Kassil&Tierce

Thank you for those resources!

So, we're about to reach the interview for our AoS. Can anyone chime in to tell us what happened at their interviews? What kinds of questions they tended to get asked? (If there are _any_ Las Vegas filers who can enlighten us as to what to expect from the local office, we'd really appreciate it.)

Yeah, we've made it, and we're on the slow road to AoS now. Wish things had turned out better for you, Brock - best of luck finding yourself a happy future.

So - for those who've already started AOS - does the AOS itself get involved with the name change if that's desired, or does it have to be changed via a different form?

Pretty please do a POE review? We are going through Boston on April 16th.

Tierce here. I still have to do reviews for both the embassy and POE, but the POE was simple and easy. I didn't have to go through the second room, just had my visa file run through and stamped by one of the officers at the main area. He asked where I was headed, told me I had 90 days to get married, took the usual fingerprints and photo, and sent me on my way. Very smooth, took about 5-10 minutes--there was a family of four visiting through ESTA (visa waiver) ahead of me, and they took longer than I did. After all that worry, it almost felt anticlimactic!

Good luck!

Contact the USCIS directly and report this to them; if nothing else they can directly enlighten you as to what the hell is really going on with your case, if anything. This is the kind of thing where dealing with it falls into government jurisdiction, rather than in your hands. Then distance yourself from the whole mess and do your best to get on with life. Lingering on it is just going to make things more difficult for you, man.

whoooo hoo finally!! That is fantastic!! Welcome to the USA, Tierce? (can't remember who is who ) Best wishes to you both on your upcoming marriage.

You're correct, she's the one who moved. We touched down on 3/13 around 8:20pm Pacific Time in Vegas, although we actually had POE in Boston the day before. We're recovering from the travel before we schedule our civil wedding and everything else.

Right now, she's sleeping with our dogs snuggled against her, and pretty soon I'll be headed back to get another nap. Long trip was long.

Interview: Success.

POE: Boston. Success.

Location: Las Vegas area. Arrived at 8:20pm Pacific Time.

In the next few days, legally getting married and then applying for AOS.

Ugh, it's been a long and tiring effort.

BrockUK, man, that's so horrible to hear - that's worse than my ex-girlfriend who screwed me over. I hope your life gets better, man - put her out of your mind, seal her away, and find someone who deserves your effort and affection.

We have our approval!

Finally. So very very tired of this. But now we can go back to Lisbon and chill out until we get the visa in the mail.

In other news, Paris is impressively cold.

And this is the Portuguese half of the pair. Spent the day in a flurry of activity to get this arranged so that the day and a half before we fly to France goes smoothly. I have everything prepared for the interview, and I'm rather frantically trying not to be nervous. We arrive in Paris just before midnight, have the interview at 1 pm the next day, spend the rest of the day there, and fly back in the afternoon of the 1st. Then the last steps of the wait begin, but these are the very final hours we are spending apart from each other. This is it--it's almost done!

This afternoon, I fly out to go visit my lady and join her at her interviewp; then, we hope, we'll fly back together.

Congratsulations, Vicomi!

Good luck, SweetDelish!

Finally! Our NOA 2 was approved just yesterday. There were no problems with our application yet we had to wait an unbearable 283 days for NOA2. I was on the verge of leaving this country too. It had been promise after promise that our application would be completed and they'd keep making us wait 30 days and then 60 days and so forth. Finally, there is some closure and progress. The worst part was they'd never give a reason or answer any of our questions as to why it was so delayed. I'm very happy that our application was finally approved, but the whole process has left me quite bitter. Let's hope that the application from here on out will go much smoother.

Thank you everyone for all of your kind words of support this whole time.

Finally! And here I thought the way they kept screwing up on the mailing address with us was bad! Glad to hear things are finally moving forward for you.

(I'm betting it was sitting on someone's desk under a coffee cup or something and they kept insisting it wasn't there, until they finally discovered it, went 'Oh. Oops.' and stamped it approved. But I might be a bit cynical from the way they repeatedly screwed up mailing things to me for my application.)

Here's my Valentine's Day gift for my fiancee.

One side reads 'In Love' when the two halves are fitted together, while the other has one half silver with black inlay vines, and the other has silver vines surrounded by black inlay. They're both trackable geocoins, too, which made her squee with glee.

She got me a set of dice specially carved from this rich purple wood, which is pretty amazing stuff, even if it's on the pricey side.

Had my interview today....APPPROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED!!!!!!!!

Congratulations!

I don't mean the flight will be forgotten, i mean.. the long and tedious (sometimes frustrating) wait you've had. ha...

your boss sounds great.

Having my boss rooting for me may well be the weirdest experience I've had in my life, and my life often reads like an excerpt from the Big Book of Weird Tales. I don't know /why/ she likes me, except perhaps that I don't bother to harass her or the supervisor about anything.

the final countdown begins! A rough road for you, but one that will be forgotten very soon.

Oh, I don't think I've ever forgotten any plane flight I've ever been on. >.>

The fact of me being there should count extra because of all the planes involved. >_< 22h total travel time to Lisbon, with an 8-hour layover in Frankfurt, then a couple days later we fly to Paris.

On the plus side, my boss is apparently rooting for me and handling everything she can on the work end to keep the stress there as minimal as possible.

Omer1, congratulations.

Flight to join my fiancee has been booked. I fly out of Las Vegas at 16:55 local time on 02/24, and land at 23:05 Lisbon time on the 25th.

Just sit tight Omer. I called DOS and thy said we were in AP but I had my bis the next day.

Congrats on all the recent progress! We are all getting there.

Last day in work today. Very bittersweet! This time next week I'll be with my love for good :-)

Congratulations, AnnaLouise. Glad to see we're all slowly making progress down this road.

And it looks like our interview date is February 28, so now we have that and I can start planning to fly there.

I had the same problem, but I went and told the HR/Payroll Secretary the situation, and she typed the letter.

The HR person at work is the one who made me go to that stupid site. Fortunately, there's also a printout from the employee website that I also pulled, plus my tax transcripts from the prior four years, and a pile of my printed-out paystubs, and property value assessments.

Getting verification of my employment and income is a bloody nuisance, since the company I work for uses "The Work Number". Still, whether or not it's needed for a given embassy, it's not something that it hurts to have. Making sure Tierce has a copy via the mail in addition to the copy I intend to take with me when I fly there, just in case there's anything problematic.

haha funny joke about the guy being a bridesmaid and the woman being a groosman, unless yall are doing it backwards on purpose??

We're not overly big on traditional social roles.

Plus, well, one of my goals in life is to make things more surreal and mentally challenging for everyone.

We're waiting until she's here before we start making any real plans - but we do seem to be planning to have one of her male friends as a bridesmaid and the girl who initially introduced us as a groomsman.

Thanks! I'm sure it will be. As long as the deed is done and we get that certificate all will be good. It's just that his mom is so excited that he's finally getting married, I want everything to be what she expects. I really wanted to go to the courthouse and have a BBQ after. No such luck!

I'll be sure to come back and post how it all went.

Our plan is to get a courthouse wedding ASAP, but then to hold a ceremony later on when we've had plenty of time to plan it.

hmmm packet 3 to the US citizen isn't unusual, that happened in our case, however by email, snail mail is a bit stranger, but never mind, its there, and you shouldn't see anything as odd in your case just keep chasing the White rabbit. so has she gone home yet??

We parted ways again - for the last time, we hope - as of roughly 10:00 this morning.