alicia98981

When can you send the AOS package? I've read three things (that I have might have miss understood): wait until you've paid the AOS fee, wait until you've paid the AOS and IV fees, send it as soon as you have completed the DS-261. We've done that, but the AOS fee hasn't been unlocked yet.

Are there set days or time periods that approved petitions get sent to NVC from Texas Service Center?

If I recall correctly when we did ours, you can do it on the CEAC website. I'm honesty trying to remember how we rescheduled ours.

How often do the service centers send cases to NVC?

My husband and I didn't have any problems when we did our K1 until it came to the drug test. We're doing a CR-1 now, and I never had any problems as far as my race goes in Morocco. Honestly, I think my husband loves me more because I'm black and totally different from Moroccan women. . .

Following this status update on October 18th, we finally received the associated letter today (November 5th - 18 days!) and the letter states that the case was transferred to Texas.

Given that the case was transferred to Texas 18 days ago, does anyone have any insight on how long we might wait for our case to be updated now? As of October 31st, we are beyond the 5 month period since our case was accepted and my wife has been wondering whether she should get in touch with her senator in Florida............

TIA.

My roommate applied for a K1 a month after us, got approved in a month, visa in hand in a total of 4 months, and we can't even get an approval for a visa journey that started in 2013. Then I missed my husband's phone call because my trifling family was too lazy to answer the phone while I was out of the room. At this point I've nearly made myself sick from crying, especially since I haven't seen my husband since this latest round of "can we get a visa please." I absolutely lost it when the operator said that they were processing petitions within the April 2 time frame and we weren't within he five month processing timeframe. I'm slowly losing my sh!t and patience with everyone. . .

Crossing my fingers, maybe tomorrow is the day for us!

Are any transfers getting approved??? We're May 23 PD and it seems we're just getting passed over constantly...

I did, the response I got was that I'm in normal processing time

We've hit the 5 month mark and we're still waiting, especially since we've been transferred too. Doesn't seem like any transfers are getting approved...

You should be able to register the baby as a US citizen provided that you are yourself a US citizen. As far as the 5 year requirement, have you lived at least a period of 5 years in the United States? You said the grandparents are residing in the US currently. If said grandparents are in the US, I'm assuming that they are your parents and you lived them prior at some point during your teenage/formative years to some capacity in the US before/in between living abroad. If you're not sure, request an appointment with your embassy and prepare to fill out the N-600k just in case. You might even be able to apply for citizenship for your child if you do not not meet the requirements.

*I was born abroad to US citizen parents and have lived and spent more time abroad than in the US

Was he he given a ban? Did he test positive or admit to past use?

He was given a one year ban after testing positive for marijuanna, but did not self identify as a past user. He was also given a document that stated he had 4 mandatory drug tests for the next year with doctor so and so. After he finished his ban, then they would issue his visa. They didn't. They called me a few days later saying they were sending his packet back. I got the notice exactly 15 months after his interview that his petition had expired. They waited until he went back to the embassy to send his petition back.

My husband passed his K-1 interview but failed his drug test. We ended up doing a CR-1 after his petition expired. PM me and I'll ask him some of the questions they asked to see if it helps

My husband was denied his K-1 for the same reason about 2 years ago. We were told he had to submit to quarterly drug tests for a year, after which he would be issued a visa once he completed all 4 drug tests. Prior history showed this was the case in similar other cases I search though most were for family members. We did this for a year, and as soon as he finished, he contacted the embassy. They called me to inform me that they had spoken to him and told him his petition had expired and he would not be issued a visa! Furthermore they stated that they would not issue him a visa unless he and I married since he had already been denied a k-1 which is why we are doing a CR-1 now. Conviently, after I spoke to the State Department, I got the notice in the mall that our petition had expired.

my thoughts to you is to do the mandatory drug test, go ahead and get married, and apply for the CR-1 since it takes about a year anyway while you're waiting. The rumors about extending the validity of a petition are not true as we tried that too AND I quoted the FAM verbatim to the consular officer while on the phone with to which he refused to acknowledge.

The other thing - and I tell you this from experience - don't waste your time complaining to VJ about it because most people will not be sympathetic when it involves drugs, even marijuana. Many will use the opportunity to tear you and your relationship down and take every argument you make as an excuse to pick a fight with you about it. Furthermore, if you attack them in the way that will attack your relationship, moderators will defend said attackers, delete your comments, and close your thread. I was even banned for a few days for defending my thread when those who had nothing positive to say attacked me and my thread.

Unfortunately your fiance has had a bump in the road towards his reunification with you, by his own making. You'll just have to accept it and move forward by preparing for the next step which is waiting out the year long ban which will either strengthen your relationship as it did ours -though not without some storms over the the ban and what led to it - or break you. Take this time to truly get to know your fiance better and spend it to prepare even more for his eventual arrival.

My priority date was May 23 and we received notice that our petition was transferred shortly before we were hoping to be approved. I'd like to keep track of others who were transferred to get a feel for what's going on with our petitions.

I searched about 500 petitions before me in te uscis apps, almost 100% of the petitions are being transferred including mine. My PD is 23rd May.

My PD is also May 23. It looks like they're playing hopscotch with a lot of the petitions and many are being skipped over some reason. I worry that ours will be skipped over too. We've been dealing with this for far too long and we'd really like to move on with our lives.

Unfortunately...considering that the latest Morocco spousal visas to get interviews scheduled (for interviews in late October) got their NOA2's back in early-mid June, I think you're past the point at which an NOA2 has a chance of arriving this year (without any expedites involved).

Ok, I was really hoping that if we were on top of things this process would go faster, but it looks like no matter how fast we do things on our end, we'll still be at the mercy of government workers =(

If we get approved in the next few weeks, is it likely are spouses probably won't make it by Christmas?

Is it me or has Nebraska hit straight f#<k it mode? Like it's summer time, so we have worries f#<k it mode . . .

My fiance and I were denied a K1 visa too. We waited a while year to hear back from the embassy after they told us to contact them in one year only to be told that his petition had expired the year before. We went ahead and got married two months later and are now going through the CR-1 process. I recommend you guys doing the same or getting a head start on starting the K1 process again. Getting a K1 appealed is very difficult and unlikely. Rather than wasting the time appealing, get in with a new petition while the process is short.

Please correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I know, he needs to be a legal resident to be added to the insurance. Immigration is an accepted life event though so you're allowed to add him once he immigrates.

Based on your signature, y'all are a long ways from him coming to the states if NOA1 was only a couple of days ago so I wouldn't be rushing to add him during this year's open enrollment. What I would check with your HR is whether him immigrating would be a qualifying event to add him outside of open enrollment whenever he does get there (although, depending on how much time you spend at USCIS, by the time he immigrates you could be in your next year's open enrollment period anyway)

OP: It is unlikely you will be able to do this. Not because you can't do this, but because getting past HR will be a rough go. Typically people won't do this, and they will wait for their spouses to come into the country. There's a few exceptions that I've seen. But you are a long way away from your husband requiring health insurance, and I'm sure the company wouldn't be too thrilled about paying for someone who hasn't even legally entered the country as of yet. That's your main barrier.

That being said: whether your spouse is here or not, for clarification, not having an SSN is not a barrier to obtaining health insurance. Of course an HR may insist, but that doesn't have anything to do with the law.

I get that we are a long way away, it's just that open enrollment is now and immigration wasn't one of the situations listed. He is currently not listed on my insurance now anyway. I'm waiting to hear back from HR but so far they've been saying, "We don't know, we don't know, we don't know." It does seem like immigration would be a likely reason though and I really don't want to risk him not having it once he gets here and settled. I'll likely see if I can get them to make an exception for him after he arrives then.

Has anyone included their spouse on their health insurance plan during open enrollment with their employers despite that spouse not being in the US yet? I want to add my husband but he doesn't have a SSN yet and HR is clueless as to what to do. Any suggestions?

I think you should not risk the chance of a denial and a losing the visa waiver. Perhaps visit for 3 months, go on a mini vacation out of the country, and return for another 3 months. It's not ideal given that your return could be denied, but it's a loop hole that allows you get the 6 months plus the maximum visit time of six month out of a year on the visa waiver that a Visa Waiver passport holder is a allotted per year.

We just filed ours on the 20th. I'm very nervous as this is our second time applying and forth attempt for a visa. No clue yet where it was sent to. . . .

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the CR-1 wait time is about 5-6 months for approval, 1 month processing in NVC and 1 month waiting for an interview at the appropriate embassy for an average of 7 - 8 months of waiting? We just want to get a timeline of how long we will have to wait since we agreed not to see each other again until the visa is issued. I'm not sure if I read the timelines correctly or not.