Natsukiii

I think I sent my paperwork to the wrong place ... I should of sent it to God, he got his approved faster -- I only sent mine to USCIS.

Wow awesome! Good to hear that things are moving for your case. We have yet to receive NOA1. We're getting a little worried. I'm sure we will get it some time this week though.
I know the Service Center it goes to isn't based on where you live. For CR-1 they randomly choose between VSC (Vermont), CSC (California), and I guess also NBC (National Benefits Center).
Keep us posted!
Justin

It's amazing isn't it? You would think some of these guys actually worked in the service centers

hahahahaha......Well said. Me too

This is like watching Jerry Springer. You guys are sure keeping me entertained at work. Thank you to all!

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I don't think the married couples are more legitimate, more power, or more painful. (Unless there are kids involved, then yes, it is way more painful than people with no kids. That doesn't mean your pain is invalid, it just means that carrying your own pain, plus the pain of your little ones is worse than just carrying your own.)
Marriage might just be a piece of paper, relationship wise, but it's also a legal contract. As such, there is a legal commitment there that someone coming in on a fiance visa doesn't have. For instance, when I moved to the Netherlands, our relationship was filed as a civil union. So we were living together, etc, but it could be dissolved immediately by either party without having to go to court. We were only entitled to those assets that we brought into the relationship, etc. As a married couple, we would need to divorce in the court (thus dissolving the legal contract between us) and split up our marital assets 50/50 because that's the way the law works in that country. Fiance's do not have that legal contract in place, is all that I'm saying. And I think that having a legal contract should work in the favor of those who are married, which does not seem to be the case, currently.
I don't think that fiance's should be slowly adjudicated. I think they should hire more people and speed up the process for all of us.
And if you want to get married, you don't need a fiance visa to do so. You can do it on a tourist visa, you just can't adjust your status or immigrate. My husband and I got married here in NJ while he was on a tourist visa, and then we went back to the Netherlands. You only file for the fiance visa if you're planning on immigrating. Yes, you need to adjust status afterwards, but you get to stay with your spouse while you're doing it. I really do understand, I've done it, and it sucks having to go through that, but it's a completely different kind of suck when your spouse can't even visit you (without a serious chance of being denied entry) for months or possibly years.
But I honestly don't blame the K1's. Not one little bit. I'm jealous as all hell that they are getting their files processed so quickly. I miss my husband so much there aren't even words. I cry every day. My kids cry every day. And I HATE the USCIS for doing this to all of us. But it's not the other petitioner's faults.

hey the dude, you can get on a leaky boat to anywhere you want for all i care. I have fought for my country and your comments about it make it a good thing that you are not standing in front of me right now. A lousy gov't does not mean the US is a rotting cesspool or that it sucks. You know what you can do with your insults.
I feel for all the ppl going thru the torment of waiting for the gov't to do what should take way less time to do. If it's any comfort at all, a cpl years down the road this will seem like nothing. I'm sure it's been expressed before, but patience, just hang in there, it'll happen.

I hate it so much when people ask me "You got married? Why didn't she come back with you to the States?" Idiots, no one knows how completely useless, lazy, and badly-run the USCIS is! And no one understands that we have the worst immigration system in the world! If my wife was from a developed country I would never even think about bringing her to this rotting cesspool we call America!

Seriously I have no idea why someone married to a German, Canadian, or British citizen would want to bring their spouses to live here, this country sucks. If I could get work over there I would move in 1 second and never come back.

Today, after speaking multiple times to a very angry, unpleasant service rep, and asking to get transferred to a Tier 2 Immigration Officer very kindly and being yelled at for no reason... (God, what a a most horrible this lady was... Never had such a rude person in my life talk to me in such a way, really made me angry)... I got the nicest Tier 2 rep on the phone, as always. They are a lot more compassionate, and understanding it seems, and they actually do seem like they care... A woman with a Russian accent, tried to tell me what she has been seeing lately, and was talking to me like an actual human being, and had quite a long conversation with her. She said how USCIS is handling things is absolutely disgusting. And she repeatedly gets calls on the NBC issue all day long. And how the processing times actually make her sick how they keep pressing them back, because she also, thinks its not fair that husbands and wives should be separated like this. She said, at the moment, its a 12 month wait but more like 11... But she has been seeing much of the processes going through quickly in the past 2 weeks. She also said that they are just posting the dates as such so the dates don't actually land outside processing times. They are trying to save their butts it seems. She said that more then just the spouses were filing, so it's just a matter of sifting through the logs now, and sending them where they need to be. When I told her I was mind boggled at how quickly the K-1 visas were getting approved, she was in agreement, and told me she didn't think it was fair, BUT as of now, their processing times are starting to line up with the CR-1/IR-1 petitions. She said, once they get to an app, send it to an office, it takes roughly 3 months. Then NVC gets their hands on it, another 3 months to process, and then another 45 days to get an interview... But she said, don't be surprised if things start to pick up rather quickly here soon. Even though my PD is May, she said I should see a result around late December, early January. She also said, it takes FOREVER for e-mails, and texts to get sent out, and to call periodically to check in on it, and ask for a tier 2 rep, no matter how badly customer service rep acts, or is mad... She said only thing they do, is read the computer screen of stuff which is readily available online to us anyways, and usually get interrupted all day, and have the attitude as a result. She said this, kind of made me chuckle. Cause, it's so true. This lady was awesome.

I also want Carl to kick the bucket. He's not any less annoying in Season 4.

Maybe it is time for her to go home. If she does not like in Hawaii, then she will never be happy. Hawaii is like being in PI and America at the same time.

Poking my head in looking at updates..
1rst congratulations on everyone getting approved it's amazing! Thanks for posting and giving us people waiting some hope
2nd government back up and running till Feb at least so hopefully will not slow other part of process
3rd and last. Good luck for everyone waiting and hope we all get approved soon

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Question: What's the difference between the government working and the government not working? Answer: Nothing

Hi everyone - for what it's worth I asked some folks a few weeks ago about the K-3, including an immigration lawyer and an immigration paralegal, and both of them recommended against it.
Basically, filing now, based on expected processing times, means the best case scenario was the 2 things would probably get adjudicated at the same time, so you're unnecessarily complicating your own paperwork. Additionally, because the first thing we filed was a CR-1, and that requires a consulate interview, once the interview was scheduled, he would have to go back to Germany to do it.
The conclusion we came to was that it was extra work with next to no probably payoff. Just my .02.
Good luck, regardless of what you choose to do!

I'm expecting NOA2 in about a month from now in mid-November, TBH. If I don't see any movement from VJ by the end of October, I'm going to schedule an infopass appointment to get some answers.

Many people doesn't get a chance or forget to update their timelines. So this is true many may filers and even some june filers have been approved. They are not in order though. Anyways happy days are coming.

They say the third time's a charm, here it is updated for the third time today:
Post Decision Activity
On October 1, 2013, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I130 IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN. Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service at 1-800-375-5283.
I have gone through so much emotions today...I'm happy but I'll believe it when I receive the letter.
OK May filers, get ready for the approvals to come your way...Good Luck to all :-)

Link to those who want to read it for themselves: http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/Outreach/Notes%20from%20Previous%20Engagements/2013/May%202013/NBC-AILA-QA-2013-05-01.pdf
"April 8, 2013- NBC opened its new office in Overland Park, Kansas, where Adjudications Division 7 will process Form I-90 applications. A new division, Adjudications Division 8, also will be located at the Overland Park, Kansas facility. NBC anticipates that Division 8 will begin to adjudicate stand-alone immediate relative Form I-130 petitions by the end of Fiscal Year 2013."
End of Fiscal Year 2013 is September 30, 2013 for USCIS.
"Currently, the twelve-month period beginning October 1 and ending September 30."
Source: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=c4ca95c4f635f010VgnVCM1000000ecd190aRCRD&vgnextchannel=b328194d3e88d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD

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OK - here is the best conjecture as to what is going on...
If your I-130 was submitted prior to May 1 2013, your I-130 is probably sitting at the Missouri Service Center (the National Benefits Center).
If you filed after May 1, your I-130 is probably sitting at Overland Park, Kansas, waiting for the Division 8 to open either this coming Monday, or the next.
Petitions at the MSC/NBC submitted at the end of 2012 or the beginning of 2013 were supposed to be routed to your local service center for processing. Petitions for February - April are probably at the MSC/NBC waiting to be processed. The MSC/NBC handles many different petitions, and the general feeling is that they don't have enough people dedicated to the I-130s. This is the reason for the absolute stoppage of approvals after February.
The biggest hope that all of us who have filed after May 1st is that the new Division 8 at Overland Park, which is totally dedicated to I-130s, will get the ball rolling. I truly do NOT know whether or not any of the backlog at the MSC/NBC will be forwarded to Overland Park.
I would bet that six weeks from now, we will start to see the results of Division 8 coming on line. Hopefully it will REALLY help!!!
Sukie

Bit of advice, stop checking the online status each day as you will only become frustrated and completely disapointed. My mother always said that "a watched kettle never boils".
The length is not meassured in days but rather months and quarters of the year and years.
Good luck to you.

That's interesting you would reply like that . I only asked you a question. Yes or no would have worked too.
It seems to me there are lots of people lving under a rock or in a perfect little bubble. I never said it doesn't happen..... I said there was a very small percentage. You don't live in my town and you don't know the people I know. So I stand by my stmt.... It is accurate
In the United States we are allowed to have our own opinions...( yes or no?) In reality, undocumented is just a nice way of saying illegal. And that is my OPINION. You shouldn't take my comments personally. Pass over my comments if you don't like them. I'm not the only one who shares the same opinion....so chill
Incase you haven't read the news lately, Illegal immigration is a huge HUGE problem in the US. goto NUMBERSUSA.COM. Take off your rose colored glasses, it'll be easier to read.

Don't care about illegals. Back to topic, any approvals?