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i just tried your link on my google chrome and it works...there is a message that poped out saying adobe dont meet minimum but i just closed it and continue open the ds-156 form then it just smoothly opened...try it...and let me know...

Ok I downloaded it but when I open the page I get the same message again, that browser and adobe don't meet the minimum requirements...does it say the same for you and it still works?

no, it does say anything it just opened as i click the form...i actually printed all the forms..i used google chrome because in yahoo in says what u just said...i cannot open in there it just says adobe dont meet the minimum requirements...just try again to download a latest version of adobe that meets the requirements in google chrome...it might work...or maybe it depends on the computer...but just try those options...

no, it doesnt say anything it just opened as i click the form...i actually printed all the forms..i used google chrome because in yahoo in says what u just said...i cannot open in there it just says adobe dont meet the minimum requirements...just try again to download a latest version of adobe that meets the requirements in google chrome...it might work...or maybe it depends on the computer...but just try those options...

Ok..so what exactly do I have to do? There is something like a "google browser" and I have to download it and then it'll work?

yes it will,, i just had mine all done...i used the "google chrome" try to download it...it really works...goodluck

Whenever I go to this website http://evisaforms.state.gov/ to fill out the DS-156, I get the following message displayed:

Your system may not meet the minimum requirements. The following problem(s) have been detected:

* Your browser does not appear to meet the minimum required version.

* You do not appear to have the minimum required version of Adobe Acrobat installed.

But I have the latest version of Firefox (on a Mac) and the latest version of Adobe. So I tried it anyway, filled out the form and clicked "continue" but after waiting for over 10 minutes nothing happened, no PDF file was created as it said it would so I figured it doesn't work.

Anyone know how to get around this or what I can do to make it work?

hello...i had desame problem with yours before but i found a solution...used the google browser not in yahoo...and it works...try to link all the forms in google then you can have it,,that was also my problem then...but i just had all my forms done already...

hope it helps..goodluck..

thanks to all....i will surely share my medical experience....

to fands: make sure to bring your certificate of decision and your finality on your medical and cfo seminar...they will ask for that and if found psycho incapacitated you will need to have a psycho test and evaluation for the whole day and it will cost php4,000. just like mine...and that fee is excluded from the $213 for the regular medical...just be prepared...goodluck and god bless

hi my medical starts on june 6 too...hope to see you there just pm me...

SLEC pre registration for US Immigrants You can fill this out prior to save you time in que.....best of luck/wishes on a successful medical!!!

Bob

thank you so much for this addtional info...i didnt know about this...i just filled out the form,,,thanks a lot...god bless

yes correct its a walk in...you can have your medical as soon as you have your mnl case number already NOA2 is just an addition...the exact requirements are:

MNLnumber, passport, 2copies of 2x2 pictures, complete the PDS form provided by st. Lukes and the payments and in addtion to my case il be bringing my certificate of decision and certificate of finality because i am annuled in short il bring the annulment decree...

Im scheduling my medical this june 6 monday..even i dont have my appointment letter from embassy yet...i just have my NOA2 & NVC letter that they sent to my fiancee stating that they received already the approved petition and their going to send it to manila embassy on that week...the letter states my name and my MNL number and the petitioners name...i will just present it to st. lukes together with the other requirements,,since i am annuled i will bring a copy of my annulment decree too...and proceed with my medical already...i called St. lukes already about it and they said its okay as long as i already have my MNLnumber and make sure not to have a menstrual period while having a medical...

wish everything will be alright and successful...

guys wish me luck & please help me pray ...thank you...

ps.

who ever is going to have their medical on that day, jst pm me so we can have it together and at least some chika chika to relieve ourselves

very well said...im actually also from Basilan Mindanao...my fiancee did exactly desame thing...but still waited..after a few months they touched our case and sent us an RFE..coz we missed to sign 1 document.. ...but at least for now they`re working on our petition already..it took us 6months to wait...even we asked for expedition...we had letters from senators and appointments too...but i guess it depends on the office...we were so disappointed at that time nothing to do but wait....my fiancee went here last oct and he was also scared about the mindanao area thing and again he will visit me this May...but what he did in order for him to get a peace of mind.?,,we find a peaceful place outside mindanao and we found cebu... he rented me a bachelors pad here in cebu and make stay here and support me for a while..while we are waiting for our petition...thats the best thing he thought he could help me away from what he`s thinking in mindanao...but in your case i pray that they will really take an action on that...best of lucks...

Senator..(...personal information omitted...) I wish to thank you in advance for your help and assistance in the matter of my I-129F visa application. I feel extremely honored and blessed you (a member of the "Gang of 12") are looking into my case.

My case is as such: My fiancé and I met online December 23, 2010. We discovered she had relatives in town, which I went to meet and learn more about each other. My fiancé and I talked daily for hours at a time through meeting her family here, and talking to her daily. My fiancé and I became very close. I ended up planning a trip to her village right after New Year's Day. At that time, I did not know how dangerous the southern region of the Philippines was. I found out how dangerous the regions was when I arrived there being asked if I wished for military escort during my stay at the airport. Plus the hotel advised me not to be on the streets after dark, or stray away from the village of my fiancé I was visiting after dark. (I was advised to sleep in the village and not attempt to come back to the hotel until daylight.) When I came back, I found the US Embassy had travel restrictions on Embassy employees to the area.

On February 24, 2011, I filed my case with an expedite cover letter via Fedex overnight with the fee paid in Money Order from Fry's grocery store. On February 25, 2011 it was received at the Dallas lockbox. March 3, 2011, the application was received at the California Service Center (CSC) and placed under initial review. I requested an expedite based on the US Embassy recognizing the Philippine government declaring a state of emergency in the Mindanao region of the Philippines citing several rebel and terrorist activities which prove extreme emergent reasons. I also cited humanitarian needs based on the quality of life at the village. Also citing I am presently paying for her vaccinations and providing support to the family while waiting for her to enter the United States. Plus pointing out the quality of health there is extremely poor. The United States gives aid to many regions in the Philippines, however, this area is majorly overlooked. I am trying to help the village, but I am only one person.

March 16, 2011, I called the National Service Center (NSC) regarding the case. The person answering the phone asked why I was not in contact with the local Phoenix USCIS office. Then said person proceeded to tell me to contact the local Phoenix office. I requested to place a verbal expedite on the application, which was taken half-heartedly. I stated there was evidence in my application for the expedite request. No evidence was requested to be faxed or mailed in. March 17, 2011, I received a rejection notice without any consideration apart from verbal information given. The application was not even touched for reference according to the USCIS website. On April 6, 2011, I made an appointment with the local Phoenix USCIS office following up the advice on the phone. The appointment was April 15, 2011 . The appointment lasted 5 minutes, with being told by counter 7 there was nothing they could do, and to place a call to the NSC filing a "service request" on status. On April 18, 2011, I called the NCS to file a service request. I was denied placing a service request on the application since it was still under the allowable "processing time" even though I was inquiring about the expedite. The person on the phone stated, "if the expedite is not approved, there is no rejection letter sent. The adjudicator determines allowable expedite reasoning. I asked if the supervisor reviews the rejects or a director, (this is quoting the portion of exhibit "h" where the CSC states clearly ALL rejects are reviewed by a supervisor.) I was told if the adjudicator determines there is no reason for expedite, the application is left to process normally. There is no rejection letter given.

Some other things I have found out:

1) I-129F/I-130 (fiancé/spousal visa), according to the McCarran–Walter Act (Act of 1952)/ Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act, INS, Act of 1965) as amended, was to be treated more preferentially than any other application.

2) There were reform Acts to protect and keep from abuse the spousal visa process but it is only addressing 1% (5,000 or less applications) of 350,000 to 500,000 applications a month.

3) 95% of fiancé/spousal visas are issued. However, the USCIS is vastly behind in processing I-129F applications. CSC is 5 months behind, while the Vermont Service Center and Texas Service Center are more than 6 months behind. See charts attached.

4) There were several reforms plus amendments to McCarran–Walter Act to provide tighter screening but not to extend preferential treatment to worker visas over fiancé/spousal visas. The INS and DHS has been allowed to determine processing time when original congress intent in 1952 McCarran–Walter Act and subsequent amendments was to unite immediate family members quickly.

5) The i-129F visas represent only 1% of the monthly applications at the center and take on average 5 months or more to process, while regular I-129 visas (about 10% of the monthly volume) take less than 8 weeks to process (exhibit "I" through "k")

6) The USCIS is self funded through visa application fees, yet has chosen to lay off workers or re-assign workers based on DHS Director approvals focusing on I-129 visas, and not K1/K2/K3/k4) visas. The layoffs were claimed to budget issues waiting for congressional budget approvals. (exhibit "h")

7) CSC runs two shifts of 700 employees and 400 contractors.

8) The I-129F and other family forms are in Division III at the CSC. The McCarran–Walter Act as amended never distinguished between I-129, I-129F(k1/k2) and I-130 (k3/k4) spousal visas. The INS, DHS, and USCIS has continually chosen to place preferential treatment on workers and NOT on families.

9) According to the CSC guidelines for 2003, ONLY IF there is a RED DOT on the envelope or application, does the application get expedited.

10) The director at CSC was appointed in August 2010.

11) Family reunification laws try to balance the right of a family to live together, or the right of a person to marry whomever he chooses, with the country's right to control immigration. A sub-case of family reunification is marriage migration, where one spouse immigrates to the country of the other spouse. Marriage migration can take place before marriage, in which case it falls under its own special category, or it can take place after marriage, in which case it falls under family reunification laws.

12) The vast majority of visa fraud is under the I-129 visa area. Many come over to work as managers in companies. By not finding "qualified" candidates locally, the managers can bring in people from their country or other countries to work in their department. There are many companies departments, if you look and surveyed the H1B visa staffing, are partly or completely by non United States residents under the guise of "unable to find local qualified workers".

13) Te K3 visa was meant to be a fast process. The K3 visa takes a longer time then the K1 visa process. Currently, it takes about 222 days to get a fiance or spouse to rejoin the family. Immediate family (husband/wife/ fiance/children) can take nearly a year from start to finish. While a working visa only takes 8 weeks, and companies can pay extra for expedites. Families are treated "go to back of the bus", very much like the years in the south before integration. This was not the intent of the McCarran–Walter Act. The McCarran–Walter Act as amended is to re-unite families first. Then the McCarran–Walter Act as amended allowed for workers.

14) Due to my fiance location and country, I am unable to get her a tourist visa while waiting for her I129F to be approved. In fact, the law actually forbids applying for a tourist visa or any other visa while waiting. The embassy also will not allow a visa after realizing a fiancé visa or k3/spousal visa has been applied for. My fiancé and I did not marry in her country due to the I-129F process being faster than the spousal visa process. Plus also knowing the marriage would have made her more of a target for kidnapping and ransom. Some countries have Visa waiver programs, or the embassy recognizes the K1 visa application and allows the person to travel on a tourist visa while waiting. (However, this happens is mainly in industrialized countries applying for the Visa Waiver program)

Can a bill be introduced and passed mandating immediate family (fiancé/spouse/children) be given all expedite treatment and be processed no later than 4 weeks with a maximum of 8 weeks, or a provision stating after the NOA1 is issued, the finance may travel on a tourist visa to the country while waiting on final approval?

Again, I thank you for your time in this matter. I hope you can help me in my case at the CSC to be expedited. But not only asking for me, if I have to wait I will wait. But I am also asking for help to fix the process for other families who are waiting on their loved ones to rejoin them. Please let me know your response in this matter. I am not only asking for help for me, but help in how to reform the system further then has been already done.

Sincerely,

I have found out the letter from senator has been received at the CSC and read. So am now waiting to seewhat the answer is. May do nothing, but at least I have tried.

seems like you just received your noa1 last march its too early for you to get noa2...the office might just said you havent reach the immigration timeline yet which is at least 5months..they will work on that if your petition have reached more than 5 months already..we did the same thing before..and thats what they says...but at least you tried...and who knows you are lucky enough to get your Noa2 in less then 5months,,,best of lucks...

I just read 3 of this same post and he has not even received the RFE yet does not know what it is and I agree original letters where required and signatures.

yes i did originaly signed the letter of intent...the documents that we werent able to send was...the W2 and the court decision of my annulment coz i already had the NSO annotated marriage contract...so what i sent was the NSO paper coz i thought thats more authentic...by anyway il just wait...im just so anxious and want to prepare all the possible documents they might needed....Thanks to all of you for giving your time for me...i really appreciate it....thanks you

Guys...i need your help..just want to ask if scanned documents is ok?...coz we got an RFE...and i am preparing all the documents they might needed here in the Phils...I am going to scan it and send it to my fiancee inatead of sending it through FEDEX coz it might takes time to arrive in the US...and my fiancee will visit me again by end of this month,,we are catching the time,,so he needs to send all the RFE thing to the USCIS before he leaves for the phils...my question is..scanned copy of documents is ok?..or they really need the certified true copy? Please advice me..I am catching the time...thank you thank you....

GUYS I NEED YOUR HELP...JUST WANT TO ASK IF SCANNED COPY OF DOCUMENTS IS OK?...COZ WE GOT AN RFE...AND I AM PREPARING ALL THE POSSIBLE DOCUMENTS THEY MIGHT NEEDED HERE IN THE PHILS.. AND IM GOING TO SCAN IT AND SEND IT TO MY FIANCEE INSTEAD OF SENDING IT THROUGH FEDEX COZ IT MIGHT TAKES TIME AND BY NEXT WEEK MY FIANCEE WILL VISIT ME AGAIN HERE..SO BEFORE LEAVING HE NEEDS TO SEND ALL THE RFE THING TO THE USCIS...MY QUESTION IS SCANNED COPY OF DOCUMENTS IS OK?..OR THEY REALLY NEED THE CERTIFIED TRUE COPY?...PLSSS ADVICE ME I AM CATCHING THE TIME...THANK YOU..

GOSSSH.... AFTER 176DAYS OF WAITING WE GOT AN RFE...DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS YET..STILL WAITING FOR THE HARDCOPY...SUSPENCE SUSPENCE....BUT I THINK ITS THE COURT DECISION OF MY ANNULMENT COZ WE WERENT ABLE TO SEND IT...WHAT WE SENT THEM WAS THE NSO ANNOTATED MARRIAGE CONTRACT THAT SAYS NULL AND VOID BY THE COURT...I THOUGHT THAT NSO DOCUMENT WAS MORE AUTHENTIC....ANY IDEA?..DO YOU THINK ITS THE COURT DECISION AND THE FINALITY?...OR MAYBE MY FIANCEE`S W2?...WE DIDNT SEND IT ALSO...COZ IN THEIR REQUIREMENTS THEY DIDNT ALSO ASK FOR THE W2 OR INCOME SOMETHING...THEY JUST NEED THE EVIDENCE OF THE RELATIONSHIP...PLSS PLSSS ANY IDEA OUT THERE?..THANKSSS

We've sent our I-129f to VSC, we weren't using the updated downloadable files so the mailing address was not the lockbox yet. The docs were still good as per the USCIS webpage states. We sent it Oct. 2010 and we got out NOA1 on Oct. 22. We're still waiting for NOA2 until now. We called USCIS last end of March and they said we have to wait another 41 days. Another couple who were doing the same thing sent theirs 2 week behind us but they already got their NOA2 last March 29, they sent it to Texas.

We're just getting anxious that there might be something wrong, maybe gotten lost or something, that's why we haven't gotten our NOA2. They didn't return our application so we were thinking that despite the confusion in the address it was still accepted.

Wondering if other people experienced this and what they did about it.

Thanks...

WE HAVE DESAME CASE...WE GOT OUR NOA1 LAST OCT 25TH BUT UNTIL NOW WE HAVENT GET ANY NEWS YET...I DUNNO KNOW WHATS WRONG ANYMORE....THE NOVEMBER FILER ARE ALMOST DONE SOME OF THEM HAS THEIR INTERVIEW SCHED ALREADY...THOUGH IM HAPPY FOR THEM BUT IT IS STILL NOT FAIR...WE ARE GOING TO ASK OR REQUEST FOR SENATE ASSISTANCE THIS MONDAY...SO THEY CAN CALL THE IMMIGRATION ABOUT THOSE DELAYS...WE`LL JUST TRY IF IT WORKS...

PEOPLE FROM CSC!!!!!!!!ARE YOU SLEEPING?....WHATS THE NEWS FOR THE OCTOBER FILER?!!! AND ITS SO UNFAIR COZ THE NOVEMBER FILER ARE ALMOST DONE...THEY HAVE THEIR INTERVIEW SCHED ALREADY!!!!...

Hello VJ peeps. Hows your 129F going esp. to Oct 2010 filers. Got our NOA1 on October 2810 but we are waiting until now. We hoping and praying our NOA2 is coming soon. Goodluck everyone.

same here ours was oct.25th 2010 but until now we havent received any news yet..still waiting for the NOA2...hope could have it before this month ends....

patient data sheet...sis...

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INFO TINA...at least i have now an idea about the psycho eval thing...but im still worried coz mine might be more difficult because i got annuled twice...1st was psych inpa and 2nd was technical errors...what was the psycho test was all about?..did you pass the test?

HELLO...ANYBODY OUT THERE CAN GIVE ME AN IDEA ON HOW TO CONTACT THE NVC? OR HOW TO CHECK THE NVC CASE NUMBER?....ID JUST LIKE TO FOLLOW UP THE F4 VISA OF MY DAD ITS A BROTHER SISTER PETITION...WE RECEIVED ALREADY A CASE NUMBER FROM NVC LAST YEAR OF JUNE AND ITS ALMOST 1 YEAR NOW BUT WE HAVENT HEARD FROM THEM ANYMORE...CAN WE FOLLOW IT UP THROUGH CALLING? OR BY CHECKING THE CASE NUMBER?...PLEASE I NEED YOUR ...ADVICES WILL BE APPRECIATED...THANK YOU...

has anyone used the Magic Jack to call NVC from Philippines?

i'm having trouble getting through that's why.

hello...i also want to call the nvc...but i dont know what number to contact can you give me?...id just like to follow up the case of my dad which is F4 visa...or do you have an idea on how to check the NVC case number?...thank you

but u were married twice.. so u need to get nbi in those names to avoid delays in ur visa...

OH OK...SO I NEED TO GET 2 NBI`S OF DIFFERENT PREVIOUS MARRIED NAMES PLUS THE CURRENT NAME..EVEN I DIDNT USE ANY OF THEM WHEN I GOT MARRIED TWICE....I THOUGHT WE CAN ONLY GET 1 NBI.. THE CURRENT ONE...THANK YOU AGAIN..I ONLY KNEW IT FROM YOU...THANKS FOR THE INFO...YOU ARE A BIG HELP...MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR INTERVIEW....

yw, and dont forget to get NBI with AKA in all names u previously used...

I HAVE MY REGULAR NBI CLEARANCE COZ I DIDNT USE ANY NAMES BEFORE,, EVEN I WAS MARRIED..SO DONT HAVE AKA...IS IT OKAY?...THANK YOU

ok...thank you so much for that....its a big help...

i now understand the process thank you for this very useful information..i now gathered all these CD, COF, AMC...thanks for letting me know...i really appreciate your help...thank you thank you.....my only problem now is the evaluation thing..i hope its not that hard and i could just pass coz the psycho inpa thing is not actually true... THANK YOU AGAIN...