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So just 2 days after I posted this...the USCIS finally approved us! Makes you wonder if they're reading this site Anyway...on to the VSC

July 18th we received word from our lawyer that the NVC has finished processing and sent the packet off to Frankfurt. The embassy info on here says that after the embassy receives it, we have anywhere from 10 days to a month for the interview...so with any luck, we will finally be together in a month or so.

I wish you all the best of luck, and hope that you don't get the same incompetent case worker that we did. My fiance is trying to come here from Germany so we can get married. The USCIS received all of our paperwork back on October 15th. In April, they finally got around to our case. We were informed that they needed more evidence, but would not tell myself or my lawyer what that evidence was. A month later we received the RFE in the mail, and it turns out that they just needed two more passport style photos from each of us (which is odd because we sent in every photo that was required, so I assume they lost them). So we got them to my lawyer, and they were mailed off the next day. June 5th they update the status on the website to "Request for Evidence Response Review" meaning they're going over our "new evidence". Now almost a month later, the status still hasn't changed. Not sure why it takes a month to look at two photos. We are now well over 90 days past our processing time! Even if by some miracle, it gets pushed through soon, we still have 25 days to wait with the visa office, and another 65 for the embassy in Germany. That means, everything that we've paid lots of money for (her doctors exam, police records, ect) will be expired by the time she gets her embassy appointment. So we have to pay all of that again! I have sent very heartfelt letters to both of my state senators, the governor, and our congressman with little or no response. If nothing changes in the next few days, I am going to give my lawyer the go ahead to file a writ of mandamus. We have no other option at this point. The complete laziness of these people is enraging. Especially when you consider that I'm paying their salary out of my pocket! The last time I saw my fiance (besides on skype) was back in March, and now it looks as though I won't see her again until October or November if we're lucky. Neither one of us makes a lot of money, so we can't afford to keep buying $1,300 plane tickets to visit each other. The fact that they expect two people, that love each other so much, to be apart for 6 months to a year is just insane!

I'll update this if we get any news at all.

So just 2 days after I posted this...the USCIS finally approved us! Makes you wonder if they're reading this site Anyway...on to the VSC

I wish you all the best of luck, and hope that you don't get the same incompetent case worker that we did. My fiance is trying to come here from Germany so we can get married. The USCIS received all of our paperwork back on October 15th. In April, they finally got around to our case. We were informed that they needed more evidence, but would not tell myself or my lawyer what that evidence was. A month later we received the RFE in the mail, and it turns out that they just needed two more passport style photos from each of us (which is odd because we sent in every photo that was required, so I assume they lost them). So we got them to my lawyer, and they were mailed off the next day. June 5th they update the status on the website to "Request for Evidence Response Review" meaning they're going over our "new evidence". Now almost a month later, the status still hasn't changed. Not sure why it takes a month to look at two photos. We are now well over 90 days past our processing time! Even if by some miracle, it gets pushed through soon, we still have 25 days to wait with the visa office, and another 65 for the embassy in Germany. That means, everything that we've paid lots of money for (her doctors exam, police records, ect) will be expired by the time she gets her embassy appointment. So we have to pay all of that again! I have sent very heartfelt letters to both of my state senators, the governor, and our congressman with little or no response. If nothing changes in the next few days, I am going to give my lawyer the go ahead to file a writ of mandamus. We have no other option at this point. The complete laziness of these people is enraging. Especially when you consider that I'm paying their salary out of my pocket! The last time I saw my fiance (besides on skype) was back in March, and now it looks as though I won't see her again until October or November if we're lucky. Neither one of us makes a lot of money, so we can't afford to keep buying $1,300 plane tickets to visit each other. The fact that they expect two people, that love each other so much, to be apart for 6 months to a year is just insane!

I'll update this if we get any news at all.