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Interesting... just received my welcome letter, sent by the CSC. I don't know if the rest of you already realized this but pay close attention to your transfer date- the date used to determine whether or not you're outside normal processing times or not and thus eligible to file a service request. It is NOT the date of the transfer notice, but the receipt date right above that on the transfer notice. The CSC starts counting the days from their receipt of the file from the NBC, so the date of the transfer notice is irrelevant.

I was confused about this before as I received my transfer notice from the NBC dated 12/19/11, but the receipt date was 11/25/11, even before my NOA date (11/28/11). So as it turns out my file was transferred immediately, although the transfer notice came almost a month later. Also, it's interesting that the CSC congressional unit lied to the congressman who inquired on my behalf about 5 months into the process, saying that they received my file 12/23/11, which was actually the last and only "touch" that I had before the approval.

9:48

Ii, Finland

Inari, Finland

the thread kept getting hits so it stayed on the front page so it got views from other regions. i don't expect a canadian or european woman to understand the plight of a vietnamese woman through their ethnocentric pov, just like i don't go into the latin america section and give my opinion. someone from thailand saying they come from a "POOR" country is almost laughable, or a filipino saying these women who come over not because of love makes it harder for legit couples...hello kettle meet pot.

And who are you to make judgments about what other people "understand" or not? What do you know about a person based on the country of their passport? Who are you to define their background and level of "understanding"?

We're twins, soulmates- we've always known each other. In this life, on this earth? About 9 months since we first met in person till our wedding.

You file it all at the same time, in the same package. EAD and AP are free when filed together with AOS. Read through the guides here on VJ.

13:04

Welcome to Dongmakgol

Iisalmi, Finland

Dude

Estremoz, Portugal

Family

Aunts

Yes, CSC is a black hole, mine just got approved after 6 months and 2 weeks. I would've much preferred an interview like 4 months ago but unfortunately we don't get too choose... nor do we get any kind of updates in the process. Good luck!

Entebbe, Uganda

Pants

11:26

Nairobi, Kenya

Friendship

20:25

Love Actually

Avalon, WI

The U.S. is the paradise that the poor families in Asian countries dream to live in. Under special types of visa such as fiancé and marriage visa, the legal process will be fast and inexpensive because there are the American citizen husbands who sponsor and pay for their wives’ process fees. In order to enter the US by this method, there are many Asian women accepted to leave their families and friends, quit their jobs, and get married to an American citizen to have an adventure in a new country. So, how are the lives of these Asian wives in the U.S.? Should these women leave their countries to hope for better lives or to stay on their poor countries?

Oh man, how I cringe at so many of your assumptions here... Talk about stereotyping! Really, based on your experience, this is how you see it? And you assume all "Asian women from poor families" married to American men have the same story?!?

Congrats. Looks you mailed one day before us, hope we're soon notified to. Enjoy your time out of the waiting game for a while.

Thanks, I hope yours is in the same dusty box that they just dug mine out of... Can't be too much longer now.