September Filers!

[bigsim 0]

Well it was nice thinking i was a september filer, but I doubt they'll back date my receipt. Good waste of 4 months i say.

My file apparently doesn't exist. My fiancee got back to me today, and says they can find no record of it being received. Happy happy joy joy.

[bigsim 0]

Did she send it registered mail, and if so, does she still have the receipt? If she still has the receipt then all is not lost and they will honor the date you sent it, even if they lost it. It's trickier if you have no evidence of even having sent it. Did they ever cash her check?

So sorry to hear this. Let us know how things progress and the resolution. We're all pulling for you!

Thanks for the kind words. Despite repeated reminders, promptings and what have you, she didn't send it registered mail and used a money order. She also appears to have known about this for a day or two already and yet I've only just found out. I can't quite tell whether I'm angry, amused or upset at the minute.

She's apparently trying to trace the money order now, though she was apparently trying to do that some weeks ago too. As far as I can tell, mox, there's nothing to show when it was sent.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Well I'll let you know if they honor my old date when i get my noa1. But I doubt they will even though i'll be sending copies of my slips.

[Bobalouie 0]

Well guys and gals, I am APPROVED!!!

Receipt Number: EACXXXXXXXXXX

Application Type: I129F, PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status: Approval notice sent.

On January 9, 2008, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E). Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service.

Woo HOO!!!

[chuck_n_rose 0]

Congratulations on the approval. Good job.

thegreatgate, Mox answered your question.

[웃 910]

I know this is a really pathetic question, but, the date that VJ gives on our time line. The date of adjudication. Is this the date that VJ anticipates we should A: Be in line at foreign embassy to (hopefully) pick up the visa? Or B: Is it the date that CSC or VSC will approve or deny our I-129F petitions and send out the NOA 2? I have a feeling the answer is B.

Your feeling is right, it's the date that VJ is predicting that your case will be adjudicated, usually ending up with an NOA2.

(Edit: oh, and not a pathetic question at all. Lotta terms and acronyms and dates and timelines and other stuff floating around here, it's easy to get confused by it all.)

I was doing some reading........... ........

So basically I can take the adjudication date (March 4) and add 2 months to the date (May 4), and that is an accurate estimate of when the visa will be in my fiancee's possession? Or in other words, approximately 8 months from filing the I-129F petition the visa will be secured, 7 months if extremely lucky?

Edited January 10, 2008 by thegreatgate

[웃 910]

P.S.

I don't know how my post ended up on here twice. My cat was sitting on the keyboard and apparently she managed how to figure out how to type and do some editing.

[bigsim 0]

Well dang. Is she working with a case officer right now to investigate? And did she make a copy of the entire file?

She's not told me anything about a case officer yet, and she's got copies of "the entire file except your biographical forms, which I didn't copy." Can't entirely blame her for that, since they were my forms and I don't have another copy either. I did, of course, until someone mistook them for trash.

The fact that she had to purchase the money order should have left some kind of money trail, and might be enough to convince them that there really was an initial filing.

I'll post more if I can think of anything else. Really sorry to hear about this, I hope it can be worked out quickly.

It might. The worry there is that I paid for it, with money that I had on a travellers cheque debit card, and I wouldn't imagine she transferred any money from there to her account before purchasing the money order - I'm sure all she'll have done is withdrawn the money from an ATM, which happened after I'd left for home. There's a real lack of ATM machines in her area, which came as a bit of a shock. Really, everything that could have been done badly has been done badly...

In happier news, congratulations on the approval Bobalouie!

Edited January 10, 2008 by bigsim

[Mo_Mati 2]

Well guys and gals, I am APPROVED!!!

Receipt Number: EACXXXXXXXXXX

Application Type: I129F, PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status: Approval notice sent.

On January 9, 2008, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E). Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service.

Woo HOO!!!

CONGRATULATIONS! THat is great, Bobalouie. Lets hope the next steps go quickly for you

[Haonie 0]

Well guys and gals, I am APPROVED!!!

Receipt Number: EACXXXXXXXXXX

Application Type: I129F, PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status: Approval notice sent.

On January 9, 2008, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E). Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service.

Woo HOO!!!

Congratulations.!!! Good news.!

[Norman and Dijani 0]

Does anyone have any idea what is going on at CSC?!?!?! I am begining to find it a bit ridiculous that it has been a week since new years and no one has heard anything!!!! But VSC is moving right along!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Norman and Dijani 0]

Sorry for my rant. It is just getting so frustrating! Things were looking so good before the holidays and now nothing! I was really thinking that we might get approval in January! I am trying not to give up hope, but it is getting harder everyday!

[Bobalouie 0]

So basically I can take the adjudication date (March 4) and add 2 months to the date (May 4), and that is an accurate estimate of when the visa will be in my fiancee's possession? Or in other words, approximately 8 months from filing the I-129F petition the visa will be secured, 7 months if extremely lucky?

To answer that question you're going to have to look at other Mexican approvals and look at the average time from NOA2 to interview date. If that works out to about 2 months, then yes you can add roughly 2 months onto your estimated VJ date. Of course, as you well know, none of these dates are written in stone. Heck, at this point they're not even written in...well anything. A couple weeks ago I thought CSC would be plowing through the August filers, and I based that assumption on how much ### they were kicking just before the holidays. And yet here we are going on 6 days (tomorrow) of no CSC approvals. So I guess what I'm saying is don't bet the farm.

What Mox says here about taking the VJ date with a grain of salt is correct. My estimated VJ NOA2 date was Feb 9th and I was approved today Jan 9th. So they were a month off. But I tracked nicely to my date estimation. My timeline I did in Excel had me being approved on Saturday Jan 12th, so i was only off 3 days (in a good way)

[EricC 0]

Congrats bobalouie

[nica19 0]

i've received USCIS (Application and Petition Receipting Update for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) updates so far on the 4th, 7th, 8th and today. kind of strange since it hasnt been updated since the 4th.

this is pretty painful just watching vermont plug along and CSC barely do anything.