Erica & Phil

IMHO, Turn around, walk away, and don't look back....
YMMV

This post really chapped my hide, so my response will be much testier than normal.
I highly doubt this is some grand conspiracy to deny you. You didn't follow directions. Of course the USCIS is going to take your money. You sent them a package and asked them to complete work, which they did by reviewing it and recognizing that you failed to follow directions.
Wait for the letter in the mail, it may be an RFE after all. If it is a denial, well, serves you right for not following directions. You have no one to blame but yourselves. And the only people who should be posting with righteous indignation about this situation are the people whose cases were delayed by a few hours because someone wasted his or her time reviewing yours, which wasn't even complete.

It takes less than 200 days to receive the NOA2 approval, not the K-1 Visa. Again, I suggest you review the K-1 Flowchart and the timelines from others.
It seems as if you're just looking for someone to justify your plans and to tell you to go ahead with what you have planned in spite of the advice and recommendations of others on this board. If that's what you want, I doubt you'll find it in this forum.
And if I sound condescending, perhaps that's true, but when someone comes on with the expectation that everyone will justify their ignorance, it annoys me. Have a good evening and good luck with your visa journey.

The petitioner is the primary sponsor even if their income is not enough. They must comply with the I-864. The co-sponsor does the same.
Did you read the VJ guide?

i think you should change your display name to "london2newyork... andbacktolondonagain"

also, it pisses off people who have done things the LEGAL way. so you may get a few snarky comments.

A couple of people asked if I could get clarification from the Embassy over exactly What they require for the above, so here is what I was told.
I am posting this in the London forum only as it likely varies consulate to consulate.
I have two children I intend to move to the States with. One is my fifteen year old daughter and the other, my twelve year old son. The two cases are a little different so I'll briefly give the context of each, hopefully this information will be of some use to someone as the websites give little clarity to what the custodial requirements are. Naturally, it might vary case to case but they seemed pretty affirmative about what was and was not needed (spoke with two Embassy workers about this).
Twelve year old: Still see's his father regularly but his father and I were never married so there was never any shared parental responsibility. Had a letter (not notarised) simply stating he knew of my wishes and would not object. he'd typed the letter and signed it. My solicitor had written to him later to confirm that we had the letter and if it was NOT his signature he had fourteen days to contest the letter my firm had been supplied with or we'd take it it was fine and standing. When my solicitor did not hear back he sent ME a letter confirming my sons father had indeed NOT responded. We opted to take the action of if you DO NOT do anything, that is confirmation, as he was reluctant to be honest to sign anything in the first place. he and I don't get on and naturally noone one is thrilled to have their child leave the country. As he had always said 'tell your solicitor to back off....signing once should be all thats required of me'. He was happy (ish) to furnish us with the first letter for his son's sake, but really I could not have expected him to happily accompany me to a solicitors to have it sworn, there is a violent history there and he flips quite quickly so I try and have as little to do with him as possible. It was nice he even wrote the first letter.
Fifteen year old: I was married to her father so he technically has joint parental responsibility. However, he has not seen her for twelve years and does not pay maintenance. My solicitor wrote to him twice asking permission. On the second time of asking he unhelpfully just slammed his signature down onto the foot of the letter with no further explanation and sent it to my solicitor. My solicitor seemed happy enough with this.
I wasn't particulary happy with either response as neither was notarised. SO, I swore an affidavit and had THAT notarised. the affidavit stated the reasons why it would be unwise to pursue further official confirmation from either (difficult past relationships) and swore that neither child had
a)outstanding custody cases
b)any objection themselves to moving
c)a situation where the father had not been duly infomred of our intentions and also given ample time to contest it.
At the head of the affadavit I listed the childrens details/passport no. etc. MUST GET IT NOTARISED as it isn't official enough. They seemed to like that it was sworn.
When it came time for the interview they did not question my fifteen year old AT ALL on any of this, which they could have done as she was stood there and old enough to be interviewed. I presented them with ALL correspondance from my solicitor showing efforts had been made to get agreements from the fathers. I gave them the signatures of the fathers and the public notary document. I asked them what the requirements actually were for removing children to America and he said this (well, both officers I spoke to confirmed this):
ALL WE NEED IS TO SEE PROOF THAT THE FATHERS KNOW AND DON'T MIND, THESE SIGNATURES ARE JUST FINE WITH THE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS AND AFFIDAVIT, ITS JUST SO AS WE KNOW SOME CUSTODIAL CASE OR OTHER WON'T CROP UP ONCE YOU'VE LEFT.
Really hope this is of some help to someone as right up until the interview I was so, so, so worried about whether this could trip me up as I didn't have full custody of one of them and neither father had a public notary witness the document they DID sign. But we WERE approved and with no eyebrows raised regarding the seemingly complex situation of custody and the odd format of consent from the fathers (especially with the one with parental responsibility just sticking his signature down on the solicitors letter!)

Not needed in London from what I am lead to believe.

Bahadir said the interview was very fast! He was 2nd person and he was called fast after finger printing. He was asked 4 questions. ANd then was congratulated and welcomed to the USA!!! We have waited a year for this day! ANd everyone reading this..it can seem to take forever but this moment makes it all worth it!!! TIME FOR CELEBRATION and he will be here in 10days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey! We have the same date of NOA1, and we both get an RFE.Good luck to us.

I don't want to try. Why would I want to make the US less secure? Why would I want to get rid of background checks for people from countries with big terrorist ties?
Nineteen foreigners made it pass US immigration and killed over 3,000 people on 9/11. Do I really want to take a chance of letting more in by getting rid of AP and the security checks? Why not give it a try and a chance? One American life. I will not take a try and chance if it means a terrorist will pass through to attack the US.
Unfortunately to catch one terrorist, we must put thousands through AP. Most people are good people, but it only takes a handful of bad people to bring about a lot of destruction. AP is necessary to screen out the bad people.

I am not signing this. I like security and background checks on people; especially if the person is from a country with terrorist ties.
Why should the US let in people from high fraud countries and countries with terrorists in before the US complete a through security and background check?
Abolishing AP will never happen because it creates a huge security threat to the US.

They will never ever abolish AP.

Hi everyone. Glad to see this group here and to know Andy and I aren't the only ones waiting impatiently. Our NOA1 date is June 14 so we're about two weeks away from the five month mark. I take deadlines seriously so I will be calling and filing service requests that day if we don't receive a NOA2 letter by then. Let's just say the person who gets my call is going to have an awful day.
Just some (LONG, sorry) background: Andy and I met in September 2009 in London through friends while I was backpacking through Europe. I knew he was trouble the moment I saw his eyes. We met again in Barcelona in October. We talked non-stop through November and December before he visited in Nevada in January 2010. After other tourist visa woes and failings, I visited him again in August 2010 and in April 2011. We got engaged on the morning of April 8, the day before I flew back, on top of a hill overlooking a park. April 9 was the last time I saw him in person.
It took me about two months to put the I-129F together, which I sent June 3. Because of the previous tourist visa issues, I wanted to get everything right the first time.
I moved to New York from Nevada and started graduate school in August. That's where I am now. I filed for a change of address a month ago.
We have a lot more hurdles in front of us. I'm living off student loans and I doubt my family and all my broke friends would be willing to co-sponsor us. Andy's doing his best to save but because the Affidavit of Support relies on my income, I'm not sure if they'll take his savings into account. The Beatles lied to me. Apparently you can buy love.
It's especially difficult because other students in my course also plan to get married within the next year. They talk about dresses, engagement photos, cakes and wedding invitations. I talk about NOA1s, NOA2s and the California Service Center. They don't understand my lingo.
I don't even care about the wedding. I want a modest, tea-length dress, a few friends and family. If we can afford it, we want to marry at the Top of 30 Rock. We'll take the subway there from our apartment in Brooklyn. I just want to be with him.
Also, I wanted to throw this out there. I'm a student and was thinking of documenting the visa process. Young people waiting for their visas to be approved, taken from my side and from his. Almost in the vein of this video: http://mediastorm.com/publication/love-in-the-first-person Disclaimer: the video is a tearjerker. Tell me what you think.
Sorry this was so long. I'm just glad I have a place to vent about "wedding" planning. Good luck, courage and love to everyone. I will update as soon as I hear anything.

no one is angry... not with you anyway... frustrated with the way USCIS works would be a better way of putting it i think. your quick approval probably wont affect mine in any way so good luck to you
godspeed

You know, in the interest of civility, I've been biting my tongue for months now, but I can't any longer. Most people here are great. But, you and several other high-volume posters on here have this tendency to be especially nasty to other members here. People here are already stressed enough, and you aren't making things any better. You need to rethink your attitude here, or stop posting; either works for me.
To answer your snarky response anyway, the instructions clearly said I could send COPIES of all documents. So, I did. I followed the instructions! And, their response did not indicate what was wrong - if they wanted a certified copy, the RFE should have said so, other than just say they need a divorce certificate, which I had already sent a copy of. That IS moronic! If someone looking at this sees a divorce certificate but has a problem with it being a copy, then a reasonable person would put in the RFE that they need the certified copy, rather than just say they need the same thing again. Obviously, I can't respond to the RFE by sending nothing back, even though they were unclear. So, I sent every document the court has, and all certified; if this does not satisfy their unclear request, then nothing will, since there are no more court documents that can be obtained.

Well, assuming I'm here for the 5-month duration (and not a moment longer, ya hear, CSC??!), today marks my halfway point to petition approval. I'll take any excuse I can to celebrate a milestone, so

Any chance of asking your friend what's going on at the CSC?

I assume the reason so many people are wondering about this is because back in June, July, and the beginning of August it seemed like 5 or more people from this website were getting processed every day and then suddenly they dropped to about 1 a week, which is kind of a huge drop. So the long wait isn't just a long line in front, because if they had kept their previous pace I would have been processed the end of August, I'm assuming they moved workers to other visa types, but who knows.
Also, I have to obsess about it instead of sitting back and relaxing because I work short-term jobs (usually 3-4 months) which I can't quit without screwing someone over and from which I don't get vacation days to go down to Ecuador (and from what I've read, I need to be at his interview in Ecuador). I need to apply for (and accept or decline) these jobs a few months in advance so I'd like to know what the heck is going on so I know whether or not to apply to jobs for the next season or not. If I don't and CSC continues at there current pace I'll be living off dwindling savings while I wait, but if I do accept a job for next season and then CSC picks back up to its pace from a couple months ago then by the time I finished the validity date for the visa would be over and we'd have to do a bunch of extra work to get it extended.
Anyway, I'd be perfectly happy being patient and waiting if they'd give some kind of clue as to what is going on and if the change in processing rate is temporary or permanent.

congrats!. why cant csc be this fast on approvals

apppppppppppppppproooooooooooooooveeeeeeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NOA2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!while i am in the states with mz baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!couldnt be any happier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait, am I reading this correctly? Losing one week's pay was good enough to prove "severe financial loss"?
There are people in serious emergency situations who don't get approved.

While I am happy for you that your request for an expedite worked, it's not something that everyone should be trying to do - There is a valid reason sometimes for an expedite - Due to EMERGENCY circumstances, etc... - which are major changes / issues in your life - If everyone starts trying to request an expedite, all its going to do is tie up the system further and cause further delay for those that are impatiently waiting their turn.