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    NVC Filers - March 2014

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    I can't wait to post the same good news! Congrats!! Very happy for both of you luv.gif

    Wow 37 business days from case # to case complete....congrats to you...dancin5hr.gif

    Thanks for the congratulation messages, I never looked at the timeline as 37 business days but now I think of it that way it was pretty quick. I think our file arrived at NVC before the deluge of I-130 packages from USCIS after they upped their game and started processing/approving I-130's with a vengeance!!! Hopefully you will hear some news soon.

    Best Wishes,

    Chris & Silvia.

    NVC Filers - March 2014

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted · Edited by CB&RB

    Hi Everyone,

    Just got off the phone to NVC and got told case complete as off 11th March - Whoo Hoo!! Told the lady I spoke to that she had made our day!! Called the wife and gave her the good news - so happy!!! No Checklists at all!!!

    One thing the lady did tell me is that we have to wait for an interview to be scheduled which I understand, but she did add that the London Embassy is still scheduling April interview slots!! So hopefully we should get a late April or early May slot!!! Which is fantastic news!!

    Good Luck to everyone and I hope you get a speedy and easy passage through the NVC phase.

    Chris & Silvia

    Saylin - Please update your spreadsheet!!!! Whoo Hoo!!!dancin5hr.gifdancin5hr.gifdancin5hr.gif

    Not being able to visit the USA during the I-13O process?

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures

    Posted

    Hi Everyone,

    Just my 10 cents worth, but I visit my wife regularly (8 times in the last 2 + years) under the ESTA scheme (on my 3rd ESTA now) and I just answer the questions asked at POE honestly and indeed tell the Officer that I'm here to visit my wife and family when asked the purpose of my visit. They sometimes ask questions like - What does she do for a living? Who does she work for? Where does she live? Just answer honestly. Very occasionally I have been asked if I intend to move out to the US - again I tell the truth and tell them exactly the point in the I-130 process we are at and they sometimes ask what job will I be looking for when I move and then my passport gets stamped for three months and I'm on my way!! I have never been asked to provide any further proof of ties back in UK, although I do carry the latest paperwork relating to our application - ie- NOA2 currently.

    Just for additional information I always fly in and therefore POE in Chicago!! And I rarely stay longer than a typical vacation period - 2 to 3 weeks - I wish I could stay longer but work dictates that I need to be back at my desk unfortunately.

    Here's hoping that my next trip will be one way!! Whoo Hoo!! We are at NVC and have a case number so we get closer to finishing the process everyday!!

    Good luck to all,

    CB & RB

    RFE regarding AOS Form I-134 (or I-864?)

    in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted · Edited by CB&RB

    Hi Pinkrlion,

    Thanks for your reply - I have done some more reading and you are correct we need to file the I-864 - my wife was informed by our local Senators Office to file the I-134 which we now know was incorrect.

    I may have not made it clear - my wife does not live with them - so the number is 2.

    Yes the MIL does have full retirement beniefits payable from the UK. We did look into this and it can be used as you indicated, but her Hubby is a proud US Vet who wants to support her totally from his income and savings which, as stated, are way above 3 x the shortfall.

    So I think it may all revolve around:

    1. The incorrect form being filed initially.

    2. A lack of proof regarding his assest and savings when the initial pacakge was sent to USCIS.

    If anyone has anymore ideas we would be truely grateful. I leave the UK to spend Christmas and New Year with the family out there on Friday so will have an opportunity to review what evidence was sent initially and correct/re-submit while there.

    Regards,

    CB & RB

    RFE regarding AOS Form I-134 (or I-864?)

    in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted · Edited by CB&RB

    Hi All,

    We recieved an RFE (for my wifes mother's AOS I-485 application - this is not linked to our ongoing 1-130 application) for initial evidence as detailed below, does anyone out there think that this amount of RFE requests maybe due to the simple fact that the form was an I-134 whereas now we beieve it should have been an more normal I-864 - but the RFE doesn't mention that fact at all!!!

    I must admit to finding this rather perplexing because they seem to have chosen to cross every box they could!!! So please can someone help explain what they really want!

    Here is the first X:

    I will add that on the original form I-134 the beneficiary was not listed or named as a household member for support purposes and has never worked in the US and never will as she is 76!!

    Second X:

    Again beneficiary was not listed or named as a household member for support purposes and has never worked in the US and has therefore never filled any tax returns.

    Third X:

    As Second X

    Fourth X:

    This is true up to a point - the petioner is also retired and is just short of the 125% poverty guidline but has more than adequate assets to cover the shortfall which were listed on the form - this one we can accept and may just need to send in more proof of savings/assets.

    Fifth X:

    They have indicated that a joint sponsor may be the way ahead!!! Crazy - $3600 total shortfall in income (at 3 x shorfall) and declared assets and savings at way, way over that amount!!! Again maybe more evidence could be sent. If this is the case then why don't they (The USCIS) say that and not go around the houses!!

    As a foot note the red writing/ringing on the documents were done by the USCIS!!

    The hard thing for us as son-in-law (me) and Daughter (my wife) is that this process is hard and confusing enough for the likes of us let alone for our parents at well past retirement age and all they want to do is fianlly see out there twilight years together. So if anyone can explain how we approch the first three X's we would be very grateful.

    Regards,

    CB & RB

    February 2013 I-130 Filers

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    Whoo Hoo - we are approved ...................................

    On November 25, 2013, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I130 IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN.

    We got the "Alien Reg number change" message Friday and my wife got a text and E-mail first thing this morning saying we are approved!! We are finally on the move to NVC. Good luck to all the Feb filers still waiting - you will get approved soon.

    One thing to note - we were browsing various parts of the USCIS site last night and decided to check our account - we noticed that our I130 case wasn't in our portfolio so we added it and registered for email and text updates. We had done this via the form originally sent with our package back in February but have never had an electronic update of our case. But the day after registering on-line we got both updates - email and text. So for those who aren't getting updates but sent the form maybe creating an account and registering for electronic updates may see you getting them at last. Just a thought!!!

    Very best wishes to you all on this journey!!

    CB & RB

    February 2013 I-130 Filers

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    Hi Everyone,

    Well after 9 months of tooing and frooing from NBC to Chicago and back again and then to Nebraska on 20th Oct our staus finally changed today to this:

    On November 22, 2013, your Alien Registration Number was changed relating to your I130, IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN.

    Reading another post where this happened to a Feb filer on the 20th they were approved the next day!!! So here's hoping - even an RFE from it would be something and I never thought looking forward to receiving an RFE would be so exciting - but at least it means they are doing something with our application - but hopefully it will fianlly get aproved very soon. Out of interest has anyone else received this status change and if so what happened next!??

    Here's to all of us getting good news very soon.

    Best Wishes to all CB & RB

    February 2013 I-130 Filers

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    Hi everyone - haven't posted for a long while but have been following the Feb filers thread regularly as we are Feb filers too!!

    What's happened to our application recently is very similar to the posts above. A potted history of the last 8 months - well all bar 4 days - it's a long wait.

    With the influx of DA applications we waited before calling USCIS the required 5 months and then started to call and speak to tier two IO's - well that's an experience that my wife (The USC) enjoys I can tell you!! Not once did she get the same answer form them and they even raised a service request on our behalf as one of them couldn't believe what he was seeing in that our application was sent to our local USCIS (Chicago - Arrrggghhh) in April!!! WOW we thought it must be getting near the top of the pile!! - but then it was sent back to MSC in July - no reason was given on the system so he raised the service request to find out why this happened but assured us that the file was now back in Chicago!! Wow we thought again - and to ring back in 15 days to get the result of the service request!!

    Being patient kind of people we did the waiting - LOL!! and called for an update only to be told that the officer who placed the request placed in on MSC and as it was Chicago that sent it back he should have raised it on them - so we had to raise another service request - ARRRGGGHHH again - now the good bit!! The T2 tried to raise a request but couldn't as the original one was still open!! He couldn't close it as MSC had to close it and they were unlikely to be in a rush to do that as it's nothing to do with them!! ARRRRGGGGHHHH!! What a wonderful system they have!! So we had to call back 15 days later again which my wife did and still no answer - so we just gave up with the whole calling process as it's just depressing. We decided to hang in there and let time take it's course.

    Well on the 17th of this month we had a new message on the Case Status page saying that:

    On October 17, 2013, we transferred your I130, IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN, to your local USCIS Office for further processing. The new office has jurisdiction over your case and will send you a decision as soon as processing is complete or you will be notified if further information or action is needed. If you move, please use our Change of Address online tool to update your case with your new address.

    Interesting we thought as we were informed by the T2 in August that it was already back in Chicago!!! (Our Local Office) LOL!!! Still at least we haven't got to read the same old Initial review message we had been reading for 6 months!! Then my wife got a letter from USCIS of NOA - and that stated that our case had been transferred to Nebraska service centre!!! Boy our application has more air miles than me now!! Then a day later our status message had changed once again to this one:

    The I130 IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN was transferred and is now being processed at a USCIS office. You will be notified by mail when a decision is made, or if the office needs something from you. If you move while this case is pending, please use our Change of Address online tool to update your case with your new address or call our customer service center at 1-800-375-5283.

    Which we hope, along with having it as a hard copy as well, finally means our application is in a pile at it's final destination and will remain there until we get a final decision!!! We Hope!!! LOL!!

    It seems as though a lot of Feb filers are getting similar messages and lets all hope that we will all be approved soon so we can move on to the next and hopefully final phase to be re-united with our better halves.

    Regards and Best wishes,

    CB & RB


    OOPS - sorry above post is so long - didn't realise it until I posted - LOL!!! But it's good to vent occasionally!! smile.pngsmile.png

    Phone calls to Brazil

    in Mexico, Latin & South America

    Posted · Edited by CB&RB

    Sorry just realised you are US based so have changed the costs to $ - oops!

    Hi - Why don't you try a Skype to Go number the rates are really good and the basis and costs of how it works are below - the cost for unlimited minutes from USA to Brazil to a land line is $11.49 / month.

    Subscriptions

    Calling landlines

    120 min per month 2.8¢/min (3.2¢ incl. VAT) for $3.39/month ($3.90 incl. VAT)

    400 min per month 2.2¢/min(2.5¢ incl. VAT) for $8.99/month ($10.34 incl. VAT)

    Unlimited Latin America (Includes Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and 7 other countries. Excludes Colombian rural areas - LEX. Calls are unlimited) NB - Their is a fair usage policy but any non-commercial user shouldn't be effected by this at all - my interpretation not Skypes!!! LOL!! for $9.99/month ($11.49 incl. VAT)

    Basically you register the phone numbers you want to call from (landlines or mobiles) - as many as 10 different ones I think and choose a local USA number to assign to his girlfriends land line number in Brazil and when he wants to call her he just uses the "Local USA Number' - My wife's mother uses this from the US to her friends over here (UK) as they do not have internet and at 75 has no wish to get it. My wife and I use a variety of methods to talk/text/type/see each other - but for persons with no internet or smart phone Skype to Go is a good solution and you pay month on month for the subscription so can cancel at anytime.

    Just search for Skype to go in a search engine. He could even just buy Skype credit for the first time just to try it out - the rates are dearer Skype Credit - 2.8¢1/min (3.2¢ incl. VAT) - but it would prove it works OK.

    Hope it helps and if you need any further assistance with this - just ask. :thumbs:

    Regards,

    Chris.

    Phone calls to Brazil

    in Mexico, Latin & South America

    Posted

    Hi - Why don't you try a Skype to Go number the rates are really good and the basis and costs of how it works are below - the cost for unlimited minutes from UK to Brazil to a landline is £7.46 / month.

    Subscriptions

    Calling landlines

    120 min per month 1.6p/min (1.8p incl. VAT) for £1.89/month (£2.17 incl. VAT)

    400 min per month1.2p/min(1.4p incl. VAT) for £4.99/month (£5.74 incl. VAT)

    Unlimited Latin America (Includes Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and 7 other countries. Excludes Colombian rural areas - LEX. Calls are unlimited) NB - Their is a fair usage policy but any non-commercial user shouldn't be effected by this at all - my interpretation not Skypes!!! LOL!! for £6.49/month (£7.46 incl. VAT)

    You register the phone numbers you want to call from (landlines or mobiles) - as many as 10 different ones I think and choose a local UK number to assign to his girlfriends land line number in Brazil and when he wants to call her he just uses the "Local UK Number' - My wife's mother uses this from the US to her friends over here as they do not have internet and at 75 has no wish to get it. My wife and I use a variety of methods to talk/text/type/see each other - but for persons with no internet or smart phone Skype to Go is a good solution and you pay month on month for the subscription so can cancel at anytime.

    Just search for Skype to go in a search engine. He could even just buy Skype credit for the first time just to try it out - the rates are dearer Skype Credit - 1.6p1/min (1.8p incl. VAT) - but it would prove it works OK.

    Hope it helps and if you need any further assistance with this - just ask. :thumbs:

    Regards,

    Chris.

    February 2013 I-130 Filers

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    Just recieved my NOA 1 hard copy yesterday. Awesome! Progress! Case is still not available online though.

    Good to hear - so we are still tracking virtually together - although still a long wait ahead - LOL!!

    Isn't it odd that our updates were available online as soon as we received our NOA1 but we still haven't had any electronic updates!! Not sure what's better at this early stage!! Texts or Web updates???

    February 2013 I-130 Filers

    in IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted · Edited by CB&RB

    Yeah, I am hoping that it comes in this week. Are you able to view your case online? Tried mine, but of course, it was futile. Will try again once i get the notification letter.

    Yes - I checked it as soon as my wife scanned and sent me the letter this morning (US Time) and we are at "Initial Review" status.

    You will get it soon. Ours has a MSC ******* receipt number. Is yours at NBC (AKA MSC) too? If so I believe it will go here and then be forwarded back to the local office - for us it will be back to Chicago were it was sent originally!!! But that's life in the USCIS Lottery - at least we are on the journey - :dance:

    Oh - sorry I see it in your signature now - you are at NBC too!!

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