Adriana&Karel

You were stating the household size for the co-sponsor was 4 people. I was clearing up that bit of misinformation so you and others reading this will know a co-sponsor does not include the USC in their household count.. The co-sponsor's household size in this case is 2. The fiance is not bringing a child. The child is a USC and lives with the USC petitioner who receives child support.
I already know the CO is under no obligation to accept a co-sponsor. They could say no even if the USC was the one earning $30k. It is completely up to them. I already stated earlier in this thread that it could be because the USC is unemployed and did not want to accept the co-sponsor because they would rather have seen a relative as the co-sponsor(as some consulates prefer) or because they simply did not want to accept the co-sponsor at all and feel with the USC unemployed the fiance has a large chance of becoming a public charge. We do not know exactly what the CO thought in making the decision,

Where the USC is getting his/her own money would not be relevant as long as a co sponsor is in place. It is not an issue with means tested
benefits for the USC. Best scenario would be OP gets a decent job asap in her circumstance which she stated would happen.
We are aware that the CO has been given discretion to accept or not accept a co sponsor, to issue or refuse a visa ....to do whatever the heck
they want to do.
It is a muddied non transparent obstacle course with banana peels nicely laid out just before the finish line while one prepares
according to embassy "guidelines" in theory. In short it sucks big time.

Okay you want a real answer. Here it is:
There is a government agency that can help you! Since you are very tired, here is their email address Immigration.Reply@dhs.gov Just email them your name, your co-sponsors name, SSN, and tell them about the problem and I'm sure they will be happy to assist you.
Good luck to you.

OMG so happy for you. Things are looking up hon. Yay you

I am soooo excited....I checked the USCIS website about an hour ago and i couldn't belive my eyes...My case is approved guys!!!
I cannot describe the level of gratitud and happines i felt, God is good!!.....i prayed everyday, i wrote to the congresswoman, i wrote to the senator, i called all the time, i lost sleep, i cried almost everynight but it is finally here.
After 7 months exactly i can finally do my happy dance...woohoo!!!!!!
Thank you all for the words of encouragement, for all the answers and all the advices...i have been waiting for this day for so long!
Thank you God!

I am soooo excited....I checked the USCIS website about an hour ago and i couldn't belive my eyes...My case is approved guys!!!
I cannot describe the level of gratitud and happines i felt, God is good!!.....i prayed everyday, i wrote to the congresswoman, i wrote to the senator, i called all the time, i lost sleep, i cried almost everynight but it is finally here.
After 7 months exactly i can finally do my happy dance...woohoo!!!!!!
Thank you all for the words of encouragement, for all the answers and all the advices...i have been waiting for this day for so long!
Thank you God!

Let's make a Prayer Chain.
We could Pray at any hour we want but lets make it at 7 am for those who haven't gotten the NOA2 yet and 7 pm for those who got the NOA2 already. Lets do it for 7 days start today. And lets see how God works on it.

I know how you feel Hunnie
my relationship with my future husband is great...but if im away or we haven't seen each other for too long its no so great anymore, it's so hard being away, and just talk on the phone, chat, etc that it does become almost impossible not to be down, depressed, grumpy, and frustrated. It is a constant test and I continue to tell myself that if we are able to pass this we will able to overcome everything in life, this has made us trust each other more, make our patience stronger and be commited to this love whatever happens....this is what gives me hope for us, that we havent given up, our love is strong and we'll make it work. Try focusing on the positive and keep busy gathering documents or reading about the process...it helps me!
Will you be filing the I134 on your own? or do you have a co-sponsor? The reason why i ask is because the co-sponsor makes it easier for you to go wait with your fiance at least for a few weeks...and it's so important some times to have that connection with your love.
Anyways, when im down...i appreciate the words of encouragement....i hope i was able to give you a little of that!
Good luck on your journey!

Oh gosh!! I just filed in April. All this is so depressing and makes no sense. Shouldn't we be encouraging young, healthy, professionals to settle in the US and start a family? At this point its K-1 filers who are the perfect immigrants. It makes no sense to me that they want you to wait 7 or 8 months when even 5 months seems too long. After all at the end of all this you just get a 4 month temporary visa for the bene. Couldn't they push some of the processing to after marriage when at least the couple is settled in the States!! I just don't see what could possibly take longer than 3 months. Which by the way is the time it takes H1B dependents to get a Visa!! Its like we are being punished for being citizens!!

Hello....
So...I started my day by calling my Congresswoman's office, i had contacted them before and wanted an update on their part, they told me that they had received my privacy release form and were actually working on getting me more information and resolution to my case, that was a good sing.
Right after that i called USCIS and spoke to a tier1 officer, she told me that the only information she had was whatever showed on the website, so i went ahead and scalated to a tier2...they offered again to get my contact information and call me back in 3-5 days....of course i refused that offer and just waited....The recording told me this time my estimated waiting time of 40 mins. I waited anyways and at last someone picked up my called.
After explaining the situation to the officer, he said everything looked good on my end, and that so far there is no request of further information (Thank God!!!) but that they are currently working on October 1st, and my case was received on October 26th, so that i should wait for 25 more days so i can receive my NOA2. It is not what i wanted to hear, but at least i got some insight on whats going on....i hate being on the shadows, i feel so powerless because there is nothing i cant do but wait..urgh!!
Anyways, i hope this info is helpful for your....try calling now!!....don't get a NO for an answer, it is your right to be informed and they can't tell you you cant wait for a Tier2..The waiting time this time wasnt as excruciating as yesterday, so go and make the call....
Good Luck!!!

This is a message in the K-1 about K-1 couples . I wanted to send out some words of encouragement today . This is a very long process for most of us . We need to stay strong and keep the faith . VSC OR CSC lets keep up our positive outlook and know that the time is coming for all of us . Do what ever you need to do during the day to keep your faith in the process . I know it can be very hard to see the ups and downs from the centers . I read about the length of times and the disappointments we face each day our NA02 does not come . It is a painful process and sometimes it can end relationships . I pray now today that everyone can keep up the faith remain strong and reach the goal in the journey ! At the end all of this will be very worth it and a nice story of courage and strength to tell for sure .
There are so many here who will help and they are a true blessing .
God Bless

Let's not be so harsh! 1 She's in review for her Nursing License exams. She is taking those on June 2 and 3. Her dream is to pass her exams and passing them also makes her eligible for those states that require the license. Colorado doesn't require them but I'm an airline employee and we will certainly move in the future. So, her passing is priority, period. If we take longer then those who want to be a "laser beam", then so be it. 2 I know the time lines, I know just about everything I need to know. 3 If you had no intention of answering the question, then why did you reply? Read the question. Did I ask for any of the information you wrote?
They will not reproduce the NOA2 from my knowledge. So, if it's lost, certainly all that I would have is the email notification! Right?

So are they in November? I called a few days ago and they told me VSC is behind 30 days...and that i should expect my NOA2 in June...which sucks!!!
I guess nothing is certain with immigration, but i did notice that California seems to be faster. I just hope all this waiting is over...ugh!
good luck to you!

I want to have my NOA2 so baaaaad!!!!!!!!.......we can't take the pressure of being appart
Congrats for all of you who got it....but i just feel hopeless because mine is over 6 months and i still don't see any progress....i am so depressed and so is my future husband, we have no stability...i am traveling constantly but i can't take having to say good bye to my daughter and him every few months....

I called USCIS today to find out about my case since it has been over 6 months and still no NOA2, my service center is also Vermont and the officer on the phone told me there is a notice from them saying that they're behind schedule for about 30 days. So, that means i gotta wait another month sadly. I don't know if this info is of any help, i hope!
Good luck!

Hello All
I had a great opportunity Saturday evening to have dinner with and spend several hours with a director at the VSC. He is currently in charge of the department that handles I-751s among other things. His wife is an adjusicator that handles YOUR petition (if it went through VSC). His wife is Russian, arrived on a K-1 and is now a citizen. This man has worked for USCIS for many years and was at several local offices before being assigned to the VSC. His wife is a friend of Alla's and we were all at a dinner party for several American/Russian/Ukrainian couples Saturday. We had a long chat, he was very open and helpful. We talked about a lot of the things we see here on VJ and I was trying to remember all the "usual questions" I read about and pin him down for some answers. I also have asked him if he will give an "official interview" for VJ. He said he will check out the site and I will call him later this week. So, anyway I will try to cover what we discussed, he was quite frank and direct in his answers, not rude, not at all, but he knows his stuff and answers without hesitation. It turned into an impromtu and fun "interview" with me trying to remember all the hot button issues I see on VJ
I told him that the number ONE and number TWO "complaints" I see are Why is the VSC taking so long and why can't we get through to you guys?
Why is VSC taking so long, what happened? I was approved in 58 days!: We had problem with labor last year and lost many workers, we hired more last November and it took some time to get them trained. Some of the petitions were sent to California and we also assign people to different tyopes of visas. They will concentrate on one tyoe, get behind on another and then shift many people back to the other type. Lately we have shifted many, almost all, adjudicators to I-129fs, so that should make people happy. They will do that until they get caught up. Summer is a busy time for I-129fs, usually about June we get slammed with them. The winter or early spring is the slowest time for I-129fs, but then it depends what they have everyone working on also.
OK, why can't we get through to you? The 1-800 line is useless. Those are contract employees and they are trained to select answers from a menu of 14 answers. They pick which one is best for your question. There are thousands of visas being processed at any time and everyone is special and everyone has special circumstances and if we had direct lines we weould do nothing but field requests by petitioners to give them priority, we just can't do it. How would you feel if your petition got bumped because some woman called and cried on the phone and then her petition got moved up ahead of yours. We simply have to operate in a way that avoids any chance of fraud, corruption or unfairness.
So what about some people get approved ahead of others? Sme petitions have problems or delays, we do not hold back others for this. If an adjudicator has problems, he puts that one aside or sends an RFE and goes on to the next. The next one may be clean and gets approved right away, in just a few minutes, they adjudicate 15-20 petitions a day per person, and the ones with problems may wait weeks for the petitioner to respond to the RFE, or maybe it is a name check they are waiting for. Petitions are assigned as they arrive, when we are working on those petitions, but they do not go out the door in the same order they came in.
G-325a, Signed or Unsigned? Unsigned.
WHAT? Ok I have seen the memo but lots of VJ members got RFEs for unsigned G-325s, what gives? They do not have to be signed,they can be signed at the consualte interview. Some adjusicators haven't read all the memos, we get hundreds of the things, and maybe they make a mistake. If you want to be sure there is no mistake, sign it. Or send a letter expalining why it is not signed and request it be signed at the interview. Do you have that memo?
It is on the VJ website somewhere You can print a copy of that and send it with the I-129f and G-325a.
Fiancee intent letter? Signed or unsigned? Signed.
What about a faxed or emailed signature? When I was adjudicating, if I could see a signature, I accepted it, but many adjusicators will not. Signed is better.
Lawyer or no lawyer? For what?
Enough said. Now a hot issue, a very controversial one. There seems to be a trend in some countries of foreign men marrying American women and the women are considerably older. There is always a question if this is a problem. It never seems to be a problem for older men/younger women (My wife is 13 years younger, his wife is also considerable younger than him) Is it a problem? For us, USCIS, no. "Free to marry".
What about the consulates or for AOS or I-751? Consulates do what they do, it is not USCIS, some of them are bastards. Kiev is easy, they approve everyone (laughs), they used to be bastards but they got easier since they first started doing those in 2005, before then you would have had to go to Warsaw, you know. For AOS if they can prove they are legitimate we do not care about age but anything that is "not normal" for the culture will draw suspicion. They probably will not get a no questions asked interview (I had told him our AOS was "no questions asked")
What about birth certificates, some people have trouble getting them? This is a problem for us also. Some people, especially our younger staff, think all the world is like the USA. I remember one, when I was in the Kansas City office, the beneficiary was from Viet Nam, she was born in 1954 there was no birth certificate. The CO asked me about this and I looked at the file. I said "Do you know what was going on in Viet Nam in 1954?" She looked at me, straight faced and said "What, their computers were down?" If a birth certificate cannot be obtained they can usually get something from a church, a village official, something, and send that with a letter of explanation. Or just their passport and a letter explaining the situation (this applies to AOS more than I-129f as beneficiary birth certificate is not required for the petition, but I wanted to ask anyway, it seems a common question here)
What about extra documents? Proof of relationship? We don't need it, only that they have met for the fiancee visa.
What about the consulates? Consulates do what they do, as I said, some are bastards. They get whatever we get when it is sent on. I can't tell you what NVC and consulates do, I know some are terrible and some are really easy, but I do not know all the details of each. Kiev is easy, western Europe is easy, Nigeria is horrible, but you would not believe the scams from Nigeria, I get jaded. I am surprised a lot of them get visas and then we have to deal with them.
I have to ask for a collegue, Ecuador? Bastards.

What about changes? Are there any in the works? Is Obama ouching you guys to work faster? I am not sure Obama knows we exist. There have been no changes and no pressure other than the usual workload and shifting things around. I do not expect any immigration changes in the next year or two, at kleat not in rules or amnesty or anything like that. I do expect FEE INCREASES within the next year...across the board.
How much more? I cannot say, that is not my area, I just hear talk.
He added, "We try not to deny petitions, people really get angry and make lots of trouble. Denials usually come at the consulate or maybe AOS or sometimes even with the I-751. If we deny someone we need good reason, if they meet the criteria, we will approve it, they just have to give us what we need to approve them."
So how can I speed up my petition? You can't really. If it gets to be too long and if you can get a congressman or senator to call, that will get some action, but half the time those guys dont'' call or they do and the petition has only been there 3 months. Sometimes one falls through the cracks, gets overlooked, we are human. A congressman can get through and get them to dig it out if it has been too long, but I wouldn't call that "speeding it up". That's a fix for whn it is too slow.
we talked for some time more, about 5 hours altogether, briefly interrupted by Alla every now and again who had her own questions about the I-751 procedure which I posted in that forum, about VJ and other topics (his Navy days) He said he will check the site and gave me his home number. He said "call anytime but not 3 in the morning" I asked about an interview or answering prepared questions, he said possibly, he will check the site. He said many internet sites are advertisement for immigration attorneys or instructing people on how to pull scams, I assured him he would be very pleased with VJ and he thinks it is great that there is a good site for information and advice. (he never heard of VJ before this)
I can also say, that speaking to him, I heard so many of the same buzzwords or advice that I have seen right here, this is really a great site with some great folks giving some really great info.

We the people! I doubt we gather 100 000 signatures, but lets see where it goes.
wh.gov/dbC8
I'm too new to this forum, so please copy and paste link to your browser window in order to get to the petition: wh.gov/dbC8