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LadyUK   0

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Just a quick thank you to everyone who has every given me great advice here!

We sent our first application packet off on Saturday - and I understand that London is speeding up.

I am so excited!

Geneva

http://www.thegeneva.com

We did it!

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Urge To Race   2

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Just a quick thank you to everyone who has every given me great advice here!

We sent our first application packet off on Saturday - and I understand that London is speeding up.

I am so excited!

Best of luck on your journey! :thumbs:

03/12/2007 - Married to my beautiful wife

04/16/2007 - Sent I-130 to VSC via USPS Express Mail

05/12/2007 - NOA1 received by snail mail after a loooong wait

05/14/2007 - Sent I-129F for K3 to Chicago Lockbox via USPS Express Mail

10/22/2007 - I129F APPROVED (161 days), I130 APPROVED (188 days)

11/08/2007 - I129F received at NVC, embassy case number generated.

11/13/2007 - I129F forwarded to embassy.

11/18/2007 - 129F petition received at embassy

01/09/2008 - finally, DOS gives me the interview date, April 16, 2007 (ouch)

01/23/2008 - never got packet 4, emailed embassy

04/11/2008 - picked up packet 4, did medical

04/14/2008 - medical report pickup, no problems

04/16/2008 - interview date- APPROVED!!!!!

04/18/2008 - both of us are home at last, POE JFK!

05/21/2008 - sent AOS and EAD

05/27/2008 - received NOA1 for AOS and for EAD

06/02/2008 - received Biometrics appt letter

06/19/2008 - Biometrics appointment scheduled - DONE

06/19/2008 - both AOS and EAD touched because of biometrics

07/29/2008 - EAD approved.

05/13/2009 - AOS Interview - APPROVED!/ Card production ordered email

05/18/2009 - Welcome Letter received

06/12/2009 - Second card production ordered email

06/19/2009 - Approval notice send email

06/22/2009 - Green Card received

04/09/2012 - Applied for Citizenship by Express Mailing N400 to NBC

04/10/2012 - N400 received by USCIS

06/23/2012 - Biometrics appointment

07/27/2012 - Appointment scheduled for N400 interview

09/05/2012 - Interview passed, oath ceremony completed, and Naturalization certificate received.

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MaydayDas   1

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Have a speedy journey :thumbs:

"Daca voi nu ma vreti, io va vreau"

DCF Frankfurt Germany

01/12/2007 I-130 filed in person at the Consulate in Frankfurt

01/17/2007 Faxed the checklist to the Immigrant Visa Unit in Frankfurt

03/29/2007 Got letter from USCIS to provide evidence that our marriage is bona fide

04/02/2007 Sent to USCIS lots of evidence

05/03/2007 I have an unofficial "PETITION APPROVED" ...waiting for confirmation from Consulate

05/07/2007 Received email from USCIS ROME confirming that our petition was approved (why Rome? because we complained to the District Office Rome about the Sub-Office Frankfurt..it took too long for our petition to be approved)...now waiting for the interview letter from the Consulate

05/18/2007 E-mail from IV Frankfurt, our interview was scheduled for May 29th

05/19/2007 Packet 4 in the mail: ja ja ja interview letter

05/29/2007 Interview at 7.30 a.m. APPROVED Thank you, God!

06/01/2007 Visa arrived !

06/03/2007 Mayday on the plane POE Cincinnati

Living in Maryland

06/21/2007 Welcome Notice from USCIS

06/29/2007 Applied for SSN at the local Office

07/07/2007 Green Card arrived

07/09/2007 Another 2 Welcome Letters from USCIS...God, they really love me! :D

07/20/2007 Social Security Card arrived

Living@working in Maryland :)

01/18/2009 PCS-ing to Stuttgart Germany

Feb 2009 Received letter from VSC to start removing conditions.

Getting ready the packet for Removing Conditions I-751

03/12/2009 Mailed the I-751 packet to Vermont Service Center

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Lance27   19

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Good luck and heres hoping that you have a speedy visa journey.

AOS

Filled : 2007-09-17

NOA : 2007-09-25

Biometrics : 2007-12-13

EAD card prod : 2007-12-13

Job Offer : 2007-12-18

EAD card prod : 2007-12-18

EAD approved mailed : 2007-12-21

EAD in Hand : 2007-12-24 (Awesome Christmas Present)

Applied for SSN : 2007-12-26

SSN arrives in mail : 2008-01-05 (Happy New Year)

Start work :2008-01-15

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Stand_By_Me_Babe   0

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Hi,

Good luck to you guys, I just posted my hubby and sons I-130s off yesterday so I guess we'll be along the same time frame. Hope we get through it smoothly! :whistle:

Jenni

Jul 1, 07 - Sent I-130s

Jul 6, 07 - I-130s filed

Jul 9, 07 - NOA1 received

Jul 23, 07 - Sent police certificate application

Aug 23, 07 -Police certificate received

Sep 25, 07- I-130s both approved

Sep 29, 07- Packet 3 received

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Rob and Geneva   0

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Hi,

Good luck to you guys, I just posted my hubby and sons I-130s off yesterday so I guess we'll be along the same time frame. Hope we get through it smoothly! :whistle:

Jenni

Jenni

You'll be just in front of us now in the queue. We got the I-130 back from the Embassy yesterday (Tuesday). Seems Geneva signed the wrong part of the the form. :( She signed the part that the person helping complete the form is susposed to sign!

Luckily it was spotted and sent back the same day. We just re-printed the I-130 and have sent it back again. Hopefully we've got everything else right.

At least we now know that they do at least a basic check of your documents the day that they receive them. :thumbs:

Rob

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met online Dec 19 2004

met in person Dec 24 2004

met her family in states Jun 5 2005

moved in together Jun 2005

officially engaged April 17 2007

married at Lazaats June 15 2007

sent off I-130 June 30 2007

recieved I-130 back (signed in wrong place) 2 July 2007

sent off I-130 July 4 2007 (again) signed this time

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Stand_By_Me_Babe   0

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Hi,

Good luck to you guys, I just posted my hubby and sons I-130s off yesterday so I guess we'll be along the same time frame. Hope we get through it smoothly! :whistle:

Jenni

Jenni

You'll be just in front of us now in the queue. We got the I-130 back from the Embassy yesterday (Tuesday). Seems Geneva signed the wrong part of the the form. :( She signed the part that the person helping complete the form is susposed to sign!

Luckily it was spotted and sent back the same day. We just re-printed the I-130 and have sent it back again. Hopefully we've got everything else right.

At least we now know that they do at least a basic check of your documents the day that they receive them. :thumbs:

Rob

Hi,

Are you LadyUKs other half? I asked, my other half (the UKC) if he was planning on writing in this forum, and his reply was, "Not just yet cos you're handling things so well babe." The cheek of him! I don't blame him really as I think I've well and truly confused him with all this. Are you the UKC?

I was actually wondering the other day if it was mostly the wives that completed the forms and did the research, or if it was usually the USC?

Anyway, we just got our notice today that our I-130s were filed on July the 6th so I guess you'll hear in a couple days. Have you noticed anyone else that have recently sent their petitions in?

Jenni

Jul 1, 07 - Sent I-130s

Jul 6, 07 - I-130s filed

Jul 9, 07 - NOA1 received

Jul 23, 07 - Sent police certificate application

Aug 23, 07 -Police certificate received

Sep 25, 07- I-130s both approved

Sep 29, 07- Packet 3 received

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Rob and Geneva   0

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Jenni,

Yes, I'm the LadyUK (Geneva's) other half.

Geneva is the USC and I'm the UKC.

Today we just got our notice that the I-130 has been filed on July 6th as well. So looks like we are on the track as you :)

I'm the one that get's to fill in the forms and prepare all the paper work. I even had to fill in Geneva's tax returns. She was wanting to just send in the 1040EZ's for the past 3 years. I had point out that the she had to file 1040's and 2555EZ's for the the past 3 years.

I've not seen anyone else who's recently sent in their petitions. Hope fully there's not many people filing now. I've noticed that London are getting through the petitions pretty quick now.

A few weeks ago when i checked they was taking about 10 weeks to process, then last week it was down to 6 weeks and now this week it's down to 5 weeks. :D I hope they keep this up. We'll get our petitions processed at the beginning of August at this rate. :whistle:

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met online Dec 19 2004

met in person Dec 24 2004

met her family in states Jun 5 2005

moved in together Jun 2005

officially engaged April 17 2007

married at Lazaats June 15 2007

sent off I-130 June 30 2007

recieved I-130 back (signed in wrong place) 2 July 2007

sent off I-130 July 4 2007 (again) signed this time

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simple_male   1

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Hope for the speedy process!

I-130 Timeline with USCIS:

It took 92 days for I-130 to get approved from the filing date

NVC Process of I-130:

It took 78 days to complete the NVC process

Interview Process at The U.S. Embassy

Interview took 223 days from the I-130 filing date. Immigrant Visa was issued right after the interview

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Stand_By_Me_Babe   0

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Wow that's great about your petition being filed so quickly after the wee mistake! I hope they keep moving fast with thier processing to.

I just found out about nedding tax returns last week. I left the US when I was 12 so I've never filled one out before and it was Elmcitymaven from the UK forum that gave me the heads up. I have to admit that I still need to call London to speak to their tax advisor and figure out what to do. From what Elmcitymaven said it's not difficult just time consuming. Blugh!

Speaking of being ill-prepared, my hubby still can't catch a police officer at our local station to hand in his application for the police check. :angry: Do you know if he needs that before the interview? I still feel so clueless about things.

Just wanted to say that I think your wife looks beautiful in your photo, it's so cute!

Jul 1, 07 - Sent I-130s

Jul 6, 07 - I-130s filed

Jul 9, 07 - NOA1 received

Jul 23, 07 - Sent police certificate application

Aug 23, 07 -Police certificate received

Sep 25, 07- I-130s both approved

Sep 29, 07- Packet 3 received

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Rob and Geneva   0

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I was super impressed with the efficency at spotting the mistake.

The need to file tax's with the IRS even when you don't live in America seems obsurd to me. But hey that the IRS. Geneva hadn't filed her tax returns for the past 11 years she's been out of the country. When she came to file them she found out that she had to get a new Social Security card with her current name before she could file her tax returns! I just hope that I've filled in her tax returns correctly, it didn't seem too confusing filling in the 1040 and 2555EZ. (Well not as confusing as some of the visa forms :lol: )

I had a bitr of trouble actully finding a police station open to take my form as well. I finally managed to catch them open to got my police report request sent in.

The police report is one of the items on the "Readiness for Interview" form that you need to send in. So I guess you should really have it ready to take to the interview. :( If he can't find a police station open to hand it in I'm sure that you can post it to your local police HQ. That's all they did my mine. I handed mine in at my local police station, they took my 10 quid then put my form in the internal mail to the main police station for my area.

Beware that the police reports from Scotland Yard seem to taking around 30-40 days to come back.

Thank you. She does look so good in that picture.

Rob

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met online Dec 19 2004

met in person Dec 24 2004

met her family in states Jun 5 2005

moved in together Jun 2005

officially engaged April 17 2007

married at Lazaats June 15 2007

sent off I-130 June 30 2007

recieved I-130 back (signed in wrong place) 2 July 2007

sent off I-130 July 4 2007 (again) signed this time

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Stand_By_Me_Babe   0

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Good grief! I guess I'll have to find out what I have to do to change my social security card from my maiden name to my married. Oh it seems never-ending! At least I ran into someone who did their homework properly! :lol: I honestly thought I was prepared.

Meant to say sorry for hijacking your thread!

Jul 1, 07 - Sent I-130s

Jul 6, 07 - I-130s filed

Jul 9, 07 - NOA1 received

Jul 23, 07 - Sent police certificate application

Aug 23, 07 -Police certificate received

Sep 25, 07- I-130s both approved

Sep 29, 07- Packet 3 received

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Rob and Geneva   0

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I don't know if you can file your tax returns AND update your SSN at the same time. It might be worth checking out.

If not you'll need to get a form SS5 http://www.socialsecurity.gov/online/ss-5.html and send it to http://www.socialsecurity.gov/foreign/foreign.htm#UNITED%20KINGDOM

UNITED KINGDOM

Federal Benefits Unit

American Embassy

24/31 Grosvenor Square

W1A 2LQ London

England

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met online Dec 19 2004

met in person Dec 24 2004

met her family in states Jun 5 2005

moved in together Jun 2005

officially engaged April 17 2007

married at Lazaats June 15 2007

sent off I-130 June 30 2007

recieved I-130 back (signed in wrong place) 2 July 2007

sent off I-130 July 4 2007 (again) signed this time

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