Lemon75

After nearly a year, my fiance and I were approved for our visa!!!!

I am super happy for you Jola83! Congrats. Your approval gives me hope that they are working on our case possibly, and lets me know for sure that they aren't at a complete stand still and are still working and processing visas.
My fiance and I are still waiting for an interview, the last update to our case was Sep 16th. They received packet 3 on the 27th of August, but still haven't logged our DS-2001 so we are waiting. Our wedding was supposed to be in 6 days, but since I didn't hear anything I moved it to December 10th just to be safe. I hope we hear something from them next week, and that all of you do as well.
Its been such an emotionally draining experience for us. I found myself arguing and blaming my fiance for little things that weren't his fault out of my own powerlessness, pain, and frustration. We've hung in there, and I've apologized, but this situation waiting for our interview after applying back in January really has brought us to the breaking point many times.
I think when you're far apart its easy to hyper focus on everything wrong in the relationship in situations where you feel helpless and powerless. I've apologized to my fiance, he's forgiven me and we're working to make this remaining time apart go smoothly as possible.
But I love him, I miss him, and this is a very tough process emotionally when other things like illness of family members, work issues etc are also in our lives crying for attention. Just a note to let you all know that I get it, and we'll get through this.
You're not alone everyone, this process is painful and frustrating. I can especially understand the go-getters like I am, people that pride themselves in having earned success and worked hard for it, to find yourself "waiting" for an interview without having a direct effect on it is hard. To know your loved one needs you physically for a hug (or you needing them for one) and not being able to do anything about it is hard. To realize that you may be blaming, acting jealous, acting hurtful, acting naggy or other negative things to someone you love based on the stresses of this processes is hard, and takes a lot of soul searching and self honesty.
I just wanted to let you all know that I get, and we'll get through this! Anyone that need to talk please PM me, it'd do me good to help others as I learn how to handle helping myself through this process.

My fiance got packet 3, and is sending in all the forms needed for his medical such as 165K etc. I was wondering if I (the u.s. citizen that is petitioning for him to marry me) have to fill out out any forms from packet 3 as well (such as a 165k from me, etc)? Thanks!

Is that all DRAMA an new strategy Of Playing the Waiting Game?
Guys lets Find Something Better to discuss, lets those guys do whatever DATA thing they want, If they dont do for your Service Center, too bad, come back to the waiting mode. coz you cant do something to change, But im sick and tired and have my e mail full of notifications, when i wanna hear some Good news from ppl that are going thru same unfunny Waiting game thing, I just See one People being rude, arguing , explaining explaining their reasons,Showing how fair the have to be, following the rules, bla blah, but Nothing changes Your Still are frustrated and on your Seat waiting on the same boat, Go Build Up More your relationship with your Loved Ones, More healthfull... The Less thing we need here its HATE. So Lets Go Back and support each other with nice words, Please dont come to this forum to argue.nothing we cant change EVERYTHING in GOD Hands and papers On uscis hands NOTHING we can Do But WAIT! , Have a good day everyone and Good Luck on this New week!!!!

Congratulations!!!!! Wow, what a wonderful surprise to see a january couple got approved. I didn't expect to see any January approvals until July or August. This is amazing, and wonderful. I am very happy, and so will my fiance be when I tell him they are starting on January I hope you both have a beautiful life together. Congrats from both of us, and to all of the January filers this is our sign to keep up the excitement and faith!

And once you get your NOA1 you'll be constantly checking Igor's list to see what dates they are approving!! I'm an Igor's list junkie!!

Yeah trust me it's only just begun. Best thing to do is just keep yourself busy and keep yourself organised!
It's even worse that plane tickets are so expensive- you need all the money you can get saved for the wedding and the fees that are involved with this.
So I would say try to see your fiancé as much as possible to make it easier but I know how difficult it can be when you have to save money
This process is definitely a good test of how much you love your fiancé haha! There is soooo much waiting involved

Maybe it will return with more accurate timelines, and surprise us with more approvals than we thought! Hope so.

Maybe it will return with more accurate timelines, and surprise us with more approvals than we thought! Hope so.

Wow, I am blown away by all of the amazing tips here! Thank you all so much we are going to try them out today, since we both have the day off.
Layla