out I129f

5/19/07-returned to Bogota to see her

5/21/07-received at VCS

5/28/07-Received NOA1

5/30/07-touch

7/4/07-returned to see her

10/17/07-Met Leidy in Panama for 5 days

10/26/07-RFE

10/27/07-Sent back RFE

10/29/07-Touch due to RFE arriving

10/30/07-Touch

10/31/07-Touch

11/15/07-NOA2 Sent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11/16/07-Touch

11/19/07-NVC Received

11/21/07-Left NVC for Consulate

11/22/07-Returned to see Leidy after her stay in the hospital..

11/23/07-Consualte received

11/26/07-Packet 3 sent to Leidy

12/04/07-Packet 3 received

12/04/07-Packet 3 sent

12/31/07-Interview date!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!

1/9/08- Leidy's overnight flight will arrive to JFK airport!!!!!!

Filed: Citizen (pnd) Country: England
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.....OK....more new news......After finding out yesterday bout the RFE i called my lawyer right away.....I let her know that i knew for a fact that it was sent on the 18th and that there is no way it would take more than this week to arrive...I left that on an aswering machine....well today first thing i called her again and explained everything...she said "well i have a huge pile of mail which i will try to get to today or tomorrow" i told her i want news by friday the latest.....Well late this afternoon she left a message on my cell telling me that the RFE letter was in the pile....And to top it off...the evidence that they want...your going to laugh!!!! She forgot to have me sign one of the forms...that is all they asked for... :wacko: .....NEVER EVER DEPEND ON A LAWYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well tomorrow im going to her office to sign it and im sending through my Fedex account right away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK.....im off to my wonderful lawyer's office right now .....im going to try to keep my cool and look at the bright side, at least the process has life and is moving....EVERYBODY thanks for everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Byron - your lawyer is a bum! Every time I read a story like your I am so happy that I didn't use a lawyer to get through this process. Good luck with getting things squared away! Hopefully with something so small you'll have that NOA2 very soon!!!!

Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Thailand
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.....OK....more new news......After finding out yesterday bout the RFE i called my lawyer right away.....I let her know that i knew for a fact that it was sent on the 18th and that there is no way it would take more than this week to arrive...I left that on an aswering machine....well today first thing i called her again and explained everything...she said "well i have a huge pile of mail which i will try to get to today or tomorrow" i told her i want news by friday the latest.....Well late this afternoon she left a message on my cell telling me that the RFE letter was in the pile....And to top it off...the evidence that they want...your going to laugh!!!! She forgot to have me sign one of the forms...that is all they asked for... :wacko: .....NEVER EVER DEPEND ON A LAWYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well tomorrow im going to her office to sign it and im sending through my Fedex account right away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just don't tell me you have to pay her for that? At least not the full price, is there any kind of a discount on incompetence?

I agree, your lawyer should compensate you in some way for your pain and suffering. Good luck

Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Peru
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Byron!! What a joke!!!! At least you knonw that after sending this you will get your approval very very soon!!! :)

Soch, my lawyer is a waste....he's not even listed under our case so if we would've got a RFE, Pat would've got the letter, like he did when the NOA1, it was send to him instead of our lawyer which makes me feel relieve cause you know how lawyers are...especially mine who keeps telling me to wait.

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein.

05/09/07 --- NOA1

05/15/07 --- Touched

10/24/07 --- Case assigned!

10/31/07 --- Touched

11/01/07 --- RFE

11/02/07 --- Touched

11/05/07 --- Got RFE on the mail

11/09/07 --- RFE sent back to VSC

12/06/07 --- Waited enough time to RESEND our RFE

12/07/07 --- RFE received at VSC and signed by Novak....

12/10/07 --- Case received and resumed

12/11/07 --- Touched

12/12/07 --- Touched

12/13/07 --- Touched

12/14/07 --- Touched

01/02/08 --- Touched

01/02/08 --- APPROVED!!!!!!

01/11/08 --- Got NOA2 on the mail

01/12/08 --- Got NVC letter on the mail

01/17/08 --- Got packet 3

01/28/08 --- Medical

02/05/08 --- INTERVIEW!!!!

02/10/08 --- Off to NY!!!!

Filed: K-1 Visa Country: England
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What's with these lawyers? What is their function? They keep messing up basic paperwork. Heck, my fiance was telling the lawyer about the different kinds of visas available and the guy was taking notes. That should have been a warning to me at the time. I asked mine that since he's an attorney he can make more of an impact with congress/USCIS about changing the system, but he said that' s just how it is. We just need to wait.

I-129F Sent : 2007-07-26

I-129F NOA1 issued : 2007-08-06

NOA2 received: 12/20/07

NVC received: 12/28/07

NVC sent to embassy 1/2/08

Packet 3 received: 1/15/08

Packet 3 sent: 1/21/08

Interview- 2/14/08

K1 Visa APPROVED- 2/15/08 and delivered 2/21/08

Wedding 3/21/08

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: India
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Thanks Bill B........like i have said so many times before ...if i knew what i know now....i would have never had a lawyer!!!!!

What's the difference between a good lawyer and a bad lawyer?

A bad lawyer can let a case drag out for several years. A good lawyer can make it last even longer.

 
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