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Thanks so much. Lol at the wife comment! I've called but no case number yet. Were just getting anxious because of a crappy uscis experience. I'm trying very, very hard not to let our uscis experience effect my attitude towards the next office but its hard with our current situation. I know the approval letter is on its way . We just want the case number to get the medical done so she can travel and we can wait the rest out as a whole family again! Thanks again for your reply!

Sorry for the vague title but I don't really know what else to say. Our situation is this:

Our I-130 for my wife's (British Citizen) was filed DCF at the london embassy. It then went to the USCIS office for inital review (NOA1) and final approval (NOA2). The USCIS agreed to expidite my wife's visa request as I am ex military and my military branch royally skrewed up our application so they took pity on us.

Now heres the issues:

We got an e-mail 7 weeks ago saying "Your request to expidite has been approved. The decision will be made later this week."

3 Weeks ago we finally chased them down again and received "Your application will be decided on Date"...

Last Thursday I finally tracked down a phone number to the London USCIS office which currently holds the case and was told "Your visa application was approved yesterday (Wednesday the 11th) and a letter has been sent to me. The USC. First I was under the impression that all documents go to my wife as she is the one doing all the visa stuff. Anyway...

That paper from the USCIS office is a NOA2, correct? Though my research I have determined that the USCIS office does NOT give a case number, it is until the visa application has been approved and sent to the next office (Its name escapes me at the moment. Visa Processing Unit or something like that) That the next office provides the visa case number. Am I right or wrong?

Basically we are paranoid that the USCIS has once again said they've done something they haven't. Now I tell my wife, BritishBird, that this time is different because they said it was done. If they lied than this would be an outright lie as opposed to the usual "it will be done by blahblahblah" which is a broken promise. Sorry about that but on to my more important questions...

If you don't mind, I'd like to hear mostly from people DCF in London! As they may have a better processing time line.

1) Who assigns the case number

2) How long from the USCIS NOA2 do we get a case number.

3) Typically in london, How long is the wait time for a medical exam once you get the case number and call to book an appointment. Are we talking days, weeks... months???

Were desperate to get this case number as it will allow my wife to complete the medical exam, and then she can fly over to the USA for a long visit while we let the visa agency process everything.

For some reason it won't let me create a time line.. Sorry. http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=97716 This is my wife's time line.

We did DCF because I was living in England serving as a military member. We filed our I-130 with the USCIS office in london. We have gotten our NOA1.

Now we sent an expedite request to the USCIS office which they have accepted. We then have been told they will expedite our visa. We have had no further information other than they have taken payment, and received our I-130, and our request to be expedite. We are getting no information through e-mail which is why I was wondering if anyone has had any luck contacting the London USCIS office directly over the phone to get clarification to make SURE that they are not waiting on us for anything, which they shouldn't be. We haven't gotten to any medical portions of the visa process just yet.

Hey everyone,

I'm new to both forums and I apologize in advance if I've put this question in the wrong area. However, I am married to BritishBird and I have a major question. Has anyone ever contacted the London USCIS office over the phone? We are getting NO luck. I've even chained called the embassy's operator. All I get is rejection, or transferred to the passport office.

The reason I need to call is because the head of the london USCIS office e-mailed me about my expedite request and accepted it! He said, "Your visa will be expedited. The decision will be made at the by of this week." Me and BritishBird were so excited!!! Then two weeks went by, and we sent a follow up e-mail. Is this done? Another week went by... Another e-mail "How is this going" Finally a Response!! "...It will be done by the end of the day!" Okay.. so we waited another week eagerly by the mail box. Nothing... Now I've sent another TWO e-mails! NO RESPONSE! Were so frustrated!!!! Why promise something if you won't deliver. We want to phone them directly and make them deal with us. In a really respectful manor because I know that we need show respect, I'm only venting here. But yeah. I just am tired of getting the run-around and the only thing I have left is contacting my US senator.

Sorry for my rant, were just so upset at the moment and disappointed at all of the good news and no results.