Texanadian

Feb 4th, we got the snail mail confirmation that the NVC created our case on Jan 30th and will be sending it out to the US consulate within the next week..

I wouldn't doubt if it's already on the way to Vancouver or there already.

We're lucky in that regard. She's 2 hours ahead of me. She's a night owl. I start work at 5AM. So I can phone in the afternoon and she'll be just getting home from work.

My fiance has never been called a Yankee by me....he's so not a Yankee Just like he's never referred to me as redneck just because I live in the South.

Now hold on a second there Karen. You're not getting off that easy. Carly was born and raised in West Texas. The reddest of red Texas. The kind of place where Reagan would be considered a left wing commie. I got used to her southern accent being as she's lived in Houston for quite some time now, so it's not that thick. But her sister who still lives out there sounds like Dolly Parton with a mouth full of toffee. I think she says Gordon as a 3 syllable word.

Carly moved from West Texas to Georgia for half a year when she first got out of school.

Gord: So what was Georgia like?

Carly: I couldn't understand a darn thing they said.

Gord: Well if you're fluent in southern drawl and couldn't make heads or tails, how the heck would I survive there?

Carly: I think it went both ways. Lots of people thought I was from Mississippi.

The moral of the story is that if KarenCee has been in Georgia for longer than 6 months, than I would consider her to be the most right wing, red state, neo-redneck, so far deep in the south that she's in the shallow south, impossible to understand her english person on all of Visa Journey.

The reason her NOA2 is taking so long is because her 14 middle names are overloading the CSC computer system.

Well y'all...I may be from the South, but I ain't no redneck! I'm more Canadian than anything

Canadian? They're even worse!

I still remember the first time I called my fiancee a Yankee. Like 98% of all Canadians, we use the term interchangibly with "American."

Gordon: Goodnight my Yankee friend.

Carly: Yankee? I ain't no Yankee. You're the Yankee!

Gordon: Now how is that even possible?

Carly: Yankees are from the north.

Gordon: So somebody from Seattle would be a Yankee?

Carly: No, not really.

Gordon: Well technically I live farther south in Canada than you do in the US. So that should mean that I'm the southerner and you're the Yankee.

Carly: *click*

Gordon:

This is going to be a thorny issue for me to deal with. My US fiancee's company pays for her health care plan ($815/month) and they used to cover dependants. (Family coverage was $1800/month).

Now they don't.

So I could join her work coverage, but they would charge me $700/month to be on it. Doesn't sound too promising to me.

Her son is covered on his Dad's health plan. His Dad is a retired postal worker and the cost to add him to that plan is $30/month. (Government jobs seem to have better health plans). That's incredible when you think about it. $30 vs $700

Looks like I'll be searching around for my own plan. When I travel to the US to visit, I pay Pacific Blue Cross a dollar a day for 2 million dollars coverage.

The weight on your back has been lifted. Feels good doesn't it?

lolol...now where did i put my resume.....

Oh sure, get the job after I get approved.

On the Case Status Online page, my NOA1 was approved Oct 26th and then last update was Oct 28th. For my NOA2, it was approved on Jan 23rd (and of course that was my last updated date as well) and then they changed my last update to Jan 24th.

So it seems like when they do stuff they update your online status twice.

Not sure what that means, but I'm just throwing my 2 cents in.

Cheers! Good luck on the rest of the journey. I know what you're going through.

I think they're just playing with your case file for the heck of it. Dangling it over the approved bin annnnnd not yet.

Luckily you have lots of patience for the CSC

(I'm pullin' for ya Craig )

I remember getting my NOA1. I felt the same way. The good news that each step closer you get, the better feeling you become.

I'd say spend a week on this board just searching through all the postings you can find that are related to anything you're confused with. It's a big site. But after preparing the I-129F package with my fiancee and sending it away, we were glad to have saved the $2300 US that we were quoted for a lawyer.

There are forms on this website that you can print out and practice on before you mail everything in.

You're just a hop, skip and a jump behind me as far as time goes. Should be coming soon (yeah, I know that doesn't help but I gotta say it anyways)

http://www.visajourney.com/faq/k1faq.htm

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