Will and Mike

I am getting ready to head to Taipei to visit and hopefully come back with my fiance. Of the things that I am looking forward to, like a foot massage and other tourist things, one thing I'm looking forward to the most is the food. Taipei has the best night market I have ever seen. Well the only one. I can't wait to eat some stinky tofu, or oyster omelette. What types of food do you like from your or your fiance's home country?

why would I "just get something kosher" if I need something halal? It's not the same as halal (umm....different religions)

For many muslims, kosher is not an option, just as I'm sure for many jewish people, halal is also not an option instead of kosher.

As my husband says "EITHER IT'S HALAL OR IT'S NOT" There is no "substitute" for halal and no substitute for Kosher.

I am definitely no expert, but I have a little exposure on this subject. I was under the impression that kosher is actually more strict then halal. For this reason, Jewish people can not eat halal but Muslims eat kosher. Is that incorrect?

just get something kosher. There's tons of that.

I just contacted USCIS and they said my address was not changed and I received the status update in error. Apparently there were a few people that this happened to, so if it happened to you I would check but it seems like all is okay. Unfortunately still no noa2, but I hope you're right and I get it soon.

I am expecting my NOA2 anyday now, and got a text from the USCIS which got me excited. Unfortunately, it was a text saying they changed my address. I did not move and did not change my address, so I will call and clear it up with them later when they open. I was wondering others got this today or was it an isolated incident?

I haven't been checking it very much at all lately. I'm thinking I'll get a text message before they update their online records. But I too am an August filer and I'm excited to see our month has started.

I believe you can travel to the Bahamas with just a driver's license

Not working on my internet explorer browser at work or my dolphin browser on phone. I'll try Firefox from home later. The data is available on Igor list but nice to see the visual. Hope I can get it to work.

Seems like a great visual but I am unable to lad the VSC data. Anyone else havingthis problem?

I do believe that is a lucky step. You might have cut your wait time in half or more. Check out some earlier postings.

I was just looking at Igors list and noticed there are twice as many K1 petitions in Vermont compared with California. Doesn't necissarily have to do with speed of processing per petiton, but appears that Vermont is recieveing a lot more petitions. Doesn't necissarily mean anything, I just observed this.

The trend shows they are speeding up a bit. It seems to coincide with a move they made giving some cases to local offices. Kinda good for everyone.

It is my understanding that it is based on what the USCIS publishes as well as what VJ users are reporting.

I called the embassy and asked them how long is the letter good for, is there an expiration date. In my case it is good for one year, as are the bank statements.

Thanks all. I'm trying to plan for next year, when I can finally go get her.

Hi All,

I'm happy to see my time table estimate for the arrival of my NOAs is moving up a few days, but I am concerned about its accuracy. After browsing topics on here, it seems that the time to complete varries alot.

If you've already gotten you're NOA2, how accurate was the estimate. Did it change by a large amount while you were waiting? I'm just trying to get a general idea, obviously there are outliers.

A little off topic, but I believe it is no longer necessary for a Taiwanese citizen to get a tourist visa to visit the united states.

I always write the address in English and have no issues. Also if you send a lot of books the usps has an "m" bag with a special discount rate. It guess by boat which takes some time but is much cheaper.

That was my intention, to avoid the time of an RFE. I really wanted to kill them with evidence and make it as clear as possible. Appreciate the well wishes and company through this process.

I guess it will all depend on which documents you added. Pictures, boarding passes, receipts.. and such, would be ok; but you scanned (for example) a divorce decree and they can't see it very well... that may be a problem.

Makes sense?

Yes it does. I only scanned the "proof" stuff. Other documents, Birth Certificate, etc. are straight copies. Thanks again.

If this is the case, I don't think you will have any issues. I arranged our photos and such in Picasa creating collages with references of who was who, and when & where they were taken. They accepted all that plus the actual copies of other things we sent like, for example, the passport copies with the stamps.

Thanks, this is quite simlar to what I did.

Apparently I was unclear. I submitted all documentation, forms, etc., in paper format. However I have lots of proof of having met. In order to better organize this, I scanned all my hard copies, imported them onto a power point, then PRINTED OUT THE SLIDES. My concern, which is only slight, is that they may think I doctored these documents when importing them into powerpoint.

As an aside, my powerpoint looked awesome electronically. It lost some pizazz on paper.

Has anyone used this idea to better organize all their documentation?

I recently submitted my I-129F. I scanned all my "proof" documents, i.e. boarding passes, tickets, etc., and put then into powerpoint so I could arrange them easily and used text to describe what it was, where from, etc.

Has anyone else used powerpoint and scanned their "proof"? Were there any issues for RFE if you did it?